The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-07
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

| A"SASoiy WOuuSTS Why II Is lildl LioA {
automobile vehicles are not to be found
In California, and it remarks that "our
roads afford splendid opportunity for
their use." Yes, but how about the
horses? With the automobile in COM
mon use the roads would be strewn
with the wrecks caused by runaway
horses. There is one of the machines in
Stockton and if it were the devil himself
the effect could not be more electrifying
on the average animal
VOLUNTEERS?
Tulare Register: From all over the
country comes reports Of volunteers re-
turned from the Philippines with hard
luck stories and "battering'' for assist
arce. They are mostly frauds who never
got nearer to the Philippines than San
Francisco, and helping hands should
not be extended to them unless they
show their discharge papers.
ABOUT ADVERTISING.
San Jose Mercury: Newspaper ad-
lvertising is everywhere recognized as
an essential factor in the business, not
only Of individuals but of corporation
both private and public. The value of
an advertisement depends upon the
number of people it reaches; that is,
upon the circulation of the paper or
periodical in which it is placed. Natur-
ally the demand for advertising space is
greater in paper of wide circulation
than In one the circulation of which is
small and uncertain, and this becomes
| the chief element in the fixing of rates
for space
IN some OF the great American dailies
one inch of space for a single insertion
costs 800, the price being based on cir
culation alone. The amounts charged
by the leading magazines and journals
OF America, and cheerfully paid by the
merchants and business men, are so
high that the figures are astounding to
all except those who are familiar with
the legitimate principle of advertising
and its natural operation.
WAIT.
Stockton Independent: Some of the
special dispatches to the metropolitan
papers have it that America is on the
verge OF clash with Great Britain over
the Alaska boundary, and others state
That China and Japan are preparing to
night Germany, or Italy or Russia, or
some other aggressor in the Orient, and
others still would have us believe that
Great Britain is about to coerce the
Transvaal But the reader may be as
sured that in couple of weeks all these
wars will be over and others will be de-
clared that will be fully as guiltless of
bloodshed.
BRYAN BOSH.
Los Angeles Express: The Ohio VAL
ley Silverites, in session at Louisville.
KY, opened the Presidential campaign
and trotted out Billy Boy Bryan TO
again make the running. OF course
they want the old Chicago platform,
and they again want to make the fight
Iunder Bryan's leadership.
Ordinarily, when man has been
proven failure, his party has hereto
fore had the intelligence to drop him.
But in this case it seems that a second
demonstration is necessary. OF course
Bryan will not be elected; in fact. it is
extremely doubtful whether he will get
half the votes he did three years ago.
AS talking machine he is a bowling
success, but he has not a single qualifi-
cation of leader; in fact he was not
Dig enough to lead regiment, and gave
up the place. and for him to presume to
ofrer himself as a leader of the nation
stamps him as a presumptuous ass.
II he lives, William Mckinley will
succeed himself in the Presidential
chair, and he will go in by a majority
that will leave no doubt as to the tenn
per OF the American people. These are
history making times, and the destinies
OF the nation cannot be trusted in such
hands and heads as those of the Ne
braska freak and his followers.
VERY DIFFICULT MATTER.
Marysville Democrat: There is no
Disgusting the fact that we have a
| tremendous task before us in the Phil
ippine Islands. The real difficulty. in
deed, is not, how is order to be restored ?
But, how is the government to be car
rled on? No doubt the difficulties of the
climate. the rains and the malaria are
very serious; but Englishmen conquered
and held India long before they under
stood the elementary conditions of
health in tropical climate, and Ameri-
cans from the Lower Mississippi basin
or the coast districts of the, South ought
to be adaptable to the conditions of
Philippine life; negro troops still more
SO, II 1t Is thought best to use negroes
| at all.
The islands can be held against ma
! tive and foreigner alike, but how are
they to be governed? There is. of
course, the initial difficulty whether
they can be organized otherwise than
as Territories of the Union, but Con-
gress has full power under the Consti-
tuition to make the needful regulations
for the Territories of the United States.
There can be no doubt of that and it
is Snly to States that a republican form
of government is guaranteed The Con-
stitution would seem to permit the ISL
ands to be kept in telage-nominally
It'll their political education is conf
plete. But this tutelage requires a spe-
cial kind of administration. The Office
seeker, for whom there is not even a
village postoffice at home, must not be
dumped down in the Philippines to make
his fortune and govern by the light of
his own business experience
LOTTERIES.
Alameda Encinal: The ever vigilant
San Francisco police have just squelch-
ed poor little lottery which was strug-
Cling for an existence against the big
ones that are notorious in that city.
But we have yet to see that they have
[made any effort to suppress those that
have been running openly for years.
which advertise freely in violation of
the law and make no secret of their
doings or their headquarters. 1t would
be interesting to know how much it
costs them monthly for police protec-
ton or at least for non interference.
THE MASTERING OUT.
Marysville Appeal: The position Of
the War Department regarding the ILL
ladyiSed demand of the Governor of