The record-union., 1899-09-30
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Interest.
Los Angeles Express: Nearly all the
people who have urged that the United
states should retire from the Philip
pines and let the Filipinos go it alone
90 It on the ground that this Republic
should do nothing to hamper the spread
OF republican principles of government,
ana that We are SO doing by our re-
naming in control in the archipelago.
Ihey know, or if they don't know they
are tools, that our withdrawal would be
the signal for nations not republics to
parcel out the islands between them
with but little regard to the reconciled.
The truth is that the only chance for
the Filipinos ever to acquire self-gov-.
ernment is under the glorious Stars
and Stripes
SILLY BELIEFS.
Oakland Enquirer: Some political le-
gends will gain credence in the face
of any improbability evenwhen they are
not helped much by the more unscru-
pulous newspapers. 1t is used to be
an article of faith with a considerable
number of persons that President
Cleveland was in the habit of beating
his wife, and it is the same disposition
to accept the improbable which makes
certain people at the present time be-
lieve that President Mckinley has made
an offensive and defensive alliance with
England, and is keeping it secret. Sec
retary Hay has found it necessary to
| make public denial, and it is as fol-
lows. ic oil Ito m o.
land, nor with any Power under the
heavens except those known and pub
lished to the world in the treaties of
| ordinary international friendship for
the purpose of business and commerce.
No treaty other than these exists; none
has been suggested on the other side;
| none is in contemplation" That ought
| to settle it, but it won't.
CONSUMPTION
| Red Bluff Peoples Cause: The State
Board of Health is considering prop
| osition to quarantine against conSump-
| tives. Advocates of such a heroic meas
ure are no doubt influenced by the fact
that consumptives from all parts of the
world are attracted in such numbers by
the mild and genial climate of the State
| the health of the people of California
It is matter that deserves the most
careful consideration. Our first i'm
preston is that no good reason exists
why the State should be made the
dumping ground for the incurables Of
| the world.
THE DREYFUS CASE.
Santa Rosa Republican: There are
many people with whom Dreyfus will
not strengthen his cause by the with
drawal of his appeal and the acceptance
| of pardon at the hands of the French
President. His action is sure to leave
many in doubt as TO his guilt or inno-
cence. They will always feel that if
he was entirely blameless he would
fight his way in the courts to the end
of his days. Lack of belief in French
| justice will alone excuse the course he
has taken. If it were a case SO dis
posed of in this country there would be
quite general opinion that the accused
| was guilty.
| WANTED AN ADVOCATE.
San Jose Mercury: The larger events
| of the worlds progress in recent years
have found their field of action in the
Pacific Ocean. They include the war
between China and Japan, followed by
the advent of Japan into the COM
munity of vital nations; the advance of
Russia Through her Siberian railway
| to the Pacific Seaboard and her more
recent advance southwark from Vladi-
vostock to the open sea at Port Arthur;
| the practical break up of the Chinese
1 ont hIy
| Britain Of the coal resources of South
! eastern Asia; the annexation of Hawaii
| by the United States; the retirement OF
| Spain from the Philippines and the ex-
tension over these islands of American
authority There is no mistaking the
significance of these events They mark
| the entrance of new forces-racial, POI
litical, commercial moral-into a world
potentially new. They imply for Pa
! cific countries development beyond
the wit of human calculation In the
! largeness Of the new conditions pro-
/ jects like the interoceanic canal and
| the Pacific cable to which hopes nave
| long turned as to the largest of pos
sibilities, take their place in the list or
inevitable and relatively minor things.
| The supreme authority of the United
| States. and in a local and particular
sense Of the Pacific States, is at nand-
The new world of the Pacific ocean
| opens before us. In this new world
we may, if we answer our opportunl-
| ties, lead the movement of CONNER
cial and moral conquest All the ad-
vantages are with US; every suggestion
Of destiny is an element in our reason
| BILE expectation. Fortune has put into
our hands key by which we may en-
ter all the doors of Oriental life and
| interest. carrying benefits Wherever we
! go and receiving in return advantages
! beyond estimate
BASEBALL.
San Diego Union: The Chicago "Tri-
bunen bewails what it terms the decay
of baseball. There is no room Tor
doubt says that paper. "as to what
has pulled it down from its former high
estate. Commercialism in part has done
it. The players have become chattels.
Teams are bought and sold and are
transferred from city to city as If they
were live stock. The men who are
playing in Chicago this year may be
playing in Cleveland or New York the
next That cuts up all sense of local
pride in a club by the roots. There
have been teams which really belonged
to Chicago Of late years there have
simply been organizations of hireiings
whose ownerskinstructed them to hail
from here From. all of which it may
Fbe inferred that Chicago does not ex-
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