The record-union., 1899-11-17
VOICE Of THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
IMPRESSIONS. s
State aud Coast Opinions. ON Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

debtedness that have been paid off In
the United States in the last year or
TWO, the deposits in the savings banks
OF the country have increased $lZo,-
UOO,UUO. There are reported to be 9l9
such institutions in the United States
and their deposits aggregate over two
billion dollars-more than the savings
deposits of Great Britain, France, Rus
STA and Italy combined.
GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIP
PINES.
Yreka Journal: 1t is the unanimous
opinion of President Mckinley, every
member of the Cabinet, and every
member of the Philippine Commission,
that the first and most imperative duty
OF Congress, at the coming session, will
be to adopt a joint resolution declaring
the intention Of the United States to
permanently retain the Philippines, and
there is little doubt that such resolu-
ton will be adopted by both House
and Senate. If it could be put through
at the first days session, it would do
much good, both in the Philippines and
at home, but that, of course, is too
much to hope for. The House will be
the first to adopt the resolution and
the Senate will eventually follow, but
the ants in the latter body will take
advantage Of the Senate rules, just as
they did when the treaty of peace, the
delay In the ratification of which is re-
sponsible for every drop of blood shed
In the Philippine insurrection, was be-
fore the Senate, to delay action by talk
about any old thing to prevent a vote.
NO stronger argument in favor of the
adoption of such resolution could be
found than Aguinaldo's recent state
ment that 1.-THE American Congress is
soon to meet to decide whether to keep
the Philippines" Americans know that
that decision has already been made
by the people-but residents Of the
Philippines do not
AN HISTORIC PARALLEL.
Los Angeles Express: A. correspond
ent of the New York Sun in a recent
issue calls attention to the proverb that
history repeats ITSELF" and furnishes
an apt illustration.
| In their nominating convention Of
1864 when the war for the Union was
progressing to a triumphant conclusion,
the Democrats in their platform de-
clared that war a failure, and demanded
an immediate cessation of hostilities. >"
On this platform they nominated con-
spicuOusly unsuccessful Union General
who himself was an undoubted fail
ure, whatever the war was-as their
candidate for President in opposition to
the Republican Abraham Lincoln, who
had carried the nation through nearly
four years of war. This platform and
the nomination of Mcclellan were
hailed with glad reclamation by the
rebels in the South. Their speakers and
their papers urged vigorous continu-
ance of the war until after the election,
claiming that the success Of the Demo-
Gratis would insure their independence.
Lincoln was elected by over 100000
majority of votes. This was a more
crushing blow to the Southern Confed-
eracy than a dozen defeats in the field.
1t showed them that the Republicans of
the North would not stop the war short
Of complete triumph over armed re-
bellion in the South and it's allies, the
copperhead Democracy of the North.
In less than six months after the cleo
ton every Southern army had been de-
stroyed or had surrendered, and the
authority of the nation extended over
the entire country.
In this year of grace 1899 there is
another armed rebel against the Unit
ed States who calls upon his followers
to persist in their struggles in the hope
of Democratic success at the coming
reflections. Aguinaldo, in his latest proc
1amation, says: I'VE should pray to
God that the great Democratic party
may win the next Presidential election,
and Imperialism fall in it's mad attempt
to subjugate us by force
1t is hard on the Democrats, but the
parallel is a close one. In 1899 as in
1864 the only hope of the rebels is in
the success of the Democratic party.
THE FREAK SUPPLEMENT-.
Alameda Argus: The argus" loves
/ the freak Sunday supplement with an
ardor fully equal to the affection of a
feline for hot soup, and cannot resist
the temptation to discuss It occasion
ally. In one Of yesterdays big papers
was an instructive page. 1t had been
duly heralded in previous issues. But
when it happened there was a treat
The treat consists of how man was
bit by a skunk and died. There is a pic
ture of the man, whom nobody ever
saw or heard of and whose lineaments
are therefore just as interesting as a
piece of board. Then there is picture
of skunk, across six columns-you can
almost detect it by another sense than
sight; then there is a representation of
| the skeleton Jaw of a skunk, which OF
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