The document discusses several key aspects of progressivism in early 20th century California and the United States. Progressivism was a societal reform movement from around 1900-1920 that sought to reduce political and corporate corruption and improve conditions for workers. In California, progressives pushed for initiatives, referendums, recalls and other reforms. Figures like Governor Hiram Johnson supported progressive goals like railroad regulation, women's suffrage and labor reforms. The movement aimed to advance society and free individuals from the constraints of the industrial age.
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Roots of Reform
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Dominance of the RailroadsCentral Pacific RR surrounded and
dominated the Bay Area, and dominated the Oakland
waterfrontSouthern Pacific Railroad acquired by the Big Four in
the late 1860sThe Southern Pacific Railroad was then granted
the second transcontinental rail routeFounded the town of
ColtonVirgil Earp and the Battle of the Crossing (1883)The
railroad gouged producers on freight costs, and thus made an
impact on many industries.
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Progressivism: What’s in a Name?Progressivism not a specific
organization, but rather was a societal movement of reform.It
was prevalent in American society c. 1900-1920.People with
2. various and diverse goals would have considered themselves
progressive.
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Progressivism (continued)Under the influence of the
Enlightenment and Darwinism, progressives believed that
humanity could be advanced and society
improved.Progressivism held a high view of human potential,
and that meant putting away old ways, and also freeing
individuals from the shackles of the modern industrial
age.Progressivism wanted to move ahead into the possibilities
of the future.
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Progressivism (continued)In the early 1900s California and
several other states began to reform themselves, coinciding with
the transformation of the USA from an agricultural to an
industrial society; reform fromPolitical corruptionCorporate
corruption, especially the railroad in CaliforniaBetter
conditions, hours and wages for workers (Starr 143)Women’s
3. voting rightsHistorians call this “reformation” the Progressive
MovementChampioning values of the Enlightenment,
Progressive platforms were often pushed by the political leftThe
Bay Area left was influenced by the harder edge of Marxism;
businesses were often “closed shop”; a major center of
unionization.The southern California left was of the softer,
Fabian socialist perspective, known as the “good government,”
or “goo-goos,” group. Businesses were often “open shop.”
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Burnette Haskell Early reformerFormed Coast Seamen’s Union
(1885); later became Sailors’ Union of the Pacific (1891),
which won reforms in 1915.Formed Kaweah Colony in the area
of today’s Sequoia Nat’l Park (1885); radical, Utopian in
outlook
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California’s Peculiar InstitutionMigratory Farm LaborCf.
Steinbeck’s Of Mice and MenInvolvement of the Industrial
Workers of the World (IWW) (Wobblies)Ralph Durst ranch in
the vicinity of Wheatland
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San Francisco TrialAbraham RuefPolitical bossPublic Utilities
hired Ruef as their attorneyPacific Gas and ElectricHome
Telephone CompanyUnited Railroad CompanyEugene
“Handsome Gene” Schmitz, Ruef’s hand-picked candidate for
mayor under the Union Labor partyPerpetuated the bribe-based
corporation-government relationshipOpposed by public-spirited
citizensAfter the Earthquake, President T. Roosevelt sent the
Feds in to help investigate S.F. political corruption
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San Francisco (cont.)Earthquake—April 18, 1906
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Los AngelesGood Government MovementLed by Dr. John
Randolph Haynes; “Open Shop”Opposed by Harrison Gray Otis,
editor of the Los Angeles TimesNew Charter for L.A. in
1903Includes the political instruments of “the initiative, the
referendum, and the recall” (R&B 259).
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Lincoln-Roosevelt LeagueRepublican Convention 1906:
corruption apparentJournalists Edward Dickson and Chester
Rowell become active in promoting reform within the
Republican partyOrganized 50 other activistsDirect primary in
1909Republicans nominated Hiram Johnson, who then won the
governorship in 1910.Railroad reform ensued, as well as
women’s suffrage (1911) and labor reforms
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Progressive ReformsInitiative-A procedure for citizens to
propose a law to be taken up by the state legislature or by the
citizens directly (via ballot). Referendum-A procedure for
citizens to vote directly on approval of a proposed law. Recall-
A procedure for removing a public official from office via the
direct vote of the people.
