The record-union., 1898-11-28
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Lompoc Record: The Republican
party is by no means unit on the
proposition to acquire the Philippines.
Some of the first and most influential
Senator's on the Republican side of the
Senate are vigorously opposing the ac-
QUESTION of that territory with its ten
millions of inhabitants, almost as un-
desira BILE as so many Chinese would
be, and from which tits feared much
trouble would enSue- That people like
the Cubans are entirely unfit for gov
ernment hence must, if falling into cur
hands be held in subsection by an
armed force that nobody estimates less
than fifty thousand. This must be sup
plemented by fleet Of no small proper
tions, to maintain which. will add very
many millions to the annual expense
account of the Government.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE DEFEATED IN
WASHINGTON.
Los Angeles Times: At the recent
election in the State of Washington, a
constitutional amendment in favor of
women suffrage was voted upon. and
was defeated by a heavy majority. The
what they regarded as a strong cam
paign, and anticipated a great victory
The result shows to what extent they
counted without their host. Even in
the State of Washington, where many
fanciful and impracticable ideas have
found a congenial il,.the woman suf-
frage cause was doomed to ignominious
defeat. Commenting upon the result OF
of the election in Washington, the
Portland "Oregonian" well and truly
says:
Political suffrage for woman is d
slowly dying cause, and it is dying
| because it is without excuse for fur
ther. existence. The real wrongs of
women which existed when Lucy Stone
began her agitation in 1S47 have most
| ly been redressed by legislation. Men
of humane, common sense said, We do
not think it necessary enormously to
enlarge the suffrage in order to redress
womens legal wrongs and remove un-
just disabilities To-day every politi-
cal principle advocated at the outset is
enjoyed by women, save full suffrage,
and every legal right sought by Lucy
Stone has been granted to women. They
are even treated with partiality by the
laws, compared with men,"
THE STATE REPORT TROUBLE.
Oakland Tribune: Owing TO the clos
ing down Of the State Printing Office
there is evidently going to be consider
able trouble about getting out the re-
ports of the various departments and
commissions. There is no way in which
money can be obtained for printing
them in outside Establishments, and
there are no places willing to do the
work and take chances about getting
paid by the Legislature afterward.
Some way will have to be found out of
the difficulty, though, or else the Code
Commission, Voting Machine Board
and the committee appointed to inves
tigate the various State institutions will
have no way of presenting the results
of their 1abors, to say nothing of the
blockade in all the regular departments.
HAD A GOOD EFFECT.
Red Bluff Peoples Cause: President
McKinley's journey last month to St.
Louis, Omaha and Chicago, across the
States of Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and
Indiana, had an excellent effect on the
country in general. and most Of all
where the people. were brought face
to face with the Chief Magistrate of the
nation. The Presidents addresses were
so earnestly patriotic and SO cleverly
| in accord with progressive ideas, that
| they tended to induce all good citizens
| to support the Government in settling
| the war. 1t was not as partisan that
| he appealed TO his audiences. The
! themes were chiefly the unity of the
| country in arranging terms of peace
with a foreign enemy, the responsible
| ties of the whole body of voters, and
| the unfolding of new national problems.
OLD SOLDIERS.
| Tulare Register: If we had our way
way about it Uncle Sam would take
good care of every old soldier and
every soldiers window, until she mar
ried, and every soldiers orphan until
| it became of age, if the financial con-
dition Of such person made such care
| necessary; but he would cut off the
pension of every one of them whose
| financial condition does not make help
needful There are thousands Of PEN
sioners who are making just as much
money as other people and so do not
need a pension, but when the veterans
get old and their earning power is no
| longer sufficient to enable them to live
without deprivation, then is the time
a pension should be granted, and a
/ liberal one. too.
| AFTERMATH OF THE WAR.
/ Riverside Press: The desire to retain
| the Philippines is not confined to the
/ West. In the conservative New Eng
| land State of Vermont the Legislature
has unanimously adopted the following
/ resolution:
Whereas, The war of the United
| States against the kingdom of Spain
was waged in the cause Of human lib
erty, and as the fortunes of war have
placed in our possession the Philippine
Islands with their millions of oppress-
ed and misgoverned people, thereby i'm
| posing upon the American people the
duty of protecting and comforting upon
them the blessings Of peace and free
| dom;
Resolved, BY the Senate and House
of Representatives, that in settling
terms of peace with Spain the United
States ought to retain these islands,
| and that the course of President Nc
-Kinley in demanding their retention of
Spain in the Paris conference is heart
lily approved"
Commenting upon the passage of this
joint resolution, the Daily Journal of
| Montpelier says: Vermont is Repub-
lican, not mugwump, in it's views as to
the national duty and the national pol
Icy in Spanish-American questions.