The record-union., 1898-03-31

,DA L MAhOI1 81, 1890.
troll its affairs, and that every member
of any party should have equal voice
and vote in doing this In the country
districts and smaller towns this is now
the general rule, and little need be at
tempted in regard to them But the
decentralization of politics in the cities
is an evil that the best men of all par
ties have determined must be stopped,
and if Senatorial lawyers cannot do
the subject justice it is about time the
laymen tried their hand at drafting a
bill for its suppression.
A SCORE TO SETTLE
Stockton Mail: We have a black score
to settle with Spain-a black score of
our own. The ghosts of our murdered
seamen still cry to us for vengeance.
TO man the nation believes that the
gallant fellows who died in the harbor
OF Havana We're done to death by
Spanish treachery. And we will yet
have a fearful retribution for that ac-
cursed slaughter. Let no man doubt
that. The President may be weak.
Congress may be held in the Speakers
masterful hand. But that wrath of the
people that long has smoldered will yet
burst into an angry blaze that shall
utterly consume all which stands in its
way. That day is near at hand. if the
signs lie not, and all the cowardly and
accursed tactics of the undamned viii
lains and dogs who would have the flag
spit upon and whole people butcherad,
raped, starved and tortured to death
rather than that the stock market
should suffer will do we'll to hide them
selves. 1t is time for Wall street to
take its hands off the Government
IT IS A SHAME.
Stockton Independent: 1t is shame
that there should be at such time as
this any American with so rancorous
and preJudiced nature as to seek by
word or deed to impede a peaceful and
honorable settlement of any differences
that have arisen between this Govern
ment and the Government of Spain It
is shame that any citizen of the
United States, endowed with the full
privileges and protection of it's laws,
who so little appreciates the tran
scendent advantages of such citizenship.
as to stab the Government in the back
when it is engaged with a foreign an
envy 1t is a shame that there are so
many men in America enjoying the re-
sponsibility of influence and intrusted
with those dangerous instruments, cd
ucation and unbounded license of
speech-Who will so abuse their trust
as to join the Spaniards at such a mo-
ment in trying to embarrass the Cow
ernment in time of critical excite
ment If not of actual peril
THE AMERICAN BOY.
Los Angeles Times: A Cincinnati
schoolboy proposes a subscription in
every schoolhouse in the land to build
monitor to be called THE American
Boy" which shall be presented to the
Government. That youth is type of
the young patriots that this great coun-
try Of ours is growing up to fight it's fu-
ture battles of both war and peace. God
| bless the American boy, anyway; he is
just about the most manly and splendid
thing that ever occurred.
WHY THE SWEAT?
Stockton Mail: The intense anxiety
which the rainless days bring to all
ought to be a lesson on the foolishness
OF stalking everything on the result Of
one crop. 1t may sound cruel, but it is
fact that three or four continuous ut
ter failures of the wheat crop would be
in the long run a benefit to this section
Wheat is the crop peculiarly suited to
those regions where winter wraps the
land in snow and sheets it in ice six
months in the year. 1t is not a crop upon
which the magnificent climate and soil
OF California should have their capaci-
ties wasted
In small, diversified farming lies the
ultimate prosperity of this great valley.
1t is capable of supporting millions of
people in comfort. And yet a few thou
sands now cultivating it's soil are sweat
ing with fear lest they will not reap
harvest enough to pay for the labor of
sowing.
INDUSTRIES IN FULL SWING.
Los Angeles Express: Bank clear
ances for the week ending March Goth
i'll over fifty cities show use of money
in industries 3512 per cent more than
last year in the corresponding week
Only three cities report a falling off i'll
the use of funds. The increases are
pretty evenly distributed over all parts
of the country. The great stimulus TO
business is the increased foreign demand
for American products. The exports for
February were $4,000 900 more in value
than for the same month a year ago.
Not only the products of the soil figure
in this, but also manufactures Cotton,
which was almost immoVable during the
great strike in England, is now in act
i've demand, and sales on European ac-
count are very large For three weeks
the export movement of wheat was over
1O,00O,O0O bushels, as compared with
1900, 900 in a similar period last spring.
Iron workers have orders for 10000 tons
of products for Australia, 10000 for
South Africa, and $4,000 tons for Old
England.
OF SOME IMPORTANCE.
Oakland Enquirer: An issue of some
Importance has been raised by the
proposition to throw open the new Gov
ernment forest reservations in Cali
fornia during the coming summer to the
sheep, which, under the law, are not al
lowed to run in these forest reserva-
tions, but the President has power to
make exceptions. The coming season
promises to be a terribly severe one
upon the stock interests, and the plea
is made that unless the forest reserva-
tions are thrown open to the sheep many
flocks will starve to death
DR. Siegert'S Angostura BitterS the