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The herald., 1896-11-18
MUCH IN LITTLE

David Coulter,a Kansas prisoner charged
with murder, has invented a corn husking
machine.
The far reaching fame of Alma -Tadema
has possibly been responsible for the fact
that few people know that his wife, Laura,
is also an artist of no mean merit
Lord Downshire. young nobleman with
strong taste for mechanics, has had a
complete railway, mile and a half in
borough. County Down, Ireland
Bishop William David Walker Of the
missionary jurisdiction of North Dakota,
who has been chosen bishop of western
New York, is the tallest man in the house
of bishops. When Phillips Brooks was
bishop OF Massachusetts he was next in
Episcopal stature to the giant of North
Dakota.
= A special winter number of the London
Studio is to contain an article of Steven
sons never before published. 1t Is an ac-
count of the novelist's stay at Monastier
in the autumn of 1878, and was originally
intended to serve as the opening chapter
of Travels With Donkey in the Cevennes.
Miss Ellen Dortch, now assistant libra
rian Of the state library of Georgia, and
who. the Atlanta Constitution says. is a
young woman of great ability, would like
TO become chief librarian: and a bill Is to
introduced at the coming session of the
legislature making women eligible for the
position. If the bill passes she Is to get 1t.
ElmetGraydon. living near English, Ind,
has named an infant son Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses Grant William Mckinley, and a
neighbor John Vaughn not to be outcome.
has named his infant son Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson James Monroe William
Jennings Bryan. At last accounts both
infants were doing as well as could b. ox-
pected under the circumstancaD.
The herald., 1896-11-18
A TIN.PLATE JOKE

The only time the New York Tribune
funny. An English paper, in comment
ing upon the election Of Mckinley pro-
duced statistics to show how protection
in the United States had ruined the
Welsh tin-plate trade in this country.
The Tribune takes the English contem-
porarys figures and comments on them
after this fashion:
Think of it. This nation, under the
nliSchievous influence of a protective
tariff, is actually producing tin-plate-
producing on American soil nearly all
it wants" Here is shameless creature
in the treasury department reporting
under date of Friday last that the pro-
duction is steadily increasing. That
means profitable use of millions of Amer
lean capital, and remunetative employ
ment of thousands of American work.
men, and an actual reduction of prices
to the American consumer And all
of it in direct defiance of the simplest
principles of natural law. Won't some
body please stop it before it goes any
further?
The humorous point in the Tribune's
comment is that what it boasts of is the
direct result of the operation of the
present Democratic tariff law. When
the bill became law the Tribune de-
voted column after column to show how
theS new act would utterly destroy the
tin infant. Four plants had been put
in operation under the Mckinley act,
and when the Wilson bill came along
and repealed the duty of cents pound
on tin ore, and reduced by one half the
Mckinley duty on finished product there
was a. howl. The Tribune continued it's
abuse of the Democratic tariff, and Nc
kinley himself went out of his way to
condemn that particular item of the bill
But somehow the four plants started
under the Mckinley law swelled to
thirty-six under the Wilson act. When
the Tribune's humorous reply to the
! English paper is viewed in the light of
these facts, the joke of the affair will be
| appreciated. 1t is evident that the Trib-
une forgot for the moment that it was
| condemning its own party's tariff act
of 1890. and applauding the Wilson act.
1t will have spasms when 1t sees what it
has done.
The herald., 1896-11-18
natural advantages which Santa Monica

natural advantages which Santa Monica
does not besides it is the sentiment Of
the people of Southern California that
San Pedro should be selected 1t is one
os those propositions for public improve
ment which needs little more than off,
cial recognition to make it operative,
and If the commission shall act from
that premises San Pedro will be named
within fortnight after it arrives on the
the ground.
Los Angeles is deeply interested in the
matter. If San Pedro is selected the con-
struction of the Salt Lake railway will
be put under way Immediately. A rail-
way between that city and Los Angeles
would open up an immense new terri
tory to this city, besides it would give
the Union Pacific and Denver and Rio
Grande roads direct connection with
Southern California by the shortest pos
sible route. Such a line of transporta-
ton, added to the facilities already Sc
cured, would make Los Angeles a least
the second largest commercial center on
the Pacific coast. Let the merchants
of this city, as we'll as the bankers and
capitalists, be ready to stand up for Los
Angeles and San Pedro when the COM
mission comes
The herald., 1896-11-18
HER TAX ONE CENT.

