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The herald., 1897-12-31

and which is seeking to enact q financial
policy to the liking of the bankers.
Eliminate the element Of extraordi-
nary crops at home and the failure Of
crops abroad, coincidence that may
not to the same extent occur again In a
decade, and the net result would be a
repetition of the record of 1896. rec
ord of unrequited labor in all branches
of productive industry. stagnation in
building, depression in trade and falling
prices.
This is scarcely what was promised by
the prophets of tariff and currency re-
form. Their much vaunted customs
law was speedily to yield sufficient reve-
nues for ali of the operations Of the
government, relieving all doubt upon
that score, and completely restoring
confidence; but even in this primary
object has the new act utterly failed.
Compared with the much abused Wilson
law, it has produced. from August to
date, seven millions less of revenue, to-
wit: Wilson law, $11S,943,0 900: Dingley
law, Sill, $3.50, 900. Promises are renewed
each week of better results. but the
trust-made law stubbornly refuses to
fill the gap in the revenues. Thus for
the first nineteen days in December is
this exhibit made: Wilson law, $17,-
S92, 900; Dingley law, s17, ,4S4,000.
On the other hand, the expenditures of
the government for the fiscal year 1897,
compared with the same period last
year, show an excess of s10,O00,OOO. with
no likelihood of a material decrease
through the looping off of items from
appropriation bills by congress, to meet
the curtailed revenue. The deficit in
revenues on August l. 1896, was $13618,-
900, against s11, ,430, 900 on August l. 1897.
The administration is being driven to
extremities to decrease the shortage, and
has realized abnormal receipts from
internal revenue taxation by liberally
constituting the law as to the whisky tax.
Thus has something like seven million
dollars increase been secured by per-
hitting whisky to be bottled in bond,
stimulus to the traffic that can only
have transitory results Some manip-
ulation Of figures has also been resorted
to- in order that the real deficit may not
be disclosed. Thus has Secretary Gage
carried to the credit Of miscellaneous
cash the proceeds of the sale of the
Union Pacific railroad, aggregating $685.
942,0 ,052, instead Of to the sinking fund
for the redemption of the bonds of the
road maturing January /. This will re-
quire an outlay Of $29,904,593 Cash is
thus enormously debited with thirty-slX
millions, while the payment upon the
bonds will not be included In the ex-
penditures for January.
This sort of jugglery may answer the
present purposes of the administration,
but there will be no lasting comfort in
it. Congress cannot be deceived, and the
indications now are that before the pres
ent session ends the president will be
compelled to admit the failure of his
revenue measures, and ask for such re-
vision as will bring the receipts some
where near the expenditures.
The herald., 1897-12-31
FINANCIAL FAIRY TALES

Secretary Cages proposed bill for a
gold standard is entirely consistent with
his record on the money question. He
has always been a gold standard man.
His whole life has been devoted to fos-
tering banking institutions, and he has
studied the money question from a
bankers standpoint. In the last cam
paign he repeatedly declared from the
platform and elsewhere that the only
safe currency was the single gold stand
ard. President Mckinley was well aware
of his record at the time he appointed Mr..
Gage secretary of the treasury. And
there can be no doubt that his appoint
ment was demanded by the bankers.
1t may be little difficult for our Re-
publican brethren to reconcile this pro-
posed gold plan with Republican plat
form and promises. 1t must be extremely
embarrassing to the western brethren
The herald., 1897-12-31
Not Yet Time to Laugh

William may speak in an ultra-theatric
tone and the imperial admiral now on his
way to China may have rehearsed his
lines in advance. but William is no mimic
king with a crown from the property
room and tinsel scepter. nor is the prince
of Prussia a mere missionary admiral
The one has at his back the most powerful
military organization in the world; the
other will command fleet OF
ample strength to deal with the most war
like issues that may arise in the troubled
east. When the far-reaching plans of the
kaiser have been fully developed 1t will be
time to laugh at and deride them.-Phila-
delphia Times
The herald., 1897-12-31
CARING FOR THE STREETS

