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Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
What the Tariff
Costs You
TAXING YOU AT THE TABLE
lcharles johnson Post. in N. Y. World.

TAXING YOU AT THE TABLE
As you sit down to your breakfast
one of these crisp mornings you may
be interested to know, as the nice
brown buckwheat cakes appear, that
The buckwheat flour is tariff taxed
25 per cent.
If you prefer cornmeal muffins or
johnny cake the cornmeal is tariff
taxed 4-1O of a cent a pound, or the
rice for the rice cakes, 2 cents pound.
The oatmeal, l cent pound.
The bread or biscuit or waters, 20
per cent, or the wheat flour from
which they are baked, 25 per cent.
Your butter is tariff-taxed cents
on each pound, so that if you can af-
ford to pay so cents a pound for but
ter you pay only 10 per cent in tariff
tax, but if you can pay only 36 cents
a pound it costs you 16 2-3 per cent.
| The cheaper the higher
Maple syrup for the buckwheat
cakes-4 cents a pound; honey, 21a
cents a pint, and molasses, 20 per cent
of its value in tariff tax.
Eggs, 5-12 of cent each; potatoes.
5-12 of a cent pound, and fresh green
vegetables, 25 per cent.
Ten cents a pound is levied in tariff
tax on your mustard.
Kippered herring, 1a cent pound;
fresh mackerel, halibut or salmon, l
cent pound; fresh smeits, n Of cent
a pound tariff tax.
The bacon or ham to go with the
eggs is tariff-taxed 4 cents for each
pound. This helps the meat trust from
becoming poverty stricken:
The same trust is also assisted by a
tariff tax of 11a cents pound on beef
steak, mutton or lamb chops, veal cut
| let's or pork chops. And it is added to
the price you pay! On poultry you are
tariff-taxed cents pound.
On sausages you pay % per cent.
If YOU want cocoa the tariff tax is
5 cents a pound.
The frying pans, broilers, kettles,
griddles, pots and pans with which
the wife has prepared the daily break
fast have a tariff tax of 40 per cent
levied on them. The stove itself on
which the cooking was done has been
tariff-tax from $40 of a penny to 1
cent pound of it's weight, Stoves are
not light!
And then when you finish your
breakfast you light your morning smoke
with a tariff taxed match applied to a
pipe that is tariff-taxed 60 per cent
and contentedly watch the blue haze
curl upward from tobacco that is
tariff-taxed IS cents on each pound.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
A Missouri AccuSer

WE knew it would come and it has arrived
wv at last-the charge of padding against
Los Angeles. 1t comes from the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch in the form of innuendo scarcely
less bold than an open charge. Says that paper:
Tales of census padding come internationally
from the western cities where the most remarkable
gains are shown. What is known with what is
suspected is enough to call attention again to the
211 per cent gain of Los Angeles, the ZOo per cent
of Berkeley, the 124 per cent OF Oakland and even
the p g per cent of San Francisco"
The Herald can only speak for this city, but
with its knowledge of the count here and OF the
phenomenal growth of other California cities 1t is
justified in saying that the ST Louis papers talk,
based on evident lack of knowledge, is arrant non
sense.
Director Durand hasn't failed to speak his mind
out freely about those cities known to have padded
He directly vouched for the count here and in San
Francisco, and in giving out the other enumera-
tions, AFTER SPECIAL INVESTIGATION,
tacity indorsed them
But the figures for this city speak for them
selves. From 1880 to 1890 Los Angeles leaped
from 0o3 to 50.395. Then it increased more than
100 per cent in the next decade to 1O2479 To
presume that San Dego's 1886 per cent, Pasa-
dena's 1922 Berkeley's 200, Oakand's 124 and
Los Angeles 211.6 are fraudulent is to presume
that there is California League for the Promo
ton of Census Padding that is the most effective
organization in the state.
Everybody knows better. Missouri has reason
to know better, even ST. Louis, with its meager
1914 per cent, for thousands of their people are i'll
California and hundreds more of them are packing
up every year for the same trek.
The Post-Dispatch can find out at the railroad
offices at home 1t can learn from the railroad of
fices here that California is the fastest growing
state in the Union and that if its cities did really
pad they would make the increase in St. Louis and
some other towns look as small as the smallest
wart prize cucumber.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
CALIFORNIA; TARIFF
ATTITUDE
(Loulsville .courIer-JournaD

