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The herald., 1896-02-16
THE PROTECTION PROP

A common assertion made by per-
sons who advocate protectionism is
to the effect that without the aid of q
protective tariff this, that or the other
industry would go down. Therefore,
to avoid such calamity, we should
perpetuate the protective scheme of
special privilege indefinitely.
It is not at all probable that any
legitimate enterprise for which the
country is adapted, honestly and
wisely conducted, would go to pieces
simply because the government prop
of protection was removed from IN
der it. Any private business which
caunot be made profitable without
government aid is resting upon basis
OF injustice. 1t is not the duty nor
the fuaction Of civil government to
bolster up the business of any citizen,
either through direct donations from
the public treasury or by the crooked,
bypocritical scheme mildly called a
protective tariff. No self-respecting
business man, if he really would stop
to consider the matter in its true light,
could ask the government to 30 legis-
late as to take money from the pockets
Of consumers to I'LL his own. For it is
rs plain as that two and two make four
that every increase Of prices on home
The herald., 1896-02-16

manufactures by reason of protective
duties on imported goods means the
robbery of consumers.
Human nature is so selfish and SO
permeated with the poison of greed
that men will overreach and get the
better of each other in various ways,
though usually keeping within the pale
of law. And no government can wholly
prevent acts of injustice between man
and man.
That fact, however, never justifles a
government in upholding robbery, or
what is still worse, in becoming part
ner with individuals for purposes OF
plumber. That is precisely what a
government does when it provides a
horde of greedy beneficiaries with pro-
tective tariff laws according to order,
with the inevitable result of fleeing
the masses.
Instead Of the government bestow-
lag special privileges upon few it is
its sacred duty, so far as possible, to
protect all in the equal enjoyment Of
thoir natural rights, and then let the
results take care of themselves. Thst
kind of protection is right and neces-
sary. Thomas Jefferson said:
"The true Office of our legislators is
to declare and enforce only our natural
rights and duties, and to take mono
Of them from u.s."
The herald., 1896-02-16

answer to a challenge by Clarence A. Mil
Ter, to show that the single tax would be
no improvement over our present system
of taxation. Mr.. Randolphs contention
appeared to be that the term "sngle tax"
as implying its sufficiency for all the pur-
poses of public revenue. was a msnomer
and absurd. He assumed the truth of the
single tax contention that the adoption of
that system of taxation would make it i'm
possible to hold land out of use. The logical
deduction from this admission was some-
what startling, viz: That present
rental values were enormously enhanced
as the result of the private appropriation
of all vacant land; that present rent now
appropriated by private land owners was
monopoly" rent, and not ''economic''
rent as contemplated by Ricardo in his law
OF rent, which was merely the excess of
Productivity of one piece of land over an
other with the same amount of labor: that
the effect OF the monopolization of all land
was not contemplated or provided for in
Rcardos law. 1t therefore followed that
If the adoption of the single tax forced
owners of vacant land either to pay its full
rental value or abandon il, they would GER
tainly do the latter, because there is twenty
times more land than there is use for; nor
will there be Use for half of it within CEN
tury, even allowing the present rate of in.
crease of population to continue. The ill.,
evitable result would be that all land not
needed for immediate use would be thrown
upon the market, owing to the inability of
the owners to pay its rental velue. The ef-
feet OF throwing hundreds of millions of
acres of agricultural lands and hundreds
of thousands of residence and business
lots OH the market would be to
enormously depreciate rental values to
mere fraction of present values, certainly
to less tnan one-fourth, or, peIhaps, one
tenth, and possibly one-twentieth of pres
ent values. 1T this be true, and / see no
logical escape from Mr.. Randolph's deduc-
ton, then tho single tax theory is the fin
de steele economic fake par excellence. In
stead of a tax on land producing all the
revenue needed, it would not produce a
fourth, or, perhaps, a twentieth part. In
stead OF being able to abolish all other
taxes, we would be compelled to double
them.
ply. Must we infer that he accepts Mr..
Randoiph's deduction. and lets the matter
go by default, not wishing to draw atten-
ton TO the weakness of his case by a USE
less defense? AS a student of economics
am free to confess that l think Mr. Ran
dolph has made out his case. 1t seem 8 to
me that as mere scheme for raising the
largest possible revenue from land tax,
the present system of underassessment of
vacant land Is the best that could be de-
vised, as it permits the virtual monopoliza-
ton OF the entire continent, the owners of
which pay taxes thereon. This has the
effect, also. of enormously increasing the
rental value of occupied land. The single
tax club should tackle this question
or shut up shop, or perhaps that is the rea.
son why the shop is shut.
w. H. STUART,
Station b, city.
The herald., 1896-02-16
DOWNED AGAIN