The annual report of Street Superin-
in it's recommendations regarding the
care of the streets. The condition of the
streets, in both the paved and unpaved
districts has been very unsatisfactory
for long time, and there seems little
prospect of substantial improvement so
long as the present system is maintained.
Mr.. Drain contends that the street
sprinkling, street sweeping and all work
done on the thoroughfares belong to the
street department, and should. therefore,
come under the supervision Of the street
superintendent. In this way the exist
ing division Of responsibility would be
avoided, and the inference is of course
that better results would be obtained.
Hand sweeping in the leading busi-
ness streets is another recommendation
that the business men in particular and
the public generally have already hear
tily supported. The question has been
thoroughly ventilated of late, and would
have undoubtedly been carried into ef-
feet had not the matter of increased ex-
pense cut such figure as to render the
adoption of the plan impossible. The
city spends $4,000 for street cleaning,
and if Mr.. Drain can provide plan
whereby efficient service can be obtained
without increased expenditure he will be
voted a genuine public benefactor.
The superintendent recommends a pre-
caution that The Herald has frequently
urged, when he protests against the
tearing up of the paved streets by per-
sons and corporations which fail to re-
store them to their previous condition.
This form of neglect is largely respon-
sible for the present miserable condi-
tion Of the paved streets, and it is an evil
that may easily be avoided. Everybody
who tears up the street should be re-
quired to take out permit and to put
the street in as good condition as it was
before.
Los Angeles has grown very rapidly,
and it has been impossible for public
improvements and regulations to keep
pace with the city's increase. The time
has come, however, when our affairs
must be conducted upon business and
metropolitan basis if the requirements
of modern city are to be fulfilled.
The herald., 1897-12-31
Duarte. Cal, Dec. SOth.
Single Tax Straws

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald ::
To show how the single tax idea is grow
ing throughout the world, Notwithstanding
the assertions Of some protection news
papers to the contrary, l wish to give your
readers some news lately received from
England. At a Meeting of the Land Ma
tionalization society of London it was
Resolved. That steps should be taken to
secure for public purposes the whole Of
the unearned betterment in site values.
And also at a meeting OF the London
county council recommendation advo-
eating a direct charge upon owners of site
values was approved by vote of 55 to Al.
The politician of any party who thinks
that the single tax will not soon be the
great issue in this country wil1 discover
soon that he has been badly mistaken.
J. r. P.
App
The herald., 1897-12-31
NOTES OF THE DAY

The British postofflce makes $4,000 year
by unclaimed money orders.
OF the 1.o0.C10 inhabitants Of New York
only 10000 are Of American birth.
There Is only one sudden death among
women to eight among men.
The growth of girls Is greatest in their
fifteenth year. OF boys In their seventeenth.
1t is reported that the Kafiirs have been
taught by the Chinese to boone opium
eaters.
The savings banks Of the Dominion have
on deposit $49.CC1,oO0 OF the money Of the
people of Canada.
man who wanted to borrow s. and give
his note for a year was one of the appli-
cants at Rockland. Nc, bank.
British capital is pouring into British
Columbia. 1t Is estimated that G5000.NO
will be taken there by syndicates.
Circuit court judges in Indiana have de-
cided that divorce DEGREES shall not be
valid until the court costs have been paid.
A Georgia paper offers a years subscrip-
ton for every adult 'possum. and two
years subscription for full-grown male
possum.
A quarantine of three months has been
established in Montana against sheep from
other states on account of an outbreak Of
scab. ~
"A new Helu OF employment lot ener&0tlC
girls has just been opened. One OF the
leading English golf clubs has engaged
girl caddies.
Colorado expects to receive not less than
$6. CEA000 from the states big fruit crop
this year, the greatest which the Centen-
NAL state has ever known.
New York is about TO have a health ex-
hibtion, or sanitary symposium, Of which
Charles f. Wingate, the sanitary expert,
is to be the practical manager.
An ordinance in Cleveland permits .
urday to keep his billiard room open on.
Sunday, but fines gentiles who may play
billiards therein.
1t is interesting to note that the capital
value of the British navy at the present
ime exceeds $47CGcc0co. The first cost Of
the feet which led to the downfall Of Ma
poleon was but $5oC0An1a
In thicket in the upper Harz mountain
a granite monument has been found with
this inscription: Here in the year l747 the
first trials were made with the cultivation
of the potato"
A tunnel ten miles long which will be
Shap Fells by the London and Northwest
ern railroad In order to shorten the west
coas. route to Scotland.
Thelesbharn A. Charest. a A-year-old
giant of 6 feet inches, who reached Balti-
more as a stowaway on the steamer Tri-
tonia from Glasgow, Gays he lost 1Do pounds
in weight in the pas:age. having embarked
with porporeal burden of $50 pounds.
The herald., 1897-12-31
A Woman's Newspaper in Paris

