The record-union., 1897-06-24
Voice OF TIE PRESS
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on ouD-
iects of Living and News
Interest.

Santa Rosa Republican: Bryan
should keep an eye on Deps' WIZ 10
forcing himself to the front as man
Of many ideas and the first labor asl-
tator of our time. The man VINO Idlhs
ordinary things in politics is liable TO
have trouble with the nervous, tlreless
thinker who despises shams ana doeS
not hesitate to undertake the solution
of the most difficult problems OF Gov
ernment.
COLD COMFORT.
Riverside Press: The advocates OF the
free and unlimited coinage of silver are
finding cold comfort in the figures JUST
announced by the Director of the MINT
which indicate that the gold productions
of the United States in 1896 were Soo,-
OSS.O and are likely to be over SOU
0OO 900 in 1897. They are further trou-
bled by the additional fact that the
eo1d nroductions of the world are likely
to reach the unheard-of figure of S2oo,-
O0O 600 in the present year. When they
further. learn that the money in circu-
lation in the United States to-day is
Sl30. .149. .612 in excess of that Of one year
ago. they find difficulty in sustaining
their position of last campaign with ref
erence to silver.
DURRANT.
San Diego Union: The report that
the Oregon lawyer, who was prepared
with positive proofs TO establish Dur
rants innocence, has been declared py
a court to be insane, will surprise no
body. 1t is of course within the VIDE
range of possibility that even at TINS
late day, somebody may come forward
who has evidence that may help the
prisoner Judged by the ordinary
course of events, however, nothing can
be more improbable than that there is
a trustworthy person on earth VINO
knows of anything that can really ben
eft this wretched murderer. 1t VIII
be safe to say that anyone who sud
denly advances any such alleged new
evidence, s either crank or knaVe-
a fit subject for an asylum or jail.
MONEY SURPLUS.
Tulare REGISTER: Bank reports to
the Controller of the Currency at
Washington show a great surplus of
money in all the financial centers,
large part of which is practically un-
employed At the same time there
are other localities where money IS
scarce and interest high. Of course
the pouring of more currency into the
circulation would help but little. 1t
is a better distribution that is wanted
and this can only be brought about by
showing money owners where there is
a dollar to be made. It is an exhausted
credit which makes money scarce.
CONFLICTING DECISIONS.
Alameda EncinaI: The fact was pub
lished yesterday in the "Encinal' that
the Superior Court of this county had
decided a case in favor of a building
and loan association, wherein share
holder claimed that after he had paid
in q sum equal TO the amount of his
loan or rather the sum realized from
the loan with a fair rate of interest
added he should be absolved from any
further payment The court held that
this contention was not good, and that
the full amount of the loan associa-
TONS lien must be paid. Singularly
enough a somewhat similar case has
just been decided in Kentucky, with ex
actly an opposite result. suit was
brought against a loan association on
the ground that the rate of interest
charged by it was usuriOus Kentucky
having a usury law. The court held
that the remedial law enacted by the
Legislature in 1898 which authorized
these associations to charge not ex-
ceeding twelve per cent. interest, in
Guiding dues and the legal rate, is un-
constitutional. 1t held that all inter
est and dues in excess of g per cent
are usurious and cannot be charged.
1t IS held that even the dues are in
terest," and that the borrowers who
have been paying from II to II per
cent. in dues and interest are entitled
to recover, or be credited with all in
excess of 6 per cent. This decision
it is said, either knocks out or seriously
cripples all the loan associations in the
State.
A MATTER OF POLITICS.
Oroville Mercury: If the Republican
party has its way, enacts its own rene
dial legislation, and times do not i'm
prove, then no excuse can be offered for
the failure Of the party to fill it's prom
ises, party ties cannot be held together,
and the Republican party will be swept
from power by an indignant people.
Thus it is, that, playing the game of pol
itics, Democrats want to see the enact
ment of Republican tariff legislation.
legislation thev must oppose, while
many Republicans would be rejoiced to
see the defeat of the tariff that they
must advocate by voice and vote.
A MATTER OF GOOD TASTE.
Fresno Expositor: Some of the dis
patches voice sur9rise that Mrs. Eu-
gene Kelly, an American woman in
London, should have only British en-
blems displayed in her house decora-
tions in honor of the Queens Jubilee,
while many other Americans have the
stars and stripes intertwined with their