The record-union., 1899-04-17

EVEN IL 1t were Undertaken at dill SIN,
it is not impossible that the peace con-
gress, at which the welfare OF nations
will be freely discussed, might afford
an opportunity for the United states
to exercise its good offices.
STRIKE THE GOBLIN MOTH.
Santa Ana Blade: PROFESSIONALLY
the most important thing to DO for the
fruit interest just at this moment is 10
strike a telling blow at the Goblin moth.
We do not mean that blow will end
1t. 1t has been dreamed that If all the
fruit which this insect invadeS were
pulled off one year we should annihilate
it, but as it Is in the nature of things
impossible to pursue this starvation re-
course over any considerable area, this
project for humiliation is only a dream.
The Goblin moth is in the fruit world
to stay, but it is, fortunately, possible
to reduce it's ravages to very small
portion of its present work and TO adj
vance the percentage of marketable
fruit in inverse proportion. THIS is the
reason why all growers of apples and
pears should enter the summer upon
wider and better fighting Of the pest
than they have ever undertaken hith-
erto.
! The motive for this work could hardly
be stronger. If we are correctly in
formed, one leading apple district in
California lost 100000 boxes of apples
last year by this pest. Think, too, of
the cost of the several repackings and
re-examinatjons-e every apple handled
| by several persons at intervals of time
| to throw out the fruit from which
worms, unseen at picking time, had
emerged. Add to this loss of property
which had be5n orce gathered the great
er loss of fruit damaged and destroyed
IN the earlier part of the season. and
the total destruction is frightful to con-
| template.
VITALIZING FORCE.
Los Angeles Times: The ringing adj
dress of Governor Theodore Roosevelt,
at the Hamilton Club banquet in Chi
cago, on Monday night. was like a
bugle blast of the coming battle. 1t
was the keynote of an irrepresSible con-
f1ict which is to be waged between pro-
gress and retrogression, between nation
al evolution and national degeneracy,
between wholesome growth and ur-
wholesome decadence, between "stren-
uous life" and ignoble death.
This conflict is even now upon US.
We cannot avoid it if we would; and
Americans who think, feel, and act like
Governor Roosevelt would not avoid
this conflict if they could. They in
vite it They long for the stress and
the din of battle. Believing that their
cause is not only just but glorious, en-
PERTAINING high ideals and striving 20
live up to them, they are prepared to
enter the conflict with the confidence
and the courage which presage victory.
AS events are now rapidly shaping, it
seems inevitable that the issue of SUI
preme Importance in the next Presiden-
tial campaign will be the government
of the territories over which the war
with Spain has given US control; and,
as q corollary of that issue, the deter
mination of our foreign policy in gem
eral There can be no doubt as to
the alignment of political parties on
these questions Mr. Roosevelt has
spoken for the party which is to repre-
sent aggressiveness, vitality and pro-
gress. Mr.. Bryan has spoken for the
party which is to represent indecision,
weakness, and retrogression. The one
will be a positive, yitalizing force; the
other an organized negation.
LIFE-SAVING DEVICES.
Oakland Tribune: The recent big hotel
fires in the East are being made the oc-
casion there for a general overhauling
of all the hostelries. and lodging houses.
with view to seeing that they are
| legally prepared to cope with any such
emergency that. might arise. The work
done in this regard could certainly be
duplicated with good results in every
city in the Union, for it is astonishing
how wofully careless some hotelkeepers
become as regards obeying even the
elementary principles of protection for
their guests. On somewhat similar lines
can be mentioned the discovery, the
other day, at the Humboldt wreck that
the alleged -preservers thrown over
board to the poor struggling wretches
in the water were filled with tule in
stead of cork, and that they meant
practically certain death to those plac-
| ing sole reliance in them. The lesson
conveyed by this sort of thing, and by
the hotel fires, is that is is absolutely
necessary for constant official supervi
sion to be exercised over all life
/ saving appliances. 1t is not enough to
pass ordinances directing that certain
protective measures be taken-their due
enforcement is more than half the bat
tie. There never wasNa better illustra-
ton of the fact that eternal vigilance is
the price of safety than in cases such as
these.
THE AT COHOI. PRORLEM