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The herald., 1897-06-16
IT SACRIFICES HUMANITY

The two chief purposes of the pending
tariff bill, if we may believe the Dingley-
ties, the Aldrichers and the sugar trust
les, are to provide sufficient revenue
and to afford protection to American
industries; yet these things are in danger
of being killed by the sheer weight and
inanity of the bill itself.
The reason of this is because of the
prohibitive duties Imposed in many cases,
generally at the instance of a trust.
When the duty is made prohibitive the
importations fall to the minimum and
the revenue secured is not sufficient. It
might be asserted on the other hand
that when imports are reduced to the
minimum corresponding stimulus is
given to home industries, and a
like proportion given to them. This
is the theory, but it cannot be proved in
practice. To protect a great wealth.
swollen trust is not to protect American
industries in the best sense of the term.
The system of protection is supposed to
afford protection to the capitalist manu-
facturer and the workingman employe
alike, which it does not.
The trust monster throttles labor by
destroying competition. One of the
Standard Oil plants shut down the
other day, throwing 1000 men out of en-
ployment for the purpose of curtailing
production and keeping up prices-to
keep up prices, not wages. The prin-
ciple is the same, although the Standard
Oil company secures monopoly by con-
trolling the sources Of supply.
A prohibitive duty on imports simply
opens the way for fatter dividends and
the watering of the stocks of the trusts.
1T increases the price to the consumer
without affording him a corresponding
increase in wages. The difference goes
to swell the profits of the monopolies.
That this atrocious policy is the studied
purpose of the tariff bill managers is
ton against the trusts by granting the
president power to lower duties to COM
petitive rates in cases where monopoly
or trust is formed as the result of such
protection, thereby raising the price to
the consumer. The house refused to in
eert such provision in the Dingley
bill. Senator Pettigrew, it is reported.
will offer an amendment covering the
ground, to the senate bill, but there is
not the slightest probability that it will
be adopted Senator Pettigrew has
fallen from grace.
There never was an instance in the
history of American tariff legislation
where such an obvious, one-sided at
tempt has been made to secure profit
and immunity from competition in the
interests Of monopolies as against the
interests Of the consumer and the wage
Garner as in the record of the pending
Republican tariff bill. The producer:
The producer cuts comparatively small
figure, as the people of California have
reason to know, when the interests of the
eastern importers are thrown into the
balance.
The pending tariff bill is a fraud and
delusion, a burnt offering to Moloch.
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gained by such action. In 1895 the com
merce of the islands was about 5000.
600 in exporte and about half that in i'm
ports We took very nearly all of the
one and sent there very nearly all of
the other. Their exports cor sst almost
entirely of sugar-something we would
better produce at home. The imports
while small in volume are wide in range,
including nearly all kinds of products,
both of our farms and factories. But
what does it all amount to?
To annex the islands means the ad-
mission to citizenship of class of peo-
pie we do not want The Japs and Kan
akas, who form the great majority of
the people of the islands, are uon-assim-
ilative and unfit for the privileges of
American citizenship.
If the islands are annexed it should be
as territory whose government would
be directly under the control Of congress
and the president. In his way the OBJ
jectionable people would have no rep
resentation. except a nominal one in
congress.
Annexed to the United States in any
shape, these Islands must prove vexa-
are so remote from the coas. and so iso-
lated; the people are 90 unfit for self
government, and SO unaccustomed to
our method Of ruling AS we'll as mex
in To- ho
strong contingent of soldiers and small
fleet will have to be maintained there
constantly. The handful of Americans
in the islands would be very ineignifi-
lation, and while the subjects of Great
Britain, as rule, would be strongly on
the side of law and order, it is not likely
that they would become citizens of the
United States or go far out of their way
to uphold our flag.
There is, in fact, only one good reason
why the United States should take in
these islands as an integral part of the
country. That is, if such step should
be necessary to prevent come other power
from acquiring the possession of them.
Japan or England would no doubt be
glad to secure them for strategic pur-
poses, as we'll as for their advantage
in transpacfic trade. In the hands of
either of these powers, the islands would
be serious annoyance to US in peace
and more so in war.
So long as the little island republic
can be maintained on the present statue.
that is far better condition for US than
to have it made part Of our own ter
ritory.
At this time there is no apparent rea-
son, so far as we are aware, for dis
turbing the existing status. We should
say it is a case where the administra-
ton should make haste slowly.
As to the talk about annexing the
islands az a county of California, that
is simply tommy-rot.
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WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY

