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4 The Herald — i ===== - HINC MIHI SALUS The Herald Publishing Company WILLI AH A. SPALDING, President and General Manager. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT: 221 East Fourth street. Telephone 156. BUSINESS OFFICE: Bradbury Building, 222 West Third street. Telephone 247. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily, by carrier, per month $ 75 Daily, by mail, one year 9 M Dally, by mall, six months 4 50 Daily, by mail, three months 2 25 Sunday Herald, by mail, one year 2 00 Weekly Herald, by mail, one year 1 00 POSTAGE RATES ON THE HERALD 4S pages 4 cents 32 pages 2 cents X pages S cents £<S pages 2 cents 14 pages 2 cents 16 pages 2 cents 12 pages 1 cent EASTERN AGENTS FOR THE HERALD A. Frank Richardson. Tribune building. New York; Chamber of Commerce build ing, Chicago. SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE: 628 Market street, opposite Palace hotel. LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD SWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION. State of California, County of Los Ange les.—ss. L. M. Holt, superintendent of circulation of the Los Angeles Dally Herald, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That for the live months from February 1, 1897, to June 30, 1597 (inclusive), the total circu lation of the said Dally Herald was 1,290,633 copies, being un average daily circulation Of 8601. That the week-day circulation during the above time was 1,071,567, being a daily aver ugc of 8300 copies That the Sunday circulation during the above time was 219,050, being an average for each Sunday of 10;431. L. M. HOLT, Superintendent of Circulation. Subscribed and sworn to before me this l»th day of July, 1897. FRANK J. COOPER. Notary Public in and for the County of Los Angeles. State of California. TUESDAY JULY 20, 1897 THE TARIFF AND THE TRUST On the first of September, 1896, the price of dry granulated sugar, the grade In common use, was quoted at whole sale in this city at 5% cents per pound. The result of the approaching national election was very much In doubt, and the Wilson act was in force. The price remained at that figure with out a change, as it had been for a long time before, until the result of the presi dential election was known. On Novem ber 12th the price was marked up one eighth of a cent. The trust wassatisfled that they had "won out," and proceeded without delay to reap the reward of vic tory. That advance meant an attack on the pockets of the public to the tune of $6,000,000 per annum. So the quotations stood until after tho turn of the year By that time two new factors were apparent In the problem. The complexion of the state legislatures had become known and had made It man ifest that the trust could hardly count op having a senate which could be con trolled. Besides, the prospect of possi ble higher duties hadi caused a great rush of foreign goods to our shores. Again the trust was in the market to buy raw Btigar in practically unlimited quantities wherever it could be found. So on Jan uary 2d the price of granulated sugar was dropped one-half a cent at one »woop. The time ran along and the complex ion of the new senate and the certainty of an extra session of congress to frame a new tariff bill became known. It had been announced that a bin would be forthcoming the moment the extra ses sion was ready for business, and while not announced to the world, there is no Just ground to doubt that the sugar people were pretty well informed as tr, the probable scope of the schedule on su gar. The refiners had secured a good deal of raw sugar. The importers of refined sugar had been frightened off from rushing in so much of their goods, and there was good reason to be certain the Republicans would be able to or ganize the senate. With all these points carefully noted, on February 18th the price of granulated sugar was marked up to 5% cents. Then came the gorgeous inauguration cere monies, so brilliant they seemed to an ticipate the royal jubilee on the other side of the Atlantic. All the associated trusts ar.d money-shavers celebrated their victory at that time. The extra session of congress was sitting, and what could be done was clearly defined. The scope of the Dingley bill was known, and while the sugar trust did not get al, it wanted, it got a monopoly of the mar ket much more complete than It enjoy? under the act now in force. March 19th the price was put up to 5% cents. Thing; began to look better. This was one fourth of a cent higher than in Septem ber, when the election was doubtful in lt« results. It was one-eighth of a cent l)ptter than had been hoped for In the middle of November, when the trust knew Its cause had been triumphant at the polls. April dawned, and, as If In Irony, All Fools' day was ushered In by an ad vance In sugar of one-eighth of a cent, making the price 5%. Raw sugar was being rushed in by the cargo free of duty. The Dingley bill was sure to pass Some fractional loss of profit had been suffered by the big drop in price between January Ist