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EASTER
T ET us be glad and rejoice in Eas-
I J* ter. It is not worth while in quar
■ ter. It is not worth while to quar
fJLl ci over the origin of this great
celebration. It may be an old pagan
festival mixed up with Christianity. It
may be the Hebrew Passover mixed up
with Christianity. But all it means to
our civilization is connected with the
story of the Cross, and for Christians
It is a commemoration of the triumph
of their religion. And what a triumphal
progress Is that jof the ever-growing
church through the ages!
Rent into factions innumerable, di
vided by many quarrels, some of Which
are fantastic and trivial; but united
by a common belief in the fundamental
principles and doctri: es of the faith
of the fathers, the Christian church,
many but one, "whether it be of Paul
or Apollos," of Peter or of Luther, of
Cranmer or of Knox, of Cromwell or of
Booth, goes marching on, conquering
and to conquer, constantly annexing
new territory, steadily winning the
world.
All the joy that Is in Easter is resur
rection Joy. It Is springtime in the
colder regions, flower time in Califor
nia.
It Is the time when lilies bloom,
And clouds arc highest up In air.
Humanity, in response to the urge of
nature, bedecks itself with new finery.
In California, Easter is ideal. The
weather Is perfect. The landscape is at
Its best. The finest state In the Union
is at its finest. Every Californlan has
cause to be thankful. Life here should
be on a higher plane than in any other
part of the country. Here there is no
excuse for sordid meanness, for petty
selfishness, for picayune policies that
produce lack of harmony. It is a broad
gauge state, for broad-gauge men; and
here should be practiced from year's
end to year's end the civic virtues ;
which will give effect to the first prin
ciples of Americanism and bring about
the greatest good for the greatest num
ber and a square deal for everybody.
"Welcome, happy morning!" Los An
geles Herald sends its readers Easter
greetings and wishes that every new
hope Which will inspire their hearts to
day may be realized.
PACIFIC COSTUMERS
DURING 1908 the Asiatic trade of
the United States amounted to
$325,119,338, of which $195,271,552
represented imports, and $129,847,786 ex
ports. it. averaged over $27,000,000 a
month. Our leading individual cus
tomer is Japan, which takes 138,624,781
worth of goods. Japanese China took
$2,631,500 worth more, bringing the total
up to $36,256,281. The- second individual
customer is Australasia, which bought
$32,792,642 worth; but when to the Aus
tralasian figures are added those relat
ing to other Pacific and Asiatic coun
tries In the British empire, Japan must
take second place. The British empire
in Asia and the Pacific bought $42,482,
--933 worth of goods.
According to the figures, we could
more easily afford to lose the oriental
trade of all the world excepting Britain
and Japan than to lose the trade of
Britain and Japan. A war with either
country would be ruinous to many
departments of American industrial or
commercial activity.
' , As far as its effect on trade would
bo concerned it would be more costly
and more disastrous to industrial west
ern America than a war with all the
rest of the world combined. War with
either of our (-real Pacific and Asiatic
customers and friends is unthinkable.
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CITY CLUB
LOS ANGELES HERALD congratu
lates the City club on its : new
officers. Its president, John..' D.
Works; its first vice president, Frank
G. Finlayson; its second vice president,
S. C. Graham; its secretary, Frank G.
Henderson; its treasurer, Stoddard
Jess, and the new members of its board
of governors, Gilbert S. Wright and
Dr. Sherwln Gibbons, are all represen
tative citizens, whose disinterested loy
alty to the club and the community
may be depended on. We say the club
and the community; for It is difficult to
regard the City club as other than an
auxiliary branch of the city govern
ment, an advisory body, pledged to care
for the interests of the majority of the
voters, the mass of citizens and tax-
payers. -.
We commend to the careful attention
of our readers the following passages
from Meyer Llssner's excellent address
on "Reform In Los Angeles, Retrospec
tive, Prospective":
"There should be a Good Government
club In every precinct in the city, of
which the earnest, active workers in
the precinct should be officers, and each
of these precinct clubs should be en
titled to one representative in the coun
cils of the Good Government league.
