The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-03
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Snb-
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Oughly infOrced for some years pack,
fish and game would now be abundant
in this valley and elsewhere. But the
laws have been openly and shamelessly
violated, hence the scarcity Of trout,
quail, doves ducks and deer. The local
association has started right, and it
should have the moral backing of all
worthy citizens.
ONE SIDED.
Oakland Enquirer: The Federation of
Miners in session at Salt Lake adopted
resolutions severely cOndemning Gen
eral MerriamS method of suppressing
the Wardner dynamiters who destroyed
half million dollars worth of prop
erty in the Occur d'Alene mining dis
trict and murdered one Of the nom
! union miners. But the Miners Fedora
ton has not expressed word of dis
sent over the action of the thugs who
had so long terrorized the Idaho min
| ing districts. If the Miners Fedora
ton expects sympthy from the outside
world they should first purge them
selves Of the dynamite element before
| condemning the military forces sent
to maintain law and order 1t was only
after the civil authorities were shown
! incompetent to handle the evil, if not
| allied to the dynamiters, that the Idaho
Governor called for military aid.
STRAIGHT, GOOD SENSE.
| Alameda Argus: Coils P Huntington
| is enormously rich, and it is the fashion
| of some newspapers which cannot
| blackmail nor bully him to discredit
| everything that he says or does; but
| his remarks on education, as reported
in all three of yesterdays papers, " as
nothing but straight, good sense. Who
can discuss with wisdom the educa
| tional tendency of the age if not a man
| who has made a success of life? The
papers sneer that when Huntington
| says that We are over educating our
children it is simply a desire to pre-
vent that enlightenment that will cir
cumyent him and men like him. But
any observant person can realize how
| full the world is of men who are we'll
educated, but can't do anything; who
| have got their ideas above taking hold
| of the thing that is nearest at hand,
| but are not capable of achievements
in the upper business circles. 1t really
| is a pity that so many young men
should devote such a, large period of
| their early life to the requirement of
T branches of education that hardly ever
come into play in the great battle of
life. The time Will come when our ed
ucational system will be acknowledged
| to be full of errors, and when parents
| will wonder that they remained DOR
mant, through so many years while
their children were being educated to
death, yet not sufficiently. very often,
to enable them to make a decent living.
| THE TRUSTS ABROAD.
Oregonian: The steady progress of
the trust principle in the various civ
ilized countries is demonstration that
new element has entered into the
business world. Henry Berdrow. from
whose writings the general facts given
below are. CLEANED, is strong opponent
of the trust, but he is compelled to ad-
nit that, viewed economically:
| ''Incomparable advantages are Sc
cured by the trust system with regard
to improved labor processes and The
lowering of prices. Equipped with the
best machinery and adopting the lat
| est methods; possessing all the advan-
! tages of a vast corporate system in its
most perfect FORM controlling the
cheapest raw material; and-not the
least important Observation-Disclosures
from the expense of advertising Can ex-
pense inseparable from free competi-
tion), trust becomes enabled to oper-
ate at a. cost Of production far lower
| than would be possible in the case of
any individual enterprise. Instead of
entirely closing certain factories, there
| is to-day a general tendency among
! European trusts. toward a perfect dis
| tribution of production, each factory
turning out one particular product of
the, highest degree of excellence. Here
in largely LIES the secret Of the great
| financial successes of the trusts"
While the evils of the trust are be-
| ginning to be very generally felt on
| the continent, little has been done to
! check them.
PEACE CONFERENCE.
Fresno Republican,: The peace con-
ference, whose meetings have begun at
The Hague, will be a historic and
epoch-making body, whether it accom-
plishes anything or not. The peace it
is called to discuss is a dream and the
Car who called it is very much of a
dreamer, but it is a dream that will one
day be realized, and it is a great deal
| to have it, even now, officially recorded
and recognized.
The conditions that make the present
guarantee of peace impossible are many
and serious. There are unavenged
| wrongs in Europe too fresh to be for
gotten, and until time has obliterated
them the sufferers from them will not
consent to peace that must continue
them. The "Eya ctarr, vorOh1pr still
| unsolved. The Turk is in Europe and
cannot be elected without a scramble
for his possessions that would mean
war bordering on the Turk are small
States that Will not unite and cannot
permanently exist in separation. Aus
tr1a is not yet permanently welded into
one nor fallen apart into many Social
conditions within each nation are un-
settled, and the Socialist movement,
| which looks to peaceful revolution by
evolution may, instead, precipitate vio-
lent revolutions which must be repress-
ed by force
Inc opening of Asia and Africa and
the partition of them may not lead to
war. but they can hardly be accom-
plished without the threat and fear of
war. The discipline and policing of the
backward nations, the white mans
burden" of the twentieth century, will
require the ornaments of war, if it does
| not mean the outbreak of war. The
Asiatic nations attend no peace confer
ences. They can make no guarantees
Of peace among themselves, and the
only protection against centuries of
war among them is the enforcement of
peace from outside.