Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-04-11
"Anotnsv Dassei come q" Jufg-
meat"

California is the Ell Dorado of
politicians. 1t has gathered the
animals of every hue aud stripe
from each portion of our glorious
Uuion 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 military or judicial
title and mainly gray-haired. Upon
the moment of their arrival, and
with a 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.
Sometimes their means Of subsist
ence is marvel. They are never
teen to spin, yet are they always 10
decent attire. They effulge upon
the street corners. They salute the
sams fellow-citizen twenty times
a day with the same kindly and
gracious bow, smacking somewhat
OF humility. Each time of en-
counter they seize that fellow citi-
zen with 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 and often glide
into office. Tested and found shall
low pated, aud repudiated, these
fellows, of the sandstone period.
disclaim party ties. Suddenly they
are men OF the people-patriots.
1t Is wonderful the number of re-
pudiated politicians who see merit
I'M the new Constitution be-
cause the new Constitution, il
adopted, creates a new party,of the
Sand Lot ascendancy, with Kear-
ney as political dictator. Aud 80 II
Il your Illinois and Tennessee poll.
tlcisn is in high feather at this
especial time. He is rampant upor
our thoroughfares. He takes farm
Or 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 a moiesty peculiar to hi
class, and in adroit publication o
his aspirations, he emits mass o
platitudes in some newspaper, owe
his own signature.
But the foregoing can have NJ
reference to our friend H. X. S. o.
Melveny, who has just given hi
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 tn
borrower to pay both tax and in
terest upon the mortgage debt:
"This argument imputes to th
banker and capitalist the wilfu
purpose to disregard the Constitu
tion if adopted, aud for the purpos,
Of wilfully evading the payment o
taxes in proportion to their prop
erty, aud of casting that increased
burden upon the debtor class. I, 70
one, do not admit that such all i'm
putati0n Is true against all banker
and capitalists, for that would i'm
ply want of patriotism and virtue
which, IL true, must, In the end
destroy this Republic"
It would be difficult to condense
larger amount OF nonsense in lik
spa,e.
Now. will our judicial friend lis
ten moment? A bank has none,
to loan at regulated interest @
ten per cent. per annum. That
ths market value of money
Say the mortgage tax is two pei
cent. under the new Constitution
Who must pay that additional pc
cent? II the banker pays it, h,
would be excessively stupid not t
charge l2 per cent. for his loan
Money being worth but 10 pei
cent, and that rate limited by law
where Is the legal and moral objac
tion to making the borrower liabl,
for the tax? There is not on
mortgage in thousand, the worl,
over, but makes the mortgage
liable for taxes.
That swell OF our ex-Judge upoi
such want want of "patriotism ant
misunderstanding the Republic,'
Is inane trash-unworthy of stu
pid school boy!
The ex-Judge then launches into
an arithmetical calculation that
would do credit to Doball or ar
Emerson, to prove that II 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.
tlon, which a seven year old child
will; readily admit, is applauded
by the editor as "a demonstration
OF two systems by incontrovertible
figures.n Such poppycock is in