The record-union., 1899-02-03
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and the $4,000 that the Legislature
is about to appropriate for the purpose
should be backed up with liberal allow
| ances by the various counties. Every
dollar put out in this regard will come
home with lot more in it's train.
MILK IN THE COCOANUT
| Marysville Appeal: The only effect
| such TRADES as johnson of Indiana
hurled against the past, present and
| supposed future policy of the Admins
| trat1on will have is one of encourage
ment and aid to the ignorant Fllipinos,
who do not understand American poll
| tics. Johnsons term in Congress ex-
pires with the present session. The Ad-
m1nlstratiOn can grant him no further
favors nor do him harm. He therefore
| considers himself immune, and with
| the true spirit of the demagogue and
petty politician he seeks to gain cheap
notoriety by assailing the President and
his policy
LODGE is RIGHT.
| San Diego Tribune: The able speech
of Senator Lodge is an unanswerable
| argument for the anti-expansionists
! We must accept or reject the peace
treaty. To reject that document would
be to discredit the American people by
announcing to the world that this ma
tion is afraid to pursue the righteous
cause for which 1t went to war to that
| full completion which the responsible
ties assumed demand. Senator Lodge
reflects a general sentiment among
| Americans when he says of the con-
stitutional bugaboo set forth by anti
expansionists as regards the DISPOSE
ton of the Philippines. that "constitu-
| tons do not make people-people make
constitutions. In this connection an
able writer has pointed out that there
are two kinds Of anti-expansionists in
| the Senate, namely, those who wish to
| bring about the rejection of the treaty,
and those who are willing to vote for
the treaty, but are resolved thereafter
| to favor any method Of solving the
Philippine problem except the annexa-
| ton of the islands.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Alameda Argus: Assemblyman Mead
has introduced concurrent resolution
providing for the calling of new Con-
stitutional Convention The PROPOSE
ton is to be submitted to popular vote
at the next general election 1t will
probably be defeated. As to State Con-
situations, the people of California will
| be very likely to bear the evils they
now endure rather than to fly to those
they know not of. The present Consti-
tuition for years widowed every enter
prise of this State. 1t was very long
time before the courts had interpreted
it so that a man of large affairs knew
where he was at And they are tinker
| ing it yet. State Constitutions are not
like suits of clothes, or buildings, where
| it is generally better to build anew
than to patch Any Constitution that
| might be adopted would have to be
patched the very first thing, for the
courts would knock great breaches In
| it with their decisions, right off, and
no man could tell till he tested it what
part would stand. So it will be better
to make the changes that are urgently
| desired in the present Constitution,
| keeping intact the features that have
been tried and approved, than to begin
all over again
| MINING STORAGE BASINS.
| Oroville Mercury: The Marysville
| Democrat does not approve of the
project of using the tu1e basins of the
| Sacramento Valley as storage reser-
voirs for mining debris. 1t calls the
scheme impracticable, because, as it
claims, canal, flume or pipe used to
| convey mining detritus to the storage
basin would become filled with debris.
The Democrat claims that the cur
rent would be insufficient to maintain
| a channel to the basin; but should
this prove true, modern machinery can
be made to remedy the deficiency, and
| the question involved is as much a
| financial as an engineering one. The
| Mercury believes in the mines. We
believe that locked up in the hills of
Butte and Yuba Counties, and of the
counties to the north and east. is gold
enough to pay all of the enormous cost
of building and maintaining works
which will enable the hydraulic mines
to operate without hindrance and with
out danger of harm to the farmers of
the valley below. The Mercury" be-
| lieves that farmers and miners have
so far harmonized their differences that
| they can discuss the subject without
prejudice; that the broad minds of the
leading miners and farmers of Califor-
MIA will be able to grasp this problem
| and find a satisfactory solution; and
we believe that solution to be the plan
| outlined above, a plan by no means
new, and one that is growing in favor.
| AS TO AGUlNAIDO.
| Los Angeles Record: The great
American public will chafe under the
| insolent assumptions of Insurgent
Aguinaldo much as it chafed when
Spain was inviting retribution that
seemed too slow in coming. Spain took
! liberties with Uncle Sam, and was
made to realize her folly. But Spain
had the wisdom that could recognize
defeat. Experienced In war and d.
plomacy, Spain went into the late war
with due appreciation of the hazardous
undertaking, and emerged from 1t when
convinced that she was whipped. In
dealing with Agulnaldo and semi-sav-
age hordes, the military power of the
United States encounters conditions
never before experienced by this coun-
try The Filipinos cannot recognize
defeat until they are crushed. OF this
country's power they know nothing be-
yond what has come under their own
| observation, and for that even they
can cease to have respect by the simple
process of closing their own eyes. Rea-
son is unavailing as a means of bring
| ing the Filipinos to realization of the
hopelessness of successfully coping with
the nation that routed their ancient
oppressors AS Insurgents they have
long harassed the armies of Spain, that
were accustomed to heroic mes sures of
subduing rebels. They may be expected
| to give as much trouble to a country
that is disinclined to resort to stringent
methods of handling refractory colon
| lists
AN OBJECT LESSON.
| San Diego Union: People who take
a gloomy view of the prospects for re-