Dontcher talk ter me about yer wuhkin'
an a-toiin'
When de year gifts roun' to'ds May
Eff yoh'll use yoh minis
Yoh kin see de signs
Dat it wasn't meant dat way.
Isn't use oh perspirin' an broilin'
An tryin' ter make tings pay;
Hit KANT make any diff unce what yoh
does or doesn' do
Case it's all a gwinter happen 'thout no
reference ter you.
You doesn' halter plow ter git crop O.
sweet ahbutus
Nor ter raise dem vi'let flowers;
Dey jes' comes long
wifi de shine an song
Fob ter brighten up de hours.
You needn't tote no watah foh ter bring q
shower ter suit us
An coax back dem eafy bowers,
So / waits an let's de res'fulness come
creepn' ovuh me
An I doesn' ack important ovuh whut's
a-gwinter be.
Washington Evening Star.
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Los Angeles. June Is. 1897.
A Distinction and Difference

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her
ald-In Los Angeles evening paper I
find the following head lines: THE Cru
sade on in Good Earnest-Another Chin
ese Lottery Raided." This crusade Is evil
IDENTIFY favored by that paper, but on the
same page find the following: There
is joy in the household of M. F. Quinn, at
No. 126 North Burlington avenue. He
drew the winning number, 3168, for the
elegant rosewood piano, ETC." Now, what
your ignorant country readers want to
know is. whether Mr.. Quinn is China
man or not? If so, why can he buy lot
terry tickets with impunity, and If he Is
not Chinaman, why can he do what
ChiEaman may not do? In other words,
can park fund committee carry on
lottery while poor Chinese devils can
not? If so, why? Will The Herald an
swer? Very truly,
W. r. GOODWIN.
Ria1to, Cal, June H. 1897.
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Putting Themselves in Peril

All along the line of American indus
tries are plants standing idle, buildings
dilapidated, machinery rusted out and
becoming worthless. because truet has
entered the field and stopped the works
All along the line, and, indeed, they
are many, are men out of employment or
thrown off into other industries, because
some great trust has driven them out in
its heartless tyranny and cruel avarice
an it be that these creators of trusts
cannot see that they are sowing the wind
to reap a whirlwind? Can it be that
they do not know that there will come
day of reckoning ?-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The herald., 1897-06-16
Nearing a Crisis in Germany

Before the Emperor William can turn
the hands of the clock of the centuries
to suit himself he must smash all the
printing presses, close all the universi-
ties, colleges and schools and put pro-
hibitive tariffs not only on knowledge
but Also upon commerce itself For in
every hold and in every freight car there
are the hardy seeds Of nineteenth century
democracy. Clearly the time is at hand
when the emperor must either stop the
German people from thinking or begin
to think himself.-New York World.
The herald., 1897-06-16
CALIFORNIA OPINION
The Canaigre Industry

The canaigre industry which appears
to be now firmly established in the vicin-
ity of Rialto, is proving of very great ad-
5000 acres have been planted thus far to
canaigre, and the acreage is to be greatly
increased. The company which has the
work in hand is paying out $25,O00 per
month, ard the money goes directly into
circulation and helps to make good timse
in that county. What Is being done with
canaigre at Rialto could be done here in
San Diego county, where the plant grows
wild. and would yield enormously under
cultivation.
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FOLLOW DAVY CROCKETT,S
MAXIM

The administration seems to have
pretty nearly reached conclusion TO
annex the Hawaiian Ielands to the Unit
ed states in some shape If there ever
was time to apply Davy Crockett's
maxim, BE sure you are right and then
go ahead" this is such time. The step
Is a grave one. There are dozen good
reasons why these islands should not be
made part of the United States, and
there is absolutely only one reason for
doing it. That is negative one.
In the first place there is nothing to be
The herald., 1897-06-16
ELECTIONS OF 1897

