The record-union., 1899-07-13

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first, but now customers of the big
! stores simply regard Saturday after
noon the same as Sunday, SO far as
shopping is concerned. And proprie-
tors say, reasonably enough, that buy
ers now do in five and half days the
purchasing that they did in six days
under the old system.
| A FRUITLESS TASK.
| Stockton Independent: Mr.. Bryan,
| in his Fourth of July speech some
where down in Georgia, said that the
| Republicans cared only for their pock-
cts in their colonial policy-it was all
| for money. But other Democratic op-
ponents of expansion try to persuade
us to surrender the Philippines because
| the cost will be so great that all that
we may gain will never pay for the ex-
penditures And that is to be the style
of the campaign-hap-hazard go-as-
you-please, "agin-the- government, .
| anything to get the offices. But Mr..
| Bryan may talk from now until ne
arrives at the age of discretion ana
it will not restore single foot OF
Philippine soil to anarchy and barbara
misrule. He may encourage few FIJI
| ipinos to war against civilization and
the American flag, but he cannot per-
| suade the American people that their
only mission in the world is to COM
promise with agitators and disturbers
| at home.
SCHOOL MUSIC.
Hanford Sentinel: The Fresno Coun-
ty Board of Education has knocked
music out of the course of study In
the grammar schools of that county.
There is not opportunity to teach mu-
sic in the grammar schools to an ex-
tent that is worth cents to any one
who wishes to become musician. Mu-
! sic is a special study, and not one men,
Der out of twenty among those who
are on Boards of Education can sing
| a tune, much less teach the theory.
1t is the rankest nonsense on earth to
pretend to teach music as it is pre-
| tended to be taught in our California
Igrammar schools, and the examinations
in music as usually given by educa-
tional boards are enough to cause a
bass drum to smoker. We commend
the action of the Fresno County Board
as one born of good horse sense.
VAIN, AND WORSE THAN VAIN.
| Portland Oregonian: Maugre all the
fustian Germans offer about the di-
vine right of sovereignty, their state
ment Of the limitation of arbitration
is unanswerable. AS DR.. Zorn is quot
ed. he says: Arbitration agreed upon
between two nations for narrowly
defined object is one thing, and ar
bitration binding a nation for the un-
| movable future is quite another" If
the conference thinks to contravene or
/ ignore this fundamental fact, and the
attributes of sovereignty which no ma
tion can or will lay aside, it will fail.
There is nothing else for it to do.
Something may be agreed upon to
soften the asperities of war. The pro-
cess of arbitration, when once it is re-
sorted to, may be advantageously de-
fined and facilitated. But any agree
ment on compulsory substitution of ar
| bitratiOn for resort to force would be
| made only to be broken. Germany
sees this now, and is honest enough to
l say so. If we are led into acQuiescence
in the impossible now, recognition of its
impossibility will be forced upon us
later. The United States is, in fact
now asked to join in another offensive
and defensive, organization of Powers
I like the Holy Alliance, merely Invested
of it's religious pretensions. The thing
contemplated will be in effect, or would
be If it could be made effective an al
lance of few great Powers, by which
the people could be held down, in the
name of peace, to rigorous despotism
The Holy. Alliance. with the subsequent
assertion of Great Britain, proposed, in
addition to its specific purposes in
| France, to take such measures as
should seem ito be the best fitted to
serve "the peace and happiness Of Eu-
rope" Under this profession they made
common cause against resistance to
the oppression Of their several author
tiles. Armies We're sent into italy and
stablishedsabsolute monarchy Rev
olution against moparchical oppression
not only in France and Italy. but also
in Spain and Portugal, was put down by
the allied Powers 1t was nothing but
the proposed extension of these opera
tions to the New World that brought
forth the Monroe doctrine At The
Hague to-day, therefore, we are medi-
tating cooperation in a joint under
taking of the Powers, which we can
only expect some day to be turned
against us, and which is pretty certain
| ~ Involve our moral support, OF Eu-
| ropean absoluteism in it's struggles
with popular demands for liberty This
is one of those entangling alliances
| against which we were warned by
| Washington.
ENGLISH CASTLE LIFE.
Alameda Encinal: An American heir
ess who has tried living in an old Eng
lish castle writes that it is not what
it is cracked up to be. She says that
she has lived in a New England farm
| house not quite as old as the castle,
but which was far superior in COM
| fort, convenience, safety and beauty.
Even the much vaunted ghosts are lit
tie more than household nuisances, and
not half as expert or as interesting as
the American rapping spook. The
castle is generally inaccessible ION prin-
ciple and it's rooms are built mainly
to defy bombardment. To get any
thing into the place requires relays OF
jackasses and much mountain climb
ing. Water is always at the foot Of
the hill, and so is the fuel. The lower
part of the house is a dungeon, always
damp, although the moat has beer
filled up for over a hundred years, and