The record-union., 1899-09-14
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Ukiah Republican-Press: Colonel
Barnett of the Tenth Pennsylvania
volunteers tells how the interviews cen
surlng Otis were obtained from the re-
turning soldiers at San Francisco. 1t
SHOWS how far the great moral engines
VIII go IN order to carry out war
against those whom they dislike The
colonel says: Before the transport
senator came to anchor tug contain
ing half dozen local newspaper re-
porters came alongside and the first ex-
preston we heard was from one of
them who yelled: To - with Otis;
isn't that right, boys?' There were
several responses from the hundreds of
men on our boat, and the next instant
the reporters were sWarming on the
transport trying to get opinions ad-
verse TO General Otis. 1T was the
most remarkable piece of work | ever
saw. No opinion that was favorable
to Otis was accepted and l was subse-
quently told that a number of our men
interviewed were misrepresented in the
subsequent publication" The Exam
iner, it will be remembered, was full
of these short interviews. and the ac-
ton of that yellow journal and it's staff
of military editors was most atrocious
IN contradistinction to this infamous
proceeding read the manly statement
made by Father McKinnon, Chaplain of
the First California volunteers, who ar
rived home on the Sherman.
LATIN AMERICAN UNION.
Red Bluff News: A good deal is be-
ing said about Latin American union,
n q 90 Of oil of ha af1-iaG
south of the United States, to protect
themselves against your Uncle Samuel
who they are afraid will gobble them
up or do them great bodily harm, like
he is doing to the Filipinos. Pen them
up with treaty and they would be
like lot of roosters, growing, fighting
and scratching and clawing one an
other. They would all be wanting to
fly the fence before their treaty had
been in existence a month and would
be mighty glad to have Uncle Sam step
in and save them from each other. Such
treaty is preposterous, and the talk
of it sounds big among the interested
parties no doubt, but will not frighten
any one.
FOR TIMID AMERICANS.
San Diego Tribune; The anti-ex-
pansionists delight to quote George
Washington on the desirability of this
nation minding its own business. They
try to spread the idea that Washing
ton was a peace-at-any-pric man. Let
them read and ponder over the follow
ing statement by Washington: THE
United States ought not to indulge a
persuasion, that, contrary to the order
of human events, they will forever
keep at a distance those painful ap
peals to arms with which the history
of every nation abounds. There is q
rank due to the United States among
nations, which will be withheld, If not
absolutely lost, by the reputation of
weakness. If we desire to avoid in
suit we must be able to repel it; if we
desire to secure peace-one of the most
powerful instruments of our prosper
ity-it must be known that we are at
all times ready for war"
A SPECIMEN OF BRYANISM.
Stockton Independent: Bryan is re-
ported to have used the following lam
guage in his speech in San Francisco,
Wednesday night:
I hear some people say we are 60
ing to hold the Philippine Islands to
furnish homes for our surplus popu-
lation. There are sixty people to the
square mile in the Philippines at pres
ent and twenty to the square mile in
the United States. When we unite the
Philippines with the United States the
movement will be from the islands to
the United States and not from the
States TO the islands. We could not
force LOCO people from the United
States to go to the islands to work and
live there. Then, too, the white race
will not work in the tropics. They are
a different people after living three
generations in a tropical climate. That
country will never furnish homes for
our people,
1t would be interesting to know just
what people Mr.. Bryan has heard to
suggest the holding of the Philippines
to furnish homes for our surplus popu-
lation. Certainly no intelligent man has
made any such proposition. 1t has been
suggested that the Philippines will af-
ford a field for American enterprise and
energy, q Sub-center for American COM
merce, training ground for the sur
plus activities of American industry
and trade that are determined to spread
over the Orient, but no one has publicly
contended that the Philippines is a
place for American homes any more
than the ice fields of Alaska.
Mr.. Bryan's remarks on this subject
are eminently suited to incorporate in
a primary geography. 1t is undisputeu
that the Philippines are more densely
peopled than the United States, but the
resources of the islands are not de-
veloped, the activities of the ten MIL
lion people are not directed toward
| obtaining the greatest comfort an6
prosperity out of their advantages, and
the condition under their management
are not such as to invite progress.
CONGRESS MUST ACT.
| Red Bluff Peoples Cause: There is
no question of the growth of sentiment
in favor Of action by the Federal Gov,
ernment to provide storage reservoirs
| for waste waters in the arid regions of
the Western States That is the only
means to provide water for the re-
clamation of arid lands that will pre-.
vent the sources of supply falling into
| the hands of corporations and syndi-
Gates that will levy exorbitant charges
on the land holder. Indeed, the ma
tional Government is the only agency
capable of handling the enterprise in
| a way to protect the storage and to
carry on the undertaking on a scale
Of sufficient magnitude to make it sue
cessful.
LOCAL PROSPERITY.
| Weekly Calistogan: All reports from
the summer resorts for the season just
closed, show an unusually generous