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Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15
THE SALT LAKE ROAD.

For three years our people have been
on end about once month over rumors
about railway that was to come here
through the mountains, and which would
give us not onlya new string to our bow,
but new source of supply of the things
we most need. 1t has taken on various
phases and names, but is generally mar
rowed down to the Salt Lake road.
1t has been fondly conceived by some
of our citizens that the Terminal was
not built at venture, was not thing
to be sold to whomsoever might happen
along, but that it has a great purpose
and plan behind it. And even the other
day, when some gentlemen were here
on its behalf they were followed about
by curious interviewers in the hope,
somehow or other, that there might be
found (among them a long-lost brother
with a strawberry mark. But they
went. quietly as they came, somewhere.
and the professional mental railway
constructors of this burg did not get
near enough to one of them to learn the
color of his eyes, or be able even to
make saline deposit on the ultimate
extension abaft the dorsal fin.
And now the San Francisco Bulletin
comes to us with the news that some
gentlemen have arrived there, who may
have very important things to say. The
Bulletin gives whole news column up
to the matter as it is foreshadowed
by dispatches from Ogden, Salt Lake and
other points, all pointing to new,
independent road into San Francisco.
Beyond the assurance that the road
will surely be constructed, nothing
can be learned as to its financial back
ing," say the latest dispatches. In the
editorial columns we find it solemnly
stated that this is to be the truly Salt
Lake road, although it is not possible
"to get at the gentlemen who are in the
city for the purpose of ascertaining
what encouragement can be secured
for the construction of a competing
transcontinental railroad having its
terminus here"
The closing language above is not
quite so plain as it might have been
made if the editor hadn't had SO much
time to give to it, and yet it bears the
throes of that travail through which we
all have been passing these last two
years and we yearn in sympathy with
our San Francisco brethren as they try
to track the elusive encouragement
givers. Only they who have known
human suffering can fully feel human
symDathv
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15

The chamber of commerce made
choice of capable men at their annual
election, even if there were some rather
unseemly exhibitions of scrimmaging
for place. By the way, it has been
limited for some time that some of the
business men of the city were consider
ing the advisability of forming bust
ness exchange, with rooms on the
ground floor, in central place, such an
institution as every fair sized city in the
country has except this. 1t is felt that
such place, with proper fittings, would
be of great advantage in furnishing ia
cilities for convenient and constant in.
tercourse amongst the business men.
The permanent exhibit of the present
chamber should be kept up, no doubt,
for it has done good; and it should be
liberally supported by the farming in
terests through the county that are
mainly helped by it. A true business
exchange would not be in competition
with the present chamber, and would
draw its support from legitimate sources
in the city itself.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15
THE facts as to the money paid out b

THE facts as to the money paid out by
this state. even from the preliminary
proceedings in the Whittier reform
school establishment, are little short OF
appalling. 1t is great pity the re-
jected minority report could not have
been insisted upon and officially put
before the voters of the state. We have
no heart to parade the figures, for they
scandalize the parties to these affairs
and discredit the character of official
life. But let no one make the mistake
of supposing this business can be for
gotten. There is hardly one of the
early bills connected with this institu-
tion that has not, on its very face, the
conclusive evidence of shameless greed.
This must not be allowed to be made a
party matter, lest its Importance be lost
sight of in partisan strife; and thus
something wholesome may come of it.
It is too grave a matter to be left to a
party fight to settle.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15
TO TEST THE NEW LAW.

