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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13,1806.
National Democratic Ticket
For President,
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
Of Nebraska.
Li .-a For Vice-President,
i?-"ARTHUR SEWALL
tT Of Maine.
CONGRESSIONAL
Fer. Member of Congress. Sixth District,
C. A. BARLOW.
COUNTY
For Senator, Thirty-seventh District,
JOHNSTONE JONES.
rot Assemblyman, Seventieth District,
1 i A. R< SPRAGUE.
For Assemblyman, Seventy-first District
F, A. CATTERN.
For Assemblyman, Seventy-second
District,
W. R. STEELE.
For Assemblyman, Seventy-third
District
WM. MEAD.
For Assemblyman, Seventy-fourth
District,
W. L. PRICE.
For Assemblyman, Seventy-fifth
District.
S. A.WALDRON. V
For Superior Court Judges. -i
HENRY T. HAZARD,
M. E. C. MUNDAY.
GEORGE H. SMITH,
A. J. UTLEY.
For Supervisors.
GEORGE D. PESSELL. Second District
W. A. MORGAN, Fourth District.
JAMES HANLEY, Fifth District.
For City Justices.
C. O. MORGAN.
G. S. BARTHOLEMEW.
Three weeks from today and the agony
will be over.
Major McKinley will soon be able to
make permanent arrangements for stay
in*; at home.
But twenty-one days more and Wm.
J. Bryan will be the choice of the people
mt the United States for their president.
Funds for legitimate campaign pur
poses are imperatively needed. Sub-
SCTlbe your dollars through The Herald
and thus swell the resources of the cause
by two dollars.
The Times has a bad attack of city wa
ter campaign water on the brain. It is
developing pitiable congestion and
symptoms of lockjaw ar* already appar
ent.
The European powers are sighing with
relief in that the visit of the czar to their
several dominions has passed off with
out accident. They at once pi-oceed to
congratulate themselves on a continu
ance of peace. A bombshell may ex
plode in the east at any moment that
Will disturb this masked satisfaction.
A most picturesque and godly man has
passed away in the person of England's
primate, Dr. Benson. The contrariness
of heredity is remarkably instanced in
the late archbishop of Canterbury's
family. Of his two sons, one is a re
markably clever agnostic poet and the
other achieved notoriety by writing a
nasty novel, entitled "Dodo."
The frequent Introduction of new
text-books Into our public schools is a
Sttrtous question for many citizens, who
•re not overburdened with this world's
poods and can ill afford the expense,
ltftre than one instance has come to the
Jntpwledpe of The Herald where parents
£■*-• absolutely been unable to scrape
up the necessary dollars for their chil
dren's demands for new school books,
and the consequence Is that the children
have to remain at home with their edu
cation interrupted. A perfect system of
free public schools should provide all
the necessary text books. Such would In
every way be an economy for the tax
payer and would probably prevent the
jobbery In school books that Is at pres
ent rampant.
THE MUMcIPAL CONTEST
In the teeth of all manner of opposi
tion from within and without, probably
the most insidious and powerful that has
ever been brought to bear in a similar
contest, the better spirits of the Demo
cratic city convention have prevailed,
victory for the right has been attained,
and a satisfactory and equable basis of
luslon has been accomplished. The keen
est fight occurred in the nomination for
the councilman of the Eighth ward, and
decency eventually triumphed, the con
vention refusing to accept the dictates
of the ward heelers.
The ticket Is one upon which all honest
men, who desire to see the deliverance
of the city from an unjust and intriguing
system, may cheerfully unite. Never
have nominations been made In a city
convention In Los Angeles that are in
dividually so excellent and collectively
so satisfactory. Strong, responsible and.
In the majority of cases, tried men have
been selected for the several important
offices. The nominations for the council
are of peculiar excellence, and if such a
ticket can be carried in its entirety, cit
izens may have confidence in a wholesome
and progressive local government.
