The record-union., 1899-04-05
VOICE OF The PRESS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

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Interest.
Placerville Nugget: The State Of New
York has passed an Act prohibiting the
use of the American flag for advertising
purposes. While we do not believe
| that this is a State matter, still we be-
lieve Congress should pass an Act pro-
tecting the emblem Of liberty, the faith
er OF freedom flags.
TASTE FOR RAISINS.
| Fresno Republican: The laisin pro-
ducing district ought to, but probably
will not, profit by the example Of the
Indian corn producers. Corn is good
to eat if you know how to cook it, but
most of the world does not know,
therefore an effort is being made to
teach it, The effort will be renewed
at the Par.s Exposition next year by the
establishment of kitchens where arti-
cles of food prepared from corn will be
properly cooked and distributed free,
together with directions for preparing
them. The same thing ought to be
done with raisins, not particularly in
Europe, perhaps, but in other parts of
our own country. The trouble is we
do not know what to do with the rails
ms ourselves, and so cannot teach 9TH
ers. Some time ago the publisher of
Sunset" asked, through both Fresno
papers, for recipes fer cooking or using
raisins. Not a response was received
by either paper. We are grossly dig
loyal to cur best crop. What the East
ern market will not consume we feed
to the hogs, and, if we want a fruit
cake or plum pudding we import
'currants" from Greece to make it.
| We cannot call ourselves more than
| sojourners in California until some of
our habits are assimilated to its eli
mate and products. Evidently that
time has not yet arrived.
THEY ARE NEVER SATISFIED.
Humboldt Standard: AS soon as
wages begin to go up all over the East
the Democratic GROWERS, true to their
party creed, begin to look for some
thing to Offset the benefit to the work
ing man. They will acknowledge the
increase Of wages when forced to do
so, but they will assure the people that
some combination has been made to
throw a. Lott of men out of work to make
| it even, or even worse, for the laborer.
in the iron and steel industries have
wages advanced from 10 to 10 per
cent, but also in the glass. cotton,
wooden and a dozen other lines wages
have gone up, affecting hundreds of
thousands of factory men and miners,
the calamity howlers have a hard task
| to explain it all away We pity a
party that can only flourish on the mis-
| fortunes Of the people, and which is
never happy unless it can boast of the
| misery of other men, A party that
talks calamity and fattens on de-
pressed industries is not a cheerful ag-
gregation of people. Such is the Bryan
party. Cod pity it!
| THE FIGHTING IN LUZON.
| Alameda Argus: The fighting at Ma
Mia is not yet decisive. 1t is bloody
and terrible, but the end is not yet in
sight The insurgents are in retreat,
but will make a last desperate stand
at their capital Malolos. There is hard
| ly any doubt of the result, but there
is an apprehension that the best-laid
plans may possibly fail, and anyhow,
there is a certainty of great loss of
life and of the wounding of many 9TH
ers who go up against the waspish foe.
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| fighter. He has apparently profted by
the American example, for he appears
| to be much more effective than former
ly. He is evidently an initiative rep
tile. While the Spaniards had him I'M
der. in the intervals when he tried to
break away, he fought just as well as
| they did, taking his cue from them
But when the Americans came on the
| field he visibly improved. adopting such
of their tactics as he could carry out
| Under good officers and thorough dis
cipline the Filipino wouldn't make a
| bad general soldier.
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
| Los Angeles Times: A large proper
| ton of the college professors are OPP
posed to the course which this Gov
ernment is at present pursuing in the
islands. They would have the Presi-
! dent issue an order forthwith for the
withdrawal of all American troops from
| the Philippines, leaving the islanders
and the islands to their fate. But
every practical man of affairs can cas-
lily understand that such an act on our
| part would constitute one of the black
| est crimes of history. The position
which we occupy in the Philippines Is
not one of our own choosing. We have
| been forced into it by the exigences of
war, and in such manner that we can
not honorably turn backward, but must
go on, in the path we are pursuing, to
| a safe and satisfactory conclusion. To
withdraw at this junct ure-and there
has been no time since the battle of
Manila Bay when we had better OPP
portunity to withdraw than now
would be to leave the islands to a fate
far worse than the tyranny of Spanish
rule-the despotisms, the jealousies and
the interminable wars of native chiefs.
| THE INCREASE IN TRADE.
| Fresno Democrat: The enormous in
crease in general trade in the United
States is simply amazing. The bank
clearings for the whole country last
week We're 1874 per cent. higher than
those of the same week last year. New
York clearings showed an increase of
| 1905 per cent, Baltimore 1872 per
cent, Denver, Col, 100 per cent, and
Iron and steel mills are crowded with
orders and are at least thirty days be-
hind in capacity to fill4them If this
is the promised era of prosperity, Cali
| fornia is not behind in the procession,
but is marching to the tune of the band
right well up in the first division.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.