THE RECALL IS ALL RIGHT. IT
HAS COME TO STAY. REACTION
ARIES WOULD BETTER LET IT
ALONE. IT WILL NEVER BE SUR
RENDERED. If ever the people are
compelled to choose between saloons
and mlsgovernment on the one hand
and no saloons and good government
on the other, they will vote to close the
saloons. The most dastardly thing that
was done in the recall campaign (and
it has been done in other campaigns in
the city of Los Angeles), a thing that
is absolutely subversive of one of the
fundamental principles of our American
institutions, was the attempt to preju
dice the minds of many voters against
cur campaign and against the men con
nected with It the movement on ac
nected'with the movement on account
of religious and racial considerations."
GREATER LOS ANGELES
Hf\ REATER LOS ANGELES!"
It Hold the thought.- Realize
what it will mean to California
and the United States. .Consolidation
will give the Pacific coast one of the
greatest cities of the Union. The very
fact that the future of Los Angeles will
be assured by consolidation will make
that step more beneficial from a. busi
ness point of view.
Confidence in continued growth and
prosperity will tend to stimulate
growth and Increase prosperity. Since
the predominant thought of every resi
dent of Los Angeles is that the city is
bound to grow and to flourish, it will
certainly grow and flourish. Since cit
izens have made up their minds that
Greater Los Angeles, with its fine sea
port, San, Pedro, will be the leading
maritime city of the west, it is certain
Greater Los Angeles will be the prin
cipal maritime city of the west.
It can no longer be ifrged that the
growth of Los Angeles is accidental,
fortuitous or phenomenal. Of course
it is phenomenal; but It is more. It is
an assured and constant circumstance]
attending the history of Los Angeles.
The city is still being made and is only
in an early stage of its making. It is
for this reason a speedy increase of
population to a half million may be
predicted with confidence. And Great
er Los Angeles will be the maritime,
commercial, industrial metropolis of
the west.
CONSUMPTION CURABLE
NOBLE indeed is the work in which
IV the National Association for the
■*-' Study and Prevention of Tuber
culosis is engaged. After much obser
vation and experiment, it has reached
a conclusion which is positive, and
should have most beneficial effects in
reversing a current of thought which
is responsible for much mischief and
in changing a mental habit far more
deadly than any disease.
The National association is announc
ing, and is asking the newspapers of
the United States to announce, con
sumption is curable. Consumption
owed its deadllness to the fact per
sons attacked by it succumbed almost
immediately: that is to say, if they did
not die In a short time, they died after
a while. Some had stronger bodies
than others: but when patients of weak
physique made up their minds they
must die, why, they died of what is
called "galloping consumption." Stron
ger persons lingered, and it >vould be
said of them they "put up a good fight"
against the disease, a fight that some
times lasted for years. However, as
they had made up their minds they
must die of consumption, and had read
and thought about the various '-stages''
of the disease until they had mentally
arranged for themselves a program of
gradual extinction which, barring acci
dents, was followed faithfully, It was
j Impossible to make them change their
minds, and of course equally Impossible
to cure them.
Attacking the disease from this point
of view, the anti-tuberculosis society is
already working wonders— that is to
say, it is persuading people to stop
thinking an attack of tuberculosis is a
sentence of death. It is not at all im
probable teat it people would studi
ously adopt the same mental attitude
with regard to toothache which has
become habitual with them when con
sumption is mentioned, the ravages of
toothache would shortly he frightful,
and the mortality from this causa very
grea-f'. Fresh air, rest and wholesome
food with the aid of tuberculin will
cure consumption.
Los Angeles Wholesale Dry Good
association is taking the local leader
ship in the opposition to the enor
mously Increased tariff proposed on
the cotton stockings used by all Ameri
cans of moderate means. It Is pointed
out that this provision of the Payne
bill will create a trust In stockings,
and every family in the land will be
taxed with higher prices for inferior
goods to fatten the purses of a few
favored manufacturers.
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LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 11. lftOO-
"Gittin' Durned Expensive!"
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COAST EQUIPMENT
A BILL asking for five coast light
and signal equipments for the Cal
ifornia coast has been introduced
by Senator Perkins. A revolving light
and keeper's quarters are asked for
Point Firmin, light and fog signals
for Anacapa island, fog signals and
keeper's quarters for Point Hueneme,
fog signals and keeper's quarters for
Point Loma, and revolving light, signal
and keeper's quarters for Santa Bar
bara.
With the coast well equipped with
lights and signals and with San Pedro,
one of the safest and best harbors in
the world, coastwise shipping will
be greatly encouraged. Government
steamship lines and a thoroughly safe
coast will be of great advantage to
California. It is to be hoped, and, In
deed, it is expected Washington will
deal generously with us in the matter
of safeguarding our shore. It is not a
dangerous shore. The stern and rock
bound coast of the Atlantic is far more
perilous.