Fridays vote in the house of repre-
sentatives in the senate free coinage
amendment to the bond bill should
convince the most stubborn of the
silverites of the futility of attempting
for the present at least the enactment
Of free silver coinage law.
1t will not, however, and we can ex-
pect to see them continue butting their
heads against the wall of public opin-
ion as represented not only by the
existing house, but also by the one
which preceded it.
We may expect that as of yore the
Joneses, Stewards, Tellers, Wolcotts
Tillmans and the other people in their
camp who think they have a patent
right to ali the patriotism and flnan-
cial sense of the country, will vocifer-
ate to the effect that the Rothschild's of
London and the gold bugs of Wall
street have again throttled the
will Of the people and riveted more
closely yet that awful chain
of gold. The facts are that
neither of the great political parties
have in recent years declared in ma
tional convocation for their cause, that
the house composed of members elect
ed directly by the people has been for
at least decade opposed to free silver
coinage, that no president since 1873
has been in sympathy with the move.
ment, and that only the senate, a body
chosen by indirect methods and not in
touch with popular feeling, has evinced
3 disposition to add the owners of sill
YER mines to the list of government
beneficiaries. These facts, however
seem to have no deterrent effect on the
silvery host. With admirable though
mistaken pertinacity they will con-
tinue to insist that the tail should wsg
the quadruped.
The herald., 1896-02-16
Kennedy Of Massachusetts.
mus

Oliver Gavil of Ohio, William
Richie of Pennsylvania, Ariel Murdoch of
New York, and a host of others. And did
space permit we would pile evidence noun
tain high showing the tolerance of Free
masonry and her legitimate children in
every state and country. Not only should
the ministers be holding conventions
against organized duplicity, double deal
ing, intrigue and secret cnicanery, but
every American patriot as well. Do not
FOR moment imagine that all the anti-se-
crecy people in the United States are in
and around Los Angeles. Powerful con-
ventlons are being held thick and fast
throughout the union. The clerical hosts
are being led by such men as ID. l.. Moody,
George +. Pentecost and Joseph Cook, and
able men and papers are piling proofs like
wall of adamsnt to protect American
principles aud republican institutions from
the further encroachments of Masonic "ln-
tolerance" and scoundrelism. Not only are
legitimate discussions like this going on
everywhere, but sworn eXpositions of this
so-called 'secret work" of Freemasonry
and its ilk are being scattered throughout
the land thick as autumn leaves or as the
snowfiakes on the Norwegian hills. And
unless Freemasonry and Jesutism, to-
gether with their kith and kin are wiped
out ard that speedily they will wreck this
republic, as they have so many civil gov
ernments. Putting our war government
into the safe hands of bitter anti -Masons
during the great rebellion, was most mar
velous act of God. From 1926 to 1880
this secret society question p-ofoundly agi-
tated the country. Forty-tive thousand
out of fifty thousand Masons left the lodge
never to retnrn. But Masonry and Jesuit
ism brought on the war and steaithily
crept back into power. Again the public
is after them and the agitation is sweeping
the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and from the lakes to the everglades.
w. n. BUTLER.
The herald., 1896-02-16

The symptoms of Tammany's re-
vival are in the air. The recent ban
quet given to Richard Croker is re-
plete with significance. The tiger is
"alickin' of his chops and aswishin' of
his tall and when the tiger does this
it is we'll for the public to get out of
the jungle. The Croker feed was mag
niticiently extravagsnt. The guests
numbered $50 and the cost was $40
per plate. This festive function
is plainly indicative of rejuven-
ated hopes on the part
of Tammany. The people who run
that machine do not indulge in spreads
costing $40 per head or rather per plate
the Tammanyites might object to
the cattle classihcation-for purely
social reasons, or as mark of grateful
esteem for an ex-leader. The only
politician they feel lavish interest in
is the live kind. That banquet was
either 10 celebrate the return of the
new blown horseman to political
activity in the installation of leader
ship that is eminently satisfactory to
him.
The herald., 1896-02-16
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1890.
THE HERALD ALONE IN THE
FIGHT

