The record-union., 1897-06-29
of the community Mr. Debs hs ruined
his case before the start
RE,TTE,R TIMES COMING

of the community. Mr.. Debs hs ruined
his case before the start.
BETTER TIMES COMING.
Los Angeles Times: Indications gen.
orally point to steady improvement of
business conditions throughout the
country, from now onward. The end of
the tariff discussion is in sight, and the
prospects are that the new revenue law,
While it will not be wholly satisfactory
to protectionists of advanced views, will
be so great an Improvement over the
present law as to exert distinctly bene-
ficial influence upon all lines of trade and
industry, with the possible exception
of the importing business. The new law
| will unquestionably furnish an amount
/ of revenue sufficient to meet the current
! expenses of the Government, leaving
some surplus to be applied toward pay
lnent of the national debt. This fact, in
! itself, will relieve the strain upon the
! treasury, and will be a potent factor in
/ the general restoration of confidence,
without which commercial and indus
/ trial prosperity is impossible.
| Henry CIews, in his financial review
| for the week ended June 18th, notes the
advent of a more cheerful tone IN
business circles throughout the country,
which he predicts will prove to be a
powerful aid to business revival. The
signs of actual Improvement are already
apparent. While New York has been
! the chief center of peSsimi6m, because
] there "the strain upon credit resulting
/ from the silver craze and trade depres-
sion was greatest" the tension is rapid
" disappearing, and has in fact almost
disappeared Confidence is returning,
! and those who lead are more willing
to take the initiative"
TOO MANY TEACHERS.
| Sausalito News: According TO the
! Fresno Republican" there are but two
vacant positions to be filled in the
| schools of that city, and for these posi-
! tions there are already more than 1OO
applicants. The same conditions may
be said to exist in every community IN
the State, from the smallest country dis
! trict to the largest cities Wherever
vacancy in the school department exists
scores of applications are filed by those
eager to secure the place. And the ma
chimes for grinding out teachers con-
tinue to turn, and hundreds of young
men and women are annually added to
| the army already in existence.
HOWLERS
! Contra Costa Gazette: The Philadel-
phia Enquirer justly compares the
class who are bowling because pros
perity did not set in the moment Nc
/ Kinley was inaugurated to farmer
who would not give seed time to grow,
an inventor who smashed his machine
without trying it, a soldier who quit at
sight of the enemy, preacher VINO
burned his books because the world
wasn't better.
OF TRAMPS.
Kern Echo: A city daily recently
made the loose statement that SO many
/ thousands of tramps We're roaming UP
| and down the face of the earth in the
middle Western States. The informa-
ton was without any apparent authen-
! ticity, but it was given OUT and that
| is enough to satisfy the drove of small
| er papers. They are now industriously
repeating the figures with an air OF
one who has suddenly came upon some
exclusive information. But the strange
part of it is that these large figures are
being used by Democrats only. They
! thus confess that four years of their
management has had a most alarming
! effect. In few cases they are heard to
marvel because the Republicans have
not righted all of these wrongs in nine
| ty days
HAWAII.
San Bernardino Times-Ind The
! New York World is opposed to the
annexation of Hawaii So is the bill
ious New York Times So is Liliu-
okalani. formerly Queen of Hawaii, and
England, and Japan, and few others
who are not particularly sympathetic
with American ideals and American
progress and enterprise.
POPULISTTC LEGISLATION.
Pasadena News: Lately we have seen
the workings of Legislation in the in
| terest Of the debtor class alone. In
the State of Washington when the Pop
ulists assumed control of the State they
at once began legislating against 'the
money loaners and plutocrats who are
| trodding down the poor and crushing
| out the life of the Republic" The laws
We're changed so as to provide loopholes
! for the borrowers and difficult tasks for
| the lenders. IT now takes three years
to foreclose a mortgage in Washing
| ton, and then no deficiency judgment
! is permitted Various other changes
were made to curb the greed of the
despised Wall-street class. The result
| of all of this is that the conditions have
| become so onerous in money loaning
that money cannot be borrowed; trade
| is throttled; the resources of the State
are undeveloped, and the very class
whom these unwise Populists intended
| to help have been hurt the most.
T Just across the Columbia River, in
| Washington. we were shown a piece of
property said to be worth $4,000, on
| which the owner could not borrow
| 81 600 We were told that if that same
| land was lying on the south side of the
river in Oregon, where Populist laws
! have not been enacted that $1,000
could be readily raised on a mortgage
| ON the land. The result of legislation
| has left Washington in a bad shape
| for the development of it's great re-
sources and Injuries most the people
whom they intended to benefit. Capt.
! tai has Withdrawn and is seeking other
channels of investment in other States.
i The debtor class must remain and suf
/ fer. Thus it is with much of the Wis
| ionary doctrines and unwise teachings
/ of those who would reform the world.