The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-18
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
- jects of Living News
Interest.

| Tulare Register: The journalistic
bowler is a first class marplot. The
complaints filed by General Miles made
such a fine target of the big meat com
panies that the newspapers of America
could not wait for the investigating
| commission to- make its report, but
howled away all winter with the result
that agrarians in the Fatherland have
virtually put an embargo on the I'M
portation into that country of American
meat products, seriously hurting the
stock industry of the entire country.
The liberty of the press must and shall
be preserved, but We would that God
might give it a higher conception OF
patriotism and better sense.
THE FILIPINOS.
Yreka Journal: The Filipinos would
have been perfectly satisfied to set up a
government. under the protectorship OF
the United States but for the dictator
ship Of Aguinaldo, who sold out to
Spain on a former occasion, game he
cannot play on this Government. He is
beginning to find this out now, and
talks about surrender with. dignity and
honor, as though there was any honor
| in such a treacherous leader. Even the
Spanish prisoners he holds for ran
som, and will not exchange them for
Fihpinos captured by the Americans.
| This Government will never concede
| that Aguinaldo constitutes the Philip
pine people, hence whenever the natives
are given a chance to express untram-
meled views, they will be met in the
most liberal manner by the American
authorities This is the desire of the
American people, and course that will
be adopted whether Aguinaldo is pla-
Gated or not When Aguinaldo re-
turned to the Philippines under Ameri-
can protection, he was perfectly salts
fed with the purposes of the American
Government, and knew very well that
in wfping out the Spanish that the
country would be held as conquered ter
ritory, but giving the natives condition
al control when matters were settled
down to peaceable basis. In fact, the
Philippines were ready to come under
any rule except the Spanish, which had
been SO tyrannical with them. That the
country will prove valuable to Ameri-
can prosperity is not doubted, and the
best part of it will be right here on the
Pacific Coast. Already, even with the
/ islands in turmoil from revolution, the
/ American commerce in the Pacific has
been greatly improved, and within a
few years the United States will have
/ a more extensive merchant marine
service than any country in the world
not excepting Great Britain. which has
! always heretofore taken the lead.
OF FILIPINO IMPORTATION.
Oakland Enquirer: United States
Commissioner General of immigration
t. v. Powderly has refused permission
to the Mechanics Institute Of San
Francisco to bring into the country
enough natives of the Philippine Islands
to be exhibited as Filipino village at
the coming annual fair. There is no ex-
olusion law as in the case Of the Chi
nese, but the Filipinos whom it was
proposed to import for exhibition pur-
poses will be stopped on the ground that
they are contract laborers. 1t is posi-
bic to enforce a good law in such a way
as to make it odie1s and Commissioner
| Powderly's efforts are likely to have
that effect. A wholesale importation OF
Filipinos is not to be desired, but it is
an absurdity, now that we are using
both persuasion and force to induce
| these people to come under our flag, tc
say that a dozen or twenty of them shall
not be brought into the country for the
harmless purpose such as giving an ex-
hibition. Mr. Powderly would have
showed more discretion if he had re-
Trained.
SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHS.
Fresno Democrat: According to re-
cent public statement in the United
State Bureau of Statistics the subma-
rine telegraphs of the world number
] 800. have an aggregate of 11OOW