The record-union., 1898-03-16
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State ard Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.

ton of fruit growers Will be neld next
month, convening at Los Angeles on
April 18th for "a two days session and
at Riverside on April 18th for two
days session The State Association
Of County Horticultural Commission
ers will also hold sessions during the
week. The hospitality of the people OF
the southern part OF the State assures
the delegates the most cordial enter
tainment and every facility to study
the advanced horticultural methods in
vogue ana note the highly advantage
Gus results emanating therefrom. The
Southern Pacific Company viii grant
to delegates a return ticket at one
third fare.
GRATIFYING INDEED.
Merced Star: The effect of the Ding
ley tariff law upon the revenues OF the
United States is most gratifying in
deed. and demonstrates the fact that
this Republican measure is bringing
about just what its trainers meant tor
it to do. The receipts of revenue for the
first month following the passage OF
this bill were S13,000,000 IN excess of
the preceding month under the Wilson
tariff law, and the receipts have grad
ualIy increased every month since, un-
til last month they were nearly thirty
million.
FIRM AND PATRIOTIC.
Nevada City Transcript: President
McKinley's firm and patriotic attitude
in the recent crisis with reference to
Cuban matters has been and is cordi-
ally commended by men Of all parties.
The dignified but vigorous stand taken
by him in the Lee incident has already
resulted in a complete backdown by
the Spanish Government, and his
course and that of his official family
in regard to the Maine disaster is re-
ceiving a general approval and his
hands in this trying moment are being
cordially upheld by men irrespective of
past party relationship.
SPIRIT OF OBEDIENCE.
Colusa Sun: Did it never occur to
the reader who prides himself on being
a free and Independent citizen of
great republic, who thinks himself cap
able of helping to govern it, that the
greatest virtue the member OF any or
ganization can possess is the spirit of
obedience No organization, from the
lcilii1ly Op " (AIS dONCI1 %cLA1 CA-
ist without it, This is a virtue that
should be taught more than it is. Re-
spect should be cultivated in connec-
ti0n with obedience. In the conflict
of ideas incident to the workings Of
great republic these things are apt to be
overlooked. There is a time when We
are all free to express ourselves in
language as plain as we can make it,
but there are times when individual
notions had better remain unsaid. The
mariner at sea may fancy that the ship
is being steered a few points off the
correct course but he must obey the
Captaini In the army some may think
the wrong orders are being given but
the whole army must march to those
orders, and the least criticism made
on the orders the better. We of this
Government elect our Captains and
the good citizens must in times of need.
march to whatever action they may
take. The greater the crisis the closer
should be our lips. Neither does it
detract from manhood in the least to
be ready to obey the orders of superb
ors. We all have a time for our say
and then we may try to have our pol
icy adopted, but when anything comes
up that requires the combined strength
of the organization, be that organiza-
tion small or great, then all should fol-
low the chosen leaders to the end.
THE LATIMER CASE
Stockton Independent: Sheriff Martin
Of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania and
his deputies have been acquitted of
the murder of the Latimer strikers
When the shooting occurred the tele-
graphic accounts of the tragedy made
it appear to be a wanton massacre, of
unarmed and peaceful men, but the
testimony at the trial put a different
phase upon the affair. and showed that
some of the marchers were not only
violent and armed, but had committed
great cruelties before the Sheriff and
his posse overlook them. 1t now ap-
pears plain that the correspondents at
Lattimer and Wilkesbarre were in
sympathy with the strikers to such
degree that they violated the truth
to influence public sentiment in their
favor. The testimony of two women
whose husbands had to flee from the
violence Of the marchers, and one of
whom stood off the members OF the
mob who wanted to drag her sick son
from his bed and compel him to Join
them, did much to cause the acquittal.
Had the stories of the correspondents
not been thus well contradicted, hang
ing would not have been severe enough
punishment for Martin and his men.
SPLENDID EXPRESSION.
Stockton Record: Can any one i'm
agine that this tremendous expression
of A ooT-in
be lost upon the generation or on the
world? And in this connection it is
pleasant to believe and to know that
America never had a President whom
an American Congress would not have
trusted and backed III like manner
under like emergency 1t is no dis
paragement of President Mckinley to
say this. It is merely a justification
of our own act.
THE PRESIDENT AND CUBA.
Tacoma Ledger: The facts that are
coming to light regarding the action
of President Mckinley in the Cuban
matter, showing that for many months
he has been going ahead carefully and
surely, taking no step that would have
to be retraced, will prove a surprise to
those who have been denouncing the
administration for its inaction and
deafness to the cries of distress from
Cuba. The President and his Cabinet
have been fully alive to the demands
of the occasion, and have acted man
fully and in a manner that will meet
the approval of every patriotic citi-
zen.
ORANGE CROP.
Oroville Mercury: The orange grow
ers of Southern California are worry
ing themselves into premature graves
in their efforts to make combinations