The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-05
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

FRESNO kepuD1can. L ne dulillliiSti d :
ton will not take hasty action In to-
Cuban matter" Well, we should say not.
II has been incubating on the matter
until it has made itself ridiculous ana
Disguised the country. The loss OF
ship or two and a hundred or two or
brave men will not warm up the Presl-
dent.-EXpositor.
There is class of fools who would
doubtless have had this country declare
war against Spain before preparation
had been made to fight single naval
battle upon equal terms with the enemy,
and there is large class of knaves who
understand the wisdom of the course
that is being pursued but for vicious
partisan purposes discredit their own
Government by malevolent attacks upon
its administration.
NO PARTIES NOW.
Livermore Herald: There are no
parties in Washington, or rather there
is but one party, and that party has
for its platform the memorable declara-
ton of Stephen Decatur. Our country,
right or wrong" The sickness of a
peace dependent upon the exigencies OF
business disappears at such times as
these An undivided nation awaits the
signal from the President.
WHAT WAR MEANS.
Los Angeles Times: AS the prospect
of war comes nearer and nearer, day by
day the normal minded man is sobered,
for he sees the gallant lads of our navy
and army falling in the red hell of COM
bat; he sees the mighty cruisers going
down to destruction, with the old flag
flying; he sees the tears of women and
his ears are wounded with their cries
of sorrow; he sees the manned lying
in the hospitals battling for life; he
sees the surgeons stripped for work
with their barred arms reeking with the
blood of our beloved boys; he sees
the shells tearing gaps through ediflces
that wealth has builded; he sees the
earnings of the nation burned up in
powder smoke, sunk in the sea, shat
tered into ruins on the land; he sees
death stalking along the crimson decks
of our men-of-War in ten thousand
awful guises; he hears the means of the
dying, the hiss of bullets, the shrieE
of shells, the roar Of artillery, and he
sees the flames blowing from the muz-
zles of great guns, streaming from sky
piercing rockets, the bursting from the
bowels of our ships of commentaries
are the visions the thoughtful mar
sees, as the lines of battle form anC
the squadrons deploy, and these are the
sounds that fright his ears in magma
ton, for they are the concomitants Of
war. Let no one look upon war as {
! holiday diversion, as a thing to be
I sought with eagernesS or to be entered
! into without elaboration, for at bes
it is an awful, a deplorable, a horrible
thing In it's train follows the vulture:
of ruin, procession of those who mourn
and will not be comforted and the scar!
! it leaves time never obliterates. But il
| it comes in the interest of humanity
national honor and integrity and tn,
cause of eternal justice, let us, as mel
and brothers, enter into it soberly anC
prayerfully, and may God give to ou
banner the luster of victory and to ou
nation the commentator of all the SON
of meni
BUYING ABROAD.
| Ukiah Republican, Press: In the ava
lanche of public speaking that marked
the campaign no phrase of the silver
ties was delivered with a more swell
ing emphasis than without the aid o
consent of any other nation" Their
| was something in it supposed to pu
all other countries in the background
| with one wave of the oratorical arm
and it was always good for a big rount
of free coinage applause. In comment
ing upon the above the "Globe-Demo
crat" says that less than two year
have passed, and we find ourselves in
volved in a serious foreign controversy
The great conception of cutting loos
from all the rest of creation will be ad
mitted, at present, to be quite imprac
ticable. We might have been will
ing to sell our products on silver ba
sis, but other nations take a differen
view of their own transactions. ~s
THE ARMY.
Willows Journal The proposition t
increase the regular army to 100,00
should be pushed for all it is worth
Our army at present is as good as any
body's, man for man, but the idea o
u 900 men to do garrison duty and de
fend a country with border of 900
miles and a population of 70,OO0,O0O i
| bordering on the ridiculous. Such al
army as we have at present is the caus
of the contempt in which we are hell
by ignorant Europeans who judg
every country by the number of he
soldiers. Spain thinks q, 900 is all w
can raise, but this illusion will be dis
PEELED in few days.
THE COUNTRY READY.
Visalia Delta: There has never beer
in the history of the world countr,
more united on any proposition thar
is this on the Cuban question. Their
is no division into parties or classes
The country is as one in it's support 0
the Administration, and is prepared t
go to any length to sustain it in an,
course that may be decided on to brinl
peace and independence to Cuba an
satisfaction for the destruction of tn
Maine. The whole country has Spoken
its mind freely and frequently. TIL
last body of men to pledge its unquali
fed support to the Government is tn
National Business Mems League" t
which capitalists and large firms il
many States belong. They are 70
peace if it can be preserved with honor
and for war if it be necessary.
NOT A THREAT.
Oakland Enquirer: It can hardly b
claimed that the sending of a torped
| fleet across the Atlantic by Spain
such a threat against the United State
that we are justified in resenting il
| During the past month the Unite
States has been collecting a powerful
fleet of all classes of vessels-f1fteel
or twenty ships-at Key West, whic
is less than hundred miles from Ha
vana. If after that Spain begins {
concentrate her naval strength at Ha
vana it is only such a prudent measur
of self-defense as any nation would b
justified in taking.