Los Angeles daily herald., 1884-11-21

The news of the attempt TO kill Mr..
M. II. de Young, the proprietor OF
the San Francisco Chronicle, arrived
too late in this city yesterday for ade-
quate editorial comment. The HER
AID, which is an honest though not a
demagogic journal, has always ex-
pressed the opinion that the lia-
waiian Reciprocity Treaty, which adj
mitted Of the importation into this
country OF raw sugars free of duty
from the Sandwich Islands, with no
correlative advantage to the people oil
the United States, was one of those
infamous jobs, only paralleled by the
Alaska Fur Seal monopoly, which
made the later stages Of the ascend
ancy of the Republican party indie
scribably Infamous. The Spreckels
enormity has been even more often
sive than the Alaska business, be-
cause by it were threatened the sugar
interests of Louisiana and other
States OF the South. The sugar
monopoly was originally advocat-
ed on the ground that il would
give the merchants and manufacture
ers Of the United States large and
rewarding market for their products
and their wares in the dominions Of
King Calico or Kalakana, who is. we
believe, the lineal descendant of
Hunky Punky, the King Of the Can
nibal Islands, who eat up Capt. Cook
and innumerable other bold Britons
and equally alert and courageous
Americans, including several mission
aries Of retrenched and disappointing
physique, while giving the people of
the Pacific Coast cheaper sugars. The
ex-camibal market for our products
has proved to be about as big an ignis
fatuus ms has the cheap sugar for the
people of the Pacific Coast.
Very naturally the Chronicle, being
"a live" paper, has dropped on to
this indispensable monopolistic hum
bug. 1t has fallen foul of bloated
monocrat and monopolist, in the
person of Sir Claus spreckels,
who has taken upon himself
the leprous order OF nobility
of the drraken King Calico.
In this we think our esteemed San
Francisco contemporary was right.
The two biggest frauds in American
commercial relations extant to-day
are the Alaska Fur Seal Monopoly and
the Hawaiian Sugar Monopoly.
Unto the proprietor of the San
Francisco Chronicle, thus correctly
poised as to at least one of these enor-
mites, comes the scion and the son
of the great Sugar Monocrat and Mo-
nopolist, Sir Claus Spreckels. He
sneaks, like thief in the night, into
the close quarters of the Chronicle
business Office and tries to shoot down
its proprietor like a dog, while he is
sorting school-books for his children.
There is no pretence OF giving Mike
de Young, who is remarkably peace
able and inoffensive gentleman, so
much MS a show for his life. Not con-
tent with its enormous privileges, the
Hawaiian Sugar Monopoly tries to as
sassinate the journalist that dares to
raise his voice against its un-republi-
can, un-demoeratic privileges.
In our judgment, as the facts are
thus far disclosed, instead of releas-
ing Adolph Spreckels on 5000 bail,
he ought to have been run up on the
nearest lamp post and hung by the
neck until he was duly and irrecover-
ably dead. We unhesitatingly ex-
press this opinion, entirely prospect
i've of the merits of the controversy
between the Chronicle and Spreckels.
ii the methods of the latter are to be
condoned, ii is the common-sense
proceeding upon the part Of jour
nalist to first kill his man and then
write his history. Such departure
in journalism is not to be commend
ed. No more are the cowardly and
assassin methods of the Hawaiian
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