The record-union., 1898-12-09
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

~~~-SN VI VIC WOAo, 10 Oil n1OL5, Has -
is as absolutely necessary to lobby as.
II is to have an attorney appear in
court to explain one side of case.
suppose Colusa County had been sued
in Sacramento for $4,000, would it not.
have been the duty of the Supervisors
to have attended to it? Would any
one have. held them blameless If the
members had gone to sleep and let a.
Judgment go by default? If the board
had hired a lawyer to lobby with the
court-to explain to the court why the
suit should not go against the county.
would there have been any objection to
the payment of the bill? The Super
vtsors ''in the case at bar" employed
a lawyer to remain at the capital to
explain to the committees of either
mouse and to the members the reasons
why that bill should not pass. There is
no rule of logic by which a suit in
court and this case can be separated.
GROWTH OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Alameda Argus: 1t is estimated that.
San Francisco has grown in population
but 1900 in ten years, which is only
about | per cent year. There is a
great deal of discussion by the papers
S~AANA W AAiClA VI lIOlC oS ~ WHY lllC Nily
has made haste so slowly. Some think
it is due to the total change in business
men and methods that has been going
on. The old Californian is disappear
ing, and the old way of doing. business
going out. Then the springing up of
rival stations to the north and south
have diverted trade. But what, in our
opinion, must answer for a good deal of
the stagnation is sandlotism, political
agitation, feeling of insecurity among
capitalists, and lack Of local pride and
patriotism. This has been famed, If
not created, by an absolutely unscrupu
lous press. Everything that anybody
has attempted to do has been jumped
upon and strangled, in one way or an
other. Men of means and enterprising
inclination have been deferred from
coming here, and those already here
have got away If they could, or con-
tracted their means into absolutely safe
investments - at all events, have not
launched in enterprises and undertake
|ings calculated to expand the country
and bring prosperity. This ought to be
the greatest country in the world, and
San Francisco one of the most thriving
and growing cities. Nature has fur
|nished everything to make them SO.
SENATOR EDMUNDS AND PROFES-
SOR MINISTER.
Portland Oregonian: In the recent
debate over the question of National
Expansion before the Contemporary
Club of Philadelphia, Professor John
Bach McMaster, the historian, COM
pletely worsted ex-United States Sena-
/ a., II L. 1,;1
ment. The plea of the n-expansion-
lists was that to annex the Philippines
would be proof that we no longer revere
the memory nor follow the footsteps
of our fathers. To this pathetic appeal
Professor McMaster responded by citing
historical testimony to prove that "our
fathers" did just what President Nc
Kinley will do, allowing for changed
conditions, which bring the Philippines
as near to San Francisco as San Fran
cisco was to New York in 1S4S, when
California and New Mexico were an
nexed. The fathers" of this nation
are responsible for the fact that all the
historical precedents are in favor Of the
expansionists. Professor McMaster
pointed out that Jefferson, the author
of the Declaration of independence,
felt no fear for the institutions of Vir-
ginia in that Territorial Governments
were arranged by Congress, and the
Executive to meet the exigencies of the
OCCASION These Territorial Govern
ments were no more modelled on the
Declaration of Independence than they
were on the system Of Vermont or the
Orange Free State. In the Territories
secured by purchase or conquest, or in
any other way, "the fathers whose
memory is so pathetically invoked by
the non-expansionists, recognized the
right of Congress under the Constitu-
ton to act as 1t pleased with United
States Territories, according to their
political needs. The fathers did this
from Jefferson down to our own times.
They did it in the case of the Northwest
Territories, in the case of Louisiana, of
Florida, and we are doing it to-day in
Alaska. Professor McMaster fairly said
that I'VE can set up any practical form
of colonial government which will meet
the exigencies and past precedent in
our favor, without lowering our stand
ard or revolutionizing our institutions"
MERCHANT MARINE.
Pasadena Star: A graphic idea of
the inadequacy of our merchant marine
is given by the statement that of the
millions of bushels of grain shipped
abroad from Philadelphia this year,
none was by an American vessel; 80
per cent of the carriers were British.
From this port alone So 604, 149 has gone
fhis year to foreign ships for carrying
our own produce There is defect in
our system to allow this, and it should
be corrected.
CHINESE FRAUDS.
Oakland Tribune: The Treasury de-
cision excluding the alleged Chinese
actors who every now and then present
themselves for admission is a result of
the way the privilege granted in that
direction was abused at the time of the
Omaha Exposition. OF the sixty who
were given temporary landing for al
legged show purposes at that time, not
one ever rnaterialized when the time
came for returning them to China. The
bonds they had put up were declared
forfeited, but, as is usual in such cases.
they proved to be practically worth
less. and the sixty Mongolians were
able to laugh in their capacious sleeves
at the cunning way in which they
tricked the Yankees.
THE DEPOSITARY PLAN.
Santa Rosa Republican: On num-
Der of occasions the past few years we
have mentioned the weakness of our
system of managing public funds. We
have shown the strain on our financial
system that comes from the boarding of.
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