The record-union., 1898-08-08
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Woodland Democrat: The Record
Union" publishes long editorial the
purpose of which is to show that men
in the navy get less pay, have less OPP
portunities for promotion and have less
political influence than the soldiers who
fight on land. AS others look at the
situation the men in the navy have no
just cause for complaint when these
conditions are compared with those of
the land soldiers. They are better fed
clothed and sheltered, and less exposed
to disease and inclement weather. The
men under Dewey, Sampson and Schley
will divide several thousands of dollars
for the destruction of the Spanish fleets
The land soldiers captured a whole
province and $4,000 soldiers and will
not get cent except their regular pay
1t cannot be said that the men in the
navy are more exposed to danger than
the land soldiers. Dewey destroyed a
! Schley performed a like feat with the
loss of but one man. In the attack on
Santiago Shafter lost 1,2OO killed and
wounded. There are but few land sol
diers who would not join the navy if
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REVIVAL.
/ Willows Journal: AT the first sound
| Of peace the prosperity bureau of the
Republican party begins the usual talk
| Of revival in business The last few
days we have been treated to silly ar
tlcles on revival of the iron industry
and unusual demand for that metal
| one need not look far to ascertain the
| cause for a great demand for iron
| SIMPSONS commandments used metal
and it must be replaced. The Spaniards
! say he used at least 5000 tons in forty
| days.
THE GENTLEMAN FROM HAWAII.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: A contempo-
rary wittily eXclaims: When the gen.
| tleman from Hawaii rises on the floor
| of Congress and is recognized by
| Speaker Reed that is the time to take
| the picture There may be a gentle
man from Hawaii, one from Cuba and
one from the Philippines, but he will
| represent a territory and have no vote
If we go into colonial expansion it will
| likely be on the line adopted by Eng
| land-local Legislatures when the peo-
| pie have had the benefit Of common
schools and other evidences of civiliza-
ton and aGovernor General appointed
| by the United States. In other words,
we do not purpose going into State
making till our acquisitions are fit for
| federation.
PEACE PROCEDURE.
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat: Moth
| ing that nation does is as solemn as
| the negotiating Of a treaty of peace
Any treaty is attended by a good deal
Of formality, but a treaty of peace, be-
ing the most important of all, is the
most formal. The declaration Of an
armistice is usually the first thing on
the program. This means simply a ces-
| sation Of hostilities, and, as this is
usually very much to the benefit OF one
side or the other, the victorious nation
| requires that the details must be pretty
Well understood before the armistice is
declared. When these details are ex-
tensive and stated in black and white
| the agreement is known as a prelinin-
ary peace, in contrast to the definite
| peace. A preliminary peace is fully
binding, and the treaty of Paris be-
tween England and the United States,
| signed November 80, 1882, was such a
| document
SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY.
San Jose Herald: 1t is gratifying to
| note that the newspapers of the State
| are again taking up the matter of a
| Saturday half holiday. The fact that
| this discussion comes up occasionally
| Indicates that the movement has a hold
en- the public mind. The only thing to
| do is to keep banging away at it until
something is accomplished
In fact, something has been accom-
plished in every city of any size in Cal
/ ifornia, and considerably more has been
/ done in San Francisco. In San Jose
| the banks close at noon on Saturday,
| and that Isl true of other cities But in
| San Francisco not only the banks but
the insurance houses and wholesale
| houses close at the same time How
soon will similar lines Of business here
/ and in other interior cities take the
| same course? And how soon will all
other lines of business follow the lead ?
| There is no evidence that those busi-
nesses which close up Saturday after
| noon are not just as prosperous as their
neighbors. It is largely a matter of
/ custom. There has been for genera
| ton and more a gradual cutting down
Of hours in nearly all pursuits. Years
ago in Eastern towns the clerks would
| be opening before daylight In the morn
| ing, and at 8 o'clock at night they and
their employers would be trudging
homeward. We have got so in San Jose
that we can do all the business we
want to between s in the morning and
s at night, with 6 O'Clock closing
| movement to the front. Business ac-
accommodates itself to these changes,
and it would accommodate itself as
we'll to a Saturday half holiday.
CONFUSION OF IDEAS.
Alameda Argus: DIR. Weaver of Bal
timore is said to have declared. at the
late General Assembly Of the Presby-
terian Church, that he had given up
eating ice cream on Sunday because Of
the pleasure in it." This is very like
the old English Puritans, who were ac-
cused Of objecting to bear batting, not
because it worried the bear but be-
cause it pleased the men. There is
nothing in the Bible, nor in the sound
est traditions of Christianity which
makes pleasure an evil or banishes it
from the Sabbath. The confusion of
the ideas of pleasure and evil had its
origin in a single sect of Puritans. and
the world is happily outgrowing it. If
DR.. Weaver is correctly reported, he
only showed himself to be an anachron-
ism, not a moral leader.
OUR FLAG IN COMMERCE.
Los Angeles Express: At the close of
the war the vast transport tonnage now
employed by the Government will be
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