The record-union., 1899-05-29
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.


Atkinson asininlty may serve~to rut an
atorial courtesy" Part Of the docu-
ments Atkinson had proposed to send
to the Philippines had been printed as
public documents by order of the SEN
ate, which was not the slightest reason
against excluding them from the mails.
simply because it was not the slightest
indication that they ought ever to have
been printed. Any Senator can get any,
thing printed, because the other Sena-
tors are too polite to object. 1t is high
time for the Senate to learn that there
are things more important than polite
ness and the personal dignity of Sen
ators.
A THEORY WE'LL SUSTAINED.
Portland Oregonian: The cause of
the steadily increasing duration of hu-
man life among civilized peoples is not
involved in mystery. Lying close to
the surface and supported by a solid
substratum of figures carefully COM
piled, is the fact that this lenythening
out of the span of life in man is due
to many excellent improvements in the
manner of living, based uoon accurate
knowledge of the requirements of life
and Of health Pure air, clean water
and nourishing food are fundamental
elements in this frightening process,
and special means are taken 10 secure
them. Children are better fed and more
comfortably and evenly clad; all classes
in the broad significance of that term
are better housed than iE the earlier
periods of civilization, and epidemic dis
eases have been brought under intelli-
gent control through correct under
standing of theic cause
All of these things are matters oe
common knowledge. But there is a
correlative feature of the increase in
the duration of humaa life that has rot
been so generally observed This con-
sists in the remarkable increase in the
working power of cid men, which ex-
ceeds the extension OF The term of hu-
man life. The man who was old at SO
aged at 60 and decrepit at 20 is rela-
lively rare. The wonderful exemption
from disease and the manner in which
the elderly men of the army and navy
have borne fatigue are cited in evi-
dence of the sturdy physical endurance
Of men who have Tassed what formerly
was reckoned as life's meridian of use
fulness, While in all the vocatiors of
civil life the mental and physical activ-
ity of elderly and old men has been
greatly Increased within the century.
A NEW PLAN.
Alameda Argus: The Populist leaders
have met and formulated a new plan of
turning the world right side up again.
There We're not enough of them to rep
resent the whole United States, but
those present were full of language.
Singular as it may seem, this was not
emitted to the glory of the Hon. and
Colonel W. ]. Bryan. Said President
Burkett:
To the mistaken policy which led to
the disastrous results of the CAMPAIGN
of 1896 we may trace the cause OF all
the contention and want of harmony
which has existed in reform ranks since
that unfortunate hour when a majority
of our representatives consented to go
outside the party to find a candidate
for President. Surely no one. not a
Republican or a Democrat at hear.
will contend that the campaign of 1896
should be duplicated
This has significance according to the
representativeness of the body in which
it was uttered 1t is a note that Mr..
Bryan is not likely to find attuned to
his ear, at any rate
THE DEWEY SUBSCRIPTION.
Stockton independents The Assist
ant Secretaries of several of the de-
partments of the Federal Government.
with General Corbin and the Treasurer
OF the United States, have been organ
lied into committee to beg of the peo-
pie subscriptions to a fund with which
to purchase a so-called home" for Ad-
m1ral Dewey in Washington. In this
way official recognition is given to the
movement, and the Government of the
United States through it's highest exec
utive officers outside of the Presidents
Cabinet, declares to the world that it
is unable or too niggardly to suitably
reward the Admiral of it's navy. and
notifies the public it will pass around
the plate for gratuities
1t cannot be that this is a spectacle
that the American people indorse. Con-
gress has been in session for many
months. in two sessions, since Dewey's
great victory at Manila, and it was
certainly competent in connection with
President Mckinley to bestow what
ever reward or honor was proper. It
did take action, and Admiral Dewey is
recognized as the one commander of
the war against whom no one has a
complaint to urge. 1t is not consistent
with the spirit of our institutions that
the chief executive officers of the re-
public should organize as a Board of
Charities for one particular officer of
the navy. 1t is an action that any and
every officer of the army or the navy
is justified in resenting. It is a CON
dition or a situation that is unjust to
the worthy men who fought without in
dividual distinction perhaps, but still
fought with valor. 1t is something
that the public has a right to resent.
because it has the appearance of an
alliance between Government officials,
to glorify the advertising schemes of
certain newspapers and to magnify the
alleged benevolence of certain ooliti-
clans and millionaires.
WHY GOMEZ DREW OUT.
Stockton Mail: The Havana 'Inde-
pendent" which, like some other jour
nails, is independent in name only, re-
marks that a large majority of intelli-
gent Cubans are opposed to the person.
mel of the Supreme Court, as some of
the members are so deficient in qualifi-
cations that they would have better
chances of success in undertaking a
trip to the moon than in attempting to
sit on Supreme Bench. The paper
also says that the Cubans are so un-
used to expressing themselves in pub
lie that the undercurrent of feeling of 50