The record-union., 1898-07-30

we may expect exhuberant JOY TO preak
out in regular epidemic. 1t is likely
to overflow the State like the drouth
or the revenue war tax. After all 1t is
perhaps better to defer the enthusiasm
until peace is declared. If it were en-
| tered into now it might abate before
| the votes are counted. Therefore, we
are inclined to commend the reticence
of our Democratic friends Let them
stall feed those campaign slogans" for
a month or two and they will make an
excellent showing in the November
| slaug house.
SPANISH HONOR.
Tulare Register: Spanish honor must
| be queer article. 1t does not stand in
the way of shooting down surgeons
working under the protection of the
Red Cross Society. 1t does not prevent
| stripping the dead and rifiing their
pockets, shooting brass bullets, and like
the long distance fighters that they are,
| skedaddling when our soldiers get close
to them. 1t is related that during the
civil war detachment of foragers
came upon a plantation in the custody
of a small sisterhood of ancient maid
| ems, and, struck all of panic, they fell
! upon their knees and began to plead
for their preservation of their honor.
/ Trying to comfort them the Irish Ser
! geant in charge called out: BE asey
/ about yer honors me good ladies, but
| if We have some foine smoked hams
| and bacon buried in the cellar we are
| the boys to kape it from sphilin' on yer
/ hands," And so it is just as we'll for
! the Spaniards in Cuba and the Philip
| pines to be ''asey" about their honor
| they have so much to say about, but
| proceed as soon as possible to give up
colonies they have shown themselves to
i be unfit to govern and make for home
while they have full skins.
A HINT.
Fresno Expositor: Americans who
dislike to pay polltax-and what man
doesn't?-will feel a bond of sympathy
between themselves and the natives of
the Ladrones. The historians tell that
native women refused to marry and the
| mothers threw their children into the
sea to diminish the polltax. Talk about
your new! women, Our womans
clubs may be able to get some point
ers when the members get to running
over to fraterniZe with the Ladrone la
dies
BE PATIENT.
Marysville Appeal: In all events of
moment, and especially those of war,
| there are always to be found over
sanguine spirits who ina gine that the
| arms of their country are invincible,
| and who chafe under what appears to
them objectionable delay in not at once
attacking and utterly annihilating the
| enemy. Cooler heads, however, are
prepared to wait patiently for the out
/ come of operations, extending over a
line Of $500 miles. and which have the
| whole area of the Atlantic for man
euvering in. An army of 10000 is not
marshaled and trained in a day; and
| wise strategists will never encourage
stalking great battles upon raw recruits.
AS a rule, the more preparation the
more certain are results.
| AN INEVITABLE REFORM.
! Riverside Enterprise: The profess
sional politicians who oppose a colonial
| policy are far sighted enough to realize
that its adoption will bring about a
| complete reform of the civil service
from top to bottom. The administra-
! ton of colonial affairs cannot be left
| to the chance qualifications of political
creditors, and no party would repeat
the experiment of paving its debts with
| coloniaT offices. On the other hand
| thousands of educated and intelligent
| young Americans will have opened to
| them careers of usefulness and honor
| in our new possessions.
Not only will the standard of the ex-
ecutive be raised by the necessity of
giving place to ability rather than to
| pull, but our diplomatic service which
has been for years unworthy of so
great a nation will also be improved
The complications that are sure to fol-
low our entrance upon the arena OF
far Eastern politics will call for skill
/ ful handling and the scrubs and in
competents who have hitherto held
Consular office will have to give place
| to men fitted by brains and training for
the important positions they will hold
| WHEN JOHNNY COMES HOME.
San Diego Union: 1t is just possible
that the politicians who are laying
plans for the future, may find that
| they have a new factor to reckon with
the veterans of the war with Spain
who make brilliant records and live
to come home. In New York, for ex-
ample, Theodore Roosevelt who has
already made his record, but may not
get home for some weeks yet is men
toned as a candidate for Governor.
Indeed his enemies are already begin
ming to discount his supposed aspira-
| tions by meanly asserting that his gall
! liant charge at the head Of the Rough
Riders" was prompted as much by po-
litcal aspirations as by martial mo-
tives. OF course the charge is as alb
surd as it is contemplate.