The record-union., 1897-06-30
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EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions or Sub
jects Of Living and News
Interest.

stockton Independent: SOME euItoi9
seem surprised at the evidence or per-
jury in this now celebrated series OF
suits TO sustain and to defeat MIS- Cfa-
ven'S claims as the widow OF James u.
Fair Why should there be any surprise?
Perjury, even in cases OF far less mag
nitude is one of the most common OF
crimes and one that is most difficult to
prove and punish. II has been plainly
apparent IN all the great cases i'll
which any considerable amounts have
been involved in all parts of the coun-
try for many years, and il has been
particularly rank in those cases where
wills and secret marriages were In
dispute. People apparently OF the nigh
est respectability have seen their tes-
timony disputed by others whose re-
spectability and credibilfty was as
great as their own and where the pos
sibility of honest differences appeared
TO be precluded II will therefore be
no cause of surprise if Judge Aitken's
testimony should be fatty contradicted
in this case.
NOT A CIRCUMSTANCE.
San Bernardino Sun: Our crime of
73'' was not a circumstance compared
with the crime which has just been
committed against the dollar of the
Peruvian daddies Our crime of Is
consisted in the nominal suspension of
coinage of a dollar which had not in
reality been coined for years, while the
Peruvian crime" which has just been
committed provides that not only shall
the coinage of Peruvian soles be sQs-
pended, but that the coins. when
A. I1oy ,o11t
ed up and returned to their owners in
bars. This is the result of Peru's long
experience with the free coinage of sill
yer. 1t has not only made gold the
standard, but proposes to melt down
the coins brought into the country and
pass them back to their owners in the
form of bullion.
ANNEXATION.
Lyon County (NevG Tribune: Japan
is upon her hind legs in regard to the
annexation of the Hawaiian Islands and
threatens and demands certain things
to and from Uncle Sam. Japan does
not want Uncle Sam to annex the ISL
ands because there are Il great many
Japs there, and in the case of annexa~
ton they could not be citizens of the
United States, while they can now be
citizens of the Hawaiian republic. Ii
is our opinion that Uncle Sam ought to
own the islands, as we'll as Cuba, and
such slight protests as are made by
Japan and Spain should De paid 40 at
tention to. The idea that the United
States must take what is left after 9TH
er countries take their pick is played
out.
OF POPULATION
Fresno Republican: Late statistics
show that this country would be de =
creasing instead of gaining in popula-
ton if it. We're not for foreign immigra-
ton, to such extent has the birth rate
decreased in recent years. 1t is a cause
of great anxiety in France that the
birth rate is less than the death rate,
but the state of affairs in some por-
tions of the United States is even more
serious. If the American birth rate
should continue to decrease it will soon
become a choice between heavy
stream of foreign immigration and de-
population.
TARIFF PROTEST.
San Bernardine Sun: The protest of
certain nations against the protective
tariff which the United States is about
adopting and their proposition to re
| tahate'' by shutting out the products
of the United States is ludicrouS, when
the effect of such a proposition is taken
into consideration. Japan, for instance,
has sold to the United States in the
| past decade just four times as much as
the United States has sold to her The
imports into Japan from the United
States in the past decade have amount
ed to IS million yen, while the exports
from Japan to the United States in the
| same time have amounted to 313 mil
| lion yen.
RECIPROCITY.
| Humboldt Times: The reciprocity
| feature of the new tariff law is likely
TO be even more satisfactory than that
of the Mckinley law. The addition of
tea and hides to the dutiable list in
| creases the opportunity for obtaining
| favorable reciprocity treaties, and it is
| understood that the Senate will put
| into the bill such provisions as to make
| it practicable to secure very advantag-
eous reciprocal arrangements with
many countries, all of which will be
especially in the interests of the ag-
riculturists of the country.
| HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
| Riverside Globe: President Nc
Kinley recognizes the onward sweep
of manifest destiny There is a
I yIo1Ip of StafeGrnan in This conn