The record-union., 1899-03-18
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.


100000 peoples of all colors and all
shades of character from rampant saw
age to indolent South Sea islanders,
under all skies and upon all continents
inha biting an area of nearly 12,OOO,0OO
square miles, and yet there are those
who think that Uncle Sam will lose
his temper and go all to pieces II ne
undertakes to govern a job lot OF sun
burnt children of the Jungle numbering
barely 100000 souls occupying less
than 100000 square miles. Topics
would like to see the thing that John
Full can do that Brother Jonathan can
not if he puts his hand to it once.
GERMANY AND SUGAR TAX.
Oxnard Courier: German legislation
in relation to the beet-sugar industry
is anomalous to say the least. 1t taxes
home produced sugar, thus paralyzing
the home market, and to stimulate the
industry pays a bounty on exports OF
sugar making it possible for German
beet-sugar manufacturers to sell their
sugar in foreign countries cheap
CT than they can right at home. The
Government is thus depriving its own
people of the benefit of food product
which science and experiments made
by the German War Department has
proved to be of the highest value, as
well as injuring an important INDUSTRY.
The exigences of providing revenue 1or
an expensive system of Government and
q large standing army are serious
handicap to the industries OF nearly
every European nation. 1t is no Won
der that the United States, with it's in
dustries unencumbered' by such bur
dens, is rapidly taking the lead in the
commerce of the world. Nothing can
overthrow the commercial supremacy
which this country has established, but
such a change in our policy as will
compel the maintenance of a large
standing army and an increased civil
list. Expansion is to be feared for
these, if for no other reasons, by the
laborers and the producers Of this coun-
try.
THE RAILROAD DEBT.
Redlands Citrograph: The Govern
ment gets every dollar Of the principal
and interest loaned the Central Pa
cilic, and the transaction is closed. We
have been curiously watching those
big newspapers whose stock in trade
pus" to see what they would have to
say about this matter, but never a
word. Their balloon is pricked and the
gas let out. Some other howl will have
to be adopted. This railroad issue is
dead.
ENGLISH COMPETITION.
Tuiare Register Topics: Long
headed Englishmen see that the most
formidable rival of that country in the
trade of the world will be the United
States. We are natural born traders,
bur since the early days of our ma
tional life We have not paid SO much
attention to trade as to production.
Now that we can produce more than
we can consume We are to be trading
nation as we'll as producing and wher-
ever John Bull sends a ship he will
find one of Uncle Sans merchantmen
or the ground ahead of him. Can such
| rivalry go forward and both parties
keep their temper? That will be the
great test. If they can they will rule
the world by the end of another cen
| tuty and another tower of Babel will
have to be built in order to prevent
English becoming universal language.
NIL EOl 1f1E B1RDS.
Calaveras Prospect: In San jose ac-
cordlng to the Mercury a society
has been organized having for its OBJ
ject the protection of game birds and
songsters. The purpose of this society
is very commendable one, for a study
of the relation of birds to farmer or
horticulturists will convince all classes
OF agTiculturists that the birds are their
friends and the protectors of their
crops. Were it not for these birds our
State would soon be SO overrun with
insect pests that the fruit industry
would soon become an impossibility, yet
the protection extended to birds
through the law is of no effect, and
practically dead letter. Aside from
sentiment, which alone should BE suf-
ficient to prevent the wholesale slaugfl-
ter of birds, but which, unfortunately
is not, how can men, women and chill
dren be made to learn that birds have
essential functions to perform in the
economy of nature, and that their rapid
destruction is sure to lead to very SER
ious results? How can the fruit grower
who becomes antagonistic to certain
birds because he sees them eat a small
portion Of his fruit De made to com
prehend that those same birds destroy
sufficient number of insects during
the year to compensate for the fruit
they eat a hundred times over? The
example of the San Jose society should
be followed in other parts, and it is
possible that something might be done
to save our birds from rapid extinction.
HERES A CHANCE.
WILLOWS Journal: A recruiting Office
for service in the regular army will be
opened in San Francisco. Here is an
opportunity for hundreds of young men
who are out of work and have no par
ticular calling in view.
The regular army life is much more
desirable than punching mules on Cal
ifornia ranch, and certainly more cred
liable to any man than loafing from
month to month waiting for something
to turn up. The pay of a private in in
fantry is $13 per month, with an addi-
tional $lOO year for clothing. This
will enable any economical young man
to save $3.50 per year, besides an op-
pOrtunity for advancement before the
five years expire. Board is furnished,
medical attendance is first-class and
free, you lose no time on account of
rainy days, and are not hustled off to a
public infirmary when sick or unfit for
duty.
Any man of sufficient education may,
after five years faithful service, obtain
commission which insures good pay
during life. AS to being abused, that is
all bosh; young man who attends
strictly to his duty will never be abused
1T is the fellows who won't work.
Uncle Sam pays better wages, and feeds
his soldiers better than anY other na-