The record-union., 1899-07-25
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State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

| dleo IN camp, and 1t was found tnat
he was worth at the time of his death
$4,000. Having no immediate relatives,
the man had bequeathed his money to
the United States Government that he
had served. No sooner was this case
made known than several other cases
of the same kind came to light, in
which veterans insisted that their
property should go to Uncle Sam. In
commenting on this Government Of
| ficial remarks that, taken into con-
| sideration with the conscience fund at
Washington, it is doubtful if any other
country can show such examples, both
Of honest patriotism and honest peni-
| tence rising into affection for Gov
| ernment
CORRESPONDENTS STAFF.
| Fresno Republican,: Every army
ought to have its staff Of correspon-
dents recognized and authorized as
| with it Of right and not of favor, but
recognizing themselves as under mill
| tary discipline, subject to the orders
of the commanding general and not OF
the managing editor There ought to
| be a staff censor, whose business 1t
should be to give out as we'll as to hold
/ back news, and this censor should not
| be a martinez, who keeps back most
things to be on the safe side, but man
of such unerring judgment as never to
doubt, and to give out everything out
the few things which must be kept
| back.
AS to the specific complaint of these
round robin correspondents, it is
plainly less serious than appears. The
!
signed it, and knows them to be men
who would not be trusted with editorial
responsibility on their own papers.
They are, by profession, energetic gath
erers rather than prudent judges of
news They are more competent to
criticize General Otis treatment of the
newspapers than they are to judge his
conduct of the campaign. They have
succeeded in stirring up a sensation
that may precipitate a reorganization
of the Philippine campaign, and II
such reorganization is needed let it
come. But they have not established
and can not establish the abstract
right of the newspaperman to demand
freedom in an army where no one else
is free, nor of American newspaper
editors to conduct war which they
know very little about.
AGUINALDO'S PROCLAMATION.
| Riverside Press: The fulsome eulogy
of Spain is not by any means the most
| interesting item in Aguinaldo's procla-
nation, so far as Americans are con-
cerned. He takes pains to express his
confidence in the fact that the Demo-
cratic party is friendly to the Filipino
| cause. 1t may be a trifie hard to lay
| this charge at the door of the PARTY
as such for no official declaration has
been given by a National convention
since the war in the Philippines broke
cut General Wheeler, when he reaches
Manila, will probably teach Aguinaldo
| that at least one Democrat does not
train under his banner, but the eX-
pressions Of Colonel Bryan and other
leaders go far to justify the opinion o.
! this treacherous Filipino demagogue
There was a time in it's history when
| the Democratic party bore the odium
Of being "copperhead" party, and his
tory may repeat itself. If Bryan s
orders are carried out platform Will
be adopted by the Democrats in 19oU
that will be not only factious. but dis
| loyal And Colonel Bryan will have
the pleasure of going about the coun-
try in his canvass for the Presidency
as the friend of Aguinaldo.
A SATIRE.
| Oakland Enquirer: An excellent sa-
| tire upon. some of the current ideas
of morality is contained in the story
from Atlantic City of the California
girl who desired to battle in FASH
ionable suit but who was urged by the
! jealous young man to whom she is en-
gagged not to do SO. She compromised
! by appearing on the beach in a COS
tune that was fashionably scant and
wearing a face mask which concealed
her identity. The moral code on which
| such performances as this-and first
and last there are good many or
| them-are based is that not in doing
thing does the wickedness consist but
| in getting found out. The young lady,
whose name the curious reader may
| find in the morning papers, was perhaps
surprised to find that the concealment
of her face did not remove her lovers 8
feeling that her act was immodest.
| BUSINESS GIRL.
| Chico Record: Miss Nellie Miles Of
Lynn, Mass has not, only discovered
| that she is a cousin Of General Miles,
but she proposes to utilize the dis
covery. She. announces that she will
organize aemilitary band of thirty
pieces, all men. and lead then through
the country. What is the use of being
cousin to an eminent General if you do
not :'get there?' The field is now open
to the sisters aed aunts of the other
GenefaIs and Admfrals.e One shudders
to think of the young women with
semi i-detached uncles who ought to be
organizing something, if it were only
minstrel company.
BOERS AND ENGLISH.
Santa Rosa Republican: 1t is the
mistaken belief of many people that the
Beers are altogether right and the Eng
lish the aggressors and wholly wrong
in the Transvaal troubles. While the
/ Beers or Dutch peasants were the first
civilized people to occupy that country
the Uitlanders, foreigners" mostly
English, came soon afterward. The
controversies between the two classes
became serious and in the early years
of this century Great Britain conquer
ed and annexed Transvaal Afterwaru
the independence of the country in
everything except the making OF trea-
ties was conceded. it being stipulated
that the English settlers, after resi-
dence there of five years. should have
equal political rights with the Beers,
including the right of suffrage. Since
Kruger became President of the repub-
lie he has tried to keep the English
residents of his country out of the rights