Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-16


openly boosted Of his close relations
with Herrin i'm political affairs.
Judge Hart HonorabIy Excepted
In his speeches Bell scores the can.
didates for judicial positions on the
Republican ticket for "grovelng i'm
the mre to get places" but he always
excepts Judge B. G. Hart OF Sacra-
mento. who said at Santa Cruz, as
Bell told his audience last evening:
POLITICS is POLITICS, BUT
HONOR is HONOR"
Bell is unquestlonably making a
good impression wherever he appears.
His earnest, aggressive speeches, which
ring with sincerity and independent
spirit, are of the most convincing
character, and there Is q strong appeal
i'm them to the people of this part of
the state, who of late years have been
engaged in a constant struggle with
the railroads for lower rates, the right
of routing fruit shipments, abolition
OF the refrigerator car monopoly, and
the freedom of the ocean water front.
No open Port in the South
The declaration made by Joseph II.
Call, for eighteen years special counsel
for the federal government in land and
railroad cases In Southern California,
that there is not a single wharf In
Southern California where ship can
land or take on cargo i'm competition
with the Hartman interests, Is a strik-
ing illustration of the complete tie-up
of the Southern water front.
While there are three transcontinen-
tai lines having terminals on the ocean,
they are not i'm reality competitive.
Traffic arrangements bind them all to
the same rates. and the control of the
stock Of these lines-the Southern Pa
cific, Santa F'e and Salt Lake roads
is believed to be in the hands of the
Rockefeller group of capitalists, whose
chief representative is Hartman.
San Pedro In Harrimans Grip
All business men and shippers in
Los Angeles know that San Pedro,
where the Salt Lake and the Southern
Pacific both have terminal facilities,
and the only real harbor for Los An
geles, is absolutely in the grip of the
Southern Pacific And the statement
is freely made, without contradiction,
that no team can get access to the
water front of that harbor without
consent of the railroad interests. IT
is true that certain lumber companies
each own strips of the water front
but they are all under the thumb OF
the railroads, whose control of freight
rates between San Pedro and interior
points enables them to likewise con-
troll the use of the wharves. 1t is said
in transportation circles that Hartman
holds 40 per cent of the stock of the
Salt Lake road, which is more than
enough to give control of its director
ate, with the aid of proxies easily OBJ
tained in Wall street.
From day to day the Bell campaign
as result of Herrin's dictation al
Santa Cruz, broadens into a stronger
and more comprehensive appeal TO the
people of the state to throw off rail-
road rule. And in Southern California
especially is this seen to have strong
claims to consideration. on material
as well as moral and political grounds
The voters here are fast learning that
the benefits they had hoped to derive
from railroad competition have to a
large extent proved illusory and the
water front question is fast becoming
burning issue.
The fact that mule teams are en-
gagged in profitable competitions with
the Southern Pacific, in hauling freight
between Los Angeles and San Pedro,
illustrates the exacting nature of the
railroad tolls of $160 a ton and up
ward for a haul of only eighteen miles
| Between San Pedro AMI Los Angeles
| the rates are much higher, while sc
| complete is the control of the port by
| the railroads that not even mule teams
| can reach the water front, and so COM
! I1ete for h11SineSs