The attorney-general of the United
States has ordered the bringing of three
of the most important suits ever begun
in the federal courts. They are to be
brought under the Antitrust Act" of
1890, known also as the SHERMAN
Law"
The first is to dissolve the Transmits
souri, Freight association, on the ground
that it is an illegal combination to pre-
vent fair competition for business,
which ought to be secured to the peo-
pie. The state courts have almost uni
formly decided that corporations forfeit
their franchises when they tie them
selves up with others in a way to deny
and destroy their own power to act
freely according to the expectation and
the policy of the people who have
granted them corporate powers and
privileges. The far-reaching effect of
this suit will be understood when it is
remembered that fifteen railroads are in
this pool and completely control the
whole freight-rate business between the
Missouri river and the Pacific ocean.
The second suit is aimed at the oleo-
margarine and butterine combination,
with Philadelphia for its operating CEN
ter; and the third one is to be started
in Chicago against the whisky trust.
1t seems that in this latter case proceed
ings are also to be begun by indictments,
if possible, the expectation being that it
will be comparatively easy to prove a
criminal conspiracy to keep up prices
and to remove all competition from the
trade.
OF course it is plain at glance that
the first of these suits is of the most i'm
portance. It will be full test
of the Sherman law, for
which 30 much was claimed by
its friends in congress. The decisions
of the state courts give very good reason
to believe that the federal courts will
oppose the policy therein go plainly set
forth, which is, simply, that any public
corporation destroys its own existence
when it yields up to new authority the
character it assumed when its rights
and duties were agreed to by the &C.
ceptance of its charter. AS we have
said, this is the first time the federal
statute has been invoked, and also the
first time that the law officers of the
government have ever attacked a COM
bination SO powerful.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15
IT is painful to have to look upon the

IT is painful to have to look upon the
growing differences between our morn
ing and evening contemporaries, as to
how politics shall be purified; some
thing, no doubt, equally dear to both.
We fear our evening neighbor does not
understand our morning neighbor. Our
m. n. is broad. reaches out, covers
ground that seems confusing, even be-
wildering to our g. n. Our m. n. can
manage many things at once. 1t can
take little hand for a friend at court,
and at the same time toy with
the Texas oyster. 1t can nurse the
spheres along the cushion with great
skill and patience, and run up
very large circulation; then make sud-
den break by round-the-table shot
that will carom on whole political
family. one after another, till it gets
them all into corner, and then has it
out with them. We do not doubt that
our g. n. tries to fathom the depths Of
the party's sins, but the fact is it isn't
equal to it. 1t is not constructed that
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15

OUR Republican morning contempo-
rary comes out strong on the damaging
developments of the Quinn appendix to
the grand jury report anent the crooked
business in the Whittier reform school.
It devotes nearly all its editorial page
yesterday and cartoon to the subject,
and shows q commendable determine
ton to have thorough exposure of all
the "ways that are dark" in the Whit
tier transactions. But why is it that
our justly indignant neighbor does not
also give some prominence to the dam
aging facts brought out in the grand
jury report about the furnishing of the
county courthouse? The report admits
that the sos, 900 SO far expended in fur
niture for the courthouse is many thou
sands of dollars more than the people
should have been called upon to pay un-
der honest disbursements, and it is sug-
gestive of doodle" to an extent that
implies the grossest dishonesty in the
job. Whilst we are glad to have the CO.
operation of the Times in probing to the
bottom the corruption that crops out in
the reform school business, we would
also be glad to have its aid in helping
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15

A CAREFULLY prepared list shows
that thirty-three states have now a
secret ballot law, and the main features
OF each. Fifteen of these were enacted
last year. The general estimate of their
excellence is set opposite each state, in
the tabulation by Mr.. Joseph B. Bishop
in his January Forum article. All are
pronounced good" except New Jersey,
Connecticut and California, which are
"poor," while New York and Pennsyl-
vania are set down as chad" The
study of legislation on this subject,
which in three years has accomplished
such results, is one of the most interest
ing topics of these stirring political
times.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15

A COMPANY has been organized to
build railroad to the coal fields at
Cerrillos on the Santa Fe road in New
Mexico. This should result in cheaper
fuel for Los Angeles, though no decided
improvement in this line can be ex-
pected until the Terminal road is ex-
tended to the Utah coal mines. With
plenty of excellent coal at $6 ton, as
promised by Mr.. Kerens when the Salt
Lake road is built, Los Angeles will
progress in way that will make its
development in the past appear as moth
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15

THE Chicago fair-that's what they
all call it now-is to have a sideshow,
the dream of which was left over from
the Paris exposition, and would have
been realized there if it had not been
thought of too late. It is to be an un-
derground theater with wonderful illu-
sions in the way of shafts. tunnels, etc.
Some French architects and scenic
painters are at the head of it, backed by
local capital.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15

Nor few of the old soldiers in this
city, we have good reason to know, echo
in their hearts this sentiment of Gen
eral Slocum's in closing his notable
paper on Pensions: ''The best friend OF
the old soldier is not he who is pressing
exorbitant demands upon our govern
ment, but he who by counseling mod
Grafton voluntarily takes the risk of in
creasing the hatred of the pension-c claim
agent and the unthinking condemnation
of his comrades,''
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15
FRIDAY. JANUARY Is. 1892.
THE ILLUSTRATED HERALD.

