Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-04-11
"An0sh.r Dawsei Casns q" Jufg-
mena."

California is the Ell Dorado OF
politicians. 1t has gathered the
animals of every hue aud stripe
from each portion of our glorious
Union and from abroad. There Is
peculiar species of the genus from
the classic States say Of Illinois,
Tennessee or some other Common
wealth. Having exhausted their
natal soil, they flock thitherward,
crowned with u military or judicial
title and mainly gray.haired. Upon
the moment of their arrival, and
with sharp view OF the political
complexion they adopt as the scene
OF their future operations, they ply
their busy trade. No matter about
their political antecedents. Some
OF them can be at once Democrat
or Republican, in accordance with
the complexion of their new abode.
Som etimes their means Of subsist
ence Is a marvel. They are never
teen to spin, yet are they always In
decent attire. They effulge upon
the street corners. They salute the
sams fellow.citizen twenty times
day with the same kindly and
gracious bow, smacking somewhat
Of humility. Each time of en-
counter they seize that fellow citi-
xsn with u cordial grasp Of the
hand; and they earnestly inquire
about the fellow-citizen's fam
lily and crops. These fos-
sils manage to get party
nominations aud often glide
into office. Tested and found shall
low pated, aud repudiated, these
fellows, of the sandstone period,
dlsclaim party ties. Suddenly they
are men Of the people-patriots.
1t is wonderful the number of re-
pudiated politicians who see merit
ins the new Constitution be-
cause the new Constitution, il
adopted, creates q new party,of the
Sand Lot ascendancy, with Kear-
ney as political dictator. Aud 50 It
Il your Illinois and Tennessee poll.
t:cian is In high feather at this
especial time. He is rampant upon
our thoroughfares. He takes farm
sr Smudkins aside and, with mucf
gesticulation, assures farmer Smud
kins that the laboring man ha
been long enough ground to pow
der by the lecherous monopolist
With moiesty peculiar to hi
class, and in adroit publication o
his aspirations, he emits mass o
platitudes in some newspaper, ovel
his own signature.
But the foregoing can have nj
reference to our friend H. X. S. o.
Melveny, who has just given hiI
views in the Express upon the pur
ported taxation under the new Con
s,itution. Says this eccentric ex
FOUNDER in reference to the charg'
that the lender will require th'
borrower to pay both tax and in
terest upon the mortgage debt:
"This argument imputes to thu
banker and capitalist the wilfu
purpose to disregard the Constitu'
ton If adopted, and for the purpose
of wilfully evading the payment ol
taxes in proportion to their prop
burden upon the debtor class. I, fol
one, do not admit that such All i'm
putation is true against all bankers
aud capitalists, for that would i'm
ply q want of patriotism and virtue
which, II true, must, In the end
destroy this Republic
It would be difficult to condense 9
larger amount OF nonsense in like
spa,e.
Now. will our judicial friend lis
ten q moment ? A bank has money
to loan at a regulated interest o
ten per cent. per annum. That IL
the market value of money
Say the mortgage tax is two per
cent. under the new Constitution.
Who must pay that additional pei
cent? II the banker pays it, he
would be excessively stupid not to
charge l2 per cent. for his loan.
Money being worth but 10 per
cent, and that rate limited by law,
where is the legal and moral objec-
ton to making the borrower liable
for the tax? There is not one
mortgage in thousand, the world
over, but makes the mortgagor
liable for taxes.
That swell OF our ex-Judge upon
such want want of "patriotism and
misunderstanding the Republic"
is inane trash-uuworthy Of stu
pid school boy!
The ex-Judge then launches into
an arlthmetical calculation that
would do credit to Doball or an
Emerson, to prove that If things
are taxed under the new Constitu.
tion which are exempt under the
old, the tax would be less upon
property as at present taxed. And
the terrible array Of figures to es-
tablish this self-evident PROPOSE.
tion, which seven year old child
will: readily admit, is applauded
by the editor as "a demonstration
OF two systems by incontrovertible
figures" Such poppycock is in
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