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The herald., 1896-12-03
MARTIN VS.. MARTIN

Thirteen years ago Candidate ]. H.
Martin was the publisher of a TEMPER
ance journal called THE Western
Wave" Its columns were burdened
with abuse of every one who was en-
gagged, directly or indirectly, in the liquor
traffic On the eve of the municipal
election in 1883 Editor Martin wrote and
printed this:
The man who gets off abundance Of
blazing rhetoric on the evils of drunk
enness, and then lodges, or goes over to
the enemy when the time comes to act,
has had his day. The battle is begun in
earnest.
On the eve of the election in 1896 Mr.
Martin. as candidate for mayor, is en-
ploying all the tricks known to ward
politics to persuade the saloonkeepers
to use their influence in his behalf
Those who were 1.-The enemy" thirteen
years ago are now addressed as
friends" by the same Martin. He is
not getting off any blazing rhetoric on
the evils of drunkenness" at this time
but he is getting down on both knees to
"drunkard Makers" as he used to call
dealers in liquor, and begging for their
votes.
Was ]. H. Martin hypocrite then and
is an honest man now? Or is he hypo-
critic now and was an honest man then?
Did he call saloon men "drunkard MAX
ers" thirteen years ago simply to play
upon the public and put cash in his own
pocket? Is he standing in" with them
today merely for their votes? 1t is
hard to see how he can answer any of
these questions truthfully without
branding himself as the personification
of perfidy, falsehood and hypocrisy
Nevertheless, if he is not totally de-
praved he will at least make a stagger
at defense of his many-sided public
career
The herald., 1896-12-03
KILLED BY GRIEF.

For some years Miss Anna B. Clarke,
a leading member of the Chicago Church
Choir Pinafore company when it flour
ished, had been selling law stationery
to the attorneys of that city. About two
weeks ago her eyesight failed her. and
the following Sunday she became to-
tally blind The next morning she was
found dead in bed. The physician who
was called said that she had died liter
ally from a broken heart as the result of
the shock of her blindness. Miss Clarke
founded the society known as the Or
ganized Charities of Philadelphia, from
which many othe- similar institutions
have been patterned. She was at that
time contralto of the Advent Episcopal
church in Philadelphia.
The herald., 1896-12-03
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

1t is regarded as entirely aSEropriate
that the most successful horse dealer in
Nodaway county, Mo-, is a man named
Goodpasture.
Sven Hedin, the Swedish traveller,
laughs at the idea that China could ever
be persuaded to attack Europe or Amer
lea. The Chinese, he says. are convinced
that the soldiers calling is low and bru-
tai, and do not care to be conquerors.
The Belgian Captain Lothaire, who
lorded it over the Congo region for four
years. with power of life and death, has
been compelled by prosaic civil court
in Belgium to pay the cost of a we'd
ding trousseau ordered by his Tilted
sweetheart.
The richest man in Germanys diplo-
matte service is young Baron Won Cra-
mer- klett. who is an attache of the Ba-
varian legation at Rome. He is the son
of manufacturer who died in 1884 and
left 10,000,000 marks. Curiously enough,
the father feared that he would some
day perish of starva ton.
when is a woman old?" has been
asked of the leading actresses Of Ger
many. Jenny Gross takes to the usual
refuge that "a woman is as old as she
looks" Frau Nuscha Butt thinks "a
woman is only old when she tries to
make herself young again." Marie Pop
ichil declares that "as long as woman
believes in youth and clings to her youth
she appears young even when she is not
really So" and Marie Reisenhofer con-
siders, somewhat obscurely, that "wo-
man is old when she begins to love rea-
son and finds no love in return"
Mrs. Temple, the new archbishop's
wife. had novel experience the other
evening. After leaving the house of a
friend she hailed a cab. and, forgetting
that the driver was not her own coach
man. asked to be driven to the palace -
The man, never dreaming who was the
occupant of his cab, promptly drove her
to the Palace theater of varieties, and it
was with great difficulty that the good
lady. who had certainly never been in
such place of amusement in her life,
was able to persuade him that this was
not the destination which she wished.
Queen Amelie of Portugal has earned
the love and gratitude of Lisbon by
interesting herself personally and eff
fectually in improving the hygienic con-
dition of the city and In providing med
ical and surgical attendance for the
poor. and especially for the -childres of
the poor To her efforts Tas due the
early introduction into Porturrl of the
serum treatment for diphtheria. and
she founded, and with the aid of her
favorable as exist in the best private
court ladies maintains, an institution
called the Dispensaria de Sua Majsetade
la Rainha where sick children receive
care and treatment under conditions ~
hosnftals
The herald., 1896-12-03

