Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-01
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The case OF California appears 70 have been
specially under consideration. II IL stated that
plums and oranges were taken from the FREQ
When the Democratic Convention was abont 10
assemble In Los Angeles, a valued Democratic
contemporary fnriouhly asssilcd the Balctfn
because II stated TINT orRnnes were made free.
" was quite plain that IL had neyor read the
Mills bill or that II II had attempted to do 30 10
was unable TO oonstrue IT,. But denial was Inn
tho usual Democratic fashion,. even toihe well
worn Ananias climax. IL IL also stated IN the
dispatches that on prunes, on the free list Of
also that on raisns, which hnd hoen reduced
9ne,half cent per pound.-lsan Francisco
Plums and oranges were also taken from the
free list and restored TO their present rates Of
duty. This IA considered great victory by the
f,uues and rnisins were both taken from the
FREQ liet snd restored TO their present rates OF
duty In deiercnce TO the wishes OF the California
20 to 10 per cent, Tho proposition TO increase
the duty on cotton bargiug was voted down, =
lCalifornia Associated Press dibpatoh TO the
San Francisco Bulletin.
Az a concession to Thompson and Bicrs, the
California members, the duty on pruncs and
plumH was restored TO tho old figures, cent pur
pound, but the duty on rairins was rdt tchangedj
remaining at III cents per pound.-f Associated
Press dispatch to tho HERALD.
The three excerpts proceeding, con.
tain in brief the whole story OF contro-
versy. Some time since the San Fran,
cisco Btlletin published what proiessed
to give the articles put on the free list by
the Mills bill which would affect the in
terests Of this State. Oranges were in
the category. The Herald questioned
the accuracy Of the list in this respect.
above is the Bulletin's reply. Then fol-
Spws TIE telegram in the columns Of that
paper which the editorial comment re-
fers to; and this is followed by the same
dispatch in the shape it reached kbe
HERALD office from the Assoc
Press. AS it stands now, the M
rests directly on the accuracy Of
dispatches, and then the question
on the object Of 80 garbling the factS(
to twist them out Of the line OF truth.
The Bulletin intimates that it is already
proven that we have not read the Mills
bill. 1t is in this Office in two distinct
copies. One is in the columns of the
New York World as published the day
after the bill was reported to the House.
The other is In sheet sent out to us from
Washington. Oranges are not in the
free list in either Of these copies OF the
Pbill. The discrepancy in tho two dis
patches above is worthy of notice. Ours
does not refer to oranges. That of the
sySBulleiin does. There is a gross mistate-
''ment here, and we think it is in the tel
egram to our metropolitan neighboi. The
news given by the California Associated
Press is not as rule accurate. 1t killed
General Sheridan too soon, and burr cd
Josie Mansfield before she died, not to
chronicle other errore.
As tothe Ananias reference, no man
has read the columns of our esteemed
contemporary for any length Of time and
failed to observe to what lengths and
depths its thick-and-thin, narrow and
hide-bound policy will lead it. In 1880
the Bulletin's great bugaboo by which it
cheated many OF its readers was, that if
General Hancock should be elected Pres
ident the North would have to pay the
"rebef debt" Narrow partisanship with
out inquiry, swallowed that falsehood,
repeated it and made political capital out
of it. We would not do the Bulletin the
discourtesy of thinking its editor
ignorant of the fact that the paying OF
this debt is forbidden by an
amendment to the constitution; that
it is ignorant of the fact
that to repeal that portion Of the National
organic law bill must pass both houses
of Congress, be signed by the President,
and then be ratified by two-thirds vote
of the States. We think our esteemed
metropolitan neighbor will prefer to
have the public think--particularly
that very narrow minded portion
OF the public which that journal reaches
as rule, that the editor is well informed
on this head; but that for the good cause,
that of God and morality, and the party
of great moral ideas, he stretched his
rather tough DIAGONAL conscience and
deliberately misstated the facts. The
Saxon word is stronger but not SO polite.