The record-union., 1899-10-14
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

up with the enemies of their country,
whether those enemies be native or Ior-
eign- born, and that is why Admiral
Dewey stands where every man or
common sense expected him to stand;
right by the side of the President of
the United States, where that flag is
flying which is never to be hauled
down.
SHALL WE JOIN IN?
Fresno Republican: Aguinaldo asks
his people to pray to God that the DEM
ocrats may win the next Presidential
election. Shall we join in his prayer?
SURELY A MISTAKE.
Santa Monica Outlook: A San Fran
cisco morning paper the other day act
ually published an account Of an East
ern railroad accident. True there
were only four people killed, but the
paper nevertheless gave the accident a
few lines This surprises us not lit
tie after we had become SO thoroughly
convinced that none of the morning
papers of the metropolis would publish
an account of an accident except it oc-
Cured on the Southern Pacific Rail-
road. What grief there must have
OCCL dIlOuS the DlS ciiio
their managers when it was learned
that an accident had occurred in the
East and deprived them of several
pages of sensation and their usual
roast. And no doubt the Southern Pa
cific was censured for letting this East
ern road get ahead of it.
THE PEOPLE ARE WITH US.
Placer observation-disclosures: To those
who think there is liable to be a serious
detection among Republicans against
President Mckinley on account of his
bold and consistent stand in the matter
of territorial expansion, we have only
this to say: AS a mere matter of pop
ular influence, Senator Hoar of Massa-
chusetts and Mason of Illinois are
double discounted by the weight Of
such men as Senator Morgan of Ala
bama and Governor Pattison of Penn
sylvania. 1t is also safe to say that
the best Democratic journals of the
country are with us in the matter of
expansion. Take from the Democrat
ic press Of the country such journals as
the Louisville tfCourier-Journal," the
Atlanta Constitution the New York
Journal" the San Francisco Exam
iner," the Memphis Avalanche" and
others of almost equal influence, and
there isn't much left that really need
worry US.
THE FOREST FIRES.
Stockton Mail: The Los Angeles
Times gives credence to corre-
-spondent whose name it withholds for
sufficient reasons" and who says that
the forest fires that do SO much dam
age from time to time in California are
not accidental or the work of picknick-
ers or campers, but are deliberately set
by the sheep and cattlemen. He says
that not one in fifty of these fires is
accidental and that 1.-The stock men
laugh in their sleeves at the innocence
of the city folks and Government Off
cials in believing the fires to be the re-
suit of accident" Says the Times:
Another important point TO which
the correspondent calls attention is the
fact that most of the stock men claim
and really believe, that they have a
right to burn the range. In the less
enlightened communities there are
many persons not stock raisers, who
believe the same They are most Of
them uneducated and unscrupulous
and the few who know the harm they
are doing care nothing for it COM
pared to the small temporary gain to
themselves. To the more ignorant
says the correspondent, further it
seems an arbitrary and unreasonable
law, to be paid no attention TO. Burn
ing the brush and timber makes it cas-
ier to ride around over the land, and
the second growth brush makes a lit
tie feed for stock. The sheep men
never. and the cattle men seldom, own
the land they use. They rent the range,
or more often occupy the public lands
without rent, and the damage to the
land means nothing to them"
ACCIDENT CYCLES.
! Fresno Democrat This question has
| been reduced to petty and a personal
one, whereas Mr.. Krutschnitt's theory
| of accident cycles on railroads and
elsewhere is beginning to be recognized
| by advanced thinkers and statisticians
as eminently worthy of investiga ton.
| OF course there is nothing new about
the idea Twenty years ago the Rev.
| G.. A. Leakin, an .erudite minister of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of Amer
| lea, and a resident of Baltimore, pub
lished pamphlet called 'The Periodic
Law" containing over 1000 instances
| from ancient medieval and modern his
| tory to show that it is the tendency
of great calamities, earthquakes, FAM
ines, pestilences, railroad accidents,
shipwrecks, wars and confiagrations to
recur in cycles.
! He further pointed out that when
| these cycles do recur, the law is so
/ pronounced that the trouble even runs
! plosions, floods and the like. 1t is true,
| in a measure, that there has been a
/ large number of railroad accidents of
| late, but they have been pretty well
distributed over the country, and Cali
| fornia has been by no means blessed
with a monopoly of them. And in max
| ing this contention the Democrat" will
| take occasion to once more call the
attention of the editors and publishers
| of the San Francisco morning dailies
| to the fact that, in their frantic efforts
! to punish the Southern Pacific Com
4 pany for fancied sights, and in per-
mitting their correspondents of the New
/ York newspapers to send sensational
and untruthful accounts Of the Tat
est railroad horror in California" they
are doing their very best to injure this
State.
In other words. they are emulating
/ the folly of the woodsman who sawed
through the limb of a tree while sitting