The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-29
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depreciation of international law the
United States had no business to take
any hand in Cuban affairs beyond that
OF merely Kidding the island of the
| Spaniards. 1t is to be questioned
whether we had even that right, in
deed, but war suspends laws and al
| lows extraordinary privileges to those
who win. The case was urgent, and
Americans are not disposed to stick
at technicalities when vital and imme-
date issues are at stake. Cuban cities
i needed policing. to prevent riot and
1rlghtful disorder, and as American SOL
dlers were there on the ground. it was
entirely logical that they should do the
work. They could not safely live, how
ever, in the fetid atmosphere of those
| unclean cities, so sanitary regulations
were put in force and the Cubans given
a few wholesome lessons. One thing
led to another; having begun on the
work of Strengthening things out and
nndlng the Cuban themselves absolute
ly helpless and no account, the Ameri-
cans gradually took charge of the whole
business, and are now building roads,
reorganizing the mails, starting schools,
putting in sewer systems, conducting
courts, collecting the revenue and gen
orally administering the whole Govern
ment. The situation is almost comic
and yet it has a heroic side. 1t shows
how the characteristic energy and good
sense Of the American when brought
right up to a problem which other ma
tlonalities, excepting the British, would
split hairs over until it was too late to
do anything, proceeds to cut the gor-
dian knot by doing what needs to be
done, leaving all discussion of his rights
IN the premises to come in at more
convenient time.
GOVERNMENT AND BANKS.
Colusa Sun: A dispatch of the 18th
informs us that the Secretary of the
Treasury will have to withdraw a large
portion of the money the Government
has deposited in the banks of New
York and other large cities The an
nouncement is put out in the shape of
an apology, and the S2OOOO,OOO to be
paid Spain for the fun of whipping the
Fflipinos is the excuse The Secretary,
IN discussing the matter, said that the
Government could not be expected to
keep these deposits up to the maximum
all the time. Now, one uninitiated
might be permitted to ask why the
Government is expected to keep large
deposits In the banks without receiving
any interest? This money collected
from the necessities of the people is
used to prop up the credit of those who
are taxed only on their necessities, and
not on their ability to pay. From the
tone of the dispatch it is seen that it is
counted a great hardship for these
banks to have to give up the money,
and because thereof the Secretary is
placed in an awkward position. And
so goes these special privileges The
necessities of the country must be
| taxed to keep up the Government;
taxed to maintain a foreign war, the
chief and only object of which is big
contracts; taxed to protect all sorts
of big enterprises, and withal. to keep
money in the banks! And yet this
people go patiently along, carrying the
burdens and eating the thistles by the
waysidel
THE BLUFF.
| Marysville Appeal: The gentleman
who remarked that with sufficient CAPT.
| tai to carry his bluffs through any man
might develop into good poker player.
evidently spoke from the wisdom gath
cred as the results of past bitter expert
ences. Thoughts engendered by a con-
stderation of the foregoing cause us to
remark that the principal reason why
! Colonel Bryan went down to defeat an
event likely to be duplicated and inten-
sified next year, is the great lack of
legitimate working capital possessed by
that buffer, who was reeklessly ex-
travagant in the PRONUNCIATION of weak
theories, which he was totally unable to
bolster up with anything more substan
tial than a flood of ceaseless words,
prettily strung together but totally de-
void of merit or substance. Poker and
politics are games which, when INDUCED
in, should be played with consummate
skill and a knowledge of those tricks
and devices which do not fit man for
association with Heavenly bodies.
ONE POINT OF VIEW.
Los Angeles Times: Those self-con
stituted censors of our foreign policy-a
policy which came to us as an involun-
tary legacy of the late war, those self
sufficient ignorant or Indifferent to the
events which have attended the march
Of civilization in the past Have they
forgotten that it is the mission of the
Western nations to engraft-to force, if
recessary-a higher civilization on the
effete nations of the East? Have they
forgotten that since the days when
Utilization attained it's zenith on the
seven hills of Rome that the immutable
course of the car of progress has been
from the West to the East-from the
center of Europe in the middle ages
across the Boephorous and thence into
the land of sacred story; from the isles
! OF the nOrthland into the hot plains of
India; from the slopes of the Balkans
into the heart of the Ottoman empire,
and last, but not least. from the shores
of fair America into the East Indies
Have these veiied prophets of evil for
gotten that the first landing of the
Americans in Japan, under Commodore
Perry, was the entering wedge of civ
iiization into that fair and favored, yet
unprogressive country? Have they for
gotten that it was the establishment of
protectorate over Hongkong by the
British which opened the door for the
advance of civilization into the Celestial
empire? Have they forgotten that it
is the mission of Christianity to spread
the holy light in every cline, to pro-
claim the advance of a purer civiliza
ton, to penetrate the gloom of super
stition, and to prepare the way for the
coming of Him who is the author of
peace. the incarnation of love?
CUBA
Oakland Enquirer: The Cuban an
neSation bureau has settled down to
work, apparently, prepared to exert
long pull and a strong pull to bring
| the Island into the Union We have