The record-union., 1899-05-15
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by simply being man instead of pos
ing as lie President de la republique.
Not long ago he stopped a procession
of which he was part and in spite or
the guard and the regulations jumped
from his coach and ran up a flight OF
steps to kiss and hug his old mother,
who was waving her handkerchief ait
him. He saunters out among the people
smoking his pipe, strolls into cafes and
chats with the bourgeois as if he didn't
know any better. The Bourbons point
to him as a sad evidence of decadent
democracy. But the old woman and
the common people like it, especially as
it does not interfere at all with the
serious duties of lie President de la
repubhque.
Tt HONOR DEWEY.
Stockton independent: The effort to
get Admiral Dewey to return via San
Francisco is actuated by two motives.
The first, and the one that probably
gives point to the movement, is the
desire of great cities for spectacular eX-
hibitions in order to draw vast crowds
for revenue purposes. The second is
the sincere admiration Of the American
people for the qualities of Admiral
Dewey and the earnest and worthy de-
sire not only to see the man, but to do
him honor in the genuine American
way, viz: by parading him across the
country. Admiral Dewey had better
succumb to his fate and give the people
show at him. And what an ovation
will be extended to him in case he con-
sents to come this wayl 1t will be one
continuous exhibition of enthusiasm in
every city and town on the line of his
route.
GIVE HIM A REST.
! Fresno Republican: If there is a man
in the world who has earned the right
! to royal reception, that man is Ad-
miral Dewey, and if there is any sort
of reception that is the exact reverse
OF royal, that sort is the one our peo-
PIE are: falling over each other to give
MIN. Let us use the word royal lit
crafty, for the standard of consideration
given to literal king is none to high
| for our hero. The one absolute rule
IN the etiquette of royal courts is that
| the personal preference and convenience
OF the royal guest, not of his entertain
ers or fellow guests, shall be the abso-
lutte rule of action.
The principle is a good one. not be-
| cause 1t is tradition of courtly ETH
! quette, but because it is based on sound
reason. 1t is not doing honor to a. man
| to make a slave or a show of him, or
to make him yield his convenience to
that of people who have no rights over
him. Yet this is exactly what we are
proposing to do. Admiral Dewey has
expressed himself as preferring one sort
| of reception. We therefore propose TO
give him the opposite sort. He is fond
Of company, but does not like crowds
We therefore propose to forbid him any
privacy for company and to drag him
through three thousand miles of crowds.
The administration has been decent
enough to tell him to come home when
ever he pleases, by whatever route he
prefers, and he. has chosen the Suez
canal route. Therefore we are bonn
harding him with cable messages to
come by way of San Francisco. He is
not young man nor a strong one. and
is sadly in need Of rest Therefore we
propose to drag him through a round of
festivities that would have killed
Chauncey Depew in his most vigorous
| days. In fact, we are acting as if the
Admiral We're the personal property of
each of US, and had no rights that we
We're bound to respect 1t is all very
well, this American habit of slapping
public men on the back, calling them
by their first names without introduce
ton, and treating them generally as
public property. But it is an unfortu-
nate fact that we have killed not a few
OF our best men by just this process
NOT NEW.
Marysville Appeal: The idea of ex-
| pansion is not a new one to the people
of the United States, yet by some freak
of the imagination the annexation of
the Philippines has assumed to a certain
portion of our citizens the form and
substance of imperialism gone mad
Since the original thirteen States Joined
hands for better or worse the history
of our country has been one of con-
tinual and rapid development and ex-
pansion. The acquisition of certain
portions of our country, now among it's
richest possessions, was holly and un-
reasonably opposed in its days as the
absorption of the Philippines is now
TO BE REMEMBERED.
Solano Republican: The Coghlan in
cident has passed into history and all
is quiet again in diplomatic circles. 1t
has developed another American char
acteristic, however, which will make
foreign potentates very careful how
they pull the tail feathers of the Amer
lean eagle. The bluntness and prompt
ness of Admiral Dewey's words to the
German officer will go into history with
the sayings Of great men in emergen-
cies of great Importance And the
American people fell grateful to Cap
tain Coghlan for giving them the first
authoritative report Of the Admiral s
words, although his speeches are deem
ed impolitic and might have caused an
| interna tional complication
| RIVERS GALORE.
Marysville Appeal: From all ac-
counts there appears to be enough riv-
ers and streams on the island of Luzon
to afford a first rate object lesson on
how to get in the swim. The anti
expansionists never see beyond the con-
| fines of a narrow bathtub and their
views are consequently so contracted
that they are incapable of crossing a
large body of water except on bridges
built by the more enterprising and far
seeing of their countrymen. In this
way they passed over into the Louisi-
ana purchase and the great West. At
ter a little while they will be moving
into the Philippines in the same man
ned and their successors a generation
hence, will be issuing manifestos from
Manila against the acquisition of Asia
tic territory, employing the same argu-
ments used by the "antis,' to-day-a
legacy left them by preceding foolish
generations.
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