The record-union., 1899-05-06
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

| Yreka Journal Hawaii has for many
years been governed virtually by Amer
leans in its business affairs, although
not under control of the American flag
until this year. It's principal city,
| Honolulu, is like any other American
city, and has been so for half a cen
fury. The Philippine Islands will be
of the same character by and by, if not
already Americanized like Hawaii, and
the next country to come under Amer
icanism will be the Samoan Islands.
POOR OLD CHINA.
| MarySville Appeal: A private citizen
who refuses to. yield to the demands
of a highwayman would be supported
| by law and public sentiment. He would
be applauded for his courage and
commended for the example set. Yet
here is poor, old China. compelled to
apologize to a decayed weakling like
Italy for refusing to give up her own
at the behest of a national robber, who
has no more claim on the port de-
manded than the late Jesse James had
| to Wells Fargo treasure boxes he
looted. And vet Italy threatens to
chastise country so helplessly bound
| by the unjust chains forged upon her
| by other nations as to be unable to
| defend itself, merely for refusing to
grant the outrageous demand, and in
her position she is sustained by most
of the Powers of Europe. If this is not
avarice, injustice and thievery gone
mad-what is it?
FOOLS AND FILIPINOS.
! San Jose Herald: There was a meet
| ing in Central Music Hall, Chicago,
Sunday afternoon, speeches We're made
| by college Professors, humanitarians,
etc, and resolutions adopted against
the policy of the Government in the
Philippines. Our flag there was brand
ed as an emblem of tyranny and
| butchery'; it was decided that all men,
of whatever race or color, are entitled
to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness; that governments derive their
| just powers from the consent of the
| governed; that it is the spirit of 'l6
We are trying to extinguish in the
Philippines, etc. All of which goes to
show what a parcel of guys a lot of
theorists and closet philosophers can
make of themselves when they get to-
! gether to discuss a practical question.
There were some dissonant notes heard
from the audience. One of the speakers
was greeted with cries of Treason"
| We have no doubt that the orators are
Wel-intentioned persons. We will not
say they are just as patriotic as any
one else, because they are not. Those
philosophers whose creed is The world
| is my country-mankind are my broth
ers, are little too general in then
ideas to be quite patriotic. Patriotism
requires a certain degree of narrow
ness. The patriot may be lover of
humanity at large, but he loves his
own people first as against the world.
There are lot Of exceedingly broad
minded people in the world who think
that such a sentiment of patriotism is
unworthy. The best we can say Of
them is that they are way up in the
air over the heads of the rest of man
kind, and that until said mankind is
made over their ideas will not work
in the management of the worlds af-
fairs.
RECOMMENDATIO
Pasadena Star: All lynchings having
been attended to, the International sun
day School Union meets this week in
Georgia. One of the first acts of the
union was to appropriate money for
the casting out of a few beams from
the eyes of the delegates that they
might see the situation in Georgia as
others see it since the recent lynching
bee.
THE BLUE AND GOLD SCANDAL.
Willows Promoter: S. G. Masters, ed
itor-in- chief Of the Blue and Cold
! the university annual which has get so
many fellows into trouble, has been dis
missed by the faculty on account of the
lampooning he gave several instructors
in the recent issue of the magazine An
element of the student body denounces
the action of the faculty and threatens
to leave the university unless the
erstW-hile editor-in-chief is taken back
The action Of these students is almost
as reprehensible as that of the young
man to whose defense they have come
To support Masters is to defy discipline.
which has never been too we'll main
tanned at Berkeley, and to outrage the
dignity of a faculty respected for its
learning and ability. A first principle
of university training is a decent re-
spect for the usually accomplished in
structors, and the student who fails. to
accord them such deserves to come I'M
der the ban Of the institution.
INTERVIEWING PUBLIC MEN
| Fresno Democrat: Governor Gage
says he will employ stenographer so
that the newspapers cannot misquote
him. This is the course resorted to in
many States, and follows the example
of the President Right here the Dem
ocrat' wants to say that it is sick and
tired of this everlasting pretension on
the part of public men that the news
paper reporters misquote them. The
TACT OF the matter is that the reporter
quotes the public man only too correct
ly- The training and the daily expert
| ence OF the reporter makes him correct
in his reports. Interpretations are not
accidental, but when they do occur are
| in nine cases out of ten studied and
with a purpose.
| The reporter has as much pride in
his work to quote a man correctly as
the merchant that the goods that pass
over the counter are as they are rep
resented to purchasers. Things appar-
emily commonplace when uttered to a
reporter takes on a sudden Importance
and a different phase when they appear
in cold type, too frequently because he
who has uttered them has not given
them the proper consideration, and has
not appreciated their effect until he
has beheld his words in print. Then it
| is too late to recant them, and the only
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