The record-union., 1899-10-09


Spain, after governing the islands for
over 300 years, transferred the domin-
ion over them. Shall we be called inn
perialists because we would not lower
the flag and flee from Luzon before
Aguinaldo and his half-civilized Ma
lays? We would merit the name just
as much for not retiring before Sitting
Bull and his bands of cut-throat Sioux
after he had massacred Custer and his
army.
''THE UGLY SUNDAY NEWS
PAPER"
Los Angeles Times: The San Fran
cisco "Argonaut'' is making a savage
onslaught on the American Sunday
newspaper, which, while having par
ticular reference to the screening,
yellow variety" to use the Argonauts 5
own words, still appears to be a gen
eral roast of the daily newspaper OF
the Sunday variety.
AS matter of fact, the Sunday news
paper of the "screeching, yellow va
riety" is no worse than the weekday
publication of the newspaper OF the
same sort, except that there is more
of it. The newspaper that is yellow on
Sunday does not change its color on
the six working days of the week;
therefore our esteemed San Francisco
contemporary should not single out the
Sunday newspaper alone for its casti-
cation, but should pour it's vials of
wrath down the ripped-up back of the
accursed sheet which is yellow all the
time.
The "Argonaut makes a point that
New York and San Francisco, having
the vulgarest newspapers in America,
are the most lacking of the American
cities in the finer and higher forces
that make for the moral elevation of
the people" That this is quite true ad-
mfts of no dispute. Both the Eastern
and Western metropoli are being de-
bauched morally and intellectually by
their newspapers of the yellow kind
not by the Sunday newspaper alone,
but by the same newspaper whether
it comes out on a week day or upon
the holy Sabbath. We are told that
the people get the kind of a newspaper
they demand That is not so. They get
the kind of newspaper that is forced
upon them by low minded, conscience
less panderers to the vicious and the
depraved, and it is to the making of
more vices and greater depravity that
sheets Of the yellow variety tend.
FANCIFUL NOTIONS.
Portland Oregonian: Fanciful no.
tions of liberty and consent of the
governed" are getting sharp raps all
round the ring. Here is the Washing
ton Post" saying: 1T is with the
greatest regret that we learn that the
Mexican Government is maSsing troops
to clean out the revolted Yaqui Indians
The only offense that can be alleged
against the tribe is the murder of a few
American miners and the terrorization
of a few Mexican States. The Yaquis
are merely doing what Aguinaldo is,
and we have the authority of Atkin
son, Schurz, Pulitzer and the late
Grover Cleveland for saying that it is
merely peaceful and orderly move
ment in the direction of liberty"
| FAVORABLE FOR CALIFORNIA.
| San Jose Mercury: The general con-
ditions of wheat and the fruit crops
| throughout the United States are not
| favorable. The condition. at harvest of
winter and spring wheat Consolidated
was 109 as compared with S6.7 on Sep
F., tember 1st of last year, S5.7 at the cor
responding date in 1897 and S25, the
mean of the September averages for the
last ten years. The condition on the
| 1st of the present month was the lowest
| September aeendition in twenty years.
In California, however, these general
conditions are reversed. The crop this
year is one of the largest ever harvest
ed, and as the price is considerably
higher than the average paid for many
/ hp iS h
| to the State.
| Unfavorable reports of the apple
crop published in July and August
have been more than verified by later
developments and this will be to the
advantage of the California prune and
peach grower. Of the fourteen States
! having three millions or upward apple
trees in bearing at the last census only
one-Indiana-fails to report even a
more unfavorable condition on Septem-
Der 1st than was recorded the previous
month. The decline is from three to
twenty points below the August aver
age, and it is doubtful il the crop i.s j
whole will reach 30 per cent The
peach crop is also one of the smallest
on record, many of the States upon
which the country is accustomed to re-
| ly for the largest contributions to its
annual supply having no crop at ALL or,
| at the most, not to exceed or. 10 per
cent. Of the normal. Of the really i'm
portant peach growing States Califor-
MIA alone reports good crop.
AS the fruit crop conditions abroad
are similar to those at home this
ought to be a prosperous season for
California fruit growers, unless in their
eagerness to sell they flood the market
with fruit at an inoppoctune time. 1t
is gratifying to note that the tendency
in prices is upward that the market is
practically on a Scent basis, and that
the indications point to even higher fig
ures. There is no necessity for grow
ers to give away their prunes or
peaches this year.
WELL, SUPPOSE
/ Alameda Argus: President Jordan
thinks this nation ought I'D withdraw
from the Philippines. Supposing it
should. Supposing the Government
should send down ships enough take
aboard all our forces, and the military
lines should be contracted, the soldiers
working their way shipward as best
they could Git would be a ticklish bust
ness and some of them wouli De cut
in the back by the forces of the pa
triot Aguinaldo). But suppose most of
them should get safely aboard ship,
and sail for home, what would happen
| in Manila? Would the half ayage
hordes overrun the city, looting. muir
dering and burning? Would there be
any semblance of order or safety fer
life and property? 1t seems to us to