The record-union., 1899-11-16
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.

Interest.
Los Angeles Express: Senior Regidor
is reported as saying that Aguinaldo
and his Generals smile at the plan OF
campaign mapped out by General Otis,
the features Of which they claim to
know. There are two ways of smiling.
one out Of the right, the other out Of the
wrong side of the mouth. The senior
can later describe which brand of smile
he meant.
WHOSE BUSINESS WAS IT? y
Fresno Republican: You may think
that the Filipinos could govern them
selves if we left them to do it, and
doubtless you have right to your opin-
ion, but you must hold it in the face oe
the fact that every man in the world
whose knowledge Of the subject is first
hand, based on large personal expe-
rience, is of the contrary opinion. You
may think that it is none of our bust
ness what would happen if we left the
islands, and you have the right to that
opinion, as you have the abstract right
to any opinion, but the whole world is
of the contrary opinion and stands
ready to act on it, You may think that
Dewey should have sailed out Of the
harbor of Manila as he sailed in, but
Dewey himself says that there has not
been a moment when this would have
been possible. You may think all the
antiexpansion things you like, and de-
fend your right to think as you please,
but you cannot escape the fact that no
one agrees with You except people who,
like yourself know very little definite
about the question, and that every
man In the world who has anything like
definite or authoritative knowledge is
of the contrary opinion. And, while
you may continue to go your own way.
the world will go the other way.
JEFFERSON.
Topics, in Tulare Register: Topics
has unfortunately forgotten what paper
he clipped it from but some enterpris-
ing searcher has stumbled into the fol-
lowing refrain which was sung in the
days when Jefferson was adding Louis
lana, and trying to add Cuba, to the
American union.
See him commence, land Spectator,
And buy up realms of nature
Towns. cities. Indians, Spaniards,
prairies
This was sung by the Little Ameri-
cans" in those days in dertsion Of JEFF
ferson's expansion policy, but the
trouble with quoting it with advantage
against the anti-expanSion worShipers
of Jefferson in our day is that the Little
American singers of the refrain were
the ancestors of the present day expan-
sionists. The exigencies of opposition
induced the Federalists to mount the
wrong horse in their day and it has put
the Democrats on the wrong horse in
ours. Query, have the American people
got any sense that they are under obli-
cations to use or are they for or against
things mostly through partisanship
and downright contrariness?
FLEAS OF JOURNALISM.
Stockton Record: Only few days ago
the yellow newspapers had it that the
Government let couple of the Philip
pine islands slip through the Peace Com
missioners' fingers. Notwithstanding
the hooking cry Of consent Of the gov
erned," the jaundiced editors Jumped
on" the Commissioners and the admins
tration for missing an opportunity to
Cypress" more alleged strugglers for
liberty or death. Now the same class
Of irresponsibles have changed from
those to the Sulu group. A few days
ago they censured the Government for
not having secured sufficient control
without the consent of the governed to
extinguish polygamy in those islands
Now some Of the same saffron-hued
howlers are gleefully giggling that it
will cost more than it will come to for
the Government to attempt any kind of
government over the Mohammedan pop
ulation there. This style of journalism
has its advantages. Nobody expects
yellow yeller to be bound by his own
utterances from one day to another. He
has all the license Of a lunatics ire
sponsibility and it is about all he has
of influence except with other irrespon-
sibles. Many of these fellows are
that lunitics and rogues are often bril-
liant
PEOPLE ABROAD.
Santa Rosa Republican,: The people
who persist in living in some other
country than their own often make a
great deal of trouble. They expect and
public sentiment comedies them more
protection abroad than at home. The
IIlStu WIZ 6clS ll1kO tIOuUle Will his
nelghbors Of the land to which he owes
fealty and receives rough treatment
in consequence cannot have the ma
tional army called out for his protec-
ton, but If he is treated to any in
dignity abroad 1t becomes very seri-
Gus matter. The South African war has
been caused by Englishmen who in
sisted on living under another flag than
81, nd E,,,c 1ov n hoc
active in protecting the rights of her
people in other lands. Our own Gov
eminent has often been censured for
being less vigilant than England in this
respect But what is the sense in any
Government assuming more response
bility for the life and property Of its
citizens abroad than at home? We
think there is none. While the repre-
sentatives in a foreign land of any
Government are entitled TO all the pro
lection that can be given them, the