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The herald., 1897-08-03

imported wood, they will move their
mills to Canada. Paper mills will GO
with the pulp mills The Laurentide
pulp mills at Grand Mere. Quebec, an
American concern in which Gen. Alger
until recently held a controlling inter-
est, is enlarging its capacity and in
tends, II is said, to build paper mill to
manufacture for export to Great Brit
ain.
The lumber barons like Alger make
money anyway. They demand high
tariff on lumber in this country and get
it. They go over into Canada and fin1
no difficulty in conducting profitable
enterprises without any duty at all.
Then, when a Canadian retaliatory ex-
port duty Is placed on their product,
they still find it pays to turn around and
send it to Great Britain. Great is the
lumber baron and manifold are his de-
vices for increasing his store Of shekels
at the expense Of the people.
The herald., 1897-08-03
A BENEFIT TO CANADA

The lumber schedule of the new tariff
law, which is supposed to have been
gotten up with the intention to benefit
the United States and cut off Canada's
trade with this country, is more likely to
injure this country and build up certain
manufacturing interests for Canada.
1t is a prohibitory tariff, and will un-
doubtedly prevent the importation of
Canadian lumber and will embarrass the
province to that extent. But, as The
Herald pointed out the other day,the law
will have the effect of fastening the de-
structior of the American forests. that
are now owned almost wholly by rich
lumber barons like General Alger, and
must cause a corresponding dminution
in the rainfall
On theother hand, Canada has not been
idle. She has placed an export duty OF
$3.50 cord ON pulp wood. which makes
IL prohibitory to the buyers of the United
States. When the American pulp mills
dependent upon Canadian wood find II
no longer profitable to make pulp from,
The herald., 1897-08-03
TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1897.
rs PROSPERITY UPON USp

Americans are hopeful people, a
perity with which the country has gem
orally been blest throughout its career.
Their optimism leads them to expect
that the clouds of adversely will speedily
disappear whenever the sky is overcast t
with them. But for their hope and ex-
pectation they would not bear the de-
preston which has existed for several
years with the good cheer and fortitude
they have displayed
In the late presidential campaign the
managers for the Republican party
clearly comprehended that their best
strategy was to excite hope and expecta-
ton that better times would come i'm
mediately and immensely as a result of
predicted, but promised, in emphatic
and confident language. They asserted
they had panacea for all public ills,
which was opening the mills Of industry.
They said the doors of the mills would
fly open when confidence was restored,
and that its restoration would be instan-
taneous when It became known that the
Republican candidates had been elected.
Since the election every increase of
business in any quarter, however trivial,
has been paraded as proof that prosper
ity has commenced to return. We are
not disposed to cast upon the future a
discouraging look; on the contrary, in
common with the body of the American
eyes to discover the approach of the ad
vance guard of business revival. OF
late there has been a general rise in the
prices of securities, caused by revival
of speculation in Wall street, to promote
which money has been accumulated by
fhe New York banks. There is a
barely appreciable increase in some lines
of trade, because the people have worn
out their old clothes, and must have
something to wear. Ii is undeniable
that buying is confined to what is abso-
lutely necessary, and that the people in
the mass are forced to practice the ut
most economy on account of their deSti-
tuition so far as regards money. Full
some talk will not make business lively;
if it would, The Herald would indulge in
language as fiamboyant as that of any
Of the administration organs. 1t is
cruelty, however. to excite hope and ex-
pectations that cannot be realized. 1t
is the best policy to look facts squarely
In the face, and 10 picture conditions as
they actually exist.
The mills will not be opened unless
there is money with which to do It, and
those who have money will not invest in
productive enterprises without reason
able assurance that there will be buyers
of the products. The effort to open the
mills by enacting protective tariff will
avail little at best, unless supplemented
by the passage of law for opening the
mints- In the late campaign class
was favorable to opening the mills
merely; another only advocated the
The herald., 1897-08-03

