The record-union., 1899-11-26
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

americans in the PhlllpplueS, SSiiSA
ally speaking, has been far better lllan
the health of the natives, VINO nave oieu
or IN large numbers from disease. Inls
large mortality among the natives rs
due chiefly, of course, to thelf lghor-
anee and disregard of sanitary meas
ures. These they will learn from the
Americans, in due course OF tlnle'
when the cruel war is over. In the
meantime, the results achieved speak
palmer than q. whole encyclopedia OF
words, in praise of American military
methods and sanitation.
GROW WHAT WE CONSUME.
Stockton Independent: The acquisi-
tion of the Philippines, Hawaii and
Porto Rico by the United States Gov
ernment puts our country in a position
to produce those tropical products for
which we have hitherto paid more than
a hundred millions every year. The
most essential and costly of these pro-
ducts are coffee, tea and India rubber.
The United States was in fair way
to produce it's own sugar even before
the recent additions from the tropics
1t might have produced it's tea, either
by improved methods or the in1porta-
tion of cheap labor. The first would
have taken years, the latter would be
Objectionable because of the effects on
other industries. But now there is an
abundance of territory that will pro-
duce tea and an abundance of cheap
labor to harvest and care for it.
But the principal items in the list are
coffee and rubber. We have now ac-
quired our first coffee land and the pro-
nf M
Philippines should supplant that of
Brazil and the Central American States.
The demand for India rubber is in
creasing with great rapidity to meet
the demands of electric science and for
pneumatic tires, while the supply is
growing more limited every year. AS
it requires only a few years from plant
ing to make rubber plantation yield
handsomely there is certainly a great
field for the industry on the tropic ISL
ands.
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Tulare Register: The American
cause in the Philippines is progress
ing satisfactorily for the pompadored
prevaricator is kept on the jump and
taking his seat of government with
him for sanitary reasons. A cores
pondent in the islands calls attention
to the fact that less than the number
of troops which General Otis said last
spring were necessary, have been en-
gagged and which brought down upon
him all the fiabby satire of which
gooSe-quill warriors We're capable. This
justification of the commanding Gen
eral comes from a correspondent who
had plan of campaign of his own and
felt that America would lose if that
plan were not adopted.
WOMEN AND THE HOSPITAL SHIP.
Marysville Appeal: It's none of our
concern and American women in Eng
land have a right to do as they please
with their Superf1uous wealth, yet our
private opinion publicly expressed is
that in raising fund to build hospital
ship for the use of British soldiers in
jured in the South African war these
ladies are not only going to lot of un-
necessary trouble, but are also laying
themselves open to have their alleged
generous motives more or less unpleas-
antly questioned. And more than that
TO propose to name the vessel the
Maine" is in exceedingly bad taste
both on their part and on the part OF
the English Government, if the latter
finally accepts the ship SO unhappily
christened.
PHILIPPINE CAMPAIGN.
Fresno Democrat: That the end of
the Philippine campaign is in sight may
be conceded, because the rainy season
in the islands is near a close, and mill
tary operations conducted with regular
troops, acclimated and familiarized
with local conditions, supported by a
formidable fleet and practically illimit-
able resources and supplies, can only
end one way. 1t is conducted, too
against semi-civilized and ill-disci-
plined fevies, whose food supply is
limited, and who can import nothing.
REMARKABLE SPECTACLE
Alameda Argus: The very remark
able spectacle is afforded of a delega-
tion of San Francisco's leading merch-
ants appearing before the Interstate
Commerce Commission at st. Louis and
pleading against the reduction of trans
continental freight rates. They repre-
sent that lowering of rates that will
permit Eastern jobbers to transport
small lots to Western consumers al
rates proportionate to wholesale lots
will destroy the mercantile business or
the Pacific Coast. And they are prob
ably right, only it has taken a Ions
time for this fact to strike through
with convincing force. The poiitica
demagogue and malignant newspaper
have had the public ear to such exclu-
sive degree that palpable facts like thi:
have not had a chance to assert them