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MAY 17, 1896 LOCAL OPTION AS A STATE ISSUE However much the people of Califor nia may be divided in opinion on nation al issues, such as the tariff, finance, and foreign policies, there is one question of slave Importance on which all Intelli gent voters who really desire the good of the commonwealth can and should unite. We refer to the question of local option in taxation. A strong effort was made when our last legislature was In session to Induce that august body to pass a local option law, but the effort failed, as many a worthy effort has failed in a legislative body afflicted with dull consciences and a paucity of brains. The more the subject of a state law permitting each county and municipal ity to select its own method of raising public revenue Is Investigated the more rational, reasonable and fair it will ap pear. If the people of one county or one city desire to adopt a taxation system different from that prevailing In some other county or city they should have that privilege. This question Is coming to the front more and more In various states besides California. The movement In New York city and state for the proposed change is stronger today by 100 per cent than it was two years ago. It is only a ques tion of a few months more when the em pire state will have laws allowing the people the leeway they desire in the matter of taxation. Many of the wealthy and influential business firms of New York city are using their influence and contributing money to the fund of the Tax Reform association—an organ:/... tion established purposely to bring about this reform. It is believed thaL If the voters of the metropolis were per mitted to decide the question for them selves, without state interference, they v, ould, by a large majority, abolish tax ation on personal property of every de scription. In Illinois there 1b a local option movement of formidable propor tions and strength. The Democracy of the state is virtually committed in fa vor of it. The eighth biennial re port of tho bureau of labor statistics, v document emanating from a Demo cratic administration and endorsed by sensible, honest men of all parties, strongly urges the adoption of local op tion and backs up the recommendation With an array of statistics which con stitute an unanswerable argument. The biate federation of labor is also com mitted to the reform, and its president is one of its ablest advocates. The issue will be made In the state convention soon to be held at Springfield. The B&ng&mon county Democratic conven tion, recently held at Springfield, de clared emphatically In favor of local op tion. Advocates of the measure will go into the state convention determined to at cure a local option plank In the plat form if possible. Should they be de feated they will withdraw from the con vention in a body and then announce to the world that the working clsjwes and their best interests have been Ignored by the Democratic party. Such a result would most likely prove calamitous to the Democracy of tte state, and set back the canst of tax re form several years, For If the Demo cratic party fails to recognize i Ills plain, reasonable demand for the rights of tho people, surely nothing can be expected from the old party of prejudice, restric tion, discrimination and special privil ege, which as a matter of custom is mis called the "Republican party." No state can legislate on that bone of con tention, the money question, nor on that other national issue, the tariff. But each state can decide whether or not its existing system of taxation shall be ex changed for something better. In every state the present plan Is more or less de fective and unjust. In some of the states the taxation laws and methods ! are simply outrageous, and ought to be ; repealed or amended at the earliest pos sible day. In the latter list is California- Now while Republicans. Democrats, Popu lists and Prohibitionists differ on na tional Issues there Is no reason why vot ers In all those parties should not be united In favor of local option in taxa tion. Such a change would be a bless ing to the entire people of this common wealth, regardless of political opinions, religious professions or secular occupa tions. Let the voters but say the word and it will be done. Tax reform Is a live issue. It will no more down than would Banquo's ghost. Intelligent people al i most everywhere are beginning to real- I Ize, partially at least, the incongruities, | absurdities and injustice of existing 8s ! cal policies. They want something I better. They feel that they need some j thing better. The way to get It Is for I ballot-wielders. when electing the next legislatures, to choose only such repre j sentatives as are known to be fearless advocates of local option. THE COMMITTEE MEETING The outcome of yesterday's sitting of the Democratio county central com mittee may be disappointing to some of the people who programmed, but it will be eminently pleasing to the body of the Democratic party of this county, which, In the language of one of the speakers of the occasion, asks only a "fair shake." The adjournment to next Saturday was. under the circumstances, the proper thing to do. A county com mittee meeting with so large a proxy representation and so many Instances of absenteeism not even represented by proxies. Is not the sort