The record-union., 1893-07-21
PRESS VOICE.
Expressions From Some of the Interior
Newspapers Of California

INeWspdpefS OF OatlIOrnla.
San Jose Herald: Some of the news
papers of California have denounced the
plan of permitting State banks TO issue
notes with great vehemence. They
might have saved their eloquence for
some other subject, however. The Con-
stitution of California specially provides
that no corporation or individual shall
issue or put in circulation as money any
thing but the lawful money of the
United States" The same class of news
papers are also bowling about the neces-
sity of making silver the money of the
country, when they know, or ought to
know, that ninety-nine hundredths of
all the contracts made in this State
specially provide that payments shall he
made in gold coin. and that the same pro-
Vlso is printed upon most of the bill
heads even that are used in ordinary
business transactions. Where. then, is
the sense of wasting words in denouncing
wildcat" banking, as it is called, when
the Constitution of the state specially
prohibits the use of any money that is
not issued by the United States? And
where is the sense of denouncng Con-
BreSS and the Government and every
body concerned for the decentralization
OF silver, when the people OF California
refuse to use silver in their ordinary
business transactions, and make all their
contracts especially payable III gold, and
when California is gold producing State?
Let us have little sense and consistency
In these matters. We shall have no wild
car' banks here, because their existence
IS specially prohibited by the state Con-
sututlon, and it will make little differ
ence to us whether silver is remonetzed
or not While we continue to make all con-
tracts payable only in gold.
Kern comfy Echo: Our Board Of
Supervisors seem to be tritie apathetic
about appointing delegates to the State
Good Road Convention. We do not see
how they can excuse themselves ii they
adjourn this meeting without making
the appointments. OF all the counties in
the State Kern should take the deepest
interest in this convention, for she alone
IS proposing an unusual expenditure of
money for road purposes. Perhaps no
other county III the state, too, is, OF ne
| cessty, laying out so many miles of new
road as is neeessitated by the colonization
i'll progress here. SO whether we issue
bonds Tor road purposes or not, we are
still extensively in the road business
That there Is great need of information on
| the subject OF road building does not ad-
NIT of argument. Moreover, there Is
also pressing need of awakening on this
! subject. There is too much Indifference
and even some opposition to the build
ing of good roads. Before we can make
much real progress in this direction the
end in view must be cordially indOrSed
| by the people generally. II a full quota
of delegates consisting of influential men
i'll different parts of the county be sent to
Sacramento to the convention, we may
enjoy an awakening on this subject that
Will 90 us good for many years. The
Supervisors should appoint full set Of
delegates and make them a reasonable al
lowance for expenses.
Santa Cruz St.1f: The wheelmen have
taken the lead in demanding good coun-
try roads, and the construction Of proper
roads Will remove one of the chief OBJ
Jections to country residence. Well
graded, smooth roads, properly drained
and well cared for, are a public interest
| that demands universal attention. They
are prime factor of civilization. Good
roads in a rural county mean better
schools, better churches, better market cts,
higher prices for land and better times
every way. When the good roads are
secured, the lOng-distance travel on BIZ
cycles will become something very con-
siderable, as it already is in Great Bri-
tain.
santa Cruz Sentinel: To educate the
masses TO the importance Of better roads
is no small matter. A good many men
have got rich while plungIng through the
mud ali their lives, and they think there
IS no way like the mud way. The object
OF life with them is not the way they live,
but how many dollars they will be as
sessed at when they Gle. What they en-
dured is good enough for their children.
MarysvilIe appeal: The greatest mis-
fortune of the Democrats at present is the
TACT that the Republican party is not in
power so as TO be blamed for the prevail
ing financial troubles.