Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-15
CITY OWNERSHIP
OF PORT URGED
MUNICIPALITY CONTROLLED
HARB0R IS FAVORED
SAY CITY MAN SAYS STATE
POWER LEADS TO GRAFT
Because ef Harrlman's Pacific Inter-
csts, Speaker Advises Establish
ment Of Federal Steamship
Line, Seattle to Panama .

"You should strive to have your
harbor municipality owned and con-
troned," said Isidor Jacobs Of san
Francisco to the City club yesterday
you should take prompt action to see
that every steamship line plying up
and down the Pacific ocean gives you
q direct, regular ana compie.e seas.Se, y, ~
You are entitled to this because OF tne
large and increasing volume OF pusa-
ness originating in and coming TO this
section of this state.
Mr.. Jacobs IS the head Of the GOOD
Government league Of San Francisco.
He told the City club emphaticaHy
that Los Angeles and all other naroo.s
IN California should pc Mul1oip s,.,o1, p~I.g
owned and controlled, touching upon
the hrDor situation in connection with
his tonic. "The Necessity for q Cow
arnment Line of Steamers Between
Pacific Coast Ports and Panama
s.Tn regard to harbor and shipping
matters" said Mr.. Jacobs, there IS
little need for me to say that ever
since the Pacific steamship coupsny any
line has been operating between san
Francisco and Panama, the compeu-
ffon has been neutralized. Formerly
fIe Pacific Mail got $4,000 a month
az 5000 600 a year from the transcon-
tfnental lines In order that they snouio
not take their business to the Atlantic.
saThe government today - operating
q line Of steamers on the Atlanlc 90
ing regular commercial business IN
conjunction with the Panama railroad
ifne which is also owned by our gov
es-nn1ent. but the business people OF
California are faced by the peculiar
condition Of having to relieve the sit
uafion by doing business with the
American Hawaiian Steamship COM
pany, IN connection with the MEXICAN
owned line to Tehuantepeo.
Favors Government Line
a,rhese steamers, going and coming,
qre loaded to the guards with rreight
and yet no one has ever known tne
Pacific Mall Steamship company 70
solicit through business by way OF the
Panama road. presumably because the
Hartman interests control the Pacinc
Mail Steamship company. believe
on account of this fact all should
strive to have the government estap~
lish q. line on the Pacific from Seattle
to Panama, touching at ell Facinc
coast ports, and thus complete the
chain from the Pacific to the Atlantic
~ connection with the Panama rail-
road and the Atlantic coast govern
rnent-owned line.
"Certafnly we should take broad
instead Of q sectional view Of this sub
iect. and Los Angeles is entitled to ana
should receive a complete service In
connection with the system.
II believe that the harbors OF CALI
farnia should be municipality owned.
because in San Francisco we have seen
that state control results In a squan-
dering Of q large amount OF money
for state employees on the narDor 1ronI
who are controlled and dominated by
the political Herrin machine and, as
result, to use the language OF Mr.. Dem
nison. one of the present harDor COM
PENSIONERS at San Francisco. Efficien-
Nv in the service is something that they
cannot hope to have under present
conditions.
Machine Man Appointed
"And yet the very following week
Mr.. Dennison himself appointed, un-
der instructions of the Herrin machine,
ID a positfon on the harbor front one
Of the former state senators that was
controlled by the Ruef-Schmitz ma
chine at San Francisco.
"As to the work Of the Good Gov
ernment league of San Francisco, 1t
epeaks for itself. Last year we sue
ceeded In electing thirty-one out OF
4hirty-two Of the candidates. Thls
wear we succeeded in electing Judge
Dunne to the superior court and de-
feating Judge Carroll Cook
1The organization is to be kept alive
and IS now outlining plans for the
municipal election Of next year 1t
expects to form an alliance between
the best elements Of the Republican
,,artv and the Democratic party, all to
ioin together for ticket that will be
Victorious, our motto being Citizen
ehip Above Partisanship,' which VIII
depend upon the adoption Of the open
primary election law"