llIOufSN1lie .COuTleI-JouluhV
California sends Republican dele
CATION to congress and elects a Repub-
lican governor and Republican legis-
lature. The strong sentiment of the
fruit-growing state for protection is
the explanation of its attitude.
Here we have good eXample-good
for purposes of Illustration, but other
wise bad-of the desire of section to
tax the entire country for its beneht.
Just as New England manufacturers
have wished to tax the south and west
for their benefit, California producers OF
fruit would like to prevent New York
from buying fruit from the West In
dies or other markets conveniently sit
uated and willing to compete with
American producers. The essential
difference is that New England has to
an extent awakened to the faults OF
the system its manufacturers have ad-
vocated, while California still stands
pat from one end to the other. The
east seems to be little in advance OF
the west in the matter.
California has large domestic mar
ket west of the Mississippi which Is
hers for geographical reasons, and
where many of the varieties of fruit
grown upon her soil can never be pro-
duced. law to give artificial profits
to the California ranches is as unnec-
essary upon practical grounds as it Is
indefenslble on moral grounds. Its ef-
feet would be to force the teeming pop
ulation of the eastern section OF the
United States to contribute to a sub
sidy for the fiourishing fruit growers
on the Pacific coast, and fruit is rec
ognized as being more of a necessity .
than a luxury because of it's healt|
giving effect.
This is the old story of criminal So
ishness. There is a well-known Illus
tration Of the sentiment that lies be-
hind high protectionism in the tariff
on pearl buttons, which subsidies an
industry employing less than 100000
persons by exacting tribute from 100,-
100000 Americans who are consumers
of pearl buttons.
California, to employ a street phrase.
wishes to hand a lemon to the rest of
the United States. Literally she wishes
to hand the protected lemon to a de-
| fenseless consumer in a closed market.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
INDUSTRIAL CENTERS
MOVING WEST
(Revlew Of Reviews)


1t is not a great many years since
most of the household utensils in use
throughout the country, and prac-
tically all the tools, with the exception
of agricultural implements, were made
in the eastern states. Today the de-
partment stores of New York city are
largely stocked with articles manufac-
tured in the middle west. If New
York or a New England farmer wishes
to provide himself with a bucksaw the
chances re that the only one he will
find for sale at the village store will
be of Indianapolis make The only
invalid's table kept in stock in the hos
pital supply stores in New York Is
made at Elkhart, Ind. Grand Rapids
furniture has long dominated the east
ern markets, and within recent years
the automobile industry has greatly
added to Michigan's fame. Cars built
in Detroit, Lansing and Flint are in
use today throughout New England
and New York and along the entire
Atlantic seaboard. Recalling to mind
the remarkable shifting in the location
of some of our great industries. we get
an important sidelight on the statistics
of urban growth, furnished by the
census. Thus many who have noted
the forging ahead OF Detroit in the last
decade have ascribed it largely to the
automobile industry, which has un-
doubtedly been the largest single fac-
tor; but we should not overlook other
important industries that have their
plants in nd around Detroit, and
among these the manufacture o. malle-
able iron and of many iron and steel
products, and especially the stove
foundries and the brass and copper
rolling mills, are prominent. The lake
cities of Buffalo, Cleveland and Mil
waukee are competitors with Detroit
in some of their industries, and their
prosperity is indicated by the census
figures which we have already cited.
All of these cities are substantial and
solid in their business development.
Milwaukee, for example, attained a
large measure of financial stability
many years ago. Its business blocks
and other city improvements were built
with local capital.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
A Distressed Shepherd

