The record-union., 1898-01-19
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Mountain Democrat: When pollt-
aca4 pin head sets up as radlcal pie
driver, he is fond of assuming the WIS
dom that comes after the fact ne
tells us that the lapse of time necessl-
tates a whole lot of changes, whlch ne
calls reforms. Guiltless of knowing
that the law Of change is uncnahse-
able, he will turn the mutations OF time
against the ripened wisdom or the past
Against all that the great Reaper riih-
self has spared and made sacred, 'ie
pin-head reformer pleads the statute
of limitations. With his pile-driver ne
would make the rock of ages bottom
less sink-hole. Upon his theory OF
drawing a dead-line around the WIS
dom Of the past and the brains OF the
present the most insufferable fool up
to date is the greatest statesman
TWENTY TO ONE.
Stockton Record: The declaration of
Senator Wolcott, the moving spirit and
Chairman of the Bimetallic Commits
sion. will be something of surprise
TO those who have been reading him
into the ranks of the Bryanites. His
unofficial. but no less authoritative,
declarations show that not only is he
fired with live hope for an interna-
tional agreement, but that the COM
mission received substantial encourage
ment and was invited by Great Britain
to make new proposals.
His suggestion that America should
make concessions and change the
ratio is the first gleam of common
sense that has come from the silver
forces of the West If America wants
the cooperation of 800 100000 people
in Europe in providing for a larger use
of silver and a possible appreciation in
the price, it must not permit narrow
minded obstinacy to stand in the way
of understanding.
A BAD GUESS.
Los Angeles Times: According to the
iowa Capital" the Secretary of State
of the Hawkeyes has returned from Cal
ifornia to his native lair, and, speaking
of this State, conveys the information
that those who have resided there for
a number of years find the climate de-
bilitating and would gladly return to
Iowa were it not for financial interests,
which they cannot well leave behind
This may be so. but we doubt it. The
lilltS QOtS lOl bC1iEfC lleAl oily OAA~
who has lived for year in a country
where it is not necessary TO keep one
eye on the sky and the other on the
cyclone cellar would willingly take their
lives in their right hands and go into
a section of the country where they
might expect to wake up some morn
ing and find themselves scattered over
forty miles of prairie, and their IN
nards'' strung along a line of telegraph
poles like a section of barbed wire
fence To speak Of California's eli
mate as debilitating, in comparison
with Iowa, is to compare the Savior
of man with Satan, to the advantage
OF the individual with the forked tail
and the cloven hoofs. The Secretary
of State of the Hawkeyes should guess
again.
THE BOOTHS.
Los Angeles Herald: These stories
about General Booth, the jingo Eng
lishman at the head of the Salvation
Army, and his son, who is at the head
of the American Volunteers, are grow
ing wearisome Who cares whether
they meet or not. We wouldn't give
the snap of a finger for the religious
feeling that will estrange father
from his son, or the son from his
father. The cause for which both pro-
fess to be fighting is not subserved by
the unpleasant spectacle which they
now present. For the good of all it
were better that they return into the
status quo ante bellum.
TWO EXPEDITIONS.
San Diego Union: Public interest is
closely following the movement Of two
parties of Americans who are now in
Central America. One Of these is the
United States Commission, headed by
Admiral Walker and sent to make a
survey of the route of the proposed Mic
aragua Canal. The other party is
composed of Chicago capitalists and en-
gineers, the men who constructed the
famous drainage canal for that city.
Their mission to Central America Is fer
the purpose Of acquiring the practical
information that will enable them TO
bid irtelligently upon the construction
of the proposed waterway through Mic
aragua. Every scrap Of news, how
ever meager, regarding these two ex-
peditions, Is read with keen interest by
people in the United States who are
impatient for the day when the Nicar-
aqua Canal shall become an accom-
plished fact.
LIBERALITY.
Tulare Register: An Oakland cler-
eyman has attained that high position
OF liberalty in which he advises his
parishioners to pay occasional visits TO
other churches and hear what other
preachers have to say. Why, IL the
world goes on in this liberalizing and
humaniz.ng way it may ultimately come
to be that a publisher of a newspaper
will be able to discover good qualities
in the publisher of an opposition paper
in the same town, and when that glad
time does come the millennium viii be
drawing mighty near.
WISE STEP.
Los Angeles Herald: About the wis
est step the Government has yet taken
in the matter of relieving the Yukon
miners is that suspending action IN
the matter. The original impulse. no
less than the later judgment is above
criticism, although the methods adopt
ed were not altogether above reproach.
GREAT TALENT THAT.
Los Angeles Times: Which one of the
yellow journals it was whose corre-
spondent broke away from his keepers
and sent out that lurid tale from the
Indian Territory about an outbreak
OF the Seminoles, has not been deter
mined as yet, but we may be sure that
the idiotic story had its origin in that
source: likewise in the case of the al
legged murderer Dunham at Brookfeld.
Mass. 1t is now made apparent that
the man said to be Dunham has for
years been working on New England
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