| In November next Ohio will hold an
election for full state ticket and mem
bers Of the legislature. 1t attracts more
attention than any other which will
take place this year, because it Is Pres
ident McKinley's state, and the baili-
wick of Mark Hanna. The result there
will have an important influence upon
public sentiment in regard to the ad-
ministration. If the Republicans fail
to carry the state it will be a serious
blow to Mckinley, but if they succeed
by reasonable majority it will be an
evidence that the country can be relied
on to give him support.
Republican success is vitality impor-
tant to Hanna, as he is striving to sue
ceed himself as senator, and being chair
man of the national Republican commit
tee victory in Ohio for his side will be
an Endorsement of his campaign las;
year and an augury of success in 1900.
However important the election il
Ohio may be regarded, there is another
to be held next November, the result
of which will have as great or greater
influence upon the destinies of parties.
1t is an election for the first time un-
der the charter of Greater New York. &"
The enlarged city contains more popu
lation than any of the states, with four
exceptions, and the new government
will control patronage to the extent OF
$4,000 offices of all grades, and will dis
burse annually $75,000,O00. Whichever
party gains control of the city will likely
be able TO carry the state, and the electo-
raj vote of New York is an immense
factor in the electoral college. The cleo
ton in Ohio will be hotly contested, but
that in New York city will be more So
The interests of Mckinley and Hanna
are involved in the Ohio contest, bu..n
New York, where bossism and machine
politics have their rankest growths, th=
struggle will be between powerful bosses
and machines, and money on both sides
will be lavishly expended.
The enlarged city contains 81 square
miles, and voting population of nearly
100000. The country embraced in the
new city in 1892 gave Cleveland a ma jor-
ity of 1920, and the majority for Nc
Kinley in 1896 was 81 ,S06 Formerly what
now constitutes Greater New York had
an average majority of about $4,000 for
the Demo mocrats.
! The contest promises to be three
sided. The leaders are John c. Sheehan
on the Democratic side Thomas C. Platt
on the Republican, and Robert Fultor
Cutting for the Citizens union.
The party of which Cutting is the ac-
knowledged leader is composed of men
Of wealth, Democrats anl Republicans.
and as it is a new organization, its vo.- =
ing strength cannot now be estimated
Platt is endeavoring to scare the organ
ization into disruption by saying that
its continued existence will not only I'M
peril Republican success, but also
threaten the maintenance of the gold
standard. Tammany last year support
ed Bryan, and he points to that fact as
an evidence that the gold standard is
threatened in the very shadow of Wall
| street.
Boss Platt and Tammany both see
the strength that will be given to the
prevailing party through the control of
vast patronage and the disbursement
of an immense sum Of money. The twain
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Marrying for Foreign Titles

Nobody misunderstands the marriage
of American heiresses with impecunious
titles abroad. 1t is the most conspicuous
and offensive outgrowth of American
vulgarity, and in an overwhelming ma
jority of the cases the women who have
thus made commerce of the holiest re-
lation of life have suffered the humlia-
tion and disgrace they deserve. There are
exceptions to the rule, but the exceptions
are no more than are needed to prove the
Times.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE I6, 1897
THE PRESIDENTS MISAPPRE.
HENSION

We are informed that the friends OF
San Pedro will not make any new move
Immediately towards forcing the posi-
tion Of the reluctant secretary of war
to do his duty, as outlined by an act of
congress positive in its terme and plain
in its intent. The further information is
given the public that the president, espe-
cially. is not to be pressed very hard or,
indeed at all, until he shall have had
ample time to study out the question and
form an intelligent opinion. In this con-
nection we are repeatedly told that the
president is particularly in need Of en-
lghtenment on the subject. 1t is al
legged by his best friends that Mr. Nc
Kinley is laboring under serious msap-
preheneions in the case, and that he has
been grossly misinformed as to the facts
and the true merits of the question.
Now we must say this is rather hard
to comprehend. Where did the presi-
dent get this misapprehension? Who
has misinformed him? This is not a
matter Of any very abstruse bearings.
IT. requires no particularly esoteric
knowledge to get at the merits of the
case. There are no technical compii-
cations in the question. The points of
law are not many nor the facts conflict
ing.
We have heard great deal of lauda-
tions about this "self-poised" president.
Mr.. Mckinley has been held up to US
as gentleman of peculiarly keen per-
ception and deep penetration. His re-
markable acumen in matters relating to
business and to statecraft have often
been dwelt upon. His friends would
have us consider him a person of such
splendid parts and rare attainments
that the most profound matters of gov
ernment are plain and commonplace
when brought under the range of his
mental powers.
Now, what is this harbor matter, after
all? The very people who plead that
Mr.. Mckinley should have 50
much time granted him to probe
the depths of it's soundings and
map out the sunken rocks which
endGnger navigations along ite courses
have been rather severe on Mr..
McKinley's secretary of war because ne
did not find it all plain sailing. The law
is so clear and the instructions of con-
gress so simple that when Gen. Alger's
delay is the topic under discussion it is
insisted that the man who reads the law
may ride on an express train and not
miss a word
But when Mr. McKinley's inaction is
mentioned then we are asked to get him
strong magnifying lenses, let him sit
down leisurely to scan the sylables and
study out the intent of the law.
For ourselves we belive the theory by
which Mr.. Alger is judged to be the cor
rect one, and that not only Mr.. McKin-
ley, with hie native brilliancy of intel
lect, but even the dull man from Michi-
gan, who mistook a camp sutler. or some
such parsonage, for an army surgeon
when he wanted to get to the rear in q
rather sharp battle, cannot err as to the
purport of that act of congress-not ur-
less he wants to make the same sort Of Il
mistake now that he made one the field
of battle.
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David B. Hin calls Bryan a crank and

