The record-union., 1899-03-20
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
I EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.


candidacy of Henry T. Gage for Gov
ernor, for reasons which it deemed suf-
ficient, it yet is willing at this time to
accord him due commendation and
credit for having Started Alright on the
administration of the affairs OF his
office SO far as his power of the veto
is concerned It has been long time
since California has had Governor
who has devoted the same painstaking
care to- considerati ton of bills passed
by the Legislature as has our present
| Executive. He has vetoed many pllls,
and in every instance he has given
good reasons for SO doing.
OUR SOLDIER BOYS.
! Oregon Statesman: American grit,
the clear headed, evenly balanced, in
domitable courage which has always
distinguished our army, dashed aside
what had been planned as culmina-
ton of terrors. Upon the troops sent
to Manila have fallen the most pro-
longed and severest efforts of the war.
The active Santiago campaign covered
less than month. But the Spanish re-
sistance at the Philippines lasted lon
ger, and the present hostilities, far
more trying, have continued several
| weeks. 1t is we'll to bear in mind the
arduous nature of the task our SOL
diers in the Philippines are perform
ing, and to speak of the ability they
show in fitting terms Of appreciation.
GALLANT MEN.
Fresno Democrat: The gallantry of
the naval officer is enough to make the
heart of every American swell with
pride The world has not yet ceased
talking of the heroism displayed by him
in the late war. Now come exhibitions
of pure unselfishness, such as the
Democrat does not at this moment
remember to have a parallel Rear Ad-
miral Higginson has spurned an ad-
vance in rating, because, he says, there
were in that war commanders who We're
more active than he, and therefore
more entitled to honors of advance
ment Lieutenant Wilkinson declined
advancement with thanks because 10
| accept it would give him rank prece-
dence over q classmate. The NavaI
Academy at Annapolis is all right, II
this is the kind of esprit de corps that
| it instills in it's graduates
GOVERNOR CAGES vETOES.
| Redding Free Press: The newspapers
| of California should neglect no oppor-
tunity to commend Governor Gage Tor
exercising the veto power in favor OF
economy and retrenchment. The Gov
ernor is getting himself thoroughly dis
/ liked by the politicians, a sentiment
that is certain to follow the course he
| is pursuing. The politicians exist for
no purpose except TO create offices, de-
wise schemes Of tax eating and add to
the burden of the property owning
classes Every plan for fastening tax
eaters upon the State is by them quick
ly put into the form of law and intro
duced into the Legislature.
THE NEW WOMAN.
Tulare Register: Gradually there is
setting in a reaction against the new
| woman idea. Public opinion is dis
posed to give women all the rights that
men have, and yet it is dawning upon
the public mind that the spheres Of
manhood activities and the activities
of women are not and cannot be the
same While the bread-winning wo-
man must have every opportunity that
the bread winning man has, yet the
feeling is that man and not woman
ought to be the bread winner, and that
woman should be the home-maker 1t
| is for this reason that woman lawyers
and doctors do not achieve success
People will not and do not patronIze
them Much is said in the papers OF
woman lawyers. but as a matter OF
fact they are before the public much
more than before the bar. They make
political speeches and lecture here ana
there, but they have no cases to speak
of and get their livings by their wits.
Women physicians, who are not clair
voyants or fakes in some other way,
but seek honestly to practice profes-
sion they have honestly sought to learn,
get few patients. Women in expectan-
cy of motherhood will not employ a
woman physician as a rule, but send
for man. This may be wrong, but II
! is fact, and a very stubborn fact at
that. The best, and the only thing a
woman doctor can do, is to marry
doctor and assist her husband in his
profession. Argument does not effect
cure of these conditions. There Is
subtitle something which makes society
fix the status Of woman's employment
and there are those who are beginning
to see that woman's education should
fit her more completely than it does
for her sphere rather than for man $.
|
Stockton Independent: Exceptional
virtues, especially when they dlstln-
guish a community, die easily and un-
noted. But vice dies hard, and makes
great commotion. The race track eVil
in San Francisco is of the type that
will make itself heard while In the
death agonies. But let no one imagine
that there is real human anguish or
suffering or an abridgement OF any
liberty because of the noise. The agony
will soon be over if the courts do tneir
duty and rule up to the civilization OIL
the age and the humanity of the hour.
Race track gambling in San Francisco
! is a. more pernicious vice even than the
nickel-slot device in Stockton 1t IS
worse because it operates on larger
scale.
IN THE SOUDAN.
! Stockton Record: England's little
war with the Khalifa is not over The
| latest news is that he is gathering
host of 10000 men to renew the STRIFE.
This has startled England rather nn-
pleasantly, for she had settled down to
the conclusion that his hordes had been
scattered to the four winds. British
| troops are already moving from Lower
Egypt on an expedition to meet him.
There can be little doubt, If all goes
WELL. that these troops will take good
care next time to finish him. Major
General Sir Archibald Hunter, who is
now Governor of Omdurman, is report
ed to have said, "The Khalifa is nui-
sance. and the only hope we have Of
removing him completely IS that ne
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