opening Of the mints, and still another
and large class believed that to bring
prosperity surely both mints and mills
should be opened. The first step is to
provide the means to do with before en-
terprises are undertaken. It must be
apparent to intelligent minds that there
cannot be much industrial development
until the money volume is enlarged. Not
only is the money volume too small, but
it is concentrated in few hands-in the
hands of those who cannot be induced to
invest otherwise than in good paying
stocks and bonds or in bonds upon gilt
edged securities.
Trusts and monopolies, to a grievous
extent, have brought adversely upon the
masses. The worst of all monopolies is
that which is imposed through control Of
the money of the country. After the
enactment Of a tariff law distinguished
for the fostering care it bestows upon
trusts. the proposition is to adopt a
money system that will confer upon cor
porations the sole power to regulate the
volume of the circulating medium. No
more effective plan can be devised for
continuing and aggravating the evils
from which the country is suffering than
the one proposed by the secretary of the
treasury.
Though the administration Is to re-
main in power for nearly four years,
there is not any evidence that confidence
has been restored. There is certainly
not that degree of confidence which in
duces capitalists to put their money into
industrial enterprises; they hold on to
their ducats with a Shylockian grip.
Conficenc is not only plant of slow
growth, but it must have sensible and
solid basis on which to rest. That
basis will not be formed SO long as there
is insufficency Of quantity of primary or
redemption money, and inadequacy of
basic money will continue as long as the
single gold standard IS adhered to.
If it is contemplated by the secretary's
plan to create volume of paper money
sufficient to supply the wants of busi-
ness, a structure will be erected that will
be top-heavy, and it will be toppled by
every gust of wind, because the base will
be too narrow to sustain it. Such
structure would destroy what little con-
fidence remains in the country, and the
result must inevitably be repetition of
the catastrophies of 1887 and 1857
All want prosperity, and the people
would be happy if they were made to see
that it has made it's appearance, and is
coming to stay
The herald., 1897-08-03
ADVICE TO KLONDYKERS

AS there are quite number of people
in Southern California who are prepar-
ing to go to Klondyke, word as to how
to prepare for the trip may not be out of
the way.
Clothing should be selected so as to
get the greatest amount of warmth with
the least amount of weight. Russians
find felt cloth the best of all. 1t is very
thick, and keeps in the heat of the body,
while at the same time it is light. This
is an advantage as regards what is worn
and what is taken for future use. Thin
silk underwear, with thick, loosely
woven wooden underwear over it, is very
good. Fur gloves and fur collar with
warm cap having large ear laps to
tie under the chin will be found com.
Portable.
Food supplies should be. selected with
the same end in view, to get the most
nutriment for the least weight. AL
though one may never have eaten fat
meat in such a climate as California pro-
vides, the taste will grow for fats in the
Arctic winters of Alaska. Take a good
supply of fat bacon and hams. Beans
are very nutritious for a given weight
Cheese is among the best sustainers of
human life. Peanuts and walnuts rank
among the best of foods for high lati-
tudes. They contain plenty of oil.
Dessicated onions would be good addi-
ton to make to the above. The streams
are full of fish. They can be taken out
from under ice torpid in winter and
caught in the summer. With a supply
of onions q fish chowder will keep a
man from longing for home To ward
off skin diseases in the winter take a lot
of dried apricots.
In packing goods, special care should
be taken to keep them from the effects
of dampness. Flour should be repack-
ed, placing two sacks of so pounds as
they come from the mill with the cover
ing undis:urbed within large sack,
and that should be carefully lined with
oilcloth, this being covered with a
heavy, strong burlap 10 keep the OIL
cloth from injury The same way of
packing beans and any food liable to
be affected by dampness would be good.
1t will be better to have supplies care
fully packed here in good order to take
over the passes and down the rivers
than to trust to have this done at
Juneau, where it will not be done 80
well, nor at so small expense.
People not used to severe cold. great
snow storms, the dampness which ac-
companies big thaw can hardly an
preciate what lies before them in trip
over great mountains in that latitude.
The herald., 1897-08-03
A Home for Fallen Girls

