The record-union., 1898-03-25
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Interest.
Red Bluff Peoples Cause: The daily
newspapers of San Francisco are the
most outrageous infliction on the PEG
pie that they have to thank lenlen'
Providence for There is no avoiding
it, for the news is absolutely essential
but to have to put up with the abom-
Unable twaddle that is foisted on us fol-
news, to have to wade through the
labyrinth of picture puzzles and poster
type and blotches on white paper thai
are as meaningless as the markings
on the moon, to digest columns OF ab-
surd imaginings of men as ignorant ol
what they write about as a hog is of 9
holiday, and whose livelihood depends
upon the rapidity with which they con
ceive and promulgate sensation, is
almost enough to drive sane men mad
and lay a curse upon the whole fra
ternity.
IDIOTIC.
Petaluma Argus: The headings and
contents of some of the big papers
anent the Cuban trouble are simply
idiotic. One journal talks about 1.-THE
truce" between the United States and
Spain continuing for a time yet, as il
there had been actual war, and this
is only a respite between bloody bat
ties. In another place it says that
colored troops are to be sent to Cuba
to fight, as though war had been de-
clared, and it is settled that Cuba is
to be the ground. Another per
fectly ridiculous canard is that if tbs
Spanish torpedo flotilla attempts &c
move to Porto Rico it will be destroyed
as though Spain couldn't still move
her vessels as she has a mind to, just
as the United States can and does But
the list of idiOcies is endless and con-
tinuous. The wonder is that some fell
low with pencil at this end doesn't
strike one of them out of the dispatches
once in a while.
CALL A HALT.
Oakland Tribune: Senator Proctor's
graphic speech in Congress about the
awful suffering that prevails among
the Cuban reconcentrados proves that
the newspaper pictures of the horrors
there have not been overdrawn. The
bits of description about the natives
dying of hunger in the streets and
market places and the way the home
less unfortunates are huddled together
like wild animals in every available
place of shelter almost makes it i'm
perative for some Christian nation tc
interfere in their behalf SPANS pres
ent policy appears to be to kill of
the rebels through the media of hun
ger and disease, and if this sort OF
thing continues the United States will
on the common principles of human
ity be justified in calling a halt.
FAIR PLAY
Healdsburg Enterprise: 1t is the du-
ty, and should be the pleasure of every
man and woman to cOncede the hon
esty to any one who may take oppo-
site views Of a proposition. While every
man is supposedly created equal to ev-
cry other man, it must be admitted that
they all do not look through the same
glasses. The opposition have no right
to accuse the advocates of a PROPOSE
ton with dishonesty; neither have the
advocates a right to charge the oppo-
sition with evil designs. 1t is the plain
duty of every American citizen to con
cede honesty to his opponent, and ther
versy can be carried on.
RUMORS AND RUMORS.
Humboldt Standard: The rumors OF
alliances between European Powers
to help Spain in case of war between
that Power and the United States
come thick and fast, but they are only
rumors, and just what we may expect
If alliances are made, the United States
will have allies fully as strong as those
that will side with Spain. But the
chances are ten to one that European
nations will keep their hands off in
case of war They have complex ques-
tons enough i'll Europe to keep them
engaged. and the Chinese and Turkish
questions are of far greater Importance
to Europe than Spain's troubles with
us on account of Cuba.
The old story of an alliance between
the English-speaking people to defy
the world is revived; but there is moth
ing in it. England wishes the friend
ship Of the United States in case OF
war over the Chinese question, and it is
known that America and the British
Empire would be able to give the rest
of the world a good fight, in case ii
should be necessary.
The diversity of interests in Europe
Asia and Africa make it practically
impossible for union of all European
Powers against either Great Britain OF
America, or the two combined This
story has as little foundation as the
one started some days ago that all the
Spanish South American colonies would
Cno n GcyI "a 70 nc
on account. of their race and religion
- GOOD ROADS.
Winters Express: The California
Good Roads League is preparing some
interesting and reliable data, includ-
ing facts and figures from competent
road builders and engineers, on the
subject of good roads which will soon
be furnished to the public for the pur-
pose of arousing interest in the impor-
lance of passable highways and the
cost and detriment of impossible ones
Road construction is not mastered in q
day nor by casual employment in road
work, and in spite of the fact that
something like 81 100000 is annually
expended in California for roads. there
are few good ones, while we go on day
after day pouring money in the same
holes and letting it drop out of sight
1t is true some people are already
awake to the Importance of good roads
and few Supervisors are building
them, but the actual science of road
building is mastered by not one road
builder in a thousand, and we have
little but streaks of mud and dust te
show for our money
AMERICAN TIN PLATE.
Ukiah Republican Press: Ira Aver
the special agent of the Treasury De
partment in charge of the tin plate sta
tlstics, has published his report FOR last
year from which it appears that the