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The herald., 1897-01-28
THE DUCKWORTH FARCE

1t is very evident that the committee
appointed to investigate Chief Clerk
Duckworth will whitewash him, and
that the Republican majority of the
Legislature will accept the committee S
report. The fact of the business is, so
many prominent Republican leaders
are implicated in the pay roll stuffing
that they dare not permit a fair and fear
less investigation. Certainly they did
not expect to be caught in the very act
of robbing the state, but having been
caught, very naturally they would sup
press the facts if possible. and having
the power to whitewash Duckworth and
thus cover up their own frauds, they
may be relied upon to do it.
Quite number of Republican news
papers are reading the riot act to the
leaders. and warning them that If they
The herald., 1897-01-28
CURRENT COMMENT.

Boston will soon be a bowling wilder
ness Nine wolves were born in the zoo
there one day recently.
Sam Jones says there is more swearing
in Boston than in any other city in the
country except New Orlans and San
Francisco.
Chicago has at last been beaten at her
own game. A New York building is to
be twenty-line stories in height, while
Chicago has only reached twenty.
The Roman Catholic priests in Paris
have been forbidden to ride bicycles and
are not permitted to attend the theater
AS there IS no baseball in Paris, what is
there for them to do?
1t hardly seems possible to publish
anything more which can be new about
Napoleon, yet a register of the island of
Elba is said to be Forthcoming with a
large amount of original data about the
career of the Little Corporal there.
The city of Stockholm has 14,000 tele-
phones, or one for every twenty citizens,
higher average than can be found any,
where else in the world. The first word
The herald., 1897-01-28
Allah, Allah, Allah is there.
AN ENGLISH VIEW.

Mr. Mckinley, the elect Of
the United States, is still silent as to his
policy, according to etiquette; but his
closest friends are making very definite
promises in his name. They are said to
be moderate" increase of the tariff,
ION protectisn lines" the restoration
of the reciprocity treaties; an effort to-
wards international bimetallism; the de-
votion of surpluses to the retirement
of greenbacks; a large increase in the
national bank system, branch banks in
the interior receiving the privileges of
national banks, and economy in govern
ment expenditure. This is an intelli-
gible program, but one would like to
know what Mr. Mckinley means by
moderate protection, by economy" in
country where the pension list con-
sumes more than half the free revenue,
and by this absurd sentence, the main
tenance ef all kinds OF money on a
parity wish gold" Is everybody to be
paid IN gotd, silver copper or paper at
discretion? If not, where is the par
ity?"-London Spectator.
The herald., 1897-01-28

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her.
aid: Sir-The report of the proceedings
of the school board last evening does Mr.
Hess an unintentional injustice which
l would ask you to correct.
Mr. Hess has been sick for some time,
and has not been able to do the heavy
work which, as janitor of the Cambria
street school, was required of him. He
filed his resignation with the board and
it was accepted at my instance. 1t was
only in this sense that Mr.. Hess was
relieved"
Mr.. Hess bears good reputation for
fidelity and industry, as l am informed,
and wish to correct any unjust impress
sion which the brevity of your report
of the matter may have given. Respect
fully, CHARLES CASSAT DAVIS.
Los Angeles, Jan. 26
The herald., 1897-01-28
CHOOSING SENATORS

