The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-05-11
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

average Arizona rider may be expect
ed to have difficulty in hearing the or
der to cease firing.
PUNISHMENT FOR ISLANDER.
Marysville Appeal: In the kingdom of
Poland there was formerly law that
a person who circulated SANDER must
walk on all tours through the streets
of the town, accompanied by beadle,
as sign he was disgraced. At the
next public festival the delinquent had
to crawl on hands and knees under the
! banquet table and bark like dog. Each
guest was at liberty to give him as
many kicks as he chose and he who
had been slandered must at the end of
| the banquet throw a picked bone at
the culprit, who, picking it up in his
mouth, would leave the room on all
tours. If such a law was in force in
America some people would have so
many bones in their mouth that they
would choke to death
THE NEW DOCTRINE.
! Stockton Independent: Those who
argue from precedent that the United
| States had no legal or moral right to
! intervene in behalf of Cuban freedom
and Cuban tranquility should be re-
minded that every step of laws and
morals toward advancement must be
taken without any guiding precedent.
There was no precedent for the Dec
/ laration of Independence, none for the
| Monroe doctrine none for the concert
of Europe, none for the intervention
of the Powers to save China from ia
pan. Every nation and every civiliza-
ton must hew out its own destiny In
this it must be guided 1argeiy by its
own strength and powers. The Fed
eral Government of forty-five united
Commemorative can undertake to right
wrongs which no single Common
wealth might discreetly undertake, 1t
has the prestige and power to correct
evils which environ it which in earlier
days could not have been attempted
without great danger to its perma-
nency
What, after all, is our union for ex-
cept to give US strength to promote our
own advantages, interests and comforts
and those of the people with whom we
are most frequently in contact? 1t is
to be admitted that the nation has TAX
en- a departure from it's traditional pol
icy in this Cuban intervention. 1t is
departure even more radical than that
of the Monroe doctrine. In the latter it
was proclaimed that the territory of
America was not open to conquest of
forcible colonization by European Pow
ers In the new doctrine America pro-
claims that no European tyrant must
continuously Cypress, abuse, outrage,
butcher and starve even it's own sub
Kinley doctrine, and while there is no
Kinlye doctrine, and while there is no
precedent for it, still will it live and
prevail.
4 president M'KINLEY AND WAR.
San Bernardino Sun: Every war
which has heretofore been entered upon
since this organization of the Govern
ment was begun under the admins
tratfon of a man without military ex-
| perience, whether it be the war
with the Barbary States in 1903, and
again in 1915, the war of 1917, the war
with Mexico, or the war of the rebel
lion. Possibly President McKinley's
practical knowledge of war and OF the
losses of life and all the sorrows which
accompany it, may have had something
to do with his willingness, anxiety, in
deed to bring the questions which have
been constantly before him to a peace
full solution. If this be true, 1T was
because of this practical knowledge or
the horrors of war and the sufferlngs
they must bring, for there is nothing
in William McKinley's personal history
on the battlefield to show lack of cour-
age.
SUCCESSFUL ADMINISTRATION.
San Jose Mercury: During the thir-
teen months since McKinley's inaugu-
ration our exports of breadstuffs, pro-
visions and cotton have exceeded those
of the thirteen months preceding his
Inauguration by nearly S100,OOO,0OO
This gives some idea of the enormous
increase in the farmers total receipts
from the sales of all classes of their
products in all the markets now open
to them.
CROWNED HEADS.
San Diegan-Sun: It is plain enough
that while the Powers of Europe are
too shrewd to openly oppose the United
States, they secretly object to any in
reference with the rights Of Kings and
the scheme of European royal land
lordism. Cuba, free, will be republic,
and the process of making Cuba free
may also result in the establishment or
a republic in Spain. That would worry
the Austrian royal family, and all the
heads that wear a crown would again
'lie uneasy" There is reason for those
in the crowned head business to be-
come uncomfortable.
SPANS MADNESS.
Los Angeles Times: Whom the
gods would destroy they first make
! mad" runs the proverb. Assuming the
saying to be true, it is evident that the
kingdom of Spain is marked for de-
struction. The fact that Spain has
seen fit to risk the hazard of war with
the United States, and that she persists
in the declared intention to pursue this
war to the bitter end, is indubitable evil
dence of madness If this purpose be
: persisted in, the end will indeed be Bit
, ter for the kingdom of Spain.
J The cause of Spain in this conflict is
: absolutely without hope of victory, or
; even of vindication. So surely as the
sun Eliminates the blue dome of heav-
en-. the arms of Spain will go down In
: crushing defeat before the determined
: foe whom she has aroused to action.
) In vain she will hurl her desperate col
. umns against the Power which is in
every respect her superior. Her fleets
will be shattered; her armies will be
overthrow The frantic bravery of her
} fighting forces will avail but little as
against the calm courage and the supe-
, rior strategy of the American arms.
DEwEY'S CAPTURE.
Alameda Argus: The capture of the
Philippine Islands by the American
feet puts this country in position to
even I'D after the trouble is over. Ii
the islands go back to Spain after peace
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