that should de termine so important a question of party procedure as that Involved In the primary election Issue, the chief issue that the county committee will have the consideration of. It was quite apparent that a large number of the members absent were so because of failure to receive on time, or at all. notices of the time and place of meeting. The Herald does not place any blame on anybody in connection with the failure of these absent committee men to receive notification of the meet ing; it only adverts to It ns a fact, a most Important fact. Justifying ad journment for a reasonable time. Some factional slates may be broken, but no party prospects are imperiled by the ad journment. Another month will elapse before the meeting of the state conven tion, and there is left plenty of time for the election of delegates to the county convention and the subsequent work of the latter. The results of the meeting constitute an ample endorsement of The Herald's fight for precinct primaries. As far as the committeemen present In person were concerned the friends of precinct primaries were in an overwhelming ma jority. The advocates of the ward plan could have only carried the day with the votes represented by proxies sent by men who. in the majority of instances, were probably either in entire ignorance of the attempt that was to be made to substitute ward for precinct primaries, or had given the subject less thought than they will now. When the committee meets again the forces for the prpcinct primary will be present in still greater strength than yesterday, and there Is little doubt about this most essentially Democratic method of obtaining the will of the party membership holding its own, BOGUS SILVERITES A body styling Itself the "regular Dem ocratic general committee of San Fran cisco" is widely circulating what pur ports to be a record of the California Democracy on the silver coinage ques tion. This "committee" is not repre sentative of the Democratic party of San Francisco, but it is representative of the political brigands that are endeavoring to restore Christopher A. Buckley to the proprietorship of the Democracy of tho northern metropolis. The clrculat it is sprinkling the state with has been gotten up for the pur pose of catering to the sentiment of such of the Democratic party in this state as may be inclined to favor the free, un limited and independent coinage of sil ver at the 16-to-l ratio. This circular contains a resolution adopted by the Buckley committee declaring in favor of the unrestricted coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and also a pledge to be taken by the 161 delegates to be sent to the Democratic state convention un der the auspices of that commute • which requires them to vote for the In sertion in the convention's platform of "a plank favoring the fret- and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and upon terms of exact equality as they existed prior to IST':, independent of the action of any other power or nation whatsoever.' anil t.. "demand the insertion of this plank In the national Democratic platform at Chicago," The Buckley organization by thus vociferating loudly for silver hopes to break Into the state convention. It will send a delegation from San Francisco to contest for places In tin convention, that will be ostensibly silver, but really only silver plated, and the circularizing and resolving that it i. Indulging in i tor the purpose of creating In the minds of the real silver men that will go to tie convention a sentiment that will be fav orable to the admission of il< delega tion. As a matter of fact Buckley's San Francisco Democracy has no more in terest in the free silver issue than a I-,.. --has in the latest style of neokw ear. pi -, pie of that clasfi are not burdened with convictions, not bothered with principles on finance, taxation or any other public question, and their claim of friendship for silver is not worthy a moment'scon slderatlon by the men who conscien tiously believe In the free use of that metal in the money of the country. The real nature of the Buckley crowd's LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING-. MAY 17, 189«. identification with the money Issue Is well exploited In the following pungent editorial excerpt from the Vlsalla Times, the paper edited by that sterling Dem ocrat, Ben Maddox. The Times says: The only financial question that Inter ! ests Buckley and his grimy band of pa ; trtoti is: ' What Is there in It for us?" i They are for anything that affords them I opportunities for public plunder. They are Democrats for revenue only; they are for free coinage or anything else that will license them to steal. In the past they debauched the public service of San Francisco and sod out the Dem ocratic party to the Republicans and the railroad monopoly, and they want another chance to repeat the infamy. The silver question should cut no fig ure when It comes to passing on the Im pudent claims of this gang of political I brigands. They represent neither Dem- I ocratlo principles nor the Democratic I voters of San Francisco. They simply represent an organized appetite for pub | 11c plunder, indecency and dishonesty in office and shameless treachery in ' party management; in short. Buckley j ism. The Democratic party has smashed ' Buckley once; It Is a public duty to keep 1 him smashed. Every