The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-13
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State ard Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects of Living News
Interest.

Los Angeles Express: President Nc
Kinley would go right ahead doing his
duty under any circumstances, but it
will cheer him, in the midst of the
hai assing questions constantly pressing
for solution. to feel that the loud shouts
of a handful of venomous detractors
do not voice the sentiments of the
American people.
IN TEXAS.
MERGED Star: The expansion senti-
ment in Texas, which is being voiced
by such prominent Democrats as ex-
Governor Hogg, and by such conspicn-
Gus Democratic journals as the Calves
ton News, is frightening the national
Democratic leaders.
PACIFIC CABLE.
Los Angeles Times: A Pacific cable
must be laid some time in the future,
and the sooner work is begun upon it
the better. If the cable had been laid
two years ago it's every landing place
would have been upon foreign territory.
Now it need not touch upon alien ter
ritory at any point.
THE BOERS AND RELIGION.
Santa Rosa Republican: A strong ana
pronounced religious sentiment runs
through all official declarations of South
African countries in regard to the dlf-
ficulties there This is especially no
ticeable in all of President Kruger
utterances. He continually speaks as
if himself and his people were on terms
of peculiar intimacy with the Al
chAraC-
terizes the manifestoes of President
Steyn of the Orange Free State IN
calling upon his people to support
the Transvaal in the present trouble. In
both countries every warlike act IS
declared to be in the name of and for
the glory of God. This course doubt
less appeals strongly to the deep re-
ligious sentiment of the common people
and encourages them to greater risks
and more endurance of hardships. 1t
gives them an exalted idea of the piety
of the men at the head of affairs in
their country piety more notice
able in the language employed in their
war papers than in their acts in i'm
posing burdens on the owners and OPP
orators of mines whose output has
brought vast wealth to their country.
FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS.
Fresno Republican: A Berkeley man
had his neck broken in a football game
the other day, and the howl will doubt
less go up that a game so barbarous
and fatal should be abolished. All of
which will be quite aside from the
point, and about as intelligent as howl
for the abolition of railroads because
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game only for certain people under GER
tain conditions. and should be confined
to them. The young man in question
was inexperienced and not conditioned.
and was playing in a class game with
others of the same sort. All the fatal
accidents on the football field have been
under similar circumstances. No one
has ever been killed in the champion
ship games of the big teams. The
moral. then. is TO limit the game abso-
lutely TO the conditioned men, who are
fit for it, and require all others to put
themselves in condition by other train
ing before aspiring to football.
DEWEY'S MARRIAGE.
Alameda Argus: Some people who
jump at conclusions say that the mar
riage of Admiral Dewey to Mrs. Hazen
will be of great political significance.
Mrs. Hazen is a sister of John r. Nc
Lean, Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Ohio, and believed to aspire
to the Vice Presidency of the nation, if
not to the Presidency itself Mrs.
Hazen, in the prime of life, rich and
ambitious, it is believed will change the
current of the famous Admiral's life
and urge him into political prominence.
Time will disclose the likelihood of this
surmise. Admiral Dewey is mighty
hard headed as to sea battles and such
things as come within the duty of a
naval officer; but it isn't entirely safe
TO say what a sailor who marries at
81 may do ashore.
THE ANTITRUST PARTY.
Contra Costa Gazette: In 1890 the
Republican party enacted the Mckinley
bill with this strong antitrust provi-
sion:
Every contract, or combination in
the form of trust or otherwise, or con-
spiracy, in restraint of trade or COM
merce, among the several States, or
with foreign nations is hereby declared
illegal. Any person who shall make
such contract or engage in any such
combination or conspiracy shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor and on
conviction thereof shall he fined by a
fine not exceeding 5000. or by i'm
prisonment or by both at the direction
of the court
This is the Republican party record.
Now for the Democratic record: In
1884 the Bryan-Gorman Democrats had
both houses of Congress. repealed the
Mckinley bill, paralyzed the above anti
trust section, enacted the vicious and
ruinous Wilson bill and prescribed no
penalty against trusts except import
ers who are not organized and never
have been. More than that. The popo-
Gratis have had such control of the free
silver Senate since that time that the
antitrust law could not be ra-enacted,
and most of the trusts have been Or
ganized since that Mckinley and anti
trust provision was repealed by the
Democrats.
CALIFORNIA REAL ESTATE.
San Jose Mercury Reports of realty
sales from all sections of California are
to the effect that the demand for
realty. especially for farm and fruit
land. is steadily increasing and that
this demand is accompanied by COR
responding rise in values. This cond-
ton is significant of restored confidence
in the productivity of the State and in
the growing capacity of the worlds
markets to consume it's productions,
The variety and abundance of Califor-
MA products. even during a season of
unprecedented drouth, such as the sea-
son of 1S97-9S preceded and followed.
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