The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-29

! published. but in times of excitement,
| when the Imagination Is abnormalIy
| stimulated, this must necessarily be
| difficult and frequently an impossible
/ task
INCOMMUNICADO.
| Bakersfield Californian: Considering
| the blockade and the circumstances of
| the cutting of the Havana cable, it may
| be said without calling attention to the
! fact that shoes sometimes get on other
feet, that General Blanco and the rest
| of the Spaniards now detained upon
the Island of Cuba seem to be incom-
municado.
CONCERNING MARRIAGE.
Oakland Tribune: 1t is not generally
| known that the heads of the Episcopal
Church in America are considering the
advisability of making a very import
ant ruling regarding the celebration of
| marriages. The proposition is that no
minister of that church be permitted
| to solemnize the marriage of either
party to a divorce during the lifetime
| of the other, the restriction being prac-
! tically the same as the one in vogue in
| the Catholic Church. There is wide
| divergence of opinion, though, among
| the Episcopalian leaders as to the mat
| ter, and the issue is to be fought out
| in the October convention.
PUBLIC WAR.
|. Los Angeles Express: Public war
| does not rest on the same law as that
which governs in cases of private war,
| or the duel In the latter a person
! intended to be challenged, may refuse
| to receive the challenge and if he does
! that, no duel is had. The matter is
| ended. But when a nation delivers an
| ultimatum, which is both a notice to
reconsider and a challenge to fight, the
nation to whom the ultimatum is di-
rected cannot, by initiating the os-
| trich, affect not to know of it and so
| ignore it's contents. In no such manner
can it avert war. On the contrary, the
nation that has suffered injuries which
| it can no longer endure, has now and
| in such a case insult added to it's in
| juries. That is the case to-day as be-
/ tween this country and Spain, and
| there is nothing left for this country
| to do but follow up its disdainfully
treated ultimatum with prompt and
! vigorous war enterprises.
IF MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE.
Fresno Republican: The mistakes of
months were many, and his policy was
weak and vacillating But with the dec
laration of war the President has
dropped the politician and become again
the soldier.-Stockton Mail.
If serious mistakes have been made
during the past two months they have
not been made by President Mckinley,
but by the believing politicians and in
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and lying attacks he stood as firm as
adamant Had these partisans and
hotheads succeeded in forcing the hand
of the Chief Executive the country
would have been plunged into war be-
fore it was prepared to fight battle,
and in manner that would have in
vited the condemnation of the civilized
world BY his patient diplomacy un-
der the most trying circumstances
! the President not only demonstrated
that this Government was honestly and
earnestly seeking a peaceful solution
of the problems involved in the Cuban
situation and the destruction of the
Maine, but he gained the time so vital
ly essential to put this Government in
a position to go to war if war was the
inevitable outcome
less elaboration. had he exercised less
diplomacy and urged the cause of peace
less earnestly, he would have been in
the wrong, and history would have con-
demned him as it will now condemn his
critics.
WHAT ADVANTAGE.
San Diego Tribune: Just what advan-
tage the tricky diplomats of Spain ex-
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fusal to receive the ultimatum from the
United States is a matter for specula-
ton. That the Madrid diplomats hope
to make their action in this matter ba-
sis for clubbing at some future time is
probable, but for the immediate future
their attempted trick may be barren of
results.
CENSORSHIP AT KEY WEST.
San Diego Union: The announcement
that the military authorities at Key
| West have established a censorship
over kilograms is not at all surprising.
1t means simply that such movements
of the North Atlantic squadron as it is
desired to keep secret shall not be pro-
| claimed to the whole world before they
have taken place In operations Of both
land and naval forces secrecy is often
the first requisite of success, while pub
licity may mean actual disaster. The
history Of the worlds wars is filled with
illustrations of this fact.
When the first Napoleon cut off the
army of General Mack at Ulm in 1905
and destroyed it entirely, the feat was
only possible because there were no tel
egraph lines or railways by which the
unlucky Austrian commander could
send word to those who might have
gone to his rescue. But in 1870, when
Mcmahon attempted to march to the re-
lief of Bazaine shut Up in Metz, the
fact was made known at the German
headquarters through English and
French newspapers, and the movement
of the French Marshal was promptly
| turned into disaster.
WHAT WE ARE AFTER.
! San Jose Mercury: I'VE battle with
Spain," remarks the Record Union"
mot for hate of her, but because We
abhor her methods and we love human
ity." True; but crime is an intangible
thing, and it is the criminal that we are
after.
OUR LOANS.
Los Angeles Herald: The London
tStatist'' opines that the United States
will soon need large loans, and suggests
that it's securities will be freely taken
in Europe at moderate rate of interest,
'if Congress makes them redeemable in
gold" The people of the United States
will do better. They will freely take
them at moderate rate of interest. If
Congress makes them redeemable in
coin.