The record-union., 1898-10-15
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Interest.
San Jose Mercury: The Democratic
yellow journals, which are working so
industriously to discredit the Repub-
lican Administration, failed to make
hit with their fake story to the effect
that the Administration proposes 10
cede a valuable portion of Alaska to
Canada. The yarn has been promptly
exploded No such proposition was ever
made or thought of.
HOLD THEM.
Marysville Appeal: We should hold
the Philippines, but not simply because
we have raised our flag at Manila and
whipped the Spanish into helplessness
and submission. Those islands must
be retained, because there is no other
way out of the difficulties and compli-
cations which DeWey'S matchless vic
tory has brought upon us, along with
the imperishable glory of that marvel
Gus achievement They cannot be re-
linQuished to Spain, because she is
powerless to preserve order and peace
among the natives; unable and unfit to
give them honest0 government. Were
they abandoned by the United States
they would soon be parceled up and
sold to some of the great Powers of Eu-
rope.
WHO ARE WAR-TAXED?
The Mail of Woodland: Why do our
friends, the Popocrats, say that "the
poor are taxed in every conceivable
way" to pay the expenses of the war
when it can be shown that the two
banks of Eureka alone pay more than
every other industry and person in
Humboldt County, leaving out the sa-
looms and druggists. They cannot make
good this charge against the Govern
ment. Capital, corporations and lux
uriese pay the expense Of the war, and
all the lying, yellow journals will not
change the ,facts.-Eureka Standard
The same applies to Woodland.
AN UNVARNISHED LIE.
Napa Register: How fast a lie of the
plain unvarnished variety does travel,
That one framed a confidential circu-
lar letter" alleged to have been sent out
by the Republican State Central Com
mittee to Republican editors has done
duty in the Popocratic press of the val
leys and is now furnishing food for
miners who read after Maguire's writ
erS in the mountains. It has grown
more transparent since it reached the
higher attitudes.
AN ATTACK ON PROPERTY.
Alameda Argus: The campaign of
Mcguire is descending to a general at
tack upon property, wealth and organi-
cations that carry on the industries and
develop the resources of this. State, and
must be relied upon to do so. In this
day men singe-handed do not under
take the mighty enterprises that de-
Velop q country A number of men ally
themselves, each doing a part, and to-
gether they form corporation. The
corporation has been the target of the
demagogue for twenty years. 1t is
never attempted by him to differentiate
but all aggregatiOns formed to do bust
ness are classed as devilish, and ignor-
ance and prejudice are appealed to, to
aid unworth to Office on pretended an
tagonism to corporation cormorants''
There are corporations and corpora
tions. Some are worthy and some are
not. But the statesman" who inveighs
against all corporations and associated
wealth is the last man to be listened to-
by sensible men. Where will Cali
fCrnia be if Mcguire wins out on plat
form of avoWed antagOnism to vested
rights? People generally throughout
the State will not be compensated be-
cause the railroad is cinched That
may not be vital to a great many, and
anyhow the railroad people may be left
to take care of themselves, but it will
be vital If everybody is cinched, and if
the only interests that are safe are
those of the Maguires, the Barrys, the
Llggetts, the ClituS Barbours and all
the rest of the resurrected statesmen
With these on top all men of substance
will find the country saved in the good
old sand-lot fashion. indeed.
THE HIGH PLANE OF THE PARTY.
Fresno Republican: We are firmly
convinced that the entire history and
character of the Republican party place
1t on a distinctly higher plane that the
Democracy has ever occupied, and rank
it higher yet above the degenerate Pop
ocracy. But even from the standpoint
of one whose traditional affections in
cline him to overestimate- Democracy it
is i'll adapted to the present emergency.
New issues are impending on which
public sentiment is still uniformed on
the eve of the election. The need is
not SO much to choose men who repre-
sent an existing popular sentiment as
tolselect those who can safely be trust
ed to get on the right side of questions
without previous instructions. We need
positive men and a positive, conStruc-
tive party and not cItics and tradi-
tionists. Such part the Republican
party has always been. If your an
swer shall be yea, yea, and nay, nay"
the Republican answer has always been
the former and the Democratic the lat
ter of these answers. During all the
era Of national development Democ-
racy stood for the negative doctrine
of States rights; on the slavery ques
ton its answer was do nothing" on
the question of resumption of specie
payments its answer was don't" on
protection. on coinage and currency re-
form, on every positive thing that had
to be done and has beengione, Democra-
cy has always beef be everlasting
nay" der Geist derstets vernient-the
spirit that forever denies"
MARGIN OF PRODUCTION.
Stockton Record: Mcguire is on rec
ord to the effect that the public utili-
ties should be a Government affair." so
that the margin of production which
is now the share Of the non-producer