To the Editor of the Los Angeles
Herald: Thoughtful men and women
who have at heart the peace and pros
perity Of our city, and above all the vir-
tue and purity of its youth, must often
think of the number of unfortunate ones
who are outcast in our midst. From
them even the gladness of nature is shut
out by the shadow of shame thrown over
them, blighting lives once full of prom
ise and bringing untold sorrow and suf-
fering to others. By hand outstretched
in mercy and love, impelled by the spirit
Of him who came to seek and to save the
lost many of these outcasts might be
brought to paths of virtue and led to see
there is yet hope-yet a Father above
who cares for his children.
From those whom wide experience
of years has acquainted with the needs
of Los Angeles comes hearty encourage
ment and sympathy in this arduous un~
dertaking And not only in behalf of
them, but for the sake of the innocent
and pure would we call for refuge that
the standard of virtue and purity may
be raised, a home where the homeless
may find welcome, where safety and
peace and active interest in useful en-
ployment may win them to forget the
past and lead them to look upward, to
accept the cleansing and pardon offered
alike to all
Mother, father, friend, do you feel the
need of this? Do you realize what 1t
means to every home in our fair city,
What it may bring those whose eternal
welfare Is at stake? We appeal to those
whom God has made stewards of his
bounty for liberal donations for the es-
tablishing of this home. We pledge oui
earnest. untiring efforts as simply two
of the least of his servants. to make i
a home indeed to those who shall f1ne
refuge within it's doors; where love shall
win and the spirit Of Christ control--un
sectarian. ndenominay.onal in work ant
management and srAe from politica
hindrances: refuG- established b,
human love and sympathy for these un
fortunate, suffering ones.
Already personal interest has bee,
The herald., 1897-08-03
CALIFORNIA OPINION
Time Will Justify Him

Time will justify Senator Whites vote
He stood squarely by his pledges. He
voted for tariff on luxuries and made
the best fight he could in detail for Cali
fornian products as the bill came ur
schedule by schedule. In the general
loot he did the best that could be done
for his constituents. When it came to
take the bad with the good he found so
much bad that he was compelled to de-
cline the draught. The bill, he knew,
would pass, but he could not find it in his
conscience to vote for it, He did not,
and long before the dissection of the bill
will have been completed he will be con-
graduated on having done so. A more
monstrous piece of legislation was never
perpetrated, and time will show it,
Fresno EXpositor
The herald., 1897-08-03
NERVES AND THE LAW

A very interesting case was recentl.
decided in the English courts by which
the plaintiff recovered damages for 6
practical joke perpetrated by the de.
fendant. The plaintiff went by train t.
see some races. The defendant Just fol
the fun of it, told the plaintiffs wife
that the train returning from the race.
had been wrecked and that her husband
had been badly hurt. The woman was
made seriously i'll by the news; her hail
turned white and her life was for some
time in danger. AS matter Of fact there
had been no wreck and plaintiff had not
been hurt at all.
Counsel for the defendant ridiculed
argued that the words were spoken hu-
morously by way of joke. and were
so understood.
The jury thought otherwise. 1t gave
the plaintiff Is 1O1kd for certain expenses
incurred, and assessed the damages on
the score of illness resulting from the
shock at e1OO. The judge confirmed the
verdict.
That the defendant should have been
turned over to the tender mercies of
the fool killer as well as subjected to
paltry damage most people will readily
argue, but from the point of view of the
law the decision established an impor-
tant precedent. AS an English law
journal expressed it: THE primitive
common law cares little for nerves. 1t
dismissed nervous sufferings contemp-
tuously as sentimental. But one of the
best qualities Of the common law Is
its power of adjusting itself to the So
cial environment. Mr.. Justice
Wright's decision constitutes no doubt,
a new departure; but it is a new de-
parture for which the age is ripe. All
rational beings are now agreed that an
injury to the feelings and to the nerves
is as real an injury as, and often much
worse injury, than one done to the
body"
The nervous system now has a stand
ing in the English courts. The ques-
tion naturally arises, Could damages be
recovered from the owner of dog that
bayed the moon, causing sleeplessness
and nervous prostration to the neigh
bors? Or could the piano fiend and the
cornet demon be hailed to court and COM
PEELED to pay for the shocks they inflict
upon the surrounding inhabitants? The
question is both interesting and i'm
portant.
The herald., 1897-08-03
They Pay Without Grumbling

The best tariff speech ever made was
made by William Pitt, who said: my
Lords and Gentlemen: To levy a direct
tax of per cent is dangerous expert
ment in free country, and may incite
revolt, but there is method by which
you can tax the last rag upon the back
and the last bit from the mouth without
causing a murmur against high taxes,
and that is to tax great many articles
of daily use and necessity so indirectly
that the people will pay them and not
know it; their grumbling then will be of
hard times, but they will not know that
the hard times are caused by taxation" :"
San Luis Obispo Breeze.
The herald., 1897-08-03

