The record-union., 1898-08-05
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub.
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Portland Oregonian: Dewey's wise.
and heroic endurance of this dreadful
st1ain at Manila cannot last much
longer. If the inSurgent menace con-.
tinues to grow at this rate, we shall
soon have the SpaniardS hooking to our
arms and asking aid against the COM
mon enemy. Then the unique spectacle
viii appear Of Spanish and Americans
com bining to crush the barbarian foe-
This if it GENES, will settle Aguinaldo's 8
case, and it will also settle the Phil
pine problem and end the war.
WHAT COULD YOU EXPECT? =
Alameda Argus: The newspapers of
any other city of the United States in
which was completed and opened to
public use such an immense and splen-
did public edifice as the new ferry depot
of San FL ancisco, through which nearly
all who arrive at or depart from the
city must pass, would make great to-
do over it. They would herald it to the
world as a great achievement, some
thing to be proud Of The Chronicle"
of yesterday illustrates it fairly we'll,
but the other papers treat it perfume
torily, as though it was not much to
brag of; and one, up to the day it was
and contained article after article that
must have led people at a distance to
think it was likely to fall down before
it was finished. Suppose such a struct-
ure had been built in Chicago, as the
terminus of the traffic of that city. The
world would have rung with accounts
of it. The papers there would have WED
with each other in singing it's praises.
IL, !,
in Chicago and the way in San Fran
cisco, and it is a big suggestion as TO
what is the matter with San Francisco.
Her disleyal press is working her more
harm than any other agency.
A NET WINNER.
LosI Angeles Herald: The final dispo-
sition of the Philippine Archipelago will
in no wise diminish the Importance of
Admiral Dewey's victory in Manila Bay.
If as one of the conditions of peace,
the United States shall withdraw its
authority from the islands of the Far
East as completely as we shall insist
upon the withdrawal of Spanish sover-
eighty from the Western Hemisphere,
and shall wholly renounce its implied
purpose of extending its empire beyond
the SD degree of longitude. we shall
Yet be a large gamer by the incident of
May 1St.
No single event since independence
was achieved has so impressed the
world with the puissance of the United
States. The mastering of 100000 of
men in arms during the civil war es-
tablished our rank as a military power.
The achievements of our little navy of
that period, brilliant as they We're only
served to illustrate its utility in coast
and interior waterway defense. The
navy of the United States. as it existed
on the first day of last February was
considered inferior to that of Spain.
It's personnel was deemed inexperi-
enced and undisciplined. Its gunnery
was an unknown quantity. Continental
naval experts freely expressed opinions
that it would be worsted in its first en-
gagements with the sea power of Spain.
The only encoura cement we got from
that quarter was that the battle
ground would be near to our own
shores, close to our base of supplies,
and that the disadvantages under
which the powerful Spanish armadas
would labor in this respect might
eventually turn the tide in our favor.
So inferior. indeed, was the naval
strength of the United States con-
sidered to be that our audacity in de-
manding that Spain should agree with
in rty-eight hours to wholly with
draw from the Western Hemisphere as
founded the world
Between dawn and midday of the 1st
of May Dewey changed all this. He
compelled European naval experts to