The record-union., 1899-06-04

CUBA.
St. Helena Star: Somebody has sent
us a circular headed what Shall be
Done With Cuba?" Well, We'll be
blamed if we know, but if it was in our
power we would order every American
now in Cuba back home, and tell the
Cubans to settle their own affairs
Journal
Yes, and the first thing you would
know this country would be called
upon to settle troubleein Cuba as bad
or worse than that which caused the
war between the United States and
Spain.
DEWEY'S BURDEN.
Fresno Democrat: The white mans
burden will not be comparable to the
one that poor Dewey will have to bear
under as soon as he reaches home, at
the hands of the newspapers. One
: journal has started to build him a
palatial home which the man will not
want at all; another is going to have a
monument built for him and a third
viii have melted out of donated ten
cent pieces a lot of loving cups for
which he will have no earthly use-all
ill-considered schemes in which the in
terested newspapers figure principally,
and Dewey is second consideration.
FORESTRY CONSERVATION.
Pomona Progress Denudation of the
woods may before long be as serious a
matter in California as it is now in
some Eastern States; but it can hardly
be said that the Golden State is taking
steps in forest preservation proportion
ate to its needs. The State College of
Forestry at Cornell University, Ithaca,
N. Y, has just replanted fifty acres of
the Adirondacks, burnt lands, with
white pine and other conifers and has
started nursery with enough seed to
cover 800 acres with seedlings two
years hence. 1t expects to replant at
least 800 acres of denuded lands every
year This is a practical work under
intelligent supervision and the good it
Is doing will not be confined to our own
State. The Cornell College of Forestry
rs pointing the way very clearly to the
measures required to preserve one of
the greatest sources of wealth.
Timber is like wheat or any other
crop. If we wish to harvest it again
and again on the same land we must
grow it there. The timber limits are
practically fixed by the immutable
laws Of climate, and particularly of
rainfall, and our forest resources there
fore are not inexhaustible, says the
New York Sun" With our enormous
population and vast demand for lum-
Der 1T is easy enough to denude thou
sands of square miles and to destroy
the supply of the most desirable woods
faster than unaided nature can re-
place them. But if We treat our for
ests half as we'll as we treat the other
forms of vegetable and animal life that
enrich US, they are just as inexhausti-
bic as the cattle on our plains or the
nshes in our lakes and rivers.
OF ACCIDENTS.
Alameda Argus: A San Francisco
paper yesterday printed a iachrymose
article that dripped with maudlin SYM
pathy for the child that was run over
py the street car. picture Of its
grave was given and the desolation that
mad settled upon it's home The paper
didn't give a hang for the child or it's
nome or bereaved parents-it was sim
ply putting one on Huntington. Acct
dents are always deplorable, but there
has as yet been no way devised to pre-
VENT them. And fewer happen on the
extensive street car system of San
Francisco than would occur if the peo-
pie We're transported in cabs, or than
If they walked and did not ride at all!
The paper that thinks by such a course
that it is catering to public sentiment
is mistaken. The public sizes up such
tactics exactly, and the result already
IN San Francisco is the very frequent
expression that you can take no stock
at faH in anything that you see in the
papers.
WEARY WAGGLES.
Portland Oregonian: Among a crowd
of hobos rounded up in an Eastern city
not long ago, one was aged 50, one 81
three were 90 and a majority of the
rest ranged from "A to 49, Taking this
as sample lot and recalling state
ment recently made by an eminent au-
thority upon the subject that there are
at the present time at least 1000 boys
in tramp life in this country between
the ages of 10 and Is years, it will be
seen that the only bounds set to vaga-
bondage at either end of life is the
ability to walk sufficient number of
miles day-a limitation which may be
reckoned as taking ten years off at each
end. OF his allotted three score and
ten years, therefore. the typical Weary
Waggles may be expected to spend
fifty years ION the road"
FATE OF TRUSTS.
Vacavile Reporter: With the eXcep-
ton of sugar and Standard Oil. the his
tory of all trusts has been one of dis
aster to their stockholders and attend
ed with costly reorganization. This will
be equally true of their future history
In the long run the theory of the eco
nonnical working of dividend paying
trust will be better than the practice.
1t is essential, however. that the peo-
Die be wide awake and active in con-
sideration of their own interests which
are threatened on every hand.
PATRIOT AND REBEL.
Los Angeles Times: The course of
events has produced in Cuba an Ell.
lightened patriot, in the Philippines an
! exasperating rebel. The one has lab
ored long and assiduously to free his
country. the other to enrich himself at
the expense of his country. Aguinaldo
sold himself for Spanish gold, and be-
trayed his country; Gomez never was
bought or sold.
There is some analogy between the
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