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

"You should strive to have your
harbor municipality owned and con-
trored." 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
a direct. regular and complete service.
You are entitled to this because OF the
large and increasing volume OF pusi-
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 emphatically
that Los Angeles and all other haroors
in California should be municipality
owned and controlled, touching upon
the hrbor situation in connection with
his tonic. 'The Necessity for Gov
ernment Line of Steamers Between
Pacific Coast Ports and Panama.
'Tn regard to harbor and shipping
matters" said Mr.. Jacobs there Is
little need for me to say that ever
since the Pacific Steamship company
line has been operating between san
Francisco and Panama, the compeJl-
lion has been neutralized. Formerly
the Pacific Mail got $4,000 a month
or 100000 a year from the transcon-
tinental lines in order that they should
'The government today Is operating
a line of steamers on the Atlantic DO
ipg regular commercial business IN
conjunction with the Panama railroad
line. which is also owned by our gov
ernment, but the business people OF
California are faced by the peculiar
condition of having to relieve the sit
uation by doing business with the
American Hawaiian Steamship com
pany, in connection with the Mexican
owned line to Tehuantepec.
Favors Government Line
s'These steamers, going and coming
are loaded to the guards with freight
and yet no one has ever known tue
Pacific Mail Steamship company TO
solicit through business by way OF the
Panama road, presumably because the
Hartman interests control the Pacllc
Mail Steamship company. l beHeVe
on account of this fact ali should
strive to have the government estab-
Nsh a line ON the Pacific from Seattle
to Panama, touching at all Pacific
coast ports, and thus complete the
chain from the Pacific to the Atlantic
in connection with the Panama rail-
road and the Atlantic coast govern
ment~owned line.
Certainly we should take q proau
instead of q sectional view of this sub
~ ~~-N-
should receive complete service IN
connection with the system.
"I believe that the harbors of Cali
fo,.nia should be municipality owned
because in San Francisco we have seen
that state control results In squan-
dering of a large amount OF money
for state employees on the harbor 'front.'
who are controlled and dominated by
the political Herrin machine, and, as
result. to use the language of Mr.. Den
nfson, one of the present harbor COM
missioners at San Francisco, Errlclen-
cv in the service is something that they
cannot hope to have under present
conditions.
Machine Man Appointed
"And vet the very following week
Mr.. Dennison himself appointed, un-
der instructions of the Herrin machine
to a position on the harbor front one !
of the former state senators that was
controlled by the Ruef-Schmltz ma
chine at San Francisco
"As to the work Of the Good Gov
eminent league of San Francisco. it
eneaks for itself. Last year we sue
ceeded in electing thirty-one out of
thtrty-two of the candidates. This
wear we succeeded in electing Judge
Dunne to the superior court and de-
feating Judge Carroll Cook.
s'The organization is to be kept alive
and is now outlining plans for the
municipal election OF next year. II
exnects TO form an alliance between
the best elements of the Republican
marty and the Democratic party, all to
1oin together for a ticket that VIII De
Victorious, our motto being Citizen
ship Above Partisanshtp,' which VIII
depend upon the adoption of the open
primary election law"