Some of the individual taxes in this
city are interesting. The figures show
the existence in Savannah of a number
of good, snug fortunes, but they do not.
as some might suppose. indicate the ex-
istence of any millionaires. If there are
any such in Savannah, 1t does not show
up on the tax digest. There are many
whose taxes on property amount to be-
tween 20 and 80 cents; there are several
as low as or 10 cents; there are two or
three who pay the state and county 2
cents, and there Is one who pays only
cent tax. This taxpayer Is woman,
who owns a small piece of land in tho
northwestern part Of the county, the
value of which Is returned at less than
81. According to law. II she failed to
pay this l cent, the property would have
to be advertised and sold, and the legal
fees for this process would run up to
several times the value of the property
itself.--Savannah (Ga) News
The herald., 1896-11-18

mains unimpaired; IN truth. facilitated
by the greater secresy and compactness
which have been the only results Of
the appeal to law.
The attorney general of the national
governmentgives a large part Of his an
nual report for 1893 to showing what
small basis there is for the popular i'm
preston" that the aim and efteot of
this statute" (the antitrust law are
to prohibit and prevent those aggrega-
tions of capital which are SO common
at the present day. and which some-
times are on soiarge asscale as,to prac-
tically control all the branches Of an
extensive industry" This executive
says of the action OF the coordinate"
legislatures: ''It would not be useful.
precise purpose Of the trainers of tho
statute" He is the officer charged with
the duty of directing the prosecutions
to enforce the law; but he declares that
since. among other reasons. all own
ership of property is monopoly,
of the statute is out of the question:
Nothing has been accomplished by all
these appeals to the legislatures and tho
courts, exoeptrto prove that the evil lies
deeper than any public sentiment or
public intelligence yet existent. and is
stronger than any public power yet at
call.
What we call monopoly is business at
the end of it's journey. The cencentra-
tion of wealth, the wiping out Of the
middle classes, are other names for'it.
To get 1t is, in the world OF affairs, the
chief end of man.
There are no solitary truths, Goethe
says, and monopoly-as the greatest
business fact of our civilization, which
gives to business what other ages gave
to war and religion-is our greatest so
cial. political, and moral fact.
= vvyI-~ L.
! of the world have the right to the ffoo-,
Everywhere they are rising to "a point
of information They want to know
how our labor and the gifts OF nature
are being ordered by those whom our
/ ideals and consent have made captains
| Of industry over us: how 1t Is that we,
/, who profess the religion of the Golden
: Rule and the political economyof service
| for service. come to divide our produce
into incalculable power and pleasure for
few, and partial existence for tho
many who are the fountains Of these
| powers and pleasures.
The herald., 1896-11-18
NOTES OF THE WHEEL

It is said that Zimmerman will train for
tne 1871 racing season, and il he can get
IN good form ne will ride, but unless his
on the track.
Brown: You don't realize the impor-
Ia lance OF tne money question Smith: Il
90. Next 10 riding the right kind of wheel
It is the most important question now be-
lore the public. Puck.
According to statements which have not
% %DeeIl contraalcted some astute British BIZ
cycle manufacturers have employed high
porn but iInpecunious danes to sell wheels
on the usual commission"
A mathematician has computed the
movement OF riders reet wniie working
bicycle, and has demonstrated, that If re-
quIreS less eXerliOn to travel fifteen miles
on bicycle than to walk three miles.
Cardlnai Richard, the archbishop OF Par
Is, having learneo that several priests Of
the diocese had been seen riding about the
Bo1s Ole Boulogne ON bicycles sent for
lnem, gave them lecture and then for
a Wheel S''Ne @
$50 you do not think . minister ought
10 tAde DIZZY cie.' "4>v; .Auil'I say L.,a
a. o;.;t AZ. +. bu, 1 do th.nA ne ougn. ..ol 70
tackle 1t unless he is sure his religion can
oils Journal
From England comes a new gaiter for
not buckle under the shoe or rasten with
buttons at the side. Instead, it slips on
over the shoe and clings to the ankle like
az glove.
The bishop of Ripan, England, is now
numbered among the ecclesiastical cyclists.
His lordship, totally ignoring the TRADE
which one of his fellow prelates uttred
against the universal means of locomo-
tion,, prides himself upon the ease and
rapidity with which he has become past
| master of the cyclic art"
II am not a stickler for any ridiculous
dignity on the part of a physician" said
the solemn looking man, land I think he
has as much right to ride wheel as any
one else: Bul when he gets the mania
ment case his repair kit as mine did,
think 1t is time to hunt up more conser.
/ vative man."
The herald., 1896-11-18
did not understand the Jokes, and
would try to explain them."-Pearson's