That the bitter fight of those parties,
whose interest obviously lies In
the defeat of the fusion ticket,
will be continued to the death,
no one doubts. The candidates
and their supporters must arm them
selves to withstand all manner of as
sault. Their nomination in this conven
tion, we believe, is sufficient warranty
ot their impervlousness to the wily baits
that will most assuredly be offered them.
Only, they must be on their guard, for
the net of the fowler will be spread.
It is extremely probable that all the
forces of the "allied villainies" will be
concentrated against the nominee for
the mayoralty, an honest gentleman and
a tried and faithful servant of the city,
who already has declared, with no uncer
tain sound, his unswerving opppositlon
to the present monstrous impositions to
which the city is subject. The City Wa
ter company will strive its utmost to de
feat Mr. Snyder. In all probability, it
will receive the earnest support of their
by-sllence-self-confessed organ, the
Times. By past experience, however,
one may reasonably prophesy that the
opposition of Otis will redound to the
comfort and success of Mr. Snyder. But
the Water company hopes, in compassing
Mr. Snyder's defeat, to be able, to hold
up to the public gaze a "horrible exam
ple" of one who has ventured to oppose
those privileges which it has so long in-
Iquitously enjoyed. Its machinations
must be defeated. and to ensure this all
must"be~bn their guard at every point to
frustrate Its schemes by loyal and ear
nest support o! Mr. Snyder.
DRIED FRUIT
The excellent farmers' Journal and
long established Pacific Rural Press has
an article on the "Dried Fruit Export
Trade" in its issue of October 10th. This
article shows that the dried fruit ex
ports from California to European ports
has been steadily developing. The re
cent reduction in freight rates on
through bills of lading to European
centers has stimulated the dried fruit
trade. A sharp advance in prices has
taken place even in these dull times.
Apricots, for Instance, have sold as low
as m cents this summer. I'nder the
lowered rates the price has gone up to 7
cents. The purchasers are reported to
intend shipping to Germany. The key
of succass In the orange, green and
dried fruit business Is clearly in the
methods of distribution and the freight?
rates. There is already a surplus of pro
duct of many of our fruits and there will
be a surplus in nearly all. Our safety is
in access to the dense populations of
Europe. Our fruit growers' organiza
tions have always seen that the distri
bution and the freight rates governed
the profits. It has only been self-seeking
politicians who have talked.about pro
tection to the fruit Interest. The fruit
interest is already flowing over the
consuming capacity of our people. Vet
California Is not one-tenth settled nor
one-tenth the producer she can and will
be. California Is likely to be the fruit
producer of the world. A restricted mar
ket such as the protectionists seek to en
force is death to the further develop
ment of the California fruit Industry.
If our fruit growers cannot export their
produce there can be not only no more
growth In most lines, but in many theie
must be curtailment. "Protection" Is a
misnomer. The policy should be called
"restriction." A policy of restriction
cutting off our trade and exchange is
about the only thing California devel
opment has to fear. California has been
recognized by experts and by some gov-
ernment experts, as those from Italy, to
possess conditions that are so favorable
as to finally destroy competition in the
fruit trade. We have hardly com
menced our career of fruit production.
Even today thousands of acres of fruit
trees are planted but not yet In bearing.
Already we are exporting. Already we
invade the very territories the trust
agents tell us pauper labor controls. If
restriction is to prevail. If our markets
are to be cut off, what is the outlook for
our fruit industry? All this talk about
protection to the fruit men is a "trust
trick." It is a transparent fraud. The
politician employes of the great com
bines laugh in their sleeves as they fool
the people. The great trusts get boun
ties. They hold home markets under a
rod of iron while selling their American
products to foreigners at less than the
American pays. These people combine;
they limit production by agreement;
they fix home prices by private deals;
they hold the people by the throat and
r.queeze just as much as they dare. The
fruit man cannot limit production. He
cannot shut up his orchard like a wire
nail man shuts up his factory. The fruit
man cannot neglect his orchard with
out destroying his capital. The fruit
men in their crops are beyond the power
of combines to limit production. Con
sequently cinches, unfair deals and all
the trust tricks of tariff and taxes must
be unavailable. The fruit grower can
not successfully play the part of a tariff
baron; he cannot hope to profit by unfair
JLOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1896.
deal 3 and steals from the public taxes.