and February 19th. The price at the last named' date was still left one-eighth of a cent lower than what had been considered the normal value under existing conditions and the Wilson bill in September of the previous year. The raises of Feb. ISth ar.d March 19th had put the price up to one-fourth of a cent above the September rate and one eighth above the November. As com pared with September the increased pro fits of the March price would be $12,000,000 a year. This April Fool raise taxed the people another $6,000,000, making the whole burden $18,000,000. The Wilson bill, as amended in the senate, had In creased profits, already exorbitant, and out of which the trust fattened. But there developed a good deal of hostile criticism, in the senate to this program of wholesale public robbery. The friends of the trusts saw they were crowding the mourners a little. Experts had figured out what the results would be, and the trust's demands were mod erately discounted. On April 16th, there fore, the price was dropped to 5% cents, putting it back to the figures of' March 19th. It meant a loss to the trust of $6,000,000, but they were still $12,000,000 to the good, and like wise men they were content with two-thirds of a loaf, and well they might be, for It was large and sweet. But further difficulties arose At the end of another week so much friction was encountered in the confer ences between the trust lobby and the trust ways and means committees which met at the Arlington hotel that the trust nearly lost heart entirely. The price was dropped to-5% on April 23d, and here we were back to the figures of November ISth, when only the election of the pres ident had been sure. This lopped off $6,000,000 of ill-gotten gains, and there was barely one-third of the loaf to be glad over. But worse was to follow. Senator White, Senator Vest and others had been sharpening a little pencil and figuring the cost of sugar at each step in the. process of its production and the enor mous profits to accrue to the trust were beginning to be understood by every body. The path of these good men of the trust, who were diligently seeking for the wave of prosperity became be set by snares. On May 21st the price was put down to s'/2 cents. Here, then, we are back where we started In Septem ber.when the Democrats held all branch es of government and there was danger of more of the same kind of thing, and worse In quality to, come. But the lobby In the parlors of the Ar lington did not lose al! hope and courage, and manfully stood by their guns, and Senator Allison's assurance that the Dingley bill was likely to do the sugar refiners an absolute injury, while the senate amendments even would not bring the cost of refining quite up to the figure of the Wilson bill had a bracing effect on a few veteran senators. By June Uth the skies over the Arlington were so cloudless that a little remedial measure was ventured on, and the price was put up to 5% cents. Here we are once more a little bit consoled. We have the original Republican rate of November 13th again in force, and there is a prospect of $6,000,000 added profit to make up for the expenses of the hardest campaign ever fought in America. The longest day of the year came and went, and with it the longest contest on sugar drew to a close. July broke upon the world, and the wave of pros perity began to be knee deep on the Moquette carpets of the Arlington. Things looked so well in the senate that the price was pushed up to 5% cents. Ha! Ha! There loomed up $12,000,000 extra profits per year. That Is good as far as It goes, but it does not go far enough. Another week slides by and the bill slides through the senate and goes to the conference committee, where it looks as If there would be but one thought, How quickly can we get the bill through? So Thursday, July Sth, up goes the price to &% again. This lathe old April Foois' day rate. It is three-eighths of a cent higher than the best to be hoped for under the Wilson bill, and gives those who bore the burden and heat of the great campaign for prosperity a chance to recoup themselves for their extraordinary expenses. If they can only hold the market there It means $18,000,000 per annum to be paid by the people to the trust over and above profits already exorbitant. But that is no more than right. Did not the trusts elect the pres ident, and does not the administration stand for prosperity? And shall not those who made the major's calling and election sure be the first and the nearest to partake of the blessing of prosperity? Yesterday the sugar market again took a gigantic bound, advancing from 126 to 144. Thesugar trust at all events has certainly received its goods from the advance agent of prosperity. INDUSTRIAL BOA CONSTRICTOR The reported transfer of control of the sugar trust from Havemeyer to Rockefeller is probably premature. The maxim against trading horses while crossing the river will appeal to Rocke feller as well as to the humblest citizen of the republic. When Havemeyer anc Searles get their tariff bill through the congressional breakers safely It will be time enough for the consideration of a change of pilots for the sugar trust Rockefeller ia a genius, but so far bis talents have been, employed handling capitalists rather than senators, and he would better leave such delicate diplo macy to those past master.? in the art.