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The herald., 1896-12-06
ARGUMENT UNANSWERABLE
Reasons Advanced by John M. Reynolds
for City Ownership
Extortion and Corruption the Results Of
Private Control-Progressive Cities
Free Themselves.

For years John M. Reynolds Of San
Francisco has been laboring to stir up
the taxpayers Of that backward city to
throw of the yoke Of private ownership
and control Of public utilities. When
the last board Of freeholders was franz
ing the new charter there. Mr.. Reynolds,
supported by the Union for Practical
Progress. went before it and pleaded for
an audience. The members turned a
deaf ear to him. and so did the board of
supervisors. The result is San Francis
CO has disagreeable tale to tell of the
extortions there of the Spring Valley Wa
ter company and the 'allied villainies," :"
as Arthur McEwen calls them, and also
of the corruption of municipal officials,
which is usually associated with private
control
Think Of 1t! According to its own fig
ures, in one year the Spring Valley Wa
ter monopoly made a clear profit for
its bond and stock holders last year of
over 81, 200, 900. Mr.. Reynolds has to con-
fess, under the circumstances that ISL
lurianism" Is the bane of San francisco.
Knowing that municipal election
was in progress in this city, and being
ever ready to contribute his aid toward
the fight now being made by the people
here against corporate control, Mr.. Rey-
polds promptly responded to a request
~ YAo 8Ayal6 by sanding the following
The herald., 1896-12-06
THE CURING OF COFFEE.

A writer in Mexican paper who is wen
informed in coffee culture gives the follow.
ing advice TO coffee planters and to those
contemplating entering into its cultivation
Ii is the traditional custom of coffee
planters to cure the coffee bean in large
courts where there is no shade, so that
the strong sunshine can always strike the
bean during the curing process, This 10
a grave mistake that should be remedied,
as by this process the coffee loses weight
color and flavor. All organic vegetables
are composed more or less of volatile matt
ter and water and where coffee Is dried
in the sun it loses great part of its con-
stituenss.
The kiln drying process is unnatural and
the coffee loses weight and aroma.
The best and most profitable process n
to dry the coffee in the shade. The procesA
Is slow and tedious but the quality Of the
coffee thus produced justifies tho extra
work and pains that are taken in curing
the bean. Coffee that was thus carried by
a Venezuelan planter took the first prize
at the worlds fair in Chicago In 1893 Cot
fee cured in the shade is always full grain
ed. the color light blue and the flavor and
aroma exquisite. while the gain in weight
more than pays for the extra trouble.
The advantage of coffee dried in tho
shade is that It has a uniform color, the
grain Is large and equal in size, It weigho
heavier, the natural aroma is retained, and
the bean does not lose certain substances
that 1t does when cured by other procesnas.
Modern Mexico.
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cause forced to do so. 1t would be only
an indication of widespread ignorance
il any city should at this time neglect
to improve an opportunity to cast off
capitalists and princes of finance" who
now use public privileges for taxing the
people on the necessaries of life which
come into the city.
This is the question upon which the
people of Los Angeles are about to
vote, stated plainly, and bluntly.
SOME FACTS AND FIGURES.
The most reliable method Of determin-
ing the advantage or disadvantage of
any policy Is to learn what has been
the effect of such policy. Considering
the question of water works, 1t can cas-
lily be shown by consulting unbiased and
undisputed statistics that public own
ership is desirable.
For instance, referring to the Statis-
tician and Economist of 1S95-'96. which
can be found in every we'll equipped
library, we learn that in the United
States IS out of the so largest cities Of
the nation own water works. The aver
age rate in these cities is only $11.96
per year for a house of seven rooms
BY the same authority the average rate
in the Is cities which are under the
private ownership plan Is 1888. Ac-
cording to this, private owenrship is at
least 36R per cent more expensive than
public ownership.
1t is matter Of regret to us of San
Francisco that our city water system Is
one Of those few which are still under
private control We suffer materially
by being classed as the most backward
community in the United States in this
respect. because we are the only city
Of 100000 Inhabitants which does not
own it's water works.
Our average rate is about 500 per year.
Turning to Los Angeles we find that or
dinance No. 2627, approved March 5,
1885, ordains that the water rate for
1S95-'96 shall be S1.30 per month for a
dwelling of seven rooms? bath tubs, 25
cents per month; water closets, 20 cents
per month; sprinkling lawns. cent per
front foot; horses and one vehicle. 25
cents per month, etc, etc. From this
it appears that an ordinary residence
in Los Angeles would be taxed from
ST. so to 200 per month. at least, equaling
s1S to S24 per year. That is above the
average in the cities of the United States
which suffer under private ownership
1t is from so to 100 per cent above the
general ruling prices for water in those
cities which have public plants.
Every resident of Los Angeles who
reads this article knows they have been
unjustly assessed by monopoly with
the kind assistance of an obliging coun-
cil) and many will look upon the exor-
tortionate rates with stu more indig-
The herald., 1896-12-06

