The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-05
VOICE of The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions ON SUBJ
jeots Of Living News
Interest.

Interest.
/ Fresno Republican: The situation in
the Philippines is more discouraging
and distressing now than it has been
| at any time since the beginning OF
hostilities between Americans ard Fill
pinos.-Los Angeles Herald.
| 1t is nothing of the sort, and the
Herald would not think so nor say
SO except that it is looking for a chance
| to criticise the Administration. 1t IS
shame that questions of war are not
| above considerations of politics, but
| it seems they are not. The manly view
to take of a war situation is the hope
full one, and the only Intelligent view
to take Of the Philippine situation is
an extremely hopeful one. Pessimism
is bad sense, and, If the Herald" and
| its partisans did but know it, bad poll
| tics, too.
FIGHTING THE TRUSTS.
Fresno Democrat: The question of
| the moneyed trusts, which the policy
| of the Republican Administration has
| encouraged and fostered, will be one
of the. main issues in the coming ma
| tional Campaign. From the Republican
| party. controlled as it is through its
leaders by these same trusts, no relief
can be expected. It's platform declara-
tons on this subject will sound we'll
and read we'll, but being base and hol-
low mockeries, in the light of the past,
| will lack the true ring of sincerity.
The nation at large is ready to admit
that these trusts, which in the aggre-
gate have reached stupendous, even
fabulous proportions, stand to-day AS
| one Of the greatest menaces to the
| commercial and political freedom and
general prosperity Of the land TO
what extent they can be regulated and
how they can be regulated, will fur
nish one Of the most serious Of prob
| lens.
BALLOT MACHINES
San Jose Herald: A contemporary
| finds that ballot machines have not yet
come into general use in this State
because the politicians do nor want
| them. That is the best reason why
| they should be adopted, and there is
little doubt that they will come into
Use before long. The experiments be-
| ing tried with them in various places
are so satisfactory that they will win
their way despite the politicians We
are not sure that the politicians will
make any fight to the finish against
the machines. If they prevent one side
from queering the ballot or the count,
| they equally prevent the other. Be
sides it is a fact that the manipulation
of the ballot box and the count, sal-
though, unfortunately, common enough,
! iC fn 1c
might be supposed from charges ban
died about at election times
PRESIDENT KELLOGG.
| Oakland Tribune: The State Universe
| tvs treatment of it's late President,
Martin Kellogg, calls to mind the IA
nous song about the man who, being
like the Regents wondrous wise, jumped
into a bramble bush and scratched out
both his eyes, and when he found his
eyes We're out, he jumped into the
bramble bush and scratched them in
again. That was college song, by
| the way, which may account for its
practical popularity with the Regents.
CANADA,s DEMAND
| Yreka Journals Canada demands
Pyramid harbor from the United States
in Alaska, and the United States abso-
lutely refuses to grant the claims Of
the Dominion Sir Julian Pauncefote,
the English Minister, proposed sep
arate arbitration on the boundary
| question, which was about to be IA
vorably considered by the President
of the United States Just as the ac-
| ceptance was about to be given the
| officials at Washington We're surprised
to have presented what they regarded
] as am extraordinary condition which
Canada imposed in connection with the
| submission of the question to arbitra-
| ton. This condition was that Canada
should have Pyramid harbor and a
| strip of territory on the Lynn Canal,
without reference to the general CON
clusions reached by the tribunal of
arbitration. This port and strip of ter
| ritory on the coast would have carried
! also the back country leading to the
interior. This condition, coming after
the arbitration plan had been formally
proposed and was about to be accepted,
caused not only surprise but some in
dignation among the officials. It was
| decided not to accept this condition.
! and peremptory refusal was given
| to the proposition.
AMERICANS MUST STAND FAST.
Los Angeles Times: The mutilation of
4 our dead by the FilipinoS gives the lie
| to the Atkinsonian kickers who have
been yawping about the civilized char
acter of Aguinaldo and his savage
i forces. Those horrifying acts on the
| part of the natives in the Philippines
gives abundant evidence that they must
be warred against precisely as we
! fought with the Apaches, and that those
savage monsters are no more compe-
/ tent to govern than was Geronimo and
his braves who are now safeguarded
| by American soldiers in Florida. To
talk about truce with rebels with
guns in their hands is ridiculous. but to
discuss the question with fiends who
cut out the hearts Of the enemy they
have slain in battle is monstrous! The
war in the Philippines must go on until
the half naked and half baked natives
are taught the authority Of the Ameri-
| can Government and the methods of
civilization To compromise would be
a craven act. The situation lis serious,
but the American people have sur
mounted far greater obstacles than the
! one that confronts them in the island
of Luzon, and no man who understands
the American temper can have any
doubts as to the final result 1t should
be the part of citizens at home to re-
| frain from giving aid and comfort to
| the enemy at such a time as this by
| c1iticistng the conduct of the war with
the rebels but every man under the
4 flag should be found standing together
/ for the demonstra ton of American au-