A correspondent Of the New York
Evening Post assures the public that it
is still safe for Americans to travel in
Spain, Notwithstanding the blood -thirs-
ty utterances of the statesmen of both
countries. That is not what we are
troubled over. Whenever it is not safe
be time to give the matter considera-
ton. What concerns us most at pres
ent is that Americans are not safe in
Cuba
The herald., 1897-08-03
But It Will Not Stop the Craze

That take off" on the Klondyke sto-
rieS OF the plentifulness of gold in that
pitiless climate, published in MONDAYS
Herald. was especially good. But it
will have no effect on the Grass idiocy
of the thousands who are bent Klon-
dykeward. Only the death of thousa nds
from exposure to killing cold and pinch
ing starvation will do that. Hundreds
will perish this winter, and we only
hope the news will arrive in time to
stop the thousands from going In the
spring who now seem determined to
brave the dangers of that country next
year.-Redlands Citrograpb
The herald., 1897-08-03
Roasting the legislature

The killing of the Clark road law was
a good piece of work, for in the very ma
ture of the measure no good results could
follow in its introduction. 1t is FORUM
ate that the courts were able to find a
way to shelve it. That such bill could
find its way through the legislature in
direct conflc. with another bill govern
ing the same question shows what an in
telligent body of people gather at Sacra-
mento to make our laws.-Bakersfield
Californian
The herald., 1897-08-03
HOLD THEM RESPONSIBLE

1t is now early in August. In three
months the tourist season will begin
when thousands of visitors from all over
the country will come here to spend the
winter, attracted by our unrivaled cli-
mate and other advantages.
The business streets of the city ought
to be put in proper repair before the
tourist season begins, and three months
is short time in which to do the work
properly. Some of the streets are in
very bad shape. Particularly is this
true as regards Spring and Main, two
of the three leading business thorough
fares, and Of Sixth, which is perhaps
the leading west side cross-town street
and on which the travel is very large.
Now these streets ought to be repaired
at once. No valid reason can be given
for allowing them to remain in their
present wretched condition. People who
come here from the leading cities of
the country will be quick to criticise our
bad paving and send out reports not
creditabie to the city. We cannot af-
ford to have this done. Besides the peo-
pie who live here and pay taxes are en-
titled to streets to pass over which do
not endanger their lives.
The city council is responsible for the
shameful condition of things. Hold the
members strictly responsible. They are
not faithful nuhlic cervop+c r,bo- A. -.
stand in the way of such necessary i'm
provement as the repairing of the streets
named.
The herald., 1897-08-03
Greed Will overreach Itself

There is a trite saying, Whom the
gods would destroy they first make
mad" The tru@ts, one and ALL this year
have been mad for more protection, more
privileges, more spoil. They have met
popular antagonism with increased ex-
actions. Their beneficiaries have scoffed
at the law and debauched it's makers.
The greediness of the sugar trust will
prove the greatest of all possible aids to
the overthrow Of trust power when the
Democratic party shall next submit it's
case to the people.-New York Journal.
The herald., 1897-08-03

The great strike of the coal miners
has placed the Hon. Marcus A. Hanna
between the devil and the deep sea-"
favors the strikers the mine owners and
operators will be against him, and if
he opposes them the strikers will be
against him. There can be no doubt
about the side he would take If
he were not candidate for office.
Hanna has made fortune out of the
labor of others.
The herald., 1897-08-03
No Reason Why Not

1t Is exceedingly interesting to take
up the Sunday New York papers and
hear of the business events "the half
holiday Saturday is almost always
referred to after that manner in New
York, because in the latter half of the
day business ceases and workers and
employers alike rest, or give them
selves over to recreation. Is there any
reason why that practice should not pre-
vail in California ?-Sacra amento Record
Union.
The herald., 1897-08-03
Income Tax and Dark Room

Japan has an income tax, and this is
the way they enforce it: If taxpayer
protests that he is rated too high by the
officials he is thrust into a dark room
and told to think over it carefully
Sometimes a man stays there twenty
four hours, buried in darkness and
thought and finally he is apt to agree
with the officials that he is richer than he
had at first supposed.
The herald., 1897-08-03