But it is not yet as familiar to the
merchants and shippers'of the world
as is the Atlantic coast, and the news
that every possible precaution is be
ing taken to reduce to a minimum the
risks of navigation in California wa
ters should have the effect of inspiring
with confidence the maritime mercan
tile interests of the world and of giving
rates of maritime Insurance that will
encourage California commerce.
FREE COUNTRIES
WHEN we realize that Madame
Helena Modjeska, one of the
most brilliant, talented, gifted
and cultured women who ever lived
was forbidden' to live in her native
land, we have an appreciation of the
meaning of the word "liberty."
There is so much freedom in the
United States and the British empire
that many citizens have ceased to value
it. They "take it for granted." They
don't know what it means. Americans
hear or they read with only languid
interest or amused smiles how an un
sophisticated friend made a tour ot
Europe; how he was thoroughly at
home and unlnterfered with and had a
"bully good time" in Scotland, Ireland
and England, and how, when he set foot
on the continent, troubles began that
were of a nature of which he had not
even dreamed. He was cross-ques
tioned here, halted there while his bag
gage was searched, "held up" in an
other place until he could prove to the
satisfaction of a pompous official who
had never heard of George Washington
that he was himself, and was not trav
eling with a passport stolen from a
tourist who (cheerful thought) had
been murdered in a backwoods village.
They read or hear how he .fell and
scratched his face, and was imprisoned
and registered as a suspect because he
no longer resembled the photograph
which accompanied the passport; and
how, when he was about to be sent to
the mines or an isolated fortress as an
anarchist, he' was rescued in the nick
of time by the united efforts of the
American and British consuls, and put
under the guardianship of commls-
the border saved him from further an
noyance, or the possible risk or incon
venience of being kidnaped.
When we realize that, as in the
case of the gifted and lamented Mod
jeska, thousands of men and women are
residents of the United States and the
British empire because they are not
allowed to live in their own countries
and are not safe In any lands but ours,
we see the word liberty in a new light.
Nothing more awful could befall the
children of men than to have the "free
countries" conquered. Meanwhile,
these countries are the beneficiaries of
the narrow, penny wise, short-sighted
methods of most of the continental
governments, for the history of the
republic and the empire shows they
are both deeply indebted to European
refugees or descendants of refugee fam
ilies. Statesmen, business men, artists,
bankers of the refugee class have con
tributed to the wealth and greatness
of the free peoples, and to European
tyranny we owed our lamented adopted
citizen, Madame Modjeska.
Roosevelt denies . the . interview in
which he was quoted as having said:
"I have fought oil, kings -and steel
kings; they tried to break my back,
but my back Is still Intact." It was a
pleasing interview, and we do not think
Col. Roosevelt will repudiate its senti
ments. ".,.•..
PAYNE PUZZLE
NO provision of the Payne tariff
i\ will cause more comment, sur
-*-' mise and suspicion than v that
which puts petroleum on the free list.
Wary citizens, mindful of the history
of Standard Oil and of its reputation
for direct or indirect association with
Republican influences at election time,
will be so suspicious of the fact that
petroleum is put on the free list that
they will say Timeo Danaos an dona
ferentes. We must beware of the
"Greeks" even when they are bring
ing presents, and it seems incredible
that the Republican organization, the
national machine, should have turned
traitor to Its benefactor. This political
treason arouses suspicion, even al
though it is true the public service ren
dered by the treason, if frank and out
right treason it be, and not a treason
to a trust with a treason to the people
adroitly concealed within the trust
treason is very great.
We are not ungracious when we put
a query mark beside the action of the
house with regard to the Standard Oil
trust. It seems to be too good to be
true. What motive could the Repub
licans have had for going back on old
John D.? '':", i.'vV:. '
The theory that .a benevolent govern
ment Is trying to rescue the people
from the trusts Is not tenable, because
the same benevolent government has
protected the sugar trust. Why make
fish of the Rockefellers and flesh of
Havemeyer and Spreckels? What Is
the Inside history and the true mean
ing of the inconsistent and puzzling
Payne bill? 1: *
By the death of F. Marion Crawford
literature has lost one of its most bril
liant exponents. , He was one of the
few men who managed to make a suc
cessful and lucrative business of novel
writing; and it is believed several of
his books have permanent value and
that one at least will become a classic.