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18. % of the population with 60 years or over
2050
2015
In 2015, one of every 8 people was aged 60 year or older, this
figure will rise to one of every 5 by 2050, making up 1.4 billion
from 901 million people in 2015, with old people outnumbering
children aged 0-9 years.
Growing ageing population will have social, political and
economic implications, by increasing the fiscal burden on
governments for extra spending on pensions and health care
while providing opportunities for businesses.
Source: United Nations
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% of the population with 60 years or over
28. According to the United Nations, almost 180,000 people move
into cities everyday
66%
Of the world population is projected to be urban by 2050, up
from 54% in 2016
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Tokyo 37.1m
2
Delhi 30.7m
3
Shanghai 36m
4
Mumbai 27.8m
5
Sau Paulo 23.4m
Top 5 Cities by population by 2030
Top 5 Cities by GDP by 2025
1
New York
2
Tokyo
Shanghai
5
4
London
31. 13 with more than 4m
6 mega cities with
more than 10m
Of Africa’s population will be urban by 2050
1bn
China
590 m
India
Urban population 2030 forecast
By 2030 China will have..
221
Cities with 1m or more
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Cities with 5m or more
34. 50m
2015
2030
China
India
150m
850m
1billion
425m
475m
China and India’s contributions to the
global middle class will be substantial
The size of the global middle class will almost triple from 2009
to 2030
2016
2030
of the global middle class will
live in the Asia-Pacific region
in 2030 up from 1/3 in 2009.
The emergence of a wealthy middle class will open up new
markets not just in consumer goods, but also for financial
services or the health sector, for instance. meaning, there is still
plenty of room for businesses to expand in these sectors in the
emerging world before parity with the developed world is
reached.
44. China
$1.3 trillion
United Kingdome
$0.2 trillion
Japan
$0.17 trillion
Germany
$0.09 trillion
$18.7
trillion
$4.3
trillion
$11.25
trillion
$0.55
trillion
Today
2025
Online sales
Non-Online sales
Global retail industry
Global retail industry is forecasted to sharply increase due to
the rise of the middle income class
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0.1 0.9
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0.15 0.85
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47. move up the GDP by PPP ranking by 2050
Vietnam
Philippines
Nigeria
Up 12 places
Up 9 places
Up 8 places
32nd
20th
28th
19th
22nd
14th
2016
2050
The US and Europe will steady lose ground to China and India
Share of world GDP (PPP) from 2016 to 2050
China
18%
US
16%
EU27
15%
India
7%
20%
12%
9%
15%
2016
EM will continue to be the growth engine of the global
economy. By 2050, the E7 economies would rise their share of
world GDP from 35% to almost 50%, with China being the
largest economy in the world, accounting for around 20% of
48. world GDP.
Although, advanced economies will continue to have higher
average incomes, but EM will make good progress as well,
which will open up great opportunities for long-term
investments in these markets. However, governments need to
implement structural reforms to improve macroeconomic
stability, diversify their economies away from natural resources,
and develop political and legal institutions.
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Projected change in share of world GDP (PPP) from 2016 to
2050
2016
2050
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Advanced countries
Emerging countries
The rest of the world
2050
58. bn
$526
bn
$681.7
bn
$526
bn
$579
bn
$1,445.4
bn
$364
bn
Next game changer
The trillion dollar economies
Note: the figures are GDP at current prices from IMF 2022
forecasts.
Egypt
Mexico
Nigeria
Philippines
South Africa
Thailand
Turkey
Vietnam
Poland
Next emerging economies game changers aside of BRICSs
High GDP growth, improved FDIs and rapid industrialization to
give rise to new lot of emerging countries, beyond BRICS that
contend to become next economic leaders
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63. objects based on digital models by layering or “printing”
successive layers of materials
Printing
Virtual reality
Robots
Internet of Things
Drones
Blockchain
Augmented reality
Artificial intelligence
Change business model and Enable smarter business operation.
Electro-mechanical machines that automate, augment or assist
human activities.
Computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or
a complete environment, within a defined and contained space,
that viewers can interact with in realistic ways.
Will impact businesses over the next 5 years
85%
Of customer interactions will be handled without human by
2020.
