The record-union., 1899-10-05
VOICE OF The PRESS
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.


Napa Register: A hard-up Democ-
Presidential bee in Admiral Dewey S
bonnet But the chances are 16 to l
against its making connections. Dewey
will not allow the brightness of his
Well-earned glory to be dimmed by
the shadows that go with the sunshine
OF a political career.
STOPPER HIM.
Stockton Record: They will simply
nave TO put stopper in the old mans
mouth. Senator Morgan of Alabama
has been making study of the ex-
panslon question as related to cotton
and he states that the development Of
the Philippines will be the salvation
OF the South and her staple, cotton. He
proposes to make the Philippines in
stead of Liverpool the center of the
cotton trade, and distribute from there
the vast amounts of cotton goods used
by the millions Of the Orient. This
sort of talk to the South about cotton
Will never do in the world. Mr.. Bry-
ans anti-expansion views can never
cope in the South with this line of rea-
soning.
GREAT PACIFIC MOVEMENTS.
San Jose Mercury: Nothing in the
worlds history is just like the advance
OF Russia toward the Pacific. Very
little is heard about it because Russia,
outside Of her great capital, is practi-
cally sealed country and what goes
on is rarely and never adequately, re-
ported to the world. The Pacific ad-
movements because it is purely arti-
fcia1. For all other great migrations,
there have been popular motives, but
this is wholly political, resting upon
the design Of the governing forces of
the great star empire, to find in the
Pacific the outlet which has always
been denied their country on the West
ern seas.
The great Siberian railway advances
steadily eastward and the march of
population keeps pace with it. Within
the last three years upwards of 3OO,-
OOO immigrants have been established
IN Siberia, making the present total
population about 100000. A stream
of people-about 1000 weekly-moves
steadily forward on the new railroad !;
and, when about four years from now,
according to latest accounts, it shall
reach the Pacific at Vladivostock and
Port Arthur, its whole course will be
through well-populated territory It is
a result which would be impossible in
any other country than Russia, where
discipline actually as approximately
military, dominates the conduct of each
individual citizen.
The entrance of Russia upon the Pa
cific, backed by an established indus
trial population stretching across the
whole breadth Of Asia, means the in
PRODUCTION of a Drodigious force into
Pacific life and commerce. In connec-
ton with the advance Of England in
the southeastern regions Of Asia, with
the growth Of Australasia, with the
rapid progress Of the South and Gen.
tral American countries and the ex-
pansion of the United States in the Pa
cific Ocean, it means an almost imme-
date commercial development in the
Pacific, the greatness of which we lit
tie dream Of. Within five years from
now, we venture to predict, the COM
merce of the Pacific will be five times
multiplied Within five years." the
Pacific trade recently remarked to the
Mercury" there will be s-market in
the Pacific Ocean for all that these
Pacific States have to SELL" This
prophecy looks large; but who shall
say it is not reasonable. Three years
ago Pacific trade was dead. The steam
ship lines navigating the Pacific were
operating at slow bell and even then
were losing money. 1t is but little
while back that there was talk that the
Pacific Mail Company might abandon
It's China line; and that the Spreckels
might withdraw their Australian
steamers. Look at the condition to-
day-all steamers running full; tramp
1relghters in constant demand; score
of big transports in steady trans Pa
cific service and steamers building for
the Facific trade at all the great ship
yards.
A MALIGNANT PRESS.
Alameda Argus: Manager Krutt-
schnitt feels SO keenly the allegations.
by malignant newspapers, of misman-
agement of the Southern Pacific Rail-
way as the cause of accidents, that he
has come out in a formal statement.
1t Is al excellent temper, and will have
weight with fair minded men. Indeed
1t did not need such statement to con-
vince observant people that the news
paper attacks are the Quintessence of
malice. 1t was not necessary, for in
stance. for him TO point out that the
management, if from nothing else than
self-interest, would not overwork en-
| ployes, or be parsimonious in keeping
up the track, or operate defective cars.
1t is not believed by any man of
sense that the company would increa
the danger to its trains by laying of
trackwalkers. 1t is readily seen that
no purpose would be served by over
working men, because they are paid by
the mileage, or hour. But it may be
surprising that newspapers would be %
criminal as to charge engineers who get
Killed with having been drunk: or that
slils of baggage coaches were spliced.
When they We're never broken or even
| uncovered in a wreck so that anybody
could see them 1t is one of the banes
OF this coast that it possesses a malig-
nant press that discredits every con-
siderable industry that it cannot bully
or blackmail. The animus of the
outrageous attacks on the Southern
Pacific is well known. There can be
no purpose in it that is honest and
| worthy