-? of the lobby, the present controllers of the sugar trust. However, true or not, it is certainly but a question of a short time when the control of the sugar trust LOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 20, J897 must In all probability fall Into Rocke feller's hands. The position of affaire, is exceedingly simple and the result ap parently inevitable. Rockefeller has now an income greater than any other one man in the world. His tastes are quite simple, as those of a good, sound' Baptist should be, and his early lessons In economy doubtless pre vent Ms family expenses running over a modest half million or so annually. He Is generous to his church and gives money to the Chicago university, but both these Institutions are now on pretty firm financial legs, thanks to him, go that if we add another half million for his donations to charity, we probably are allowing a sum for family and other expenses far in excess of the actual amount. Now, his income Is at least $15,000,000. and probably considerably more. His holdings in Standard oil stock bring in this much without our looking for fur ther items. This makes his surplus in come over expenses of living at least $14,000,000. That Is, he "spends" a mil lion every year and has fourteen mil lions to "save." Here, then, Is a large surplus income every year seeking investment. His brother William and his partner Flag ler and two or three other associates who operate with him, have all together as much if not more than he has him self. The joint surplus of all is prob ably $30,000,000 annually, or, say, one hundred millions every three years. It is only recently that Rockefeller ousted Carnegie from control of the iron and steel industry. He has acquired control recently of the transportation Interests on the Great Lakes, and it is rumored that he is heavily interested in the Yerkes syndicate that is consolidat ing the street car companies of the coun try. The Immense surplus income of the Rockefellers must be "saved" some way or other, and what is more natural than that they should now be casting longing and envious eyes at Havemeyer's hold ings in the sugar trust? There is no more room for the Investment of fresh capital in oil refining—too much In it already; that is the very reason that led to the formation of the trust. They are forced to look outside for investment. They gobble up Mr. Carnegie; they are licking their chops preparatory to swallowing that sweetest of the sweet in every sense, the sugar business of the country. Now, nobody la sorry for Carnegie, nor will any tears be shed overHavemeyer's financial extinction, and the country is Just as well oft with Rockefeller In sole control of the industries of iron, sugar and oil as if it had a triumvirate. The point of interest, however, Is, "What is the grand finale?" A big capitalist like Rockefeller is totally different from any other production In nature, in that there is absolutely no limit to his growth. The young boa constrictor swallows rabbits at firs»t and grows up to the dignity of pigs and then oxen; but there is such a thing as his reaching a maximum growth and having a maximum demand, and, besides, he finally dies. The Rocke feller Frankenstein is not only ineatia- ble, but every time he makes a meal off one industrial plant he becomes that much bigger and has a correspondingly increased appetite. The older he gets the larger he grows, and in the sense that thericher he is the less danger there is of financial death, we may add the paradox that the older he lives the younger he becomes. A few years ago he felt he had had a square meal when he had pwallowed an oil refinery or two; now the Carnegie business Is snapped up as a little after dinner trifle hardly to be considered and in no way diminishing his appetite for a breakfast provided by Havemeyer's financial "long pig." In the early days of the formation of "trusts" there was a swarm of small capitalists, who, as they were swept into the net of the Rockefeller class, raised a terrific yowl about the iniquity of trusts. There were a good many of them and they made quite a noise, and congress got very much stirred up over the matter, passing numerous anti-trust laws. These small fellows are now finan cially dead and never a whimper from their graves. They know that no power on. earth can resuscitate them. While they were dying, however, they were in such numbers and had so many friends that the public at large were greatly ex cited. That's all over now. The boa constrictor is over the rabbit stage. There Is no small game left, and, be ! sides, he has grown up to the oxen size. Rockefeller may have excited public animosity during the years he was wading through the financial gore of the small oil refiners to his throne at the head of the oil