in every arid district, but they want
these things on the basis Of cooperation
and mutual advantage. and not upon the
basis, as the Southern Pacific would have
it, of slavery for the producer and au-
tocratic mastership for the corporations.
There is no doubt at all that the popula-
ton of California would be several hun
dred thousand larger and the material
wealth of the state several hundred mill
lion dollars greater had not the Southern
Pacific company pursued the policy of
taxing the public to the very uttermost
The people have the evidence that they
are numerically plundered by the rail-
way monopoly in the enormous charges
it exacts of them to market the product
of their labor. The highwayman could
not be more merciless to his victim than
the Southern Pacific company is to the
people who are dependent upon it for
transportation facilities to reach the
trade centers of the country.
And so it has come to pass that the
people look upon every man who aids srd
abets the Southern Pacific railway in
it's efforts to still further hold them as
chattels, as it were. as their enemy-as
conspirator against their right to
hold for themselves at least some Of
the profits of their labor. Grove L.
Johnson, as an overwhelmingly defeated
candidate for congress, and whose aspi-
ration to represent the state in the
United States senate are denounced as
impudence on his part, stands before the
whole country under cloud of political
disgrace because he turned away from
the people to serve the peoples enemy.
Had Mr.. Johnson employed his splendid
abilities in the defense of the people, the
people would crowd honors upon him,
but he chose to help the Southern Pa
cific to become even a greater task-mas-
ter than it now is, and he is declared by
the people to be utterly unworthy of
their political respect and confidence.
But no man who would permit himself to
become the tool of the Southern Pacific
could escape the condemnation Of the
people. Grove L. Johnson is so dead,
politically speaking, that long years of
honest penEence would be required to
resurrect him from the tomb of sus-
picion and reinstate him in the conf
dence of the people. No man can achieve
political distinction in California who
comes and goes at the bidding of the
Southern Pacific Railway company The
Southern Pacific, like the upar tree, be-
longs to the bread fruit family. but the
less one eats of it the better 1t will D.,
for his political health-in California
especially.
The herald., 1896-12-03
MILLIONS FOR NEEDLESS EXPORT

In the second list are many Of the
commonest articles of consumption,
which California might readily produce
at home. but for which it sends mil
lions of dollars abroad each year The
imports of pork and it's products range
as high as eight or ten millions each
year. Condensed milk is not only
very important article of consumption
in mining camps and great ranches but
it is largely shipped abroad for the Ash
attic trade. 1t is brought across the
continent from New Jersey. California
also sends beyond it's borders from
$20,000.O00 to $4,000. 900 annually for the
item of sugar. which should not only
be produced in sufficient quantities to
supply consumption, but for export as
well.
1t is a curious fact that some of the
finest fruit preserves sold in San Fran
cisco bear French and Italian labels,
ana that the supply of canned sweet
corn comes largely from Maine. Es-
sential oils made from the peelings of
citrus fruits are also imported 1t is
not uncommon to find an orange mar
malade which has been prepared in
Rochester N. Y, the oranges having
been shipped eastward and the manu-
factured product westward. at cost of
two trascontinental freights Imports
are by no means confined to things
which require capital and machinery in
their manufacture. Chickens, turkeys
and eggs are largely brought from out
side. A single commission house in
san Francisco imports 500 900 chickens
every year. Thus a good many thou
sands of the new settlers can be profit
aoly employed In feeding much of the
present population of the state, which
includes large proportion of those who
are speculating on wheat and fruit.
sheep, cattle and hogs.-Our Great Pa
enc commonwealth. by William f.
Smythe, in the December Century.
The herald., 1896-12-03
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.

