The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-07
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.

| lose admiring sight of the revolutionary
forces of Cuba They hold on with dog
ged tenacity, and the provisional gov
eminent of the little republic refuses 20
consider any terms short of entire indie
pendence. 1t is a spectacle of courage
against odds such as the world has not
witnessed since the days of Washington
and Valley Forge, and its genuine he
| rolsm is equivalent to divine prophecy.
EASTER
| AIarysville Appeal: 1t is nearly two
! thousand years since that first Easter
morning which gave such glorious
promise Of peace and happiness for in
| dlvidualS and for the nations. Easter
| now dawns upon a world ready for an
universal conflict. In Europe, in the
| Orient in America-everywher the ma
| lions are threatening each other with
| war.
| BRYAN DISAPPOINTED.
| Humboldt Standard: 1t is understood
| that Mr.. Bryans recent tour through
the South was a great disappointment
to him and his friends He found evil
| dence that the free silver cause is wan
ing in that section as we'll as in the
! West and it is whispered that the ques
ton of RELOCATING it to the background
is very seriously considered both by Bry-
an and the leaders of his party in Wash
! ington. The fact that Chairman Jones
studiously omitted to mention silver III
| his recent appeal to the people of the
country and that reports from all sec
tiCns show that the proposition is los
ing ground very rapidly strengthens the
belief that the effort is to be made to
| bring other issues to the front to take
! the place in part, at least of the silver
| shibboleth
! HOW TO IRRTGATE CHEAPLY.
Colusa Sun: You have the work ami
mails doing nothing; you can rig up a
horsepower very, very cheaply, and a
pump that will cost two dollars will fur
nish water for thousands of dollars
worth of feed. Now that is in the reach
of all. Where a good flow of water can
be found the threshing engines and
larger pumps can be used with but lit
tie. cost. Go look at Moulton's pump
that cost only $500 1t will furnish wa
ter enough to cover an acre a foot deep
in an hour; twenty-four acres in a day;
los acres in week. and ! 600 acres in
the ten weeks now available in which to
do something. Right now let us talk
about the immediate future; what to do
nowl
COTTONSEED.
| Bridgeport Chronicle Union: No Incl
dent of the recent multiplication of in
| dustrieS has attracted more attention
| and been the occasion of more comment
/ than that relating to cottonseed, which
in anti-bellum days was the bane of the
Southern farmer. but now brings him
| large sums of money. Instead of pling
it in the fields to rot, or dumping it into
| streams. it is now utilized in the manu-
| facture of a dozen different articles
paper, fertilizers cattle feed, soap, lard
| oil and other articles-and brings mill
| ions of dollars to the section of the
country in which it is produced.
| THEY SHOULD HAVE ASKED IT.
| Woodland Democrat: Because Sena-
! tors COckrell, Gray, German and others
| are opposed to the purchase of the DAN
| ish West Indies the Examiner" de-
| clares they are a disgrace to Democ-
| racy and reads them out of the party
| Deeply affected and holding it's hand
| kerchief it eXclaims: 1T is eXecrable
| that men of such narrow purpose
| should sit in the Senate. To a loyal
| Democrat it is deplorable that a ma
| jority of them should call themselves
| Democrats Whatever apprehension
! may have been felt as to the future of
| these men is now dispelled. They are
politically dead They have nobody to
! blame but themselves. They evoked the
wrath of the Examiner by expressing
| themselves upon public policy without
| first ascertaining whether their opin-
| ions are in consonance with those Of
| this self-proclaimed apostle of the new
Democracy. 1t would be interesting to
| know how long the Examiner" has
| been authorized to fix the standard by
which any mans Democracy should be
judged.
! STAND BY THE PRESIDENT.
| Los Angeles Times: Deliberation is
| not always the evil that some people
| appear to think it. 1t is undoubtedly
| true that the United States has at no
| time since the close Of the last war
| been properly equipped with coast de-
| lenses or navy Of such power as our
| great unguarded stretch of sea coast
demands. We do not want to be put
into the position Of a soldier going into
battle without a gun in his hands,
| OF, If he has a gun, one that is only
/ an old fintlock musket without a flint
! We submit that the President knows
| the condition the country is in. in this
| respect, better even than the able and
| bloodthirsty editors who are bowling
| for declaration of war and that it be
! declared instanter. Every days time
| is of momentous Importance in making
preparation for the awful combat that
| seems to be IMPENDING. therefore LET
| our people posses their souls in pa
| tience, with relianse upon the wisdom,
patriotism and level-headedness of the
men who are at the head of affairs
THE GAIN AND THE LOSS.
Eureka Californian: Continually are
the protagonists of woman suffrage af-
| frming their conviction that the ballot
in the hands of women would give us
| better government. If they could prove
| that proposition it still would not fol-
low that women should have political
power. But they cannot prove it. If
women should be granted the right OF
suffrage they, now clamOring for equal
political rights, would constitute but
small fraction Of those of their sex
who might be expected to go to the
polls. There would vote not only the
new women, but the very wealthy and
aristocratic class; the middle class, by
far the larger part of which are essen,
TALLY domestic in their tastes; the poor
class, the servant girls, and, finally, the
demi-monde. Many, if not most, of
these women would be much more in
fluenced by their fathers, husbands or
brothers than by woman politicians,
and the new woman would constitute