nation, now that this campaign has
called attention to the injustice that
Is being done. Citizens who have suf-
fered these wrongs are not likely to for
get them at the polls. Liquor men, no
tel men, liverymen, bakers, BARRIERS,
manufacturers, mechanics and laborers.
builders and business men generally are
not apt to have kindly feelings toward
a graspng corporation which has OBJ
tained the ear of public servants and
induced them to pass ordinances like
No 1927 1T is long road which has
no turning, land these citizens who have
been so unjustly dealt with are now in
a position to forever put a stop to cor
ruption and eXtortion. as far as the
water works are concerned.
MORE MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
The writer has information from Salt
Lake City showing that the tax there
(under public ownership is s11 for what
costs s24 60 in Los Angeles. Sacramento
residents pay $3.50 for the same SER
vic, and the city makes 200 per cent profit
on operating expenses. The actual cost
to the city of Sacramento is $500 for
the service which costs $24.6 in Los An
geles.
A striking proof of the advantage Of
public ownership is a comparison Of
two contiguous cities, Sacramento and
Stockton. The former makes 200 per
cent profit for the city under public
ownership on a $12 service. The same
amount of water costs the consumer in
Stockton $1S under private ownership,
and all the profit goes into the Golfers
of a corporation.
At Tacoma Washington, as soon as
the municipality obtained control of the
water supply the rates were reduced
from 20 to 40 per cent and the profit was
more than sufficient to pay the cost Of
water used for municipal purposes. And
this result was obtained in city which
was reputed to have a very corrupt
administration, and. moreover, the city
of Tacoma had paid $1,500, 900 more for
the plant than it was worth. A suit was
brought by that city against Millionaire
Wright of Philadelphia to recover the
money which he secured by deception.
All Of these things prove that under all
conditions, public ownership is far be-
ter than private ownership. Examples
can be multiplied and the same truth ex-
posed to view, that the people can con-
duct business for themselves with bere-
fit to themselves. 1t is ridiculous to dis
pute over minor details. and it is crime
for electors. with such facts for their
guidance, TO lose the opportunity TO
forge another link in the chain of pro-
gresa Voters who commit such mis-
takes, however. are few; the large m l.
jority seize every chance of declaring
for a great principle, trusting to the
future to carry out the proposition on
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correct lines The we'll tried and certain
| good to the people which follows every
! extension of public control over som
| new industry is a safe guide
| The policy of the enemies of public
| ownership will be to divide the voters
| by questioning the advisability of some
| feature of propositions submitted But
| the average voter is shrewd enough to
| detect the intrigue and has sense enough
| to vote for the principle, well knowing
| that all public institutions are beneficial.
| No one would think of suggesting that
our public roads, or parks or asylums,
or postoffices, or schools, or any of our
public institutions, should be turned
over to private capitalists for their pri-
vate profit. Hence it is safe to assume
that your people will appreciate the
present opportunity and vote for public
ownership. No more convincing argu
ment can be advanced than this, that
public ownership of everything which
has thus far been assumed is so salts
factory that the public would not con-
sent to such institutions or enterprise 5
being turned over to private capitalists
1t is, therefore, foregone conclusion
that when Los Angeles gets control of
it's water and light plants the public will
be disposed to improve and perfect the
systems, but never to return to private
ownership.
RESULTS-GLASGO UNTAXED. .
An examination of other public func-
tions other than water service discloses
the same facts concerning the relative
merits of public and private ownership
In the matter of light, authentic figures
show the cost of gas averages 81. .O6 per
1000 feet under public ownership,
and $1.75 when furnished by pri-
vate capitalists. Two thousand candle
power arc lights cost s11O per year on an
average when monopolies supply them
to cities. and less than $50 per year under
municipal operation.
One of the greatest achievements in
the world has been accomplished at
Glasgow. Scotland. where the profits
from public ownership Of water, light,
street car and other utilities are suf1i-
cient to pay all the expenditures for
municipal purposes. Taxation has been
abolished entirely, while the service
and wages paid are better than in con-
tiguous cities
These things are well known and con-
firm voters in espousing and pushing the
cause of municipal ownership upon all
occasions.
MONOPOLY AIDS CORRUPTION.
The opponents of reform sometimes
claim that 1t would produce extrava-
ganee and corruption to give public off,
cials the handling of any new enterprise.
Judging by the water and light rates
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communication. What he writes Is an
argument unanswerable on behalf Of
the Democrat t-Populist-Silver Republic
an ticket. He brings the question right
up to date and right home. AS he has
been in communication with officials in
many of the typical cities of the coun-
try, he is competent to state facts and to
draw correct conclusions. He writes as
follows:
Editor Los Angeles Herald: Even
though, by the constitution Of Cal
ifornia. 1t Is required that the issu-
ance of bonds for public improvemnts
shall receive two-thrds of the vote cast
at elections for that purpose, 1t is a re-
markable fact that the people of every
city in the state have always rolled up
the required vote whenever the question
of municipal ownership of water or light
services has been presented to them
for their decision. This Is fact that
politicians and those who are desir-
Gus Of popular support should ponder
we'll.
It is a fact which should encourage the
advocates of municipal ownership at
Los Angeles. 1t points emphatically to
the universal desire to throw off the
Tyranny Of monopolies, and 1t indicates
that the people all over the state real
ize that the cure for extortion (and the
corruption of officials In order to prac-
tice extortion) is public ownership. 1t
is certainly reasonable to conclude that
Los Angeles will join other progressive
communities and that the result of the
election on December 7th will testify
that the voters Of your city are as pro-
gressive and intelligent and independ-
ent as the electors of any other city in
the state.
WATER MONOPOLY UNJUST AND
ABSURD.
There are other reasons, besides re-
cent successful elections, for the en-
couragement of advocates of public
ownership. They can point to the in
variable good results; they can show the
cheaper rates under public own
ership; the reduction of general taxa
ton; the abolition of corrupting cor
porations; and, above all, they can sue
cessfully maintain the right of the peo-
pie to own and control the Use of the
public highways and the supv,y of the
means of life. 1t would be strange, in
deed If an intelligent body of citizens
would vote in favor of giving, or con-
tinuing to permit a few capitalists to
have the power to tax a city upon a
necessary element of life.
Such action Is on a par with the an
cient practices of tyrants who compelled
the people to pay a-tax on Articles OF
food which passed into the cities they
ruled. The people then submitted BE-
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Profits Ito stock and bond

