The record-union., 1898-07-24
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Bakersfield Echo: Beautiful Hawaii
is ours at last. From the narrow strip
of land along the Atlantic seaboard
with which this nation went into bus
mess, our domain has gradually spread
westward till now it extends nearly
half way across the Pacific. Indeed
before present questions are settled we
will have a foothold close to the Asia
tic coast. The Anglo-Saxon race is the
dominant race to-day and America
stands in the foreground. Her star Of
empire is still in the west and her in
fiuence is destined 10 encircle the globe.
May her ability to bless mankind be
unrestrained, her power to raise up
the lowly be unhindered.
ARMS OF THE MILITIA.
Oakland Tribune: The rejection, as
useless, of % per cent. Of the guns in
the possession of the National Guards
men who recently went into service at
Camp Barrett shows the necessity Of
constant vigilance as regards the equip
ment of the militia. Thsre is no rea-
son why their arms should be allowed
to get in such a bad condition and one
of the many lessons of the war should
be the maintenance al a high standard
JUSTICE AND MERCY.
Tulare Register: But there are 9TH
ers to whom we must also show mercy
those to whom Spain has shown no
mercy but only savagery. Therefore
not one acre of territory wrenched from
Spain must be given back to her, not
one being coming under the protection
Of our flag must again be put unwill-
ingly under Spain's despotic sway
Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines, La
drones. Carolines-all these must be
wrested from Spain forever and Uncle
Sam must make such disposition Of
them as justice to the inhabitants
thereof may determine. Whether our
own losses be made good or not does
not SO much matter, but the world
must be made richer, freer, better be-
cause Of this war or we will not stand
justified in the sight Of God or men.
Yes we can afford to be magnanimous
to Spain, but we cannot afford to do
less than justice by those whom Spain
has wronged for centuries.
EVIDENCES OF LOYALTY.
Stockton independents: Carl Schurz
has written an article to a German pc
riodical in Berlin complaining of the
abuse of American and Americans in
German papers and speaking of the
German-American citizens of this
country says that they are thoroughly
loyal to their adopted country and adds:
Its friends are their friends and it's
enemies their enemies" This is no
doubt a correct statement of the sem
timents and attitude of American cit
izens of German birth. They came here
to abide with America and they are
with it for better or for worse, ire
spective of any ties or sympathies con-
Meeting them with the fatherland. They
naturally and properly deprecate any
misinformation respecting Germany
that appears in public print here, as
they regret the apparent failure to un
derstand Americans on the part Of Ger
mans in the fatherland.
THE INSURGENTS
San Jose Mercury: 1t must be con-
fessed that insurgents who, after being
fed, clothed and supplied with guns and
ammunition by our Government, re-
fuse to assist our soldiers in building
roads, digging entrenchments and
hauling cannon, deserve little consider
alton at our hands. Evidently this
country has been badly deceived con-
cerning the qualities of the Cuban in
surgents, Notwithstanding the fact that
they have been cruelty prosecuted under
Spanish rule.