The fruit grower in California both for
the sake of his soul and the sake of his
pocket must be an honest man and rely
on his own work for success and not
upon taxes forced from the work of
others.
BANKERS VINDICATED
In our issue of last Sunday appeared
a communication from a valued corre
spondent, who writes over the name of
"E Pluribus Unum." After it had gone
before the public we! discovered that he
had been misled into quoting as genuine
a document commonly known as the
"panic circulars of '93." and purporting
to have been sent by a New York bank
ing syndicate to the national banks
throughout the country early in the
spring of 1893, suggesting the taking of
measures calculated to produce a mone
tary stringency. The authenticity of the
circular has been so frequently and con
clusively denied that it is impossible to
doubt that It was a hoax pure and sim
ple; probably originated by some news
paper man, whose desire to create a sen
sation overcame his conscientious scru
ples and good judgment.
It Is not the policy of The Herald to
give currency to fakes, especially such
as tend to excite prejudice and animosi
ties. Such things are likely to do infi
nite harm, and no possible good. The
Democratic party seeks the triumph of
honest principles by honest means, the
only means which can secure such a re
sult. If we had no moral scruples w
should, still, as a matter of mere policy,
leave the two-edged weapons of slander
and deceit to other hands.
It is a matter for surprise that our sin
cere and intelligent correspondent
should have been taken in by such a
transparent humbug. He is undoubt
edly acquainted with banking men. and
must know that the great majority of
them, like men engaged in other lines of
business, are public spirited citizens.
Every measure for the general welfare
finds strong support, financial and other
wise, from our bankers. It is not neces
sary to go away from Los Angeles to And
proofs of this proposition. Whatever
faults may be charged against our bank
ing system, or whatever criticisms may
be properly made upon the acts of indi
vidual bankers, it is, nevertheless, true
that a banker is usually a mam of pro
bity and sagacity. Is it credible that
men possessing such characteristics
should deliberately conspire to wreck
that business confidence upon which
they are dependent for success and
prosperity to a greater degree than any
other class of business men? Such a
thing is absurd.
We are aware that most bankers do
not agree with us in regard to the free
coinage of silver, and attribute their
position largely to that spirit of con
servatism, that aversion to change,
which is so natural to men engaged in
their pursuits. So far as our knowledge
goes, they have sought to allay appre
hension, rather than create it, and when
the beneficient effects of bimetallism
shall have been fully demonstrated, we
confidently expect that the bankers of
the country will be numbered among its
strongest supporters.
McKINLEY ON LABOR
In one of his late essays which he
read to a delegation of hero worshipers
Mark Hanna's candidate inadvertently
gave utterance to an Important truth,
as follows:
The best thing In the world, next to
liberty, is labor, and the best thing for
labor is the opportunity to work.
This sentiment, though its full mean
ing is probably not understood by the
Canton essayist, contains valuable food
for the American intellect. It must be
admitted that labor is a good thing, for
otherwise the necessity of laboring in
order to live would not have been Im
posed upon mankind. From the be
ginning of the human race an inexora
ble law of nature has required that
"man shall earn his bread by the sweat
of his face." Whether the law is agree
able to us or not, such is the law, and
no one can escape from it.
Some kind of labor —human effort—
must be put forth by every human be
ing, or physical life terminates. Mr.
McKinley correctly says, "the best thing
for labor is the opportunity to work."
True enough—and there's the rub!
All over this great country uncounted
thousands of men able and willing to
work, and desirous of doing so, because
of necessity, are denied the opportunity
of applying their labor to the passive
factor In wealth production—which Is
land. In no other way can human
wants be supplied than by the applica
tion of labor to natural resources, either
directly or indirectly. But under ex
isting laws and customs labor is to a
great extent deprived of a chance to
apply itself cither to land directly or
to the products of land. And when
labor does succeed in thus exerting it
self it is only by the payment of toll
to the owner or owners of natural op
portunities. In a majority of such cases
the toll demanded is so high that the
land appropriator gets the greater por
tion of labor's earnings, leaving to the
producer only enough for a bare living.
