The record-union., 1899-09-25

proper sanitary enlightenment. and
the prospects of that spread are not
bright so long as there is so little en-
Igntenment at the centers from which
II must be promulgated. Quarantine
is medieval makeshift. not a modern
remedy, even against typhus and chol-
era, ana against tuberculosis, whose
righteousness differs from that of
these diseases not in a degree only, but
IN KIND, 1t has no application whatever
The queerest thing about the agita-
tion is that it is most feryent in South
ern California. The poor "one-luneer,'
is not popular III the South, to be sure,
chiefly because he works cheap at such
work as he can do, but the millionaire
"one-lunger' is the very stay and sup
port OF that section, and it is gross in
gratitude to forget the debt that is
owed to him. Southern California does
not live on what it raises. nor on what
it buys and sells, but on the tribute OF
the world, rendered to its climate.
That climate is it's capital, and for
Southern California to forbid the ex-
ploltatlon OF that capital would be as
short sighted as the attitude of the
Beers in hampering the development of
their gold resources.
We will learn what to do with con-
sumptives some day, but we will not
learn to send them to leper colonies,
nor to exclude them with shotgun cor
dons from the healing air that nature
has provided
A SOLDIERS OPINION.
Yreka Journal: Brigadier General
Ovenshine, late commander of the Sec
ond Brigade of Lawton's division,
Eighth Army Corps, is in Washington
on sick leave He said of his Philip
pine service: II had in my brigade
the Wyoming, North Dakota and Ida
no regiments of volunteers, and the
Fourteenth Infantry Of regulars, and
was in the southern part of Luzon with
Lawton about six weeks. We cap
tured everything we went after and
held every city we took. General oven
shine says he thinks the next cam
paign will wind up the rebellion. Of
the mems rations he said: 1--WE had
the best Australian beef and mutton,
even better than you get in Washing
ton. Our other supplies were equally
good, and there was no complaint" and
iof another story, widely published, he
said AS to the reports of. Filipino
! soldiers mutilating our dead, and our
soldiers mutilating the enemy for re-
yenge, / never saw a single case of
any kind of mutilation and don't be-
leve there was any with Lawton' S
command
A COMMISSIONERS VIEW.
Tulare Register: President Schur-
man, of Cornell University, who was at
the head of the special commission sent
to the philippines, has at last broken
silence and declares his unreserved ad-
herence to the policy of the admins
tration and in part for the following
| reasons: The insurrection is not a
national uprising, but only of one tribe
| out of a multitude of tribes. The ma
tion assumed responsibility for gov
erning the Philippines when they were
accepted from Spain and cannot with
honor turn back He thinks that each
| tribe may, with supervision, manage
! its own affairs reasonably we'll, but
that as whole the Philippine people
are not at all unified and have had not
| the smallest training in self govern
ment and are not qualified to under
take it. They must be trained and
| educated to it under the sovereignty of
the United States and, that this may
be done, order must be restored.
| OIL STOCK SPECULATION.
| Stockton Record: Scarcely a day
| passes but witnesses the incorporation
of an oil company, the object generally
being to float stock. The present ex-
citement in connection with oil can be
likened to that which follows a rich dis
covery of gold diggings The specula-
tive tendency in mankind is very
marked and the desire to make some
thing for little or nothing pervades
Well-nigh all humanity On the
/ threshold of the oil excitement the
Record" deems it to be it's duty as a
newspaper, to which many citizens of
| Stockton look for counsel in matters of
general public concern, to utter a warn
ing. We advise anyone to investigate
very carefully before investing any
money in oil stock. Nothing is fur
ther from our intention than to in any
way discourage legitimate enterprise
and investment, but our object is to
/ SiAAAP1y w Oh IL pCOPlC W iHNCSllSolC NiOoC-
! ly before investing their money in
stock. In giving this advice the Rec
! ord" is going directly counter to its
!. financial interests, for the public doubt
lessly will realize that in times of spec
ulative excitement and booms that
newspapers stand to make a great deal
of money, and that if a paper We're ac-
! tuated by selfish motives it would boom
all kinds of excitements. But we con-
slider that it is the duty of the Record
to thus give warning, for unquestiona-
/ bly, the only oil which will ever mate
/ rialize in some of the stock on the
market is that on the tongues of slick
promoters.
| It Would Make Him Too Popular.
| The Hon. William Wortham is now
| about as we'll known in certain jew
| elry store in New York as he is in Tex
as, where he has long served as State
] Treasurer. 1t came about in this way
| Mr.. Wortham was in this store one
day buying a present for a member OF
his family, when he noticed show
case filled with splendid jeweled re-
/