The record-union., 1899-02-05

and those who were taken from civil
life, as was the case during and after
the war of the rebellion. 1t must not
be understood, however, that the civil
appointees in the army are all involved
in these scandals, for this is not the
case. Some of the most efficient Off
GERS in the late war were not West
Pointers. There are Generals Lawton
and Chaffee and Roosevelt, for instance,
heroes Of Santiago. However, West
Pointers have a right to be proud that
none of their number are mixed up in
any OF the recent unpleasant affairs.
A BLUFF.
Santa Barbara Press: The attempt
to bluff the friends of the treaty into
the adoption of some sort of a resolu-
ton committing the Government
against permanent retention of the
Philippines, by claiming that enough
Den ocrats will vote against ratification
of the treaty to defeat it if that is not
done, is the latest move of the "aunt-
les" Like all their moves, it will fail
Senator Chandler came very close to
| voicing the unanimous sentiment of the
friends of the treaty when he said. Il
am against any compromise. 1 believe
We can ratify the treaty, but if 1t is to
be rejected it will be rejected by Demo-
| cratic votes, and the Democratic party
Will have to go on record as against
| peace"
CARTOON AND LIBEL
Alameda Encinal: AS an argument
| in favor of the indiscriminate and libel
| Gus cartooning of men who happen to
arouse the enmity of a certain class O;
| papers, some Of our contemporaries call
attention to the good work done by
! Mast in his attacks upon Tweed, the
notorious New York boss What they
say is quite true, but it is completely
offset by the dastardly and peculiarly
Nasty work done by that Individual in
his lampooning and caricaturing of
James G. Blaine, which contributed in
no small degree to the defeat of that
Statesman for the Presidency. There
| ought to be some way of curbing these
knights of the pencil who are ready to
vent their spite and spleen for pay in
any and every cause. Where cartoon
ing has done good in one case it has
dcne harm in Others and, indeed, is
more frequently found employed on the
wrong side, and in the qualification of
personal spite.
SCANDALIZED.
Stockton Record: Religion was again
somewhat scandalized by the exhibi-
ton recently in New York of a So
called infant evangelist, 5 years old.
He was advertised to preach in a Bap.
fist church, and was there exhibited
by his mother to disorderly crowd of
sensation seekers. The child is a re-
markably winsome one, with negro
blood in him. He went through singu-
lar performance, in which he had evil
mother sat beside the altar rail and
sold his photographs at % cents apiece,
A portion of the audience believed that
the baby was divinely commissioned
to preach, and a large portion was dis
posed to make light of the exhibition,
| so that altogether it was from the re-
igious point of view an uns ecmly af-
fair, wearing upon its face the evident
purpose of the parents to make money
by the child
ANTICIPATION BILL.
Stockton Independent: The anti-car-
toon law not only forbids caricature,
but the use of portraiture without the
consent of the subject This is unjust,
and We do not believe will stand In
law. We do not believe it will secure
the Governors approval, and If it be-
comes a law we believe it would be
ignored completely by the press. and
that it would actually result, as the
Introduction Of the bill has resulted