The record-union., 1899-04-12


has fairly and squarely entered upon
an era of higher prices. Every day S
dispatches tell of the wages OF some
thousands of workmen being advanced.
The products of their labor necessarily
increases in value as the cost becomes
| greater. The years of cheapness are
giving away to those of higher prices
for everybody.
SIGNED ARTICLES.
Marysville Appeal: At least over
worked reporters can do their part by
signing their articles and passing the
buck to the main guy Whether he
chooses to publish their names, John
Does, his own or none at all, is his
affair, and the weary scribes can con-
tinue to drown their anxiety in the
same old way.
| LOTTERIES.
San Joes Mercury: The Sam Francisco
police department has begun a vigorous
crusade against the Chinese lottery and
gambling games, and in the meanwhile
white lottery tickets are being sold all
over that town, the white lotteries are
publicly advertised in the newspapers,
and faro, stud-horse poker and slot ma
chimes and vile photograph parlors
ference. But the morals, of the heather
must be looked after
PARALLEL INTERESTS.
Stockton Independent: Notwithstand-
ing that there is little prospect of for
NAL alliance between the United States
and Great Britain there are already
several lines of parallel interests which
are bound to bring the two peoples
closer together and operate virtually as
an alliance so far as those interests are
concerned. They are both interested
in the absolute freedom of trade in the
| Orient, and particularly in the Chinese
Empire, which is to be the great com
mercial arena for the twentieth CEN
tury. They are both interested in the
maintenance of the perpetual neutrality
of the Suez canal This was a problem
that concerned the United States very
little until Dewey entered Manila har-
Dor eleven months ago. 1t now con-
Germs US very much, for it is the only
reasonable route from our great At
lantic ports to our new possessions in
the Orient There are other incidental
interests that are common to the two
countries, the Importance of which will
grow with the growth Of our COM
merce.
| HELEN GOULD.
| Santa Ana Blade: Miss Helen
Gould is in a fair way to make
the name of Gould loved and nom
ored throughout the entire country.
Her active benevolence during the
Spanish American war was the means
of making life more bearable for many
poor suffering soldier, and her splen-
n ha eli M .
recent awful fire in New York has
again demonstrated that the young
lady is made of the best sort of ma
terial
THE RESPONSIBILITY
Los Angeles Times: Senator Hoar.
Ed Atkinson and other milk water
theorists of New England are keeping
up a desultory, long-range, but annoy
ing fire in the rear on the American
forces in the Philippines, and on the
Washington administration. The vol
leys of these fire-in-the-rear patriots, it
is true, consist entirely of paper bullets,
and their aim is even worse than that
of the misguided F'ilipinos; for the lat
ter do occasionally manage to hit an
American, while the shots of Messrs.
Hoar. Atkinson, and others of the HUI
the circumambient atmosphere, making
plenty of noise, but doing no particular
harm.
One of the favorite postufates of
these guerrilla theorists is, in sub
stance to the effect that the Admins
tration is responsible for the state of
war which exists in the Philippines;
and the President is frantically be-
~. e.Io rI,+l Of
poor, downtrodden people, who are
fighting for their independence" etc,
etc This sort of talk is all very we'll
from the standpoint of a dyspeptic New
England theorist, but, as a matter of
practical fact, we are confronted by
conditions, not by theories, in the
Philippines The blame for these
conditions does not rest upon the
pie, in whose behalf and at whose be-
hest the President is acting.
The responsibility for the existing
condition of war in the Philippines
rests primarily upon the misguided
F'ilipinos themselves, and secondarily
upon Messrs. Hoar Atkinson and the
gang of milksop statesmen, nlisnamed
philanthropists, designing politicians,
ans of the neuter gender, whose ILL.
timed criticism of the Government, ard
whose mawkisgn sympathy for semi
civilized people who do not understand
the elementary meanings of liberty,
have encouraged that. people to enter
upon a hopeless struggle against the
power and authority of this nation.
The Filipinos are less to blame fer hav-
ing bitten the kindly hand that rescued
them from oppression than are their
American sympathizers for having en-
couraged them to commit an act of
such base ingratitude and treachery.
For the Filipinos have for 400 years
been educated in the hard school of
Spanish treachery, cruelty, and greed;
while their American sympathizers live
in an enlightened land, where they
should have learned some lesson, in
practical affairs, of which they appear
to be entirely ignorant.
OF TRUSTS.
Oakland Enquirer: Such are the queer
kinks of human nature that the owners
of manufactures which have sold out
to trusts generally do not wish to hold
stock in the trusts to which they have
sold, but are willing enough to invest in
other trusts which they know less
about This is the report which comes
from Wall street. and there is no reason
to doubt it's correctness The paper
manufacturer knows so much about
the paper business that he distrusts
the soundness of the trust controlling
it, but he is quite willing to take stock
in the steel trust or the sugar trust.
1t is human nature to love to be hum