For some days past canvassers have
been out soliciting advertisements for
the ILLUSTRATED HERALD ANNUAL. This
will be the twelfth issue of this invalua-
BILE publication. which has done so much
10 develop Los Angeles and Southern
California. Our agents have met most
gratifying success, and they will remain
In the field until it is time to put the
work to press.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15
Ls Grippel

The tendency of this disease toward
pneumonia is what makes it dangerous.
La grippe requires precisely the same
treatment as severe cold. Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy is famous for its
cures of severe colds. This remedy
successfully counteracts the tendency of
the disease TO result in pneumonia,
provide ~ Naper care be taken to
avoid when recovering from
The atssek. Careful inquiry among the
many thousands who nave used this
remedy during the epidemics of the
past two years has failed to discover a
single case that has not recovered or
that has resulted in pneumonia. Fifty
cent and ST bottles for sale by G. f..
Heinzeman, 222 North Main street.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15

The $1,000 offered by the chairman of
the Republican state committee for the
original ancient partner letter will have
to be forthcoming, as it looks now, the
court having overruled the demurrer to
plaintiffs complaint to recover the same.
1t now becomes simply an issue of fact,
and there's no chance to doubt the
Republican buffers have found them
selves up Stump, go to speak.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15

the people to get at the true inwardness
of the manifest steal in furnishing the
court house. If the Italian hand OF
Hervey Lindley appears in the Whittier
affair, the Etrurian fist of Hon. H. HI,
Markham may be traced in the other.
Why make flesh of one and fowl of the
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15

way. 1t takes our m. n. to do these
things thoroughly and well, as only
Christening yet loving hand can do; and
when late at night its form ia locked in
slumber it enjoys that sweet serenity OF
soul that not even a custom house can
afford
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15

That W. T. Carleton's Opera company
has found favor in the eyes-or rather
ears-of the music lovers Of Los Angeles
was evidenced yesterday when the sale
of seats for their engagement at the
Grand opera house next week opened.
The repertoire for the week is Mon
day, Wednesday and Saturday nights,
Indigo; Tuesday night and Saturday
matinee, The Gondoliers; Thursday
night, Dorothy, and Friday night, Nanon.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15
SEEDS!
SEEDS!
SEEDS I!

We offer to the public for coming
planting season our stock of
Northern grown and imported Gar
den, Field, Tree and Flower Seeds,
of which we have the largest and best
assortment on the coast.
Dutch and Japanese Flowering Bulbs.
Utah Alfalfa, Grain and Grass Seeds
at lowest market price.
Complete Assortment of Implements
for the Garden.
Florist Supplies and Fancy Baskets
of our own importation from Switzer-
land and Germany.
Imported Memorial Designs in metal
and porcelain; Immortelle artificial
flowers. These are of late introduce
ton and are proving very popular.
Our NURSERY carries large stock of Orna-
mental Plants. Shrubs and Trees. Cut Flowers
and Floral Designs furnished on short notice
and at reasonable prices
Catalogues mailed to any part of the country
on application.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15
BEEcaAM's. PILLS are faithful friends.

Our Home Brew.
Haier & Zoeblein's Lager. fresh from the
brewery, on draught in all the principa. sa-
looms. delivered promptly in bottles or kegs
Office and Brewery. A44 Also st. Telephone 81.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15

Bargains IN real estate on our classified
D0HP
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15

Usc German Family Soap.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15
ADJUSTMENTS. A

Maude Granger played Inherited last
evening at the Los Angeles theater with
the following cast:
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-23
PLEASANT BLUFF.

