Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-12
Another Fight for Los Angeles

may be somewhat curious every citizen of Los Angeles
certainly interesting that this city has been able to
without having to overcome way interest
public corporations Our good citizens secured their har
with Southern Pacific company and its great lobby in Washing
facilities for handling their goods along the Mexican
and South American coast and through the stmus OF Panama
which they denied up this time by steamship line
managed and controlled to carefully avoid giving any service
which would in any compete with the tanscontnena rail
roads, the selfish opposition OF public service corporations APP
pears again the form OF protest against the proposed govern
steamship line from Panama to Seattle which the bill sometime
introduced into congress by Senator Flint provides Tor
appears that the local agent of the Steam
Pacc coast 81 R 91t i b; T o+e+ @ 70 the d;t @ @ business
men sad contained only eighteen signatures five OF which
of organizations in which the gentleman getting up the protest
interested and the other thirteen OF which said to have been
obtained by of the fact that the sgners large patrons OF
the steamship which he represents and the company there
fore has particular facilities for commanding their support
thousands of business III Los Angeles to whom
the transportation facilities that would be afforded BY the pQp9sd led
steamship line will be OF immense value who are represented by
commercial organizations such the chamber OF commerce
socan taken strong grounds favor Of the line In
the meanwhile being made show that the line would
statements from Mr. Scwen Of the Pacific Steamship
an and others intended to show that the government would
not ANYTHING that appears in the columns paper
concerning any matter which the Southern Pac1fc company IS
interested will course taken with grain Of salt for the
Mr. Hearst under financial ALLEGATIONS to Mr.
Hartman the then head OF the Southern Pacific railroad system
evident that his papers on this coast have been very ou en-
gagged repayng those obligations by tavorg and
always refusing attack the Hartman corporations of which the
Pacific Mail Steamship company The statement of Mr.
published in the Hearst to the effect that his COM
amusing the shippers of the Pacific coast who understand
managed with the OF not
before this
the ownership Southern Pacific company paid hun
dollars by that subsidy
the business of transporting freight
and other Pacific coast ports to the Panama
railway competitor of the Southern Pacific trans
continental road the Southern Pacific years to
own plying between the shnlus and Pacific
shipments mas
nued line that is connected with the lsthmus
Panama really desired business would not for years
of Los Angeles the second commercial CEN
the Pacific Mail line has done Further
other rules and regulations calculated discourage rather than
courage shipments the Pacific Mail has done In truth the
the Pacific Mail water transportation line has
farce serving the interests OF the
Pacific 1t has been managed all times on the
principle OF do it rather than the principle OF get
ting all the business sight OF being managed in this
V has money operation every dollar that has
dollars for the tranconnenta the freight which the steam
ship otherwise have carried had been managed with
of securing all the business insight
What OF the Pacific coast want what they demand
nts bill is intended Tor them is line
controlled by the which cannot IN any
vv be influenced brbes subsidies that be offered by
the tranconnenta railroads. The shippers of the city OF Los An
be out or business line that will port the Pacific
coast that offer it. and not line that will permit IL
to be used by railroads discourage ship
nents water line they will the government line
behooves the citizens OF Los Angeles VINO nave
Pacific railroad their hight Tor
harbor themselves in this important contest that is now
forced upon private interests and again victory over
the selfish corporations seek reap benefit the cost OF our
business by dscouragng the transportation tac1e winch
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