As might be expected, the other pa
pers of this city are not "hitting the
pavement very hard" in an effort to
get right on the question of reducing
the water rates. Aside from The HER
AID, the committee on water and water
supply is absolutely barren Of sup
port in its recommendation that
rates bereduced. Excepting the Times,
TUE HERALb's local contemporaries
have been content to preserve editori-
ally dignified silence.
The Times utterance on the subject
is of the kind that suggests one Of Bill
Nye's copyrighted political platforms.
1t is herewith reproduced that that
large portion of the public innocent Of
the misdemeanor of subscribing for
the Times may understand the length,
the breadth and the depth of the sup
port given by that paper to the people
in the contest for cheaper water. The
Times Of yesterday said:
eUnder the law the city council is re-
quired to fix the water rate for each year
before the st of March, and the water
committee of the council, now considering
the matter. has decided upon reduction
of about SO per cent. from the present
rates. Water is as much an article of
necessity as air or food, and it should be
furnished to the public at the lowest pos
sible rates. The present rates are certainly
high in some respects, while in others they
are very reasonable. Whether the pro-
posed reductions are greater than circum-
stances will warrant remains to be deter
mined. As a matter of course, the water
company will vigorously oppose the re-
ductions, and it may be able to show good
cause why some of them, at least, should
not be made. A lively discussion may be
expected when the matter comes before
the council for action"
The foregoing is like the faint
praise that damns;" it is the sort of
refuge that makes glad the heart of the
timid councilman. The Times knows
as we'll as it knows anything that the
water rates in this city are not only
"high in some," but practically in "all
respects;" that the few instances in
WAsOu UuG A6lO5 dlC ACdoOAdOAS diO Out
the exceptions that mark the rule. 1t
knows that the remarkable growth in
the population Of this city has lifted
the profits Of the water company far
above tho that would be necessary tc
secure fair return on the investment
It knows that the water company has
the most valuable franchise in the
city, and that it is in the receipt of g
vast unearned increment as the
result OF the city's expansion
The Times knows these things ano
though it persists in posing as the
champion Of the people, and wears c
self-constituted halo of independence
it refuses to stand by the public tina
supports it, for reduction of rates to
basis that will bs fair to the people
and the company alike. Such reduc
tion is that which the council viii
have for consideration tomorrow.
The herald., 1896-02-16

The widening of East Ninth street
some years ago qusdrupled the selling
and renting value of the property on
that street. The great drawback to this
street has been its narrownsss west of
Main. This defect is no y being cor
rected and the street will be a grand
thoroughfars through to Santa Monica.
West Ninth will now regain its old
time traffic, which left it when Seventh
was widened. The detail work has been
excellently d one by Engineer Compton
and his deputy, Mr. Z. e. Jones. Their
improvement will be the making of
West Ninth, and will greatly help
South Broadway. Value, will take the
same Jump on Ninth that they did on
Seventh when the latter street was
widened.
The herald., 1896-02-16
Other Worlds