In these undeniable facts there is a
great problem which the people of the
United States must solve in the near
future.
Now* let us see what Mr. McKinley
offers by way of solution of this im
portant problem. In the same essay he
says:
■What we want more than anything
else In order to grant this opportunity
to labor is the restoration of confidence.
Here we have another installment of
insufferable rot about "restoring con
fidence," with which the mouths of pro
tectionist speakers and the columns of
McKinley , papers are filled. The last
utterance quoted above plainly shows
that trie heavily mortgaged candidate
has not the slightest conception of what
his first quoted utterance really meant.
"Restore confidence" in what? Why,
In protectionism, in William McKinley,
and in Mark Harma —three of the most
relentless, cold-blooded oppressors of
labor, organized and unorganized.
These constitute the trio of attractions
in which all classes of wealth producers
should have "confidence." The people
are invited to blindly believe that plen
ty of "confidence" reposed in such a
trinity of health-giving forces will cure
the ills now being endured. The sug
gestion is little les» than an insult to
the struggling masses who are seeking
relief from an oppression imposed upon
them by just such public misfortunes
as the Hanna-McKinley combination.
Had the political essayist omitted the
"confidence" humbug, and urged a res
toration of all men's natural right to
use the earth for wealth production, to
receive all they earn, and to trade
freely when, where and with whom
they please, he would have displayed a
clearness of vision and a knowledge of
political economy such as he has never
yet furnished evidence of possessing.
Most of the Bryan votes were cast In
the smoking car by sporting men and
sure-thing gamblers on their way to
the races. The votes in the second-class
car were divided, and the Pullmans
were strong for McKinley.—Los Ange
les Times.
Who are these second-class people
who ride in second-class cars? Who
are those who ride in the Pullmans?
There are in the United States 2,556.930
agricultural laborers, 5,055,130 farmers.
59.887 gardeners and florists, 65.829 lum
bermen, 208,350 coal miners, 140,
--000 other miners, 2,692,820 em
ployed In domestic and personal ser
vice. 1.858.504 laborers, and 237,523 who
are classed as servants. These are the
men who ride in second-class cars, and
there are enough of them to elect Bryan
Generally those who ride in the Pull
mans are those who live on their rent?
and interest. Bankers, merchants, mon
ey lenders, corporation and trust offi
cials, or those who earn their bread by
the grace of banks and syndicates and
would rather hold their jobs than pre
serve their manhood. These gentry are
eminently respectable, but they cannot
elect McKinley.
The Sunset Express has a touch of
genius as the following sentence from Its
brilliant eulogy of Dv Maurler shows:
"There is an ineffable sweetness and
edulcorated strain of anthropophulsm
pervading the work that appeals at the
outset to the reader and grows gradu
ally on him."
We congratulate our contemporary.
It is to be hoped that its edulcurator
has not yet lost all of his anthrcpophu
ismistic ability. A few more of this and
then "Nirvana."
DIRECT LEGISLATION
ABBOT KINNEY
Practical politics are unsatisfactory to
the citizen. The most exasperating
thing about them Is that the citizen, to
get one thing that he likes, has to con
rent to things that he does not like.
Thiß year we see men on both sides of
the financial question consenting to
trade and tax policies in which they do
not believe. The mixture is very great
at this election. Very few voters will be
able to vote for candidates and meas
ures entirely to their satisfaction.
