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The herald., 1897-10-31
WANTED-A HOTEL
The Oakland Saturday Press of recel

The Oakland Saturday Press of recent
date says
With splendid park and big tour
ist hotel, Oakland would cut into Los
Angeles popularity as a winter resort
in very lively fashion. In fact, it is
largely the fault of her own citizens
that Oakland has not been running a
neck-and-neck race with Los Angeles
for half a dozen years past.
1t is somewhat humiliating to be
obliged to publicly confess it, but it is
a fact, that whatever popularity Los
Angeles may have gained in recent years
as a winter resort, has been secured
without the aid of hotel such as the
Saturday Press describes. We ought to
have one; there is no question about
that The man who will build and op-
crate a first class winter resort hotel in
this city will not need to worry about the
safety of his investment.
To be sure, Los Angeles has hotels.
brick and mortar and plate glass af-
fairs, such as may be found in any city,
They are well enough in their place, but
they do not fill the bill, in Los Angeles.
The eastern tourist comes here from
cold climate. He has read that Los
Angeles is the gateway of paradise.
where the flowers bloom and the birds
sing and balmy zephyrs blow all winter
| long. He wants to get the benefit Of
these delights and is willing to pay eor
them. that is what he has left his frigid
home in the east for
He comes to Los Angeles and looks up
the leading hotels. He finds that they
are all down town caravansares, on the
business streets. He cannot get away
from the bricks and the dirt and the
noise, but he can eat on the sidewalk, or
next to it, and peruse his morning paper
while seated in full view of the passin :
throng, who peer and wonder. If east
ern visitors enjoy such vulgarity such
an intrusion of domesticty upon the
public notice, they are queer people.
Even hotel ought to have a little pri-
vacy, a little homeness within its walls.
Let the same man go, say, to the Ho-
| tel Vendome, at San Jose There he finds
the ideal Southern California hotel, with
its flowers, and lawns, walks, shrub
| berry and drives. He finds other pleas
ures beside eating and sleeping and be-
ing Sazed at The spacious grounds are
for his enjoyment and benefit. Or, per-
haps he goes to the Hotel Coronado, at
! Coronado Beach. There he finds the
same beautiful surroundings, with Old
ocean thrown in. And he is glad he
came. At the Del Monte he is in an
arbored paradise.
The Hotel Raymond, with it's magnl.
cent site, unequaled view, fine grounds
and beautiful flowers. was one of the
greatest advertisements that Southern
California ever had. We have had moth
ing in or near Los Angeles since to take
| is place. There are thousands of peo-
The herald., 1897-10-31
A GEORGE MEMORIAL

The New York World has opened a
subscription for a public memorial to
the late Henry George. 1t is headed
by Mayor Strong, and will be opened to
contributors from all over the country.
There should be many subscribers from
California, the former home state OF
the great reformer. Mr. George is sure
ly entitled to such a remembrance al
the hands of the American people for
whom he specially labored and if the
memorial is in proportion to his ability
and fearless honesty, it will be imposing
indeed.
The New York World will acknowl-
edge promptly all subscriptions for
warded to it by telegraph, mail or ex-
press.
The herald., 1897-10-31
WHO IS HENRY GEoRGEp

A few weeks ago the Jeffersoniar
Democracy of Greater New York nomi-
mated a man for mayor of that new cor
poration-a man who had a national
reputation and who was known by the
name of Henry George.
The tickets were duly printed accord
ing to law and on that ticket, among
other names was that of Henry George,
who was candidate for mayor.
Last Friday morning Henry George
died and the Jeffersonian Democracy
was without candidate, and under the
Australian ballot law it was impossible
for that party to put another name as
candidate for mayor on that ticket.
There was another man residing in
the city of New York who was known
as Henry George, jr. When Henry
George died Henry George, jr.. became
known legally as Henry George.
The Jeffersonian Democracy held a
meeting Friday afternoon and nominat-
ed this second Henry George as its
-ca4seaiiellss for mayer to fillthe Vacancy
occasioned by the death of the first
Henry George.
His name is already printed on the
Australian ballot. When it was print
ed thereon it represented another man,
but now it represents the new candidate.
No other name could have been put on
that ballot under the law
Suppose that a majority of the voters
of Greater New York next Tuesday vote
for Henry George for mayor; will the
new Henry George be elected, or will
the votes be thrown out? Under the
law does Henry George-the young
man-have legal rights greater than
those possessed by any other man, for
he is the only man that could have his
name on that ballot?
These are legal questions that have
probably never before arisen under the
Australian ballot and are not likely to
arise again during the next hundred
years. There is no telling what may be
the result of the mayoralty election in
Greater New York next Tuesday. IN
der the inspiration of a great popular
outpouring of the people at the funeral
of the late Henry George his friends may
solidify their strength and popularize the
sons candidacy so thoroughly that he
may be voted into the seat proposed for
his father
But if he is elected, will he be elected ?
The herald., 1897-10-31
BLACK AND RED FLAGS

