The record-union., 1899-04-14
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
~jects of Living News
Interest.

| Dedrldden with Iumbag0. Br1tlSn anu
American diplomatists should take
heed and have care how they monkey
with the Kaiser until the hinges of his
back get SO they will open and close
without cgeaking. or there will be war
over Samoa Or any other pretext that
come handy. Our experience With the
llumbago justifies the opinion that it Will
make devil of a saint, and as the
Kaiser is farzfrom being a saint he is
correspondingly closer to being devil.
1t would be entirely possible for a case
of lumbago to precipitate a world war,
the greatest i'm history.
CALLED DOWN.
| Fresno Republican,: 1t is high time
| for somebody to call down the news
paper artists who persist in drawing
sensational pictures Of basket ball
games by High School girls or univer-
sity students. Neither. the costumes,
the attitudes, nor the spirit represented
in the drawings at all resemble the act
ual facts of the game. They are gen
orally something between a football
caricature and a. police gazette abomi-
ration. Nobody's privacy is sacred
these days, and the basket ball girls can
probably no. more escape publicity than
anybody else, but it would at least be
the part of decenoy to represent the
game as it is, not as rnorbidi imagina-
tion pictures it.
THE BOSTON VIEW.
| Los Angeles Times: While our brave
soldier boys are combating an un-
healthy climate and Mauser bullets in
the Philippine Islands, and doing deeds
of yalor that excite the admiration OF
! the civilized world and win hearty rec
ognition from foreign nations, it is GER
ltainly not only surprising but most
discouraging and unpleasant to read
these continued scofflng criticisms
which emanate from New England, the
birthplace of the great American ma
ton which is now taking its proper po-
sition among the great countries of the
Garth.
The latest f1ippant observation of this
kind is credited to prominent Boston
lawyer, who, in pleading for Aguinaldo
and his followers, is quoted as saying:
We are giving hell to a people who
have never injured US or violated any
law of nations, or committed any other
offense than to set up an independent
government and to seek to found re-
1 QuUllC uPOll lllc O-St lAiSN%A.7- NS-N-
menting upon this remark, the 'Ameri-
can Cultivator," with much peril
nence, says:
Really, was it no injury, after he had
persuaded American officers to take him
back to the island that he had left when
he received bribe of SS00,OOO from
Spain. for him 10 raise an army to at
tack those who. had thus benefited him?
| ~, 1r,vx -rNfy1
him to allow his troops to fire upon url-
armed men bearing a flag OF truce!
Does that law sanction issuing orders
to massacre upon certain date all the
white inhabitants, men, women ana
children, in a large city? Is it no offense
to behead. without the form Of trial,
ar officer who ventures to suggest.
possible surrender to a force superior
| in numbers and in military ability! we
doubt if the honorable gentleman could
obtain a verdict of not guilty OF vlo-
lating the law of nations. or any other
cfense for his clients, before any fair
minded jury.
CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED.
| Stockton Independent: The advent
| of America into world politics has
changed the policy of every nation IN
| the world that figures conspicuously IN
the affairs of the day. 1t is the most
notable event to the civilization OF the
world since the cha1tering OF the East
| India Company by the British Govern
ment The real issues before the Amer
lean people is to judge of their own ca
| pabilities-the application OF the same
tests to themselves and their sovereign
| ty that they apply to other Powers. Can
we trust ourselves to leadership IN an
! advancing of civilization as we trust
! Germany, France or Great Britain! IL
not, then are we fit tol govern ourselves
properly.or may we hope for prosperity
under any policies?
The element of universal equality IN
troduced by those who oppose eXpah-
sion unless by the consent OF the gov
erned," will not have a serious bear
ing for some of these very theorists
propose other entertainments without
waiting for consent. They are Wiling
to govern Porto Rico, whether the peo-
pie consent or not. They are wiring 10
! seize a coaling station in the Philip
pines without asking any consent Even
Senator Hoar proposes to force pro-
tectorate ON the Philippines. But will
he explain to American citizens where
/
{ TO cafifornias-or any other State or Ter
| ritory is anything more than protec-
/ torate and wherein any citizens hper-
1 ties are abridged by complete absorp-
! ton? stst ~ssstgf 81
4 ADVANCE OF PRIZE FIGHTING.
Pomona Progress: Can 1T be true that
! Colorado, a stronghold of woman suH-
rage, has legalized prize fighting! A
dispatch from Denver says that the
| Legislature has passed bill to that
effect and Governor Thomas has sign
ed it, Colorado's disgrace is second
only to that of Nevada. Yet Nevada
enacted such a. law only after a hard
fight and by very small majority,
while Colorado seems. to have done it
/ without struggle. State in which
woman suffrage prevails would be ex-
pected to be the last to enact such
law; but evidently the sporting lnnu-
ences of CoIorado's mining camps is
stronger in her Legislature than the re-
| fining influences of her, women, espe-
cially as her refined women seem to
i take no interest in suffrage and avail
| themselves but little of it's privileges.
Regret and shame were felt throughout
the whole country when Nevada opened
| her doors to prize fights and invited
them to come in The odium seemed so
great that it was not. thought any other
state would follow her example: but
Colorado seems to have done SO quite
willingly.
THE PARIS COMMISSION.
| Humboldt Standard. The Governor
q has