The record-union., 1898-03-20

lie voice OF our outraged c1t1zenShlp.
POOR AUTHORITY.
Woodland Democrat: We have felt
some disposition to critise a plan for
the settlement of the Cuban question
which, it is alleged, has the sanction
of President Mckinley. Upon second
thought, however, we have concluded
that it would hardly be fair to censure
him for a policy that is promulgated
solely upon the authority of sensa
tional journalism. We refer to the ru
NOR that Cuban independence may be
purchased for 5000, 1000, 900, the bonds
for this purchase to be guaranteed by
the United States. Such a scheme
would never receive the support of
Congress or the sanction of the people
of the United States.
ALLIANCE WITH ENGLAND.
Berkeley World: No more preposter-
Gus fake has been perpetrated among
the scores called forth by the present
war excitement than the story from
across the pond that the British fleet
might be placed at the disposal of this
country for use against Spain. Not
only is it true that such an offer from
England would be regarded as an in
cation that America is not able to cope
with Spain without help, but it is also
a fact that England could not afford
to lose control for single day of her
resources for conflict.
An Anglo American alliance is an
other wild hypothesis that has come
into prominence because of a possibil
ity that America and Spain will soon
be at war. Just what occasion there
is for it not even those who propose
it have been able to say.
SNEERING AT THE GOVERNMEN z.
Stockton Independent: 1t is hardly
surprising that foreign people should
think Americans and their Government
contemplate. There is SO large class
of American writer's and publishers who
SO declare the Government that citizens
who ought to know better are impressed
by the persistency and constancy with
which the sneers are INDUCED in These
sneerers think that war should have
been declared against Spain long ago.
1t matters nothing to them that their
dictates are not supported by good rAas
ons. Reasoning is not part Of their
work Their forte is to cavil, to COM
plain, to sneer, to denounce, and by their
yehemence, to impress those who let
out their thinking to others To ac
comp1ish these ends of making the Gov
sefnment contemplate, great liberties
are taken with history as well as with
the record of events in the present This,
ia vulgar parlance, is lying, but in the
estimation of the sneerers it is sane
toned by their purpose. What is the
object of these sneers? Even the men
Who indulge in them seem to encourage
the teaching of patriotism in the schools,
yet their efforts in their editorial woIk
is to undo the lessons thus taught ana
to teach that the American Government
deserves neither love nor respect. It
that is not the object those who indulge
in the practice should give their malice
a rest and exercise their judgment and
patriotism, if they have any to exer-
else
NAVEL II IS.
Pasadena star London journals are
unanimous in objecting to the word
navel for California's peerless orange
The American Pomolegical Society has
named it Bahia. "--cahfornia Fruit
grower. S
Yet navel it is. and navel it will .e-
main The name describes the orange
as nothing else can. and after using IT.
SO long it would be idle to be squeam
ish about it now.
TOBACCO.
Mail of Woodland: Florida, with a
black eye because of frozen oranges,