Hardly less exasperating is the fre
quent abortion of legislation after suc
cess at the polls. The Benate does not
consent, the president vetoes, or, as is
sometimes the case, the people's agent in
a legislature, council or congress be
trays his trust. This can all be cured by
direct legislation. The value of one part
of direct legislation Is shown In Cali
fornia every time we vote on constitu
tional amendments. This year we vote
on several. Take, for Instance, woman
suffrage. This question Is not mixed up
with party prejudice. It has no alliance
with any other. We are not obliged to
support or defeat a candidate to take it
or leave it. The voter will this year de
cide the question. There will be no after
histories, votes of the legislature, guber
natorial vetoes. The 3d of November,
on a vote of the people, we will have
woman suffrage or we will not, and so
end the question for awhile. Various
other important points will be decided
in California this year In the same way.
We have had here, in the same line, de
claratory votes of the whole people, as,
for instance, on the exclusion of Chinese,
on the election of United States senator
by direct vote; also In finance, the voting
of bonds, etc. All these things show the
value of direct legislation in one of Its
phases.
Some say that they cannot trust the
people, but that otherwise they would
approve of direct legislation. These per
sons think that the people would be too
radical. Given the responsibility of di
rect action, the people, while becoming
more powerfully progressive, would also
become far less volatile and extreme.
As between the whole nation In a direct
vote and time-serving politicians, often
without responsibility and purely
weather-vane self-seekers, there can be
little doubt that the whole people would
be more conservative. The exasperation
citizens now feel at the purchase of
their agents by corporations and the be
trayal of public interests for private
gain would have no longer any existence.
Bribery would not exist, because it would
have no advantage.
Besides the the system
contains the initiative, which permits a
certain number of voters to submit ques
tions to general vote, and the imperative
mandate. This permits the people to
vacate an office.
A general adoption of this proposed
system would remove our present politi
cal confusion and make reforms prompt,
direct and beyond the power of the po
litical traitor.
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That Bryan and Sewall will carry California is generally conceded, but it
would be folly to be overconfident and to desist from meeting the enemy at every
point. Mark Hanna is flooding the state with misleading documents, the influ
ence of which must be counteracted; high-salaried orators are stumping the
state in the interests of the plutocracy; their misrepresentations must be coun
tered. The emergency of the situation is set forth in the following communica
tion from Chairman Alford:
We have allied against us in this contest the combined financial forces of
the Old World and the New. With the money of which they have robbed the
people, they are subsidizing the press, with the view of preventing the educa
tion of the masses. They have hired orators and secret agents, whose business
it Is to intimidate and deceive. They are flooding the country with literature, un
true and misleading. They have powerful allies In the railroad companies and
other great corporations, who are holding over the heads of their employes the
threat that discharge wlll<oUow their a dvocacy of silver.
To meet these conditions we must have at least enough money to-pay the
expenses of speakers and to pay for the printing and distribution of literature
We need this money at once, and it has been demonstrated that we can only
hope for help from the plain people.—WM. ALFORD, Chairman Democratic
State Central Committee.
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consistent with the proper expression of
their views.)
MR. HARRIMAN REPLIES.
Editor Herald: In last Sunday's Her
ald, under the signature of James G.
Clark, appeared a lengthy criticism or
my position in the debate with Frof. W.
C, Bowman. To answer this criticism
the ample space of one half column lias
been granted me lor which I am grateful
to the editor.
Mr. Clark's numerous but somewhat
contradictory statements are sandwich
ed with assurances of esteem and per
sonal friendship, which would be both
pleasing and amusing, were it not for the
painful fact that the Intellectual, and.
if I may say.logical, worth of his article
falls so far short of his most estimable
character.
During the debate I stated and em
phasized many times that 1 thought one
would be a "blooming idiot" who, in the
light of our experience, would insist that
the gold standard would give relief. Yet
the gentleman has permitted his blind
prejudice and enthusiasm to hide this
fact and in its stead has led the public
to believe that i was in favor of gold.
"An injury to one is the concern of all,"
is it?
Will the free coinage of sliver benefit
the wage-earning class? was the ques
tion.
After vainly endeavoring to evade the
class struggle as stated in the question.
