The record-union., 1899-08-16

perfectly visible without a microscopic
examination Of the lining of the stom
ach or the cells of the brain, and are
very little eluciGated by such an ex-
animation, especially when, as is usu-
ally the case, it is not an examination
of the actual cells, but of falsified
ehromos of then.s 1t is merciful to
the drunkard to treat his condition as
disease, but it is right for the sober
! man to regard it as a crime to expose
himself to- that disease. Scientific men
must understand smallpox and drunk
enness, but ordinary men need to
know only how to protect themselves,
from the one by vaccination and from
the other by sobriety. Laboratory
measurements have very little to do
with question whose essence is a
healthy moral conscience.
THE LIQUOR QUESTION.
Alameda Argus: We observe that
one of the papers read before the
Womens Christian Temperance Union
at Pacific Grove was on, Personal Lib
erty and the Remedy for Hard Times. !"
Those people most anxious to enforce
| prohibition find their great and inSur-
mountable obstacle in personal liberty
The privilege of overindulging in in
| toXicating liquors is just as sacred a
right to every man as the privilege OF
making a fool of himself in the count
| less sother ways which he has invented
| and discovered. But this is not the
view taken by the Woman's Christian
| Temperance Union. Their treatment
| of the liquor question is of no avail
chiefly because it involves the question
of personal liberty. To reach the worth
| less and relatively infrequent drunkard
they would impose irksome restric-
tions on a vast number of temperate
though not abstaining men, and these
are the forces that nullify all efforts
at temperance legislation.
THE PHILIPPINE WAR.
San Jose Mercury: 1t is difficult to
see what the leaders of the Demo-
cratic party hope to attain by de-
nouncing the war in the Philippines, as
it is evident that the great mass of
the Democratic party are heartily in
accord with the policy that is being
carried out by the American Govern
ment Here and there a Democratic
paper has the temerity to demand that
our troops be withdrawn from the
islands, leaving the foreign residents
and the friendly natives to the tender
mercies of Aguinaldo and the savage
Tagals, but probably nine-tenths of the
| Democratic papers are convinced that
| the inSurrection must be put down.
The whole case is lucidly presented
| by the Philadelphia Times" which, al
/ though Democratic, cordially indorses
McKinley's policy. We did not engage
in the Spanish war. it remarks, for
purposes of conquest, but the presence
of Dewey's fleet at Hongkong and of
i the Spanish fleet at Manila, made this
a point at which a vital blow to Spain
could be administered. The Spanish
fleet destroyed and Manila once in our
hands, we became responsible before
the world for the protection of property
and the maintenance of order, a re-
sponsibility that we could not honor
ably refuse to accept.
That Aguinaldo and the Tagals, adds
the Times" should have transferred
their hostility to the Spanish, who had
kalways oppressed them. to the Ameri-
cans, who had defeated their oppressors
and who were ready to establish as
free a form of Government as was at
all consistent with the imperative de-
mands of civilization. could not have
|
lion having taken on a serious phase,
rendered the establishment of civil
| government in the islands impossible
until the rebellion was put down.
Whether we like it or not, therefore,
| it is evidently oar first and most i'm
perative duty to fight the Philippine
war to a finish and then establish a
civil government that can protect life
and property and promote the develop
ment of the resources of. the islands.
A NATTER OF PER CENT.
| Tacoma Ledger: There are some
| things in the formation of trusts that
are not altogether satisfactory to the
stockholders In the organization of
the American Spirits Manufacturing
| Company, with a capital of S1O0,OOO,- :
600. it is claimed by indignant stock
holders that the promoters" William
C. Whitney and associates, appropri-
lated to themselves nearly 10 per cent.
of the capital, to be precise, s little
over S9,000,000 at the market prices,
lbeing over S10,000,000 in preferred and
| S13.O0O.000 in common. There is prob
! ably some water in this, as is common
in whisky stock, but the promoters are
all right even then. This is next to
the old time Hawaiian financiering,
when King David was content to re-
ceive 80 per cent Of the face value of
a loan.