The Stipendiary-"Can't you and you,
husband live together without fighting?'
Mrs Mulcahy-"No, yer Amer, not hap
| Witt Bits.
Clara-'I suppose the brightest mo-
ment in your life was when Jack pro-
posed?" Clara-"Brightest? There
| wasn't particle of light in the room!
-Yonkers Statesman.
O'Mike-"Phy do they always make
the lasht Thursday in November
| Thanksgivin' Day, Oi dunno?' McPat--
"Shure ut's because the Thursday after
thot amt in November at all at all, ye
gomerl. Life.
Prison Inspector-"That man ovei
there seems to positively enjoy the
tieadmill." Warder-"Yes, sir. 'E's used
to the haction. e was bicycle thief.
Il second the notion" said the man
on the rear of the tandem.-Household
Words.
isn't Larimer dreadfully exclusive?
said Hiland to Halket. Decidedly so,
story difficult to believe he never advises
the relator to repeat it to the marines. u
What does he do?" He tells them to
repeat it to the ultra marines. PITTS
burg Chronicle Telegraph.
At the Gin Shop-Mrs. Messy (hob-
nobbing)-"My respects; and how's your
family settled, Mrs. Dossy?" Nicely
thank you, mem. Sarah and Alice is in
a 'formatory, Bills been took in a
'ome, and Joes jined refuge. All, they
do look after them well, those good gen
tlemen!"-Household Words.
II wanted to speak to you about that
dog ycu sold me-" said the small man.
"Well, hes all there, amt he?' Yes
l. t-I1 L..
DO you mean to contradict what
said?" Not for the world, sir. Not fol
| the world. But will go so far as to say
I didn't understand that his specially
was hunting place to lie down in. y
Washington Star.
The telephone is great institution.
Little Binks always wanted to tell Big
Brasher that he thought him a menda-
cious scoundrel, so he rang him up on
the wire the other morning and did it.
"Oh. am, am II" roared Brasher furi-
ously Il am, eh? Well I'll fix you when
we meet. Who are you?" None Of your
business" said little Binks, and to this
moment Brasher does MT know who did
it.-Harper's Bazar.
Knew the Symptoms.-Success
Faster dragging on the cars)-"Yes, sir.
for forty days not a morsal of food
passed my lips" Thin Stranger (step-
ping up)-"Ah! What's your circula-
tion, exclusive or deadhead copies %
Faster-"What do you mean. sir-r-r?"
Stranger-"Oh, don't get riled, my
friend; I belong to the craft myself.
Where is your paper published?" Faster
II do not know what you mean. pub
lish no paper, sir-r-r. l am" Strang-
er (walking away)-"Well, to think !
have mistaken a transforming actor
for an editor!'-Harlem Life.
The herald., 1896-12-03
REED is NOT RECONCILED

whether the result be right or wrong.
we must live under it for four years.
said Speaker Reed. in referring to the
late election in his speech to the board
of trade at Duluth. This doubtful OBJ
servation would seem to indicate that
Mr. Reed is not wholly reconciled to
the victory of his successful competitor
in the st. Louis convention. though this
assumption is inconsistent with the ap-
parently friendly attitude of the speak
err toward the Dingley bill. If Mr. Reed
can swallow that much protection he
might work up little more enthusiasm
for Mckinley without being suspected
of a desire to make himself solid with
the new Observation-Disclosures City
Star.
The herald., 1896-12-03
A GOOD MAN.

No one has ever whispered a word
against the personal character of Mr..
Bryan. No one has ever doubted his
sincerity as an individual No one has
ever disputed that he is Christian gem
tleman, and yet during the campaign
JUST closed there were perpetual shouts
Oh anarchy and revolution" Still
in his speech in Denver, Mr.. BRYAN used
these words which we take it would
sound we'll falling from the lips of any
American:
l love my country so much. love man.
klhd SO Well that l shall rejoice If the
results of the late campaign proves I
was wrong and my opponent was right;
because II ne can make the government
better than I could have made II then
my children and your children will en-
Joy the benefits.-Salt Lake Tribune
The herald., 1896-12-03
OUR AGRICULTURAL FAIR