good citizen j should hit the head of his corrupt or ; sanitation wherever it presents Itself. Democrats In the interior should un- I derstand that the issue presented b> I the Buckley rump is not a question of j free coinage, but an issue of honesty I against dishonesty, of irregularity against regularity, of true Democracy against corruption and party treason, j Buckley once shamed, then betrayed us I He should never be permitted to do so I again. The Democrats of the Interior I will be false to themselves, false to the j general welfare and recreant to the good I name and well being of their party If I they again permit Buckley to boss the Democratic organization of San Fran cisco, tn again debauch it till it stinks : in the nostrils of honest men and then sell it to the common enemy. The silver question is an issue to be de i elded on its meiits by honest men of I opposing vlews.but sincere convictions. ; The Buckley gang Is without honesty. ' sincerity or conviction. An ordinary 1 piece club has as much integrity and j party standing. They are not Demo cratic. They are not respectable. They are not even bluest. Their pretended solicitude for free coinage does not alter i their fraudulent and mercenary char ' acter. Why should genuine silver men ; regard them as any other than what • they are—a gang of political hlghblnd : ers out for the stuff. ROTTEN MONEY PLANKS Probably no Republican state plat ; form has received more hearty and gen' ' eral condemnation, both inside and out j side of the Republican party, than thi ! one adopted by the late California state j Republican convention. The Chicago Times-Herald. Independent Republican, j pays its respects to the money plank of I the platform In a most spirited way. Its utterances are worthy the perusal, not only of Republicans, but of Democrats also, especially those Democrats who are j trying to persuade their party to go chas ing atti rt he silver phantom. The Times- Herald says: In contrast to the currency plank j adopted by the Republicans of Indiana the California and Michigan money Planks are rotten, squeaky and shaky. There Isn't a eound timber in then con struction. The California platform la particularly flimsy In rhetoric and shod dy in principle, it hasn't a leg to stand on. It lies Hat on the shifting sands of fiatism a:ul repudiation. The men who framed it are clinging to the old delusion that a nation With 11,600,000,000 of for eign commerce can be a law unto Itself in commercial matters and that it Is easy for congress to create financial conditions that will cut us oft from the test of the world. They believe that our government can stamp 50 cents worth of silver as worth 100 cents, Independent of all the great commercial nations of the world, and that the lowering of the real value of our money will not affect its purchasing or debt-paying power. They are hug- Binß the absurd fallacy that an increase of the circulating medium by this fraud ulent device will make every man richer, more prosperous and more contented, and yet not one adherent of the free sil ver party has ever been able to prove that a man receiving 8100 a month in wages under the present standard would receive more than 100 fifty-cent dollars under free coinage at th° ratio of 16 to 1. The abandonment of sound money prin ciples by the Republicans of Michigan and California was without shadow of reasonable excuse. The Minneapolis plank, adopted by the Michigan Repub licans as a compromise after a rejection j of an-honest money resolution reported by the committee on platform. Is a trim- I mer, a dodger and astraddler. Itsatts- I fled the politicians in 1S!)2. but the busi ness interests of the country demand a more explicit expression on the cur rency question in lfcOS. Unless we are to have continued industrial depression and financial confusion the winning party in the coming campaign must stand for sound money and the maintenance of the present standard. In the case of California the repudi ation of an honest money standard is even more pronounced and more unjus tifiable than that of Michigan, for Cali fornia has always been a gold state. What California expects to gain by this flirtation with the popUllstic 50-cent sil ver fiatlsts is not easy to understand. If any state is more interested than all other stati-s In the preservation of the li t-B'ity and stability of our medium of exchange that state- Is California. Fortunately, however, neither Michi cr.-i n nor California will be able to prevent the St. Louis convention from making a Prm and emphatic demand for honest money, as good as the money of the most enlightened nations of the carth —money lr which e\ cry dollar is equal in value to every other dollar. Elsewhere In this issue of The Herald will be found a contribution by Hpn. Abbot Kinney under the caption of •Mo-ny and Taxation" that will amply repay careful leading. Mr. Kinr.ey treats In his usually interesting and In structive way of some elementary pro positions that arc unfortunately too llt tli tied, rstood by people in general. When the average voter grasps the fun damental principles In finance and tax atlon, the problems that present them •it es under the heads of those subjects v ill 1 mie easier of popular solution and the occupation of the demagogue in politics and the charlatan in reform will disappear. Tne People's Victory Senators White and Perkins have suc ceeded in getting the question of a har bor on the southern coast referred to a commission. It will consist of a naval officer, a coast survey officer, and thre:.. special engineers to be appointed by the president. This board will deckle which of the two harbors—San Pedro or Santa Monica offers the besl opportunities for development, and the decision is to be filial. Therefore the government will Improve but one harbor on that coast, and it Is safe to say that will be San lv.in. The Santa Monica raid has fail ed.