The record-union., 1898-08-03
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions ON SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.


Interest.
| Los Angeles Times: Should the Unit
| ed States decide to annex the Philip
pine Islands, or even to place them un-
der an American protectorate, there is
no doubt that they would soon develop
| into most important trading center
| for that part Of the world. They are
surrounded by the most thickly pop
| ulated countries on the face OF the
globe, such as China and British IN
| dia, with a population variously estl-
mated at from 500, 100000 to 90O,O0V,-
OOO At present Hongkong is the dis
| tributing point for that part or the
world, but under American control the
Philippines would doubtless come to the
| front.
| THE CUBANS.
| Riverside Press: 1t is unfair to in
dulge in sweeping and ind1scr1mlnate
criticism of the Cubans because OF the
| difficulties which have developed be-
| tween General Garcia and General
Shafter at Santiago The reports re-
garding the matter have been meager
andno authoritative statement Whatever
has been made by General Smarter. we
must remember that these Cuban SOL
| diers are a guerrilla force, unaccus-
toned to the discipline Of regular army
life. They have been cruelty abused
and oppressed by the Spaniards ana
have been accustomed to retaliate with
looting and barbarity. The savage
warfare they have waged and the wild
life they have lived has made them
suspicious and hard to control. They
are an alien race, speaking another
language and it is not strange that
misunderstanding and friction should
arise in their relations to the Amer
lean army We have, however, seen
no official statement yet coming from
our army officers, that would lndlcate
that the Cubans are not brave, EN-
cient in the bushwhachng warfare
they have been accustomed to, and
loyal to Cuba libre
CUBAN INSURGENTS.
Fresno Republican: There IS evidence
| Of a strong reaction of feeling IN re-
gard to the Cuban insurgents which,
we think is likely to go too lar. Inc
insurgents are a tropical people, OF
Spanish and mixed Spanish blood, and
should not be expected to show all the
virtues of Anglo-Saxon civilization,- nor
| should they be held unworthy OF tHe
freedom they have fought for or inca
pable Of self government because OF
this lack They may be lazy and dirty
I-aH tropical peoples are-and tney are
entitled to have good appetltes ioi
American rations after their years Of
privation. but they have made a fight
against oppression which is now the
lcentral fact in the worlds interest. II
some Of them have not been quite 80
philosophical in distinguishing between
! revenge and war as we at this dis
4 tance are it may be an occasion Tor
restraint. but not for surprise, and II
others are impatient for an early dls-
tribution Of offices. we in politician
ridden America should be the last TO
blame them.
THE BEST OUTLOOK.
Stockton Mail: The organization OF a
native Government in the Philippines
by Aguinaldo has excited some angry
comment in the hot-headed press. TO
us this seems to point out the rational
solution of a difficult problem.
To annex the Philippines is to put
uDon our own shoulders a heavy burden
of expense and responsibility. ConserV-
ative men of all parties shrink from the
experiment. Mr. Mckinley is as mucn
opposed to it as is Mr.. Bryan And, IN
deed, the question is not one or partl-
sanship at ALL and none but the smaller
Iorder Of journalists and politicians have
looked at it in that little light.
The chief difficulty to solve has been
the disposition of the islands If we dld
not keep them. To surrender our allles
our efficient allies-to their ana our
| enemies is unthinkable. The Spanish
fag cannot in honor be allowed 70 Iloat
over the people who have SO greatly
aided Dewey. Neither can we turn
these islands over to any European
Power The American people VIII never
J brook the suggestion. The natural So
luton seems to be the independence OF
the Filipinos and the erection OF thelf
own Government. We think that the
: passive way in which Admiral dewey
has looked upon the formation Of the
insurgent Government shows that the
Administration considers this the best
solution of the problem.
NERVE SHATTERERS-
!, Salt Lake Tribune: Considering the
!, triunphs of our navy we must not for
get that in this worlds eternal com
binations everything has to be settled
, for at last The account in the dis
patches of yesterday of the Lieutenant
to have his ears treated IS reminder
that when the war shall be over and
, the sullen guns of our fleet shall have
at last grown still, there will be many
, men with faculties dimmed, with con-
stitutions shattered, just from the CON
cussion caused by the firing Of those
: tremendous guns on our ships. When
we think of the great names of ouI
civil war we note that hardly one OF
them lived to old age. The excitement
the care, the nerve-shattering detona-
. tions of the great guns on land and sea
all did their work. Since then more
. improvements have been made In guns
than had been before since the inven-
. ton of gunpowder, and with each one
: the noise has been increased until a
broadsde from a modern great
warship is indeed counterfeiting Jove's
dread clamors Before these added
thunders man is petty thing at best
that is, his powers of resistance have
not increased, and hence one by one
/, will come back wrecks from the war
soldiers who have been hurt by nc
missile. but who, still, are disabled
The battleship has reached the limi,
: Of our harbors; the 13-inch gun, firing
: in close turrets. by the concussion
! taxes to the very utmost mans ability
r to bear it's detonations.
Y PROSPEROUS TIMES ASSURED.
Los Angeles Express: 1t is impossible
| to rsaponcflef a condition of business de-