| Mr.. Wayne McVeagh, in a recent
| speech at the University of Pennsyi-
vania, said: There is more danger to
this country from the black flag of cor
ruptionists than from the red flag of
anarchists" This is truth which the
people probably do not realize as fully
as they should. Disturbance of social
conditions and attack upon law and
order by force are patent and they there
fore excite greater apprehension, but all
such demonstrations may be met and
overcome with comparative ease, for
the great body of the American people
will promptly respond to the call of the
authorities to suppress them. All such
manifestations have been abortive SO
far as producing any permanent result
is concerned.
Corruption, on the other hand, is in
sidious and unseen until its work IS
consummated, and thereafter it's per-
petrators are rarely brought to condign
punishment. 1t imperceptibly saps the
foundations of moral principles and
brings on general supineness in regard
to the public welfare. 1t is more diff
vtE4t to sssf h in
the dark than one that fights openly and
without disguise.
There may be tyranny without cor
ruption, but whenever there is corrup-
ton tyranny in some form is liable to
be its attendant. The tendency of des-
potism is to provoke disorder and an
archy. The French revolution of 1898.
with it's vicissitudes and boodshed, was
provoked by the prolgacy and corrup-
tion of the government. Anarchy super
venes from the decentralization which
corruption inevitably produces.
Tyranny is enforced in many other
ways than by the presence of armies
and gendarmes. 1t may be through the
enactment of unequal laws, the grant
ing of special privileges and their en-
forcement by the courts. If monopoly
and trusts are fostered or tolerated il
may be regarded as certain that cor
ruption in some or all branches of thc
government is behind them. They do
not employ argument, but money to gain
their privileges and to sustain them
selves. The extent of monopoly and
trusts may be taken as the measure of
corruption that prevails. Inordinate
expenses of government proceed more
from dishonesty of public officials than
from ignorance. If there were no cor
ruption. the spirit of anarchy would
die out for want of sustenance. If the
people would suppress secret public
enemies, they would experience little OF
no trouble from the bolder and more dis
orderly element.
Publication of our politics is the frs
and most important step to be taken
No erroneous economic or commercial
policies can produce so much poverty
want and unhappiness as political an
official corruption.
The herald., 1897-10-31

The New York Journal asserts that
Boss Platt has called on the rest of the
Republican bosses for $4,000 to op-
paign. 1t says that he has received from
the national Republican committee the
surplus of the presidential campaign
fund, amounting to $15O,00O. 1t is evil
dent that national money is to be in
jected into the campaign, if national is
sues are not. Platt is to guarantee the
vote of New York to Mckinley in 1900 as
security for the money. Perhaps Platt
may not be able to deliver the goods.
The herald., 1897-10-31

pie in good circumstances who would
come here every winter if they could
go to a Hotel Del Monte or Hotel Ray
mond, Hotel Vendome or Hotel Coro-
nado, who now go elsewhere. We can
not secure and retain that class of Wis
itors with our down town hotels, espe-
cially with those that mistake vulgarity
for style.
Who and where is the man that will
give Los Angeles such a hotel az she
needs?
The herald., 1897-10-31
THE HERALD'S MUSE
The Rain


Now fall the jeweled drops that caeshe
grain.
I hear the sweet refrain,
| Q, softly whispering rain!
Thou to the million thirs ting. waiting seeds
| Dost bring their silvery needs.
Sweet is the pattering strain;
Long sere the hills have lain,
And dust hath clothed the mountain and
the plair.
The wild bird makes her nest,
And warns with beating breast
Her unfiedged young, close to the globes
of gold.
Set in great calaplets-lustrous to behold!
White starry blossoms shine
Amidst the glossy leaves
And rich the dark earth heaves
Where droops the withered vine.
Still rings that silvery chime!
Sweet is the wind which moves the fresh
ened boughs.
Sweet wind and rain thy wordless songs
arouse
The sleepings things below.
From the bold mountains heart come
tinkling rlls,
Breathing of spicy haunts, fern hid, where
start
The tender blooms that WOO the bird and
bee.
They mlngle with thy HOW.
And with unmea assured glee
Rush DER the bold rampant
And quicken to the flood, and seam the
hills
With roaring torrents, while the low cloud
spills
The silvery showers to gladden. earth's sad
heart
Soft sounds the dear refrain;
Earth will be green again.
Gilt by the sun, dewed by the pattering
rain!
SYLVIA LAWSON COVEY.
The herald., 1897-10-31

