The record-union., 1899-07-20

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reformatory to hold the young colored
criminals, and the Governor OF Wiz
ginia has promised TO transfer them
from the ether prisons to 1t. Such an
institution will make honest, law-abid-
ing citizens of hundreds of them who
otherwise would be further trained in
crime and turned loose to prey on So
ciety. The gift is not a snowy one,
for it is in the aid of a humble class,
but it is as truly benefcent as the
founding of university.
AMERICAN DUTY.
Tulare Register: The gateway to the
Philippine Islands was seized as a ne
cessity Of war; The revolt against
the authority of Spain was encouraged
for the same reason. Right there was
occupied a position from which there
was no retreat We were forced to
protect the islanders from the revenge
of Spain. We were forced to protect
the Spanish residents from the cruelty
of rebels. 1t became the duty of this
Government to maintain order and pro-
tect the. foreign residents. This the
civilized Powers of earth had right
to expect. The American Government
declared it's intentions and its pro-
pOsals We're fair, just and wise. These
were rejected-not by the great ma
jority of the Philippine millions; not
by the intelligent, orderly, responsible
element of the population; not by
those whose best interests were CEN
tered in a stable government and an
orderly condition of society. The OBJ
jections came from an ambitious ad-
venturer, misft, a political and in
dustrial pariah who had attained con
troll of a strong gang of murderers.
plunderers, outcasts-human libels of
the lowest order of intelligence, treach-
erous, blOodthirsty and revengeful.
This force was strong enough to tenn
porarily Illustrate the plans so we'll
considered and intended, and to pre-
vent for the time being the establish
ment of a form of civil government.
To restore order was the first. neces-
sity. That this has proved a heavier
contract than was at first supposed
has not been deemed a sufficient rea-
son for tamely dropping it and sneak
ing out of a plain duty.
THE CENSORSHIP.
Ukiah Republican Press: Democratic
papers have much to say of a censor
ship at Manila, but they can name no
essential fact that has been suppressed.
The official dispatches have given a
careful and complete history of events.
AS for sensation mongers and alarm
lists, the people are glad to know that
| their canard factory is cut off from
cable facilities.
SHE WAS FIRM.
Alameda Encinal: The international
Council of Women in London was
| called "a gathering; but, judging by
results, it was rather scattering.
Probably no such assemblage of repre-
sentative women ever before met for
| consultation, but there have been as
semblageS of women which accom-
plished much more. The trouble was
that the directors of the international
affair tried to make their mission as
large and as complicated as the meet
ing. They had something to say about
everything. They had prepared papers
on religion, art, science, philosophy,
education, POLITICAL economy, drama,
cookery, dress reform, medicine, moth
erland and mathematics. They reached
out into all the spaces of thought,
swept the whole horizon of the uni
verse and burroWed down into the hid
den mysteries of the human heart. Most
of the philosophers and reformerS Of
the other sex stood aghast at the conf
prehensive hurricane haste of Congress.
But despite the oppressive sense of in
finity that it awakened the Congress
manifested considerable more discra-
tion than it's many elements were in
the habit of exercising in their separ-
ate coteries. Much of this was owing
to the conservative way in which the
presiding officer, Lady Aberdeen, kept
her foot on the riotous feminine. She
gave the keynote to the proceedings
by announcing with incredible bravery
that t'this congress holds fast to the
belief that woman's first mission must
be her home May of the delegates
felt a strong desire either to scream Or
to faint at this announcement, but the
foot of Lady Aberdeen was firm, and
she insisted upon holding the nose Of
the congress down to first principles,
and it went along, cQpiously, saying all
kinds of things about all kinds of sub
jects, but treating man with considera-
BILE less acerbity than usual. Conse-
quently, although the congress had no
appreciable effect upon events and
I has not turned the course of destiny, it
nevertheless betokened a larger sense
of relativity and a kindlier feeling to-
ward oppressed man, who was virtu-
all admitted to be a painful necessity.
LEVEL HEAD"
Fresno Republican: The Inyo en-
dependent comes to the rescue of the
doubling Democrats in the following
expressive if not elegant, language:
"Anti-Republicans need but one plank
in their platform to settle the business
at the next Presidential election, the
same being nti-admanistration." The
Independents" head is level. That is
the only plank the antis need, and
the only one they propose to have.
But they will not express it SO clearly.
1t is the expression, not the substance
of it, that they are worrying over
now.