The record-union., 1899-06-15
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast, Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

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State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.
about it, the formation of trusts are a
| menace to the welfare of the country,
but it Is ludicrously noticeable fact
that no matter how loud has been their
! wall against monopolies, there are
many small dealers who snap up the
first opportunity of gain by combina
| tion, swallow any philanthropie views
they may have had and take their place
among the monopolists. regardless Of
the feelings and pockets of their erst
while comrades.
IMPOSSIBLE IN AMERICA.
Portland Oregonian: To an Ameri-
can or an Englishman nothing in the
French character excites SO much con-
tempt as its absurd practice OF fighting
blocdless duels on trivial provocation,
and grossly insulting the highest offi-
GERS Of their Government on public oc-
casions. That a vulgar mob at race
track should be guilty OF riotous con-
duct Is easy to understand. 1t might oc-
cur in England or the United States.
But that an educated Frenchrnan of
rank and fashion, like the Count Chris
tiani, should assault the President CT
the French republic with his cane,
purely from political dislike, is incom-
prehensible to an American. From the
Presidency of George Washington down
to that of Mckinley, the President OF
the United States has never been made
the subject of a PERSONAL assault, ike
that inflicted upon President Loubet,
but once. President Jackson was once
rudely assaulted on board a steamer
on the Potomac River by a Lieutenant
of the navy, who had appealed in vain
to the President for some official favor
| and had taken personal offense at the
President because of his refusal. This
man attempted to wiring General jack
sons nose, a very cowardly perform
ance, as the old hero was then over TO
years of age, but Jackson defended
himself with spirit. until the bystanders
| interfered and rescued him from his
assailant.
WAR AND LITERATURE.
| Stockton Record: Mr.. Howelps rash
assertion that war has never produced
any literature has subjected him to a
biting storm Of criticism from all points
of the compass The weight of opinion
| appears to be that war. rightly waged,
has often been the most powerful slim
ulus of mans thoughts and inagina-
ton, to say nothing Of heroism and self
sacrifice. Most men who have arrived
at broad conclusions come to believe
that life itself is a fight and not a
Sunday y-school lecture OF a Quaker
meeting. The meaning of the word
virtue is an overcoming, not an en-
| joyment. It is true that there is very
high warrant for overcoming evil With
good, but nobody in his senses would
| undertake to overcome midnight as
sassin with the sermon on the mount
or turn his other cheek also to a. Paw
nee's tomahawk if he could get hold of
rife. All the Virtue and duty would
be on the side of the savage's destruc-
| ton if you had a home and children,
| and it is unfortunately true that saw
agery stin exists in the world organ
lied and rampant, and very often,
when the world does not desire to be
pushed backward, it has to take down
| it's musket and go forward Wherever
man has done that in defense of free
dom and conscience home literature
has put on her beautiful garments and
followed in the train. It was a very
remarkable assertion of Mr.. Howells
that war produced no literature, when
all the magazines to which he has been
so long an illustrious contributor are
breaking their backs to exclude every
thing from their pages but war itself.
| HYDRAULIC MINING.
| aColusa Sum- Never has the Sacra
mento River been so colored with min
ing debris as it was the latter part of
last week. For years men have wanted
to mine by the hydraulic process ON
the head waters of the Sacramento, but
have been deferred by fear of the law,
but they have at last broken over fear.
and the slickens come down as a warn
j ing to the people below to look out.
But they will not look out until the
damage has been done. The counties
of Yuba, Sutter and Sacramento are
obliged to fight, but there is not a
county on the Sacramento above the
Feather that is now helping, and as
| they will not wake up for some years
until millions upon millions of damage
| has been done-the very best field for
| hydraulic mining is on the waters of
| the upper Sacramento. The AntiDe-
| bris Association has been looking out
for mining up there, but as 1t gets no
help from proper quarters it is not like
] ly that it will keep it up. The pittance
that Colusa County has contributed has
kept the watch UP so long, and our
District Attorney thinks that however
| legal it may be for the three counties
| named to pay it is not legal for Co.
| lusa. and the Anti-Debris Association
may conclude that the very best way
! to get help is to let a few millions of
dollars of damage be done on the up
per river.
AS TO AN ARMY.
| Stockton Independent: Many who ad-
| [LETTER TO HRs. PINKHAM NO. 46, 970]