With such platitudes as "the injury of
one Is the concern of all." "the higher
socialism," " one for all and all for one,"
"one class cannot be uplifted at the ex
pense Of another class," etc., he imme
diately repudiates them all by insisting
that free coinage would "pecuniarily
benefit the wage-worker." and strangle
the "devastating money despotism."
Mr. Bowman said, "prices will go up as
the volume of currency increases." and
read Jnhn Stewart Mill as authority, In
Which case I Insisted that the volume of
currency was not really Increased since
the price of the commodity went up as
the value of the money went down. Mr.
Clark did not point out any fault in my
logic. He said the fault was not In my
head, but In my premises. He forgot that
this was Mr. Bowman's premises. But
If my head is right and the premises
which were Mr. Bowman's were wrong,
then both their heads and premises are
wrong, to which I am agreed. He says
by way of "argument" on this point that
I am "seeing snakes."
Mr. Clark says that no economic stu
dent will dispute my proposition, "that
all wealth Is derived from labor, and
that the wages of the producer are less
than his product, thus leaving an accu
mulation of products In the hands of the
few for which there is absolutely no
market." If this is a fact, then it is ap
parent that factories close down be
cause they can find no market for their
surplus product; and for the same rea
son factories cannot start because ev
ery %vage-worker will add all he pro
duces over and above his wages to the
already existing glut and clog the chan
nels of commerce still more. Now, I
maintain that whether a man is paid in
silver or gold that this fundamental
fact will not be altered, except as wages
ara Increased or decreased. But Mr.
Bowman saidi"wages would not Increase
In proportion to the price of commodi
ties." This forces the conclusion that
the laborer cannot buy as much with his
wage as before, and labor is therefore
hurt; that the market Is decreased as
the glut is proportionately Increased.
Mr. Clark says the fault is not in my
head, neither is the fault with my pre
mises, which he indorses, but he said
my conclusion was "singularly unique."
"sophistry." Did you ewer hear of the
"mote in your brother's eye?" Mr.
Clark said that we could not "expect
Mr. Bowman to confine his warm hu-
manltarian heart and brain to the strict
letter of the question." Hot or cold,
that is precisely what we do expect In
.a discussion or criticism. Good im
pulses are no substitute for bad logic.
As to my "martyrdom," "Phillips,"
"Garrison," "Davis," "the right man in
the wrong place," the "lifeboat's drift
ing corporation spar," "lack of confi
dence," "economic hope," "insult to his
good sense," etc., I shall submit to your
consideration, as Mr. Clark has done,
without argument.
His last flight "O Job, why not de
scend from your gauzy balloon and
cease firing your air gun at the spots on
the new-risen sun until after the Hanna-
McKlnley funeral, when perhaps I may
join you in the pastime." If lam in the
wrong I do not see why he should Join
me. If free coinage is a good thing be
fore election it should be a good' thing
after. I cannot see why he should de
sire to go up in a gauzy balloon, except
to tire that air gun of his, which he evi
dently has or he would not propose
such "pastime," and I am sure that
every one who has read his article will
be convinced that they have already
heard one of its premature explosions.
You will find out. Mr. Clark, that neither
gold nor silver is the trouble.
JOB HARRIMAN.
Los Angeles, Oct. loth.
DOUBLING THE VALUE OF SILVER.
Editor Herald: Some of the speakers
for the gold standard make a great ado
about the certainty, if the free coinage
of silver prevails, of the country being
Hooded with "cheap money." in the
shape of r,3-cent dollars; while other
speakers of the same political faith,
make just as great an ado about the
monstrous injustice of the proposed
Populist legislation that will enable the
silver miners to double the value of
their product by having it converted
into coin worth 100 cents to the dollar.
"The Beat Is the Cheaorst '* J I
BOSTON goSos STORE j!
| J. W. ROBINSON CO. j|
| Broadway—Opposite City Hall jj
> WHOLESALE I Telephone I R3TAIL >',
J Third and Fourth Floors ( MalnoJi ! First and Stconl Floors , >
j A Rare Opportunity jj
S We place on our counters today: j!