I did not understand the Jokes, and
would try to explain them."-Pearson' s
Weekly.
Willy money lender-You want a100;
here's the money! 1 charge you per
cent month. AS you want it for year
that just leaves f40 coming 10 you.
Innocent borrower-Then, if L wanted
1t for two years, there'd be some thing
coming to you, eh?-Tit- Bits
SO you want to be my son-in-law, do
your asked the old man. with as much
fterceness as he could assume.
Well" said the young man, standing
hrst on one foot and then on the other
Il suppose I'll have to be if 1 marry
Mamie. e.'-Cincinnati Enquirer.
1T may be mere coincidence" said
he, thoughtfully. Il hope that such Is
the case"
What's that?" asked the other man.
why, every time l call at the Jone-
sons | find the doormat turned so that
the Welcome is upside down as I go
in and all right as I start for the street"
Cincinnati Enquirer
The herald., 1896-11-18
FARMERS AND THE TARIFF

In his address before the farmers
Z congress at Indianapolis President Gay
ton called attention to declaration OF
the congress of two years ago. and
urged pronounced action so as to place
farmers in position where they would
& have some of the benefits accruing from
protection tariffs. The declaration he
referred to reads as follows:
Resolved that to whatever degree
either great political party shall adopt
the policy of protection, we, as represen-
~tatives of the farming interests, demand
that equal protection be given to farm
products .iii5s.-
The resolution demands that which is
Impossible to obtain. High protection
and agriculture, are diametrically. op-
posed, and the higher the customs duties
the worse it is for the farmer Protec-
N ton increases the price of the farm
ers supplies without increasing the price
of his cereals, while his home protected
mills and factories fix the price on the
goods and wares he must have. The
farmer must go to Europe to find
market for his surplus. products, and
protection obliges him to fetch his money
home ard buy his goods and wares of
his neighbors, who exact from him very
much higher prices than were prevailing
in the market where he sold his pro-
duce. By the very nature of the law
Of supply and demand the American
! farmer must look to the consumers in
other countries to take his breadstuffs,
and by the very nature of the law of
protection he can have no reciprocal
trade relations with the buyer of his
< produce. He must sell for cash and return
with it to his own country where it will
cost him very much more for manufac-
tured articles than he could have Sc
q cured them for where he sold his grain.
That is the way protection protects
y farmers. s3s9F
It certainly is true that If the principle
y Of protection is right, the farmer should
Z not be excluded from the benefit of it,
hut how to protect him in the markets
over which this country has no juris-
!; diction is a question not so easy to an
ewer. No one will deny that protection
~ 1t now operates enables the produc-
q ers of all kinds of goods and wares to
raise the. price of their articles in pro-
n portion as are the customs duties
which foreign competitors would have
E fo pay to enter our markets, and that
Il not only does not advance the prices OF
farm products, but adds to the farmer
cost OF living. If our home industries
would make market for all the produce
&o{ our farms, and other countries had to
1<Goek our markets to dispose of their
9asrplus breadstuffs,, protection would
berate for the farmer just as it does for
2 #3H6 manufacturers, but no such condi-
+ <lous are now or ever will be possible in
~ country. s.
{: 41otetlcally, the American farmer
91id " at' libertx to load his produce
aflls Wagon, drive to any market in
world. sell IT or exchange IL for such
- - he wants and return home
The herald., 1896-11-18
WHAT SHALL DO?

