The record-union., 1898-06-03
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub.
jects Of Living News
Interest.

initiative in Federal matters Just let
the people express themselves on the
suggested alliance with Great Britain
GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE.
Mountain Democrat (Placerville): For
Commodore Dewey to recognize and
compliment the valor of the enemy he
had vanquished at Manila was charac-
terlstlc of the hero he is. For his cOun-
trymen to deny the fighting courage of
Spaniards who went down with their
| sinking ships would be to disparage the
splendid strategy and prowess of the
victors. For a war in which she is des-
| tined to be crushed by the superior
| forces and ornaments she has chal-
lenged, Spain has wrought her own
ruin, and has herself to reproach For
4OO years of freebooting crime and con-
quest the day of judgment has come.
| But in the power and duty of the
| United States to arrest and punish her
arrogant and offensive career there is
both an express and implied disclaimer
of any right to follow in her footsteps
or to falsify her history. For all the
purposes of this war; her traditional
pride of battles lost and won in a hun
dred dynastic and colonial wars may
be spared. And it may be we'll for the
Government and people Of this country
to remember that the vaunted chiv-
airy of CASTLE has not been entirely lost
| in the tainted cross of outlaws with
| saVages. From such a cross there is in
Cuba and the Philippine Islands a type
OF patriot who, in the language of
Chateaubriand, never distinguishes
/ between a thing and person, and re-
duces all differences of opinion to the
alternative-kill or die"
THE FUTURE OF THE PHILIP
! PINES
Portland Oregonian The myopic
statesmen of Mugwumpia begin to be
alarmed at our possession of the Phil
/ ippines, and are miserable that we have
won it, saying, What shall we do with
it,? The question is worthy of a re-
ply. 1t is plausibly said that with the
possession Of these islands the RESPONSE
bilities of our Government, as well as
the dangers Of European complications
and Asiatic entanglements, are largely
increased. We shall have to defend the
islands, and since they have been far
more cruelty governed than Cuba, it is
not easy to see how we can accept the
aid of the insurgents and then ultimate
| iy turn them over to the tender mer-
cieS of a swarm Of malignant. deadly
Spanish flies
This is plausible, but certainly not
a profound view of the future of the
Philippines, for it leaves out of the es-
innate the fact that we are very prac-
/ teal people,. and will settle the situation
after the war as promptly as we did in
Mexico. We made no attempt to annex
Mexico Whena she was our conquest. and
even paid her fairly we'll for some of the
territory we obtained by the Gadsden
treaty; we went to war to drive Spain
out of Cuba because Cuba and its Span
lsh crime is at our door, and when that
purpose is attained we are not likely to
go any further, except it be for our best
Interests to.d SO. We have been forced
into this war by Spain, and we may ex-
act indemnity either in shape of money
or territory, or both. We can hold the
Philippines as security for the payment
of indemnity by Spain, even as Japan
held Wei-Hai-Wei four years pending
the payment of the Chinese indemnity,
whose last installment has just been
paid over by China.
VAIL OF THE DEMAGOGUES.
| Tacoma Ledger: Since the death OF
Johann Mpsst's newspaper, the one "un-
| muzzled organ of public opinion" ac-
cording to the admission Of it's editor
John Clark Ridpath, is The Arena
That publication, since the retirement
of Mr.. Flower and the accession of MIR
Ridpath, has certainly been an unmuz-
zled exponent Of opinion, but it is that
of DR.. Ridpath, in which the public has
no share. 1t is probable that Mr.. Rid
path, Mr.. Debs and Mr.. Most heartily
| he nf1iY yy1n Oh,
zled in The Arena but that the pub
lie, aside from these worthless, take any
| stock in them is not probable.
What Debs unmuzzles orally ''The
Arena" puts in cold type and attempts
to circulate. Ridpath and Debs and
Most work along the same lines, with
| the basic principles of attempting tC
rescue the people of this nation from
| the dangerous gulf of imperialism and
| the despotism of wealth toward which
they are inevitably slipping, with no,
even a grass root to clutch in the ef-
fort to stop the fatal descent save THE
Arena" Debs and Most.
/ Fortunately for the people who were
once the dupes of Debs and believed in
the gospel as declared by him, Ridpatf
and Most, nearly all of them have be-
come enlightened as to the true char.
acter and aims of these dangerous, self,
constituted teachers and will have no
| more Of it.
LAND HOLDINGS IN PHILIPPINES
Stockton Independent The papers
| have generally discussed not only the
| disposition of the Philippine Islands
but those which favor their retention
by the United States have considered
means of governing the islands an6
even the adjustment Of land titles-ani
all this before we have gained single
foot Of dominion on the islands outside
Of Cavite fort. Naturally the first prop.
osition is to gain possession of the isl
ands, which is not fully assured from
1.-THE fact that Dewey's fleet controls the
Bay of Manila. But most Americans
believe that they will be conquered
without much difficulty.
The disposal of the islands would
properly be discussed when the term:
of peace with Spain are up for settle
ment There are many problems tt
complicate such a settlement. Should
peace come very soon with a voluntary
REIMBURSEMENT on her part of dominion
in Cuba, it might be advisable to re-
store the Philippines in order to ge
her agreement to also abandon Porto
Rico which is in our hemisphere an6
of more direct interest to us. Bu
should a treaty be agreed upon withou
restoring the Philippines to Spain ther
all the questions relating to its perma
nent ownership and it's Government
will press for consideration.