The sentiment is growing everywhere,
except in ultra partisan circles that the
election of United States senators by
state legislatures has become prolific
source of corruption, and that it should
be abandoned. When the present sys-
tenn was adopted it was supposed that
legislatures would always be composed
of the most enlightened and respecta-
BILE citizens" and that "those men only
who have become the most distinguished
by their abilities and virtues, and in
whom the people perceive just grounds
for confidence" would be chosen sena-
tors, but experience teaches that In the
states where wealth, culture and true
craftsmanship most abound, the worst
and most disreputable of party leaders
are chosen.
The decline in moral worth and in
tellectual ability in the legislatures of
the larger states, more especially in re-
cent years, has been marked to degree
that causes feeling of dissatisfaction
TO prevail all over the country, and it
may be said that public sentiment is
ripe for a radical change in the method
of electing senators. The system adopt
ed by the fathers of the republic was
an ideal one, but it was based upon be-
lief that the legislatures would always
be composed of the most honest, ca
pable and intelligent citizens, and it
may be said to have utterly failed in
most of the states. Generally speaking,
it is not the "enlightened ana respecta-
BILE citizen" who goes to the legislature,
nor are those men who have become
"the most distinguish by their abilities
and virtue" always chosen for senators.
California has had reason in the past
to know how that is herself"
Because of their numerical strength,
commercial Importance and natural ad-
vantages, New York, Pennsylvania and
Illinois should be represented in the
United States senate by men distin-
guished by their abilities and virtue, but
are they? The legislatures of all three
of these states have just elected senators,
and long before the balloting ebgan it
was annuonced that no man "distin-
guished by his ability and virtue" need
apply. The New York legislature
choice fell upon a man who stands for
everything that is low and dishonest
in politics, and who regards the spoils
of office the beginning and the end of
craftsmanship. Pennsylvania has chos-
en- one Of Quay's henchmen, a man who
is distinguished by just such abilities
and virtue as make one acceptable to
the worst ring of public plunderers that
ever ruled state" The Illinois legisla-
ture assumed a virtue when it refused
to let its choice fall upon one of the
most notorious Doodle aldermen in the
history of municipal government, but it
selected the alderman's political friend
and companion.
In Ohio the sentiment of the leaders
Df his party is that Hanna should have
The herald., 1897-01-28
BUSINESS MEN AND POLITICS.

There are few professionals in every
community who make it their business
to run things" They gather liveli
hood by running things. Sometimes
according to the measure of their skill
or audacity, they get very we'll off in
this worlds goods by levying tribute
upon the public. Thus politics, which
is a noble game, is prostituted to igno-
bic uses, and the people are robbed un-
der the cloak of party. Only when
business men shall insist on conducting
the city business on the same lines of
prudent management that private bust
ness is conducted will there be any
change for the better, But the business
men will always have other business
to engage them when city officials are
to be selected.--Philadelp Record
The herald., 1897-01-28
IDLENESs IN PRISONS.

Convicts must be worked to save them
from the attacks Of disease, from filthi-
ness and madness. We had to abolish
solitary confinement of murderers be-
cause the punishment was inhuman.
1t drove the victims to pitiable idiocy
or else to mocking insanity. We cannot
plunge our entire prison population IN
to like misery and torture to crafty the
Illogical behests of those who imagine
that convict In prison is more dan
gerous competitor than the same con-
vict as a citizen is out of the prison.
Detroit Journal
The herald., 1897-01-28
SALT LAKE RAILROAD

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her
aid: The situation of the Union Pacific
handicapped as they have been by the
connection with the Central Pacific,
would be immensely changed for the
better by direct line to Los Angeles
via southern Utah and Nevada. 1t is NO
wonder the Vanderbilts are anxious to
secure such through line for them
selves as this would make And there
are plenty of good people who predict
that this is as good as accomplished.
F. M. SHAW.
Los Angeles. Jan. 27.
The herald., 1897-01-28
GOOD WORD FOR TOBACCO USERS.

The users of tobacco get a good deal
of criticism, but they are important peo-
pie from the standpoint of revenue. In
less than thirty years the United States
government has received in revenue
from tobacco more than $1,000 900, 900.
If this had not been contributed by
those who are willing to pay for their
luxury, the taxes of the non-users of
tobacco would have been raised in that
proportion, or the government would
have been that much poorer.-Baltimore
American,
The herald., 1897-01-28
AWAY WITH THE THEATER HAT.

If the young men who take young
ladies to places of amusement will form
themselves into an oath-bound society
pledged to take no girl to the theater
who wears a hat during the perform
ance, we believe the problem would
be solved, so far as unmarried females
are concerned. AS for the married wo-
men, it might be we'll to amend the mar
riage contract so as to make the wife
swear that she would love, honor and
obey" and take off her hat in the thea
ter.-Memphis Commercial-Appeal
The herald., 1897-01-28
ONE ROAD TO PROSPERITY.

