The record-union., 1898-12-31
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Interest.
| Stockton Record: Commissary Cen
erai Egan of the Army asked Gen
eral Miles to acknowledge or deny the
| correctness of the reports of his un-
sworn testimony before the commits
| sion ON the conduct of the war. Gen
eral Egan has observed a wise precau-
| ton and viii await General Miles re-
ply before asking for court of in
| qulry. The reports of that testimony
and an alleged interview say that Miles
reflected on Egan's way of performing
his duty, and Egan wants the charges,
II any, made plain and investigated He
has made public statement denying
what General Miles is represented to
have charged, but has wisely refrained
/ from assuming that the reports are
correct. Egan is right as we'll as pru-
dent
ALTGELD AND HARRISON.
| The Oregonian: Altgeld, leader of
| demo-populism in Illinois, is excoriat
ing Chicago's Mayor for issuing bonds
| payable in gold. Yet the Mayor
Harrison lis Democrat, and support
ed Bryan. Nevertheless, says the ex
Governor, ''the Mayors protestations of
loyalty to free silver have deceived no.
| body. His real sentiments have long
| been known to the friends of justice
IN our monetary system. When he ap-
proved the issue of bonds containing
the stipulation for payment in gold
coin. he did only what was expected
and he showed beyond question where
he stands ON the money question. He
is an enemy of the Democratic prin-
ciple that gold and silver are both the
| money metals of this country. Yet
even Altgeld is not such a fool as to
suppose that any bond could be sold
for present dollars which did not prom
ise repayment in equal dollars. He is
talking merely in the hope of turning
Harrison out of the headship of the
party in Chicago.
| DON'T WORRY.
| Tulare Register: Don't borrow
trouble. More than three-fourths of the
! trouble people suffer in this world is
strictly borrowed. We worry about cal
antilles which never descend upon us,
and worry really hurts. 1t does not
hurt to live on coarse food Boiled
| wheat and hulled corn are good for
people, vastly better than white flour
with all the gluten bolted out of it
made up into biscuits and pastry 1t
is not a great calamity to have to wear
ones old clothes and, in our country,
! ii is seldom that any industrious per-
son has to suffer a greater calamity
| than to eat coarse food and wear old
| clothes. Then why borrow trouble,
| rack the nerves and thereby injure
| ones constitution perhaps irreparably?
| If we were to have another bad year
| it would be a bad thing for us, no doubt
| of that. If We were to have $50 sue
| cessive dry seasons it would ruin nearly
| all of us and drive us out of the coun-
| try. If it would not rain any more
anywhere the whole human family and
| every living thing would perish from
the earth, but let US not borrow trouble
about any of these things. They are
not likely to occur. The fact is we all
have our hands pretty full if we just
attend to each days affairs as the days
come and go.
THE TREATY OF PEACE.
San Diego Tribune: Will the peace
| treaty be ratified? Some think that
| the Senate will object to it. If not rati-
fed, what will follow? Certainly for
| eign nations would have a glorious OPP
portunity to make themselves extreme
| ly disagreeable to Americans
| The careful consideration of the
treaty is one of the grave questions to
come before the Senate The document
is the link between old and new eras
| in the policy of this Government. 1t
hoQn q cd nv ,+o
| men. Unquestionably the people of the
nation, for the most part, approve Of
| the essential features of the treaty so
far as these features have been made
public. We believe that this favorable
opinion will continue
The treaty does not demand the an
| nexation of the conquered Spanish ISL
ands. As we understand it our peace
Commissioners have secured condi-
tions which were absolutely imperative
for the fulfillment of this nations for
eign policy as approved by Congress.
and was the cause of the war The
Senator who opposes this policy and
| advocates any backward step by our
Government will be seeking political
suicide unless he represents one of the
very few constituencies whose ultra
NOAASNA olASAI1 - ever lO true
American progress.
WHY NOT?
San Jose Mercury: The Philadelphia
Record" asks: "Since we can build
as good battleships on the Pacific
as on the Atlantic coast = the Ore
gon is proof Of it why not
police the Pacific with Oregons launch
| ed on the western shore of the conti-
nent?" That is what will be done. The
| facilities for ship building at San Fran
cisco are equal to those anywhere in
| the world, and it would be foolish and
| expensive to construct battleships n
| the Eastern coast for use in The Pa
| cif1c and to send them all the way
| around the Horn, when equajy good
ships can be built right at the Pacific's
| door.
/ THE CAROLINES
| Los Angeles Herald: We observe
that some regret is expressed at Wash
| ington because the Peace Commission
! ers did not hold up Spain for the
Caroline Islands. 1t is stated that those
islands would be almost priceless to
| American interests in the Pacific
Ocean" The oversight of our commits