The record-union., 1898-04-19
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EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
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Interest.


and what is wisest for this country to
do as Well as any man in public life
better than most men. What the SEN
sational papers attribute to indecision,
to inability to decide what to dc. is
nothing but self-containment The
President is Keeping cool. He knows
that nothing is to be lost by reasonable
deliberation, while there are very grave
possibilities to flow from precipitancy.
The constituencies and irresponsible
press is doing it's best to unbalance the
public mind. while a few hotheads in
Congress are trying to make political
capital by tin-soldiering. On none OF
these will fall the burden of response
bility should war with all its possibili-
ties ensue. On the contrary they would
make personal and political capital out
of any untoward features of trouble The
rank and file of thinking people recog-
niZe the business of the Presidents rec
concentrations and general course, and
when the storm blows over there will
be an universal sentiment that he acted
in the wisest possible manner.
ANOTHER SCHEME.
Bridgeport Chronicle Union: The San
Francisco Call" not being satisfied
with having the Supreme Court of this
State on wheels and trampoosing all
over the State, instead of holding it's
sessions at the State Capital, where said
court should be held, as in the ether
States of this Union, it now wants the
State Library placed on wheels and
transported through the State so the
people outside of Sacramento can have
a look at the books belonging to the
l.
the library is to be made travelling one.
and it is not likely that such scheme
would have been thought of had the
State Library been located in San Fran
cisco; nor would San Francisco be in
favor of having the Supreme Court on
weels if it's location was in that city in
stead of Sacramento. Why not have the
State Treasury put on wheels and have
it run around to the different counties
to make it's settlements with the several
County Treasures and Auditors? And
while we are putting the library and
treasury on wheels following up the SUI
preme Court we should do likewise with
the Surveyor Generals office, and let
that State official go over the State and
look after school and swamp lands.
And the Board of Examiners should
visit the different counties few times a
year and act on the bills the people
have against the State. 1t would be as
sensible for the State to do all these
things as it would be for it to place the
State Library on wheels. The Capital
of the State is Sacramento and all its
officers should have their offices there.
The Supreme Court never should have
been allowed to hold it's sessions outside
of that city.
OUR NEED.
San Jose Mercury Rear-Admiral
Miller, in his report on Pearl Harbor.
recommends that the Government ac-
quire in connection with the harbor
800 acres of land adjoining for a coal
ing and repair station. The more SEN
sible plan would be to acquire the en-
tire Hawaiian territory by annexation.
We need the islands, and they need US.
ON ONE POINT
Bakersfield Echo: One point of the
message is worthy of careful consider
alton. That is what the President has
to say about the absence of any local
Government in Cuba. If the Cubans
are ready to enjoy the fruits of indie
pendence, it must be because they have
a Government formed and set up ready
for action. But the President intimates
that no such complete system of local
Government has been established, and
the same point has been emphasized by
many conservative writer's during the
past year or two.
IT IS TOO LATE.
Stockton Mail: The truth is that
while there has been ample justifica-
ton for armed interference with Span
ish cruelty in Cuba any time during
the past two. years, there is not to-day
any such justification at all The mas
sacres and the. pilIaging have ceased;
the starving are being fed; there is not
even any war being waged against
armed insurgents to-day. With what
countenance can a Government which
sat with folded hands while Weyler
burned and tortured and slew, now
forcibly intervene to stay the hand Of
the humane Blanco, with his procla-
nation of the cessation of all HOSTILE
ties staring it in the face?
UNAVAILING SUBTERFUGE.
Los Angeles Herald: In view of the
notorious fact that the Spanish forces
in Cuba have been fought to stand
still by the Cuban patriots, the elev-
enth-hour proclamation of an armis-
tice is tinctured with grim humor.
A cessation of activity" by the Span
ish soldiery is meaningless phrase.
The few sorties beyond the fortiflca-
tions of Havan that have been under
taken by Blanco have scarcely afford
ed his soldiery the physical exercise
demanded by the ordinary considera-
+iopc of health Accommodating par
ties seldom get out of sight of the flag
floating over MORO Castle. The only
division of the Spanish army that is de-
tached is practically surrounded by the
insurgents in the eastern provinces, and
if the troops composing it lay down
their arms it is likely to be at the dc
tation of the patriot commander, rather
than of Blanco. There is scarcely a
doubt of the ability of the insurgents
to drive all loyalists of the island With
in the Notifications of the Capltai
whenever a eliminating policy is deem
ed advisable. The ability to capture
Havana at any time during the past
six months has scarcely admitted OF
doubt That they have not haZarded
their cause upon such a movement is
creditable to their wisdom and their
prudence.
The armistice is a one-sided affair at
best, and is likely to be of short dura-
ton It will have no effect upon the
military plans of General Gomez. He
is likely to strike wherever he sees a
I Spanish head and it is scarcely to be
assumed that Spanish soldiery viii
stand in awe of a proclamation of ar
nlistice in the face of an armed and