There Is no fair. The state taxes the
people for agricultural fairs. Other
parts of the state may get their agricul-
tural fairs. Los Angeles does not We
| have horse races, cigars, saloons and
pools, but no agricultural fair. We have
scandals, but no agriculture.
| This abuse should be corrected. The
| state taxes and the state authority are
used for our district agricultural fair.
The word "agriculturar' as descriptive
cigar stand, a saloon and pool room
cannot be deemed a complete compen-
dunn of agriculture. Even the races
are of doubtful character. The time has
come. ito use the apt language Of the
gambling room." for fresh deal. The
very curious law of the last legislature,
stock transactions and the mockery of
agriculture in the pool rooms has cre-
ated condition that demands remedy.
Good. square, honest races are popular
with many. The Agricultural park could
properly be used for such races both
in winter and in summer. The park
| Southern California by high class race
programs. The citizens want to see
no more snide affairs with inside rings
of pool men. So also the park could well
| be used to give grand horse show,
| every year, real horse show,
| q horse show where a. race runner, a
trotter a carriage horse, saddle ami
! mails, army horses, and above all the
different grades suited to teaming and
| farming could be seen and studied. The
different climates and different duties
| to which horses are subjected
| In California are not understood.
Horses for Yuma and horses for Santa
| Horses for drays in Los Angeles are
not often the same type as those suited
for a hillside ranch. To promote the
study of these qualities in horses would
be useful. The gambling fraternity is
not any more likely to do this than it
| is to advance the Christian church.
| Even had the horse market been i'm
proved; even had the races been first
| class and commanded the confidence
of horsemen. it would not have been
all OF agriculture. Downey, of its own
| private enterprise. has an agricultural
| fair, creoltable farmers fair,
a first class fair, a fair that shows
by contrast the state fair in the ipmerial
county of Los Angeles, served and SUD-
ported by public officers and public
funds. mockery and a fraud. Los
Angeles has no agricultural fair.
Can we not get up decent fair?
Why, of course we can. Los Angeles is
the center of distribution Of Southern
California and even of Arizona. Land
buyers and settlers make this thei,
headquarters. Self interest alone would
bring every one of the outlying commu-
mites to make a creditable display AT a
creditable fair Scientific men from the
Academy of Science or from our South
ern California Independent university
from Ontario, Throop, ETC., could deliver
| studies on our soils, climates, plants
insects, animals waters, ETC., etc
These. with the objects in hand, would
make such agricultural fairs great aids
to our production. They would reduce
the chance of costly failure and increase
our products and our immigrants.
! The chamber of commerce. and othe,
The herald., 1896-12-03
A LAKE VESSEL 400 FEET LONG

the contract for the longest schooner
ever built on the lakes was announced
yesterday by the Chicago Shipbuilding
company. The new boat will be 376 feet
keel, 46 feet beam and 26 feet deep. The
length over all will be nearly 400 feet
The largest schooner now in lake serv-
ice is the James Nasmyth. built this sea- =
son at Bay City by the Rockefeller fleet
She is ten feet shorter and two feet mar
rover than the new craft. The new boat
VIII be built for the James Corrigan fleet
or Cleveland and will go into the iron
ore trade. This contract makes five ves-
sells to be built at South Chicago during
the coming winter and early spring
Between 1900 and 14oO men will be en-
ployed for the next six months in their
construction.-Chic Chronicle.
The herald., 1896-12-03
LIKE THE UPAS TREE

Senator Perkins announces that ne IS
so sure of being his own successor he
will not return to California during the
sitting of the Legislature. The mean
ing Of this is that the Southern Pacific
has been routed hol.;e, foot ana
dragons. There never was ghost Oh
a show for Sam Shortridge. Indeed, his
candidacy has been considered all along
!. rs a Joke, although as between the
elongated young man of San Francisco
and George C. Perkins no doubt the
Southern Pacific would prefer the for
mer by about ten thousand to one. How
ever. the question of Senator Perkins
successor was not much of a factor IN
the campaign, for what the complexion
Of the legislature would be was too mntN
= of an uncertainty, it was thought. to
warrant slate making, and so not
great deal was said about it, except what
the Examiners cartoonist said about
Sam Shortridge's hopes.
When the election returns were in and
the overwhelming and humiliating de-
feat of Grove L. Johnson for congress in
the Sacramento district was announced.
the word was Immediately passed
along the line Of the Southern Pacific s
oficers, agents and hirelings to work
I'm a sentiment for johnson for Perkins
+ successor The absence of any necessity
for Senator Perkins returning to over
come the influence of the Southern Pa
cifc and Grove johnson with the legis-
lature is pretty good evidence that the
people can be relied upon to keep an eye
upon Huntington's monopoly in its
scheme to flch the public. More than
likely there would have been several as
pirants for Senator Perkins seat in the
senate had not the oily fingers of the
Southern Pacific been seen gathering
I'D threads to weave another web about
the business interests of California, but
when they were discovered public senti-
ment Immediately demanded that no
chances be taken, and that the anti
: monopoly forces concentrate upon Mr..
Perkins.
There is.no doubt that Grove L. John
son is avery much abler man than
George c. Perkins; besides. personally
/. he is man of high character, and of
wide experience in public and business
life. 1t cannot be salo, therefore. that
when public sentiment protested against
sending him to the United States SEN
ate it was because he is lacking in at
tainments or qualifications of any kind
to be the peer of the representative of
any other state in the congress of the
nation. 1t Is not that Mr.. Johnson is
lacking in ability or personal integrity
but because, and only because, he has
identified himself with and espoused the
cause Of a railway combine that has
been q vertable leech upon the COM
merce and industry of California ever
since its birth. The people have nc
patience with man who would conspire
with their enemy to further enslave
& them, arfd-if they are emphatic in thei,
denunciations of Grove johnson 1t is be-
y cause he has betrayed them iNthe pa ST
+ and is willing to betray them again.
1t is not true, as the Southern Pacific
I alleges, that the people of California
refuse to come in touch with the pro-
4 gressive spirit Of the times They
I would like to see the state gridironed
" railways. md .h asenoses for the
Nlstsibution of water drmly established
The herald., 1896-12-03