When we say there were no "great"
American novelists in modern times do
not let us forget the author of "Mr.
Isaacs" and "Saracinesca."
E. P. Gregson, traffic manager for
the Associated Jobbers of Los Angeles,
says the Wright act, under which Cali
fornia railroads are carrying inter
state traffic, contains a joker in a pro
vision which in plain language means
that when a railroad clerk, officer or
employe quotes an erroneous rate to
a shipper the railroads are protected
in it and cannot be penalized. Jokers
are never jocular in their consequences.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, the
poet, is dead. His death Is likely to
have a paradoxical effect. It will cause
a revival of his works. In the opinion
of most of the scholars and critics of
the' civilized world he should have
been made poet laureate Instead of the
obscure and turgid person who received
that honor. But in England, as In the
United States, political pull is more
effective than merit. -__
Again the monthly report shows
births in Los Angeles are more numer
ous than deaths. This has been the
case month after month for several
years, and in this respect, as In many
others, the record of Los Angeles is
unrivaled in the civilized world.
Two fine Japanese cruisers are on
their way to San Pedro. This sounds
formidable, but their mission is one of
friendliness, peace and good will, so
let's give them three banzais and a
tiger. Hocli dor mikado!
Los Angeles has reason to be pleased
with the progress of the construction of
tho federal building, which will be one
of the finest In the west, a fitting ar
chitectural ornament for Greater Los
Angeles.
A critic says the only part of Chris
tian civilization that fits the Chinese
character at every turn is draw poker.
But what connection is there between
Christian civilization and draw poker?
„ New York city alone used 25,000,000
Easter eggs. This should give an idea
of the magnitude of the chicken in
dustry in the United States. ,:■/'<
Progressive Spain „.--,
The rest of the world has fallen Into
the habit of regarding Spain as the
most backward of the countries of
Western Europe. But other nations
might profitably examine the system
of public schools that Spain is estab
lishing.—Boston Globe.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The State Press
Angel of Peace /
If Tolstoy ever brings out a new edi
tion of "War and Peace" he ought not
to overlook one day's work by Con
gressman Hobson. That active gentle
man Introduced on March 15 two bills,
two joint resolutions, and one con
current resolution, all looking to the
end of making this country go about
armed to the teeth seeking some na
tion with which it may make a lasting
peace.—San Jose Herald. ,
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Unnecessary Attaches -•
That for years California legislatures
have been expending thousands of dol
lars of public money for unnecessary
attaches has been conclusively proved
at the session- just brought to a
close. At a cost of $500 for each house,
about half of what was paid two years
ago, both assembly and senate have
had better employes and better ser
vice.—San Luis Obispo Breeze.
Taft Chair
If President Taft should come to
Redlands and be officially welcomed |
here, we will probably have to have a j
chair built to order to accommodate
his several hundred pounds, more or
less, of flesh. The Taft chair would
be a memento worth having, not only I
for its memories, but it would be big
enough to servo the ordinary family
as a settee.—Redlands Review.
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Bryce Over-Sanguine
British Ambassador Bryce says that
we are just awakening to the thought
that we are the trustees of posterity.
If he had taken note of the enormous
bonded Indebtedness of some of our
great cities he would have changed
his views.—Fresno Herald.
Would Baffle Diogenes
The impression one gets from a pe
rusal of the San Francisco papers
leads to the belief that should the late
lamented Mr. Diogenes visit that city
his trip would be useless except as an
educational experience.—Palo Alto
Tribune..... _^_.
Gambling Banned .--'.
Nevada's legislature has placed the
ban on gambling of all descriptions,
adding, as a parting thought, the aris
tocratic game of bridge whist.—
Francisco Globe.
Pasadena Sasses Harriman
Mr. Harriman intimates that Pasa
dena is provincial and self-centered.
Mr. Harriman should stay a few weeks
and get acquainted.—Pasadena Star.
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Far and Wide
Latest, Not Last
The other day a special train was
fitted with a wireless apparatus and
between Cleveland and Chicago re
ceived and sent 800 words. The bar
ber shop on the train was fitted up as
a wireless station and wires were car
ried to receiving instruments on the
roof above. Messages were sent and
received all the way from Cleveland to
within a few miles of Chicago, the
train meanwhile running full speed.
