The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-11
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
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more cheaply build barn. Well, ad-
hitting it for thefsake of an argument.
it also remains to be said that we do
not need to build barns now to store
our grain until some change in the Ad-
ministration to get some kind of
price.
PHILIPPINE COMMISSION REPORT
Riverside Press: Even the most wild
eyed anti-expansionists cannot question
the high standing and eminent ability
of the men composing the Philippine
Commission, whose report was made
public yesterday. And it is we'll
known fact that Professor Schurman
and Dean Worcester went to the Philip
pines with strongly defined prejudices
against retaining the islands. 1t can
not be questioned, moreover, that these
gentlemen have enjoyed exceptional OPP
portunities for learning the situation
there. Certainly no one will say that
Admiral Dewey does not know what he
is talking about Mr.. DENLY is one OF
the best-trained diplomats in the coun-
try, and his long residence in China, as
United States Minister, has given him
wide view of the Oriental situation,
especially in commercial matters. Pro-
fessor Schurman and Dean Worcester
have spent months in the Philippines
and made a careful study of conditions
in all parts Of the archipelago
THE WINE INDUSTRY.
San Jose Mercury: The good prices
which the grape-growers of this valley
and of the State are receiving for their
wine grapes this season indicate that
the winemakers have confidence in the
future of the industry. What the price
Of grapes would have been, had not
Mr.. Croker made his offer Of purchas-
ing the entire crop of the State for
period Of years at fixed price that
would have assured excellent profits for
the grape-growers, it is impossible to
conjecture. Undoubtedly that offer
had much to do with establishing
high standard of prices at the very
beginning of the season, notwithstalid-
ing the fact that it was not accepted
1t must certainly have induced large
winemarkers and prospective buyers
to offer more than otherwise they
would have done, but it is not prob
able that they would have fixed the
price so much higher than that which
has prevailed for few years past I'M
less they felt convinced that the state
of the wine market justified a strong
advance in prices for grapes.
IT IS WELCOME.
Los Angeles Express: The Democratic
party is welcome to all the comfort 1t
can get out of the November elections.
If they have had one hope that was
keener than any other it was that these
elections would indicate that the peo-
pie are not supporting the Government.
Whatever else the result indicates 1t
does not indicate that.
AGGY'S SCHEME.
Los Angeles Times: AguinaldOs very
latest scheme is an attempt to make
the colored troops serving in the Phil
ippines turn traitor, and in his appeal
refers to your brothers, Sam Hose and
Gray, whose blood cries aloud for VEN
geance'' This demonstrates that Ag.
has very queer ideas about the char
acter of colored men, as well as about
his duty to a nation which is Offering
him and his people liberty, justice and
equality under freedoms beautiful flag.
The slippery, would-be dictator will IND
that the colored soldiers are just as
loyal and as patriotic as are men OF
the white commands in the Philippines,
and that they are too intelligent to be
hoodwinked by an appeal to their pref
udices Aguinaldo is prolific in ideas,
but the trouble is that most of them
are not in working order, and this
latest one the least so of any he has yet
advanced.
DEBS AND SOCIALISTS.
Fresno Republican: According to Mr..
Debs. there are 100000 Social Demo-
Gratis in this country who are pledged
not to shoulder a musket at the behest
+ of Capitalism Which, being inter-
preted, is that there are certain men,
probably not 100000, nor 1,O0O,OOU,
who regard their loyalty to an economic
theory as superior to their loyalty 70
their country; for capitalism, in the
Socialist lingo, means any authority
which is a part of the present economic
system The Socialists have never
pretended to be patriots. in any coun-
try; they regard patriotism as an ari-
fetal virtue invented to hold the peo-
pie in subsection. They are thus revo-
lutionists by necessary consequence. 1t
is this fact that justifies the popular
analogy between two such logically OPP
posite things as socialism and anarchy.
PROSPERITY.
Petaluma Argus: Prosperity is writ
ten in every field, vineyard, orchard,
hop yard, stock ranch and poultry pen
in Sonoma County. Every week there
are satisfactions Of mortgages recorded.
In the face Of these facts, was the Re-
publican party wrong when it said that
the election of Mckinley would mean
the coming Of "the advance agent of
prosperity"
NOT FOR WHEELER.
Santa Rosa Republican,: 1t seems
scarcely possible for Mr.. Wheeler, the
man Endorsed by the 'jobbers" asso-
citation of San Francisco. to be APP
pointed a member of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. We have good
reasons for making this statement. The
jobbers of our big coast cities and those
of Chicago and ST. Louis are engaged in
controversy in regard to the traffic
arrangements for Western business.
This controversy will have to be passed
on by the commission Of which Mr..
Wheeler desires to become member.
1t will readily appear that the Presi-
dent would not be likely to be party
to the packing of the jury that will
have to decide this question. In fact 1t
does not seem that he can possibly do
anything of the kind. To ask him to
do so is preposterous. and yet this is
just what the San Francisco jobbers
are doing. They have certainly made
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