The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-03-03

ter-to the cause of Cuban freedom. 1t
is Well to count carefully the cost of a
war, and civilized countries do SO more
now than they ever did before, but if
counting the cost results in disinclina
ton to fight when there is occasion. 1T
is not civilization but cowardice.
A GOOD MONTH.
Oakland Tribune: The national
treasury is having a good month of it,
The receipts during the first half Of
February were a little over million
dollars a day, including Sundays, and
it is expected will reach S29,0OO,0o0 for
the month. which will be nearly % per
cent. in excess of average February re-
ceipts during the operation of the Will
son law. and will just about equal the
average February receipts during the
period in which the Mckinley law oper-
ated normally.
A FARCE.
Fresno Republican: A conservative
contemporary says that the conviction
of nj. lola was a parody on justice. 1t
was worse than that 1t was a rip
roaring. bowling farce and the wonder
is that anybody responsible for it can
specting people.
THAT SMALL MARGIN
Placer Argus: Of all the consummate
rot that is passing through Popocratic
channels at present, is the attempt to
prove the very small margin by which
President Mckinley was chosen TO his
position in 1896. The Tribune AL
manac," a standard authority, gives the
following as the actual result of the
Presidential election for 1886: McKin-
ley, I,101 ,439; Bryan, 6.J03 1G5; Palmer
1873, $50; lowering and Bentley, 44.379;
Matchett. 36.576. Mckinleys plurality
over Bryan was sos, 214 His actual
majority over all on the popular vote
was 2S3, 800.
This was the first instance since 1872
when any candidate had received an
actual majority. General Grant in that
year had a majority somewhat larger
than McKinley's in 1856.
YELLOW DISPATCHES.
Oakland Enquirer: How many times
since the Maine was sunk have General
Lee and Captain Sigsbee been reported
as saying in confidence to friends, OF
writing in the secrecy of official inter
course, that they were sure the disaster
could not be the result OF an acct
dent?" AT least several times a day
Talk about secrecy! If these gentle
men should baWl their suspicious from
the housetop, they could not become
more public than their alleged secret
and confidential communications
Nevertheless, it would be a safe wager
that if the truth could be known, the
whole of these alleged communications
is the spurious coinage of idle rumor
and were never uttered by Lee or Sigs-
bee.
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.
The County Contra Costa) Paper: In
those days our patriotic forefathers
We're jealous Of the encroachment OF
Federal authority upon the State, and
resisted every effort in that direction
with resolution. They believed thai
the function of government should b.
kept close to the people. and they were
right. The tendency now is toward
centralized power and authority. and
the result is that the individual cannot
reach so high UP and so far away from,
his environment to invoke the protec-
ton that naturally is his. But com
bined capital has the power and tbs
influence TO reach up, and he has made
the Federal Court his haven of refuge
TO augment his privileges and to OPP
press the masses, whose influence in the
higher courts is necessarily MILL Wher
government by injunction" is fully
understood the masses will revolt and
we will return to primary principles and
re-establish a government by the peo-
pie, as we'll as for the people.