The record-union., 1899-02-05
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EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Fresno Republican,: 1t is proposed
to add to the legislative oath of office
In South Carolina a clause that the leg
islator has not lynched anybody since
January l. 1899, and will not lynch
anybody during his term of office In
strict consistency the legislator ought
to be compelled to swear that he Is not
a horse thief and will not burglarize the
State Treasury. We commend this
novel method of securing only the best
citizens to act as legislators.
UNTENABLE
Humboldt Standard: There is little
doubt that should President Mckinley
inform Senator Hoar that he would
follow his advice and recognize the in
dependence of the Philippine Islands,
the old Senator would be one of the
most surprised and worst alarmed men
in Congress Should the Government
of this country decide to do this we
would be deemed, by other nations, the
most pusillanimous people on earth.
Life and property, peace and order,
must be preserved in the Philippines,
even if we are compelled to fight to
secure these blessings to the islands.
The naughty and arbitrary manner of
Aguinaldo and his followers. their
known incapaeity for government
and the government of the people of
the Islands, the interests of foreign res
idents and the dictates of humanity, all
call upon us to bring peace and order
out of the chaos which the present In
surgent chief and his followers would
create, were they turned loose to work
their own sweet will in the Philippines.
A BILL, APPROVED
Chico Record: Belshaw's bill, MAX
ing it a crime for the keeper of a sa-
loon or public house where intoxicating
liquor is sold to permit any person I'M
der Is years of age to remain in or
about the interior of such a resort, is
wholly just and should become a law.
Many of the better class of liquor deal
ers now enforce such a rule, but there
are others who rather encourage the
visits Of minors and as a matter of
course their downfall follows The
rigid enforcement of such an Act would
not only protect young men from the
evils Of the saloon, but would bring
the business itself into better repute.
SMALL POLITICS.
Yreka Journal: President Mckinley
may be, in common with many other
SAei-SAS, liOiOuSuiy UlS2uSI6Q
with the game of small politics the
democratic Senators, with five or six
exceptions, are trying to play for the
control of the Democratic party. with
the treaty of peace; but he knows that
tney cannot injure him or the Republi
can party or the country, and that. al
though they can delay the ratification
OF the treaty, they cannot prevent If
Inc most thar the obstructionists can
90 Will be to prevent the treaty. being
voted upon at this session of Congress-
IN that case, an extra session will be
called to ratify the treaty. Neither
President Mckinley nor the Republican
leaders of the Senate. will consent n
the compromise offered by the obstr,c-
lonlsts to amend the treaty by bindinr
this Government to particular policy
towards the Philippines.
NO WEST POINTERS
San Diego Union: 1t is an interest
ing fact that out of the military Off
cIais Who have come in for criticism or
censure in connection with the late war
not one is al West Pointer. The fano,,s
military academy does not number
among its graduates Secretary AIger
General Miles, General Shafter. General
brooke, General Breckenridge. General
Co1nin or General Eagan. There can
De no question, therefore. of jealousy
mis- time between army officers who en-
pereo the service through West Point