. Revolution in Los Angeles (1911). OL There is not a foot of the citys wharf frontage that you can walkor drive to without crossing private property? Big Business has almost completely secured control of both theouter and inner harbor. Is it necessary to point out that the Harriman estate—the estate ofthe late E. H. Harriman, under whose name the Southern Pacificsystem is familiarly known, the Harriman lines—is one of the bigstockholders in that old original San Fernando Mission Land Co., andthat the Harriman estate is represented on the directorate of thatland company today? Are you aware th
. Revolution in Los Angeles (1911). OL There is not a foot of the citys wharf frontage that you can walkor drive to without crossing private property? Big Business has almost completely secured control of both theouter and inner harbor. Is it necessary to point out that the Harriman estate—the estate ofthe late E. H. Harriman, under whose name the Southern Pacificsystem is familiarly known, the Harriman lines—is one of the bigstockholders in that old original San Fernando Mission Land Co., andthat the Harriman estate is represented on the directorate of thatland company today? Are you aware that Edwin T. Earl, also nowon the directorate of that land company, is the largest stockholderinand is generally understood to control the ninety million corporationknown as the Union Oil Co., and that the Union Oil Co. now controlswhat is called the Miner fill in the harbor? Are you aware that theSalt Lake Railroad Co. is controlled by the Southern Pacific? Areyou aware that the large harbor holdings of the Pacific Wharf and 30. Storage Co. are controlled by men who are associates of Edwin , the Southern Pacific and others who constitute Big Business inLos Angeles? These men who, by newspapers in sympathy with Big Business,can fill your imagination with all sorts of brilliant pictures of thefuture prosperity of Los Angeles when the Panama canal is completedand Los Angeles has its harbor improved sufficiently to take care ofthe opportunity to increase its shipping trade—they can do all thisand have the people pay fat salaries to their henchmen in pushing theharbor improvement, but they cannot get away from the FACT thatthey (these very same men), representing themselves and Big Businessgenerally, have practically absolute entire control of the inner harborand about one-half of the outer harbor. SOUTHERN PACIFIC CLINCHES CONTROL The Southern Pacific Railroad Co. has been long at work and isnow at work gridironing the water frontage of the harbor so that itwill control
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