Too many men have devoted all their
time to their business and left politics
to those who make politics q trade. The
result is political conditions that make
any business venture risky and hard
times universal. If the real business
men of the nation would realize the
necessity Of taking an intelligent part
IN politics the result would be better
men in office, better laws. wiser policies
and more rosperity.-Omaha World
Herald
The herald., 1897-01-28

Senator Teller continues to remark
that John Sherman knows less about
foreign affairs than the average school
boy. But he was given the state port.
folio to make room in the senate for
Hanna. Do you not understand the
situation, Mr. Teller?
The herald., 1897-01-28
NO REDEEM1NG OF PLEDGES.

The Republican leaders seem to be at
sea on everything else but the increase
of taxation. They know how to lay
heavier and heavier taxes each year,
and they know how to increase appro-
priations in the fact of the fact that
the income of the treasury is not equal
to the expenses of the government
These things they are doing, but they
are not raising hand to carry out their
pledges to the people.-Atlanta Consti-
tntiOn
The herald., 1897-01-28


For his oerarching and last lesson the
graybeard suh,
In the fresh scent of the morning in the
open air,
On the slope teeming Persian rose
garden,
Under an ancient chestnut tree wide
spreading it's branches,
Spoke to the young priests and students.
FINALLY my children. to envelop each word
each part of the rest.
Allah is all, ALL all-is imminent in every
life and object,
Maybe at many and many-a-more removes
yet
Allah, Allah, Allah is there.
HAS the estray wandler'd far? Is the rea-
son why strangely hidden?
Would you sound below the restless ocean
of the entire world?
Woud you kno wthe dissatisfaction? The
urge and spur of every life:
The something never still'd-never entirely
gone?
The invisible need of every seed?
at is the central urge in every atom
(Often unconscious, often evil, ,downfallen),
To return to its divine source and origin,
however distant,
Latent the same subject and in object
without one exception"
Walt Whitman, Good bye, My Fancy
The herald., 1897-01-28
MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS.

Manufacturers of machineryappeared
before the ways and means committee
and requested that the existing duty
of % per cent ad valorem on machinery
be increased. But they said not word
regarding the fact hat in 1896 the value
of our exports OF machinery amounted
to s21 266,3 and the value of imports
of machinery amounted to only S2.Sl6,
729. No wonder there are signs Of grow
ing dlstrust over the grab-bag tariff
game-Buffalo Courier
The herald., 1897-01-28
SOUTHERN IRON.

1t is noteworthy fact that all the
clamor before the Dingley committee
for additional protection on pig iron
comes from the proprietors of idle north
ern furnaces. Their southern compet-
itors have no time to waste in seeking
government favors. They are busy
turning out the many thousands of tons
The herald., 1897-01-28

of their product necessary to meet their
growing European orders. In the swell
ing vigor of the great industry which
they have developed almost in a decade
they have built a tower of commercial
strength which scorns assistance from
any source and is amply able to take
care of itself in any market-Chatta-
noogo News.
The herald., 1897-01-28

1t is not so much of a surprise that a
bill was introduced in the senate yes
terday to oblige the cadets at West Point
to attend and participate in the Nc
Kinley inaugural ceremonies as that
twenty senators voted for it. If they
keep on, the militia of all the states will
be ordered to parade on that occasion.
Why not make it a legal holiday? What
fools some of us YANKEES are coming to
The herald., 1897-01-28

do not punish Duckworth their own po-
litical death will be the penalty, but
that Is all moonshine. They will return
to the bosom of their constituents, and
all will be forgiven, just as they have
been forgiven time and again In the
past. Republicans do not go to the leg
islature as a rule for their health, nei-
ther are they driven to seek election by
a burning desire to serve their country
There is business side to it all, and
Duckworth's methods are their meth
DDS, only that Duckworth bungled the
work, when he should have so oiled the
machinery that there would be no creak-
ing.
The majority side of the legislature
is under the control of professional Re-
publican politicians, and they have been
through "the mill too orten before not
to know how to cover up Duckworth's
bad generalship and make 1t all right
with their home following; besides. who
ever Hedru ol ieSlsidtoi' VI dH eIilpiose
of a legislature disgorging ill-gotten
money. or of an investigating committee
investigating "all there is in it?" That
all in interest are disgusted at Duck
worth's stupidity, there is no doubt, but
there is a good deal Of difference be-
tween being disgusted because Of having
been caught. and being disgusted at the
principle and purpose of the plundering
scheme.
The herald., 1897-01-28
THE PUBLIC PULSE

(Ths Herald under this heading prints
communications, but does not assume re-
sponsibility for the sentiments expressed.
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as is consistent with the
proper expression of their views.)
The herald., 1897-01-28

Weyler has won another great victory.
He caused rebel hospital full of wound
ed and sick to be destroyed by fire
Nearly all the inmates perished in the
flames
The herald., 1897-01-28

Senator Wolcott has gone to Paris. He
hopes to find few International bimet-
allists in the French country. but he
will push on to Germany later on, any
way.
The herald., 1897-01-28
WALES OUTDONE.