What shall do lest life in silence pass?
And if it 90,
And never prompt the bray of noisy brass,
What needest thou rue?
Remember aye, the ocean deeps are mute;
The shadows roar;
Worth is the Ocean-Fame is but the
brink
Along the shore.
What shall do to be forever known?
Thy duty ever.
This did full many who yet slept unknown
Oh, never, never.
Think'st thou, perchance, that they re-
main unknown
Whom thou know'st not?
BY angel-trumps in heaven their praise is
blown
Divine their lot.
What shall do to gain eternal life?
Discharge Alright
The simple dues with which each day is
rife;
Yea with my might,
Ere perfect scheme of action thou devise
Will life be fled,
While he who ever acts as conscience cries
Shall live. thou dead.
Schiller.
The herald., 1896-11-18
THE COMMISSION IS COMING

The information comes from Washing
ton that the commission appointed to
locate deep water harbor on the coast
tf Southern California will be here on
December to do the work assigned to
1t. OF course, San Pedro or Santa Mon
lea will be selected, and of course, too,
San Pedro is the more desirable point
from every point Of view. 1t possesses
The herald., 1896-11-18
CYNICAL SENTENCES.

Misfortune makes us wise.
One fool makes a hundred.
Great marks are soonest hit.
Speak well even of bad men.
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
The devil is not always at ones door.
Pull down your hat on the wind side.
Set not your loaf until the ovens hot.
Sour Grapes can ne'er make sweet wine.
The herald., 1896-11-18

An extra sum of 100000 is too much
irrigation for the Associated villainies, =
as the Times calls the water company
The herald., 1896-11-18

If the "silver craze is dead why do
the goldites keep harping on it? The
fact is that it is not a craze but SOL
emn truth and very sensible truth and
truth the people are holding to closer
than ever
The herald., 1896-11-18

Not that there is any very great dan
ger of war with Spain, but just to show
our good will If the Madrid government
is contemplating anything of that sort,
our navy is being put in shape to do
business
The herald., 1896-11-18

The Associated villainies," as the
Times calls the water company, is
getting desperate, and Martin, its can
didate, is growing more and more un-
popular. OF course, personally. Martin
IS all right. 1t is the combines collar
that the people object to.
The herald., 1896-11-18

If San Pedro is selected for Deep
water harbor Los Angeles will have q
railway to Salt Lake right away.
The herald., 1896-11-18

The Times hates organized labor as
it does the imp of darkness. But them
organized labor is not bubbling over
with affection for the Times.
The herald., 1896-11-18
AN INVITATION.

Mr. Bryan is respectfully invited to
Mexico this winter 1t would do him good
to bask in the sunlight of prosperity
not manufactured to order.-Mexican
Herald
The herald., 1896-11-18

For fact, Los Angeles is the most de-
lightful city on the coast, and The Her.
aid is the best newspaper in Southern
California
The herald., 1896-11-18

Keep saying it over to your neighbor:
Los Angeles must own her own water
supply SYSTEM
The herald., 1896-11-18

Remember that the water combine Is
after long-term franchise, and fail
ing to secure that, it wants $4,000, 600
more for it's plant than it is worth.
The herald., 1896-11-18
AN EXPLANATORY COMMENT

OF course the Republicans and the Ma
tional Democrats will quarrel but tina I
is merely in order not to appear as If
they were Just married-Detroit Tribune
The herald., 1896-11-18

Candidate Martin is altogether too
close to the water monopoly and the
Southern Pacific to make a healthy
mayor
The herald., 1896-11-18

Snyder will be elected mayor "all right
enough" but his majority should be so
overwhelming that the associated viii
lainies." as the Times calls the water
company, would conclude that fair
price for its plant would be what 1t
would cost to duplicate it.
The herald., 1896-11-18
THE TESTERS CHORUS

why do you laugh at his stale jokes?"
II do not laugh he would think that
The herald., 1896-11-18

AT last accounts Weyler was between
"Maceo's devils" and the sea of public
Contempt.
The herald., 1896-11-18
A FRIEND OF TRUS rs

