The record-union., 1898-05-17
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects of Living News
Interest.

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parent that this is year when Kerr
County stands out in most favorable
light. The farmers are going to get higf
prices. Grain is rank and strong and
alfalfa seems TO know nothing about &
drought. A section that goes through
this year without loss of crops may
safely be said to be drought proof and
as this is our condition, the fact should
have wide circulation.
JONATHAN AND JOHN.
Riverside Enterprise: The position
J taken by Great Britain in this, ouI
quarrel with Spain, is most gratifying
to every thinking American. From the
old '"Thunderer' down to the radical la
/ Dor sheets sympathy for America is
manifested in no uncertain terms, and
| the opposition of the Saturday Re
view and "St. James Gazette" are
hardly fly in the ointment. Neither
of these sheets represents more than a
| handful of the subjects of the great
mother nation, and that handful by
no means shows the characteristics
which mark the Anglo-Sax race.
| Not only the tight little island, but
her colonies are also with US. Wher-
| ever the English tongue is spoken the
bonds of brotherhood are being drawn
closer by the heat of impending bat
tie and the alliance which thinkers have
! looked forward to during the last de-
cade seems upon the point of being inv
separably welded by the blast of war.
STATE TEXT BOOKS.
San Jose Mercury: Parents know
what it will mean to be compelled once
more to procure their books from the
! book ring. 1t will add many dollars
to the expenses of every family, and
thousands of these families will feel
| that expense keenly. Every dollar add
ed to their school-book expense will be
a hardship There must be no surren-
der to the book trust and no abandon
ment of the principle of State text
| books.
UNPATRIOTIC DEALERS.
San Diego Union: It is stated that
Missouri mule dealers have taken ad-
vantage of the war situation already
and effected corner" in mules, fore
ing up the price of those useful animals
| to the Government at least % per
cent. If this sort Of war time extortion
were confined to the men who have
mules for sale, the matter might be
dismissed as trivial. 1t is an unfortu-
nate fact, however that in dealing with
the Government the average citizen
is apt to be oblivious of all patriotism.
During the early sixties the very name
army contractor" became almost a
term of reproach. Indications are not
lacking that the rapacity that grew rich
through the Governments necessities
in those trying times is still vigorous
| and eager to repeat its previous sue
cesses.
CORRECT GUESS.
Los Angeles Herald: The Herald
ventures the guess that the present at
| tack on the State series was instituted
and fomented by interested parties,
who desire to secure the introduction of
new books for their own profit Ere
quent changes IN text books have
formed one Of the greatest evils of our
| public school system, and popular sem
timent against such a policy grows
| stronger every year.
| GOLD PILING UP.
Humboldt Standard: Gold continues
| to pile up in the Treasury and in the
! hands Of those who have been making
| sales of our merchandise abroad during
! the past year. The amount in the treas
! ury now reaches, in round numbers,
| $3.50, 900 900; the orders of gold for inn
| port during the past sixty days have
run at the rate of about a million dol
! lars a day, and the amount in circula-
| tion is now $125, 600, 900 in excess of the
amount in circulation at the date of the
! Chicago convention of 1896. while the
! gold production of the world is in
| creasing with greater raDidity than
ever before. exceeding in 1897 that of
any preceding year, while that of 1898
promises to be still greater.
CHARACTER OF THE STAGE.
| Oakland Tribune: Madame Modjeska
1 has taken up her cudgels on the SUBJ
! ject Of the degeneracy of the stage,
| II appeal to the women of the stage
and to the women off the stage, and in
particular to those who form our au-
diences," she says. Can we not exact
a common influence to remedy this state
| Of affairs, both from the inside and
| from the outside, the former-the act
resses-to elevate the standard of our
art so as to have it afioat together with
| the other efnblems of higher civiliZa-
| tion, and the other, our sisters from the
| outside to help US in the struggle by
| exerting their own refining actions in
| order to protect what is best and to
| taboo what is unclean or unartistic in
| the theatrical world" 1t is easy to see
what Modjeska's opinion would be of
| Pillar MOURN, Anna Held, Yvette Gull
| bert and the rest of the actresses of
that guild. who. however it must be
admitted, monopolize good deal of the
theatrical patronage of New York
whenever they are there.
THE GUARDsMEN.
Tulare Register: BY the way. Con-
| gresham Castles hired assassins" are
| looked upon in rather different light
now that their country needs them and
| they are responding with such alac-
rity. Even Po9ulists have no fear of
their malevolent desire to enslave the
masse, at the behest of plutocracy.
THE FORTUNES OF WAR.
| Los Angeles Times: While all good
Americans hope and pray for a sue
cession of victories for our arms on
both land and sea, we should not, in
our zeal and enthusiasm, lose sight
| of the fact that war is a game that
two play at and that all the victories
are not likely to be on one side. We
must expect the bitter of war with its
sweets-the bitter of disaster and death
/ to our gallant crews at sea and the
| fighting force on land, as we'll as the
sweets of victory, and if defeat comes,
| the nation should look upon it with
philosophy and simply put forth effort
to win two battles to make up for the
one defeat sustained.
| CHOICEST FRUITS OF WAR.
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