The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-17

Philippines consent to the domination
of these Malaysian pirates, who seek
power merely for the sake Of robbery?
It is not to be thought Of for mo-
ment. Mr., Green sibmits to present
conditions simply because he Is outvot-
ed. But he does not give his consent
He tolerates, because he is good citi-
zen. He submits, because he believes
in democratic form of government
Some day the principles he represents
may obtain, but he will not assert Sc
riously that he consents to be governed
STARTLED.
Los Angeles Express: The Philippine
Commissioners evidently go on the
theory that the proper way to begin
home rule in the islands is to begin.
They have already started in to give
the inhabitants of Cavite province
chance to govern themselves, and will
extend their plans to the entire dis
trict within our lines, and also to some
of the southern islands as speedily as
practicable. News like this shows
silver lining to the clouds in the far
Pacific
A DEAD THING.
Santa Rosa Republican,: The dead
est thing in California is the legisla-
ton of last winter against the news
paper business Those statutes are
VIGOROUSLY and persistently violated
without any attention being given to
the matter. Freedom Of the press is
still maintained.
THE TIDE TO FORTUNE.
San Jose Mercury: When Seward
predicted that the Pacific was destined
to become greater highway of COM
merce than the Atlantic his prediction
was received with incredulity and
sneers. But his prophecy is already
in course of fulfllment. The policy of
expansion, which has brought the Phil
ippines into our possession, and which
which will open to the United States
| much Of the vast trade of the Orient,
has bestowed new prominence and dig
nifty upon the Pacific States and is aug
| menting the trade between this coun-
| try and the Far East New ships are
being built to traverse the Pacific.
Eastern capital is seeking investment
| in California, Oregon and Washington,
| there is an Industrial boom in Hawaii,
and the development of the Philippines
| and China will be on a scale common
| surate with modern push and enter
prise.
| We are now sending ships laden with
| cargoes Of provisions and war mater
| ial from San Francisco to Manila, but,
as the Portland Telegram" says, with
in a generation the vessels of war and
| transports for soldiers that are now
| crossing the Pacific will give place to
thousands of vessels of peace making
! the ports of the Pacific the counter
parts in point of the volume of business
transacted of the greatest ports on the
Atlantic. "All this is coming and COM
| ing surely and swiftly, and it is these
| facts that help in connection with other
favorable conditions, to make these
! States Incompatible as a home for
young, energetic and ambitious NEIL
The tide that sweeps on to fortune is
| is rising, and can rise, nowhere else in
all our broad land
THE CONCENTRATES.
Placer Republican-Argus: What has
become of the reconcentrados of Cuba ?
Many of them are dead, to be sure;
killed by Spanish tactics. But of the
living. BY the timely aid of this coun-
try of ours the wheels of life were
made to turn again in desolate Cuba,
and those PROSTATE people were prop
| ped up on their feeble legs and set to
work. Life has been resumed, hope has
been revived some crops are growing,
all through the intervention Of the
United States Government. But there
is much yet to be done.
CORONERS' JURIES.
Fresno Republican,: Chicago Cor
'oner's jury found that a prize fighter
who was knocked down and died on the
spot had died of natural causes. 1t
! was a San Francisco CoronerS jury
which found that an old man who was
knocked down by a drunken politician
and died of broken skull, had been
killed by the pavement and not by
the blow. And it was Fresno jury.
we think, many years ago, which de-
! cided that a man WHO drank whisky all
day and one glass Of ice-water at night,
and then fell dead, had been killed by
the ice-water. Evidently there is no
lack of modern instances of the
Growers quest law" which was al
ready famous in Shakespeare's time.
! OUR TURN HAS COME.
Humboldt Standard: The State of
California, according to population. pro-
! duces more of the good things which
minister to the comforts and sustenanee
of the human family than any other
State in the Union. This is portrayed
| by a comparative map which hangs In
the Board Of Trade rooms in the Ferry
building at the foot of Market street in
| San Francisco. In everything does
California exceed the average of other
States; in most things it produces, per
capita, from three to ten times as much
as the comforts and necessaries of life.
This is shown by the United States
census of 1890 and other standard
statistical works. 1t is marvellous to
those who have not heretofore studied
the matter and probably not one man
in twenty in California is aware how
much we lead the rest Of the world in
in productive power and wealth per
man.
A conversation with Mr.. Filcher, Sec
rotary of the State Board OF Trade,
lead up to the fact, as he states 1t,
that the tide of Eastern immigration is
| turned now to Northern California.
! up to three years ago." says Mr.. Fill
cher, three out of five persons who in
quired after land or sought locations
for business, inquired for Southern
California The descriptive literature of
all the counties south of the Tehachapi
was largely sought by more than three
| fifths of those who sought homes in
California. Now this is changed and
| fully three out of five are asking for
literature descriptive of the northern