Before his election Mr.. Mckinley ex-
pressed himself as being the everlasting
enemy of trusts, and capital combina-
tions to control the prices of consump-
tion commodities, and great many peo-
pie believed that if he were made pres
ident he would drive every one of them
out of business. The trusts and monop-
olies do not appear to be at all alarmed,
now that he is elected. On the contrary,
they are going right ahead as though
they expected to be still further encour-
aged in their schemes to rob the people.
Since Mr.. Mckinley was declared elect
ed the stock of every one of the trusts
has advanced in price from SO to $40 q
share. The sugar trust is conspicuous
for its activity both in booming its stock
and In preparing to gather in the outly-
ing factories. These trusts, which the
Republican party has been building up
for quarter of a century, are the most
gigantic and extensive monopolies the
world ever saw, and it is evident that
they do not expect to be molested by the
incoming administration.
The herald., 1896-11-18
AnusEnENrs TONIGHT

Los Angeles Theater-The Tabers in
Much Ado ABOUT Nothing.
Matinee-As You Like 1t.
Simpson Auditorium-Second Yaw con-
cert.
E Orpheum-Vaudeville show.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-08-18
4 Few Mexican lax cS.

Every inhabitaut of the Mexican
Republic who sells goods to the value
OF over $40 must give to the buyer
IAN invoice, note or other document
accrediting the purchase" and aflix to
the same and cancel stamp CORE
spending to the value Of the sale.
Sales at retail are exempt from this
tax, and retail sales are defined to be
''sales made with n single buyer, whose
value does not exceed $40 The re-
union in n single invoice of various
parcels, one of which does not amount
to $50, but which in the aggregate
exceed that quantity" remains sub
ject to the tax. Retail snles in the
public markets, or by ambulatory
sellers, or licensed establishments
whose capital does not exceed $500,
are also exempt.
Tickets of all descriptions -railr oa I,
theatre, etc. must have n stamp, rs
must each page OF the reports Of meet
ings, each leaf of merchants ledger,
day or cash book. and every cigar sold
singly, which must be delivered to the
buyer in a stamped wrapper. Sales of
imported spirits pay eight per cent.
on the duties levied on their importa-
ton, and IA half of one per cent. in ad-
dition when retailed. Domestic spir-
its pay three per cent when sold by
producers or dealers at Wholesale, and
n half of one per cent. additional
when sold Mt retail. Gross receipts of
city railroads pay four per cent, pub
lie amusements, two per cent. upon
the amount paid for entrance; playing
cards, fifty per cent. paid in stamps
ON the retail price, and manufac.
tured tobacco n variety OF taxes, pro-
portioned to quality and value. Mer-
camille drafts are taxed at 81 on every
neutrality-suspicious. Popular Science
Monthly
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-08-18
Number OF Fatalities in War.

Deputy Commissioner of Pensions
Bell, OF Illinois, was commenting on
some OF the inaccurate statements
made on the occasion of the Hancock
statue unwilling OF the number of
Union soldiers killed in the Gettys-
burg engagement. Said he:
zone authority stated Hancock =
command furnished 1000, or about
half the dead, at Gettysburg. The
records show that only 1881 Union
soldiers in all were killed at Gettys-
burg. This is only one OF the mac
curacios of which those who have no.
made nm examination of the records
touching the number killed in battle
during the Civil War are likely to fall
into. The fatality in battle is usually
considered much greater than it really
Is. If any one should answer ofrhand
the number no believed to have
been killed on the Union side at the
battle OF Gettysburg he would almost
invariably fix the number ut once Mt
from 5000 to $4,000, and he would go
about as much over the mark touch
ing any other battle of the late war
concerning which similar question
might be propounded.
''At the battle of Antietam the mum
Der OF Union soldiers killed was 2I1O;
the Confederates, $500. First Bull
Run, Union killed, 4Sl Contederates,
$50. Second Bull Run, Union, 500;
Confederates, 700. Charlottesville,
Union killed, 1912; Conrederates,
1881. Chickamauga, Union, 1914 !;
Confederates, 1899. Gettysburg,
Union killed, 1884; Confederates,
5000. Shiloh, Union, 1885; Confed.
crates, 1928. Stone River, Union,
1888; Coniederatos, number of killed
and wounded amounted to 1000. Bat
tie of the Wilderness, Union killed,
5597; Confederates, 1000.
"Tho total number of Union sol
diers killed in the battles during the
entire Civil War was 80, $50; while the
number of Confederates killed was
81, 422, or grand total of l1l,2S5,
out of something like 5000, 900 en-
gagged, and covering period of over
four years. Chicago News.