—Oakland Enquirer. That was a fank admlslon that Frye madi when White asked him where lie -;"t his figures on tin- s.-in Pedro harbor improvements, "From Hood, chief en gl r of the Southern Pacific," said Frye. Bo the government is to make the Improvement "ii an estimated cost of ta,098,000 on plans provided by the Southern Pacific! It appears to us that that should be all the Information the senate needs on that subject.—San Diego Sun. It is said Grover C studied the geog raphy and topography of the south California coast, and had about made up his mind to veto the river and har bor bill If it came to him containing the Santa Monica appropriation.—Paadena News. THE SOUAD MONEY PLANK "Could the Pennslyvanla Democracy set the pace at Chicago," the Philadel phia Inquirer (Rep.) says, "we should have sound-money planks In the plat forms of both parties, world-wide confi dence in the United States would be re stored, and an immediate impetus would be given to business." The sound-money victory In the Dem ocratic primaries in Memphis has more significance than the dispatches gave It. "The total vote was light." the Memphis Scimitar (Dem.) says, "owing to the confidence of the sound-money men in the result, which made many of them Indifferent about going to the polls. Had they turned out In full force the silver men would have been burled out of sight. The latter displayed the most activity in the campaign, and undoubtedly polled a much larger proportion of their vote than their opponents did." "The silver men In the south and the west are almost everywhere more active and aggressive than the gold-standard men, and it is largely to this that the feel ing is due that the Chicago convention will be dominated by the sllverites." the Baltimore News (Dem.) says. "In many states, a determined effort would se cure h victory for sound money, ar.d the effort is not made only because of a fatal istic belief that it has no chance of suc cess, with the fiiie showing of Pennsyl vania and Michigan, a more plucky spirit in the south and the west may be ex pected to show itself." The Minneapolis Journal (Rep.) says of McKinley:,"Standing before the coun try as the apostle of protection, the em bodiment id" the idea, and the representa tive of the principle, he has been, by his supposed friends, or by his own coward ice, placed In a weak and compromis ing position on the only question which divides the party and the one Issue upon which the people of America are today most seriously concerned—the question of finance. With a record in congress well calculated to throw suspicion upon the soundness of his principles, and the favorite son of a state which has pre sented to the country a meaningless and evasive statement of its financial views, he is regarded by the silver men as the most desirable candidate for them In the whole list. The Republican party should r.ot nominate at St. T.otiis any man whom It will have to defend or apologize for in any particular." "Until Mr. McKinley speaks out for himself, declaring his views on the cur rency question, he must be regarded as a shuffler," the Philadelphia Led;,**- (fnd. Kep.) says, "coquetting for the silver vote, whiie Senator Sherman vouches for his financial orthodoxy.The money plank of the Ohio platform, which has been again and again attributed to him with out a denial or contradiction, is an at tempt at evasion, and his declaration •the money of the'- government must be as fair as its honor,' is of the same char acter. Both are shuffling and deceptive. Unless Mr. McKinley can be induced to make a clear, unmistakable declara tion in favor of the inviolate mainte nance of the gold standard, he will be a dangerous man for president, and con sequently a candidate whom the Repub licans should not nominate." The California Pepub:less ri.vform California lias indorsed McKinley and free silver. This is one of the dividends of the i Ihto man's straddle. —New York Journal. The Democratic party may be divided on the money question, but none of its free-silver conventions have yet elected delegates in favor of a presidential can didate who is claimed as a gold-stan dard man at the east. This is what the California Republicans did in adopting a free-silver resolution and instructing their delegates for McKlnWy. Who is to be cheated?— New York World The world is waiting to hear Editor Kohlsaat announce that McKinley will not accept the votes of the California delegation because it Is also Instructed to demand free coinage of silver at W to I.