The record-union., 1899-11-28
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.


modern Christians must either learn
to tolerate polygamy or give up forever
the glorious hope Of resting in Abra-
hams BOSOM If that is the situation,
when Mr.. Roberts sees the millions OF
signatures to the petition against per-
mitting him to take a seat in Congress,
it will appear" to him that not few
Christians will be content to find some
other resting place. But when did Mr..
Roberts become the gatekeeper to Abb
raham's bosom?
A MONUMENT AND RELIEF.
San Diego Union: When the First
California volunteers returned from the
Philippines several months ago, they
We're given a most enthusiastic well
come. Over 100000 had been raised for
the purpose and. there was plenty of
oratory, red fire, feasting and jubilation.
The committee which had charge of the
reception, did not, however, spend all
the money that had been contributed.
There remains about SOS, 600, and the
question of disposing Of this balance
has given rise to not a little discus
sion. Now the committee has decided
to use $25, 900 of the fund for perma-
nent memorial to the gallant regiment.
The idea is certainly good one, pro-
vided that none of the returning volun-
teers are in want, and providing, too,
that the people who were dependent
upon such members of the regiment as
died or became incapacitated, have been
so cared for that they do not feel the
loss of their former support. If every
| thing has been done to relieve the dis
tress that was caused by this regiments
services abroad, then by all means let
/ the remaining fund go for memorial.
1t appears, however, that these steps
have not yet been taken: that the fam
lilies of some of the soldiers who died
in the Philippines are needy; that some
Of the returned volunteers are vainly
looking for the means to earn their
daily bread, and that others are inca
pacitated for work. Under these cir
cumstances the use of that surplus fund
for a memorial would be simply a
mockery of the gratitude which the
State of California feels for his gallant
regiment.
THE TIN INDUSTRY.
Stockton Record: Democratic papers
are bowling about a tin trust. They say
it controls 270 tin-plate mills and the
machinery for making the plate. This
is only made to appear strange when
contrasted with what these same papers
said less than eight years ago. Then
they said no tin-plate ever had been or
ever would be made in this country.
lying "Professor'' of some rail-
fence academy was quoted as having
visited all the mills pretended to have
been started under the Mckinley tariff,
and said they were imaginary or one
horse affairs in temporary sheds. Even
the big Niedringhaus works Of St.
Louis were reported as mythical so Tar
as tin-plate was concerned. Now they
admit that there are 210 tin-plate mills
under control of the trust, and though
eight of these have been shut down
men are still putting capital into new
works.
If people would only look up what
Democratic papers said few years
ago and contrast their utterances then
with the present admissions, no cred
ence would be given them in anything
Their denial of the existence OF TIN
in American mines seems to have been
confirmed because American capltal
nernitted the owners of British mines
to gain control of the deposits and
cease DEVELOPMENT work. The time is
coming when American tin mines VIII
he onened by American capitalists,
and when that is done British capltai-
lists will open their American mines
too. because they can no longer smut
ont competition with their British
properties.
THE WATER AND THE WASTE.
Stockton Mail: AS for the objection
that California would have to go into
debt in order to provide a water stor-
Iag ge and irrigation system for itself 1t is
an objection that, if considered souno,
would stop big enterprises all over Tue
world and paralyze commerce and IN
dustry The science of business CONSISTS
In the skillful use of credits Equaily
as obstructive would be the opJectloh'
"Oh, if go into business, my employees
will rob me-" which is the second op-
lection the opponents of California
water storage system set forth
What California has to do is to tgure
out whether, if it builds reservoirs ana
laid out irrigation systems, they would
pay The opinion of some VINO thlnk
they have worked the problem is that
they would pay for themselves in less
than fifty years, and that the State
would then have big revenue for fur
ther development purposes. 1t is mat
ter of cost. interest and income, just
the same as any other investment is.
The Mail" thinks California could un-
dertake the work and become rich out
of it. and that the Federal Government
would not do it in a generation.
Some of the MAILS" contemporaries
seem to fear that the abundance of the
rain this season will make the people
of California think less seriously OF
water storage propositions. 1t ought to
make them think more seriously of 1t
when they see the great volume OF
water that is running to waste, and
think of how sorely it may be. needed
by and by, perhaps even next year.
They may think, too, of how many win
ters they will have to look upon similar
volumes Of water running to waste If
they wait for Congress-the Congress
that builds PostofIices-to provide the
reservoirs and bitches.
WINTER FLOODING.
Colusa Sun: Herman Schussler, the
engineer for the Spring Valley Water
Company, told the late Flood Water
Convention what an immense advant-
age was to be derived from what we
of the Sacramento River call winter
flooding. He told about how high water
might be stored by filling the land,
even not under cultivation for that
year, with the flood waters OF the
streams. Where it could not be run
over the land by gravity, he said that
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