trust, but now, when he is devoting himself to the extermina tion of other economic Titans, the Car ragies and Havemeyers, who, too, have j a past history as unpopular as his own, I he need have no fear of public sentiment ; again being aroused against him. A Nemesis, however, awaits the mighty hunter. When our financial Nimrod has bagged everything in sight, Uncle Sam will bag him. Uncle Sam must, or he will be bagged himself. TRANSMISSISSIPPI CONGRESS A study of the achievements of the recent Transmlssissippi congress at Salt Lake City confirms the general opinion that the congress is a useful and intelli gent body, fairly representing the inter ests of the great section of the country whose delegates made up the member ship. That the congress should endorse free silver was natural and inevitable. It would not have fairly represented the west If it had not done so. The endorse ment of the San-Pedro harbor resolution w as another popular act, and indicative of the ability of the congress to get at facts and judge them accordingly. The congress ' has for years endorsed the deep water harbor at Galveston, and its actii.n this year only showed its per tinacity in upholding a good cause. The resolution relating to the Pacific railroads and the government's claim against them was sufficiently explicit and to the point. The people certainly want the Pacific railroad liens fore closed. They want the use of the roads at rates based upon their present value —rates that upon such a basis will yield a reasonable return. Surely this is fair to all concerned. The choice of Wichita over Los An- geles as the place of next meeting might be criticised locally, but then the people of Loe Angeles are neither envious nor selfish. The congress will come to this city some time, and the delegates will be mighty glad to come. ONCE MORE, GO SLOW! While later reports confirm the rich ness of the gold discoveries In the Clon dyke district of the Yukon country, they emphasize the warning sounded by the Herald with regard to the danger of go ing there unless the prospector Is well provided with both money and provis ions. It is probably the ideal"poor man's country" so far as the diggings them selves and the facilities for obtaining the gold are concerned, but it should not be forgotten that the district is a thous and miles, more or less from civiliza tion; that it is exceedingly difficult to get provisions there* and that the price of food is proportionately high. It must be remembered, too, that the placer mining season will practically be over before anyone starting from the states now can reach the district and get to work. There is going to be a fierce and merci less competition between the thousands and tens of thousands of men who are rushing Into the Yukon and the weakest will have to go to the wall. The man who goes there without money and sup plies invites hardship and hunger If not worse than these. The Associated Press dispatches say that the gold fever has already broken out in New York city, and recall the fact that New York fur nished the largest complement of forty niners of any state in the Union. Thous ands will go from the east to swell the army of gold seekers. There is undoubtedly gold in Alaska, and many will make money there, but common sensa and conservatism apply in the business of gold mining as in everything else. There is a dead man for every lucky tenderfoot who ever "struck It rich" in the mines of the west. If you must go to Alaska, go well provided for against both the present and the future. McKinley and McKenna are quite at loggerheada. It Is well known that a very large percentage of the A. P. A.'s voted for McKinley, and that thelrvotes gave him California, Kentucky, Mary land and West Virginia. He thinks that they should have some recognition, but McKenna is violently opposed to them. Through Foraker the A. P. A.'s kept Bellamy Storer out of the assistant sec retaryship of state, which offended Mc- Kenna. He especially concerns himself about California appointments, and as the last Republican state convention was dominated by the A. P. A.'s, McKin ley is placed in an awkward position. The two McK's will have to fight the matter out between themselves. Everybody has fallen Into the way of referring to the great gold discoveries of Alaska as though they really are there; but the fact is that the Clondyke field lies In the British Northwest Terri tory. It is all right, probably, for the lucky individuals who get their gold out of the ground and carry it away, but some time there may be trouble oven titles of mines thereaway. The "keep off the grass" signs have been suspended in New York for the re mainder of the season and thousands of people very day revel in the unwonted luxury of lying on a real lawn. As> a park policeman remarked: "This may offend artists and landscape architects, but, after all It is the way all parks should be used." There is scarcely a limit to enforced human endurance. James Stevens, who was imprisoned in the Mammoth mine in Arizona was taken out alive after four teen days. He