The record-union., 1899-07-16

of the country's antagonists. That is
the chief aim and justification of the
censorship that is. now being enforced
at Manila. General Otis does not care
what kind OF reports are sent out from
there SO longas they are not calculated
to give the. Tagalos useful knowledge
as to the strength or position of his
forces or his movements which he may
have in contemplation. Thus far this
censorship has been entirely success
full When General Lawton two weeks
ago fell upon the Morong peninsula.
eastward of Manila, nothing was known
of it in this country and presumably
elsewhere out of Luzon until the blow
was actually struck. And the same
thing was true of Lawten's subsequent
invasion of the Cavite district.
DEWEY MONUMENT.
The Calistogan: The ''Calistogan" be-
lieves with the Sacramento Record,
Union" that the right kind of a inonu-
ment for Dewey will be a fund to pro-
vide returning soldiers and sailors
with permanent, well-paying employ
ment, with comforts of which they have
so long been deprived, with care and
nursing as long as needed, and with
support, if incapacitated, for life. That
is the kind of monument Dewey would
prefer and one that the army and
navy would appreciate.
MARK TWAIN.
Alameda Argus: Mark Twain felicit-
ously expressed the relation that exists
between England and America when he
said yesterday evening at the Fourth
of July banquet in London. wherever
one soldier finds himself beneath the
shelter Of the other flag he knows ha
is not an alien, but a kinsman of the
blood, and at home" That is the sem
timent felt by civilians abroad as well
as soldiers. For years Americans in
out of -the-way places in the world have
been given more protection by British
than by American Consuls. They have
been saved from death and from pillage
by the prompt and courageous inter,
vention of her majesty's representa-
tives when America would only have
secured for the family tardy indemnity
for the killing of the citizen. Every
where that has been done not because
1t was part of the Englishman's Off
cial duty but because the Englishman
recognized the ties of blood and lam
guage That is the true Anglo-Amer-
lean alliance. No defensive and Of
fensive treaties are desirable, but if a
spirit Of mutual helpfulness and kind
ly feeling shall replace insular haughti-
ness and mistrust, the gain to both
peoples will be inestimable.
THE USE OF OPIATES.
Oakland Tribune: 1t is not hard to find
plenty of striking examples of the fear
full havoc wrought in the human mind
by the use of drugs such as morphine
and cocaine, but in a way the case of
DIR. Wachdorfer, now in jail in San
Francisco charged with murder, pre-
sents the subject in it's most intensified
form.
Here is case of a skilled physician,
man knowing only too we'll the dam
gers Of the path he was treading, slow
ly enslaving himself by the use of
cocaine until to-day he is so abjectly
it's victim that if it is withheld from
him he shrieks and raves himself into
almost a condition Of utter insanity.
His life's story, as told by himself, is
the old tale of first using the drug
to stimulate his mind so that he could
the easier perform certain duties, and
then gradually succumbing to its in
fiuence until it seemed to him the best
portion of his existence.
There is a stern lesson to be obtained
from instances such as this one. it is
! that every one should avoid, rs they
would the plague, taking the first step
toward such vice. no matter what the
inducement may be. If drugs of this