The record-union., 1898-06-09
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
state and Coast Opinions on Sub.
jeots Of Living News
Interest.


Oakland Tribune: Those who have
anything like fruit crops this year will
get good deal of what loose money
tnere is around. Commission men and
cannery proprietors are securing the
state for supplies and prices are climb
ing up steadily in proportion of course
TO the demand. Apricots are ranging
between $40 and $50 a ton and cur
rants and cherries bring better prices
tnan nave been quoted for many years.
Inc few are to profit this year at the
expense of many
NEWSPAPERS AND WAR.
Marysville Democrat: A certain class
OF newspapers that are found in every
large city where money is appreciated
more than brains publish a lot Of trash
and false rumors relative to the war.
These same journals undertook the job
or directing the manner of conducting
the little skirmish between Spain and
Uncle Sam. They knew all about the
blowing up of the Maine and wanted
PRESIDENT Mckinley to turn his dogs
OF war loose the next day, not even
awaiting declaration of war by Con-
gress. Then they sent men to the
scene of the disaster, and these fellows
demanded admission to the rooms of
the Commission of Inquiry and to
know all of the secrets, that they could
send them to Madrid and all parts of
the world When this was refused
the journals they represented COM
menced to criticise the President and
his advisers in the management of dip
lomatic matters, and they finally de-
clared that the President was weak
kneed and incompetent Every day of
delay was worth thousands of treas
ure and many lives that would have
been sacrificed in a war began without
due preparation. When finally the
fleets We're sent out to bring on an en-
gagement and troops were ordered to
assemble at certain points these jour-
nails continued to betray our cause and
send to the enemy every detail that
would help them to gain a victory over
the Americans. Finally when the rep
resentatives of these journals were re-
fused transportation on one of the
boats that was sent out to reconnoiter,
one traitorous scoundrel acted the part
of a stowaway, where he had been
forbidden. Then a general order was
issued forbidding all of the representa-
going on board of the boats or into the
forts. Since then they have been find
ing fault with the conduct of the war
and publishing false kilograms.
FRESNO CROPS.
Fresno Republican,: The failure of
the grain crop brings no such disas-
trous results to Fresno County as. are
experienced in the unirrigated sections
Is H.
thing as a total crop failure here, and
the Importance Of our varied resources
is more than ever apparent when a dry
year comes.
1T WAS A MISTAKE.
Tulare Register: What a mistake
this country made that it did not follow
General Grants advice of thirty years
ago and annex Santo Domingo, when,
as Hawaii is now. 1t was asking to be
taken into the Union? Had we now
a naval station and base of supplies on
that fertile island resistance on the
part of Spain would be SO altogether
hopeless that no navy would be sent
against US.
NO SHORT COIN.
Los Angeles Express: The Govern
ment Will not adopt a suggestion that
at nrSl glance looks cOmnnenOa
Mexican silver dollars are worth more
than ours in the Orient, while they can
be bought here at the rate of two Mex
lean for one American dollar. There
fore it would apparently be a good
speculation for the Government, and a
good thing for the soldiers, if they We're
paid at Manila in Mexican coin. The
Government, however, will not enter
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any circumstances, and the boys will
not have their pockets full of half value
coins on returning home.
THE PEOPLES PATIENCE.
Redlands Facts: Hereafter the pa
tience of the people of this country can
not be doubted, but the utter absence
for many days of reliable news from
the squadron in the West Indies is try
ing to the nerves of many citizens. Only
supreme faith in the ability Of the ex-
ecutive branch of our Government has
served to keep down a feeling Of dis
content. This nation is surely patri-
otic.
SOCIALISM.
Tulare Register: 1t is sometimes
said that there are as many kinds of
Christianity as there are Christians,
and there are as many kinds of social
ism as there are socialists, and, there
fore, it does require a great deal OF
the time of socialists to tell what So
cialism is not.
Nevertheless there are two main di-
visions of socialism: the Christian and
the materialistic. The Christian, so
called, has small relation to Christian
ity or its founder but springs from the
centers of human feeling as distin-
guished from the centers of human
thought. 1t is an unavailing protest
against the hard conditions of life on
this earth, conditions for the most part
founded by him who made the earth
and all there is in it, but none the less
irrational and unsympathetic, having
small regard for the follies and weak
nesses of suffering humanity. 1t is a
weak rebellion against immutable law.
The materialistic socialist is as de-
void of feeling as his brother is Of
sense. The materialistic socialist is a
cold, calculating infidel, as blind to
spiritual truths as his brother is to
natural law, and, being gifted with no
end of logic, he sets himself, with
square and compasses, to the construc-
ton of a ground plan and front eleva-
ton of system of social order which
classifies and pigeonholes everything
and everybody.
Between these two principal divisions
of socialists there are socialists and
socialism of infinite variety and de-