The record-union., 1898-10-27

lection and dissatisfaction with the
way soldiers have been treated has
stirred the Spaniards up to be saucy
again. The statements of the case are
no doubt greatly exaggerated when
they reach the reading Spanish public,
just as 1T was published that the Yam
KEGS would never stand up before the
proud Castilian, and so public senti-
ment may nerve the representatives of
that country to a turbulence that they
by no means felt when their Govern
ment sued for peace. The sensational
and irresponsible newspaper works
damage all along the line, and 1T is
growing problem if it should not be
officially curbed Public sentiment is
certainly leaning that way
VOTE IT DOWN.
San Jose Mercury: The people or
California, will vote at the next cleo
ton on the question of forming a new
State Constitution, and II wise they
will vote the proposition down Inc
Constitution adopted nearly twenty
years ago is not model by any means,
but it has been so amended that 1t is
very creditable and satisfactory IN
strument, and to upset it now would
be to disarrange business, hamper the
progress of the State. and make all
sorts of trouble, annoyance and ex-
pense for the people.
A SALARY MAN.
Stockton Independent: James G. Ma
guire has drawn public salaries suf1-
cient to be equivalent to $500 day
from the day Of his birth till the pres
ent time. Whether he has done ser
vice to compensate the people for the
SIC, 900 received will be decided by the
citizens in November. Notwithstand-
ing this liberal and continuous endown-
ment of public pap it is understood
that Mcguire has not invested In any
land to be affected by the application
of the single-tax law. He possesses
no property that his own doctrine will
confscate.
DO NOT BE DECEIVED.
Stockton independent: Let no voter
deceive himself with the idea that this
campaign is one of chance. The can
didacy of Judge Mcguire, the plank
in the Democratic platform relating to
local taxation, the submission of the
question of calling a constitutional con-
vention, and the seeding Of this State
with Maguire's single-tax documents
are all parts of cunning conspiracy
to force a single-tax experiment on
this State, and to get the fusion forces
and incidentally the people committed
to it's trial. The question of revising
the whole Constitution has not been
generally discussed In fact, few seem
to know that the question is submit
ted. But when the voter enters his
booth and it is too late to ask advice
or seek explanations, he will be con-
fronted by the questions: For the con-
vention'' and Against the conven-
ton" Let the land owner inform him
self what all this means before he
votes for Judge Mcguire and his the
DRY to impose all taxes on land for the
purpose of confscating private owner
ship thereof.
NO DANGER OF WAR.
Portland Oregonian: There is no
danger that France will risk going to
war with England over the possession
of Fashoda, or any other commanding
position in the Upper Nile valley. A war
between these two great Powers would
be almost exclusively naval, and it's
inevitable result to France would be
the destruction Of her commerce, the
loss of her colonies and her reduction
to the rank Of a. second-class Power.