The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-17
VOICE. OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Stockton Record: Were Stephen A.
Douglass alive and standing to-day in
the place of Bryan as the last defeated
| candidate of a minority party, we
would expect to hear patriotic appeal
to his followers and his countrymen to
stand by the President. Were Lincoln
| or Jefferson or Grant or Washington
or Monroe alive to-day, we might ex-
pect to hear the voice Of wisdom to
issue from the place of retirement, ad-
| vising their countrymen and the Rep
resentatives of their country to stand
! by the Administration, and by justice,
! honor humanity and conscience in the
! hour of peril.
THE ANGLO SAXON ON TOP.
| Santa Cruz Sentinel: One of the ablest
| and certainly the very best known
of all the officers of the American navy,
Captain Mahan, has expressed an opin-
| ion as to the probable outcome Of a
Spanish war that is well worthy of the
consideration of every thoughtful citi-
zen of this country. Captain Mahan is
| the author of a work, entitled 'The In
fiuence of Sea Power Upon History -
that has attracted more attention from
foreign naval officers than any volume
| issued within the last ten years. Just
prior to sailing for Europe on Saturday
| he said that it isn't guns, and it ISM
armor plate, primarily that wins in a
| fight, but men, and American men are
superior in physique, power of endur-
| ance, craftsmanship and moral cour-
| age to Spanish men," The declaration
of
materials is more than verified by the
wars in the worlds history, and espe-
cially in all the wars in which Spain
has been one of the principal actors.
1t is usually the case that a northern
people has been successful in it's con-
f1icts with southern, mainly because
of the qualities of greater physical en-
! durance possessed by the former.
PRESIDENT HAS DONE WE'LL.
Contra Costa Gazette: 1t is not just
to criticise a public man for intentions
attributed to him, but not declared by
! him. Whatever President Mckinley
may do or leave undone in the near
future, he has certainly conducted
| himself with admirable dignity, self
restraint prudence and foresight up to
the present time. The preparations for
war, if war shall unhappily be the I'M
| avoidable issue, has been conducted
with great energy and intelligence. Not
! the most fiery jingo in Congress could
| have directed this work better than
| President Mckinley has done. So far
| as it now appears our diplomatic affairs
have been managed with equal discre-
ton and success.
/ If the President has seemed slow it
may be remembered that the same
| complaint was brought against Lin
| coin. Yet he always kept the people
/ at his back. Nothing has been lost by
! delay. Our preparations for enforcing
peace are more complete and the pa
thence and elaboration of our Govern
ment commend our course to the favor
able opinion of foreign nations.
SOME FIGHT YET.
Kern Echo: From the way the Span
ish army is being recruited in Havana,
there is some fight in it yet The WON
der is that IL has been so long at war
with its island colony and failed to sub
due it. Still, hundred years ago Eng
| land had an eight years war with some
weak American colonies and didn't sub
due them in the end. But there was
the important difference that England
had important troubles nearer home.
while Spain has been at peace with the
world except for Cuba.
WILL WELCOME WAR.
Tulare Register: There are people
in this country who will welcome war.
If for no other reason than the hope
that war will render necessary or prob
able a great issue of fiat money. We
have before us paper that declares
with all seriousness, that our country
will stand an additional issue of $500. :
000,0 900 of greenbacks before a bond is
issued. And this in the face of the
historical fact that an issue of $780,
100000 during the civil war made that
war cost this country 5000, 600, 900 more
than it otherwise would have cost
There are people who can learn moth
ing from history and after they get to
be about SO old they cannot learn any
thing anyhow.
TRUSTS.
Amador Republican: A trust" in
the political sense, is defined to be a
combination of persons engaged in some
particular business for the purpose of
reducing the expense of managing the
business and increasing the profits
thereof, the conduct of its affairs being
placed in the hands of trustees who
control the amount of goods produced
or handled in such way as to ac-