The record-union., 1899-06-23
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
jeets Of Living News
Interest.

Interest.
| Yreka Journal AS a result OF the
United States granting to Switzerland
the same commercial privileges ac-
corded to France under the reciprocity
agreement with the latter country,
several European and South American
nations have demanded that like privl-
leges be allowed to them. So dan
gerous to the commercial interests OF
this country has become this Swiss
treaty, under which Switzerland is en-
titled to the benefits obtained by
France under her agreement with the
United States, that it was stated tnat
it had become necessary to formally
denounce it, such denunciation to take
effect early in 1900.
THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.
| Alameda Argus: It is an interesting
reflection that moral progress halts un-
til combined with interest. The tenn
perance reformers have accomplished
something, but the action of the rail-
roads which demand that their en-
ployes who occupy responsible posi-
tions, or who hope for advancement,
shall neither drink nor enter a saloon,
will probably be the most effective ar
gument ever put forward for the tenn
perance or teetotaler's cause. 1t 1t is
really true that Germany is resisting
every scheme for international arbitra-
ton now. it is just possible that she
may become as eager as she is now un-
willing, should an agreement be reach
ed by the United States and Great
| Britain to establish between them
selves a court to adjudicate all their
differences. This would cement the
/ Anglo-Saxon Alliance, and Germany
may find herself very anxious to 'get
/ in" Interest may move her where SEN
| timent fails. In one way or another
such thing is sure to come about,
for it dies as directly in the path of
| developing civilization as the decline
1 of dueling or the eventual suppression
of lynching.
ICANNOT SHIRK RESPONSIBILITY
| Stockton Record: 1t is ridiculously
strange that partisan papers and some
well-meaning but misguided individ-
uals should still continue to argue
against expansion, just as if it were an
issue in government affairs in this
country. Expansion never was an is
sue in the strict sense of the term. 1t
came upon us with startling sudden
ness, and before we realized it the
country had expanded. 1t followed as
the day follows the night the declara-
ton of war by Congress against Spain.
1t was not brought about by a deliber-
ate line of action and planning on the
part of the President and his admins
tration, as Democratic editors are fool
| ;et, ~, er;p i,,dr
the people to believe, but it was the
fruit of conquest ia the war.
WON'T STAND TRAVEL.
Napa Register: Opponents OF the
protective principle in politics are in
the habit of holding the Republican
administration responsible for the
! trusts everywhere forming. But their
argument won't stand travel. In free
trade countries combines are as COM
mon as they are in this land of the
free.
EDUCATION.
Fresno Republican,: It seems certain
now that the final object of future ed
ucation is to be an even more complete
development of character, the pupils
being taught not only to think and to
do, but to appreciate those things
which make for finer development of
the inner consciousness.-Chic Rec
ord.
Indeed? And what is the finer de-
l.velopment of the inner consciousness
good for? Will it sell for money? And
if not, what other purpose is there in
life which is worth the attention of a
practical man or an ambitious boy?
We refer these questions to the numer-
Gus newspapers in California, which
have been diligently answering them
all in the negative.
SILLY TALK.
San Diego Union: That is silly talk
that comes from Omaha about great
colony of old soldiers of both the blue
and the gray" going to Cuba to occu-
py the land, whether the United States
Government approves or not. Let the
veterans stay at home where they are
honored and useful In Cuba they
would probably do themselves little
little good, and any example they
might set would. simply be wasted on
the natives. The Grand Army of the
Republic is too highly respected to be
made the subject of wildcat colonial
tion schemes. The United States is a
good enough place for both the Grand
Army men and the Confederate veter-
| ans.
COLONIZATION.
l Oakland Tribune: The colonization
plan is one of the best methods possi-
BILE Of settling up the State, and every
effort should be used to make the pro-
posed location here of 241 Georgians a
success, so that it will prompt similar
/ expeditions in the near future from
that and other States. What should,
above all things, be avoided in work
ing up these projects is to overcolor
the situation here and thus create dis
appointment when the colonists get
down to work. The error is common
one on the part of immigration agents
and cannot be checked too soon-we
can well afford to stand on our own
merits without exaggerating the situ-
alton.
VOLATILE PEOPLE.
! Los Angeles Express: The volatile
character of the French people was
never more strikingly illustrated than
| in the Dreyfus case. After bounding
| the alleged traitor to the utmost limit
| they are now inclined to make obei-
sance and beg s'pardong." 1t is truly
French picture that the Associated
Press dispatch draws, as it appeared
recently: Crowds on the boulevards
tonight seem as If they, were awaking
from some hypnotic trance. and ask
themselves how they could have been
victimized by such an apparently stu
pendous error" The apothesis of Drey