The record-union., 1899-11-30
VOICE OF THE PRESS.


State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.
Los Angeles Times: It was a Demo-
cratic President who made the LOUISE
ana purchase by which we acquired the
two great agricultural States OF ore
gon and Washington, as we'll as the
three great mining States OF Colorado,
Montana and Idaho. Yet the pllno
guides, Democratic leaders, sell
styled, would repudiate the action OF
President Mckinley in the acqusltlon
of Hawaii, Samoa and the Philippines
and at the same time profess to recog-
nize Thomas jefferson as the father
and founder of their party. Ihere Is
an old-time Democrat in Los Angeles
who grew Disguised with the action
of the convention that nominated
Bryan in 1896 and went up to the polls
and cast his vote for Mckinley. lie
says: II voted for Mckinley, not be-
cause I am a Republican, but because
am an expansionist. l became
Democrat forty-five years ago because
was an expansionist, but my party
has gone off and left me-" There are
great many others of Democratic
parentage and education who will vote
for Mckinley in 1900 for the same rea-
son. They are expansionists 'hrougn
the teachings of earlier and ADLER tutors
than Bryan, and they will refuse to
fall down and worship at the shrine of
false gods.
YELLOW ASTRONOMY.
Stockton Record: Yellowness is not
confined to newspaper work. An as
tronomer of Paris put a bright chrome
tinge on his predictions about the me-
teoric shower and had for a center
piece the end of the world fixed for
November 18th. On that day the
churches of Paris which are always
open, were crowded nearly all day and
those in the interior were largely at
tended in order that those who believed
| in the prediction might be found in
prayer when the comet should strike
| the earth and knock it out.
While one pious company was assem-
bled in a private house to await the
event blast was set off on a railroad
excavation near by. The report of the
pany was not composed of ignorant
people, either, but of educated "liber-
als.'' That shows that education must
be of the right kind to be any pro-
lection against yellowism or supersti-
ton. While the discriminating were
not scared there proved to be enough
of those who were unable to distinguish
between the false and the true astron-
ony to create a furore. Notwithstand-
ing the belief that the world was to be
destroyed many of the believers had
their wills prepared, forgetful that their
| heirs, assigns and devisees' must nee
essarily go with them where no earthly
treasure exists.
The scarce recalls stories of the
Miller millennium of early days when
men turned their property into money
in anticipation Of the ending of the
| world. When asked to what use they
could put the cash after the expected
cataclysm they betrayed the gap in
their faith by saying it might not oc-
cur at the date fixed and they would
| be ready for a start on a new earthly
career. The French and Russian mil
leniaP' panics show that the civilized
world is far from being free from either
superstition or stupidity.
THE DEWEY DEED
! Placer Herald: Grand old Dewey
Some of his flatterers have become his
critics and for what? Simply for do
| ing what he had a legal right to do.
The Herald hoped the Admiral would
not accept the home his countrymen Of
| fered him; but he did and now because
! he transferred the title to a trustee and
that agent decided it to Mrs. Dewey and
| that lady transferred the title TO Dew
! ey's son, his only heir, all on the same
| day, some of his former claquers have
turned caddieS and are trying to abuse
| the nations hero. In our opinion Ad-
miral Dewey has done just the very act
| he ought to do. Should he die to-day
| the property, without a legal contest,
will go to the heir to whom it would
descend provided the son survived the
father. Dewey has shown his business
| qualifications and his ability to pro-
| tect his interests against the land
| sharks.
| ADMIRAL SCHLEY.
Los Angeles Express Admiral
Schley's friends seem to be always on
the lookout for some slight to him, and
the most innocent instructions are
twisted into fancied insults. The orders
that prevent the South Atlantic squad
| ron at this time from going to South
Africa are capable of the clearest in
depreciation and strike the ordinary
man as eminently sensible, as our adj
vent there would bring squadrons from
all the other nations and complicate the
situation. The Admiral's fool friends,
however, can see nothing in his orders
but an effort to keep him in the back
ground. Such friends do him more
harm than good.
McKINNON'S NOBILITY.
Stockton Record: The Tagalo press
seems stunned by Chaplain McKinnon's
defense of the Administration methods
in the Philippines. They hadn't the
courage to attack him; hadn't the
means to discredit him and as to his
defense of Funston against the charge
of desecrating churches, they were so
astounded that they haven't yet caught
their breath
The blackguards, clerical and lay will
not long be silent, however. The realm
of falsehood is wide and is not fenced
in No restraining conscience exerts
any influence over them and they will
soon be I'm and at McEfnDou The Law