The record-union., 1899-09-10

may have a voice in determining
great national policy. The Cuban
question has not been disposed OF, or
the necessary legislation for Hawaiian
annexation. There are wide differ
ences of opinion among Senators and
Representatives in Congress on each
of these important questions, and the
people also are divided in their opin-
ions. No State will be satisfied to ac-
cept the result, if the people thereof
have not had equal representation.
STOP THE SLAUGHTER!
Oakland Tribune: The Ebell Society
of Oakland has, on more than one nota-
BILE occasion, attracted favorable atten-
tion to this community by reason of
movements in the interest of either
morality or progress, and now it's mem
bers are lined up in crusade the con-
summation of which will reflect a dis
tinguishing glory upon them.
The work they have undertaken this
time is on the lines of the celebrated
Audubon movement in behalf of the
protection of small birds against the
wholesale raids made upon them so as
to appease the fashion that has decreed
that the little twitterers shall form
part of the ornamentation of women 5
hats. The announcement that over a
million birds are sacrificed each year
to meet the demands of the millinery
trade has awakened woman TO a reali-
Zation of the massacre that is going on
III her interests, and with the determi-
nation of stopping it the Ebell Society
and other similar humanitarian organ
izations throughout the country have
decided to offset the evil by making
the wearing of a bird bedecked hat a
! reproach rather than an evidence of
being in the circle of fashion.
The good ladies of the Ebell Society
can accomplish this reform if they set
their minds upon it, for their organiza-
tion contains the representative fami-
! lies of the city and what they decide
to taboo is not likely to be sought by
others. Their task should be a COM
paratively easy one too, for woman is
naturally tender-hearted and it would
be hard to find one who would herself
willingly kill the bird that she does
not hesitate to accept dead from the
hands of others. Furthermore a sons
bird appeals very potently to a WON
ans heart, for it's inoffensiveness and
! utter helplessness make it an object of
sympathy to those with gentle instincts
| SAN FRANCISCO PROSPERITY.
Alameda Argus: A splendid expan-
| sion of business is taking place in San
Francisco. Did such commercial activ-
| ity and wonderful development charac-
teriZe any other city or community in
| the United States the world would hear
the noise of it. The representative
press would certainly put as favorable
! light upon it as it merited How is il
! in this case? Is the press enthusiastic
full-hearted, hospitable and hopeful
Is it even enterprising in chronicling
the facts of the new commercial era
It has little or nothing to say of these
vital things. You get no idea of the
wonderful quickening Of business life
| that has taken place. In the water
front news you notice inconsiderable
accounts of very important enterprises
| being projected and carried out under
eyerybody's eyes. but if drunken sailors
fight or a chap falls overheard, you get
full particulars The people of Cali
fornia themselves do not know what is
doing for prosperity in their own State
and chiefest city, because of their
habit Of relying on the press for news
and the press is not giving their kind.
PESSIMISTS NOW.
Humboldt Standard Our Demo
cratic friends are pessimists now. They
look on the dark side of everything the
| Government is doing. Though the food
Of prosperity is all around them, they
say it isn't in sight. They shake their
! heads when it is shown that the ma
/ sc l.
! business prosperity. Even poor old
VIII Green, who wants to be fair
/ cannot because he sees through those
! Bryanistic goggles. He admits that
/ business in some lines is booming. but
he has a few farmers down there in
! Colusa who are not getting rich on arid
! lands Of that section and he points to
| these poor farmers and says: Look
! at these farmers and then tell me the
country is prosperous, The nation
/ does not prosper no matter how great
/ the rush of other business, when the
] farmers are not prosperous. And
/ so Green whines, and condemns the
! Government and the policy of protec-
tion and sound money which has SO
reviviffed the country. Come up to
Humboldt. Brother Green where ma :
ture irrigates the land and we will
show you prosperous farmers. prosper
Gus cattle growers, prosperous wool
/ growers. since the Dingley tariff and
| honest money policy of President Nc
| Kinley has gotten to work in full force.
! Come to Humboldt, Green, and we will
put a rose tint on your blue back
ground and show you the sunshine of
prosperity gladdening all our hills and
valleys.
FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED.
Eureka Californian: 1t is not a re-
gretable matter that the press and the
politicians Of the country should b4
pointing out various rocks upon which
the Republican ship may split next
year. Forewarned is forearmed, and
there are at the head of that party
! too many astute men to permit enter
tainment of the fear that any sugges-
tiOns from any source will not receive
the attention their merits would de-
mand. The Republican party has been
I recognized as the champion of the
cause of sound money. good govern
ment and the honest adjustment of al
| honest debts, and it has been greatly
and deservedly popular; but if it shall
disregard the even feeble notes of pop
ular discomfort it will be unwise.
LAMENTABLE.
Inyo Register: 1t is lamentable that
so many incompetents, from the Presi-
dent down, are allowed to run Govern
ment affairs. when there are thousands
of newspaper editors, particularly ol
the yellow journal kind, who know sc
much hettar how If ought IN he dona