The record-union., 1898-07-23

cerned, these vessels have become noted
few occasions when they have been en-
gagged in battle, they have either gone
to the bottom or been disabled.
HOW AMERICANS RISE.
Fresno Republican,: Attention has
been called to the fact that Admiral
SIMPSONS father was a laborer and Ad-
miral Dewey's ancestors, though COM
fortably Well off, were quiet, country
people, while the ancestors both of
Commodore Schley and Lieutenant
Hobson had been known for generations
IN their own communities as aristo-
Gratis. Evidently valor is not the ex-
elusive attribute of any station in life.
WHEN READY.
San Jose Mercury: When Spain gets
ready for peace she can have it, but
she may as well understand first as
last that there will be no dickering
about it. This county will name its
terms, and they will have to be met.
r. HARDING DAVIS
Stockton Record: One day recently
there appeared in the San Francisco
Cali an article over the signature of
Richard Harding Davis, in which the
situation of the army, then before San
tiago, was described as pitiable, criti-
cal; and, as if this was not enough,
demand was made for the recall of
General Shafter. The author of the
letter should have been drummed out
Of camp; its publisher should have been
thrown into a dungeon; while as for
the censor, if there was one in the case,
a cI, VII se
ting it pretty strong; we seem to be
sangulnary; but we would have it un-
derstood that there is such a thing as
giving aid and comfort to the enemy
without the formality Of deserting to
him, for unquestionably the letter was
cabled to Madrid, and from thence to
Cuba, and not impossibly determined
Linares to hold the fort until he should
be shelled out of it.
A CANADIAN VIEW.
The Oregonian: Here is a Canadian
view of one phase of the new policy on
which the United States is embarking.
The Toronto Globe" says:
Another door to national prosperity
is opening. Our neighborS are busy
lighting Spain, and when they get
through with that they will have
quarter of a centurys hard work lick
ing the new colonieS-Cuba, Porto Rico,
the Philippines and Hawaii-into shape
There will be a special and distinct
boom attached to the development Of
each, and the business men Of the
United States will neglect the Cana
dian dollar for the quarter to be earn
ed in Cuban or Philippine trade, on the
well known principle that far away hills
are always green. With no colonial
policy or projects to distract us we
shall meanwhile be enabled to bend all
our energies to the capture of the
transportation business of the Ameri-
can West as we'll as our own
After reviewing what is being done
in this direction, the Globe concludes:
"All these preparations for a mighty
traffic mean that natural law is over
coming artificial barriers, and that the
products of the American West destin-
ed for export will in a few years take
the shortest road to Europe-the Cana
dian rail and water route" This, of
course, is not intended for American
consumption. This side the line the
Canadian Pacific poses as an orphaned
baby that cannot live without its differ
entail bottle
MISTAKEN ZEAL.
San Jose Mercury: The ladies who
are so enthusiastically advocating the
project of building a hospital ship for
the Government display great patriot
ism, but theirs is mistaken zeal The
Government has ample money with
which to purchase twenty ships for the
purpose, if it needs them. The ladies
are doing splendid work in the Red
Cross service and those tender minis