The record-union., 1898-11-01
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State and Coast Opinions on Sub
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Interest.


will go to Mr.. Gage" says J. V. Web
| ster, who received more than 51,OO0
votes as the Populist nominee for Gov
! ernor four years ago, mot because
they desire him for Governor, but be-
/ cause by voting for the fusionist outfit
they will be helping to perpetuate the
disgrace into which the so-called Pop
ulist leaders have dragged a section of
their party
ON PROSPEROUS LINES.
Alameda Argus: There are unmis-
taxable signs that California is on the
eve of a very great prosperity. with
a worse crop failure than was ever
known before, there are still better
times everywhere than have been
known in some years when crops were
good In those sections that were not
| devastated by the drought a most un-
usual prosperity prevails. There are
no longer great armies Of men out OF
work There is a loosening up OF cap
| ital There is a better demand for
| lands than has been known in five
years. The chief city Of the State
shows a greatly increased activity in
! all branches of business. Commerce
| bids fair in the near future to expand
| beyond any previous point attained
| If this is the state of affairs with the
! greater portion of the State returning
no crops, what will it be with good
year? What is needed now is political
! quiet and stability. In calculating the
chances of success the moneyed man
and business man must not be required
to figure on the political highwayman
| the faddist, socialist and malignant
in office, who regards property and
| every project to develop the resources
| of the State and carry on it's business
as his prey, either to blackmail or to
attack for purposes of making political
capital. Those who want to further the
prosperity of this State must do their
mite to defeat Mcguire and lay low
Maguireism.
JUST SO.
Napa Register: The Oakland En-
| quirer'' speaks Of the anti-Gage car
| toons found in the yellow press as
| Clever" In our eyes point beyond
cleverness has been reached. The art
! lists pencil seems to be driven by a
spirit of maliciousness-a kind of cam
paigning that will react upon the party
that promotes it.
SOUND JUDGMENT.
Marysville Appeal: The speeches
made by President Mckinley during
| his journey to and from Omaha have
been remarkable for their lofty patri-
otism and broad craftsmanship. He
made no clap-trap appeals for the
sympathy and support Of the nation
| in the crisis that now exists in the set
| tlement of the terms Of peace with
| Spain, but left the people to infer how
much might depend upon tangible ey1-
| dence of their Endorsement of his de-
mand for the retention of the Philip
pines. No one can yet say that the war
| is over. or that serious complications
may not yet arise with European Pow
ers 1t is a time for the people of the
nation to stand as one man in support
| of the Administration. For the same
reason that Dewey stays on guard at
Manila, though he would like to come
| home good Americans should next
month vote the Republican ticket, and
so give the world the best proof posi-
BILE that the people of the United States
seal with their approval the course OF
| their President in the liberation Of
| Cuba and the Philippines from the
| cruel and atrocious rule of Spain.
RECLAIMING CUBA.
San Jose Herald: An American syn
dicate has bought a large tract of min
eral land near Manzanillo, Cuba, and
will proceed to develop it. It is also
announced that yellow fever has been
stamped out at Guantanamo. These
are two isolated facts that indicate
what will happen to Cuba if the Amer
leans take control of the island. The
| Spaniards never stamped out yellow
fever anywhere, and Guantanamo has
always been a breeding ground for
! that disease With the fever held in
check there and elsewhere the develop
ment of the untouched natural re-
sources Of the island will be made safe
and easy and will quickly follow.
SOME VOTE, OTHERS PAY.
Yreka Journal: A favorite pastime
| Of the demagogue is to advocate the
voting of taxes for other people to pay,
an idea which the single tax embodies
to perfection. While the well being of
society, as for instance the maintenance
| of free schools, public order and sani-
| tation requires that this be done to
some extent, good conscience and sound
policy command that the power be ex-
ercised with caution, and under safe
| guards of constitutional limitations.
The single tax amendment proposed at
the last session Of the Legislature and
which will be reintroduced at the COM
| ing session If Mcguire is elected. re-
moves all such limitations and leaves
all property interests at the mercy of
Legislature, Supervisors, Trustees or
| City Councils.
| OUR HONEST COURTS.
| Santa Rosa Republican: 1t is the
province of the courts to declare-not
to make the laws of the land. Judges
are often criticised for adhering to this
idea in rendering decisions. Unthink
| ing people would have the courts decide
| in accordance with their own desires,
and they are often quick to denounce
decisions that are not in harmony with
| their theory of a cause.
The Supreme Court Of the United
States has often been condemned by
political extremists It has been
charged with belonging to the corpora
tions and doing the will Of the owners
| of great combinations Of capital. This
charge is unjust, false and an outrage.
In every instance the Supreme and
most inferior courts seek merely to
know and declare the law.
If our highest court were in any sense
| under the influence of corporations It
would not have rendered the decisions
of recent months against such combina-
| tions of capital. It's recent decision is
conceded to be sweeping in it's applica
ton. 1t is declared TO be a body blow
| to all trusts as we'll as traffic pools and
railroad combinations. And. yet the