Wireless telegraphy takes on new and
higher dignities every day; it is the
last great wonder of the world.—Salt
Lake Telegram.
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Disordered Finances
So the tumult and the shouting have
died away and the lawmakers in Wash
ington and all of the rest of us are
given opportunity In which to take ac
count of stock. It is discovered that
there will be much difficulty in pay
ing the piper after our long and ex
uberant dancing. The national finance*
are disordered to an extent that has
attracted practitcally no attention on
the part of the average voter.—Spring
field Republican. *'- v ',
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Wireless Warning
Fog is the one great obstacle to safe
and speedy navigation, against which
science has made little progress. Science
cannot reinforce eyes or glasses to the
point that will penetrate the curtain
of the fog. but indirectly science by the
wireless telegraphy can throw Out
warnings which if not complete are of
mighty assistance to the puzzled man
on the bridge who Is enabled- to pick
them up.—Boston Transcript. '
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Scotch Humor '
Who says Scotch humor is dead? The
chairman of a Scotch corporation,
taken to task for sending notices to
forty men known to have died years
ago, replied the regulations, demand
that when a member changed his ad
dress he must let the t corporation
know.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. ■
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A Question of Importance
At the opening of the Taft adminis
tration a question which remains of
great interest and importance in fed
eral politics is the relations between the
executive and legislative departments
of the national government.—New York
Journal of Commerce. '.
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The Chancellor
it looks as if somebody has Invented
a silencer for Chancellor Spring
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AMERICAN TARIFF LAWS
XIV—The McKinley Law
FREDERIC J. HASKIN
THE "period' from 1887 to 1890 repre-
I sents one sof the* most important
'". stages In American tariff history.
The beginning of that period saw pro
tection first made such a strict party
Issue that lines were drawn With abso
lute rigidity; .* the man who did not
agree with his party on the subject of
the tariff 'was to be considered a po
litical heretic": The end of that period
saw protection urged as a permanent
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rather than a tem
porary policy. Prior
to the debate on the
McKinley bill the
vast *-. majority ■of
protectionists advo
cated that doctrine
as a temporary ex
pedient They de
sired to use it as an
agency to nourish
the Infant industry
into the manhood
that stands alone
and fights its own
battles without let
or f hindrance. -In
the happy phrase of
President. Garfield,
they ' were for a
"protective ' tariff
that leads to ulti
mate free trade." i I
But that doctrine
was now ito be
abandoned and a
permanent policy of
protection to be
substituted. The
Democrats twitted
the Republicans for
F. J. Haskln *■*
leaving their old position, and promptly
moved Into the camp the Republicans
had deserted. The Republicans made
honors easy by replying that the Dem
ocrats before the Civil War and Imme
diately afterward had fought all forms
of protection. I They asserted that, the
Democrats virtually admitted now the
benefits of temporary— protection, a
thing which they had vehemently de
nied in the past.
When the Fifty-first congress was
organized the Republican majority was
so small and the rules so liberal to the
minority that the bitterest parliamen
tary campaign In history • had to be
fought out before Speaker Reed could
get a firm hold on the helm. It was
only by the creation of rules that were
denounced by the minority as arbi
trary, revolutionary and unjust - that
he was able to make the house bridle
wise and a steady puller. He justified
his rules by saying that they were born
of necessity. The Democratls denounced
them with all "the vehemence they could
command; yet In the very next con
gress, when they were In control, they
were prompt in applying the Reed rules
to those who had orlglnaally adopted
them, and the Republicans now kicked
as hard as the Democrats had before.
A number of Democratic members
were unseated early In the session and
the Republican contestants awarded
seats. This gave the Republicans a
safe working majority. The house then
undertook the serious business of'pass
; ing the McKinley law. The ways and
means committee of that congress was
one of the ablest the house has ever
had. In Its membership was a future
president, a future secretary of the
treasury, a future Justice of the
United States and as many more who
were destined to be governors of their
respective states. Former Speaker Car
lisle was' also a member.
The committee reported two meas
uresone relating to the administration
of the tariff laws, and one a general re
vision of the tariff. | The former created
the general board of appraisers, still in
existence. The latter was the McKln»
ley bill, 'the Basis of which was the
Aldrlch measure which the senate had
passed as its substitute to the Mills
| bill! In preparing the bill the commit
; tee was careful to Impress on the coun
try that it was doing what the Demo
crats had failed to do in the prepara
tion of the Mills bill. The charge was
made that the committee opened its
doors to the manufacturers, but had
failed to give the consumers a hearing.
