The record-union., 1898-08-22
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Tulare Register: Hello, Pop! Here is
a plank put into both platforms at the
Fopulist Conventions at Sacramento
We demand the construction, owner
snip and operation of ship canal
across the iSthmus of Nicaragua by
the United States Government or a
private corporation. Why did you put
on the last clause, cor a private cor
poration?" Why did you recede from
proposition of Government ownership
of that canal after six years of un-
compromising advocacy? What Dem
ocrat in Populistic clothing got those
words inserted just to queer you be-
fore a laughing world? In tacking on
those words you abandoned the central
idea of Populism.
ONWARD TO WHAT?
Portland Oregonian: If we do not
keep the Philippine Islands they will
certainly go to some European Power,
or be divided among European Powers,
ere long. Are we to pursue that stupid
policy which would permit European
Powers to use our victory as a means
| of acquiring territory to which they
have no rightful claim? Spain cannot
hold the islands. If we do not keep
them some other nation will get them
by emption or by seizure. Spain can
not put down the insurrection, but will
most likely sell the islands to some
nation that can. To us the islands are
a legitimate prize of war, and if we
do not hold them we lose an opportuni-
ty that will never again be presented.
ONWARD TO-WHAT
| Los Angeles Herald: The imperialiStS
may have to centent themselves for a
few months with the acquisition Of Ha-
waii. A little later their accelerated
appetites will be temporarily appeased
with the formal cession Of Porto Rico
and a few smaller islands in the Carib-
bean Sea. Within a year their prop
aganda will have made it perfectly ap-
parent that Cuba must be annexed
pacification Of the island, according to
the original purpose, will be along these
lines They have already discovered,
in the insurgent army, "a surprising
sentiment in favor of union." and
among it's officers has been disclosed
"a remarkable shift of feeling" They
already assert that Garcia, the uncom-
promising foe of annexation, has, with
in night, completely revised his opin-
ions, and now believes that the wei
fare Of Cuba depends upon her joining
the sisterhood Of States" Two Sena-
tors from the eastern State Of Cuba
are necessary to offset the influence OF
two Senators from the western State
of Hawaii And if Statehood is accord
ed to Cuba, why not also to Porto Rico,
whose people are rallying around the
flag and singing Yankee Doodle: ::
OUR FRUIT ABROAD.
Alameda Encinal: A dispatch in one
! of the morning papers says that there
is great surprise among California fruit
shippers because a lot of apples and
pears sent to British Columbia have
been condemned and destroyed. There
need not be any surprise about it, If
the destroyed fruit is on a par with a
| great deal that finds its way to the
markets in this State. 1t is becom-
ing the exception to find a box Of ap-
pies or pears that is free from worms
Eor disease, and if the British Colum
| bians refuse to permit such fruit to
spread disease among their orchards,
they are only taking a common sense
precaution.
SPANISH STUPIDITY.
Los Angeles Express: A Madrid dis
patch says: The Madrid press strong
Iy blames the want of loyalty the vol
unteers of Porto Rico displayed in al
lowing THE American invaders so easy a
| walkover. Indeed, this behavior tends
to diminish the regret felt here at los
ing the islands. Santos, Guzman, Calvo
and other chiefs of the Spanish party in
Cuba, speak despondently of the condi-
tion of the island, and declare that
America will be compelled to keep an
army Of 100000 men there for years TO
come"
What an amazing display of Spanish
density and incompetencyt The officials
| are actually surprised because the peo-
pie of Porto Rico welcome the prospect
of a change from the tyrannical rule or
Spain to the wise and benevolent doml-
nation of the United States. Experience
is a dear teacher, but if the ruling
classes in Spain shall learn the lesson
that the history of recent events in
Porto Rico offers it may be worth the
cost; it may even save Spain itself from
flual dissolution and disintegration.
The Cuban question is of course view
ed from the Spanish standpoint. Spain
has had a hundred thousand soldiers
in Cuba for years and is worse off than
when the revolution began. Its leaders
cannot comprehend that a wise and
beneficent protectorate will accomplish,
without bloodshed, far more than force
and oppression can achieve. 1t is pos
sible that we may have some trouble in
Cuba at the beginning, before the pur-
pose and mission of the American Gov
ernment is clearly understood, but it
cannot last long.
OLD FOGIES PAST AND PRESENT.
Salt Lake Tribune: It would be a fa-
vor if some gentleman would point out
where, in the counsels of the fathers of
the Republic, they find the awful eau
tions which they daily refer to, against
the United States taking any step
which held within it a reasonable prom
ise of more expansion, more progress,
more power. Washington cautioned his
countryment against foreign complica-
tions and entanglements. That was
good advice, for at the time the civil