Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-10
by the railways to regulate ana con-
troll the people.
Under sInoIe Tariff

by the railways to regulate and coll
troll the people.
Under Single Tariff
The result of this is that the inter-
state commerce acts provide for and
authorize the formation of tariffs by
competing and parallel lines OF rail-
road and the supreme court of the
United states SO decided in the
Orange cases. Under these laws 20O,-
600 miles Of railroad. comprising nearly
all OF the mileage Of the country, Is
united under single tariff OF rates.
called the "transcontinental tariff"
which fixes the rates and controls and
regulates commerce for freight of
every description between the Atlantic
and Pacific, Canada and Mexico, of
an interstate character
The Central Pacific Southern Pa
ci1c, Santa Fe and Salt Lake railroads
as well as other parallel, competing
lines, have joined together In this tar
if and fixed the rates between Call
fornia and eastern points.
The average rate paid on this in
terstate traffic is something over s26
ton and the volume Of freight which
might move by water between At
lantic and other eastern water points
and the Pacific coast, exceeds 100000
tons per year I'm California alone,
which freight IL IL took the water
J route. or II Il moved by rail and took
cost of not more than Sc a ton.
But this freight does not move by
water, and It does not take the water
rate by rail, because as a part of the
gigantic monopoly of commerce. the
railroads have secured control of the
water ports, and have secured, in the
name of various corporations and in
dividuals under Its control, franchises
embracing the water front around all
the principal harbors and places where
ships can load.
Steamers Cannot Compete
There is no public wharf upon the
southern coast where ships can land
carrying freight in competition with
| the railroad combine
These conditions are brought about
and effectuated by manipulation OF
the laws and by corrupt pra ctices.
| In most parts of the state the con-
troll of franchises and water front has
been turned over to the local town
trolled by state board, or some state
authority.
Los Angeles, with Its vast trade
coast as effectually as If there were
an impossible mountain range be-
| tween 1t and the coast although the
water front is only fourteen miles from
the city.
The Southern Pacific, through its
manipulation of the laws, has estab-
lished four zones of control, all of
which must be harmonzed and which
must act In unison to secure the move
ment Of commerce between the coast
and city of Los Angeles.
First, the outer harbor is in the coma
troll of the government, but 1t is only open
to the sea for free commerce and not
upon the land side. The second zone
is that Of the local corporation of the
town of San Pedro, which controls the
sale or gift of water front franchises
in that city or town.
Water Front Held illegally
The third zone is dominated by the
county of Los Angeles through its
board of supervisors, and the fourth
zone is the city of Los Angeles itself,
dominated by it's council. In order to
secure the movement of commerce
there must not only be wharves where
ships can load, but connecting rail-
roads to the commercial and manufac-
| turing centerS, and these railroads or
public highways cannot be constructed
| across either of these zones without
| the consent and by the authority of the
| municipality through which the line
passes.
BY the control of either of these zones
| or lines of entrenchment the Southern
/ Pacific can continue to maintain Its
present monopoly, and the people will
be compelled to pay the present prices
| for transporta tion.
Nearly all of the water front Is IL
legally held by the Southern Pacific or
| it's controlled interests, but under the
| laws of this state no Individual, city or
| county, can question the claims except
| ing through the attorney general of 5
the state. That officer alone has the
power to bring suits In quo warranto
| and the Democratic candidate for at
torney general. Mr.. Morton, has taken
a pledge before the people of this state
that he will annul every Illegal fran
| chise and seizure In this state, If
| elected attorney general.
Explains Dividend
The illegal exactions of the railroad
combine, by it's pool of rates by rail-
road by it's control and suppression Of
water competition, despoil the people
every year of the difference between Sc
ton and $26 ton upon more than
2, 000,0 900 tons of freight, which amounts
to the enormous sum Of over 10000. 900
a year, and this explains how 1t is that
the earnings of the Southern Pacific
and Santa F'e railroads have increased
in the last few years from $1,000 net per
mile of railroad to nearly $4,000 net per
mile of railroad and how 1T is that
these railroads are paying dividends
upon capitalization of more than
six times the actual cost Of these roads.
The people of California may we'll
judge how absolutely the railway in
tereStS c0ntrOl Ine aIalrS OF Lne Onlteu
States of congress, and through the
coercion of the senate, of the adminis-
trative appointments If they will Judge
by what has been done in California.
A year ago the railroad bosses con-
cieved the idea of making an attorney
for the Southern Pacific company
United States attorney for the Northern
district of California knowing that that
officer had the power to enforce all of
the laws of the United States in the dis
trict. and they selected for that high
office Mr.. Develin, and he was there
upon appointed and confirmed. The
railroad bosses then looked about and
saw that a brilliant young man, en-
pleyed as an attorney for the Salt Lake
railroad, one of the Hartman lines
was availa BILE for appointment to an
other high office. Thereupon Mr.. Law
Ter was appointed and confirmed as
United States attorney for the South
ern district of California. Both of
these able government attorneys will
vigorously enforce the laws against
selling liquor to Indians.
Flint Railroad Atfornev