IF you should ask the Philadelphia Inquirer
| "Who's loony now" it would answer Cali
fornia" In fact it says as much. California
is "the limit" in the recent rage for primary re
form" Our decision to abolish the party circle on
the ballot and thus remove the tags from the can
didates it looks upon as gibbering diocy. 1t IS
particularly distressed about this provision:
"If any candidate gets an actual majority of all
the votes cast for the nomination, he is then de-
clared elected and regular election is held for
that office"
On this matter the Inquirer finds it hard to con-
tain itself. 1t says;
1--WE submit that this is reform gone
mad. 1t is simply making the primary take
the place of the general election. 1t is fly
ing in the face of all history in eliminating
party spirit. The human race is gregariouS
it naturally flocks around leadership and
practically all political advancement has
come through parties"
- To a considerable extent the Inquirer is right.
The human race in Pennsylvania is indeed gregari-
Gus. 1t has flocked about Boies Penrose as it
focked about Matt Quay before him, and the In
quirer has long been of the shepherds that
drove the sheep. Any system that would rob the
shepherds of the sheep is hateful, odious to the
shepherds like Penrose and the Inquirer.
"Political advancement has come through par
ties" Indeed it has. Matt Quay advanced far
Boies Penrose and the interests he represents have
advanced far, thanks to the gregarious, though 1t
must be said there is prospect OF an early halt in
their advance In Philadelphia the gregarious in
clude dead men and repeaters, while In Plttsburg
the shepherds of Penrose, did those of Magee
and Flynn see that the foreigners OF the steel mills
and coke works flock dutifully.
Since Pennsylvania is retaining its political
sanity and there is no danger of its adopting the
Australian ballot, the Inquirer should not let it.
self be stirred so deeply about the madness of peo-
pie 5000 miles away.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Editor Herald: Such fallacious rea-
scning as M. V. Longley puts forth
should not be left without pointing out
the errors it exhibits. For instance,
as to the bachelor sacrificing the pleas
ures of wedlock for fear of not being
able to support family. Does the
bachelor for all that sacrifice anything?
Does he not the more foster selfish
ness, the chief of all sins? The pleas
ures of wedlock are of too elevated a
nature for people who think 1T greater
delight or enjoyment to remain single
and 81 ;gests the thought that they
are not fit to propagate the species.
Maybe they think as much or little of
themselves. Enjoyments of life do not
depend on riches nor does poverty de-
prive anyone of them. Simple and
cheap food makes healthy and strong
children, while luxury and indulgence
degrade and degenerate.
'It is not the abundance of meat
that nourisheth, but good digestion
Even at the present high prices living
is possible for an average family on
81 for food a week with intelligent man
agement. Many have done it for less.
All YOU have to do is to study the
qualities of the vegetables and grain
foods and to know how to prepare
them. and there will be no disease,
either.
In climate like Southern Califor-
MIA flesh and fat are positively injuri-
Gus, as many can testify Those who
place all enjoyment in a sensuous or
animal life and who cannot reflect ra-
tlonally on themselves will continue to
live as suits them. Z. r.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
WHY oRovILLE WAS CHOSEN


Editor herald: In reply to w. S.
G.. in Wednesdays Herald, would like
to enlighten the same with little
history Of this particular neck of the
woods" Oroville, and incidentally tell
why Oroville was selected for the pos
tai savings bank.
Oroville is situated seventy-flve miles
north of Sacramento on the beautiful
Feather river, from which gold is be-
ing taken out hv the immense gold
dredgers day and night.
Oroville is a city of a population be-
tween 5000 and 1000 and is steadily
growing. 1t boasts of having the first
railroad in the state and the circula-
tion of money daily is larger for place
of it's size than any other in Califor-
MIA.
The cold that is sent away to for
eign countries monthly is tremendous
and it is in hopes of keeping at least a
portion of this at home that the pos
tai savings bank is to be erected there.
At Oroville the gold is taken out of
the ground instead of out of the pock-
cts of the eastern capitalist to work
with.
In early days when San Francisco
was merel-' a sand dune the weary
traveller tarried not there where no at
traction was to be found, but hastened
on to Oroville, land of gold L. E. H.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
SOCIETY AS A "FooTPAD"

