The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-02
VOICE OF The PRESS.
FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions ON SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

| Interest.
San Jose Mercury: The German
agralians are now Directing to the i'm
perial meat inspection bill because 1t
requires the inspection of German as
well as American meats. That Is some
| thing that the agrarians were not look
ing for, as there is a great deal or dis
case among their own cattle and hogs.
A curious feature of the situation is
that while the farmers in Germany
are protesting against the introduction
of foreign meats, they cannot raise sui
ficent cattle and hogs to supply the
home market, and there is actually
meat famine in the large cities.
A NEW DEPARTMENT.
Marysville Appeal: A department OF
commerce and industry whose chief
secretary shall be a member of the
Cabinet, will probably be created by
| the present Congress before its final
adjournment. The establishment OF
| this new division of administration viii
| be of vast benefit to the country, but
| hardly more so than department OF
mines and mining, presided over by
Cabinet officer. The total output OF our
mines now exceeds 81 ,O0O,O OOOOO, with
| almost one million people employed in
the industry. Congressman Barham
now has a bill before the House look
| ing towards the establishment of this
department.
GROWING SMALLER.
| Vacaville Reporter: William j. Bryan
no sooner resigned than he began talk
! ing against the retention of the Philip
pines. Mr.. Bryan will not be the NOM
| inee Of the Democratic party in l9UO.
| If he should be it is pretty certain
| that he would be beaten worse than
he was before. If Mr.. Bryan were
wise, having had his say, he would re-
enlist and maintain a clam-aike silence
| during the entire term of his enlist
ment Mr. Bryan was considerable OF
a figure in 1896. He is smaller at pres
ent and growing beautifully less
THE FOLLIES OF FASHION.
| Stockton Record: Not long ago
play from the pen of an eminent ora
matist was produced in New York City,
| the action of which was supposed to
take place in the early sixties, and the
MANAGEMENT restored the costumes
then worn by our women, which inciud-
| ed the enormous balloon hoopskirts
and the chignons of that period so
/ absurd did these articles of dress ap-
pear to the audience that during the
first act of the play the laughter OF
the spectators threatened to ruin the
piece. Although there was mo- satire IN
tended in the drama, it really became
the most bitter of all satires upon fash
ion. for there were the women of one
| generation treating with the widest
ridicule the costumes Of a preceding
generation which their mothers had
| worn and which were thought at the
| time to be comely and proper. Nor was
there any reason to doubt that the next
generation would laugh itself into hys-
terics at the dresses which had assem-
bled in that theater to see the play.
Nothing like this incident has occurred
| in our time to show how hollow and
| uncertain thing fashion is, and II
really gives some point to the french
| witticism which declares that woman
on the stage no longer attracts atten-
| ton by the clothes she puts on, but
only by the clothes she takes off,
| SOLVED PROBLEMS.
| Alameda Argus: As a result OF the
war that has been fought and won, the
American people are, at the end of the
wear. much more highly hopeful than
they were at its beginning, and find the
| industries reviving and prosperity re-
| turning in a manner that practically
solves most of the problems over which
! they We're wrangling at its commence
ment. Questions upon which the people
| were divided in acrimonious camps have
dissolved like mists. Men who posed as
prophets have been confused and IN
done, and besides the national glory in
evidence on every hand, the patriotic
people experience a present of generous
realization, and the vista of a future
| full of the brightest promise.
WILL BE REMEMBERED.
| Fresno Republican,: General Wood Is
evidently making a record in Santiago
J that win be remembered till the end Of
| time No one not familiar with the in
describably filthy habits Of the people
| of such cities as Santiago can realize
the sweeping nature Of the change made
| by the enforcement of the rules of or
binary decency. It involves a reversal
Of the whole manner of life of the peo-
pie so radical that nothing but mill
~
of course, highly desirable in the inter-
est of peace that the habits of the peo-
pie be interfered with as little as posi-
| BILE. Any attempt to substitute Ameri-
can for Spanish amusements or petty
vices will be abortive. But the radical
| changes demanded by sanitary condi-
tons may as we'll be enforced at once
and vigorously, so as to become syn
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with American occupancy and modern
rule.
| WHAT HE DID SAY.
| Marysville Appeal: If the people who
| are so vociferously shouting that Nc
| Kinley suggested the payment by the
| Government of pensions to disabled
Confederate soldiers, in his Atlanta
speech, will carefully re-read the adj
dress, they will discover that he did
nothing of the kind. His reference was
| to the disabled soldiers, North and
South, of the war with Spain. Even if
| they so desired, neither the President
nor Congress has the power to grant
pensions to disabled Confederates. The
| fourteenth amendment to the Constitu-
ton expressly prohibits such action.
OF BRYANISM.
Humboldt Standard: The men who
voted against Organism in 1896 will do
so in 1900, and many more who were
deceived by his free-silver sophistries
will join the ranks of his opponents.
His pyrotechnic oratory will avail him
nothing. He opposes the annexation of
the Philippines, Porto Rico and all
other territories taken from Spain as
the result of the war Even Porto Rico