The record-union., 1898-07-11
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
state and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Portland Oregonian: The Fish fami-
ly, like that of the Roosevelts, has
never been without representatives of
excellent public capacity and character
among it's members. When Theodore
roosevelt resigned from the Navy De-
partment to recruit a regiment of
rough riders, among the young men
OF nigh social rank who joined his
command was Hamilton Fish, Jr., who
mas lost his life in his first battle. Had
TINS child Of wealth and culture not
gone to war, he might have died in
VlIIuouS obscurity, an effortless, indo-
lent man, an apathetic esthete, or a
dreary, drowsy pedantic mugwump of
the Professor Norton tone and color:
or he might have died in disreputable
notoriety, a man who was tempted by
his freedom from pecuniary cares to
live not wisely for himself, but to lead
a bo1sterous, purposeless existence,
whose end might escape infamy, and
yet make the judicious friends who
fondly loved him grieve Young Fish
by his gallant death has secured an
honorable name in the annals of his
country.
DEFRAUDING THEIR READERS.
san Jose Mercury: When a person
puys a newspaper he pays for informa-
tlon Which he desires, and which it is
the business of the newspaper to pro-
cure Tor him. He pays for news. and
ne is entitled to it. He does not pay
Ior misinformation and fakes, yet if he
invests In copy of a yellow journal
that is what he chiefly gets He is
sWlndled out of his money, as clearly
as II he had purchased a gold brick
or run up gainst a shell game The
papers which deliberately publish fake
news do so with the purpose of de-
frauding their readers. Such a paper
IS the San Francisco Examiner.
which is notorious for the unblushing
deceptions which it habitually prac-
tfces upon the persons who read it.
Recently it published what purported
to be letter written by Hobson, the
hero Of the Merrimac. AS everybody
supposed, it proved to be a pure in
vention. 1t was a fraud upon every
Examiner subscriber, but it was not
the first nor will it be the last. So
shameless has that paper become that
nothing is too rank to impose upon its
readers.
REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE.
San Diego Union: The very useful
part that the revenue cutters are TAX
ing in the war with Spain should en-
phasize the fact that the men engaged
In this branch of the service have not
been very generously treated in some
respects by the Government One i'm
portant need Of the revenue mariner is
retired list like those Of the army
and navy. In the absence of such a
list the promotion of deserving officers
is often indefinitely deferred, if not pre-
vented entirely, the higher grades in
some cases being held by older officers
who are really incapacitated, but can
not afford to resign.
NEITHER TO RICH NOR POOR
Tulare Register: A dead rich man is
Of no more consequence than a dead
poor man, but more ado is likely to be
made over him. A live rich man may
be Of no more Importance than live
poor man. save as his riches increase
his power yet more ado is made over
him, but on the battlefield there is an
absolute equality Of condition between
rich and poor Each has his own
fighting equation, and each is equally
vulnerable to the effects of a bullet
yet it is encouraging to know that a
Riders are rich men and sons of rich
men, as Roosevelt is himself a rich
man and a patriot This war is neither
to the poor nor to the rich. Both are
fighting and both are paying.
VOLUNTEERS AND REGULARS.
Los Angeles Times: The people who
are sure that regular soldiers are g
prime necessity probably lose sight Of
Lo foa Of ho ? x-nlt1nfQarC VI
fought the great battles Of the last war
and that they were the best soldiers tht
world ever saw The Yankee volun
teer Will go anywhere his officers vii
lead him, and he needs no support by
regulars nor fears the regulars Of any
other nation. No man who saw th'
boys Of both the Northern and Southern
armies fight has any doubt of our vol
unteer troops capacity to cover th'
name of the American volunteer witt
renewed glory If given a chance to show
their mettle.
SONS OF VETERANS.
Oakland Tribune: The Sons of Vet
Grams are showing that they are chip!
OF the old blocks in the way they arr
rendering their services to their coun
try 1t is rather strange that this wa
should have broken out just as the hrs
descendants of the civil strife had at
tained their manhood and were ther
given the opportunity to follow in theil
fathers footsteps.
FAIR PLAY.
Fresno Expositor: Why all thi!
sneering at the Astor battery? Be
cause the fathers Of some of the mel
are wealthy, that's all. And 1t is
mighty poor, un-American reason fol
sneering. The men show there's som'
good stuff In them by enlisting. Nov
let them prove their metal. If they ac
quit themselves like good soldiers giv'
them credit just as one credits the mar
who leaves his blacksmith shop or hi:
farm to become a soldier. Dewey wa!
sneered at as a dude. Dewey is nov
the hero of rich and poor alike. 1t Il
not time for sneers.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Stockton Independent: The Republi
can party has received the almost unin
terrupted support of the country for tn
wars