Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-09-01

been made and won by other States.
We want to see the issues openly
stated and firmly met. Let the
weight of the fight concentrate
where it belongs, viz: upon land
monopoly and speculations In the
public domain, upon which rests
production and the increase of a
useful and industrious population;
upon the undue power in corpora
tions; upon Chinese cheap labor,
and railroad freights and fares, and
all other monopolies which, while
they lessen in the long run the
growth of industrious and thrifty
communities and the general
sources OF wealth and industries
within the State, they tend to con-
centrate in the hands OF few the
mass of wealth and power.
A system of taxation is needed
which, being just and equitable,
and whose burdens are laid accord
! ing to the benefits of government
and the circumstances OF he indi-
viduals to bear them, and at the
same time so adjusted as to coun-
teract such acknowledged evils AZ
land monopoly and speculation,
against public morality and de-
cency.
A system of assessments are
needed which will eflectually carry
out q just system of taxation.
The demoralizing and destructive
system of stock operating must be
shut off.
Railroad freights and fares must
be made uniform throughout the
State, and reduced to minimum.
Experience here and in the East
has amply proven that Legislatures
cannot be trusted with this power.
| The powers of corporations must
be curtailed and regulated by spe-
cific clauses in the Constitution.
Better securities must be given
to the regulation of water rights.
The Chinese, being unassimila-
tive, and by their manner of habi-
tation and tendencies to filth, dis.
. ease and decentralization, should be
subjected strictly to such laws as
will exclude their in1perio inaperi
| una, prevent disease and restrict
/ their immoral tendencies and sucl
! an increase of their numbers anC
/ use in the State as now so assists
! monopoly, concentrates wealth ant
! degrades labor.
n In these propositions is involve,
!! a great contest. For there Is mucl
9 power to take from monopol.
q which it will strive hard to resist
q and much for the people for whicl
e those who will truly represent th
I: people should contest every inc
of the ground. There are man,
in that convention who we thin
!! will stand firm and do goo
~ wo:k, and they shOult
81 and surely will, be remembered b
l. the people. They have much abb
ar ity, money and shrewd politics
= trickery to contend with, and the
], may fail; but their labor an
+, firmness, so far as they then
III selves are concerned, will /
he their success. Far different wi
n, be the condition of those who wi
vi loose their own respect and gai
e. the contempt of the world h
e. strutting off with the pri'
lg of their manhood and integrity;
a those who may gain brief politi
Ell al power, TO be surely lost in tn
es inevitable contempt and obscurit
ay to which public corruptionsos so swil
pc ly drives them. Or last, those, Il
lis most numerous, who will ha'
W sold themselves so readily al
at cheap that when the work
a. all over they are crusht
ie down by the disgust Of tn
~ self contempt formed in the
RS having sold themselves and r.
NJ ceived nothing but a meniaPs kie
IL from their masters. We say let |
enter the contest openly AT
r. squarely If the people DO not wi
in the Convention, lst them reje,
u the Constitution and take arotbt
turn; but no lagging nor shifting
i and above all, no compromis
which would only postpone ft
awhile or put in seductive shar
II the insoleDt and pompous power I
J. monopoly.