The record-union., 1899-05-16
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

cultural implements for the whole
world. Almost every day brings the
news of some foreign order. The out
look for Great BIitain's continued SUI
premacy in the heavier manufactures
was never SO gloomy as it is to-day.
And even in the lighter manufactures,
such as cotton goods, she is being
crowded by America. But America has
not made the inroad in Asiatic trade
that should be made. 1t needs an up
to-date combine to establish agencies
in the Orient to push American arti-
cles-
TRUSTS.
Fresno Republican,: The chief harm
the trusts seem to threaten is to the
investors who foolishingly entrust their
capital to hastily planned and over
capitalized enterprises. Nobody has
been able to point out any actual harm
the trusts have done anybody. They
have outraged peoples theories of what
outraged peoples theories of what
ought to be, but they have not dimin-
ished prosperity nor Kindred it's wide
distribution. Indeed, the growth of
trusts and the growth of prosperity
have been so far coincident that it
would be a plausible post hoe, ergo
propter hoe argument to contend that
the trusts are the cause of prosperity.
But when the collapse comes, as it IS
sure to come, the investors who have
sunk their all in watered stock will
be the sufferers. And it will doubt
less come as a shocking surprise to
the antitrust hoWlers when they dis
cover that most of these sufferers are
not plutocratS" at ALL but common
people with small investments.
AMERICAN SANITATION.
Los Angeles Express: There could
not be a much more effective illustra-
ton of the results of American sani-
tation methods than the fact that yell
low fever has not yet broken out in
| Havana. 1t is too soon to feel cock
sure that the work accomplished will
entirely free the city from the yearly
scourge, but it is not improbable that
even the first year of American occu-
patton will bring about a great diminu-
ton in it's ravages.
THE BEEF INQUIRY.
Portland Oregonian: 1t is impossible
to reconcile the conclusions of the
Wade court of inquiry with the facts
as marshaled by Major General Lee
in his closing address to the court He
Ishowed that not less than 80 per cent.
of the officers and fully 95 per cent of
the men whose evidence was presented
utterly condemned the meat supply
which the Presidents War Commission
indorsed as all right. Major Lee
| showed that the use of both canned
roast beef and refrigerated beef in the
tropics was an experiment. The use
of refrigerated beef certainly was. In
support of the belief that REFRIGERATED
beef was chemically treated is the
testimony of DR.. Daily, who found
| boric and salicylic acids in a soup
made of it, and his views were sus-
tanned by Drs. Huidekoper, Nicodemus
and Currie. Three witnesses swore
that ArmourS agent told them at
Lakeland, Fla, that certain beef had
been chemically treated. Professor At
| water testified that his experiments
with canned roast beef upon three
healthy men in laboratory showed that
the effect upon all was a loss of APP
petite, and he insisted that the real
test in the eating of it, the true and
final test of such food, is not chem
ical analysis, but the eating of it, and
on that point there was a mountain
| of testimony of practical experience
against any theory to the contrary.
| Up to the time of the Spanish Ameri-
can War the meat fed to armies had
been chiefly obtained from the fiocks
and herds of the country. The great
armies of the Civil War were. and the
armies Of our subsequent Indian wars
were fed upon herds of cattle. Nearly
5000 horses and mules were handled
with Skaters army You can ship
beef cattle by train or transport wher-
ever mules and horses can be moved.
The travel ration of the army used for
years, composed of corned beef, beans.
bread and coffee, had been found sat
| 1sfactory, and is in general use to-
day. For years a million and a half
OF people and a quarter of a million
of Spanish troops during the last three
years, had been principally fed upon
the cattle of Cuba and those that had
been shipped from the United States
and South American countries. The
Cuban army had subsisted in the same
way, and General Garcia's contingent
of 10000 troops had subsisted on meat
obtained from cattle on the hoof. To
pretend that our American army of
1900 to 25,O00 men could not have
been supplied with cattle on the hoof,
as our army was during the Civil War,
is to convict our Quartermaster'S De-
partment of utter inefficiepcy. With
plenty of money at our disposal, how
absurd to pretend that cattle ON the
hoof could not have been landed for
the subsistence of our army. When
McClellan's army of over 100000 men
took transport from Alexandria to
Fortress Monroe and marched up the
peninsula, all it's fresh beef was OBJ
tanned from cattle On the hoof, which
were brought down by water from
Baltimore and New York. Cattle
enough to supply our army could have
been sent by water from Florida.
WHAT OF THE FUTURE?
Los Angeles Times: 1t is an obvious
fact that the insurrection in the Phil
ippines is virtually crushed. There will
probably be some more fighting but the
end is near at hand. Practically moth
ing is left for the Tagalo rebels to do
but to lay down their arms, submit to
the power and authority of the United
States, and acknowledge, without res
| ervation, the American flag as the en-
blem of sovereign authority in the Phil
ippine archipelago. When they have
done this, the foundation will have been
| laid for the establishment of perma nent
peace, prosperity and progress in the
| islands.
4 In accepting the surrender of the in
surgents, one thing should be insisted
upon with absolute firmness, and that
is that the surrender should be uncon-
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