The record-union., 1899-08-23
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

pccII 0Ap0Cl0Q SOME OppOu0utS VI IllC
Administration rushed into print too
precipitately about the latest advance
made by our troops in the Philippines
They jumped to the conclusion, before
knowing anything about it, that it was
another illustration" of General Otis
| incompetency as there could be no
good reason for sending the soldiers out
/ in the rain. The reason has been
cabled By this advance the large
province of Bataan has been released
from Tagal control, and important
strategic advantages gained for the
larger operations at the end of the
| rainy season.
OPENING TO OUR PRODUCTS.
Tacoma Ledger: Among, the possi-
bilities of the near future is that trip
around the world may be made in thir-
| ty-three days, and Jules Verne's story
of Phineas Fogg put to rout This will
| be made possible by the completion OF
the Trans Siberian Railway. Then a
traveller can start from ST. Petersburg
and in ten days will be at Vladivo-
stock; from that point to Tacoma, ten
days; thence to New York, four and a
half days; New York to Bremen, seven
days; Bremen to st. Petersburg, one
and a half days.
OF more interest to the people of the
! Pacific Coast, however. is the fact that
the vast territory which will take ten
| days to traverse between Vladivostock
and St. Petersburg, will be placed with
| in a few days of this coast, and the
vast market for our products which
will be opened.
The 10000 tons of steel rails for the
Siberian railway already contracted for
| in this country, the locomotives and
cars, agricultural and other machinery.
as we'll as our lumber and other prod
ucts, will naturally go to Siberia
through Pacific Coast ports and large
ly via Puget Sound.
| With the growing Oriental trade, the
new Russian territory to be opened to
| American products. will make Puget
Sound ports scenes Of greater activity
| than was ever dreamed of.
COLONY OR TERRITORY.
Fresno Republican: The Chronicle"
is still harping on it's pet project of a
territorial government for the Philip
pines. The subject is not particularly
timely for the Philippines have, for the
present no government. and will neces-
| sariIy have to begin with a military
| government whatever else they may
get later But it may be predicted with
confidence that when they do get their
final government it will be quite differ
ent from those of Arizona, Alaska, Ha-
waii or Porto Rico and will be formed
to meet conditions as they exist now
in the Philippines. and not as they ex+
listed in 1887 in the Northwest Terri
tory.
Nobody who knows anything about
the Philippines favors a territorial
form of government for them. Nobody
claims that it is the form they need.
But there are those who claim that,
because we now have two forms of
government, we are forever precluded
from getting third This is of course
nonsense. If we are not fit to give
our dependencies the form of govern
ment they need, merely because our
former annexations have always need
ed different sort. we are not fit to
hold them at all.
Everybody favors giving the Philip
pines the largest possible measure OF
self government, as fast as they will
use it to govern themselves. and not
merely to decline to be governed. But
this liberty can be given as fully and
more nationally under colonial form
of government Canada has now more
self government than Arizona, ano
Canada is a colony. A territory is
State in infancy; colony is an 1nde-
Ependent nation in infancy. The Phil
ippines can never become a State ano
they may become an independent ma
ton. Therefore the tutelage they neet
during the period Of their apprentice
ship will be colonial and not territorial
"MORE MEN WITH THE HOE"
| San Jose Mercury: A vast quantity
of twaddle has been written concern
ing Markham's poem, "The Man Witt
the Hoe" which was simply intended tt
express in words the spirit of the cela
brated painting from which it took it:
title and to rebuke the oppression by
monarchs, the nobility and lords ane
masters which had evolved so pltia
BILE and abject a creature as the type
of peasant depicted by the grea
French painter. But the discussion
which has followed the publication O
this poem has served to call attention
to a serious condition which exists IL
this country. Here the Man With the
Hoe represents the happiest, the mos
4 healthful and the most independent O.
. all occupations, yet the general drift O
young men and women born on tht
farm is toward the cities, where thu
mass of them are compelled to accep
a life, which, in comparison with th'
free life on the farm. is virtual slavery
Not only that, but this continue
crowding into the business centers from
the outside gluts the city's labor mar
ket, manual, clerical and professional
idleness and discomfort too frequentl!
lead to dissipation or the acquiremen
of vicious and dissolute habits, dnt
thousands of bright and intelligen
young men who, had they remained OF
the farm, would have lived independ
ent lives and been a bulwark to tht
cause of morality, wholesome society
and political purity, are annually swep
down into the whirlpool of metropolitan
vice, corruption, destitution and death
. One of the most pertinent and sen
sible editorials that we have yet seer
upon this subject recently appeared
in Will S. Green's new journal, til,
VALLEY Review" in which he says
: ''It is in the cities where freedom aut
/ independence are being crushed out o
the laboring classes. The young mar
somehow is being tempted to go from
the farm to the city, where he mus
get UP and begin work when some boss
says so and continue it for the wages
offered until some hummer tells him t,
strike. and he must obey it whethe
it meets his judgment or not. Here i
where the manhood is taken out o
men We want more men with TIL
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