The record-union., 1898-05-12


patriotic enthusiasm throughout thf
United States, it isn't a circumstance e
that OF the man-in-the-moon since he
saw Commodore Dewey's magnificent
fight. He keeps getting fuller every
night now.
THE OUTLOOK.
Nevada City Herald: Travellers over
the State declare it makes them sick
10 look upon the dreary wastes in
stead of fields of waving grain. There
will be a small crop in some sections
but the great San Joaquin Valley Is
like a desert, and south of the Te-
hachapi it viii be worse Had Califor-
MIA been blessed with rain the past
winter, it would have been on top.
DEMOCRATIC VIEW
Colusa Sun: The Woodland Mail,
just after an account of the fight at
Manila. remarked: well, what do you
think of President Mckinley now?"
! Well, we do not see any occasion tC
change opinion of the President, let
that opinion be what it may. We have
thought him to be an honest, patriotic
man with considerable ability; and we
| have held that it was the duty Of every
American citizen to stand by him IN
this emergency, and we hold to that
yet. We do not think the President
wanted to be rushed into war, and are
yet of the opinion that he was right.
He has done nothing since it began that
was great or startling, and he will not.
! He is simply a safe, conservative man.
/ We feel perfectly safe in sticking by
| him until this war is over, but all that
will not affect our opinion of his poll
| tics; will not make us any the less an
advocate of some system of taxation
that will relieve backs and stomacns
from the whole burden. There is no
use in trying to create furore in favor
of any man or any party so as to lose
sight of the main issue.
ALARMING
Salinas Index: The moral and COM
mercial destruction in San Francisco
which is being wrought by race
gambling is becoming alarming, the
latest illustration being the frauds
practiced by several Deputy County
Clerks of San Francisco.
HAWAII
Mail of Woodland: The present war
has done more to solve the Hawaiian
question than anything that has come
up We need them for a base of sup
plies so that we will not have to de-
pend upon the hospitality of England
China and Japan as we have had to a
certain extent recently. The opposition
of the sugar trust should be thrust
aside and the Stars and Stripes hoisted
NOT A JINGO.
Fresno Republican,: There is nothing
of the jingo in William Mckinley, but
there is instead the soldier and patri-
OF, and the faith of the people is i'm
plicit that a strong hand and cool head
are guiding the ship of state amid the
shoals and breakers into which she has
been driven by the irresistible current
of events With a more impetuous
man at the helm there would be great
er danger, but not the least proba bility
of coming out of the storm with more
honor or with the achievement of more
permanent good for the country and
| humanity
AN AMERICAN GIFT TO FRANCE.
Red Bluff News: William H. Mills
has come forward with a novel and in
teresting suggestion relative to the
Paris exposition of 1900, in which he
expresses the opinion that the United
States should seize the opportunity to
show an appreciation Of the friendship
of the French nation. The suggestion
is as follows:
France assisted the colonists to
achieve their independence. No mon
ument reminiscent of that event or
expressive of he-national gratitude to-
ward France exists in that country.
Such a monument, contributed by the
people of the United States, or con-
structed by order of the Government
on behalf of the American people, and
expressing national gratitude, should be
built. If Congress should appropriate
a sufficient sum to build a memorial
hall in harmony with the other expo
sition buildings, to be called Wash
ington and Lafayette Memorial Hail.
and to be a permanent structure in
which to exhibit the progress of civili-
cation in America and the triumpns of
liberty and peace in this nation, it
would be a fitting recognition of our
obligations Of gratitude and would
doubly utilize the occasion of the in
ternational exposition in 1900. The
Government will make an appropria-
tion for exposition purposes, and if the
bill making this appropriation would
express the purpose of building a per-
manent memorial hall, it would inf1u-
ence the sympathy of the French re-
public to our side in the existing rela-
tions between Spain and the United
States. An appropriation for the pur-
pose of collecting and maintaining an
exhibit of the resources and industries
of the United States at the interna-
tional exposition in 1900, with the de-
clared purpose of erecting in the Capt.
tol of France a monument expressive of
our gratitude for the assistance render
ed by that country in the sinfancy of
the republic would lend to the occasion
a national significance which would
dignity and ennoble it. The Inaugural
tion of the American exhibit in a men,
orial hall erected for the purpose here
in indicated would be an international
event. It has occurred to me that this
suggestion is at least worthy of con-
sideration."
WHAT SHE HAS LOST.
Oakland Tribune: Spain says that
honor will not allow her to part with
her foreign possessions. What hap
pened to her, then, when she lost Flori-
da, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, San
Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Co
lombia, Peru, Chill, Ecuador, Argen-
tina, the Guianas, Venezuela and in
fact all the vast territory that was on
the Spanish Main. 1t must make her
statesmen sick when they look back
and see what opportunities they had
lost. With good judgment Spain should
to-day be the richest and most power
full nation in the world.
AS TO THE PHILIPPINES.
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