The record-union., 1897-09-11
VOICE OF THE PRESS
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions Oh Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Fresno Expositor: 1t is neither good
thing for the producer or consumer to
have a product, and especially one OF
general consumption, go to an extreme
ly high price.-The Republican.
That is 3-cent raisins is about the
thing. but it would be calamity TO
have them go to 8 cents. Wheat at 40
cents a bushel is good thing, but
wheat at 81 30 a bushel would be de-
plorable thing. Our neighbor has them
again and evidently has them bad,
very bad" Fresno County farmers
would like to risk G-cent raisins and
wheat at 81 80 a bushel.
! TIME TO STOP IT.
Stockton Mail: The stay of execu-
/ ton obtained by Allender, the San
Jose murderer, outlines even more Wv
/ idly than the similar proceedings in the
Durrant and Hill cases the miserable
ineEf1ciency of the law to punish man.
| slayers. The crime Of Allender was
! cold -blCoded. The proof of his guilt
was overwhelming. The law took him
red handed, tried him, convicted him,
! sentenced him to hang-and cannot
/ hang him.
We submit that it is high time to
put an end once for all to the power
/ of lawyers thus to delay justice. The
/ Code of Criminal Procedure must be
radically altered. 1t is as certain as
anything can be that If the law con-
tinues to fail to deal with murderers
the people will take the law into their
own hands. Convince men thoroughly
that the courts cannot hang murderers
and the very best men in the cOmmu-
nifty will help hang such criminals be-
fore the courts can get them into their
protecting hands
The conduct of the Federal courts in
these murder cases arouses the anger
and the contempt of all men. There
| is absolutely no excuse for their inter-
ference. Durrant, Hill and Allender
all asked for Writs of habeas corpus on
untenable grounds. The contention in
either case has been passed upon time
and again by the highest court The
Judge in each instance dismissed the
application for the writ without digni-
flying it by even listening to argument.
And then the Judge in each instance
granted an appeal to the Supreme
Court Of the United States-thus secur-
the court should have refused to allow
| the appeal.
In the first place the whole procedure
is confessedly. dilatory. There is no ex-
pectation that the Supreme Court will
upset practice and precedent by over
ruling Judge Morrow. All that the at
torneys propose to do is to defeat the
law for a time. Why should the Fed
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used as a mesh to trip the feet of jus
tice? Is it not a fundamental rule of
law that the courts shall frown upon
dilatory tactics? Does not every law
yer swear that he will not hinder jus
tice or delay the processes of the law?
POSTAL BANKS.
Riverside Globe A movement which is
receiving some encourag cement and
which should be indorsed by every good
citizen, is the establishment of postal
savings banks throughout the United
States. To the average person of small
means this is indeed a much-needed
benefit. The wage Garner does not have
money to deposit in such quantities as
his richer neighbor The sum he saves
from his weekly cravings is small
one; nevertheless it is the formation of
a sum which, if placed where it can
draw but nominal sum of interest,
will be OF great material benefit to him
| in years to come.
In England it is said that about one
fifth of the population make use of
these postal savings banks, and that
the average yearly deposit of each per-
son is something like SO. Interest at
21a per cent. is allowed.
The banks Of this country and es-
pecially of our larger cities, will not
bother to open accounts and receive the
small sum which the wage Garner
would be able to deposit from week to
week. One case in the city of Buffalo
comes to mind, where a young man
having $3.50 wished to deposit it. He
went to nearly every bank in the city,
and in each case was refused permis-
sion to make the deposit
1t is likely that Congress at its next
regular session will be called upon to
take some action regarding the estab-
lishment of such a movement The
plan has been before the public for
years. Although it may have some
drawbacks, still it has much to COM
mend it.
WOOL.
Chino Champion: 1t will be hard TO
convince the sheepmen of California
that the Mckinley administration and
the Dingley bill are not bringing pros
perity to the country, even by the most
radical Populistic argument. An Or
ange County paper says: Fifty sheep
shearers will begin the seasons clip at
the Sansinena ranch Saturday. Mrs.
Sansinena, who will have several car
loads of wool, expects to get or 8
cents a pound for the output. Last year
it was difficult to get shearers to clip
the fieeces for them; there was prac-
tically no market for the WOOL
TRACKS IN ROADS.
San Diego Tribune: Advocates of
good roads will be interested to know
that the United States Department of
Agriculture proposes to lay in the cen
ter OF country roads two fiat steel
tracks of sufficient width for ordinary
farm wagon traffic. These tracks are
to be n-sixteenths of an inch thick,
and Will be bedded ia gravel laid in
trenches and fastened together at the
will be corrugated to enable horses to
obtain firm foothoId. Such a road is
expected TO be durable and TO reduce
the tractive resistance from forty
pounds per ton on a macadam sur
face 10 eight pounds per ton on the
! steel tracks On a short road the cost