The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-06

nation tc endure many generations and
make much history. If we set aside a
holiday to commemorate each great
event, we shall have too many. The
establishment of holiday for less
thing sometimes stands in the way of
sparing another for a greater. The
Gunpowder plot is not suprenely Inn
pof1ant event in English history, but
Guy ,Fawkes' Day diminishes by one
the number Of available holidays to
spare for other events. So the number
OF small men buried in Westminster
Abbey when there was room deprives
greater men of place there now that
the room il fill. e This is not said Ii
derogetion Of the Importance of Dewey
and his victory, but as a caution
against the too early establishment of
permanent public holidays. Let a holi-
Cay establish itself in custom before its
permanence is enacted by law.
ADMIRAL SCHLEY.
Yreka Journal: How idiotically ram
pant sensationalism can become upon
nothing was shown when the routine
order of the Navy Department, detail
ing a board of officers, in accordance
with law, to examine all of the Com
ished, promoted to Rear Admirals, I'M
der the law recognizing the navy, was
seized upon and made the basis of as
wild a batch of stories as have been
sent from Washington in long time,
all to the effect that the Navy Depart
ment was arranging to down Schley by
having the board report him unit Tor
promotion, and in favor of his immedi-
tcfe
sons promotion was to be reported all
right. And sensible persons were
found, even in Washington, who be-
lieved the substance of these stories I'M
til an official statement from the Navy
Department made their ridiculous false
ness apparent to everybody.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL
SUCCEED ITSELF.
Portland Oregonian: All signs in the
political sky indicate that the Repub-
lican party will succeed itself in 1900.
This is not because the administrator
of President Mckinley in it's executive
wisdom and conduct has been entirely
without just reproach, but because the
Republican party in its policy IS
abreast of the times; it has risen to the
level of unexpected emergencies and
events, and the American people Will
pardon and condone imperfect execu-
tive administration of a sound, patriotic
public policy, while they will invariably
turn down the ablest man who fails to
apprehend and voice the national spirit
of the hour The effort to beat
the Republican party for reelection in
1900 is based on the feeble assumption
that the economic cost of the Philippine
annexation will be .disapproved by the
people. This assumption is absurd. In
ordinary hard times" we resent need
less public extrava gance, but in war
time, when the flag of the nation is
stif1y upheld by the President, we never
count the cost. No party that fought
to successful conclusion a domestic
or foreign war was ever yet defeated
at the polls in America, and whatever
may be the faults of McKinley's admin
istration through the executive folly
and nonsense of Algerism, the Ameri-
can people are with Mckinley in his
policy Of expansion and Philippine an
nexation. 1t was a great misfortune
that McKinley's Cabinet included Alger,
but it also included Secretary Long,
and whatever be the blunders of mall
administration, the people are behind
its policy and purposes.
THE LUZON INSURGENTS
Oakland Enquirer: 1t is a widely
prevalent idea that while the mass of