The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-07
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THE BIG STORM.

Pomona Progress: The reports which
come form the scene of the tornado
that devastated parts of Missouri and
Iowa are cumulative in the horrors they
depict. Seldom has a storm caused SO
many fatalities, although others may
have been equally destructive to prop
erty. 1t may be trifie dry in South
ern California, but there is much peace
of mind in knowing that cyclones do not
occur here.
THE TRUST ISSUE"
San Jose Mercury: Considerable is
being said just at the present time con-
corning the probable injection into the
next political campaign of the trust
issue. The Democratic papers are en-
deavoIing to instiM into the minds of
their readers the idea that the trusts
are the special creation Of the Repub-
lican party and that that party has
sworn to protect it's offspring against
al enemies and that the proper battle
cry of the next campaign should be
down with the trusts" To unthink-
ing people a d'enunciation of the trusts
and trust management, with a vivid
portrayal of the evil effects which they
produce upon Individual production,
onism to modern capitalism. In fact,
such antagonism already exists and a
continual harping ON the subject will
intensity the prejudice existing and will
possibly lead men to do things not con-
duciye to their best interests.
The statement has been oft reiterated
that the Republican party is respon-
sib.e for the creation of trusts and their
;,a;o rrv,1
for this utterance lies in the fact that
more trusts have been formed during
the past two years than ever before.
The fact that a Republican administra-
ton and trust activity happen to be
co-eXistent induces the assertion that
the former is responsible for the latter.
There is no more logic in this assump-
ton than to assert that because a
north wind blows on a clear day that
one is the product of the other. Many
things co-exist which haven't even the
remotest connection. Every student Of
political economy knows that the trusts
are the necessary product of certain in
dustrial conditions and that the in
dustrial conditions necessary to create
a trust are produced by undue competi-
ton in a certain industry. 1t is the
natural outcome of the competitive sys-
tenn aided and abetted by science and
invention.
The competitive system succeeded
feudalism, and men ceased to be vas
sails only to become competitors. Com
petition produced a higher type of an
Individual the wits of men were sharp
ened, an intense rivalry sprang up be-
tween man and man, and means were
sought by which one man, by producing
more than a given amount of exertion,
could out-do his rival in production and
out-bid him in the sale of his product
Thus man invented machines, and ma
chinery took the place of hand labor.
With the invention of machines came
the introduction of the factory sys-
tenn of industry and the railroad sys-
tenn of transportation. The men who
controlled the machinery controlled in
dustry and hand labor in production
succumbed to the inevitable the man
who formerly manufactured his own
product necessarily became wage
worker.
OUR SOLDIERS.
Stockton Mail: All the volunteers in
the Philippines have covered them
selves with glory and done honor to
their country, even those ruffians from
Tennessee. They have had no great
battles to fight, but they showed I'M
mistakably that they are of the stuff
with which battles are fought and
victories won. A battle is not that
which most tries the mettle of the SOL
dier 1t is tried by the hardships of
campaign, and the volunteers bore
those of the arduous Philippine cam
paign, physically and morally, in a
manner that has excited the admiration
of military men all over the world. We
hope that they will all come back soon
now. No doubt they will receive a well
come worthy of them.
BURY THE AK.
Mail of Woodland: The great insti-
tutions of learning in this State viz:
the University of California and Stan
ford University, seem to think more
of the loss of plaything than they