Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-27
DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE
Senator Reddy's Speech at
1urnyerein Hall.
THE CAMPAIGN ISSUES.
An Able Exposition of the Interests
Centering in the Coming
Election.
THE CAMPAIGN ISSUES.

promised yesterday. herewith follows u
brief sketch OF Hon. Patrick Reddy's
speech delivered In Turnverein Hall last
Monday night. IN Introducing the speaker
Hon. L. T. Del Vale spoke OF Mr.. Reddy's
services to the State in the Constitutional
and slso of the strong position
he had always taken on the Chinese and
the irrigation questions.
Senator Reddy said he was very glad to
have the pleasure OF being present with Mr..
Bartlett, and of the opportunity 10 address
the people of Los Auge)ss. He said Mr.
Bartlett would be the next Governor of the
State--an annouu cement which called out
per 'ect hurricane of applause. Said the
spesker: Everything see and hear In all
paris of the State points TO the complete
triumph of the whole ticket on election
d y. There Is coed reason for this. Four
years ago there was great struggle
the Republican party FIR the control
of the State. They WED with each other in
their sniagonism to the corporations, and
in their promises to the people. Two years
late, the Republicans ge ting control of the
Legislature, Kept their promises and showed
the sincerity OF their utterances by electing
the head and front. the president OF the cor
poratiops to the Senate. Four years later
the, e,other day-while still in power in that
branch OF the government, they sent anoth-
er millionaire, Mr.. Williams, TO keep Sena-
tor Stanford company. The Republicans
always incline to favor millionaires and
their Interests The Republican copven-
,ion me. the other day in this city. They
did not utter a word, not a whimper escaped
them with reference to the gigantic oorpor-
ations they had SD belabored four years ago.
There was great care taken not TO say any
tning that in the least displease the
head of the party. Senator Stanford.
Look at their platform. It sets out with
the declaration that labor Is honorable"
The Democratic platform says that labor
should be paid liberal wages. With them 1t
Is to be honored, with US it is to be paid.
There you have the whole difference in a
laboring men who hear ne. That Is always
the Democratic policy. The Democracy
has always been clear at all times that labor
should be well paid. The Republicans
times. At all other times their devotion
goes out largely TO monopolies, corpora
tions and millionaires. They have filled
I he Senate with these and their interests,
and they are filing the House. of Repre- sent
atives with the same material rs fast as
they eau. 1t is the licy of corporations, OF
the rich to seek al over tue world
for cheap labor. 1t cannot be too cheap to
suit them. The Republicans are always
their subservient tools to pass laws to aid
them in getting this cheap labor. During
the war, when so much of the laboring ee
ment OF the country was in the army, fight
ing the battles of the country, the Repub
licaus in Congress legalized contracts made
with the pauper labor OF Europe by which
thousands of men were imported to this
country to work 'or term OF years, some
of them at as low as 81 cents day. When
the surviving soldiers returned to their
homes they found all the ways of making
living thronged with this sort of labor.
They could not get work. or II at all, atsuch
low wages that they could not support them
selves and their families. Not finding
sufficiently large supply of this class OF la.
she ii 70 % they made S Sag os
to get in here thousands of the
Asiatic hordes that live OH few cents
day. The Republicans have always
helped TO build up these great powers hes
tell us how honorable labor is, and how
much they favor labor. But during al the
years they were a power their actions
tended directly to reduce the price of wages
In all the industries of the country. Did
they ever do anything to protect labor?
Did they stop the coming OF the Chinese?
No. And there never will be law made
effectually to check this evil while the Re-
publican party can prevent 1t. While they
and the corporations have power to LIT them
in, they will come. II they had meant to
exclude the Chinese they would not have
sent Swift to make treaty They would
have sent an abler mana man who would
not have been out-generaled in diplomacy
by the Chinese. A man who could not cope
with the Chinese in diplomacy is not
ft to be Governor. Swift In his speeches
puts in about half his time in showing why
the Chinese need not be got rid Of He says
bankrurtcy would follow The getting i'd OF
we cannot get along without
Them. In this be Is even worse than his
platform. snd will not stand even on the lit
lie auti Chinese plank in that, weak as 1t is
Neither he nor the platform are OF much
use TO the people. The party sets up pre-
tense of principle, and then sends out its
speakers to talk even this down. The Dem.
Dcratic platform is unequivocal In its
demand for the entire abrogation If
he Burlingame and Swift treaties.
The Swift treaty is an improvement on the
Blu rllngame-in favor OF the Chinese. BY
I they eau get in better than before. The
Democrats favor not only the exclusion of
Ill not yet here, but also a law to depot
hose who are now in the country. The
Democrats also assert it to be the duty Of
,epting in such cases as it is absolutely
impossible to do without their services. Il |
S always so. The Democracy Is always in |
AYR OF labor, of the poor.
Now take the Heath Amendment. The |
Republicans dare not say a word against |
hat measure. But they intimate that the |
,eOple had better vote for 1t, otherwise |
here will be no way of taxing the rail Dads. |
They know this is Dottrue, The railroad saws |
N article OF our State Constitution, Is un.
ne matter. When the corporation lifts its |
niger, the Republican party Is ready to |
Ibandon any article of our organic law.
sext year the order OF the railroad goes
orth and another section is given up. and |
n time we shall have no constitution at all. |
hey had not the courage 10 come out on |
me side or the other, but this attitude |
hows whom they serv.. The Heath Amend
nent means that the State is to let the rail |
DAD make its own assessment and take the |
vord of the corporation for the amount. II |
proposes that that tax shall be "a per cent |
# the gross earnings OF the road. The cor
'oration is not 10 pay on the property l.
iolds-not on the roadbed, rails, dep0.s,
{ has In bank or out at int crest. The eiti- |
en pays on all he has. The farmer pays on /
his farm. on his trees AMI vines on It, on the |
took in the pastures, on his horses, wagon, |
,low, crops, money in nand, grain in ware
assessed at $20.000, he pays tax on that |
III its gross income is 5000 a |
Iear, he may not pay on that amount. II /
-ou have house in the city rented at /
i 200 month, or that much year,
You pay on its value. As a |
natter OF fact taxpayers in this city pay |
.boul two out OF the twelve months income |
n the year for taxes. That Is about 20 per |
II
1.-THE Heath Amendment bee me law, the |
ailroad company can lease all the lines in |
his State to the Southern Pacific of Ken
ucky-to itself under another name-and |
,ay taxes on the rental. That may be |
), 900, 600 year. or 81 ,000, 6Oe, or even less,
inf then they would pay $4,000 year, or |
'25 900, or any smaller sum they may please,
md there will be no remedy. / believe IL |
S the intention OF the corporation to do |
some such thing as this II this measure |
hould pass. Then they will add this "a |
Der cent TO the freights all over the State |
ind make up pay their taxes alto |
,ether. Besides, whstever calamity may |
,vertake the State, and however high AK |
he property holders may have to pay. it |
will be all the same to the railroad com
,any. II win pay 21z per cent on whatever |
: says Is its income, aud there IL ends. In 1
very way the railroad will have an unfair |
over the citizens of the State.
On the subject of irrigation, the Repub- |
leans say 1t Is great question, and one |
which they propose to approach with great |
suppose this means they |
will approach It with great slowness. Ii |
hey approach 1t as they have the |