The record-union., 1899-03-03
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FRoM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast opi1ions On Suh-
jeets Of Living News
Interest.

| 3S0V8 Oh x1vAA8 NSWn
/ Interest.
Redwood City Tines Gazette: There
is nothing to prevent Aguinaldo from
coming into the American lines and
Isurrendering. He will be treated we'll,
but not trusted.
A POINTED REMARK.
Salinas Index: Here is a pointed re-
mark from the Presidents address at
Boston: Many who were impatient
for the conflict a year ago, apparently
needless of its larger results, were the
first TO cry out against the far reach
ing consequences of their own act"
Luckily for the country this class.
though perniciously active, is not large
enough to spoil the victory.
tPOPULISTs AND CALAMITY How'll
ERS.
Ukiah Republican Press: If Califor-
mia shall this year experience another
ldry season like 1898 the Populist party
may reasonably anticipate additions to
tits ranks during its next campaign. Ca
lamity howlers grow by what they
feed on.
NOT A LOGICAL PRECEDENT.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Illogical and
foolish as tAnlay be to talk about never
hauling down the flag where it has
once been raised, it is just as illogical
and just as foolish to reply to 1t by
citing the case of the retirement Of our
troops from Mexico. The case furnishes
no guide for action regarding the Phil
ippines, for it is not parallel and cam
not be stretched nor Strengthened out
so as to become parallel, Mexico was
an entirely different proposition from
the one that confronts US at Manila.
| Mexico was an established country.
with an orderly government and a rec
nized position among the nations 1t
was capable of discharging it's obliga-
tons under international law and of de-
Tending itself reasonably well from the
encroachment of foreigners. 1t was a
land of great promise politically, and
its promise has been more than fulfill
ed through the energy and statesman
ship of its half-Indian President, Por-
firio Diaz. Mexico has become credit
to the Western Hemisphere, and no. one
could pretend that its condition in 1878
required guardianship and tutelage for
the protection of the rights of foreign
ers and the preservation of freedom of
| its people.
The Philippine Islands, on the other
hand, are hardly more civilized than
they were at the time of their discov
L cry by Europeans Nothing has been
done for them and they have been
permitted to do nothing for themselves
! American proprietorship will preserve
them from exploitation by foreigners.
and nothing else will. Their people are
in race infancy, and can no more be
| left to their own devices than any other
| infants can be-. So, if the talk about
never lowering the flag is buncombe,
the talk about the case of Mexico is
| equally foolish, Nobody regrets that
We came back from Mexico, while the
retreat from Manila for the present. at
any rate. would be cause for feeling
of national shame.
THE ARMY IN. PHILIPPINES.
| Colusa Sun: Congress should either
recall the army from Manila or else
vote the increase of the regular army.
| If we are not going to hold the Philip
pines we should SO declare at once; If
| we intend to hold them then we ought
to prepare at once to do so with a strong
| hand. A hating between these posi-
| tions is almost a crime. The city OF
! Manila was set on fire by the Filipinos
on Wednesday night, and it is quite
Eevident that we have not force enough
there to stop all such proceedings and
if we are going TO stay there we ought
to be strong enough to make the Fill
pinos know that there is no use in try
;,~r - 1,,-ao L
both cheaper and more humane. No
one has seemed to knew just what the
American policy would be, and there
was no excuse in not having some sort
of declared policy months ago.
THE CALLS" ASSAULT.
Berkeley World Gazette: The heart
less and senseess attack was wholly
unealled for but like the Cali man
agement of recent fame, it could not let
an already overdrawn and overdono
case alone The press of the State can
| do no less than hold the Cali re-
sponsible for the anti-cartoon law.
While there is little in it and nothing
to fear from it, by those who wish to
use cartoons as they are intended to
| be. simply for fun, and not for blood.
| the privilege has been abused most
shamefully and the full limit has GER
| tainly been reached by the Cali dur
/ ing the session of the Legislature. This
| abuse of the jovial cartoon has been
| carried to such an extreme that it has
become impossible for paper to use
a cartoon without being charged with
wishing to do the subject personal harm
| Just such fool-breaks as the Cali has
made, and few others of like ten
denotes. has taken all the joke out o.
caricatures.
A MONKEY AND PARROT TIME
Marysville Democrat: And now the
American soldiers who went to the
Philippines to establish stable form
| of government for the natives are hav-
ing real monkey and parrot time
While trying to clean up the streets
! of Manila and re-establishing the trade
and commerce of the country, the ben
eficiaries set fire to the town and
hurled cold lead right and left without
regard to what they hit These assur-
! ing dispatches of General Otis are gen
orally fanked by story of the num-
Der of our troops killed by exposing
themselves to the fire of the rebels. And
these people who are termed rebels now
lare the same fellows who We're prom
! ised a stable form of Government and
freedom from the terrors of Spanish
rule.
LET THEM HAVE 1T.
Willows journal: The Filipinos have
by their actions shown their true char
actel and that Aguinaldo is only
Header of his kind and any further SYM
/ ,,atbr toward the treacherouS dagOeS