The record-union., 1899-08-24
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.

1t is needful, however, for those engag-
ing in strikes to learn one great lesson
| namely, that they are within their
rights when they quit work, but that
| they are not justified in the use OF
| violence, or intimidation, in prevent
/ ing others taking their places. To
many this means a failure of strike,
but they have been failures generally
j in their effects on wages, and must
continue to be so as long as there are
more men seeking positions in particu-
lar lines, than there are places to be
! filled. If the history of strikes We're
written in full, the material losses to
laboring men who have engaged in
| strikes and lost, the material losses to
| laboring men who have engaged in
strikes and lost, even though they won
some apparent advantage, would show
the heaviest kind of a balance against
| the striker
CAMPAIGN CAPITAL.
| Los Angeles Express: Nothing that
| President Mckinley might, could,
would or should do would have the
slightest effect on the people engaged
in attempting to manufacture capital
for the next campaign. When General
| Otis quells the revolt in the Philippines,
and the Filipinos are blessed with a
good and stable government such as we
will undoubtedly give them, these kick
ers will still be railing at the Govern
ment, and objecting to the way it was
all brought about.
CHICAGO SLIDING.
Marysville Appeal: Some scientist
| has dicanynro1 ho ieso
ly sliding into Lake Michigan If it
only takes that celebrated Democratic
platform along with it, the country will
be able to stand the loss with more res
| ignation.
IMMIGRATION INCREASING.
Los Angeles Times: The Commission
er General of immigration, T. Y. Pow
derly, expresses the opinion that more
| than 250, 600 immigrants will land in
the United States during the fiscal year
ending June 80 1899 Immigra ton has
been steadily increasing during the cur
rent year, as compared to last year,
and there is every prospect that the in
crease will continue for some time to
| come
During the fiscal year ended June
I 30, 1898, the total number of immi-
grants arriving in the United States
was a little over 229,000. In the pre-
ceding year the number was over go,
600. The indications are that this
year, as above stated, the number will
be increased to 250,000, at least.
A quarter Of million of persons is
large number to arrive in the United
States in a single year But it is not
60 10
sands, as have arrived on our shores
in preceding years.
THE APPEAL TO NATIONAL COW
ARDICE.
Portland Oregonian: The sole hope
of the Philippine insurgents now is that
next year, in their Presidential cleo
tions the American people will confess
themselves towards and poltroons. Ir
this hope they are encouraged by their
fellow Tagals in America But there
Will be disappointment in banking on
the supposed cowardice of the Ameri-
| can people. Senator Hoar, Edward At
kinson and William j. Bryan lnay con-
fess themselves faint hearts and sons
of the feeble; but the people of the
United States have not been accustom-
ed to quail when they found they had
an arduous job on their hands.
This is the first great undertaking in
| the outer world TO which we have been
| committed; and our prestige among the
nations depends upon our address, our
| courage and our success in the man
| agement of it. To give it up is to con-
fess a want of firmness and constancy
| amounting to imbecility, a weakness OF
national character which will deserve
and cannot escape the contempt of the
world. Fine thing it would be-would il
MOTTO admit before the world that
we have not courage, resolution, pluck
and fortitude to whip this dWarfish war
these pigmy arms.
But, it is asked, are we to forget JUS
tice? No, we are not to forget justice,
but to establish it. and civilization with
| it. We owe it to the world, to our own
position in the world. to the future OF
civilization in the islands, and to our
own duty in the part opened before US
in common with other nations for re-
generation of the East. to go on With
this enterprise. We shall go on with it.
He greatly mistakes the temper of the
American people who supposes they
will be daunted by dangers, intimidated
ton into which they have been led by
a train of events set in motion by a
war undertaken for purposes well JUS
tilted before the world. We shall not
finch because there are consequences
which could not be foreseen.
Even in Cuba there is not a shadow
of a government on which order could
stand. Before the world we are re-
x-,N, ors11 e.. T,,1N1
the Philippine Islands Even our self
styled "anti-imperialists'' admit that
both are entitled to our protection But
as the New York Tribune" well says,
"A protectorate is not independence, !"
and Even after the time needed for
preparation, education, organization
and development of resources has pass
ed, and after the people have been able
to establish a good local government
for themselves which they are able to
maintain, and which is able to dis
charge it's international obligations,
there will yet remain independence to
be achieved" The first, the indispen-
sable requirement, is peace and order.
Most probably, by the time that is well
established, there will be no desire on
the part of the islanders for separa ton
from the United States.
RULES IN CASE OF FIRE.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Chief Bonner
of the New York Fire Department has
issued some rules in regard to the best
course to be pursued by persons in ho-
tells when an alarm of fire is given. OF
course they rest upon long experience.
They suggest plans of action that
would not readily occur to those who
had given no special thought to the