—New York .lournul. M' Kinley's own state presents him as a financial straddle-bug candidate for president, many other states have in structed their delegates for McKinley and the gold standard, and now comes California with Instructions for Mc- Kinley and his flat money. Anil every thing is fish that comes into the net of the Buckeye Napoleon. — Louisville Times. B'ncNmell ri i Tine Art The New York Evening Post, which often asserts that there is no such thing as a science of taxation, explains in a recent ed itorial anlcle that though the re Is no sci ence of taxation, "there is an art of taxa tion, which Is an extremely Interesting art, which cons|st= mainly in finding out what kind of a person the taxpayer is and how he lives." That description of the art of taxation is a description of the art. of blackmail. But Is it possible that there Is no essential between taxation and blackmail? Is gov ernment a thing so arbitrary in its essence that no scientific relation between its ne cessities and the source of supply exists 0 Are the anarchists richt after all, when they say that government Is a device of tyrants, having no justification in natural low? Or is it the aiheists who are right when they t"ll us thai this universe is a child of chance? Por unless government is an arbitrary device, or there is no God of justice and wisdom, there must be a science of taxation. If taxation is like blackmail, a tribute levied upon persons according to their kind and the way in which they live, re gardless of the value of (he service that government performs for them, then gov ernment itself must be like the blackmail-, er. In that* case the sooner It is put an end to the better. Hut we believe i hat tax ation has a better basis. We believe that there is a science of taxation, the funda mental principles of which Is like that of trading—something for something and nothing for nothing, The practical appli cation of this principle Is simple. It Is today in full opt ration eeverywhere. but with one defect, thai of allowing the tax gatherers, who tax the people in propor tion to what the government does for them, to pocket most of the taxes. —Cleve- land Recorder, Presidential Pos-lbllltles So far in the progress of the Democratic campaign the party has presented to it three names, each Identified with the cause of the gold standard—Carlisle, Russell and Pattlson, So tar Democratic state conven tions east of the. Mississippi and nnr'h of the Ohio have all declared for the mainte nance of the trold standard as established sixty-two years ago when Andrew Jack son'was president.—St. Paul Globe, A thine that is essential i* that the plat form and the candidate- must be in accord. Vp of Kentucky know what it means to see a free-stiver candidate on a sound money platform. Let the platform declare against ttie free-silver heresy and nominate John O. Carlisle anil we will make a. ticrht that will astonish the natives.—Winchester (Ky.j Democrat. SETTLINO THR OURSTiON I've loner since knowed the war is over An" that the world Is rollln' ritrht; No red dews fall upon the clover An' every lily's spotless white. But what 1 didn't know for certain Was this: If England crest the sen. An' foreign flags was round ns flirt In. Where would the boys of "Dixie" be? But. yesterday—the sunshine stroamln' Upon their curls soft anil sweet. (Me settln' In mv doorway dreflmln't The children played around my feet. "An* come!" sa\« Jim, "mv gun Is ready"' "An' there's my sword:" says little Jack: "Now march away there—steady—steady! We're goln' to beat the British back!" "Oh. wait"' save little hlue-eved Sally. An' handed them a fluttering rag: "Here's sore-,, ~' makes the soldiers rally flow can you light w it limit a flag?" An' then i foi to rumlnatln' An' a" was plntn :<s (lav to me. An' It' it's war I'm clear in satin I know just where Ihe south would he! Atlanta Constitution. Elisabeth Cady Stanton says the only drawback to her happiness as a child was her fear of the devil. Happily thut hob goblin has been abolished In the homes of enlightened people. " The Boat la the Cheapest" BOSTON oSSs STORE Telephone 904 239 South Broadway Opposite City Hall Energy Tells Work tells, but, depend upon it, it's values that secure the trade. Visit our mammoth establishment, with its thirty odd departments, each one a store in itself, nearly two hundred busy employees and throngs of satisfied customers. What has done it ? Values like these: Bathing: Suits There was a time when it could he truthfully said: "If ,on want to take all the romance out of a girl put a bathing suit on her," but now it is just the reverse, for there is real style as well as grace in the new designs and materials. , Mohair, Flannel and Serge Suits foi Ladies, Misses and Children. 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We are now prepared to supply the every want of our little friends. Unusual values in White and Colored Dresses £ f /\ A of Lawns and Dimities, elegantly trimmed with | embroidery, at and upward. Beautiful assortment of Children's Dresses In all the latest designs in Madras, Lawns and Linen Batiste. Children's Aprons, in White India Lawn, -^f" Endless varieties, «pl»«£0 at from 50c each to Misses' Sun Bonnets and Caps, £ (\f\ In White and Colored Wash Materials, $OeUU at from 25c to Boys' Fauntleroy Waists, each Advance Notice On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 21st, 22d and 23d, we will hold our first Summer Millinery Opening. On this occasion we will show all the very latest styles for summer wear, and make prices that will be the very lowest ever quoted on first-class Millineiy. 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