The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-11-04

total OF $40. so ton or had they been
disposed to even divide the bounty re-
ceived from the government equally
they would have paid to the farmer
the $3.50 for his beets plus S.
or one half the bounty, which woule
then be $3.50 ton. The facts ars fully
and completely understood by the beet
growers, and the hypocritical assertion
that the Republican candidates upon
this question Inake, has fallen very iai
/ among them. As further proof Of the
fallacy OF the statement that the bounty
WAS necessary to the profitable conduci
OF this business, understand that since
the repeal Of that clause, Mr.. Spreckels
has contracted for the erection of an =
other beet sugar factory in Sonoms
county and is prepared TO erect another
| sugar factory there. In the northern
portion of Santa Barbara county. when
| came through the other day. was in
| formed that an sgent of another sugar
! factory had already completed contracts
with the owners of 5000 acres of land to
plant the came to bee,s at that place
| and to erect q sugar mandatory for
thei- accommodation. The principle OF
| the bounty is vicious one. and ia 30
! admitted by all economic students, and
| ito ChaCtllShb Wy tAo 44CIAlAltt Qili
! with respect to sugar was regarded by
i even conservative Republicans and
ardent believers in the bounty theory
of protective tariff as q fatal mistake.
THE SHEEP INDUSTRY.
| Upon the question OF the sheep indus
try, find also in the northern portion
OF the district that my Republican OPP.
ponent has taken a very gloomy view of
the outlook. He discovered the fact in
Monterey county, was told, shat sheep
were selling at As cents head, and he
coupled this with the other indisputable
fact that the Democratic administration
was in power, and he drew from these
two premises the logical conclusion that
the Democratic administration and the
recent tariff bill meent 45-csnt sheep.
shall not take up the time in discussing
this question further than to say that he
omitted from consideration entirely the
further obvious fact that in that portion
of California where these prices prevail
there WAS no rain last winter, and cons
sequently there was no grass, and that
man who could not get 45 cents q head
Tor his sheep was glad to give them
away for nothing to save them from
starvation. These are but two samples
of the sort of criticism to which the
present bill has been subjected. There lie
another clause of the bill upon which |
observe our Republican friends to be
absolutely client, and that is the income
tax provision. By that provision it ia
enacted that all incomes exceeding
$4,000 shall pay 2 per cent net upon the
excess, as tax, to the government OF
the United States. This tax is upon its
face 80 just and fair that it requires no
argument to support it. Notwthstand-
ing, the Republican party in California
incorporated plank in its present state
platform denouncing this provision OF
the Democratic tariff bill. This plank
was intended to, and no doubt had, the
effect OF appessing that portion OF the
Republican constituency which consists
OF the holders of vast wealth, and will
no doubt be the source OF material as
sistance in the pending campaign. Be.
fore the people and voters, however,
this plank is suppressed, and not one
Estee to Mr.. McLachlan, in this cam
paign, as far as have been able to find
out, has even mentioned or referred to
this important Republican tenet. This
is the more noticeable in view of the
fact that two other planks in the
Democratic platform-to wit, the plank
upon the railroad Indebtedness and the
San Pedro harDor, upon both of which
the Republican platform is absolutely
silent, are the source of voclferoue argu-
ments by the Republican orators.
Finally. upon the tariff question, de-
sire to say that do not believe that our
system in that respect will be in the
slighrest degree affected by the dsolams-
tions of platform orators or the doleful
forebodings of political prophets. The
existing bill will stand or fall according,
as the experience of the next two years
will dictate. II. at the end of that time,
we do not find American industries re-
viyed and prosperous; the American
manufacturer, under the beneficent
provisions of the principle of free raw
material, competing with the manu-
facturer of every other country in the
markets of the world; and growing
and extending American commerce,
then and not until then will it be the
duty and the right OF the American peo-
pie to revise their action of 1892, and to
repeal this act. The reason for the con-
slant demand by the Republican orators
that their opponents shall confine them
selves to discussion of nothing but the
tariff, is the same reason which actuatsB
a lawyer, who has bad case before
jury, when he expends his whole force up.
on some immaterial point for the pur-
pose of oouding the issue and befogging
the minds of those whom it 10 his duty
to aid and instruct.
THE RAILROAD QUESTION.
There is an issue in this campaign,
clear and distinct and of 30 great inns
portancs as to overahadow all others,
and that is the one Issue upon which
the nominees of the Republican party
are unable to appear to advantage before
a candid audience. l refer to the rail-
road question. The Issue upon this
question arises in this way:
During the next three or four years,
beginning with January, 1895. the mort
gage bonds of the Pacific railroads begin
to fall due to the government, and it ia
essential that some action should be
taken determining the method by which
this debt shall ba treated. 1t is we'll
known to all Californians that the origi.
nal syndicate of the Central Pacific
Railroad company, Measra. Huntington,
Hopkins. Stanford and Crocker, have
become the possessors of enormous
wealth, while the corporation of which
they are the directors and trustees
ia declared to be bankrupt. The
debt to the government OF the United
States will amount to about $67 600, 900
when it falls due. The fret mortgage
bonds of the Central Pacific railroad
amount to about $27 100000 90. Not
withstanding the fact that during the