The new paper, La Fronde, is produced
entirely by women. from the editor down
to the printers devil. The first number
had considerable success de curiosite. 1;
contained four long articles the first OF
which dealt with woman's rights in no very
original fashion. Racing and similar top
les were treated under rubric in English,
Sporting Notes" The tyrant man has
made his appearance. Consultations on the
Dreyfus case were given by Zola and 9TH
ers. However, 1t was a woman who got
the interviews. 1t appears that the women
compositors were willing to work on the
Fronde for 81 day. but told the managing
editress they must have mans wages
Paris letter to the New York Herald.
The herald., 1897-12-31
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Mrs. Cleveland is said to be strict dis
cipinarian with her children and firm
believer in the Froebel system Of educa-
ton.
Senator Mcmillan of Michigan posse.ses
one of the finest collections Of paintings
in this country. He Is a great adInirer OF
American art.
Mrs Emma Eames Storey, the well
known American singer, has abandoned
her proposed German tour. and Will spend
the winter In Paris.
Gage will make addresses at the opening
of the Winona Presbyterian assembly at
Warsaw, Ind, next June.
DR., Walter Freeman, who was the first
man to locate under the homestead act, "
Is still living on the spot of ground he
claimed in Gage county. Neb., at that
time.
Postmaster Thomas of Boston is one Of
the few really practical indorsers of equal
ty of the sexes and believes that II a
woman does a mans work she should re-
ceive a mans pay.
Davis H. Waite who. while governor of
Colorado, made himself famous by a single
incendiary speech, has left the state of
which he was once chief magistrate to To-
cate in Decatur county, Iowa.
Nansen, the Arctic explorer, was asked
in Boston what had most impressed him
In his tour of the United States. and re-
piled that he considered Niagara falls
more marvellous than any other feature
of the country.
Miss Columbia Rivera, who has been
licensed as practicing physician and ap-
pointed to the woman's ward of st. An
dre's hospital. in the City of Mexico. is the
first woman in Mexico to be appointed to
such a position
The will of Rev. George Fl. Houghton,
rector of the Little Church Around the
Corner" who died recently. bequeat he'd
his property to his niece, Annc Morse
Houghton. for life, and at her deaot.l to the
Church of the TRANSPORTATION.
Mr.. Sarasate has given to his native
town, Pampeluna. all the Jewels presented
to him by royal and distinguished persons
in the course of his career The articles,
which will be placed in museum. include
a set of pearls given by Queen Victoria.
three rings by William I, and watch in
blue enamel by Napoleon III.
Frederic Mistral, the great Provencal
poet. is about to present to his well-be-
loved country of Provence museum, which
Is intended to illustrate the history, man.
ners and customs OF Provence and Lam
guedoc. This museum is at Aries and is
located in an old convent in the Place st.
Trophime. The opening ceremony will
take place next spring.
Professor Charles Woodruff Shields. who
withdrew from the Presbyterian church
because of the row raised over his signing
a petition for license for the Princeton
inn, occupies the chair of harmony of re-
ligion and science In Princeton university.
He is 72 years old and of aristocratic line
age being the grandson Of Patrick Henry
Shields of Virginia He has broad views
on every subject and is beloved by all who
know him.
The herald., 1897-12-31
Explanation Necessary

Continued and increasing prosperity for
some years to come in iron and steel Is the
confident prediction of Henry w. Oliver,
the reported head of big trust controll-
ing an important branch Of that industry.
1t has not been very long since Mr.. Oliver
and his kind were proclaiming that busi-
ness confidence and prosperity could not
return because of the treasury deficits un-
der the Wilson tariff. 1t was set down as
the sole cause of depression. This being
the case, how does it come about that the
Dingley tariff has promoted prosperity
with greater deficiencies in five months
than under the Wilson tariff in two years !?
--Pittsburg Post.
The herald., 1897-12-31
2s7 West Thirty-third street. city.
The boulevard

