The herald., 1896-10-22
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
! HUTCHISON'S KICKS )

IL would seem to casual observer and
to one who has injured his neck trying
to decipher the inscriptions on the Los
Angeles street cars at night that some
means might be devised whereby the
long suffering and impatient public
might be enabled to distinguish one car
from another at the distance Of two or
three steps,
The spectacle afforded by half hun
dred citizens and their families who have
escaped from the theater at II o'clock p.
m. and are enjoying the privilege of rae
ing up and down the street, inspecting
the passing street cars like sand hill
cranes looking for infant crawfish, is
one of the most common of the after
dark tableaux now enjoyed by the deni-
zens of the holy city.
If some one with keen, observant eye,
Will glance over some of the alleged
streets in the Eighth ward, he will notice
that Macy street, which was torn UP
and rendered chaotic for the alleged
purpose of putting down street car
tracks, Is still as it was last spring when
1t was torn up. The same observer may
glance over all the streets of the Eighth
ward without finding one-tenth ofthem
In as good condition as are the country
roads of the most remote sections of
this state There is no excuse for leav-
ing the streets in such a chaotic condi-
tion merely because they are not graded
or paved under some oppressive bond
act or other scheme of public robbery.
Near the corner of Amelia and Lazard
streets the wooden street crossings are
in such a condition that the school chill
q ~ nj tn n L. In he rrrrff ffnrc
when they should walk on suitable cross
ings.
The improper authorities are hereby
notified that they must have the street
sprinkled in front Of New Macy street
school so that no cloud of dust will be
stirred up by passing teams to blow all
over the 800 school children assembled
there to learn, and who have some rights
that must be respected-even by the
city government Of Los Angeles.
Is it possible that this city will pay
several millions Of dollars for lot of
ancient water pipe that is already so de-
fective that 1t leaks in hundreds of places
and which was laid in the most un-
scientific manner. SO that most of 1t can
never be utilized as a part of complete
system for the whole city?
The supremest tests of human charac-
ter are always applied to individuals
during great political campaigns. Such
walking delegates as have proved them
selves traitors will now be given a ride
and the keenness of the edges of the rails
tally detract from the pleasure of the
mount.
The other morning an honest citizen
was Mortified to hear Hon. Ben Ward
and a good friend of his remark that "the
cursed workingmen were never satis-
fled unless they had their hands in other
peoples pockets"
Perhaps the time of reckoning is COM
ing.
1t is becoming as difficult for an hon.
est man to register and secure the
right" to vote as 1t ever was for a
Campbell to slip through the eye of a
needle. But the real rough rogue thrives
on our "purity" system to most alarm
ing and corpulent extent. The canvass
ers for one enterprising political party
have already discovered no less than
four hundred cases of false registration
in one ward of this city. 1t is SO because
the city is afraid to punish rogues when
they are so notorious as to be known, OF
when they are so unfortunate as to be
UNKNOWN. we pidte CoHtiHudiy
of our bravery. when as q
matter of fact. we can not
find one man in thousand who Is brave
enough to stand up for the right when he
knows it is to be the cause of contention
or to condemn rascality when 1t is seer
to be abroad and in a devouring mood
Imagine the sneers and derision with
which we would hNnr the announcement
that some other city was in such state
of lethargy as to permit rascals to run
the government as our own city govern
ment has been run in the years that are
waning-and the indications are that
they are waning. Yours truly,
EDWARD L. HUTCHINSON.