The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-03-02

has nothing TO lose by an unwise and
unprovoked war Sympathy for Cuba
is all right but when it is made
weapon with which to asail the Presi-
dent it is all wrong. The first duty of
our President is to look to the welfare
of his own country-and this the Pres
ident is doing to the satisfaction Of all
right minded people. Whenever justice
or the honor of this nation requires US
to challenge Spain to war it will be
, done. Mckinley is a safe conservative
man, but he has the courage necessary
to go to war with any nation on earth
if the circumstances require it.
HEAL THYSELF."
Alameda Encinal: When men can be
killed, infants murdered and women
| shot to pieces for no other reason than
that a more or less beneficent Provi-
dence saw fit to give them skins of a
/ darker hue than common, ii would APP
/ pear to be time for the physician to heal
himself and not waste time scoding
about outrages in Cuba or Armenia. The
murder Of negro Postmaster and his
/ infant and the serious wounding of his
wife and daughters in South Carolina, is,
all things considered, quite the equal of
almost anything that has been told OF
any foreign country.
PUBLISH THEM.
Salinas Journal: If the pension list
/ be an honor roll, a mans name thereon
a badge of loyalty and patriotism, as it
really is or should be, what objection
can be urged against the publication OF
the list by those whose names are worth
lily enrolled? The great howl against
publishing the names will come princi-
pally from those who are fraudulently
drawing money from the Government.
| A MONUMENT.
| Alameda Argus: Efforts are being
made to erect a. monument to Mr..
Hearsts two newspapers, and to Mr..
Hearst's transcending genius as jour-
nalist. Mayor Phelan has had the good
ness to head the San Francisco Commit
! tee. and similar committees are to be
organized in all the cities Of the loyal
! land, and collectors started out to gather
| in funds and send them on to New DIRK,
| less 10 per cent. for collecting. The ami
able and patriotic public is expected to
| back up and be MIXED for the glory of
| modern" journalism, and cen to be
glad of the opportunity. incidentally
| the monument is also to commemorate
the men who lost their lives in the ter
rible accident that destroyed the war
ship Maine.
ZOLA'S CASE.
| Oakland Enquirer: The impression
conveyed by the prompt conviction of
Emile Zola, upon the conclusion of his
| trial is that the French courts are mere
/ ~ part of the administrative machine
cry, and do not constitute an independ-
ent branch of the Government, as do
the courts of the United States. The
Ministry is against lola, and wants him
| punished, and therefore the court con-
victs because it wishes to execute the
Governments policy. That is the i'm
preston derived from reading the pro-
ceedings in this trial, and what was pre-
viously known of the French courts
makes the supposition probable. Some
times we hear disconnected Americans
| denouncing our own courts for making
so free with legislative acts, but it is
better to err on the side of judicial indie
| pendence than it would be to initiate
the bad example of the French courts.
NO PLACE IN THIS ERA.
| Los Angeles Express: The revolution
/ rid France of hundred evils of mediae-
val origin, and Napoleon gave to France
| it's celebrated code. He borrowed it
from Justinian, to be sure, but that
speaks for rather than against him as a
man of sagacity in civil matters. But
he should at the same time have de-
stroyed the system of trials by military
methods in Government cases against
civilians. The absurd and outrageous
Zola trial illustrates an ancient system
that has no rightful place in the modern
world. 1t is not impossible that the
prosecuted novelist may, by his suffer
ings, be the means of bringing on an
other revolution, and the first thing some
new Napoleon viii do will be to abolish
trials such as that which has been occu-
pying the disguised attention of people
in all countries, and has just concluded,
the jury finding the distinguished Ere nch
author guilty.