The record-union., 1898-11-17
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jeots Of Living News
Interest.

s1res to point out what it believes to be
serious abuse-the shipment of green
oranges. At the packing-house of the
Earl Fruit Company in Oroville or
anges are being packed that are as
green as new-mown alfalfa hay. These
oranges may, and no doubt will, color
some in transit, but they will reach
| market in half-ripe condition and SO
| sour as to be far from a credit to the
section where they were grown. The
growers may reap a. few extra dimes
by thus hurrying their crops to market,
! but we doubt it, and even if they do
| they are pursuing q very short sighted
| policy of grasping for a nickle that will
| eventually cost them a dollar. Don't
do it, growers! You have month in
which to market your fruit against all
| competitors who ship ripe fruit, and
there is plenty Of time.
EXPANSION AND THE DEMOC-
RACY.
| Riverside Enterprise: Hearst of the
Examiner and New York Journal
principally to the efforts of certain
prominent Democrats to commit. the
| Democracy to an anti-expansion pro-
Mr.. Hearsts contention. but for our
part we do not believe that territorial
| expansion will ever become party
| question. The new Democracy, at
least, will not be stupid enough to op-
pose Jeffersonian principle simply
| because it's application chanced to be
| made by its political opponents, and If
| its leaders attempt to place 1t in oppo-
/ ICsf 1ao ct ho. 1xy
and effectively deposed. Most men are
Democrats or Republicans because
they believe in certain ways of raising
revenues or conducting custom houses,
| rather than because their party creed
| is a means to the end of Office. 1t
should not largely matter to them
whether the policy they advocate is
put in force by John Smith, for whom
they voted, or by William Jones, for
whom they did not vote. And in truth
| it does not matter to some Ia, ,OOO,O0O
or 15. 100000 voters.
~- EXPLAINING DEFEAT.
Sonora Union Democrat: That Ma
guire was defeated in his aspiration to
be Governor of California was due to
| many causes nor would it require one
with an overabundance Of wisdom to
name them all. But he went down
like the square, able, brilliant man he
is, and to-day as much as ever is an
ardent champion of the peoples rights.
One of the most potent causes which
brought on his defeat was the in
genious, even though known to be fall
lacious, argument advanced by the
managers of the Republican campaign
that Mcguire was such a rabid single
taxer, and such a strong believer In
and advocate Of the beauties of that
doctrine, that he would make 1t felt
in every way and at every opportunity
just so soon as he should be declared
the States Chief Executive No think
ing man honestly believes any such
thing would have happened but it was
| used as campaign ammunition, and
proved most thoroughly effective.
INDORSED.
Humboldt Standard: In late years
the Presidents party has seldom Sc
cured majority of the lower House
at the election following his Inaugural
ton. That McKinley's Administration
has been so successful in redeeming
the pledges made for it during the
campaign Of 1896 is cause for real
qualification, and that California,
which has only three Republicans In
the present House, should double the
number and leave only one lone Demo-
crat from the Golden State in Con-
gress, is doubly gratifying. After the
4th of next March this State will have
no fusionist and no Democrat in either
| the Senate or the House, save De Vries
alone, and he was always on the side
of the President during the stormy
period in Congress before the declara-
| tion of war, and voted for money, and
measures to get it, that the President
| might be able to carry the war to a
successful conclusion.
A LONE ONE.
Willows Journal Glenn is the only
county in the State that shows an
increased Democratic majority. Bryan
with the votes of the Silver Republi-
cans had a larger majority than did
Mcguire, but the majority for Mcguire
was greater than at any other time in
| the history of the county. 1t is well
known that the Silver Republicans did
not vote for Mcguire, SO upon care
full consideration of the returns, our
much derided vote er straight" was
not entirely disregarded.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED.
San Jose Mercury: Republican pro-
lection hasn't proved to be that awful
Chinese wall that the Democrats as
serted it would be- Although during
the present year the United States re-
duced its purchases from Europe from
$332. .394, ,9S4 to $24O, 1863, I'D Europe in
creased it's purchase from us from
SJ6S, ,SO5, 900 TO $666, ,9S6, ,539. All Of
which is respectfully submitted for the
rumination of the free trader.
ECONOMIC WAR.
San Diego Union Great Britain un-
derstands not only how to carry on war
successfully, but how to manage it eco
nomically. The low cost of the Sou
dan campaign which ended recently in
| the capture Of Omdurman will prove
astonishing to most people in this coun-
try who know by experience how ex-
pensive war is to the United States. 1t
appears from General Kitchener's ac-
count that the total cost of the Soudan
campaign during it's two and a half
years of continuance was e. 100000, or
81, 100000, and this included not only
the transportation and maintenance OF
troops, but the building of 700 miles
of well equipped railway and 1900
miles of telegraph. It would have been
an extremely low price for the railway
alone, even conceding that it was built,
as much of it was, by merely laying
the rails and ties on the level sand,
with little or no grading. The eco
nomic feature Of the British operations
In the Soudan is worth the considera-
ton Of both civil and military engineers.
WHAT IT NEEDS.
Tulare Register: IF the Democratic