David B. Hill calls Bryan crank and
demagogue. In all ages every man who
has taken the lead in favor of progress
and reform has been called by worse
names than crank. Whoever has at
tackled existing wrongs has been de-
nominated revolutionist, anarchist, trail
tor or villain. Epithet is the first
weapon taken UP against him who
would meliorate the condition of the
many. Hill has not forgotten the trounc-
ing he received at the hands of Bryan in
the late Chicago convention. If some
one should call Hill demagogue and
political rascal, who would resent it?
The herald., 1897-06-16
Patience Must Be Near an End

We do not believe the intelligent peo-
pie of this country will long remain con-
tent with a system of taxation made not
or the primary purpose of putting money
into the treasury for the common uses of
the country, but for the purpose of taking
money from some of the people and put
ting it into the purses of other people.
These will never, we believe, be content
with any such system of privilege and
advantage as high protection creates.-
Indianapolis News.
The herald., 1897-06-16
The Pure Food Agitation

This pure food agitation will result in
good for all concerned, and will give a
better market for the good fruit. There
is no occasion to market inferior or bad
fruit in this state.-Fresno Expositor.
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Will Consult No Other Nation

An eastern telegram now quotes Mr..
Bryan as denying the report that he in
tends to make trip around the world,
or even go to Europe. He will stay in this
country and talk silver to Americans
without consulting any other nation
San Diego Sun.
The herald., 1897-06-16

There is trouble brewing in China
town which will not be mitigated by q
councilman's resolution to remove the
settlement. The lottery managers have
combined, under the auspices of the
Ching Hing tong. to fight the cases in
and out of the courts and have been
called upon to contribute cash for the
purpose. In addition to this excitement,
the See Yups and the Sam Yups are al
their old games
The herald., 1897-06-16

The Louisville Courier-Journal prints
an editorial on the alleged arrogance
which the office seeker manifests toward
the voter. Recent developments lead to
the suspicion that Editor Watterson had
Mr.. Cleveland in mind.
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iomatic representatives are therefore in

As the Republican party by It's plat
form and its precedents is pledged to
bimetallism, the so-called "Silver Re-
publican" party is as much contradic-
tion of terms as a white blackbird.-
San Francisco Call
What rot! Everybody knows tha'
the Republican party represented BY
the Mckinley administration has moi
the remotest idea of departing in the
slightest degree from the present single
gold standard. On the contrary, the
silver Republicans are sincerelyin favor
of bimetallism and the free coinage OF
silver, and are doing all in their power
to bring the double standard into opera
ton.
The herald., 1897-06-16

Henry Watterson has once again read
the adherents to free silver out of the
Democratic party" How can anyone
who is not himself in read anyone else
out. Adherence to the doctrine of free
silver is the cardinal principle of the
Democratic party of today.
The herald., 1897-06-16

AS the president has returned from
his southern outing, and Calhoun has
returned from Cuba and made his re-
port. may we not expect to hear some-
thing drop in the Cuban matter? AnXi-
ETY. has been kept on tiptoe for SOM,
time. Let us have relief from suspense
The herald., 1897-06-16

If Spain is too particular over the selec-
ton Of an American ambassador to Mad
rid, it may be we'll to remind that country
that Weyler and his methods are per-
soma non grata to the United States, and
to humanity in general.
The herald., 1897-06-16

The duty proposed on refined sugar
goes beyond the principle of making up
the difference in the cost of refining in
this and in foreign countries. The reve-
nue. feature CT the duty is in putting
revenue in the pocket of the sugar trust.
The herald., 1897-06-16
How to Tell

The cleanliness Of the outside of the
platter may not indicate the condition
of the inside, but you can consider it
very safe conclusion to arrive at that
when you pass by mans home and find
the door yard and grounds are tidy and
beautiful that inside there is a delight
fully cosy home as well.-Riverside
Globe
The herald., 1897-06-16
Makes Them Talk

No one is quicker to notice the extra
advantages Of Visalia and its surround
ing country than the observant traveller
who drops among US for the first time
Visalia Times.
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The president might have evinced hi!

The president might have evinced his
economical disposition by keeping
Whitelaw Reid at home, and by LETTING
our ambassador in London. General
Miles of the army, and an admiral of the
navy represent this country at the jubi<
lee They ought to be sufficient to sat-
isfy her majesty. Whitelaw Reid does
not represent anything in particular,
or in general.
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THE PUBLIC PULSE

| (The Herald under this heading prints
communications. but does not assume re-
sponsibility for the sentiments expressed.
CORRESPONDENTS are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as Is consistent with the
proper expression of their yiews.)
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