The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-18
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

for comparison two speeches of Colonel
Bryan-one, made at Richmond during
the Presidential campaign in which he
gave warning that there would be no
place in the Democratic party for the
men not supporting him, and the other
made more recently, inviting the gold
bugs of his party to come back. These
two speeches are published to show
the orators inconsistency, but we think
they rather make it apparent that he is
acquiring wisdom He is now doing
practical politics.
THEY ARE RIGHT.
Visalia Delta: The Secretary of the
Interior and Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office are right in refusing
sheep admission to any of the parks
and forest reserves of this State. They
do far more damage than their pastur-
age is worth and the injury they infiict
on the forests is permanent. This fact
is now so we'll understood that it is
not probable that the sharp hoofs of
myriads of sheep will ever again be
permitted to turn forest grown noun
tain sides and beautiful meadows into
barren treeless tracts, to the lasting in
jury of the valley below, dependent on
irrigation for the success of agriculture.
SCHOOLS IN MANILA.
Fresno Republican: An American
public school system has been opened
in Manila and will be gradually extend
ed to the whole Philippine Islands. One
of the things it will gradually bring
about will be the introduction of Eng
fish as the common language of the
islands: Spanish is now spoken only
in the larger centers, and in these CEN
tiers it will doubtless long remain the
universal language, but in the remoter
districts the native dialects alone are
spoken. Spanish was required by law
to be taught in all the schools, but it
was in fact rarely taught. Local gov
ernmental officials were so rapidly
changed from station to station that
they had no time to learn the constant
ly changing dialects, but the local friar,
who was also sehoolmaster, remaining
many years or a lifetime in one place.
necessarily learned the local dialect.
He. found it very much to his advan-
tage to be the sole medium of commu
nication with the natives, and there
fore omitted to teach them Spanish.
The country is thus still a virgin field
linguistically, and English will doubt
less rapidly become the sole language
of education and business.
PROFESSOR OF AGRICULTURE.
Tulare Register: While it is true
that some of the professors of agricul-
.ture who have met in convention in
San Francisco might get tangled up
We're they to undertake to handle
California freight team it doesn't fol-
low that they know nothing of hand
ling lands and the products thereof.
Theirs is beneficial. work and there is
more to it than theory. Book farm
ing" is in better repute than it once
was when less understood, when hogs
could not be slaughtered at the time of
a waning moon lest the pork shrink
in the skillet. A considerable number
of the delegates to this convention are
connected with the experiment stations
of the country, those schools of agri-
culture capable of working a revolu-
ton in the country if the most be made
of them. But this benefit is not for
those who never visit station to ask
questions and see what is done.
Changes are going on steadily but not
too much may be expected in day,
and the time may come when Profess
sors and practicers of agriculture can
meet and compare notes without the
saving grace of a political phixer.
INDUSTRY AND MEN.
Portland Oregonian: The very mark
ed advance of German industry in re.
cent years has rested in large part upon
the docility of German labor. While
the British Industrial world has been
torn by dissensions between employers
and employed, the factories and work
yards of Germany have steadily pur-
sued their operations. And while the
German mechanic has received far less
wages than his English neighbor-not
to mention his second cousin of rela-
lively royal income, the American me
chanic-he has worked more hours in
the day and more days in the year, and
has, withal, been more content and far
more thrifty German industry has in
late years rested on Semi-patrloI1c
basis, for it has been impressed upon
the people, high and low, that by in
dustrial progress, in a large part, are
the advantages of empire and of rog,
ress in the world to be attained. thus
motives have combined to hold e,1,7I
ployer and employed in good relations:
ing The industry of the world
is in state of f1ux. No country may
assume it's primacy; no measure OF
natural resources can assure it. From
this time on, it will rest largely anu
more largely upon what may be called
the personal element All the great
manufacturing countries are or may be
on even ground as regards skill, since
in 10 &c ell i'm
ported or developed. The Industrial
primacy of the future will depend upon
the coordination of employer and en-
ployed. The English system has FRO
duced alienation of employer and en-
ployed, with strikes and lockouts and
untold embarrassments resting upon
class ill-will and disinclination of work
men in many trades to work steadily.
The German system, which is grossly
inconsiderate of the fworkingman, il
breeding it's own troubles, and is bound
either to fall or to readjustment on a
basis more liberal to labor. The Ameri-
can system ought, in the nature of
things, to be the best in the world, fol
here we have better standard of men
than in either of the countries named.
American working, if treated fairly,
will carry American industry to the pri-
macy of the world; but the condition
must be borne in mind. The future
rests with the employing manufactur-
ers. The American workman must be
regarded as partner in the industrial
life of the country; he will not be half
servant, half-pauper, after the English
fashion, nor half-serf, after the German
system. Give him his rights, and Amer