The record-union., 1899-03-08
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest,

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hurtful use of public money. In fact it
would be waste of the school funds
in many cases. The school revenue is
already overtaxed. Children are fur
nished with pens, ink, stationery, and
in many districts with lead pencils.
And the result is, despite the utmost
care of the teacher, these articles are
broken, and even thrown away by
many pupils. AS they cost the parents
nothing, no value is placed on them.
The result is the pupils are indirectly
taught extravaganza and wasteful-
ness, instead Of frugality and economy.
The law should be changed in this re-
spect, and the parents should furnish
their children with these necessary ar
ticles, and thus make their boys and
girls careful in their use and teach
them to be saving.
| VALUABLE MEN.
| Vallejo News, If-the Santa Cruz wo-
man who is suing her mother-in-law for
500, 600 damages for alternating her hus-
bands affection is approximately right
in the estimate she places on the value
of his love, the young man must be
particularly fine sample of the genus
husband The $4,000 variety is not
too common.
THE MERCHANT MARINE.
Humboldt Standard: The time for
discussing different plans for the up
building of our merchant marine in the
foreign trade has passed by The true
friends of American shipping will not
divide upon policies, since "a PLAN has
| already received the approval of the
proper committees in each branch of
| Congress, a bill to carry it into effect
now hanging upon the respective calen-
OARS of each branch of Congress. All
the enemies of American shipping re-
vival Will be aligned against that bill
1.-THE foreign lobby will be doing it's
utmost to prevent. its passage. In such
a condition no man can claim to be a
friend of American shipping and yet
place himself in the ranks of the OPP
ponents of that bill. The enemy's
camp is no place for the real friends of
American shipping.
UNIFORMITY NEEDED.
Salinas Index: Another strong argu-
ment in favor of uniform divorce law
in the United States appears in the de-
cision of Judge Bischoff of the Su-
preme Court of New York, refusing re-
ICoSALliOd VI d OtcTSS OF divorce OBJ
tanned in North Dakota. This is most
important in many respects It is be-
leved to be the first rendered in one
State against regular judicial act in
another, and its immediate effect is to
destroy-in New York State, at least
the value of a divorce granted else
where, when the party proceeded
against seeks judicial separation
locally. If the systematic divorcing of
people in one State, especially noted for
the legal breaking of marital bonds
should be held to- be null and void in all
other States, applicants for divorce
would soon be confined to citizens of
the one State, instead, as now, of those
of the whole country.
| The fact that laws could make man
or woman free person in one State
and a criminal in others would soon
undermine the entire moral structure
| Of the country
| OUR SUPPLEMENTARY WAR.
Modesto News: The best military
authorities do not expect a long and
expensive war in the Philippines Gem
eral Otis and Admiral Dewey, in so far
as they have given expressions, to opin-
ions, concur with others who have made
a study of the subject that the present
insurrection under Aguinaldo does not
represent the spirit or desire of the ma
tives at large who do not make up a
military nation, and who would much
prefer peace and security even under
a foreign government that treated them
literally. Whatever unity of feeling
there is in the islands is not at present
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cessfully carry on a war to the bitter
end. Aguinaldo. there is every reason
/ to believe, has misrepresented the
United States to his own following, and
the more ignorant of them have been
| fighting with the vague fear that they
were to be treated as slaves. Most of
the official utterances from the Far
East Indicate their utter inability TO
cope with the Americans, and from the
military point of view the insurrectio1
shows signs of disintegration.
THE FIFTY-FITH CONGRESS.
Stockton Record: In a thoughtful re-
view of the work of the Fifty-fifth Con-
gress the Fresno Republican" re-
marks that much that this Congress
has done has been supremely import
ant, for none of. it has been initiatory.
In year of great deeds, Congress has
been overshadowed by the executive
and military arms of government, who
| necessarily took the initiative. Con-
gress precipitated the war, but even in
that the great and the brave thing was
the attitude of the President in stand
ing against the popular clamor until
everything was ready rather than that
of Congress in yielding to it. After
the war was declared the President be-
sank out of sight
Yet these things only go to empha-
size, not to minimize, the memorable
record of the Fifty-fifth Congress, just
closing. What a mediocre Congress
could do in the crisis of the past two
years any Congress can do in any emer-
gency, and the guarantee of the safety
iof American institutions is stronger
than ever.
This Congress has earned credit for
the things it has not done. When war
was brewing Congress talked much
and rashly, but when war became i'm
minent, after the destruction of the
Maine. Congress showed a degree of
self-control which no one had dared to
expect. If the great newspapers of the
country had shown equal restraint
there would have been nothing in the
self-revelation of American character
brought out in the war of which We
need be ashamed
LET THEM BE PATIENT.
Stockton Independent: The Cubans
are becoming nervous and uneasy and
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