The record-union., 1898-11-23
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.

great rivers, no creeks ike stony anu
Cache Creeks, where they cannot go
down anywhere and get plenty OF wa
ter, where the mountains have no foot
hills, but rise steep and rocky out OF
the valley. There you find that set
Of enterprising men have taken control
of what there is there and the country
is sustaining a vast population. They
are limited, and another drouth this
season would mean ruin to ALL We
have unlimited water, unlimited re-
sources of all kinds, and here we sit and
dry out and quarrel with any one who
proposes to move ahead-who tries to
take advantage of those resources. We
are standing on gold mine quarreling
with all who propose to dig down and
get the metal. Go see the water
put on poorer land with several times
the expense we need take! Go see the
result! Then hurrah when you hear
those abused who try to help move up.
SIMPSON & co.
Tulare Register: And Jerry Simpson,
too, he of the socklessness, has been
showed undar. But Jerry declares that
he will not letire from politics 1t does
not look as though he retired from poll
ties this time Politics retired from
him, as it were, and it viii be twenty
years from the first day of next April
before the people of the United States
will have any political use for such men
as Simpson, Pennoyer, Waite, Coxey,
Altgeld, Alien, El. Hutch, Air Castle,
Billee Barlow and Mary Ellen Lease.
LET US CONSIDER TT.
Marysville Democrat: The conditions
have changed somewhat relative to the
war and the causes that brought 1t on,
yet the main facts remain the same as
they were one year ago. If the Eng
lish language is to be relied upon and
our memory is not at fault the declara-
tions of the statesmen, the President
and the press was to the effect that the
war was not waged for conquest. Time
and again 1t was stated that the United
States demanded only that which was
due to the Cubans, right and justice in
their home government. We declared
that the interference on the part Of
this Government was entirely on the
lines of humanity to obtain stable gov
ernment for the residents Of those ISL
ands AS war of humanity it seems
we have crossed the dividing line long
a far off land, making it a war of con-
quest in real earnest. Then the ques-
ton arises for our consideration. Is it
right? We should keep our word in
this matter and remember that there
Is honor or dishonor in the settlement
Of the war, in which seventy-fve mill
lions of American people are interested.
The duty Of the statesmen and the
President is to seriously consider how
the annexation of these Spanish pos
sessions to the United States will affect
the interests of our own happy family,
as we'll as the natives of the Philip
pines. If we are to continue in the line
of conquest and finally annex these
islands to the United States we will
bring into our political system hun
dreds Of thousands Of Spaniards Gre
oles, Malays, Chinese, japanese, Taga-
las and Fflipinos, who now occupy the
islands. Can we afford this to obtain
territory which has never been profit
able TO Spain?
OF FUSION.
Oakland Tribune: A very pointed
question that is being put to the fu-
sionists Is. where In the State can
they show that the combination of
forces did either the Democratic or
Populist party any good? They cer-
tainly cannot claim the election of Van
Dyke as a fusion success, for the fu-
sion strength was supposedly centered
on his running mate, Judge Conley,
who was beaten. The more the fusion
proposition is looked into the more
clear it becomes what a hollow farce
1t Is, or rather was, for it's career Is
at an end.
RELIEF COMMISSION.
San Diego Union: The National Re-
noble work in aiding soldiers and their
families. announces that it must soon
stop it's efforts unless more funds are
placed in It's hands 1t also intimates
that, while money from individual con-
tributors would be welcomed, it thinks
the Government ought to contribute
something to the organization The
appeal should not be in vain. So long
as thousands of American soldiers are
in the West Indies and Philippines,
and thousands more must go to those
countries. both this organization and
the Red Cross have much yet to do,
and each should be aided to the ut
most.
CONGRATULATED.
Fresno Republican: Mr.. Bryan and
his party should be congratulated on
the fortunate muzzling of the Popo-
cratic leader during this campaign.
The Democratic leaders now confess
that even the suggestion of hostile
attitude on the question of territorial
expansion has brought them down to
defeat. If Bryan had been on the
stump he would have taken radical
anti-annexation attitude and commit
ted himself, If not his party, beyond
hope Of retreat. AS 1t is, the party
may do as 1t has always done before,
follow the ,publican lead after its
correctness Las been demonstrated.
and even Colonel Bryan may be found
following with his party.
THE WEAKNESS OF FUSION.
Humboldt Standard: Will our
friends of the allied opposition, known
as the Union party, believe US now,
when we repeat what the Standard
said at the very beginning of the CAM
paign, that fusion is weak, and that a
combination of political parties is i'm
possible? Party conventions may agree
to fuse, but the people will not. There
is something repugnant to the average
man in pooling political issues or doub-
ling teams just to defeat a third party.
We say third party deliberately, for
the Silver Republican party is myth
and will never again bob up to hold
a convention in California. 1t would
have held no convention this year If
H. A. McCraney. who had good
place in the office of the Secretary of