The record-union., 1899-06-20
A CHEEKY FELLOW.

Aguinaldo is a cheeky fellow. He
has persistently set the rules Of humane
warfare at defiance. He has conta.nt-
ly violated the sacredness Of the flag
of truce; has over and again fired upon
and violated the Red Cross insignia
whict by convention Of the chief ma
tons Of the world all people are bound
to respect. He has killed our surgeons
operating for the relief OF his own
wounded men in the open field. He
has bombarded hospitals and fired on
the wounded. He has tortured prison
ers to the death, and mutilated their
dead bodies He has refused US open
battle and has kept up the spirits Of
his followers by the most infamous lies
concerning Americans and their treat
ment Of prisoners and captive towns
and peoples
Yet after all this he has the effrontery
to enter protest with our Govern
ment against the acts of our ships Of
war in bombar6Ing coast Filipino viii
lagos and towns without giving the
notice usual in war. The fellow ap-
pears to overlook wholly the fact that
we have never bombarded towns which
availed themselves of the right of pro-
lection. In every case we have found
these towns sheltering and succoring
the insurgents and the necessity has
ever been upon us of standing idly by,
and seeing the insurgent troops equip
and provision themselves and march
safely away under shelter of the
claimed notice, or else treat the town
as public enemies harboring and shell
tering the foe. These townspeople
have had ample opportunity to escape
in every instance unless our advices
have been false. The Government at
Washington treats the protest as 1t
deserves. with silent contempt, and
refuses to impugn the conduct Of our
naval officers by giving ear to COM
plant against them from such source
California cannot get into the main
exhibition building at Paris to make a
collective State exhibit, as space is
limited and the rules forbid The best
which the State Commission can secure
is a conditional promise of authority to
erect a State building at vincennes,
seven miles away from the exposition
proper. This, If not exactly being out
in the cold, is good deal like it.-Oak-
land Enquirer.
California's interest in any worlds
fair is in having collective exhibit. OF
course our products shown in the de-
partments will add to the sum total of
the exposition the nation will make.
But with California it is pure, confess
ed and unadulterated selfishness Iso-
lated, in a sense. a large State with
meager population and limitless re-
sources, California Is located thousands
of miles from the heart of national pop
ulation. She wants more people for her
acres and more consumers for her prod
ucts. One way to induce both is to
have a collective exhibit at any fair
where we enter. that the State as a
whole, richly productive empire, SO to
speak, may be seen and understood.
This cannot be accomplished fully
where our products are classified ma
tionally, nor where we exhibit in q
small section set apart for each of the
States For there must of necessity be
small sections, since the aggregate will
be large. It is. therefore. better that
we have a. collective exhibit '.seven
miles away" than none. We do not
believe. however. that the distant 1oea-
tion win be, adopted. We will exhibit
with the other States in the national
section. and largely we viii be lost in
that showing.