The record-union., 1899-10-25
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects OF Living News
Interest.

Interest.
Oakland Enquirer: 1t appears that
the name of the Calls Government
agent" in the Philippines was Rev.
Peter MacQueen, and that he was not
Government agent at all. He was
| travelling for a publisher, and although
he enjoyed the favor of pass issued
by high authority he had no official
character and was not expected 10
make any report. This business has
about the upshot we anticipated.
GROWTH AND BUSINESS.
Pomona Progress: Although the man.
ufacturing establishments of the coun-
! try have been running at full blast tor
| two years or more, they seem to have
| been unable to keep up with the rapid
increase of business, and nearly all or
! them are from six months to year
behind their orders. There is no bet
| ter evidence of the growth of business
throughout the United States than the
difficulty that the railroads are having
in handling the freight that comes to
! them. All of them have been ncreaS-
ing their rolling stock as fast as pos
Sible during the last two years, and all
of them seem to be glutted with freight
to-day and unable to get cars sufnclent
! TO handle it. A few days ago 1t was
reported that of a thousand empty
freight cars which were being forward
ed from Chicago to Western railroad,
not one reached it's destination on time,
but all were appropriated for season
! by the railroads over which they were
| n needs
latter roads for cars. The volume OF
| business that is being done in the Unit
ed States to-day is surely enormous,
and there are as yet no signs OF any
subsidence.
TO UTILIZE FLOOD WATERS.
Amador Ledger: w. H. Mills of the
Central Pacific Land Department has
| for many months occupied much or
his time on the very important matter
of the conservation of the flood waters
Of this State, in order that they may
be used for mechanical and agricult-
ural purposes. This question is one OF
the greatest Importance to the people
of this State, and is worthy of the best
| thought of our ableSt men. The storage
of the waste waters of our mountains
and their subsequent distribution to
| the mines. to the farms and to the cities
is of vastly more Importance to our
success than the completion of the Mic
aragua Canal or the construction OF
second overland railroad. The great
market in the Pacific Ocean, recently
opened up to our State, places US In
position where it is imperative that our
| agricultural productions be doubled, II
possible, and that the uncertainty OF
the production of crops on account OF
| dry seasons be removed. These results
can be accomplished, provided an en-
terprise of proper magnitude is inaug-
urated and completed, by which the
waters annually going TO waste could
be utilized. At present there are
few private enternrises which are reser
voiring water, carrying it short dis
tances and selling it at large profit at
points to which it can be carried at
small cost, but these enterprises are but
pigrnies, compared with the gigantic
one of reserYoiring and distributing the
aood waters of the State.
KENTUCKY POLITICS.
Napa Register: The Democratic nom
inee for most any Office in Kentucky
usually looks upon the casting and
counting of ballots as only a necessary
formality before he can enter upon the
honors and emoluments guaranteed him
when his name was placed upon the
ticket It's different this year, how
ever. Goebels record is too rocky for
the best men of his party to swallow,
and the editor of the Louisville Post .
a stanch Democrat, does not hesitate to
predict Goebels defeat by 25,0OO to
$4,000 votes.
TINDER DOES NOT BURN.
Los Angeles Herald: An exchange files
this demurrer, in which the point is
we'll taken One of the commonest
newspaper remarks concerning brisk
fire is that certain material which
burned freely burned like tinder." "
Now, tinder does not burn and never
did burn 1t simply smolders. Burned
like tinder" is one of the many phrases
used by the people who talk and write
in phrases, without stopping moment
to think what the phrases mean.
DEWEY HAS SPOKEN.
Los Angeles Express: Admiral Dew
ey has spoken. and in no uncertain
tones. The Admiral is an expansion
ist," that is, he favors keeping the flag
| TylDS WtleIe 1t was placSQ ny the lOl
tunes of war While not denying that
he has spoken kindly Of the Filipinos.
he states unequivocally that he does
not think they are capable Of choosing
their own governors. and it is neces-
sary for the we'll being of these people
for the United States to remain in con-
troll
This plain and straightforward state
ment of the Admiral should at once
put a stop to all the silly talk of the
Admiral in connection with the Presi-
dency. William Mckinley is the logi-
! cal successor of William Mckinley as
President of the United States, and
even the yellowest of the yellow press
should recognize that fact. There was
never but one show in the world for
Dewey as a Presidential possibility and
that was by retiring William ]. Bryan,
committing Dewey as an anu-expan-
sionst on the Democratic ticket, and
trusting to the ''damphooP' element of
the American people to pull him
through. But the scheme did not work.
Dewey is too much Of an American, too
much of patriot to be caught by even
the bait of Presidential nomination
} To be President of the first republic of
: the world is the highest honor that can
come to any man. but there are some
things that are dearer to the true man
than even that exalted honor, and one
of them is the mans own self respect.
Dewey is too manly to take anything