had had only one meal and a gallon of water during that time, and had lost seventy pounds. Most men in Stevens' position would have commit ted suicide. Senator Quay has set at rest the rum ors that he would retire to private life at the end of his present term. "You may say," said the senator, "that for the first time in my life I am a full fledged can didate for the senate. Mr. Quay evi dently does rot think he would be safe in the hands of his friends. Several old timers have already sent in their acquiescence in the project to form a society such as suggested by The Herald yesterday. It needs only a dozen or so to start the ball a-rollir.g, and a very popular organization will doubtless result. Send in the names. Emperor William is down on arbitra tion because a recent decision of a court of arbitration has lost his brother-jn law a Job. William would probably in dorse a plan of arbitration that would decide everything as he would dictate. Mayor Pat Gleason of Long Island City caused the arrest of a man who asked him to drink. The mayor's friends are calling for a lunacy commission to tackle the mayor's cas3. Why does it take from six to eleven times as much will power and muscle to push a lawn mower as it does to propel a bicycle? . p4*_ Senator Mark Hanna announced him self in favor of arbitrating the coal min ers' strike, but that is as far as he has got The report that Mr. and Mrs. Brad bury will settle in San Francisco is plausible, but unfounded. The coal miners' strike is costingabout $1,500,000 a week, figuring the miners' wages'at 70 cents a day. AT THE THEATERS ORPHEUM. —An audience that liter ally reached the roof—they were stand ing at the apex of the gallery—turned out for the new bill at this house last night; an audience that was Intelligently dis criminating In its applause down stairs; and was so well behaved upstairs that it deserves commendation. As for the bill, it is quite the best that has been offered for weeks; the hold-overs are the cream of last week's turns, and the new ones are above the average. The orchestra plays some especially pretty and tuneful numbers, too, and alto gether It Is a banner week. Caron and Herbert are not strangers here. They found a houseful of friends who roared and howled with joy over the cheerfully idiotic pantomime which is thrown in in chunks between some particularly neat tumbling and other acrobatic work. The bill says their act is "a revelation in resistless cachinna tlon." Old Noah says cachinnation is loud or immoderate laughter. Caron and Herbert lived up to their reputa tion, and they got the laughter, for their turn is the funniest that has been given here in many a day. But it must be seen. It is beyond description. Another of the new teams, Henry Frey and Nettie Fields, gives a "side splitting farce" which is clever in spots. Frey'a makeup is that of a cross between an undertaker in a healthy climate and a last year's scarecrow; Miss Fields, on the contrary, is handsomely gotten up as to clothes and she does a buck and wing dance that is seldom equaled any where by black or white, man or woman. T. W. Eckert and Emma Berg do a musical turn; the former first giving im itations of various instruments on the piano, following it with a singing lesson in which Miss Berg appears, and ending with the great love duet, the tower scene from Trovatore, which brought down the house. For an encore they sang a Tom and Tabby back-fence serenade, which was also loudly applauded. Charles White, the Australian basso, sang two rollicking bravura songs with considerable spirit and a very nice art. His voice is rich, mellow and musical, and he handles it with much discretion. Alex Heindl's choice of numbers was again popular rather than classical, but is it no less credit to him as' an artist that he can make so much of so little. In Rubenstein's beautiful "Melody In F," Mr. Heindl produced some noble tones on his vlollncello and his modulations were most artistic. In Offenbach's dainty "Musette," where the theme Is repeated in harmonics, the workman ship was exquisitely delicate; and the little waltz which was given In response to deservedly enthusiastic applause was also delightfully played. John Canfield and Violet Carlton re peat their successful turn ot last week with a change of dress on the part of the lady and a change of songs on the part of both. Canfleld's singing of "Sally In Our Alley" showed a very sweet, smooth tenor voice, and a repetition was de manded. Andy and Flora McKee also re peat their good work of last week with new business. McKee reveals the mys teries of making up for black face by smearing his face and hands with black grease paint, and then dancing a hoe down; and he convulses the audience with his description of a buggy ride. The same bill runs all the week with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. LOS ANGELES THEATER.