Are the Republicans of Ohio scared?
1t would seem so, from the fact that John
Sherman deems it necessary to issue a
pronunciamento at this late day, in
which he announces his purpose to go to
his home to vote the Republican ticket.
The venerable John evidently regards
himself as an oracle of his party, and
that Hanna, Mckinley & Co. concur.
Poor Uncle John may not be in his
by political bosses, instead of by the peo-
pie,
The herald., 1897-10-31
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1897.
THE TRANs-sIBERIAN RAILWAY

Few realize the magnitude of the
great public work now being so vigor-
ously pushed by the Russian govern
ment in the railway through Siberia.
and fewer still realize it's Importance
to the Pacific coast.
On Oct Sth Admiral Alexeioff of the
Russian navy arrived in San Francisco
from China, and annuonced that 500
miles of the great transcontinental line
had been completed eastward from
Vladivostock. the most southeasterly
point in Russia on the Sea of Japan
He reports that a syndicate of Chi
nese and Russian capitalists will con-
struct a line, probably from Pekin
through Manchuria to the same point.
A second line will pass down through
Manchuria to Port Arthur on the Yel-
low sea. But the Russian government
Russian soil. The whole cost of the
work is estimated at s261, 900 10000.
Already the Pacific coast is doing
business with Siberia as a result of
this work. Railroad ties and other tim
ber are being shipped from Puget sound
points, from Portland and from San
Francisco. Flour is also going and
from this on the trade is likely to grow
rapidly.
The total length of the road from
Cheliabinsk to Vladivostock is 454,
miles. Nearly half of this is completed
and nearly 1000 miles year are being
built. Already the largest ferry boats
in the world are being constructed to
take trains bodily across Lake Baikal,
nearly 100 miles wide. There are 10000
men at work on the line, and it should be
quite completed before the Paris expo
sition at the end of the century.
The branch from the main line direct
to Pekin, distance of between 900 and
700 miles, is under way. FromVladivo-
stock to Nagasaki, Japan, is 600 miles.
The completion of the road and its
branches will create great changes in
trade. For London merchant to reach
Japan or China by way of the Atlantic
ocean, the Canadian Pacific railroad, or
one of our lines, and thence by steamer
again across the Pacific, he will have to
travel about $1,000 miles and spend 2
month on the road. The New Yorker
saves 5000 miles and six days of his
travel the San Franciscan saves 5000
miles and ten days. When the Russian
railway is completed a Londoner may
reach Japan in about half the time it
takes now.
The Transsiberian road will connect
more closely with Western europe in
Russia China and Japan ovs. 800, ,000,-
600 people-a third part of all the in
habitants of the earth. 1t will open up
Siberia, now mostly a great waste, but
capable of being made to yield more
wheat than is produced in the world
today Vast herds of cattle may be
maintained on these great steppes
Cities will grow up at many points. and
industries will follow, one on the heels
Of the other.
For US it means market for fifty.
perhaps one hundred, years for fruits,
wines. farming and other machines
With q harbor at San Pedro and tbs
Salt Lake road built, it means iron
working mills of various kinds and d
great commerce for Los Angeles. 1t is
none too soon to begin to prepare fol
grrat development in this line. If w,
are ready at the start we will enter oi
the trade on equal footing with al
comp etitors. If we are late in the race
we el:ter Handicapped. To bring the Goa
The herald., 1897-10-31

OF the several candidates at present in
the field for the Republican guberna-
torial nomination, Attorney General
Fitzgerald seems to be in the lead. He
is an able and popular man, and has the
additional advantage of hailing from
both sections of the state, having lived
here for some years previous to his re-
moval to Northern California. Mr.. Fitz-
gerald has a great many friends who
think he has more than fighting chance
to get the nomination.
The herald., 1897-10-31

Judge Allen of the district court of
Denver has rendered a very important
decision to the effect that the Colorado
fiscation of gambling property is a vio
lation of the statute of the United States,
which says that no person shall be de-
prived of his property without due
process of law. He also said that the
state constitution contained the same
provision in substance 1t will soon be
necessary to appoint guardian for the
law, as it does not seem to be able to take
care of itself.
The herald., 1897-10-31
THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES

The Herald respectfully calls the at
tention of the people of Los Angeles to
the communication from one of the di-
rectors of the Associated Charities,
printed elsewhere in this mornings pa
per.
1t seems almost incredible that out of
1000 postal card requests for member
ship subscriptions of 81 or more, there
The herald., 1897-10-31

and iron mines of Utah within reach OF
us is to give us great advantage. These
mines are nearer San Pedro than any
other port, the haul is nearly all down
hill, and there are no snow-covered
mountains to climb.
With developments that seem almost
inevitable. Los Angeles is destined to
be one of the great cities OF the world.
The herald., 1897-10-31
Administration Supporters Disguised

The people of Ohio have found but little
to approve in the Mckinley administra-
ton. Its shameless bartering of public
offices all over the country to build up
rnahnal Hanna macEiulle, the passage of the
Dingley bill which has ruined much of our
trade with South America and favored
trusts and monopolies at home; its pitiful
weak management of our foreign affairs,
especially in Cuban matters, has disgusted
it's ssupporters.--Dayton Times.
The herald., 1897-10-31
Centralizing Railroad Management

If present arrangem ents are carried out
and they seem certain to be- on Nov 1st the
Union Pacific railroad system will pass
under the control of syndicate of which
j. Pierpont Morgan is the leading spirit.
Negotiations are in advanced stage of per-
fection, under the terms of which the Bal
timore and Ohio, the last genuinely COM
peting road between the Mississippi valley
and the Atlantic seaboard, will also pass
into his hands. Opinion is already growing
in favor of the naturalization of railroads
and it is given tremendous impetus by
consolidation such as that projected by
the New York syndcate.-Des Moines
Leader.
The herald., 1897-10-31
Los ANGELES DAILY HERALD
SWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION

State of California, County of Los Ange-
les.-ss.
L. NJ. Holt, superintendent Of circulation
Of the Los Angeles Daily Herald, being
first duly sworn deposes and says: That
for the five months from February l, 1897,
to June 80. 1897 Qnclusive), the total circu-
lation of the said Daily Herald was .29o 6So
copies, being an average daily circula-
tiOn of S6O4.
That the weekday circulation during the
above time was 1071,567. being daily
average of S3O6 copies.
That the Sunday circulation during the
above time was 219,O59 being an average
for each Sunday of 1O,431.
L. NJ. HOLT,
Superintendent of Circulation.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day of July, 1897.
FRANK ]. COOPER,
Notary Public in and for the County OF
Los Angeles. State of California.
The herald., 1897-10-31

The critics who cannot write poetry
nor good prose are criticising Rudyarl
kipling's grammar. This pleases them
and does not harm Kipling. AS the New
York Times says: "a poet is poet, not
a Murray or Turveydrop."
The herald., 1897-10-31

President Mckinley is reported as hav-
ing told General Stanley that the people
of Southern California need have no fur
ther anxiety about the harbor-that it
shall be built. Now, if the president
will simply order Alger to go ahead just
as a guaranty of good faith, the people
hereabouts will tie stone to their anx-
iety and drop it in the deepest part of
San Diego bay.
The herald., 1897-10-31
Common Hereditary Trait

Doctor. what do you regard as the
sures,o hereditary trait-that is, what pc
culia.tty is most likely 10 be irherited?'
my Observations lead me to bedeve that
The desire TO escape work rs about tine most
common thing people irilperit Chicago
journal
The herald., 1897-10-31
SYLVIA LAW SUN GOV Z
Los Angeles, Oct q, 1897.
The Hired Mans Dream


The hired man is dreamin' O. the old life
an the new,
Of the cosy little cottage where the honey
suckles grew:
The daisies an the four o'clocks, the yellow
sunflowers tall,
And the bright-eyed little woman. who
was sweeter than 'em all.
How we ulster sit and dream, buildin' cas-
ties in the air,
Her head upon my shoulder an the sum
beams in her hair;
Then I'd tell her how loved her, an kiss
her sweet mouth too,
And we'd talk about the future an the
things we meant to do.
How we'd build home fer mother, an
make her heart so glad,
An send the boy to college when he'd
grown stronger lad;
How we'd help the poor an needy wherever
they might be,
An lend a helpin' hand to all less for
tunate than we.
The grass plat an the meader an the little
garden spot,
Where the bees were gettn' honey from
the sweet forget-me-not;
see it all as l saw it then vet 1t seems
so fer away,
But the scenes as bright in memory as
twas that happy day.
The years they come an the years they
go, but they're one an the same to me.
For my lifes best hopes are blighted an
the dream was ne'er to be;
I'm gettin' old an helpless an the future
has naught in store,
But 1 can't help dreamin' the dreams an
livin' the old days DER.
G. E, B.
The herald., 1897-10-31
Hanna Slipping Down the Toboggar

