Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-15
PROMOTION
COMMITTEE
S. P.'S ALLY
| DISCL0SES SUBSERVIENCE TO
RAILWAY POWERS
OPPOSES A LINE OF PACIFIC
STEAMSHIPS
San Francisco Men Caught in Trap
Forced to Show Their Hand In
Opposition to Important
Resolution
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easily be used in maintaining a serV-
ice and regulating transportation
charges.
The speaker added that he presented
the matter as citizen of California to
a body of men interested in the states s
welfare.
chairman of the resolutions committee,
Immediately jumped up, saying that 1t
was unfair to the committee to bring
up outside problems.
Mr.. Gibbon arose again to explain
that as he had already pointed out, the
resolution was admittedly not germane
to the subject of the day, and 1t was
merely intended to get an expression
4 from the committee as men interested
in the general welfare of California.
Hand In Hand
| DR.. Clarence Edwords, literary secre-
tary of the promotion committee,
agreed with Chairman Pierce that II
would be improper to bring up the
question now, though after au1ouri-
ment 1t might be perfectly proper.
Isidor Jacobs, one of the big ship
pers of San Francisco, who addressed
| the City club at noon, then took the
i floor supporting the resolution.
"I read in the newspapers of San
Francisco that this question of IN
dorsing the government line idea would
be pushed" said he, "and since CnaAr-
! man Beveridge has ruled that 1t IS
open for discussion will say that there
| are many people here who have come
to the conclusion that this state must
get rid of conditions that hamper 1t.
sit seems that one company has Tor
years been getting from the transcon-
| tinenta1 railroads subsidy or Sfo.OoO
a. month, or 100000 year, IN the
Panama-Pacifc trade without taking
anv through business for the Atlantic.
"During the recent car shortage many
will recall that we had to rely on the
| foreign railroads owned by the Mexl-
| can government to relieve the SITUATION
| here although our government owned
a line of railroad across the lstnnus
of Panama that cost us $40O0O,0OO
To-day and every day the American
Hawaiian line people are running iaIge
steamers in connection with the Mexl-
| can lines.
NOW the government has practically
| decided to establish a. line to the Pa
| cific on the advice of j. l.. Br1stoW,
the new senator from Kansas, whom al
the corporations opposed because they
| knew If he got on the senate hoor ne
would show up the way IN Wnlcn tnese
corporations have neutralized compe-
tition. .,
"Do YOU know that these transporta-
/ tion lines have secretly advanced
freight rates, which step will take $lo'
600. 900 a year out of the pockets OF
our producers? 1t goes into erect on
January 1, applying to dried fruits,
prunes, raisins and about 1zS oener
articles -
1--WE want all the transportation IA
cilities we can get to handle our prod
nets and we want to stop the neutrall-
zation of competition. We want theIn
to comply with the law. We want all
the avenues of transportation we can
get"
During the progress Of the discus
| sion President Rufus 2. jennings ana
DR.. Edwords, literary secretary OF the
promotion committee, were actively en-
| gagged in the corridor and in the room
! dining up those upon whom they
could rely to vote against the resoiu-
ton. They seemed overwrought with
anxiety lest this resolution get through
against their voice and vote. In their
lobbying they were successful, and on
a test vote to lay the question on the
table the opponents of a government
line won, 81 to 25. This convinced
Los Angeles people present that the
promotion committee was an instlIu-
! ton owned and operated by the South
ern Pacific railroad for the aggran-
QlZGIlGnl Vi lllGii vi ROA0SAS%N'
Talks from All Sections
i The morning session, which was held
/ at Blanchard hall, with Philo j. BeV-
eridge of Hollywood presiding, en-
braced talks by M. #. Tarpey, on san
joaquin valley attractions; G. J. Noyes,
of south of the Tehachapi; III. e. Cap
we'll, of Alameda county; Frank z.
H Kellogg. of Santa Barbara county; +.
L I. Lancaster, of Mendocino county, and
Prof. Alexander G. McAdie, of the
weather bureau, who had to leave on
an afternoon train.
The afternoon session included a
series of interesting talks. One of
them. characteristic of the secretary of
the Los Angeles chamber of commerce,
Il concerned "Touridents," the word
coined by Frank Virgins applying to
persons who tour California and sooner
or later become residents.
"Touridents"
.'The Touridents we have always
/ with u.s." said Mr.. Virgins. He
/ couldn't help it If he would. We would
not have 1t otherwise II we could. The
Tourident is one of Gods country s.
that Calfornia-hnest crops.
"a Tourident be 1t known, is per-
son who tours in California and be-
comes a resident sooner or later-usu-
ally sooner.
II tried the term on your folks up
north a while ago, and it stuck. If
you're going to get stuck at all, get
stuck on a good thing. 1t Is better to
be stuck than be stung.
"There are three classes of Touri-
dents. The man who comes to Califor-
uia expecting to stay-comes prepared
and goes in all over, so to speak.
"The man who comes to spy out the
land; who then goes back east, ar
ranges his affairs and returns to Cali
fornia to stay, and is glad of it.
eThe man who has looked ahead to
spending the remainder of his days
4 here. There are thousands of thou
sands of such desirable citizens staked
out all over the country"
Afternoon Session
Addresses were also made in the
afternoon by State Forester G.. b. Lull,
who called attention 10 the alarming
waste of timber in the United States;
by w. A. Beard, concerning Sacra-
mento county's springs and other at
fractions in that valley by Frank A.
Miller of Riverside, who urged copy
ing some of the methods of Swiss hotel
owners in advertising the sights in
l California, such as missions, rather
! than the hotel and commercial at
fractions. and by Charles d. Daggett,
who spoke of good roads.
Today the committee will take a
| trip to Long Beach, visiting the Craig