The record-union., 1899-08-31
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS from EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects OF Living News
Interest.

o5cAO0 dlG lIy LIZ 10 INSPIRE their IOl-
lowers to further resistance against
American authority will not in any
event take place this year, and this
fall an army of $4,000 men will be as
sembled in Luzon to arrange matters
The Tagalos put the upheaval too far
ahead. AS it is not going to take place
at all, in the way they mean, they
might just as well have moved the
date little closer: it would have been
| more encouraging.
| A GENERAL LABOR FAMINE.
Tacoma Ledger: Conditions such as
never before existed in this country
now obtain in all parts of the United
States, North, South. East and West.
From very section comes a cry for more
! laborers. The harvest fields of the
Pacific Coast and the Middle West, the
lumber camps of the coast, the iron
works and factories of Pennsylvania.
and other manufacturing States, and
the textile mills of New England all
need more workmen. These facts have
! been sent out from various sections,
/ but have attracted little notice beside
| the comprehensive statement printed
in another part of this paper. 1t shows
that the demand for labor is much
larger than the supply, not only for
common laborers, but for skilled me,
Echanics and tradesmen. In the West
ern harvest fields women and children
are at work to save the crops, while
Eastern factories are crippled for lack
| Of sufficient workmen. In every lire
-of industry the business of the country
is at the flood, and is still increasing.
-FOUR exports of manufactured products
have been limited by the novel cause
that our mills were obliged to turn
down foreign orders to enable them to
supply home demands.
NATIONAL IRRIGATION.
| San Jose Mercury: More than or
binary attention is being given the ap
preaching session Of the National Irri-
| cation Congress, which will convene at
Missoula, Mont, the last week in Sep
tember. The leasing of public lands
for grazing purposes, the title to re-
main in the nation, and the revenue de-
rived therefrom to be used by the sew
eral States for irrigation development
| is one of the measures advocated by
/ the congress, which is gaining more
favor as it becomes better understood
The land would still be subject to set
| tlement under the land laws of the
| United States, so that the danger of
monopolistic holdings of the land would
! be avoided. The cattle and the sheep
men would have an interest in the soil
/ they have never had before, and while
! they would not be justified in making
! permanent improvements, they could
be depended upon to make many minor
improvements, such as fencing, preser-
walton Of the watering places and build
I ing of storage reservoirs for watering,
etc. The losses of cattle from starva-
/ tion in the Northwest = for no man
would willingly oyerstock his own
range-would thus be reduced to the
minimum, a humanitarian proposition
that of itself is worthy of considera-
tion. When one pauses to think of the
Fmillions Of homes that could be made
upon the arid lands of this country
were they reclaimed by irrigation, re-
lieving the cities of their congested
population and giving the hopeless
! toiler an opportunity of owning his
own land, and the millions upon mill
ions of increase in the productive pow
er of the nation, the wonder is not that
a few scientists, economists, engineers,
business men and farmers should be
come enthusiastic on the subject of ir-
rigation, but that the matter has not
sooner impressed itself upon some of
our alleged far-sighted statesmen.
THE MARRIED TEACHER PROB
LEM
Oakland Tribune: The Superior Court
Of San Francisco is to pass upon the
much attacked rule of the Board of
Education that declares vacant the po-
sition of every female teacher who
marries. The issue has come up in a
sensational way over there, for a
teacher who had been dismissed on
that score refused to vacate and was
forcibly removed from the schoolroom
by police officers, who remained on
guard until her successor was duly in
stalled.
Although excellent arguments can be
advanced on each side of the question,
1t looks as if those in favor of the rule
have the advantage of the situation.
When a woman marries. the supposi-
tion is that her husband provides her
with a home and supports her. The
| reverse of this is repugnant to every
principle of manhood AS an inference
therefore it may be stated that a mar
ried teacher is no longer under the ne
cessity of continuing her labors from
the standpoint Of self-support
Now, as the number of places in the
school department is limited, and as
for every teacher employed there are
five or six young women awaiting an
opportunity to earn their livelihood, it
scarcely seems Just TO allow a position
to be occupied by one whose necessities
no longer demand it.
THE SULTAN OF SULU.
Fresno Republican,: The Sultan of
Sulu wants the Americans to garrison
not only the town of Jolo in his 6omin-
ion. but to protect his islands from for
eign invasion. AS the Sultan is a for
eign invader himself, whose subjects are
pirates and make their living by prey
| ing on the defenseless natives, his mo-
| tives are easily appreciated and as
easily discounted. There is bound to
/ be despotism in Sulu. If we do not set
up a despotism over the Sultan he will
| set a worse one over the natives. All
| the rest of the Philippines are likely
| to be fit for independent self govern
ment fifty years before Sulu is even
ready for benevolent tutelage. We
must take the Mohammedan archipel-
! ago as a necessary evil. merely because
| if we do not it's rowing marauders will
overrun the rest of the Philippines.
TAX DODGING.
Fresno Republicans: The tax dodger
is as old as the tax gatherer, which is
| to say, as old as government. Even
| the books of Moses illuminate against