Dainty Marie Antoinette!
on the crowded street today
l am certain that l met
Dainty Marie Antoinette.
She is dead, know, and yet
l would swear to what say;
Dainty Marie Antoinette
On the crowded street today.
l could tell her by the hat
That SO regally she wore
Collar, ribbons and all that,
But most surely by her hat;
Such a glory never sat
On another, as she bore
All, the marvel of that hat
That SO regally she wore!
She is truly dead, know;
Years have passed since then, and yet.
From the land of long ago
Came this vision that know
Regal grace and brow of snow
OF my Marie Antoinette.
She is dead to me, l know;
Years have passed since then, and yet
Truth.
The herald., 1896-12-03

public bodies should take up this i'm
portant question. Our state fair now
is pool room combine frequented by
fakirs and an airing place for the paint
ed lady.
Let us have a real agricultural fair
to advertise the country and instruct
the arr1ar
The herald., 1896-12-03
GREAT MAN IS HANNA.

Mr.. Hanna conducted a distinctly ed
ucational campaign" One would say
that he did. He even taught the editors
how to say black was white, and com
PEELED learned professors to climb the
high tariff tree which bears the golden
fruit of monopolism. AS an educator,
as rounder-up of all the potent forces
which mould public opinion, Mr.. Hanna
is living wonder. He merits the laurel
wreath for audacity, audacity and al
ways NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald.
The herald., 1896-12-03

churches have occupied the site Of the
building which now threatens to COL
lapse. The first was begun in 1896, and
opened in the following year. 1t was a
small, square building, furnished with
a gallery for the use of the governor and
his family. The building was burned to
the ground in 1776. and was not replaced
for twelve years. In 17SS new church
was erected, only to be pulled down in
1887. when the present building was be-
gun. 1t was finished in 1S46.-Salt Lake
Herald
The herald., 1896-12-03

Certainly Mr.. Martin had the right to
be a ranting Prohibitionist thirteen
years ago, but the public is curious TO
know how he happened to be converted
to the wide-open saloon idea. Explain.
Mr.. Martin.
The herald., 1896-12-03

Prohibitionist Martin making love to
saloon keepers is a queer sight. But
votes must be had, and "drunkard
makers" vote counts for as much as
the vote Of the ex-editor of the Wave" Z"
Have something with me-until after
l get your vote"
The herald., 1896-12-03

No, it is not true that Colonel Otis
is to be secretary of state. Mckinley
would prefer not to disturb the colonels
quiet life in California. SO he will get
nothing
The herald., 1896-12-03

Whisky -sharps," wine-sharps,
beer-sharps" is the way Martin put it
thirteen years ago. Now it is our fel
low citizens, the liquor merchants"
The herald., 1896-12-03

No wonder the Times man got disgust
ed with Martins saloon church schem
and left town.
The herald., 1896-12-03

Take another round, boys, and ther
l must be off for my vote as you pray
meeting"
The herald., 1896-12-03
TRINITY CHURCH SINKING.

Famous Trinity church In New York
is slowly but surely sinking into the
earth. The walls are cracking and the
plaster falling of. II Is almost as fam
Gus as Old South in Boston. Three
The herald., 1896-12-03

For the first time in their lives the
saloon keepers are interested in a Pro-
hibition newspaper. They are reading
the Wave"
The herald., 1896-12-03

Let us vote as we pray" said j. p
Martin thirteen years agowhen drunk
ard makers" were running things" IN
Los Angeles.
The herald., 1896-12-03

Mrs. Cleveland is studying French
which is all right, but Spanish is what
Grover needs to tackle.
The herald., 1896-12-03

Martin Is not begging people to sub
scribe for the Wave" these days. II
fact he does not like to talk about the
"WaYe"
The herald., 1896-12-03

1t was dreadfully wicked to raise wine
grapes thirteen years ago, but there is
music in the cink of whisky glasses
these days. Hypocrite!
The herald., 1896-12-03

A new style of bicycle has been named
1.-The Tom Watson" presumably because
1t will be easy to keep it in the middle OF
the road.