The verdict of Coroner Babcock upon
the Pleasant Bluff drowning accident is
a sensible and forcible paper. The city
of Providence left trench in the beach
below low water, and partly filled it with
soil, which became mud under water.
The trench was unmarked. and two girl
bathers waded into 1t and drowned, with
their feet sticking ankle deep in the
mud. Even if they had known how to
swim the mud might have been the
death of them.
The city should mark the trench; and
whether this is done or not the manager
of the hotel will probably be compelled
by public sentiment to warn his guests
against it, as the coroner says he ought
to have done before.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-23
CHROCNILEs OF 1894.
BY JULIAN WERE.

Chapter X.-Ttn, Stlver and Reed.
/. And 1t came to pass that the chiefs
Of the Philistines were gathered together
in the great temple which is called the
Capitol.
Q. And they answered one another,
saying, We have become the very laugh
ing stock of the elders Of Israel Let us
make haste and do something, or il too
lazy or weak or cowardly to really fight
the men OF Israel, we can at least form in
line of battle and pretend we are going to
act.
g. So the Philistines formed in battle
array, saying, who's afraid. Let us pitch
into tin. Now all our bluster may not
amount to tin sixpence, nor we to row
of pins; nevertheless, stand pompously
shoulder to shoulder, and let every man
mark time, that the people may imagine
we are marching upon the enemy and
killing the Israelits instead of killing
time.
4. So they struck at tin aud terne
plate; aud there was great clatter,
while the chatter was Of the magpie or
der and equally without melody. =
8. Aud the fight OH tin Is after this
wise. The people have been paying large
prices for inferior kinds Of tin. Wales
mas made us wall over their monopoly.
makers. for they said, We must foster
home industry until we obtain a much
better article of tin and at less price.
g. But all the tribes of the Philistines,
especially the half tribe of Mugwump.
are much anxious to keep the people from
purchasing good tin for less money So
all the Philistines fought for the monopo-
lists Of Wales.
z. Moreover, the Philistines cried out
for free silver which meaneth (for it is a
mean thing) that all the silver monopo-
lies shall empty upon our heads a lot of
silver, aud for every seventy dollars
worth we shall pay them one hundred.
8. Then arose mighty man of the
hosts OF Israel, large aud urbaue And
with might and main Qor he came from
Maine) he battled the hosts of Philistia.
Aud his sarcasm and irony was like unto
that OF Elijah during his animated con-
versation with the prophets OF Baal.
y. Now aforetime, wnen he was speaker
of the council, he counted aud meas tired
tn se present with reed ; aud he did IL
to a 4. Wherefore, ever since he hath
gone by the name OF 4. or Tom Reed.
10. So Keed did read the Philistines an
essay, aud sounded golden trumpet
while Bland blandly blew his silver horn.
Catchings tried to catch on and Crisp was
crispy with Reed. But Reed did read his
title clear.
IL. Aud there were thunderings, and
lightuinxs and q great political earth
quake And Bland ana his hosts were
swallowed up, and there was great
calm.
(To be Contnucdl
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-23
COST OF CAMP BROWN.
About S24. 900 for Insurance Against
Riot.

The cost OF the camp of the State mill
tia to the State amounts to a pretty large
figure each year. The amount appropria-
ted for the militia for six successive years
has been s24,0O and there has been def
cheney each year. to cover which special
appropriation was made at the last Janu-
airy session. The cost of the encampment
will be in round numbers $4,000, while
incidental expenses will eat up the re-
mainder OF the appropriation and more
too, so that another deficiency appropria-
tion will be necessary at some time In the
future.
At the January session Gen. Dyer asked
for an appropriation of $35, 900, AZ he knew
the usual amount would not be large
enough, but some of the committee with
out reading the report, thought the
amount was too large and the appropria-
tion was made the same as last year.
A gentleman who In familiar with the
workings OF the State departments, made
the remark few days ago that s24 900
was pretty cheap insurance against any
such troubles as Pennsylvania is having.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-23

