The record-union., 1899-09-26
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State and Coast Opinions ON SUBJ
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Interest.


py the Navy Department, which is ar
ranging 10 nave nearly all the fleet |
Captains VINO were with the Admiral |
at the battle OF Manila present to join
IN the reception OF their commander. |
Death mas taken brave Captain Grid
lay' out mas not otherwise invaded the |
ranks OF the Captains, and such feat
ure OF the reception as that contem- |
plated VIII no doubt touch Admiral
Dewey as much as any feature of the |
occasion.
SHOWS PROSPERITY.
Stockton Record A moments study
of business failures this year. and other
years, shows forcibly enough the pros
porous condition of the country. For
the week ending September 1st the
total failures in the United States were
1ol. For the corresponding week of
last year they were 164: for the week
of 1897 they were 1913, and for the cor
responding week of 1896. when the free
silver propaganda was stalking about. |
they were 1886
WHO ARE TRAITORS?
Los Angeles Herald 1t is easy for
one to apply epithets to those who diff
fer with him, and often abuse is found
IN q convenient recourse for those who |
have no argument to support their
views. This is illustrated at the pres
ent time by few men misguided into
the belief that they can silence all on |
position to the Philippine policy of the |
administration by charges of copper
headism and treason. Because one fol- |
lows his convictions of public duty and !
opposes what the men in power seek to |
do, he is not an enemy to the country |
The right to differ is universal, and it is
a right well guaranteed in this country. |
That a man thinks the Philippine
scheme a mistake, a series of blunders, |
is not evidence that he is a traitor. The
opponents of the administration may
be, and probably are, the most loyal
to the country. They believe that when
a mistake has been committed, the
right and polite course to pursue is to |
dividual conduct, which is equally ap-
plicable to public action. In govern |
ment by the people it is the implied |
duty of every man to obey the dictates |
of his own judgment and conscience |
would be a farce; worse than that, it |
controlled by interest and prejudice |
who assume infallibility and the right |
to dictate opinions. Our government |
is not yet oligarchic in any sense. The
self-constituted censors of opinion ere
simply usurpers of what belongs to the
whole people.
FOR AGUINALDO'S FRIENDS.
San Diego Tribune: The "Congrega-
tionalist" says that public men are dali
~ and openly accused on the slightest |
grounds, of acts and motives which no |
gentleman in private conversation |
would charge against anyone for whom
he had ordinary respect. For example, |
President Mckinley is charged with |
sacrificing his convictions to popular
clamor, with having purchased Filipi-
nos to make slaves of them, and with
having plotted to murder them in order
to secure reelection to office We men
ton him because he is the most con-
spicuous person in the land. 1t is the |
effort of those SO selfishly eager to win
approval for their own views that they
are willing to blacken the reputation
or public servants, whom they know
to be honorable, in order to make them
selves appear to be wise and right This
is one of the most vicious of common
means Of weakening the mutual trust
which is essential to a stable republic.
In the opinion of the Outlook the
question for the nation to decide is
whether, having succeeded by treaty
and purchase, to all the responsibilities
OF the only government which had ever
existed i'll the Philippine Islands, we
have any right to surrender those re-
sponSibilities to a small minority of the
inhabitants who, rifle in hand endeav-
or to expel us and to assume authority
over the rest of the inhabitants. We
believe that America will, by an over
whelming majority, reply to- that q1es
tion, whenever it gets the opportunity,
in the words of the President:
They assailed our sovereignty and
there will be no useless parley, no
pause, until the insurrection is sup
pressed and American authority ac-
knowledged and established"
FOOL FRIENDS.
San Bernardino Sun: The friends of
Admiral Schley have made a protest to
the President against the assignment
OF the hero OF Santiago to the command
of the South Atlantic squadron The
|
stating that Admiral Schley was ig
norant that any such action was to be
taken is entirely superf1uous, because
it is wholly obvious to any sane person
that Schley is not that kind of a man.
He knows that plenty of other men did
their duty, as he did his, and that what
he did was in accordance with what
he thought he owed the republic, and
not in conformity with any scheme for
grand-standing having as an ultimate
purpose the requirement of a lead pipe
cinch upon the President.
The men who, in the excess of their
patriotic enthusiasm, have defed the
prominent commanders who upheld the
honor of the flag, in the late war, have
done those commanders greater injury
than their personal or political foes
could possibly achieve. They have, in
effect, put such an exhorbitant pre-
millm upon duty that the future may
conceive that duty was a rare and an
commendable thing in 1898.
And it will be natural thing there
fore, to discount the notable achieve
ments of the war to an extent that will
leave scant justice available for the
men who really did great things
And the pathos of it lies in the fact
that the men who are being be-lauded
and deified havesno sympathy with the
worshipers who enshrine them They
are simple, soldierly souls doing that
which is in them as did their fathers,
and upholding the traditions of a SER
vice democratic in the promiscuous
rank Of those who have shed lustre