Two cases light-weight Ladies' Cloth, In black and pre- / } m j r !>
? vailing shades, all wool, 48 inches wide, at, per yard fcOt J>
I Do not inter from the above quotation that these goods are inferior JI
9 grade; they are designed to satisfy the best trade and are of fine and | j
S desirable quality. >
< Cloakings, Plushes, Astrakhans, jj
s At Moderate Prices —tt ]|
J 55-inch wide fancy rough weaves, Black Cloakings, ftC« '!
> at, yarJ OiJl< j,
J 56-inch wide Vicuna Black Cloaking, ff| AA «!
> at, yard $I.UU j»
5 56-inch rough Boucle, Cheviot and <Pf 'JS 4/> (1 CA !
> Astrakhan, at yard 9">v lv fltOU J>
> 52 to 56-inch Astrakhans, fine heavy quality j >
I S rs '. Me,tons '. etc :: $2.00 to $2.75 j j
c 52-inch Bannockburns, Astrakhans, Persian, Lamb's !'
I JM and . ,mport . ed . . c !^. s : $2.00 to $6.00 j j
f Also, just received, some extra fine Brocaded Silk Wool High-grade j >
* Novelties for capes and jackets. | >
$100 in Gold Given Away
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Ka-h person allowed one (usss only. Welgftt of squash, UK pounds.
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Mess
writ tt» vnn iiTTF.sarvo—Ttio ahum?, will b#» rut Christmas Bt» In oar show window, bsfort
lb. fud vVew of™ pobSit i«ds oounwdbya ootoitttM of tho pr.ss and winner d.cl.«d before they
' elV 'Thls*'s n .n o idvertl,.menl for our house and I. str»l?ht and without deoaptlsa In W way. Call
Buffalo Woolen Co.
Los Anzeles Herald.
! Tailor Made Suits Riding Habits |
Alfred Neuman |
I The Parisian Ladies' Tailoring Parlors |
| 220 S. Spring Street, Rooms 6, 7 and 8, Los Angeles, Cal. |
t EXCLUSIVE DESIGNS HIGH CLASS WORKMANSHIP \
They denounce it as "class legislation,"
6 We may let the argument of .ttieso
latter speakers answer the fears of their
pessimistic brethren; and we will ad
mit that the legislation demanded by
the silver coinage politicians will make
the 53 cents' worth of silver now in the
American dollar worth 100 cents, But
such legislation will simply be restor
ing the constitutional right of the gov
ernment tn coin all the silver which may
be brought to its mints into dollars of
the same value as gold dollars.
And suppose this does result in the
silver miners and the owners of silver
bullion doubling the value of their pos
sessions; is there anything unusual In
this rate of increase of values. It is
true that Populists, at least, do not re
gard it as an equitable distribution of
the gains of business: But it is In accord
ance with other legislation and in har
mony with much of the maut.facturing
operations of American industry.
Take for instance, manufacturers of
sewing machines. The gov eminent has
enacted laws which enable the inventors
of sewing machines to make out of,their
enterprise, and good luck, at least dou
ble what their machines cost. I nder
the same patent laws the inventors or
owners of patent rights hire laborers
to produce from the mines and the shops
metal in the shape of typewriters at a
cost', of' 185, or $46, Which under the laws
of the country become legal tender of
$l And why should our gold standard
advocates object to this great increase
In the value of silver, seeing that they
have far more than doubled the value
of their gold dollars by the "class leg
islation" In the issuance of bonus and
the payment of principal and interest
on them in gold, while the poorer classes
of the governmnt's creditors are paid
in paper money or depreciated silver
dollars? They are the last ones that
should object to ''rtouollng the value of
silver." ELI AS LONGLifcii.
South Pattadena.
THK CITY SHOULD BUILD
Editor Herald: There is certainly but
one issue in the city campaign now on.
