The record-union., 1898-04-27
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions OH Sub.
jects of Living News
Interest.

! Bakersfield Echo: Though reputed to
be pretty slow as compared to our Dem
ocratic contemporaries, President Nc
Kinley is getting along fairly We'll,
| thank you. By the time all the prelim-
inaries are agreed upon he sill have
very considerable army on the Gulf
Coast and a fleet on the waters to
| please your eye.
| SENATOR INGALLS,.
! Woodland Democrat: Senator ingalls,
| is at present engaged in writing lurid
accounts of the Congressional debates,
in the course of which he is very caus
tic in his criticism of men and meas
ures. The trouble with ingalls, is that
he colors his reports to suit his indi-
vidual opinions, and he does not always
furnish accurate information. AS he
has a marvellous command Of language
and is powerful in the use Of invectiVe,
his forid appeals are potent in arousing
and sustaining an unreasonable passion
and prejudice.
FACILITIES FOR GETTING THERE.
Los Angeles Times: Since our last
great contest, which came to q climax
by the surrender of the Confederate
! chieftain, Robert e. Lee, thirty-th
years ago at Appomattox, this nation
has developed facilities for the quick
transportation of troops, munitions of
war and army supplies that one can
scarcely realize how changed are the
! conditions in this respect. Where In
the sixties our troops had TO make long
and tedious marches overland, Or by
roundabout and slow inland water
routes, there are now lines of railway
running in every direction. which will
make the massing of an army az al
most any given point on tie continent
a matter Of but very few days at the
most Even should the Pacific Coast be
| threatened it would be possible to
| transport a force here within one week,
whereas. thirty years ago his section
of the continent would have been All
| solutely at the mercy of n foreign enc
my. except in so far as it might have
! been able to protect itself with the
forces within it's own borders.
During the last war a fiv@-hundred-
mile march was a common occurrence,
and as fifteen miles is the average dis
! lance covered, even by cavalry, IN q
days march. it will be seen that a
month is easily consumed in transport
| ing troops over the comparatively short
distance .of half thousand miles. OF
course forced marches are frequently
made in cases of emergency, covering
thirty or even forty miles day by cav
airy but the usual marching stint"
of a column of mounted troops is about
as stated above.
Now, however, with splendidly
equipped lines of railway marking
the country with threads Of steel,
crossing each other to and from
every point of the compass. the con-
ditions are such that troops Of what
ever arm of the service can be sent
from point to point at a rate of speed
per hour exceeding the maximum dis
tance covered by the forced march.
THE PERNICIOUS SCALE.
San Jose Mercury: Alexander Craw,
entomologist of the State Board of
Horticulture and Quarantine Officer at
San Francisco, declares positively that
there is no danger of introducing the
! pernicious scale into European coun-
tries upon fruit from the United States.
Atsleast he says, this is the decision
| reached by scientific men intrusted with
such investigation in the Eastern
States. I'm every case where this scale
has secured a foothold it was from in
| fected nursery trees or the presence OF
such infected trees in district. This
insect was introduced into California
upon pear trees from Chile, and in a
similar manner it was carried into the
Eastern States. 1t is now feared very
little in California; in fact it can hard
| " be found in the orchards of Santa
| g
duced. No spraying or disinfecting has
! been necessary there for this insect for
the past five or six years, as the scale
is controlled by predaceous and internal
parasites that prey upon it. There is
positively no danger from dried fruit
carrying infection" The conclusion is
that if Germany and England will pur-
sue CALIFORNIA; present system of in
specting and fumigating with hydrocy
anic. acid gas all the trees and plants
| that enter those countries, there will be
no danger from this or any other in
! furious insect.
The fact is, however, that it is Amer
lean fruit, and not the aspidiotus per-
niciosus, that European growers are
afraid Of There is a splendid market
in London for American apples and
|
creasing. California dried fruits are
rapidly coming into favor in Germany,
and the numerous sales made there
during the past year will probably be
doubled this coming season.
| SPANS FATE.
San Diegan Sum- Why has this fate
| overtaken Spain? The answer is to be
| found in the character of the people.
They are selfish, cruel, heartless. They
are the reverse of progressive, liberal
and tolerant. AS a nation Spain has
been as merciless in her prosecutions of
the helpless who have fallen into her
grasp as her people have been merci-
less to the bulls and other dumb ami
mails they have tortured in their So
called national sport.
In a word, Spain has not deserved to
live. Her life has meant the retarding
of civilization and human progress.
Her fate thus became inevitable.
END OF THE SUSPENSE
Los Angeles Herald The culmina-
ton of a controversy with a foreign
nation, that could have had no other
LANDING than that which yaStprla "