The record-union., 1899-09-19
VOICE OF The PRESS.
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS:
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects OF Living News
Interest.


Alameda Argus: Another illustra-
tion of how a certain class of public
officials refuse to let go after a pro-
nounced effort is made to kick them
out is afforded by DR.. Sponogle of the
AgneWs Asylum. The board dismissed
him for cause. and he appealed to the
courts. The courts sustained the board
and still he refuses to accept the in
| eyitable. but declares he will appeal to
a higher. A self-respecting man, one
might think, would not hang on to
public position after those who are
charged with his employ wanted to dis
pense with his services. It is almost
proof of his unworthiness when he re-
fuses to bulge, but resorts to law and
the courts to perpetuate q tenure that
| the good of the service demands should
! be terminated.
| HAPPY FARMERS.
| Los Angeles Times: A striking in
| stance of the remarkable development
of western territory under business
| like national administration is furnish-
ed by the report of Oklahoma Territory.
| This month there will be celebrated the
sixth anniversary of the opening of the
i Cherokee Strip. which took place IN
| September, 1893 At that time the
lands comprised within seven counties
were grazing ground. Now they have
a population of nearly 100000, not
counting Indians on the reservation.
As an agricultural section, the Strip
has taken high rank. One of the
counties, Kay, claims to be the banner
wheat county in the nation, and is
tprobably entitled to the honor. 1t raised
last year 100000 bushels; the year
before 100000. and this year the yield
will be about the same. Newkirk, one
Of the towns in that country, billed out
1,64o cars of grain in the past two
years The prize for the best twelve
ears of corn. offered by an Eastern
| firm, went to the Strip, and the Terri.
tory has raised 100000 bushels of cas-
tor beans, nearly all of which were pro-
duced in that section of the new lands.
A WORLD BOYCOTT.
| Fresno Republican,: There is more
| bluff than sense in the talk of an in
ternational boycott of the Paris expo
| sition on account Of the Dreyfus yer,
dict. The exposition is year off, and
a great many things can happen es-
peclally in France, in year. Long be.
fore the year is out France will either
have regained or utterly lost her posi-
t1on in the family of nations, and it is
on the events to come. not on the In.
famous event just passed, that the at
! titude of the world toward the bie
French show must depend
just now France is under the stern
diSpleasure of the world The accred>
lted organs Of public opinion of every
civilized nation have voiced the delib,
crate judgment of the world that
France has fallen from her high estate
| 80 solemn a conviction needs no boy
| colt to enforce it. Nations exist onIy
| oy mutual -forpearance and esteem
! else by force. France. having -ost the
esteem of the world and of her own
enlightened people is given over to the
sole support of force. If she regains
| the esteem of the world. the Paris ex-
position will be. success. if she retains
the present disesteem. the resultant
rule OF force will need no help of boy
eott to make the exposition a failure
The choice is for France to make and
we can neither help nor hinder it.
GENUINELY AMERICAN,
san Jose Mercury: Those who thus
remember "Harper's Weekly and who
nave always recognized and commended
| the cleanliness, ability and force of it's
methods, will be glad to discover in its
very recent numbers signs of something
like its old patriotic mood In respect
10 the duties which have come upon us
as result Of the Spanish war, the
w eekly'' Is again positively and gen.
ulnely American in tone and spirit 1t
looks to good results from our new
connections with the Spanish islands 1t
sees what has been done in the way
OF administration in Cuba and it VEN
lures the prophecy that high duties
with good work abroad will react fav-
orably upon national character and up
on our political and administrative life
at home.
1t is, perhaps, in the matter of the
Philippines that the recent and better
mood of the Weekly is best manifest.
1t sees the situation very clearly and
it stands with those who support the
President in his determination to fight
the war IN Luzon to its finish and to
establish American authority on
firm basis. With a slight reserya ton
implied in the phrase mo matter how
the war began it declares that "there
is nothing for the patriot but to sup
port it." This is we'll considered and
Well spoken. We commend the article
from which it is taken to the
| attention Of those who in times past
have had reason to condemn the
Weekly and to doubt it's patriotism
There can be no question as to the
spirit of the American people in this
war. They will fight it to the end no
| matter how much time or how much
money it may take. We are not going
to funk. In spite of the outcry of the
little coterie of American "Aunties"
to which our good but mistaken friends
Mr.. Valentine and President Jordan be-
long, there is no general feeling in
this country opposed to the war in
Luzon. The American people are as
determined in this matter as they have
ever been in any proceeding of our
national life.
WHAT BRYAN SAW.
Stockton independent Mr.. Bryan
came to a State in which the conditions
are unfavorable to his doctrine of hard
times. California courtesy prompts q
respectful ear, even to discredited poll
cies, and California courtesy will be at
| tracted to the same old circus, even if
! it comes again and again. But Mr..
Bryan mistook his field and his topics
| when he came to California TO talk
against the conditions of the people un-
der Republican policies.
lie came in the harvest time and if
his eye is observant of anything be-
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