Analyst expect AR revenue to reach $48.7B by 2021
Drones Market=$7 billion
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California Dreamin’
Water and the emergence of a “new civilization” touted,
“making the desert bloom” (Starr 170), fulfilling the words of
the prophet:
For waters break forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;
(Isaiah 35:6)
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Water
The necessary element for civilization to take root
Cf. Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India
Two great rivers of the Central Valley
Sacramento River
San Joaquin River
Two other great river sources:
The Owens River
The Colorado River
66. William Hammond Hall: Hydraulic engineer who wrote on
developing California’s water needs
California becomes a landmark instance in world history of
water procurement and implementation
Establishment of water districts
Based on Wright Act response to Lux v. Haggin decision
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Water Rights
(and in California, it’s all about the water)
First became important with the discovery of gold in 1848
Recall the water flumes for finding gold
Incorporated into state law following the admission of
California into the United States in 1850.
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Who Owns the Water?
The State of California owns all of the water in the state
Individual water rights are usufructuary
One uses the water; one does not own it
Rights to its use revert to the owner (California) when given up
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Federally Reserved Rights
Because the United States reserves public domain land for
national parks and forests, it thereby reserves the right to the
water to support these areas.
These rights are senior or paramount to all state claims.
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Forms of Water Rights
Two historical forms of water rights:
Appropriative rights
First come, first served; early bird gets the water
Enacted in California as part of the Gold Rush and mining
district laws
Entitlement is secured by use
Use it, or lose it
Recall, these were public lands in the case of the Gold Rush
Riparian rights
Based on English Common Law
Water access comes with the land abutting a river
Entitlement is secured by land ownership
In cases where the two forms come into conflict, riparian rights
trump appropriative rights
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Battle of the Titans:
Lux v. Haggin (1886)
Henry Miller (Lux was his agent)
69. Claimed monopolistic control of the Kern River in the Central
Valley by virtue of riparian rights
James Haggin
Owned a large chunk of Kern County, thanks to his Southern
Pacific RR friends and exploitation of the Desert Land Act
(1877), and claimed control of the Kern River by virtue of
appropriative rights
The Court decided in favor of Miller (Lux), based on riparian
rights as superior
California Doctrine of water rights resulted from Lux v. Haggin
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California Doctrine (of water rights)
The state adopted the riparian principle but accepted
appropriation rights in certain cases:
Where an individual had previously purchased state land or a
Mexican grant, the water rights were declared to be riparian;
Where an individual had claimed water from the public domain
before 1866, he had a right of prior appropriation that could be
exercised or sold as personal property.
All grants after 1866, state or federal, came under the riparian
rule.
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Dual Rights (California Doctrine)
Blending of Appropriative and Riparian Rights
Pueblo Rights
Based on Mexican law
Paramount to all other rights.
Only affects a few towns in southern California.
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Wright Irrigation Act 1887
California Doctrine after Lux vs. Haggin put farmers who
needed water at a disadvantage.
A man named C. C. Wright made the case for the farmers in
Sacramento.
Wright was influenced by the current arguments of
71. newspaperman Henry George, who argued that land ought to be
taxed, thereby discouraging unproductive, monopolizing land-
grabbing.
The adopted Wright Act allowed for the formation of
communities based on water-interests (special districts).
Following passage of the Wright Act, irrigation projects in
California more than doubled.
Henry Miller’s triumph was thus short-lived.
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“Districts”
The outcome of the Wright Act is that communities formed
water-interest “districts,” which were enclaves that acted as
conduits of the State of California’s ownership of the water,
thus having preeminence even over riparian rights.
Financing of water-related infrastructure (e.g., irrigation canals)
came through bonds backed by land-value taxation.
As a result, individual small farmers had to contribute little
money for water-related infrastructure, while land barons, such
as Henry Miller, were taxed on their vast land holdings,
regardless of whether they were using the water.
See the paper given be E. Robert Scrofani, “The Greening of the
California Desert,” Georgist Scholars Conference, Lafayette
College, 1992.
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Local examples
The Metropolitan Water District
The largest in the United States (19 million people served)
Main source: Colorado River Aqueduct (b. 1933-1939)
Lake Havasu (Parker Dam) to Lake Mathews in Riverside
Some water also comes from northern California
Riverside, founded in 1870, was early on known as the
Riverside Land and Irrigation Company
1873: L.C. Tibbets and Eliza Tibbets planted the first navel
orange seedlings in the country, the small beginning of an
incredible future.