AS the prince Of Wales has run In
debt at the rate of only $50, 900, 900 q
year, he cannot approach the Mckinley
tariff a deficit creator. 1t ran behind
s75,000,0O0 in one year.-Kansas City
Times,
The herald., 1897-01-28

1t transpires that negotiations look
ing to an arbitration treaty between the
United States and Great Britain were
begun by Secretary Gresham.
The herald., 1897-01-28

McKinley's extra session of congress
will be the thirteenth since the forma-
ton of the government. Thirteen is a
bad luck number Poor old Mckinley.
The herald., 1897-01-28

II don't see any mistletoe hanging in
the oldtime place." said George reproach-
fully.
Papa could not afford it this year"
replied Grace, coyly; but I've got the
ribbon in my hair I used to hang the
mistletoe up with
George fell over himself.-New York
World.
The herald., 1897-01-28

The Omaha Bee is of the opinion that
the arbitration treaty business will not
be closed up until the 100000 appropria-
ton Is exhausted.
The herald., 1897-01-28
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The herald., 1897-01-28
HUMOR OF THE HOUR

Eff1e (after witnessing her first christ
ening)-Mummie, do they water them
to make them row?-London Pick Me-
Up.
The herald., 1897-01-28
A PERSIAN LESSON

The people are getting impatient t
have the police force increased.
The herald., 1897-01-28

"Pshaw, you don't know nuthin'," said
little Tommy Toodlemacker, scornfully.
There never was a man with a blue
beard"
Well" said Susie Heffelfinger, my
papa knows man with lilac whiskers-
so now!"-Washington Times.
The herald., 1897-01-28
He-So you have ambitions.

She-Yes, decidedly. 1 want to solve
some important problem.
well, you just study out how to bring
up a family on SIS week, and We'll get
married. Life.
The herald., 1897-01-28

The Herald Publishing company nerepy
arrest and conviction of anyone lounG
stealing a copy or copies Of THE ihR "a ~
from wherever the same may nave peeh
placed by carrier for delivery 10 patrons.
The herald., 1897-01-28

Women go into politics." he explain
ed, "for the cheap notoriety 1t offers. OF
course they don't care for notoriety, in
itself, but being cheap
He paused to assist himself to second
plate Of pork-and from the free lunch
counter-with the distinctive avidity
that betokens the man rather of thought
than of action.-Detroit Journal.
He's very enterprising young man."
remarked the elderly gentleman; very
pushing and alert He belongs to the
rising generation"
II shouldn't have dreamed it," replied
Miss Cayenne.
'Indeed?"
mo From his manners I should not
have hesitated about concluding that the
rising generation belonged to him. -
Washington Star.
He Didn't Catch On.-Chawley-Wh
did you say to my wife last night that
made her draw such longing, hopeful
sigh?
Reggy-I told her that she would make
the most stunning widow in all New
York if she only had the opportunity.
Chawley-Ah! / don't wonder that
you are so popular. You have the act
of saying such deuced chahming things
to the ladies, don't you know. Do have
a drink.-New York Journal.
The herald., 1897-01-28

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The herald., 1897-01-28

If free soup house is what Hanna
meant when he said McKinley's election
would make times better, he may be put
down as a good prophet. for there are
more free soup houses and more people
who are obliged to drink free soup than
ever before in this country
The herald., 1897-01-28
TONIGHT'S ADJUSTMENTS

LOS ANGELES.-The Old Homestead.
BUPBANE.-Uncle Toms Cabin.
ORPHEUM.-Vaud
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,JANTTOR HESS

Los Angeles, Jan. 27.
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