Even the Democratic members of the
committee denied this charge, and the
statement was made that even the
crank was not turned away until he
had been heard.
The McKinley bill was full of novel
features, embodying more new depart
ures in tariff legislation than any other
measure of its kind ever passed by con
gress. It was the first tariff bill to pro
vide for protective duties On'all agrl-
Magazine Editor Has Fun
with Pro- Vice Letter Writer
UNDER the Caption . "Our Crit
ics" the editor of "The Harves
ter," • the weekly magazine
published by the First Methodist
church, has some quiet fun wltn the
anti-recalleiJ. The Harvester says-.—
In the February issue of the Harvester
we had something to say about city af
fr.irs and advised our readers to stand
for decency against Indecency. I Like
other editors in this city, we hay-- found
it is the. best policy to stand for the
right, let It cost what it may. It cost
us just two cents. Our article was
copied In the Los Angeles Herald and a
few days later we received a notice
from Postmaster Flint stating that a
letter was In his possession addressed
to the Editor of the Harvester upon
which was due two cents.
We hastened to the postofftco and,
after delivering our two cents, were
When Was Sacramento Born
Is Subject of Discussion
BUTTON, button, who's got the but
■ ton? ■ , ■;
What have they got the button
for? . „•,'.'*':
It is stated around town that they
will wear it In honor of the forty-fifth
anniversary of the ushering Into mu
nicipal life of the city of Sacramento.
That being so, the Bee wishes here
to register Its protest against this sys
tem of arithmetic. .
The city' of Sacramento was born as
a municipality long before 1864. It was
born to such activity as a city in 1849.
From 1849 to 1858 the city of Sacramen
to" was a city with Its mayors, clerks
and other I officers. From 1858 to and
Including 1862-the city and county of
Sacramento was one government.' Com
mencing again in 1863 the city of Sacra
mento began and continued as a corpo
rate municipality, says the Sacramento
Bee. ■ . " -■-<-.- v,-. ... ,•
„ So that the city of Sacramento is not,
as a municipality, only forty-five years
old. It Is sixty years old. ;, It. was a
city with a government In the year 1849,
and its first . mayor was A. -M. v Winn,
who afterward organized .the 'Native
Sons. That was a , military provisional
government, 'toi be sure. But * the first
mayor ; elected f. by the .^citizens' under
part n
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I cultural products, and the first to place
[ unrefined sugar on the free list. From
the ■» foundation .of the government ■
sugar had contributed more to the cus- B
toms receipts of - tho nation than' had "
any other single item of tariff taxation,
Instead of retaining a tariff on sugar,
thus getting an. income from-.' it, the
McKinley bill provided for the payment B
of .-• bounties for its production, * thus;,'
changing an income 'to an outlay. O- m
■ Tho I proponents of protection for ag
ricultural products pointed out that the I
Importation of such products amounted
to a quarter of a billion dollars a year.
The opponents answered that this was
an infinitesimal sum-as compared with
the exportations, and that protection
for the farmer, when his -whole success
depended upon exports rather than im- *
ports, was slßy and useless. -•*'■•. -,->■'
One of the most amusing Incidents of. I
the debate on the McKinley bill In the I
house was a passage in a speech of
Benton McMillln. afterward governor
of . Tennessee. He imagined a conver
sation between McKinley and Repre
sentative Burrows, in which Burrows n
wanted to know what had been done I
for Michigan. McKinley replied that
nothing had been done yet, but that he
would • "fix" that state by putting; a.
duty on cabbages. Mr. Burrows was
made to respond that this would be .
inconsistent, . since sauerkraut was put I
on the free list; to which McKinley re- >
plied that this was necessary to please
the -Dutch. Then ' someone was sup
posed to propose a duty on straw. Wil
liam L. Wilson. rejoined that this in
deed is the last straw—free sugar, free
whisky, and now a free straw.
The McKinley measure was reported
to the house about the middle of April.
Some twenty legislative days intervened i
before it was taken up for considera
tion. When it came to amending: the I
bill Mr. McKinley held his forces to- s
gether with consummate ability. I He ,
lost-out, nowever, on his woolen sched- I
ule, and saved his tin-plate duty by
the narrow margin of one vote. A rule
was brought In which effectually shut';
off a vote on any Democratic amend
ment, and the house promptly passed
the bill. ' '
When the measure went to the sen
ate the finance committee, to which It
was referred, granted lengthy hearings./
A month elapsed before the bill was re
ported to the senate, and another
month before It was taken up for con- j
sideration. Then came a month of de
bate in the senate, followed by. two ,
weeks of consideration of amendments. .
