The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-09
VOICE OF The PRESS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

will rejoice that General Funston mas
decided to punish those who have start
ed malicious stories about alleged 1905
ing of churches in the Philippines.
Archbishop Ireland could be in mucn
better business than peddling tales
taken from the Monitor" or any other
paper. If few other public men would
take prompt steps to punish those VINO
start malicious stories for political or
religious reasons, it would soon take a
few coats of yellow off current Ultra
ture of the sensational type. Few will
pity either the Monitor or the Arch
bishop if they are made to smart for
circulating lies.
THE PRESIDENT.
Fresno Republican,: The Herald
has never been backward in denounc-
ing the dupiicity and craftiness OF the
smooth man who fills the executive
chair; but we fear that many OF our
Republican neighbors have not been in
clined to take our estimate of him as
quite correct.-Los Angeles Herald.
Nor will they. William Mckinley is
personally known to more people, PROB
ably, than any other American pubic
man of note, and every person who
knows him knows, not by newspaper
report, but by personal observation and
acquaintance that he is the exact re-
verse of a smooth man." of "dupliclty
and craftiness.' On the contrary, he
is a large hearted man, of high purpose
and absolute sincerity and integrity.
The American people know this. and
have shown it by reposing a personal
confidence in the President such as few
men have received For two years the
President has been substantial dictator
of the war and foreign policy OF the
United States, and there has not been
even whimper of complaint or the
breath of a suggestion that Congress
should be kept in continuous session to
shear him of his power. Those who
have opposed his administration be-
cause they disagreed with it's policy
are entitled to respect, and have re-
ceived it, but the few who seek to OPP
pose it by personal filings and inuendoes
meet only with deserved contempt.
WILL BREAK THE RECORD.
Los Angeles Express: Recent indica-
tons warrant the belief that the ex-
ports of the calendar year 1899 Will pc
the largest in the history of the coun-
try The Washington correspondent OF
the Chicago Record who has been
making a careful investigation of the
subject, says the total for the eight
months ending with August showed an
excess of $12,OOOOO0 over the CORE
spending months of 1898, which was
the largest calendar year In our ex-
porting history, and the September
statement of breadstuffs, provisions,
cottons and mineral oils, just issued by
the Treasury Bureau of Statistics,
shows for those four classes alone an
excess of $4,000 900 over September of
last year When to this is added the
fact that the exports Of manufacture
are now much larger than at this time
last year. and that even in the re-ex-
portation Of foreign goods the figures
of this year exceed those of last, 1t
seems probable that the calendar year
1899 will show a larger total of ex-
ports than that of any preceding year.
The increase in expectations shown
by the figures of the eight. completed
months is chiefly in manufactures. and,
therefore, indicates in an unmistakable
manner that the industrial situation
throughout the country is satisfactory;
and while the expectation of agricult-
ural products is heavy, it is naturally
and almost necessarily below that OF
the corresponding months of 1898, when
the shortage in crops abroad gave I'M
usually high prices as well as an I'M
usual demand. The average price OF
wheat exported in the eight months
ending with August, 1899, has been 70
cents a bushel. against an average OF
over 81 bushel in the corresponding
months of 1898. In the eight months
ending with August, 1898, the exports
of wheat amounted to 81 ,373.323 bush
els, with a valuation of $S1, 527, S31,
while in the eight months ending with
August, 1899, the expectations of wheat
were II, $40, S43, valued at 500, S52,S22,
and in corn there has been slight re-
duction In quantity. exported, though no
material change in price. while in cot
ton the average price has been slightly
in excess Of that of last year.
ENGLAND AND THE TRANSVAAL.
Marysville Appeal, The feeling Of
pleasure with which so many papers
chronicle the successes of the Beers,
while plainly indicating their sympathy
with the Transvaal, also shows a lack
the United States by England during
the Spanish war. It doesn't matter
what selfish motives prompted Great
Britain to give US her moral support
at that critical period The fact that
she did so and that it was as valuable
as timely seems to be undisputed.
The right and the wrong of the South
African question is SO tangled up in
misstatements, prejudices and lack OF
absolute - knowledge of the conditions
leading up to the war that few jour-
nails, and fewer people still, are in a
position to pass judgment on the merits
Of the contest. We have troubles enough
Of our own without posing as model
for England or any other country. The
mere fact that the so-called Boer re-
public is the weaker nation does not by
any means make it certain that her
position is conspicuously the right one.
| And, anyway, even granting that the
Transvaal is being unjustly treated, 1t
is none of our business to begin with.
and, secondly, not being entirely Christ
| like in our natures England's past good
offices to us should balance the account
as far as any violation of Boer rights
are concerned.
| Continental Europe looks upon the
United States with envious and anxious
eyes, Her united hatred of US is only
second to the distrust each nation indi-
vidually feels for the other. Fear that
a commercial union with the United
States would tempt some greedy coun-
try to fall down only prevents concert
ed action against our expansion in the
South Pacific. And this same fear
combined with dread of England, is
L all that nrauentad- Eurane fr,on, inter.