The record-union., 1899-11-27
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.

State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.
Marysville Appeal: Local self-gov-
ernment will doubtless cause the FIN
pinos to gradually appreciate that lnde-
pendence carries with it certain respon-
sibilities; that liberty is not license
that the non-expansionists, after all,
are more their enemies than fr1ends,
and that the Democratic party comes
pretty near as much needing instruction
in the elementary principles OF GOOD
government as they do themselves.
WILL PAY HER OWN WAY.
Los Angeles Express: ACCORDING 10
late statistics, those people VINO nave
been raising such a fuss over the Amer
lean occupation of Cuba on the score OF
the expense have been needlessly
alarmed. The War Department has
just made public a statement OF the
exports at Havana for the month OF
August, which is an eye-opener. Au-
gust usually has been considered the
poorest month of the year for export
trade. Nevertheless, the exports for
the month reached the sum of S2,llO,-
294. Of this total the United States
took $1,342, $50 worth of products, and
in addition received $52O,000 in gold
coin.
On the basis of S2,17O,294 worth of
exports of merchandise for single
month, and that not the best month of
the year, the export trade Of the island
for the year at the port Of Havana
alone would reach the handsome sum of
$26. .043, ,52S.
These figures are especially interest
ing at this time as they demonstrate
the future possibilities Of Cuba, when
she shall have reached a higher state Of
internal development.
TO STOP MARRIAGES.
Fresno Republican: According to
Bishop Spaulding, the work of the con-
ferences of charities and correction
would be sensibly diminished if there
were fewer marriages. Which is as
much as saying that there would be
fewer human problems if there were
fewer human beings. Doubtless the
good Bishop is right. If we could breed
men like cattle there would be fewer
worthless specimens of the race. But
would life be worth living for anybody
if we should remove the conditions of
freedom which make it a failure to
some?
BRYANISM.
Portland Oregonian: Organism so
completely dominates the Democratic
party that sober judgment can have no
lodgment with it. Every one sees that
the cry of imperialism" is a false and
fictitious thing. Men of candor and
good sense treat it with contempt, as
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, does, who
declares there is nothing in it upon
which the Democratic party can make
an issue; and so he finds there is moth
ing left to the party, under its present
leadership but the Chicago platform
and 16 to 1. He makes this statement
with manifest regret, and intimates
plainly that he expects defeat. Con-
gress, he says will make a declaration
of policy and intention as to the Phil
ippine Islands. the subject will soon be
disposed of, and the Democratic party
will not be able to make any capital
whatever that the Chicago platform Of
1896. the financial question and 16 to
l, will again be before the country as
the main issues next year. Everything
else that Bryan and his followers talk
about is merely fictitious; but the Chi
cago platform and 16 to l, as a menace
to the country, will be a dreadful real
ity, as before. No scare can be got up
about imperialism" standing army
and military y-despotism,' but every
fiber in the body of business and Of
public and private credit will tremble
before the renewed menace of the Chi
cago platform.
CHANGED CONDITIONS.
Stockton Independent: 1t is sugges-
tive of the changed conditions of mon
etary affairs that New York now relies
on the resources of the prosperous West
to relieve the stringency that is being
felt there. 1t is only three years since
the whole West felt the stringency and
depended on New York for relief. Then
the money was all locked up in New
York vaults and the country was suf-
fering from a depression because there
was a lack of confidence. The restora-
President McKinley's Administration
opened the vaults and sent the money
into circulation to meet the increased
demands of Western business.
PARTITION OF SAMOA.
Tulare Register: The partition of
Samoa has been SO managed as to
profit the British Government very
greatly also but not in Samoa. By re-
linquishing Apia to the German Gov
ernment Der Kaiser will hold John
Bulls coat while John is humping the
Beers into subsection. That is the pro-
gram and it will be carried out. Great
Britain retains some of the Samoan
islands, enough for a coaling station.
She has q better thing in South Africa,
or will have when she has taken it,
not before. All of which points to
what Topics has all along claimed:
That the great nations of the earth
are going to divide between them, and
shall Uncle Sam stand by and suck his
thumbs until he is shut out every
where? Not much. If there is any
good thing going Uncle will have his
share.
REASONS FOR THANKFULNESS.
Vacaville Reporter: The celebration
of Thanksgiving on the Both of No
vember, should receive this year more
than ordinary attention 1t would be
difficult to enumerate the reasons for
California's thankfulness, but among
them will readily occur bounteous
crops a phenomenal increase of trade,
and the mellowing influence of pros
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