The record-union., 1898-08-22
name, for California throughout the en-

| tanned by some persons who have not
/ investigated the subject, that vegetar-
| ianism means. living on cabbage and
other vegetables is, of course, absurd.
/ There is ample solid nourishment to be
| found in the vegetable kingdom. Pulse,
| in the various forms of beans, peas and
lentils, contain more than twice as
| much nourishment, pound for pound.
| than raw meat, while it costs less than
| fifth as much. In America, red beans
are the mainstay Of the prospector, who
| often gets little or nothing else in the
| way of food for months at a time, In
! Canada, the lumbermen do the heaviest
kind of work on diet mainly composed
of peas. The lentil was. the component
part of the celebrated mess of pottage"
for which Esau sold his birthright. In
| Turkey, the brawny porters, who trot
along under a load that would stagger
an ordinary man to lift, live mainly on
a frugal diet of black bread, figs and
watermelons. In Asia, the Arabs, and
on this continent the Indians. will run
for days on a few handfuls of parched
| corn.
ABOLISH THE BONDING PRIvI-
LEGE.
Tacoma Ledger: Sir William Van
| Horne, in a letter to the Toronto
Globe" written in March last, laid
down the proposition that the Cana
| d1ans mean to keep Canada for them
selves and that the interests of the Ca
madam Pacific require the exclusion of
| all American roads" American rail-
| way men will concede this point. and
go Sir William one better, that the in
terests of American railways require
the exclusion of American freight. as
Well. What is sauce for the Canadian
Pacific goose should be condiment for
the American railway gander, and no
doubt this principle will apply when
the matter comes before Congress.
There is no reason why the bonding
privilege to the Canadian Pacific should
| longer obtain-if, indeed, there ever was
a reason for it being allowed The Ca
nadlan Government, while reaping the
| advantages that accrue to its other self
from this privilege, amounting to mil
| mons or dollars a year, has inaugurated
discriminating duties against American
products, allowing % per cent prefer
| entail on English imports
| statistics show that the freight traffic
diverted to the Canadian Pacific
amounts to nearly or quite 100000
| tons per year, and represents a loss of
| earnings to the American roads of not
less than S20,000,00O to $50, 200, 900 ev-
cry twelve months. Every time the for
elgn road diverts from the American
nnes SA1UUO,OOO Of traffic it takes S14,-
| oOOoOO directly out of the pockets of
| the American workmen.
| RESTING AND WORKING.
| IulaTe RppiSfnr. OI1y oo,,,+r1v
| increasing signs of having reached the
age of discretion. All through the East
| stores are closed at o'clock and not
opened until about s in the morning.
Some groceries open earlier and drug
stores keep open most of the time. hut
| merchants in general now take time to
| get acquainted with their families. 1t
is a good thing and by and by another
step will be taken There will oe a
| closing up while people are gone to din
ner and an afternoon nap is taken.
Some day it may dawn upon all of us
| that we should do business in order to
live and not live in order to do busi-
| ness.
THE OREGON.
| San Jose Mercury California has
| made ten-pin strike in the Oregon.
]
| New York Mail and Express I'm
that matchIess vessel we have the acme
of present attainment in naval archi-
lecture TO combine in such striking
| degree theessentials of speed. effective
ness and resistance as is manifested in
the Oregon is the most that modern
designers can expect. There is proba-
bly, not a vessel afloat that can stand
up against her, and not a battleship in
the world that can escape her pursuing
or overtake her fleeing, if such an at
titude can be imagined
| BECOMING SENSIBLE.
Tacoma Ledger: The Cuban Junta in
New York has reached a realizing sense
of the situation, and it's present utter
ances are radically different from the
| frothy denunciations and threats of
turning the guns of Cuban insurgents
against the United States forces in case
the alleged Government, was not recog-
nized. President Palma of the Junta
now speaks with good sense and reason
regarding American occupation Of Cuba
| and the organization of a government
| in that island He asserts that the Gu
bans have implicit confidence in the
| declaration of the United States that
| it made war not to acquire Cuba, but
to free the island for the Cubans and
asserts that the people of the island
will be willing and anxious to assist
the United States Government in the
solution Of the questions of the future
| government of Cuba. These views
which should have been declared
months ago, instead of the fuImina-
tions that were given publicity, are ac-
ceptable even at this late day, even
| if they are brought out, as the Spanish
assert of the appeal for peace, by force.
THE BEST FRUIT OF THE WAR.
| Portland Oregonian: The war has not
been large enough or eventful enough
to stir the national heart to great
depths, momentous though its revela-
| tions and inspirations. But it is time
| to look about us for the moral effect
that every such struggle as this puts
upon the people who have borne it's
| burden and reaped it's rewards. The
student of history, whether poet like
Shakespeare or Politician like Burke,
recognizes in war the purge of the body
polite from congested evils Of peace.
Quotations might be multiplied to show
the various ills of race and government
| for which war is a specific. In gem
eral way it imparts tone to the system
| and exaltS the ambition. Material ac-
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