The record-union., 1898-04-26
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.


that the people might refuse to stand a
political move of that sort but what
does such a Senator as Allen care for
the people, once he is in?
A VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN.
Los Angeles Times: Those who have
been disposed to criticise the President
! because of his reluctance to plunge the
nation into a war with Spain will prob
ably have occasion in the very near fu-
ture to revise their too hastily formed
opinion, and will be forced to acknoW-
ledge the injustice of their structures.
SO long as there was hope of a peace
full solution. of the Cuban problem the
/ President clung to that hope, actuated
! by sincere and humane desire to
avoid, if possible. the horrors of war.
Being at last convinced that a peaceful
solution is impossible, the President,
without doubt, will henceforward be
found at the head of the war party
which is only another name for the
American people. Since war must come,
the Wisest and most humane course will
be to prosecute it with the utmost vigor
| to as speedy termination as possible.
The President has evidently arrived
at this conclusion, and is prepared to
act in accordance with it.
FORWARD TO VICTORY.
Napa Register: 1t is not a theory
! but condition that now confronts us
/ That condition is one of war. 1t was
made by Spain April 21st, when our
Minister at Madrid was told that all
diplomatic relations with this country
had ceased, and that no more communi-
cations would be received. To meet it
we have a united country and a soldier
! statesman at the head of it. The day
for exploiting individual ideas of pro-
cedure is behind us. The work of car
rying to success an officially accepted
plan is before us. The unit rule of ac-
ton is now the anchor to ali our hopes
1t is a time for the critics tongue to
( cease wagging and the voice OF loyalty
| to fill the air-a time for the politician
/ to be outclassed by the patricia time
| to go forward and win the victocy
that is waiting for a people not eager
for war but enthusiastic and effective
in it's prosecution when once it is upon
them.
| THE DEATH TRAPS
| Stockton Mail: The downfall of
! Treasurer Widber of San Francisco is
I
tracks which curse that city. Widber
is but one of many victims; his ruined
home but one of hundreds of ruined
homes; his disgraced and heart broken
/ family but one of an army of disgraccd
and heartbroken families. Yet the mag
| nitude Of his stealings and the depth of
| his fall makes his case sadly unique.
| The racetracks of San Francisco
are moral plaques. They are vampires
feeding on the souls of young and old.
That they are colossal swindes every
man of sense knows. The poor pigeons
who flock to them are plucked as re-
morselessly as though they had wan
dered into the embrace of any skin
gamblers who ply their trade, hiding
! behind barred doors from the eye of
the law. And yet these greater iniqui
! ties follow their infamous game of
pocket picking with the sanction of the
authorities and the active touting of
the metropolitan press.
| DINGLEY LAW.
| Humboldt Standard: The assumption
that the protective Dingley law would
| be disadvantageous to our foreign COM
merce and especially to our sales of
manufactured articles does not seem to
/
law went into effect The expectations
of manufactures from the United States
in January of the present year were 10
per cent greater than in January of
the preceding year under the Wilson
| law, and the total expectations of man
ufactures since the Dingley law went
into effect have also been greater than
| in the corresponding months Of the pre-
| ha 10
EGGS IN THE BASKET.
Oroville Register: Disaster in too
many cases falls upon men by their re-
lying on one product. The man VINO
grows grain alone must fail in some
years to raise a crop, and the heavy
loss then experienced cripples aim
financially for years. The landowner
who devotes his entire tract to fruit
alone meets very heavy losses from time
to time that will make it very difficult
for him to recover from. So it goes in
all other lines. The safety lies in di-
versifying crops, so that if one crop
fails he still has something else to fall
back upon. Mark it wherever you will,
the One-crop grower, as a rule, goes to
the wall, while the man who diversihas
his product comes out ahead in the long
run.
THE PRESIDENTS COURSE.
San Jose Mercury: President McKin-
ley has acted with wisdom and firmness
Throughout all these complications, and
the result is that the nation can go to
war with the assurance that it has pre-
sented a clear case to the world, whose
justification it will have. Also, the
Presidents course has enabled the Gov
ernment to prepare for war. Had the
Tillmans. the Stewarts, the Baileys ana
the yellow Popocratic press had their
way, war would have been declared al a
time when the Government was short of
powder and guns, the coast defenses in
complete, and the country entirely un-
prepared
SPANS REIGNING DYNASTY.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Not the least of
the difficulties which face Seno~ Sagas-
ia at the present time in his effort to
sustain the reigning dynasty is the fact
/ that Spain at the present juncture is
without regularly ordained hereditary
ruler. 1t has fallen to the lot of but
few women to bear such burden as
now rests upon the shoulders of Queen
Regent Maria Christina She was an
Archduchess Of Austria, I'D was born
in 1888. Under the guidance CT her
| father the Archduke Carl Ferdinand,
she obtained liberal education in both
science and literature. and in 1876 she
was appointed abbess OF the convent
of Noble Ladies in Prague. IT was not
until year later that she married
King Alfonso XII. of Spain. whose first
wife, daughter of the Due de Montpen-