Editor Herald: In reply to Truth
Seeker" I as a Socialist wish to say
that society today confiscates the ac-
coutrements of the footpad and the
highwayman. Socialism would con-
fiscate all weapons Of oppression. how
ever obtained, and this in the defense
of the worker. To the worker the full
product of his toll without division or
confiscation.
How would the government procure
the railroads? The people are the gov
ernment. According to the sworn tes-
timony of some railroads the people
have paid for some of the roads every
ten years. How many times more do
they want pay from the people?
Every spike, every tie, every engine,
every car was paid for by the people
government if you please-through
money laid by these people for trans
portation. All the company ever has
owned or ever can own is the peoples
necessity for such things.
1t is plain as the nose on your face
that without the peoples need all cor
porations would find they owned only
a white elephant. Were all men al
lowed 10 retain the full product of
their work they would own their own
homes, which would of itself stop
rents.
The best business corners of Los
Angeles are as essential to the needs
of the people as is the courthouse or
the city hall, and now please enlight-
en- me why it is good logic to allow
capitalists to collect rent on the one
necessity of the people and not on
the other. Drills KENNEDY.
San Bernardino.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
LOVE AND'LusT

LOVE AND'LUST
Editor Herald: There is no differ
ence of opinion between Floradene and
myself in the first two paragraphs OF
her letter in Thanksgiving's Herald. for
I, too, favor divorce where the par
ties are mismated
With other portions of her article
there may be some dissent, especially
on the subject of love and lust. [ deny
that the term love Should be limit
ed to only one of its phases, viz, the
passion of desire or natural affection
7tween the sexes.
Mr. Wilson did not use the words
free love-" but all through his ad-
dress gave us to understand he be-
Iieved in variety" and in his ten
minutes speech at the close of the
evening he said that had he the ply
steal ability he could love thousand
women as easily as one" meaning love
in the sense of lust; and such freedom
of variety means free lust" My con-
tention was and is that considering
love simply as desire lust is such de-
sire excessively manifested and that
pleasure alone expressing itself freely
through this excessive desire was no
criterion, by which to live ones life.
But one cannot go into the subject
very deeply either in 300 words or in
nights lecture; and if Floradene will
give her address in The Herald I will
send her thirteen-page tract on the
subject of Love-" and voicing my
ideas much more thoroughly than can
be given in these columns.
CIVILIZATIONIST.
Los Angeles Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Under the EngIsh system single package
may weigh eleven pounds, but under the American
system not more than four pounds, SO that an
eleven-pound English package would have to be
made into three separate packages to be nailabe
in this country, and that OF course would often be
Thomas c. Platt Of New York, "thc senator
from the Adams Express Co." kept this boon from
the PEOPLE for years, his company meantime max
ing over 100 per cent year in dividends thereby.
Platt is dead The express trust is not now repre-
sented in congress and the probability of parcels
post is excellent.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
Parcels Post

A LTHOUGH President Taft has not made it
II one of his leading policies, it is reasonable to
believe that the next congress, freed from
the influence of the express trust, will lose no time
in passing parcels post bill, The demand for it
has grown remarkably in the past year. and the
Christmas shipping Of parcels through the mails
and by express ought to stimulate it by bringing
Once get before the people the full truth of
what corporation influence has withheld from them
and the demand will not be stemmed. AS an ex-
ample of this, the following comparison between
the American and British package rates is illumi-
mating:
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
A HEARTY LAUGH
Being the days best Joke from the news
exchanges.

Dugald was i'll, and his friend Dom
aid took bottle OF whisky to him.
Donald gave the invalid one glass and
said:
"YeIl get anither yin in the morn
in"
About FIVE minutes elapsed, and then
Dugald suddenly exclaimed:
Eyed better let me hae the ither
moo, Donar ye hear o. sac mony sud
den deaths nooadays. s.'-Tit-Bits.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
Far and Wide
THE EARLY SHOPPER

The happiest woman we know of is
the one who has twenty-one Christ
mas gifts bought already.-Detroit
Free Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
HINT 10 sMUGGLERs

Smugglers will think twice and make
it three times for good measure If they
are to be sent to spend the winter in
cells when caught smuggling-Chicago
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
WHY DOES HE DELAY?