Acting on a suggestion recently pub
lished in these columns a number of old
residents held meeting at the Herald
counting room yesterday and decided to
form an organization of pioneers. The
limitation on membership will probab bly,
be a residence in Los Angeles county
somewhere between twenty and twenty
five years, not including native sons,
who have an organization of their own.
A committee appointed to formulate a
plan of organization will meet at the
chamber of commerce tomorrow eve
ming. There is not much doubt that
an old settlers club will be formed and
it will call together many congenial
spirits.
The herald., 1897-08-03

AS yet it has not been suggested that
we go to war with great Britain because
the English government has refused to
interfere in the case of Mrs. Maybrick
The radical jingoes are losing an oppor-
tunity.
The herald., 1897-08-03

Paris is poor mans paradise" says
a tourist writer in the New York Evening
Post. But she begins by saying, "See
Paris and die" What is needed is a
paradise where the poor man can live
and be happy.
The herald., 1897-08-03
authentic and graphic accounts of the
Klcndyke.

The council, at its session yesterday,
adopted a suggestion of The Herald
and referred the matter of treating with
the water company for the purchase of
its works to the city attorney. 1t is
we'll to consult ones lawyer first when
one has an important trade on hand,
and legal advice thus secured in ad-
than when it is sought after mistake
has been made. The city fathers are
showing their good sense in moving
with deliberation and caution in this
matter.
The herald., 1897-08-03

The world is not so bad as it might
be. The American Bible society prints
million and half bibles every year.
yet it is complained that the society is
seriously crippled by competition.
The herald., 1897-08-03

Will Senator Jones of Nevada please
ask himself if he really believes that
none of the United States senators
speculated in sugar, and then tell us
what Senator Jones said?
The herald., 1897-08-03

The Kansas City Star suggests that
the Sugar trust might at least make a
decent contribution to the conscience
fund. 1t will have to do it on a bor-
rowed conscience, for it has none of its
own
The herald., 1897-08-03

A contract has been signed that will
give Enid, Oklahoma, theatrical per-
formance at least once month. No
wonder Oklahoma is demanding to be ad-
mitted into the Union.
The herald., 1897-08-03
THE PUBLIC PULSE

(The Herald under this heading prints
communications, but does not assume re-
gponsibility for the sentiments expressed.
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as is consistent with the
proper expression of their views.)
The herald., 1897-08-03

Crazy men who are looking for remit
tances are informed that the express
companies have as yet opened no offices
in the Klondyke region.
The herald., 1897-08-03
Unsafe to Leave Town

Now. when anybody has occasion to
leave Los Angeles the natural inquiry is:
Whose wife did he run off with ?"-San
Jose Mercury
The herald., 1897-08-03

California fruits are leading item in
the New York markets. Time, distance
and prejudice have been overcome by the
California fruit growers
The herald., 1897-08-03

The Herald congratulates itself and its
correspondent in the Klondyke gold
fields brilliant descriptive writer in the
person of Mr.. William J. Jones, wh7
sailed for Alaska on the steamer "Mexi-
co" from Seattle last week. Mr.. Jones
will also represent the New York Herald
and the New York World and his letters
will be looked for with the keenest inter-
est. He has gone not to pan gold. but
solely to place before the readers of the
Sunday Herald and other newspapers
The herald., 1897-08-03
Only Thinking of It

The outlook is thinking of offering a
trip to Klondyke as premium for new
subscribers. We are only thinking of it
as yet.-Santa Monica Outlook.
The herald., 1897-08-03
Bad as a Political Convent

Santa Monica is sending full delega-
ton to the Klondyke.-Santa Monica
outlook
The herald., 1897-08-03

That Dawson City is cosmopolitan
and up to date is shown by the fact that
the inhabitants started saloons and a
cemetery before they built church
The herald., 1897-08-03

Klondyke bids fair to become the
leading American summer and winter
resort. Still, Southern California has
advantages over it,
The herald., 1897-08-03
They Have the Ice

Ice cream will go like hot cakes in the
klondyke region-providing they can
get the cream.-Riverside Globe.
The herald., 1897-08-03

The Seattle Times advises it's Repub-
lican contemporaries to tell the truth.
1t will have to give them something
easier.