—The en gagement of the Lyceum Theater com pany opens tomorrow evening with "The Prisoner of Zenda," which will also be given on Saturday matinee. On Thurs day and Saturday evenings, "The May flower," by the author of "Rosemary," will be presented. On Friday evening only "The First Gentleman of Europe" will be given for the first time in this city. The sale of seats is already very large. ♦ ♦ + James K. Haekett'smarvelouslyquick changes of costume in "The Prisoner of Zenda" have been the subject of much discussion throughout the country. His change in the first act from the drunken king to the young Englisman is an es pecially lino bit of work. f ♦ ♦ Louis N. Parker, author of the Ly ceum Theater production of "The May flower" and of John Drew's "Rosemary" has two new plays for presentation in this country next year. One is " 'Change Alley," to be brought out by E. H. Soth ern, and "Happy Life," for the Lyceum Theater stock company. ALASKA AND THE GOLD FIELDS The Herald's premium atlas (given away with a year's subscription to the daily edition) contains a fine map of Alaska and the Yukon country in Northwest territory. Seekers after in formation about the new gold fields will find it a useful document to con sult. The atlas is furnished in sep arate parts, and with a subscription for three months the subscriber may select any two of the parts he wishes. Or, with a subscription to the Weekly Herald ($1) the subscriber is entitled to one of the parts. He may take that containing the map of Alaska if he wishes. The Craven Case SAN FRANCISCO. July 19.—When the trial of the Angus-Craven case was resumed before Judge Slack today, Mrs. Nettie Craven was requested by Attor ney Wheeler to write certain words at his dictation with a pencil upon the mar gin of a contract similar to that offered in evidence. He then attempted to try the experiment again with a softer pencil and in a smaller hand, but the courtsus talned the objections of counsel to this method of procedure, and she escaped this trying ordeal. A piece of evidence was thus secured for the purpose of re butting Stre. Craven's statement that she did not write trie pencil words on the margin of the contract which Altken re fused to sign, and once admitted In evi dence, it was promptly exhibited to the jurors together with the original con tract. 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Loa Angela*. elevated roads await only the consum mation! of Incidental plans to embark in changes of a kindred! type, which por tend, among other things, a revolution of the rapid transit system of New York. Shoes for Unionists CHICAGO, July 19.—Every man who marches in the big Labor Day parade must wear union made shoes with the union label imprinted on the sole. A committee has been appointed to Inspect every shoe In the line of march and any man found guilty of wearing non-union shoes*wlll be dealt with accordingly. The action to this effect was taken at the labor meeting of the Chicago Feder ation of Labor on the suggestion of Wil liam T. Jones of the Boot and Shoe Work ers' Association of America. A Colorado Fire COLORADO SPRINGS, July 19.—The famous Broadmoor Casino burned to the ground this morning. The flames wer: discovered about 4 'o'clock and there being no water available, the whole building was destroyed in less than an hour. The hotel adjoining was saved through the timely assistance of United States soldiers camped In the vicinity. Loss, $100,000, with little or no insurance. Beat His Partner SAN DIEGO, July 19—An interesting suit was begun here, growing out ot the purchase of a lottery ticket. Two em ployes of W. P. Fuller & Co. recently in vested in a ticket in the Honduras lot tery, ana one of them learned Saturday that they had captured the $115,000 prize. Instead of notifying his partner, a boy in years, ol their good luok, he went to him and succeeded In buying his half interest for 25 cents. The boy afterward learned of the prize-winning and has in stituted suit to compel a division of the spoils. A Mother's Anguish SAN FRANCISCO, July 19.—As tho life of their little son was ebbing away the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Torre, in this city, was nearly burned, down. While the mother watched by the death bed of her boy the father helped to fight the flames. When they were extinguish ed the lad was dead. A remarkable fea ture of the case is the fact that the boy's death was the result of injuries received on Saturday while playing that he waea fireman, and aiding some young com panions to extinguish an imaginary blaze in ( the very place the flames after wards broke out. Going After Andree BOSTON, July 19.—Lieutenant R. E. Peary and party sailed for North Green land at daybreak, fully equipped for a long voyage on board the steam sailing bark Hope. The object is to establish a settlement at a remote northern point in Greenland, which shall be used as the base of supplies for an expedition that will go in search of the North Pole in 1898. A Postoffice Robbed GUTHRIE, O. T., July 19 —Two mask ed men robbedi the Sac and Fox agency postofflce, fifty milee from here, Satur day night, securing a quantity of reg istered letters, stamps and a small sum of money. They were after $20,000 belnjf paid the Indians. The robbers escaped.