Within very few days prominent
citizen is expected TO give the aviators
a lecture on how to improve their fly
ing achines.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
A RIVAL FOR COL. BRYAN

The sultan of Sulu says he would,
like to live in the white house at Wash I
ington. The Democrats might conside
him among the presidential possibi'
ties.-Cincinnat Commercial Tribul.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
CERTAINLY NOT COMPLETE

Glancing through the new work,
"Marvels Beyond Science" but thus far
have failed to find any reference to
r. R.-New York Telegram.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Railroads are offering SIS rate between St.
Louis and Houston. Why should person IN eth
er place want to buy of the tickets?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Senator Depew looks upon his record with
satisfaction" Not so much perhaps, as the in
terests" for which he worked in Washington.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Over 3OOOOO,OOO Chinese will cut off their
queues but if they have the true reform spirit
thew will tuck their shirts in at the belt.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Mr. Bryan is opposed to Harmon for president,
which again removes the 'y" from the end of the
Ohio mans name which it was presumed had been
glued on to stay.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

The window glass trust has reduced wages to
recoup fines imposed by court. There is high
tariff on glass for the benefit of the American
workman"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Harmon's plurality in Ohio (Mr Tafts state,
you recollect) is about 100000 We understand
some papers regard it as a singing rebukc to
lice commissioner in New York.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

The sugar trust has been stealing water from
New York city to the extent of about 100000.
What could it want with SO much? 1t is not con-
templating any new stock issue.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

A December magazine is undertaking the Nor
mons for polygamy There material nearer
home in the New York smart set.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

The state OF Washington, having given women
the ballot, has prohibited smoking in election
booths This is rank discrimination unless a SIM
liar law is passed ruling out marshmallows and
fudge.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

"Down with American dollars" is the cry in
the British campaign, referring to money contrib
uted for the Irish cause. 1t must be admitted the
American dollar has earned bad reputation in
campaigns.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

The year 1910 may go down in history as tn
one of the second war between Texas and Mexico
and with the same result
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Earthquakes in the depths of the Pacific are
reported That's the kind of quakes we lke-that
stay out at sea and content not to muss things
up on land.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Our pleasure at the elimination of Chauncey
Depew's mutton chops from the senate is largely
offset by the impending arrival of John w. Kern's
feather duster.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

The combined ages of two Virginia newly
weds is 161 years. They were young enough to
know better.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Can't Premier Asquth take hint? The Eng
lish ladies mean that they would like the privilege
of voting.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Henry C. Mcclure has left $4,000 to spirit
ualist societies. In of this kind, if there is
any dispute over the will, the testator can come
back and give directions about it.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

A Utah man who rode a Southern Pacific
pass to Reno was arrested and fined $500. The
Hepburn law reveals unexpected merit in new di-
rection if it discourages divorce.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

There is nothing surprising in the fact that
there are $1,000 windowless bedrooms in New
York. The metropolis thinks it is more important
to have all the light out on the Great White Way.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

The escape of the Standard Oil from that $780,
100000 suit has its bright side. We won't have
to pay the fine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Enemies of Caleb Powers threaten to disqual-
ify him on the ground that he has never been ac-
quilted. But there Others left in congress
who have never been acquitted either
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

The czar's favorite dish is said to be Goldfish,
which stamps him as a different kind of aristo-
crat than we thought him.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

A ST. Louis girl of 10 has inherited $300OO00O.
She has also inherited with it an insurance policy
against enforced bachelorhood.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Zone patch of ripe Strawberries in Massachu-
setts in November won't diminish the length of
those daily trains laden with Bostonians for South
ern California" says the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

1t is fair to assume that some member OF tn
new poets trust was the author OF that Vrile poem
of trade, mo trust, no bust.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Jack Johnson explains his nervous prostration
by saying he is overworled. 1t has been under
stood that since his departure from Reno Jacks
right elbow has been under great strain,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28
PUBLIC LETTER BOX


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Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

The cheerful view Brother Rockefeller takes
OF the future makes us fear another rise in
oil.-Atlanta Constitution.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

An exchange says that among 1000 women
only one wears hobbe skirt. Well, she looks
like sixty.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

Constant Reader-We do not now recall the
name of the vice president We think it is some
thing like Tiny Tim Sherwin.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

The manager of the Boston subway has asked
the men patrons to give up their seats the ladies'.
1t never seems to occur to railroad official to pro-
vide seats for everybody as a remedy for crushes.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-28

"A Pullman porter has been sued for SzO,OOo
The amount is excessive Why, it would take his
entire tips for several weeks.