To the Editor OF the Los Angeles Herald
Perhaps you may be able to throw some
light on a matter that has mystified some
of your readerA l refer to the total cessa-
ton OF any mention by the Los Angeles
press, including The Herald, Of the Pasa-
dena boulevard
This project was for some weeks sub
ject of warm discussion in your coiumns,
and caused the expenditure of much time
and eloquence to the promoters and ad-
vocates of the several routes proposed.
Has this proposition met the fate of some
other much talked Of improvements. as for
instance the grand tourist hotel. the Salt
Lake railroad, the ore smeker, ETC.. and
has 1t been relegated to innocuous desue-
tude? Any information on the subject
would be gratefully received by
AN INQUIRER.
Duarte, Cal, Dec. S0th.
CThe boulevard matter has been re-
ferred to the city council and the board
of county supervisors, and Is being con-
sidered by them. The matter has not been
abandoned nor have the other projects
mentioned by Inquirer" 1t takes time to
accomplish such enterprises, and although
delays are often long and wearisome, it IS
reasonable to expect that there is "a good
time coming with regard to all Of them.
-Ed.)
The herald., 1897-12-31
In Spite of the Governed

It is an ancient American maxim which
has, perhaps. lost some force by its fire.
quent iteration, that government should
rest upon the consent of the governed.
If this country has firmly stood for any
principle it is for the simple doctrine that
all rule is usurped which the governed
have not imposed upon themselves. In
the case of Hawaii the present government
is usurpation in the American interpre-
tation Of the term, and all its acts, in
cluding the ratification of the annexation
program. are unlawful in the high court
of morals, though the program may be
carried through Ledger.
The herald., 1897-12-31
Senator Tillman thinks that "all tn

Senator Tillman thinks that "all the
power of plutocracy and hell' cannot
beat Bryan in 1900. Nothing short of an
unforeseen blunder of a very serious ma
ture can, in his opinion prevent the sill
yer champions denomination and cleo
ton. Disguised Republicans and re-
pentant Democrats, to the grand aggre-
gate of two millions, will reinforce the
hosts that stood for him before. Sen
ator Harris of Kansas looks for Bryan s
denomination in 1900, in response to the
universal wish of all elements opposed
to Republicanism.
The herald., 1897-12-31

Belief in the defeat Of Hanna is mainly
confined to people who are unfamiliar
with the character of the average Ohio
Republican legislature, and the potency
Of the unit Of value in that state for the
conversion Of sinners.
The herald., 1897-12-31
McKinley's Only Chance

The aristocratic tendency In the Republi-
can party, its sympathy and tolerance for
the practices of monarchy and barbar.c
extravaganza at the expense Of the peo-
pie, are rapidly alternating the people from
it. But for organized bribery and coercion
in the last presidential election. the elec-
ton of Mr.. Mckinley would have been
impossible. His reelection Is out Of the
uuestion-Coumbu Press.
The herald., 1897-12-31

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald
l enclose an article from the Times-Dem-
ocrat which l fancy is fair sample of
the general disgust of Mckinley and his
methods now pretty prevalent throughout
the country. l am a Democrat who be-
lieves in a gold standard. and even went
so far as to vote for Mckinley last year.
but l think I have about got filled up
with Republicanism, and will in future
steer clear from the communicating nflu-
ences Of q hypocritical party, which Is
seeking to trample upon popular rights
and establish the principles of despotic
centralism. c.
December 49, 1897.
The herald., 1897-12-31
He Wants to Know

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald !:
VIII some citizen please inform me what
there is in the position of school director.
to which no salary is attached, to induce
man In moderate circumstances, who
has had the position once and was de-
feated the second time, to run the third
time?
CITIZEN OF THE SEVENTH WARD.
Los Angeles, Dec. 30th.
The herald., 1897-12-31

We should like to feel that the new
year has In store for the American peo-
pie some such substantial boon as the
defeat Of Mark Hanna for the United
States senate. but we confess to de-
cided want Of faith. He cannot be de-
feated by an excess Of cheap tobacco and
vulgarity wasted in the corridors Of the
Mel house.
The herald., 1897-12-31
Reed Looking to the Future

Tom Reed does not propose to be hired
hand for the present administration, par
when he cannot help but be aware
that the policy Of the administration is
in many respects not favored by the ma
jority of the party. and certainly not by the
majority of the people of the United States.
Mr. Reed expects to be In the political busi-
ness long after the present congress and
the present administration have passed
into history.-Peoria Herald.
The herald., 1897-12-31

