The record-union., 1898-05-04
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
iects Of Living News
Interest.

Los Angeles Times: The yellow press
is keeping up its garishness of color b9
sending out bulletins of fights tha'
never occurred, and of movements thai
have never been in contem9lation bA
the powers that be. The intelligence
CLEANED from the bulletin boards of the
saffron-lz kid press may be taken with
salt in trainload lots.
GOOD ADVICE.
San Diego Tribune: Leave the eft1gJ
and flag burning exhibitions to Span
iards and savages. Sensible Americans
will not engage in such practices. Man
| ifestations of spite may crafty weak
lings, but the strong people of nation
the people who will do the real fighting
and correct the evils aimed at this
| country, are not to be found simply
making faces at the enemy.
NO STRENGTH IN VITUPERATION
Woodland Democrat: Some Of ouI
contemporaries are boasting in a vain
glorious manner what we are able to
do and what we are going to do. and
they cannot refer to a Spaniard with
out using the most scurrilous and abus-
i've epithets. Men who fight with such
civilization than those whom they
abuse AS for their courage, when the
time comes for them to shoulder a
musket they will have to be pulled out
frcm under the bed by the heels.
FREE SILVER PRIvATEERING.
Los Angeles Express: 1t is said that
the Democrats and Populists in Con-
gress will strongly oppose the issuance
OF bonds as a war revenue measure.
This is clearly a scheme of the free
silver shouters to inject politics into the
situation and embarrass the Admins
tration by clogging it's revenue raising
powers. Senator Jones of Arkansas,
for instance, says he will urge the free
coinage of silver as a desirable and le-
gitimate means of raising money to
prosecute the war.
The free-silver derelicts if they carry
out their announced intention. will do
the country more harm than all the
forces of Spain can possibly inf1ict upon
it, The credit of the country, now so
firm that war has not the slightest eff
feet upon it, could not withstand a sue
cessful attack from within
Nor does any intelligent man ever
pretend to believe that the free coinage
OF silver would bring an immediate ade-
quate increase in the revenues. The
country might as well set all the presses
in the country at work printing green
backs, if the mere manufacture of So
called money is the thing needful
WAR AND BUSINESS.
Reno Gazette: With war in actual
progress. the business of the country
oil i1,+ s
the change in the situation.
The reasons are twofold In the first
.placek the progress of hostilities does
mot exercise much immediate influence
on our industries, and for one that is
I.retarded another is at least as much
| stimulated. In the second place, the
effects of the war were much more than
discounted weeks ago.
Four cities reported lessened use of
money in the transactions centering in
/ them, While more than fifty report a
marked increase. The comparison, of
course, is with the corresponding week
last year as usual. The average better
ment is nearly 20 per cent, and leaving
New York out of the count 1t is more
than 10 per cent. Now, it must be
borne in mind that at this time last
/ year business was abnormally active
loWingfto the certainty that a new tar
iff Act was about ito be passed raising
| dutieSC9n many commodities and thus
stimulating speculative buying Mark
| the fact, the purchases made in April
last year were largely speculative, and
that any actual betterment in the in
dustries of the country had not yet
| set in On the contrary, this year
speculative buying is almost dead, and
| any increase in the use of money is
entirely in actual business-that is, in
active industries In all the long list
of American enterprises there are but
two that lag. Both woollen and cot
ton mills are being shut down or kept
shut down, or are running on short
time in too many instances.
BE PATIENT.
Alameda Argus 1t has been just a
week since hostilities began, and the
men of omniscience who are staying at
home and directing operations through
their yellow papers are not satisfied
with the progress made They want
to have all the cannons booming from
sun up till early candle light. They
seem to reason: What's the use of hav-
ing big guns if you don't shoot with
them? For our part, we are willing
to let the President and the Generals
and Admirals manage this business in
their own way. The latter are at the
scene, and though we might do better
if we were there, we are willing tc
concede that from this distance we
might not excel them in strategy. And
we shall ever pray that they end the
/ nd "A f.
isfactorily, and that this great coun-
try acquit itself creditably to its own
mind and in the eyes of the world.
NOT READY.
MarysviIle Democrat: The ION to
Cuba" fellows and the saffron journals
who wanted the Congress to declare
war a month ago should have known
that this Government was not prepared.
Even now we find our vessels in neu-
trail ports where, under the rules of
| international law, they must remain.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
| Riverside Press: The directions sent
out to the Governors of the various
| States. in making the call for 12o,0OO
volunteers, are very explicit on the
point that the preference shall be given
to members of the National Guard, be-
cause they are already drilled and
equipped. 1t is obviously much better
| to make use of forces that are trained
and armed, so far as possible, rather
than to take new recruits and equip
them The militia will therefore un-
ldoubtedly be given the preference in
making up the quota from each State,
! and hence every member of the Ma
tional Guard in California is on the
/ oui viye these days waiting to be
1 Ioo11oa ;.,to antiua service Whether the