The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-20
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions ON SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

pertinent of the National Liquor League
in closing for two years all the saloons
of Akron, o., as an object lesson to
demonstrate to the people of Akron and
of other towns who oppose saloons, the
value of the saloon as a revenue pro-
Queer, will be watched with interest.
The police and poor funds of Akron
are kept up almost entirely from the
Dow tax and other charges upon the
saloons, and it is claimed by the liquor
| league that Akron will suffer so severe
! ly from increased taxes in other direc
tions that saloons will be welcomed
back with the glad hand, and that other
towns will be deferred in the future
from fighting or annoying them.
ACTION IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Oakland Tribune: Lamentable as the
clash of arms at Manila is, doubtless it
has come at the most opportune time,
in the best way and with the best pos
sible results 1t had to come. If 'twere
done, 'twere well it were done quickly.
1t comes at the instance of Aguinaldo's
misled followers, and not from any in
itial demonstration on the part of the
United States forces. On the contrary,
throughout a long and trying test of
their patience, the officers and troops
of the American army have controlled
themselves with a degree of endurance
that affords the highest proofs of cour-
age The fortitude of the American SOL
der has been shown as signally under
this prolonged period of waiting under
suspense and provocation as in any OF
the recent achievements by sea and
| land that have so won the admiration
of the world.
Our military authorities at Manila,
reinforced by the Incompatible Dewey.
have seen to it that this encounter.
since it must come, has been made
decisive one. 1t has been of a char
acter to teach the deluded assailants
of the American authority lesson that
they cannot forget. Their repulse was
at fearful present cost. it is true.
Yet, it is apparent that this was the
most humane policy, and will spare
much bloodshed and other losses in the
| end
AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE.
| Santa Barbara Press: With Japan
substituting her shipping to the extent
of five millions of dollars annually, the
chances for the profitable employment
of unaided American ships upon the Pa
| cific are very remote. Senator Hanna
and Representative Payne have intro
| duced identical bills in Congress pro-
viding for compensations for American
| ships in the foreign trade that will still
permit them to proftably compete with
the subsidized ships of Japan or any
other foreign ma ton.
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.
| Tulare Register: Young man you
are pursuing a mistaken policy. When
you have borrowed five dollars of an ac
quaintance, which you intend never to
pay back, you account yourself five dol
lars ahead, but you are not. You have
knocked another prop out from under
your own UNDERMINING. And when
merchant of any sort has trusted you,
and you do not pay the debt or try to,
you are not the gamer by the transac-
| ton. You have caused your discredit
| to be recorded in another mans black
| list This man will tell others that
you are not good and those others will
not trust you. and, before you know it,
every mans hand will seem to be
against you. You will not have
| friend whose friendship will be worth
anything to you. In other words you
have squandered your patrimony at the
very threshold of your adult life, for
the best capital a young man can have
to enter business with is an unblemished
credit, a. reputation for paying his bills.
| The business world is not overly exact
| ing in its standards. You can do a
great many wicked things if you want
to and still preserve your standing if
you only pay your bills. Paying bills
covers a multitude of sins in the bust
ness world, but though you were as ex-
emplary in your conduct as a holiness
! disciple, you will be as devoid of real
/ friends as a polecat if you owe every
body and pay nobody. This is not
meant for any particular person. 1t
is meant for a good many of them.
THE EAGAN CASE
Stockton Mail: The Presidents de-
cision in the Eagan case will settle the
opinion of the world as to the immedi-
ate future of the American army. The
manner in which he shall deal with the
verdict of the court-martia1 that con-
demned Eagan to dismissal from the
army will show whether our army is
I to be a military body in future or
whether it's controlling force is to be
| many years past If the latter is TO
be the case, the larger our army may
be the more disastrous will be its break
down in case of a war with a formid-
able Power Proud and naughty as
the battalions may be Oh parade, an
enemy. as old Wellington said,
marches on its belly the particular
department that. in the late war, was
in charge of "the unspeakable Eagan."
THE WATERING-TROU BILL.
Calaveras Prospect: The Senate bill
which provides that those persons
maintaining public watering troughs
shall empty the water at least once a
day to prevent the spreading of con-
tagious diseases among work animals,
will, if passed. be of no avail, and in
our opinion is only waste of legisla-
tive energy. The mere emptying of
the water, while it does no harm, will
not remedy the evil unless the trough
is scalded and secured, as it is to the
sides and bottoms of such vessels that
| the germs of disease naturally CRAWL
| tate and cling. Simply emptying the
water therefore without detaching the
| matter that always attaches and re-
mains in such troughs, will do but little
good save the preventing of the habit
of giving stagnant water to stock
through carelessness or scarcity of
water. The only radical remedy would
| be in abolishing altogether public
watering troughs. requiring the water
to be dipped out or drawn only as fast
as used and not permit the animals to
drink and rinse out their mouths in
the same trough