The Associated Press is to be thanked
for its enterprise in sending out this
morning. among other highly important
bits Of information, the fact that VIM.
X. Vanderbilt has reappeared in society
as the leader of a cotillion party. The
item will be found in our financial col
The herald., 1897-12-31
Acknowledging the Truth

Senator Aldrich has let-the cat out Of the
bag. In a recent discussion of the Ding.
lev bill he said that in future we must loole
less to duties on imports for revenue and
rely more upon an increase of internal rev>.
enue taxes to raise the necessary revnue
for the government. This tears the mask
from the whole Republican scheme Of tax-'
alton and reveals 1t as a system devised
solely for the purpose of bestowing bene.
fits upon one class of the people at the
expense OF another.-St. Louis Republics x
The herald., 1897-12-31

The sale of the Alaska Commercial
company's holdings to London syndi
cate may by some be considered signiti-
cant, in view of the present attitude Of
Great Britain on the sealing question.
The herald., 1897-12-31

The French have taken possession OF
Hal Nan island. Now let hostilities be
suspended until the Spaniards, the
Dutch, the Norwegians, the Portuguese,
chance to take an island or two.
The herald., 1897-12-31
THE SCHOOL BOARDS DESTINY

The city council yesterday elected C. j.
the Seventh ward, to succeed ]. +. Adams
of unsavory memory. The selection is Of
course only temporary. The voters Of
the Seventh ward will hold a special cleo
tion early in February at which men,
Der will be chosen to serve the remainder
of Adams's term. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Kubach will be a candidate at that
election, and he will have whatever pres
tige or the reverse that may rebound to
his brief period of service. The Seventh
ward should send it's best man to the
board of education when the election is
held. 1t cannot afford to repeat the mis-
take of the last election.
Mr. Kubach has the reputation of being
a sound and substantial man of unques-
toned integrity, which advantages he
is not the least likely to depreciate by
allying himself to the Webb forces.
Confidence in the board of education
must be restored before that body can be
of any value to the community, before in
deed, it can be anything but grave blot
on the city's character. The president of
the board, DR.. E. N. Mathis, seems to hold
the key to the situation. If he abstains
from Webb's influence, which he should
realize can be of no material, certainly
of no spiritual value, since the Iron
hand" of the school board boss is des-
tined to palsy, Dr. Mathis may not only
redeem any suspicion of alignment with
the corruptionists, but will have the sat
isfaction of doing right and earning the
gratitude of the people.
The herald., 1897-12-31

The enterprise of the New York Jour-
nal Is hardly up to the limit this week,
else it would have helped us to an inter-
view with the emperor of all the Chinese.
A waiting world wonders what the great
potentate, Just at this juncture. thinks of
The herald., 1897-12-31

The Galveston News strongly urges
river and harbor bill by the present con-
gress in the interest of economy. When
Galveston was suppliant for princely
appropriation, aggregating $6,300,000 for
the Improvement of it's harbor, all west
ern and southwestern influences were
The herald., 1897-12-31

The Gerry Society of New York in
tervened to prevent daughter Of Edison
from doing a parlor dance at charity
entertainment. The Gerry society
should 60 into the hands Of a receiver.
The herald., 1897-12-31
Nothing Left Worth Having

In these halcyon days OF Mckinley pros
perity when the laboring man has to run
the gauntlet of the trust robbers, the foot
pads generally let him go free, because
he is not worth holding up.-Lonisvili. D'a-
patch.
The herald., 1897-12-31
Busy Improving on Nature

With our western inventor making gold
out of antimony and another making hard
coal out Of garbage, sawdust and soft coal,
the work Of improving on the products of
nature seems to be running double turn.
~-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The herald., 1897-12-31

Information of the conviction Of bank
wreckers should be promptly forwarded
to the president. 1t is pretty certain to
operate as a stay of sentence.
The herald., 1897-12-31
Sweet Boon to the Farmer

The agricultural department has issued
an admirable brochure on mushrooms. a
publication which, doubtless will be much
appreciated by the agricultural Masses
Des Moines Leader.
The herald., 1897-12-31

Mr.. Gladstone, at 8S. is pretty vigor-
Gus, but has abandoned his contemplated
trip to the Klondike.