The record-union., 1899-03-31

| she is going to sing in San Francisco.
and her progress across the continent
| was telegraphed every day or several
times a day, and her arrival, and what
she thought of California, and the inn
preston San Francisco made upon her,
and the big advance sale of seats, ana
so forth, till the dear public were thor
oughly imbued with the idea that II
they did not buy seats to- hear her they
would be out of the social swim. Her
voice has nothing to do with 1t. Most
| of those who now crowd to near her
don't know the difference between her
voice and that of a chorus girl at the
Tivoli, and perhaps there is not mucn'
or she would not be singing In san
Francisco.
| A, TRUTH.
! Los Angeles Times: A Professor,
writing to quarterly magazine on the
new problems which the United States
has to face as a result of the acqulsl-
ton of Spanish possessions, concludes
that the danger which confronts the
country in the path upon which it
seems to be entering lies not so much
in the possession of extra territory as
in the manner of its governing. This
is doubtless true but an Administration
which has displayed SO much wisdom in
bringing the war to a successful con-
clusion may safely be trusted to deal
with any further problems that may
arise.
A KLONDIKE DISCOVERY.
Stockton Independent: A dispatch
states that a party Of Russian Firms in
the Klondike has discovered stone
monument which an investigation
proved to be one of the boundary stakes
I set untold years ago to mark the linn
itations of Russian Alaska, and that it
was placed there and confirmed by a
joint Russian and British commission
selected to fix the boundary. The mat
ter is being Investigated by the Amer
lean Consul and British authorities at
Dawson, and if the discovery made by
the Firms proves to be a reality, it will
complicate the Alaskan situation and
should throw the whole Klondike coun-
try into American hands.
1t is to be hoped that it will prove
to be the case and that Uncle Sam will
be as firm in protecting his own do
minions as he has been in protecting
Venezuela from encroachment. Such
a settlement of the boundary dispute
will restore harmony in the Northwest
and be the means of more rapid devel-
opment of the northern mining re-
gions. The Canadian policy is restrict
live The American policy is liberal.
If this story proves to be true it illus
trates the unvarying tendency Of Great
Britain to encroach on her neighbors
and to grab all that she can get in
every part of the globe.
| OF ELEPHANTS.
| Colusa Gazette: Republican attacks
on Speaker Reed at this time call to
mind what Josh Billings said about ele-
plants. Josh remarked that any man
could whip an elephant when there were
no elephants in reaching distance
| VICIOUS TEACHINGS.
! Gridley Herald: "A Seattle incen-
diary has burned a church. If it is
any satisfaction for him to know it. he
is the meaneslt creature of his kind,
and the best of the outfit to escape
lynching got more than he deserved.
Sometimes the police are too Off
cious. They prevented the killing Of
Butcher Becker of Chicago after he had
confessed to having slain his wife with
a hatchet and burned her body in the
stove"
| The above are two paragraphs from
successive issues of the San Francisco
Call" This is only sample of the
vicious teachings which are spread
broadcast by that great moral power
the daily press. An editorial writer in
an interior paper only last week, in
mentioning the case of noted mur-
deress, thought it likely that "a pun
=! ishment to fit the crime would be hard
to suggest
Is it any wonder that lynchings occur
and that they are always reported to
have been perpetrated by 1.-The best
people of the community"
| A campaign of education among edi-
tors seems necessary They ssem not
T. yet to have learned that punitive laws
are not for the purpose of in1icting
suffering upon q, wrong doer. Howev-
Ter horrible the crime may be, society
demands not that the criminal be tor
tured, but that he be restrained, and
that others be deferred. The moral
effect produced upon the minds of 9TH
er criminals, by the hanging of a
murderer, is the only excuse offered by
reasonable and humane men for capt.
tai punishment
WILL FALSIFIERS RETRACT?
Stockton Independent: Yesterday the
Naval Board of Promotion reported ia
vorably on the qualifications of a list
of fourteen naval officers who, by their
rank, are entitled to become Rear Ad-
mirals under the naval personnel bill.
In the list are found the names of w.
S. Schley, ]. G.. Watson and William
T. Sampson Not a word is said in the
report regarding the Sampson Schley
controversy. The board performed it's
| duties in a perfunctory manner, just
as it was expected to do. This disposes
! of the stories that were being SO indus
triously circulated a few days ago by
| the New York Journal and such
Democratic journals as draw their
sensationalism from that source to the
| effect that the Administration had put
up a job to disqualify Schley or singe
him some way through this board
Some papers, like the Bee" and the
MALI have gone out of the way in
order to copy all this trash concocted
by some correspondent who was not
permitted to run SIMPSONS fleet before
Santiago. But this animus against
Sampson, Secretary Long and the Ad-
ninistration has developed some local
embellishments that while unworthy of
notice, may still delude credulous read
ers. The Sacramento Bee" and Stock
/ ton "Mair' have repeatedly asserted
that Sampson is a brother-in-law OF
Secretary Long and has been favored
because of that relationship No other
paper has made any statement OF the
| 1nd H.