holders) ..................$1 81 .22S 252. 50
Let the opponents of municipal con-
troll explain when and where boodling
has ever existed in public work to the
extent Of 81 200, 900 annually on expendi-
lures of s415, 900. The monopolies exist
ing in our nation and cities are them
selves the principal sources from which
the boodlers draw their blood money
Part of the operating expenses" where
monopolies are tolerated, is money paid
to those who assist the private corpora
tions in securing excessive rates. The
people are thus made to furnish the
means used to corrupt their public ser
wants. Do away with special privileges.
and city government will be conducted
more honestly.
Public servants do not corrupt them
selves. In the very nature of things, 1t
must be some influence outside the gov
ernment which uses bribery. These
influences are gotten rid of, to a great
extent, when the public utilities are TAX
en- out of the hands of corporations and
individuals Hence instead of being
productive of corruption, public owner
ship has the opposite effect The cities
which have adopted this reform have
"lSilled two birds with one gtone." lie,
not only extortionote private taxation,
but also the corruption which makes
oxtortion possible and prolongs it, ard
which is the means to the end
THE WRITER'S INSPIRATION,
This. communication (having been So
licited because have been interested In
a movement of a similar character here
in San Francisco) Is framed with SYM
pathetic spirit. I am anxious to pro-
mote Justice, equality and the public
welfare within the borders of my own
city. and to 90 everything in nv power
10 CT frYv fry do me tat
nent reform elsewhere. 1 shall rejoice
to learn that Los Angeles has Joined
San Diego ard other progressive towns.
even though San Francisco still remains
bound. as 1t were. hand and foot by the
power OF the associated corporations
The herald., 1896-12-06
OBJECTS TO SUNDAY FUNERALA

Sunday funerals are Objectionable, be-
cause they offer greater opportunity for
gratifying idle curiosity, and thus tend
to destroy the solemnity and privacy Of
these last melancholy rites. The pub
licity of the city funerals. even on week
days. is often extremely trying to those
whose fresh and poignant grief shrinks
from the eye of strangers. but it is much
worse on Sunday when everybody Is at
leisure, and when the coarse ard curt
Gus can make such spectacles sort Of
holiday observation-disclosures Sun.
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ordained by your council, Los Angeles
probably yields a handsome return an
nually to those who have been granted
the privilege of using the public streets
for their pipes and wires. The exact
statement of the income and expendi-
lures of the Los Angeles corporate tions
will, no doubt read proportionately like
the sworn statement filed here by the
Spring Valley Water company January
30, 1896. which read as follows:
Receipts for 1895 81. 7O7. .234 Is
Operating expenses and
taxes ATS 9S1 b6
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and silurianism which have as yet pre-
vented the issue of public ownership
from being submitted to the electors Of
this city. Respectfully submitted.
Yours truly, JOHN NJ. REYNOLDS,
San Francisco. Cal. December 2. 1896.
The herald., 1896-12-06
RANDsBURG GOLD FIELDS.

Are reached in eleven hours on the Santa
Fe route. Leave Los Angeles 10: 10 q. M.
arrive Randsburg $50 p. m. Through
offices.
The herald., 1896-12-06

To Cure . Cold In Ono Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine TabletA
All druggists refund the money II it
fails to cure. Csc.