The record-union., 1899-11-08
VOICE Of the PRESS.


interest.
Stockton Independent: President
Schurman hit the situation exactly
when he said that the talk about the
Sulu Government would be criminal
were it not so ignorant. That is the
relieving feature about most OF the
yellow agitations against the Govern
ment. They exhibit too much igno-
rance to be classed as criminal from
the enlightened standard. Ignorance
and savagery are getting together rap
idly through the efforts of the yellow
agitatorS.
ROADS.
Fresno Republican,: It is estimated
that it costs $3.02, or % cents per mile,
to haul each ton of farm produce in the
United States to the nearest railway
station or market over our average
roads. A tax of one-t tenth of this sum
would soon make all the roads good
and reduce the total expense of mark
citing almost to the amount of this an
nual tax, but it is not likely to be i'm
posed and would not be willingly paid.
1t will take a long time to- educate the
American people UP to a knowledge
that good roads are cheaper than bad
ones. and until then we can only hope
for a partial palliation Of the bad ones.
SOME PLAIN TRUTHS.
| Los Angeles Express: The plain
talk Of the Rev. Father McKinnon, the
soldier priest who went to Manila
as the chaplain of the First California
Regiment, should open the eyes of the
people to the true situation in the Phil
| ippines. In a long interview with the
President, to whom he freely expressed
himself, Father McKinnon stated
plainly that the Filipino war would
have ended long ago but for the
"aunties," in fact. would have been
over last April but for the encourage
ment given by these pestiferous indi-
viduals who are willing to see their
own countrymen sacrificed to feed their
insuffera BILE vanity.
The Express has always maintained
that the men at the head Of the rebel
lion are mere adventures, who find rev.
olution a more lucrative occupation
than legitimate toll. But from Father
McKinnon's account they are even
convicts and outcasts generally. 1t is
humiliating to know that in the United
States there are creatures enjoying the
benefits of our Government who will
take the part of these wretches against
their own people.
! NO COMPARISON.
Shasta Courier: The general Demo-
cratic press, which commended Cleve-
land when that original anti-expansion-
list hauled down the flag in Hawaii, is
trying to foment opposition to the Adj
ministration by CHASING our efforts at
subjugation of the war-won Philip
pines, as on the same low level with
Great Britadn's ruf11anly and cowardly
crushing of the Boer Republic
There can be no comparison in the
| two cases. The Beers are a free, in
telligent. civilized people, and the land
is theirs by rightful occupancy and
conquest over savages and nature-a
Government self sustaining and recog-
nized as a Government, and the war
against it, by England, is the most fla
grant and outrageous assault on liberty
that the century has seen. It is the
armed suppression Of a national ex-
istence.
On the other hand the Philippines
never had a recognized national or
ganized or existence, either as a repub-
lie or monarchy. They were partly
raised from the obscurfty of savagery
by Spanish occupancy, a dominion al
most as brutal and degrading as their
former state They were known to the
world only as a dependency of Spanish
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States made war on her foe. and in our
magnanimous and more than equita-
BILE adjustment of the war these islands
were taken, and paid for doubly-in
money-and in blOOd-and the contin-
ued hostilities there are only a forced
means of quieting a title by conquest,
purchase and by treaty-Spain's agreed
receipt.
The Government of Aguinaldo is not
a Government like Krugers. It Is the
irresponsible following Of turbulent
races under petty chieftains-the anar-
chy Of semi-savages, apt in the vices
devoid of the virtues, of civilization.
There never was a Government in the
Philippines to be deposed. It was al
ways Spanish oppression, or native in
surrection.
A SONG OF CIRCULATION.
San Jose Mercury: After quoting a
paragraph from the Mercury" respect
ing the large available cash balance in
the national Treasury the Colusa Sun
declares that it is truly wonderful
! country which can in a short time pile
up $500, 100000 and at the same time
carry on a foreign war; At the same
time, the Sun" declares many business
men are curtailing their operations
while multitudes Of workingmen are
vainly seeking employment; and, pro-
ceeding to further dissection of national
affairs, the Sun" declares that of
every two dollars received in the ma
tional Treasury one dollar is paid out
in the form of costs of collection.
The assertion that it costs the United
States one dollar to collect another is
bit Of pleasantly peculiar to the
venerable Colusa statesman; and is not
to be seriously considered 1t is of a
piece with the wild arguments manu-
featured for campaign consumption,
calculated to cheer the heart Of the
unthinking partisan. But the conten-
ton that business men are going out
Of business and that workingmen are
seeking employment because of the
financial policies Of the Government,
while equally absurd, is not capable
OF such long explanations
| As matter of cold fact the inanufac-
turers and the trade classes OF the
| United States were never so busy as
they are to-day. AS case directly in
point we cite the report of Mr.. Austin,
Chief of the Bureau of Statistics for