It was finally passed on September 10
with 396 amendments added to It, and
of these the joint committee of uon- ,
ference was forced to accept 272' and
to compromise on 173 of the remainder. \
As viewed by the historian, the Mc- I
Kinley law.' was -not the success as,a ,
revenue measure that might have been 1
expected. One of Its purposes was to
reduce the revenues of the treasury,
but in trying to carry that purpose Into
effect the framers of the law went too I
far, and the end of the Harrison ad
ministration found the treasury In ,
such a condition that a bond issuo
shortly after Mr. Cleveland entered the
White House for his second term was,'
Inevitable. Indeed, it Is a matter of '■
official record that Secretary Foster of \
Mr. Harrison's cabinet ordered ■ the ,
plates made for the bonds that were 1
afterward issued by Secretary Carlisle, j
All fiscal experts concede that the ex- j
act effect of a tariff law cannot be fore- 8
told. A reduction of the customs re- 5
ceipts, ' accompanied by .an enhance-,~
ment of the degree of protection, had 1
been sought, and the framers of the J
McKinley tariff had gone beyond the y
limit of safety in the former object if I
not in the latter. ■■-■• -,
While the McKinley bill was pending
there was a continued effort on the .
part of the Democrats to get before the B
people their prophecy that the McKln- I
ley tariff would result In high prices
everywhere. They did not content
themselves with' generalities, but set
down specific Increases that were to be
expected. Events in some measure
justified their proprecles, and the ver
dict of the people against the McKin
ley bill was the most emphatic ever
delivered , against any tariff . law up to
that time. But it was not the final
verdict. The court of public opinion ,
was to reverse itself again. If .the sin
of high prices was to procure the ban- 1
ishment of the McKinley law, hard
times was to be the undoing of „ the .
Wilson act. ' " • ■
(Copyright, 1909, by Frederic 3. Haskln) ■
Tomorrow—American Tariff Laws.
XVReciprocity. r !
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handed an anonymous letter in which
the writer quotes from our article and
then says: "These statements are gross
exaggerations of tho facts : and ; are
unworthy the editor of a church publi
cation. The Grand Jury distinctly
states: 'We have found no Indictment.
From which It can be fairly concluded
that we have failed to find evidence
that any public officlt.l or other had
been guilty of a felony. A little care
on your part would have convinced you
that these charges were unfounded.
These.charges against the mayor have
been made by two men unworthy of
belief, though they be , the ; owners or
editors of daily newspapers. -„;■ :■;.,'* '■:.[
In tho light of subsequent events, we
do not wish our readers to think 'that
in copying from this . anoymous letter
we are running a comic page In the
harvester. To\uS It is a very, serious
matter. It cost us two cents. ' 'V;a,
proclamation of due authority was
Hardin Btgelow, who was elected as far
back as April 1, 1850. . '. , : w ,
It is just as well to be correct In
these matters, and Just as well to let
not only ' our own citizens but those
who are strangers, know how old : : we
are.'.- ■,-,.'•■.'..-.. ■Y-'-"' ',"'] r.'f :<f;.'*">-"J- ,i'»-i'
■ Only women are forgiven for declar
ing they are but 46 years of age.when
in fact they are 60. .<,: i '.- ■ ; V
--,. » t • ' . ■ .:■.,
Contrast v y.y i ;::"■>;: \<yJ
. Lbs Angeles , shows what ; a painful
contrast • there is,', between ' the recall..
in theatrical parlance and the recall in
the hands of an angry municipality. y
-■ With so many experienced and eagle
eyed grafters to keep watching < things ;
within Its walls, - the penitentiary will
simply have to keep on its good be
havior.—Pittsburg Telegraph. '
' m■ • "■—:-.-:
Invented Comic f
i Emmanuel Poire, far better known as
Caran d'Ache, has a particularly.valid
claim on the memory of all good Amer- ;
icans. ,v Wilhelm -. Busch *- and '■;', Caran
d'Ache were the two great progenitors
of the comic supplement.7; The German (
artist was much the older man and the
pioneer.—New York Post.