EDITOR HERALD There may be worlds
and systems of worlds not subject to the
laws of chance, decay and death like our
solar system is. There are double and
triple stars. There are suns forming a
solar system likeo urs. but of superior or
der. There are double solar systems in
red and green. Such are those of the con-
steltation Here ules, Berenire's Hair and
Cassiopeia. Others are brown and green,
ca.egory belong tile double stars of the
Whale, Eridanus, the Giraffe, Orion, the
Unicorn, Gamini, Botes and the Swan.
What strange effects must these pol
ychromatic suns produce on tha
planets that they illuminate! How
queer the, soil OF these planets must
look, the objects that stand on the surface,
such as mountains and hills, and the rivers
and seas, clouds and vegetation, when all
are illumina nated by blue or red light, by
floods of scarlet or indigo. We who
know nature in no other gul5e bat that
which she wears on the globe on which we
are confined can hardly conceive Of such
effects. What. then, if we could imagine
planets lighted during the same day by
two successive suns of different colors;
when two suns, the one red and the other
green, or even one brown and the other blue,
successfully illuminate the same lands,
what charming contrasts, what brilliant al
which takes place at certain moments, of
the red light and the green, or the brown
light and the blue. Oh nature; what Won
derful aspects, what sublime prospectives,
thou must put on those mysterious worlds
to charm the eyes of their fortunate inhab-
itants. aud the satellites, the moons that
light up the nights of their planets, what
strange spectacle must they present in
those strange realms where the feasting of
the eyes Is eternal? The moon takes on
in turn the hues of the two suns, which are
reflected, one after the other, on its glowing
disc. The phases OF the moon seen by the
dwellers i'll these worlds are now 4 red
quarter of the moon, and q blue quarter.
Such moon has a brown crescent,
when it succeeds a green one. When it is
at the full, the moon of these parts resem
bles an enormous green fruit wandering in
the heavens; there are moons in shades of
ruby, detached on the dark ground of the
armament. Others have opa!ine or azure
reflections. Some glitter like diamonds in
their circle around the planets, which are
plunged in darkness. Modest moon of
ours: no doubt the peaceful light spe iks to
our softened and thougntfu! souls: out how
much deeper must be the Impressions, how
far more potent the charms, earnest the
admiration AMI intoxicating the reveries
inspired in the dwellers in those far worlds
by the moons OF rupy, sapphire and emer
aid, that illuminate the stiffness and
serenity of their nights
WILLIAM LoRnAN.
p. S.-This may interest some Of your
readers.
He Is "Agin' the Jingle Tax
EpIroR HERALD: Some weeks ago w.
C. r. RaDlolph coptribtrted an article to
The herald., 1896-02-16
A Cheap Seaside Trip

Go to Santa Monica. You can go via
the longest ocean pier in the world, enjoy
the invigorating surf bathing or a swim in
the great warm sea water plunge, or watch
the crack-a- jacks of the Stearns team ride
on the Southern Pacific's bicycle track.
Saturday and Sunday round trip 80 cents.
Sunday trains leave Arcade depot 8, 10
a. M, l 10 p. IN.
The herald., 1896-02-16
BOSTON o9sSs SsS STORE

to South America four summers in success.
sion.
Professor-Give me an example of where
the pen is mightier than the sword? Stu
nt-Why-er-the policy Penn pursued
with the Indians.
war in some particulars? She-How so2
He-Why, you know, love also has its alli-
ance, engagement, powder, ball, retreat
and call to arms.
Jack-She has refused me! Fred-Come,
come. brace up, old fellow. there's just as
good fish in the sea as ever were caught.
Jack-Yes, but that's just the trouble
they are never caught.
I'VE remove,' said the lecturer, "a cer-
tain bump from a criminals head and he
becomes a good citizen" Voice in the
audience)-You remove the entire head
from some, don't you. professor?
The D'Swell ball is at its height. Fairy
strains of music rise and fall like songs of
sirens on midnight strand. The glowing
wealth of colored lamps bathes hall and
alcove in the pinlling tides of light. The
rhythmic beat of the whirling dancers seems
to echo every heart-throb of the music's
living notes. Beneath many an arch and
mirror banks of altar roses blush into fra
grant incense. The youth and beauty of
society's shining circle grace the occasion.
Amid the shifting mazes of the waltz, a
couple glide along. The maid, flower
faced, gracefully slender, seems like an
airy sylph dancing on the dream-inlaid
floors of melody. Her young partner
talks to her now and anon, with eyes and
voice. There is a l,lll; tits broken by the
youths unfinished question:
"Do you think that in the early life of
Trilby--" Lights go out; the music
ceases with a sob; dancers disappear; the
thoughtless youth is left alone-wrapped in
a large-sized halo of gloom. Suffering
humanity must be recognized.
The herald., 1896-02-16
RANDOM REMARKS
BY LEDRU B. KINNEY