The cons llsus of opinion points strongly
to the defeat of Senator Hanna in his
herculean struggle for a reelection. His
rapid slide down the political toboggan has
never had a parellel in this country: from
pinnacle to pit in a little more than a
twelvemonth is a descent never before eX-
perienced by any other politician in the
United States. His downfall will be a just
rebuke upon bossism, of which he was the
greatest exponent ever known.-Man-
chester On. H.) Union.
The herald., 1897-10-31

Only five cities in the country show
decreases in their bank clearings this
where the conditions are affected by the
yellow fever epidemic and scare. While
the average increase is 22.9 per cent, Los
Angeles shows up with 50.7 per cent.
The herald., 1897-10-31

A Kentucky preacher who declared
from his pulpit that there was no devil
was elected from the house of God by his
scandalized and indignant flock, and
about twenty pistol shots were fired
after him to accelerate his departure
The country folks are bound to have a
devil, if they have to fight for him.
The herald., 1897-10-31
Alhambra, CAL, Oct. q. 1897.
The Tales Mute Things Could Tell

The Tales Mute Things Could Tell
How many a nook by some ripping brook
Could tell a tale of love or hate!
How many tale ne'er penned in book
Has been told by the old garden gate.
How many a bench, weatherbeaten and
gray,
That has stood In some park for years.
Could tell a tale where April and May
Were bathed in each others tears!
How many an unthought lesson to learn.
How many the broken spell!
The old world, surprised, would cease to
turn
At the tales mute things could tell.
-WILLIAM CLINTON DAILY.
October IL. 1897,
The herald., 1897-10-31

Richard Croker was hissed at po-
litical meeting at Tammany hall Thurs
day. The meeting was held in Tam
many hall, and Tammany braves did the
Kissing. Croker was so mortified and
disgusted that he went out and hid him
self. Kisses for Croker will not elect
Van Wyck.
The herald., 1897-10-31

NJ. S. Sparks of Pomona has sold the
oranges on his ten-acre orchard for
$4,000. His orchard is only eight years
old, and he has already realized $4,000
from it. Ten acres in California is more
profitable than 100 almost anywhere else.
The herald., 1897-10-31
To Fit the Case

Freshmal,-H Hajrleng, the fullback lcs'c
tlat game yesterday. He's always bung-
Irg.
Soph-Yes: they ought to call k'm tire
draw back-Ph .ladelphiia North American.
The herald., 1897-10-31

There is no probability that Weylcr
will ask the British government for a
job in India. The fighting is too much
like the real thing.
The herald., 1897-10-31
Not Disposed to Denx

"T d,cm't believe his ar'o,e'.cns came over
om the Mayflcwer"
''Oh. l wouldn' wonGler. THE stock seems
TO have lad plenty of time to run out
chicago journal.
The herald., 1897-10-31
Enough to Rouse the Sphinx

"They are playing gorf withirp sight of
the pyramids"
"say. if That dcesn't make THE Sphinx
talk, l dorl't know what will."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The herald., 1897-10-31
An Autumn Product

The chrysanthemums bloom, as the days
wane,
The trees their fall garments doth wear:
Autumn has come, with its bracing rain,
And its crop of football hair.
e P C.
The herald., 1897-10-31

Now that Spring and Main streets are
to be paved how about Sixth street, ths
condition of which is equally bad.
The herald., 1897-10-31

The Herald's exchange table con-
tinues to groan under the burden of
marked papers from all over the country
condemning the alleged discrimination
against the manufactures of other states
by the California law. The offense has
been denied so frequently that the
mares nest ought to be pretty well scat
tered by this time. A careful reading of
the complaints discloses that the editors
most Of them, at least-were merely
writing against space. They all say
the same thing, in much the same man
ner, excepting when an occasional DEM
ocratic paper very properly rebukes its
Republican contemporaries for kicking
when the principle of protection is
brought home to them. By the way, the
militia department of this state has
given Cincinnati clothing firm a $4,000
order. Does that look like interstate
discrimination?