The record-union., 1899-01-09
lrone Islands population of $4,000 ana

drone Islands, population OF 1000 nnd
area All square miles
This loss Is the gain of the United
States, which, to bring it about placed
in service first-class navy, with TO-
GOO men and fifty effective vessels, and
volunteer and regular army Of u.s.
500 men.
The estimated volume of business of
the territory of Spain which the Unit
ed States will control Is placed at
$500, 100000 per annum at the present
time, and that must be tributary here
after to American Golfers and not the
blood-stained ones of CASTLE and Ara
gon.
IN DESPERATE STRAITS.
Fresno Republicans: Henry Waiter
son has discovered, what ought to be
obvious enough even to a far less clear
sighted observer that the Democratic
party is in desperate straits, from
which nothing but heroic measures can
rescue it, So he proposes that it NOM
mate, for President, George Dewey, and
for Vice President, Fitzhugh Lee, with
the Stars and Stripes for a platform.
The remedy is heroic, indeed, but as
grotesque as it is radical. Dewey is
not Democrat He is not politician
at all and has probably never had an
opportunity to vote, but so far as he
has any political affiliations, they are
Republican Fitzhugh Lee is q DEM
ocrat but he is opposed to the Chicago
platform and believes in nothing which
has been recently identified with DEM
ocracy. Think of it! A party which
oNce had principles and leaders pro-
poNng to go before the people with
two candidates, one of whom does not
belong to the party and the other of
whom does not believe in it's principles,
and without any platform or declara-
ton of principles at all! If the party
has no more principles in which it be-
lieves and no more leaders to follow,
it has ceased to live, and the phantom
which stalks abroad and answers to it's
name is but a ghost.
THE NEW CUBA.
Los Angeles Express: The protecting
folds of the Stars and Stripes now
wave over Cuba. The hand of the OPP
pressor has been lifted and the people
that have so long wrought against
tyranny are free. In the shadow of
Old Glory they will be permitted to
work out their own salvation, with
none to modest them or make them
afraid. The scenes that marked the
transfer of authority will remain long
in the memory of those saw them, and
they will form one of the most i'm
portant chapters of nineteenth century
history-a red letter day in the calen-
dar of epochs. There was pathos, too,
in the surrender of the proud Spaniard
of the island empire over which he
had ruled SO long, pathos that for
the moment even the recollection Of
centuries of oppression could not OBJ
scure. Our hearts may sincerely beat
with sympathy and pity for the Span
ish people, for nation that has been
the victim Of it's own system of gov
eminent.
REFORMS
tent those who achieve them only so
long as they are incapable of achieving
greater reforms Our forefathers gave
the world political liberty and struck
from the limbs of civilization the fet-
ters of caste. They opened a career Of
talents in America that Napoleon
opened with his cannon in Europe. And
once more the world, disregarding the
lesson of the ages, dreamed that with
political liberty had come all liberty
and that the thousand years of peace
and plenty had begun.