Ideality is the twin-soul of love.
An ounce of truth is worth ton of con-
lecture.
Ere you look before you leap, think be-
fore You look.
There never was a sleepy genius, nor a
wide-awake fool.
The tracks of truth are never known to
overlap each other.
Most men find it pretty rough getting
even with other people.
The flower of youth may be raised in a
nursery, but never in a hot house.
Thoughts are like flashliRht pictures
taken by the camera of the mind.
Paintings and pictures are the tableaux
of lights and ehades-the pantomimes of
art.
Every statue in every niche in the temple
of fame was carved by the sculptor. perser-
verance.
In the Delphian caves of stiffness and
silence the oracles of thought are eternally
whispering.
The air.castles of youth have more in.
fluence upon our lives than homo and its
surroundings.
"Know thyself" is an excellent precept.
Another just as essential to life success is {:
Know somebody.
There is certain idiotic silence which is
more of dead give away to a man than
incessant talking.
violent temper is like train rush.
ing down grade with a great momentum
and broken brake.
Ambition always floats in an atmosphere
higher than ability. The former seeks
higher stratum as the latter rises.
The great trouble with some men is that
they get their heart-strings and their
purse-strings painfully tangled up.
People who want to take late train for
the land of success generally reach the
depot just after the train has pulled out.
The loftiest monument erected in men,
ory of the wronged would not mako a
punctuation point in the book of atone
ment.
Life IS like Ferrs.wheel. We raptu-
rously rise to the heights of joy, but the re-
sistless swing Of sorrow as often sweeps us
down.
When life is just lovely-when even your
splendid villa on the sunny side of Easy
street Smiles with new coat of paint
look out! The typhoon follows the
! breathless calm.
The latest thing out dude just gone
insane.
A deadhead nine times out of ten pays
| more than anyone else.
Lots of men getting in the swim have
found it swimming hole.
Thetopmost rails on the fence of fame
have generally a barb-wre fringe.
"Pity's akin to love;'' but it's a million
millions away from the jealous lover.
With some inspired waltzer the poetry
of motion is oftimes faulty in the feet.
A rolling stone may not gather any
moss, but it gets over conside rable ground.
He-They say love has tide. She-Yes,
and it is probably caused by the honey
moon.
The fellow who stands on the street cor
ners all day rarely stands we'll in the COM
munity.
All politicians know this: A ward heeler
is not a ward kicker, even when political
freebooter.
Every day some individual brilliantly
climbs the pinnacles of fame-and then
slides down the fire escape.
''Gnupowder made all men of one
height;' and facepowder made all women
of one complexion-not exactly.
Our summer their winter: Mr.. Nervy--
| Will you tell me your age! Miss Yellow
| leaf-I have seen twenty-five summers.
| Mr.. Nervy-Yes, recollect that you went
The herald., 1896-02-16

THE Times explains and explains
and explains that the Riverside frost
was not "Times FROST that there
was modicum of truth in its story;
that it simply proclaimed the frost
with, of course. such enlargement and
distortion as would make its story SEN
sational and subserve its own inter-
ested ends. But the people of the
East do not know that the Times is a
congeuital distorter OF the truth and
will not take its diatribes cum grano
sails as Southern Californians do.
The herald., 1896-02-16

SILVER has been 'recognizsd" at LAST.
Tammany did it. At the recent ban
quet rendered by that organization TO
the renowned ax-statesman, Richard
Crocker, Senator Thomas +. Grady pre-
sented the distingui shed guest with a
"Ioving cup" "made of Virgin silver"
Who says the white metal of the king.
dom Of Stewart is friendless?
The herald., 1896-02-16

THAT DR.. Nansen is returning to civ
iliZation bringing with him the north
pole may be true, but the dispatch
needs confirmation.
The herald., 1896-02-16

Try our port and snerry wines at 75
cents per gallon. T. Vache & Co., Com
mercial and Alameda streets. Telephone
800.
The herald., 1896-02-16

EO-Persons desiring THE HERALD deliv-
cred at their homes secure it by postal
card request or order through telephone No.
347. Should delivery be irregular please
make immediate complaint at the office.
The herald., 1896-02-16

He Is "Agin" the Jingle Tax
EpIToR HERALD: Some weeks ago w.
G. B. Randolph contributed an article to
The HERALD which appeared to be an
The herald., 1896-02-16

Write the Truth as you see tts
Fight the Wrong as you find it: Pub
lish all the News, and Trust tho