The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-07
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Yreka journal. The ElHpinOS are
anxious to surrender and quit fighting,
but the daily yelp of Bryan and others
against expansion has made them hest
tate about weakening, especially since
Bryan & Co. fail to come to their relief,
as help, not words, is needed to over
come the guns of the boys in blue. The
yarns about the troops being dissats-
fed are treasonaLre falsehooGs circulat-
ed for effect in aiding the enemy waging
war against the United States.
THE TEXAS METHOD.
Los Angeles Times: Georgia appears
to have gone Texas one better in the
negro burning business. Texas burned
the darky all right, but the populace
drew the line at parceling out the vic
TINS lungs, liver, lights and viscera as
mamentoes of g. joyous occasion. Of the
two, the more gentle Texas method
would seem to be the more admira bic,
don't you think?
GOLDEN SILENCE.
Oakland Tribune: Captain Coghlan of
the Raleigh is the latest official
to realize that it pays to do
more thinking than talking when
subjects of International interest have
/,
too, in not allowing public insults to be
cast at the Kaiser, especially in view
of the liberal mindedness he has shown
during the recent complications The
cashiering of Coghlan may, therefore,
be necessary from a diplomatic stand
point if not from any other.
STERN NECESSITY.
Fresno Republican: 1t was stern ne
cessity, not arbitrary choice. that sent
Dewey to Manila. There are these who
still talk as if the Philippines were ro
part of the war in the beginning and
ought never to have become a part of
it, Doubtless most of those who howled
loudest for war did not know what war
involved but their ignorance of this
facts did not make them less real. II
was a choice between Manila Bay for
the Americans or San Francisco Ray
for the Spaniards.
The only time when we could have
chosen to escape the responsibilities
and difficulties of the Philippine cues
ton was when We could have chosen
not to- go to war We made our choice
most of us in ignorance of it's conse-
quences, but we cannot escape them
as even those who most regret them
are coming to see. And doubtless. with
| increasing knowledge we shall have in
creasing reason to rejoice in the unfor-
seen consequences of the most brilliant
victory of the war
THE SIGNATURE LAW.
| Marysville Appeal: These pane.
| which feel constrained to obey the
| signature law merely because it is
| the law of the State are assupedly de-
serving of word of praise for the good
example they set and the spirit of res
| ignation with which they bow thelr
necfzs to this Ubiquitous yoke. the crea-
| ton of daranged and malicious brains.
Without disputing the propriety of the
action of these papers, we nevertheless
pl opose to do the contrary. believing
! with the Bee that when had laws
pushed to the front by men who would
! trample on the rights of the people. dis
grace not only the statute books of the
State, but as well call in question the
| common sense of these who make our
codes, it is the province of wisdom and
| of loyalty to good government to so act
as to force the issue into the highest