All that is necessary for an aspirant tor
any position in the next administration
in this city is that he place himself
falri'y and squarely upon the issue and
pledges required on the part of the peo-
P The Issue is. simply and plainly
stated, shall the city not only own aa
it certainly does, but distribute the
Necessary to do this will be the head
works and water plant, together with
pipes and other parapernalia for con
ducting said water to consumers.
The question is shall the city buy or
build? I say build—build now—now is
the accepted time. . ,
Why? First, in behalf of labor; give
the wage earner the next chance. This
corporation octopus has had its own
way and its Inning long enough. Better
expend a million and a half dollars con
structing a new and modern water
plant and system of conduits than pay
one-half that sum for this inadequate,
antediluvian and too nearly worthless
makeshift. The laborers, men of fami
lies homeless or with little homes, In the
name cf humanity and for the sake of
justice, demand and beg for the wages
they may earn and receive for this
philanthropic undertaking, a thousand
times more preferable to paying one
half this sum to this heartless, corrupt
and demoralizing cormorant.
Secondly, you will have better water,
more water and at far less cost than at
present. It will be your own business
then; you, each and every voter, will
be a component part, will have an inter
est and a say-so In the management and
control of your own water system,
rather than a corporation dome as tt
pleases, independent and would-be all
powerful.
But if buy we must, buy we then upon
a business prosposltion, as though buf-*
ing for private use; and, Anally, In all
other matters the city's Interests arm
rights should be guarded and protected
as well as would-be attempts at inter
ference and encroachments by individ
ual or corporate greed should be op
posed.
As to the pledge formulated and given
out by The Herald, such candidates
should most heartily, cheerfully and
unequivocally, and without any mental
reservation, solemnly accept and sign
the same.
J. W. BOWLER.
October 10th.
A RANCHER'S EXPERIENCE.
Editor Herald: This is written to help
silver; written because I feel the op
pression of present conditions; more, I
know unless we have a change, we who
live on the land will be driven off, be
cause we cannot get a living price for
our product. I bought my ranch fifteen
years ago and have been raising fruit.
In all those fifteen years there Juts been
but four in which I made anything above
my expenses. Last year I sold fifteen
tons of dried fruit and was $500 behind.
The year before last I raised, dried and
sold twenty-four tons of dried fruit and
just came out even, and this year we
will be behind again. lam not writing
political lies, for I will make oath,before
any proper person that the above is the
truth, and that only; and when I see the
bankers, monopolists, shylocks, great
corporations, the people who»are ac
corded special privileges and have
caused these conditions, all on the side
of gold, all on the side of grab and grind,
I, who work, am wltn my kind, the la
boring people, for silver.
E. A BONINE.
Lamanda Park, Oct. 9.
MORE SOUND THAN SENSE.
Editor Herald: The Pasadena Even
ing Star, under "Sound Opinions by the
Next President," quotes Mr. McKinley
recently saying: "The government does
not create money, can't create money."
Such may be sound opinion in the sense
that goldbug money is alone claimed to
be sound money, when in truth and fact
both have really more sound than sense.
If Mr. McKinley stated the truth, Is It
not remarkably strange that he failed te
back and prove his statement by-show
ing who does create and supply us with
money? Evidently he knew of no proof
for an empty statement.
Money is not found coined in the mine,
nor showered down from above ready
made, like the snow flakes; neither does
it grow. If any American citizen under
takes to make money, he may soon count
stars through prison bars. Government
alone casts all coin, stamps all paper
money. Even national bank notes are
all manufactured by the government
and distributed to the various banks.
Yours, SILVERITE.
IF I WERE TEN
If I were Ten, my dear, like you.
The sky. methlnks, were always blue:
The hours would' ne'er seem dull and
dun.
For eviry day I'd see the sun
Come out and glid the world anew.
And everything I heard were true.
There were not aught to mourn, undo;
I scarce would know the things to shua.
If I were Ten . . .
And yet, perhaps, if I could- woo
Your age again, I'd' long with rue
To see the. years and birthdays run
Until my dlace today were won.
I'd have a different point of view
If I were Ten.