The record-union., 1898-05-22
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects OF Living News
Interest.

Stockton Mail: The greenback issue
is sensible The whole East does bust
ness with paper money Nobody there
will take gold or silver either if it can
be avoided The country is easily able
to absorb an issue of $3.50, 100000 in
paper, and it would be a healthy slim
illus to trade The plan of the Dem
ocratic members of the Senate Com
mittee is splendid. The Republican
majority, acting under orders from
Wall street, may defeat it, But if they
do there will be no Republican major
lity in the next Congress, and there is
a heap of consolation in that
CRUEL RETURN.
San Diego Tribune: Again the Span
ish temperament exhibits its loath-
some side to the world. One of the
bravest naval officers of Spain is de-
feated at Manila He fought a good
fight. He did his full duty and re-
tired from battle wounded How was
he rewarded by his fellow citizens?
They brutally murdered their brave de-
fender and also killed his sons. Such
people do not deserve protectors. They
are so base Of mind that the North
1 American Indians are nOblemen as
compared to them. People are judged
by their actions, and the actions of the
Spanish exclude them from being re-
igarded as possessing the least spark of
what humans regard as real honor.
They can boast that they possess it,
but the world will never believe it.
POPULISM
MERGED Sun: The principles of the
Populist party are directly opposed to
those of the Republican party. The
Republicans are unanimous in declar-
ing that the fusion of the Populists
and Democrats would result in the ruin
of the Populist party. If it is true
that fusion would have that result why
don't the Republicans encourage in
stead of oppose fusion?
ELECTION OF SENATORS.
| Stockton Record: The House of Rep
resentatives has passed a resolution to
$50 amend the Constitution as to elect
Senators by the popular vote. This is
| progress, but there are two great OBJ
structions in the way of its final adop-
ton. These are the Senators who know
they would stand no chance of cleo
ton by the people, and the Legisla-
lures of majority of the States. whose
approval is necessary before the peo-
/ pie can vote. Members of Legislatures
VIII not willingly forego the privilege,
Notwithstanding all the suspicion that
attaches to it, of electing Senators.
Aside from the suspicion of selling
votes, there is the reality of reward
| in the form of fat Federal offices for
| those members who vote to elevate
noodles to seats in the Senate
| CUBAN-AMERICAN IN HAVANA.
| Los Angeles Times: The Cuban
Americans in Havana have in store for
| them the prospect of a speedy and
| horrible death at the hands of Blan-
| cos assassins, as soon as the lombard
ment begins. 1t is extraordinary to
understand why all these people did
not get out of the Spaniards clutches
| before the blockade began; now, how
ever, having taken the chances they
will have to submit to whatever treat
ment Spanish cruelty and diabolism
may mete out to Them awful as it
may be.
CIGARETTES.
| Stockton Independent: The reports
of examinations for service in the army
are enough to stagger the faith of the
civilized world in the capacity of youth
to regulate their appetites or restrain
their petty vices22s The cigarette habit
is said to be responsible for 80 per cent
of the reflections. This should be a
warning to the people and to the Gov
eminent to keep their eye on the dead
| ly and facilitating cigarette. 1t is
warning to parents to keep a protect
ing eye on their youths 1t is a warn
! ing to youths to keep a watchful eye
upon themselves that they may not
surrender to the vice for which health
and strength and manhood are given
| in forfeit.
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AMITY
Santa Barbara Press: A notable
| phase of the situation is the number
| and the heartiness of expressions of
good will toward Englishmen. 1t has
| been known, of course, from the be-
ginning, that the sentiment of England
| was the same as that of the United
| States in regard to the need of putting
an end to Spanish butchery and starv
| alton of innocent n-combatants in
| Cuba, and officials have known that
| the English Government has stood like
a wall of granite in front of every pro-
posal made by the three European
! Governments that are favorable to
Spain as far as they dare be to combine
the European powers for the purpose of
forcibly interfering in behalf of Spain.
| or of threatening to do so, and believed
| that it was only that obstacle that
| prevented an anti-American coalition
| of European nations. These things, to-
gether with the current tone of the
English press, have touched a respon-
sive chord in many American breasts,
| and are causing a great deal of talk
about the probability of an alliance
| between the United States and Great
| Britain, and of the great power that
could be welded among the nations of
the world by such an alliance. The
strength Of a team composed of Uncle
| Sam and John Bull would be unques-
toned, either in peace or in war.
WHY NOT?
| Los Angeles Herald: AS Cuba is
about to be invaded by our army, and its
subjugation cannot long be postponed,
little indulgence of the imagination
is quite pardonabe. The object of the
| invasion is to aid the insurgents'in gain
| ing their independence and their army
| is to be a cooperating force. After
that people have been mercilessly plum
dered and butchered by the Spanish.