Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-30
IF TAFT WINS
JAPAN WILL TOO
BELL SOUNDS WARNING ON
BRYAN'S BEHALF
TRUSTS WILL REDUCE AMERl-
CANS TO SLAVERY
Judge Shepherd, Back from San Diego
Meeting, Reports Big Audience.
Party to Go North After
Friday Night

Judge w. E. s herd of Ventura
Democratic candidate for congress in
the Eight district, which comprises
Diego-returned to Los Angeles yes
terday, having gone south with Theo-
dore A. Bell.
Judge Shepherd said big audience
listened to the distinguished Califor-
MAN, who spoke to over 1000 persons in
a tent wigwam for nearly two hours.
Il expect to go north with Mr.. Bell
after he speaks in Los Angeles Friday
night" saio Judge Shepherd, "and will
if there is time at each stop in my
district make a few remarks, though
[ have gone over the territory there
pretty well.
Slavery Near
''Mr. Bell impressed on the people at
San Diego that in the event Judge
Taft is elected the trusts will raise the
cost of living so as to reduce the people
to mere slavery.
zone of his utterances was that the
plank of the Chicago platform declar-
ing for tariff reform is a mere delu-
sion, meant to catch the votes of those
who do not believe in high protective
tariff.
Another was that the present pro-
tective tariff does not materially assist
citrus growers to maintain fair profit
for their products. On this subject he
said in art:
I'VE ali know that it is not the
tariff that fixes the price of our
products. 1t is the law of supply and
demand. If there is no demand for a
car of citrus fruits then prices are
bound to fall.
"'Growers here need not be afraid
of the Democratic party. They may
tell you that the party stands for free
trade, which it don't. The platform
proposes a tariff for revenue only.
LIT cost the people one billion dol
lars to run this government last year.
We propose sufficient tariff to raise
that amount.
Despairs at Capitalism
MIR. Bell reviewed at some length
the platforms of both parties on the
tariff issue, and held up to the audi
ence the growth of commercialism and
trusts as an outcome of the protective
policy.
He pictured calamity in the event
that Judge Taft is successful, crying
out in despairing tones that the great
capitalistic power is gradually crushing
out the life of the common people; that
increased cost of living at q greater
Der cent than the increase in wages.
He said that so long as the present
high tariff exists the cost of the neces-
saries of life will continue to increase.
until the masses are reduced TO dire
poverty and want.
That Bread Line
Mr.. Bell spoke of his recent visit
to New York city, and with dramatic
effect he recited the sights of bread
line which he witnessed in one of his
campaign tours of the tenement dis
trict. This he hell up as an example
of what all the people are coming to.
ION the labor question he had little
to say, but toward the end of his
speech he made defense of the charge
by President Roosevelt that the labor
plank In the Democratic platform is
none other than an attempt to stir up
class hatred between the working class
and capital.
His general stand was that voters
who stand for the Roosevelt policies
should not trust their enactment to
Judge Taft for the reason that Judge
Taft is bound hand and foot to the die
tation of the reactionaries of the Re-
publican party, and who in reality are
opposed to everything proposed by the
president as reform.
Bryan and to send from this district a
representative to congress who would
oppose Joe Cannon.
Predicts War with Japan
Sat the wind up of his argument he
stated that he regretted that Captain
Richmond Pearson Hobson could not
be heard.
"He then recited what Hobson has
been preaching ever since the Merrimac
episode-that Japan is preparing to
whip the stuffing out of America, and
that the Pacific coast will be the first
to suffer from such terrible disaster.
HE said the Republican platform
does not propose to restrict Japanese
and Chinese immigration, while that of
the Democrats does. He said the peo-
pie of California are in great danger
and that the only way to avoid it is to
send Bryan to the presidents chair,
and thus the fiery japanese would be
suuelched without effort.
BELL was somewhat hoarse, but his
speech could be heard with ease by
every person in the enclosure"