The record-union., 1899-12-23
CoNscIENcELEss PART1sANsH1p.

Attention has been called to the fact
that the men who were Cuban patri-
ots' few months ago are now Gu
ban negroes" The Cuban gentlemen"
are mainly those of Spanish birth and
lineage, the aristocratic and wealthy
classes who sided with Spain in the
struggle for Cuban liberty and who
constituted the Tory element 1t is
for TIE benefit of these gentry that our
considerable American administration
defers the recognition Of Cuban indie
pendence.-Los Angeles Herald.
The Herald" outherods Herod in
its bitterness, lamentation and misrep-
resentation. 1t knows as well as any
other in the land that the President,
even if so minded, is powerless to rec
ognize the independence Of Cuba.
There is no Government there other
than that fostered and aided by the
United States to recognize. The form
of Government plotted out and in some
considerable degree established by the
tyranny of Spain, was long ago aban
doned and the present conditions have
been accepted gracefully and with ex-
cellent effect, excepting only by a few
malcontents who hunger for disorder
that their gross fselfshness may be
gratified. Congress, and it alone, can
now act upon the Cuban question. We
have faith in that body that it will pro-
II
time; that it will keep the pledge Of the
nation to the Cubans in the spirit and
to the letter.
AS for the slur that somewhere at
sometime some one has spoken Of Gu
ban patriots as negroes" it rests
solely upon the statement Of the Her
ald' SO far as attaching any stigma
to Republicans Is concerned. They
have spoken through their political
head and the nation through its due
official channels of expression and in
every instance with all respect due to
the Cubans. regardless Of color. The
color and racial questions have been
discussed it is true. Colonel Garcia,
son of the late General, and Commits
sioner to the United States from Gu
ban organization was the first to raise
them He has discussed them as
facts, and spoke Of the negroes" with
out reproach, simply saying that the
blacks Of Cuba are more intelligent
than the blacks of the South in the
United States, and that the number Of
negroes in Cuba has been overestf-
mated.
But when 1t comes to virulent parti-
sanship, to cool assertion of untruth
in political debate, to the effrontery of
impudent and disingenuous assertion,
we know of no journal in the country
SO radical, unreasoning and preposter-
Gus as the Los Angeles Herald" That
it is a paper of much ability and force
makes it's offending the more gross.
Sacramentos principal cemetery is
very beautiful plot of well kept and
richly adorned ground. 1t has a very
presentable entrance and a neat rest
lliS AiOOSC dl AAS SAOS. Ao0I lAAGAG 40 AAO
inscription over the entrance to this
home of the. dead. There should be,
however, as is the custom. A friend,
who has fine literary taste suggests this
passage from Bunyan as fitting for in
scription over the entrance:
They laid the pilgrim in a chamber
whose window opened toward the sun
rising. The name of the chamber was
Peace, where he slept till the break of
day, and then awoke and sang"
1t. is scarcely possible to find sem
tence more appropriately expressive.
But suggestions for a proper inscrip-
ton, one that all sects and people may
approve. are within the province of all,
and if a better one than that sent in
and quoted above can be selected, the
Record Union" will publish the
thought, and in the meantime presents
for consideration of the city officials the
propriety Of having a proper inscrip-
ton placed over the gateway.