ful residences, spacious and attractive
suburbs, shady streets and breezy hills.
Its Revolutionary memories haunt the
dnttquarp. the absolutely uneQtLdllcd
Narra0ansett Bay dt its feet charms the
artist aud the sportsman, and tts shores
prorfde recreation ground and summer
homes for thousands Of the citizens Of
Neio England. rrr
25. Providence has the most cul-
tured and Intelligent people OF any city
In the country; Is a prominent literary,
artistic and musical centre. It's manu-.
featuring establishments demand the
highest skilled labor, consequently its
Uorking classes are exceptionally tntellt-
gent
20. Providence has 2s public schools,
tctth 42I Instructors.
81. Providence expends annually
$21g, ,90s. .0s for teachers salaries.
20. Providence Is the seat of Broun
University.
20. Providence. has III churches.
30. Providence has ISe miles OF
streets; 2g are pared, I@0 Mdcdddmized
and 20 are anbtiilt. Its streets are the
finest and clednest In the country.
81. Providence has a mortality
rate Of 1918, q marriage rate of gg.04, a
birth rate OF e9.2r.
b. Providcncc has q staunch Re
publican paper ,Uhosc gropth has no
parallel In the history of Journalism;
nhose progress has been the journalistic
sensation OF Ncio England; sohioh Is ac-
kno,cledged eUcrpchcrc as the home paper
THE PROVIDENCE NEWS.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-23

The testimony of mon OF memory and
candor exposes the ridiculous side of the
calamity platform Of the Populists and
the calamity speech of Grover Cleve-
land at that .tumultuous" notification
meeting. Turning our eyes to 1.-THE
plain people" of the country whom the
Democratic nominee sees "burdened"
with an unjust and relentless" tariff
system, what is the vision that lies be-
fore the normal and unjaundiced eye?
1t is not cloudless prospect, for
vice, thriftlessness, ignorance and mis-
fortune still play their part in human
affairs, as they have always done. But
in the large is it true that honest poverty
is becoming poorer, that intelligent work
is being cheated of its pay, that the
great masses see the wolf starvation
thiusting his head. through their win
dows?
Mr.. H. B. Blackwell of Boston,
brushes aside these distorted spectres of
diseased imagination in a few common
sense paragraphs in the Won,an's Jour
nal
know by my own observation and ex-
perience, during lifetime Of nearly
seventy years spent In active business, he
writes. that labor has never during that
period been so well paid as it is now.
From 1885 to 1851, under moderate
revenue tariff, the sum paid an indus
trious Irish gardener In Orange, ~ j. Tan
hours ride from New York city,, was only
Is cents for day Of eleven hours. In the
same locality for n day OF shorter hours
At that time dollar would buy less than
it buys to-day. Flour and meat were as
high, rents were rs high, clothing was
higher, sugar was twice as high. In
tterest then was high and money hard to
borrow.
An Intelligent neighbor tells me that
when he came to Boston. forty years ago
he was employed to build a factory. He
bought the materials, hired the men, drew
the plans, superintended the Job and
thought himself we'll paid at salary of
slO week, This testimony will be con-
fi:med by the experience of every intelli-
gent mechanic Of 90 or 70 years OF age.
The same is true of farmers. Before
the era OF railroads In the West, I have
often sat beside u farmers fire of corn
burned for fuel because IL would not pay
for haulinRt TO market. A mortgages In
tnoso uoys was almost sure TO take the
farm. And as for merchants, President
Jackson once said in an annual message
that "the man who does business on bor-
rowed money ought TO fail" And he did
fail. Periodical panics swept over the
country every few years like cyclones.
In the absence of national banks, the
rates of exchange between East and West
and North and South swallowed up larger
profss than are now realized in the
Wholesale transfer of commodities. In
1857, exchange on New YORK and Boston
was per cent. premium in Chicago.
The watchword of the Whig campaign |
OF 1S40 was ''S2 day and roast beef" |
Skilled mechanics have long ago exceeded
that ideal.
The shrieks of the calamity howlers |
are the forced Mysteries of professional
political agitators. Sensible people only
laugh at them. The millennium has not
yet dawned but the progress in this
country towards better day is steady
and as rapid as the constant influx from
across seas will allow.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-23

Mr.. GEORGE Il. DOWNING of Newport,
who glories in the proud and lonely pre-
eminence of being the only colored
Democrat in RHODE ISLAND, is asked by
the TorchligM to explain how and why
Mr.. Henry r, Downing, an Office holder
under Cleveland, was elected from a
Tammany restaurant or saloon because
of his color, and afterward imprisoned.
A similar incident occurred, it will be
remembered, at Cincinnati.