1875: Magnolia Avenue constructed.
1882-1886: Canadian-born Mathew Gage built the Gage Canal,
bringing water from the ancient San Bernardino underground
aquifer, allowing Riverside’s citrus industry to further grow.
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Los Angeles Aqueduct
(watch Cadillac Desert)
The Los Angeles Aqueduct was finished in 1913
It brought water from the Owens Valley to Los Angeles
The water rights were subversively secured
The agricultural vitality of the Owens Valley was compromised
Some of the offended resorted to vandalizing the aqueduct
Eventually, Mono Lake, a key place for migratory birds, was
nearly destroyed
With the waters from the aqueduct, the Los Angeles basin
became the land of green lawns and swimming pools beneath a
golden sun, and, culturally, became the national trendsetter of
the good, suburban life.
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William Mulholland
Leader of the Los Angeles Aqueduct project
Head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the
“DWP.”
Later advised on the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, and the
Colorado River Aqueduct
74. Disgraced with the catastrophic failure of the St. Francis Dam
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Mulholland and O’Shaughnessey
Water to San Francisco from Tuolumne River
Engineer: Michael O’Shaughnessy
Environmental impact: inundation and destruction of Hetch-
Hetchy canyon
Water to Los Angeles from the Owens River
Engineer: William Mulholland
Water enters L.A. at the north end of the San Fernando Valley
Environmental impact: compromise of Owens Valley
agriculture.
A case of the few sacrificed for the many
Agriculture to Agribusiness
Triumph of Diversity
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Importance of 1863-1864 drought
Devastating effect on cattle industry
People looked to agriculture as a new industry
A Bonanza in Wheat
The most important California farm product in the late
nineteenth century was wheat (1860s-1893). It became
important because:
Wheat required little or no irrigation and actually benefited
from long dry summers
Farmers knew how to grow it and it was relatively inexpensive
to grow
It was a nonperishable crop that could be transported profitably
for long distances; therefore it was shipped all over the world as
well as to the eastern United States.
From the late 1860s to the early 1890s, grain was produced in
vast amounts on the large wheat ranches of the valley.
Economic Effects
An elaborate structure for the marketing of wheat to the world
grew up almost overnight.
British and American companies bought wheat in California and
sold it on exchanges in England and elsewhere.
Isaac Friedlander, the “Grain King,” and others monopolized the
wheat industry
76. Hugh Glenn, who owned more than 60,000 acres of wheat land,
had many dozens of teams of eight horses pulling what was
known as the Stockton gang plow.
During the 1870s and 1880s, California wheat growing
developed into the most mechanized and structured form of
agriculture in the world and became the state's major export
industry
New Inventions:
First ever Steam powered tractors used in the San Joaquin
Valley (1886)
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End of the Wheat Bonanza
Competition: New wheat farms started producing on the Great
Plains and in Europe, Asia, and Australia
Overproduction glutted world markets and wheat prices
plummeted.
Soil depletion: The dry farming of wheat had the peculiar
disadvantages of a one-crop agricultural economy and year after
year of such farming inevitably depleted the soil and eventually
wheat farming was displaced by other more profitable crops
Irrigation: The spread of irrigation also helped to make other
crops more profitable and by 1890 sugar-beet production led by
Claus Spreckels in Watsonville-Salinas area and the Oxnard
brothers in southern California was a dominant crop.
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Fruit and Specialty-Crop Farming:
the benefits of diversity
Specialty crops were grown – For example, after 1870, citrus,
77. rice, winter vegetables, melons, and cotton.
Fragile, perishable, and unfamiliar to American farmers, the
new crops needed specific climates, soils, and handling.
In particular they required more water than nature provided.
Farming Organizations
Sponsor innovation
Combat disease and pests
Disseminate information
Lobby government
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Fruit and Specialty Crop Farming (cont.)
California State Agricultural Society 1854
Specialized organizations
Livestock
Wine grapes: began with the missions
By 1900, 80% of the USA wine production came from
California (R&B 204)
Deciduous fruit
Oranges
The “Riverside Navel” orange
Raisins
Nuts
Sunkist (1893) association of citrus growers
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