The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-15
VOICE OF THE. PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.


silver standard is knocked into smith
Greens by Ex-Governor Stone of Missou-
ri, who has just returned from trip
to Mexico and says that the most pes
tiferous class Of plutocrats exist in
that country. The Mexican plutocrat,
he says, owns from ten to hundred
thousand acres of land, free of taxes,
employs droves of ignorant poems at
! exceedingly low wages, makes money
hand over fist and spends his money
and his time in gay Paris in true
plutocratic style. And all this happens
under a currency systematic free COIN
age of siIver-which has been claimed
as an absolute preventive of plutoc-
racy.
ANOTHER BLOW.
| San Bernardino Times-IndeX: "The
| greedy gold power has struck an
other blow at silver. A half-million-
dollar plant, recently established in
/ Maine to obtain gold from sea water
/ has presented the first results of its
work at the United States Assay Of
! flee in New York in the shape of about
! 100 ounces of gold and silver bullion.
/ the proportion being. about one part
! gold and two parts silver. With the
1 gold mines of the world increasing
their output enormously, and even the
waters of the ocean giving up their
| gold at this rate, the prospects of a
gold famine grow beautifully less.
ONE LESSON LEARNED.
LIS Angeles Express: The people of
this country have, in the short time
that their attention has been absorbed
! in the troubled affairs of the United
! States and Spain, learned an important
! lesson. which is that diplomacy comes
| very near to governing the world, and
that if we as a nation hope to attain
to and hold the highest place in the
world, our public men must study more
and more the art of diplomacy, and the
men that are from time to time selected
to represent this country abroad must
have the education and experience that
will qualify them for their delicate and
irving duties. But to begin with, it
is necessary that none but citizen of
the highest qualifications be ever called
to the office of Secretary Of State.
| Tt is not meant to imply by this re-
mark that the Secretary of State and
his assistants at the present time are
not able and equal to the RESPONSE
bilitfes that devolve upon them. But, as
it is seen how skilled Spain is IN DIP
lomacy. and how numerous and intlu-
entail are the helps she is evidently re-
ceiving, the fact is impressed more than
ever upon us that one nation that is
comparatively little practiced in dlplo-
macy cannot expect to be sure 1natch
for many nations, acting together, tha'
have carried the art of persuasion, the
often misleading art, to state or per-
lection.
THE YELLOW PRESS AND M'KlN-
LEY
Santa Barbara Press: ''The Presi-
dents policy is all right, and if the
yellow newspapers would tell the
truth about it, there would be little, i
ANYTHING. for the people to criticise'
, saws the Cleveland co.. "News and Her
: aid" This is the condition of affairs
briefly told. The sensational press
give out distorted reports of the prog
ress of the correspondence between the
State Department and Spain, leading
the people to believe that Spain has re-
undated all demands, and giving the
immersion that war will be declared II
the next five minutes Then follow de-
} malls and counter-denials, until the
, people know nothing whatever, pelns
unable to distinguish between the true
and the false But Mckinley KNOWS
He is the Captain of this ship OF state
and he has the chart showing the rocks
/ and shoals. Trust Mckinley, not tht
yellow journal, and you viii nave, ne
cause to complain when the true status
is publicly declared. e4-9 ~
r
SALOON.
/ Rivarsida Press: One of the most sa
l cred things in the, world is persona
liberty. It is the foundation of all oul
RIGHTS. But it is a principle in legis
D 1ation and in government that persona
liberty must not stand in the way o
nublic good. Public good thrusts per
sonal liberty to one side and forces tn
:, railroad through the choicest land il
n the country. Public good takes indi
= yidual liberty by the throat and com
pels a man to treat the scale on hi
orange trees, to cut the noxious weed
on his ranch. to carry a light at nigh
y on his wheel, to chain up his viciou
e dog. to carry no concealed weapons OF
O his person, to fire no gun within tn
!, business portion of the city. If ma
>. wants to vote for an institution s
harmful to the public as saloon, i
Justice to his head he should get som
other excuse to hide behind than tn
q highs sounding phrase personal Hber
a ty."
: SPAIN DRIVEN TO PEACE.
). Oakland Times: The announcement
q of SPANS desire to place millions Q
dollars in the relief fund for the benefi
of starving subjects in Cuba comes O
L the heels of these other official mani
t festations of a desire to avoid wal
" With these and other reforms accom-
: plished what just cause for war wi
= Uncle Sam have? The blood-seekin
jingoists and yellow journals will Q
course howl that Spain is insincere i
Il all these backdowns. That insincerity
e yet to be proven. But these nomina
It backdowns3 are evident to everybody
s And Spain knows that in order to avoi
= war these pacific demonstrations mus
be proven to be sincere, and must b
accompanied by still further proofs c
Il friendship toward the United States.
n There are. excellent reasons 70
Spain's lessening desire for war. Wit
all her boastfulness about her honor
: and her power, Spain fully appreciate
n that within a period of twelve hour
: the United States navy could reduc
Havana to a heap of ruins with com
paratively no danger to the fleet. Nc
u only that, but following such lombard
: ment Cuba could be invested with ten
e of thousands of troops within a fe'
days. and what is left of the sickly, i'll
disciplined Spanish army would be kill
ed or captured in short order The de
% termination manifested by McKinle
:, has opened Spain's eyes to these proba