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The herald., 1897-05-28
Bryan's Moral Stature

To the Editor of the Los Angeles
Herald: You may look In vain over the
field of American politics to find man
anywhere near w. J. Bryan in the esti-
nation of the people. He stands alone
in that he speaks what he thinks is
right, without fear or favor. He stands
for the great common people. and in
his fearlessness honesty and intensity
Of purpose compares with that other
great ccmmoner. Abraham Lincoln
In the early history Of our republic
the aristocracy felt Il their duty to
serve their country, and Washington
and jefferson stand as models for the
money arigtocracy OF today Lincoln
and Bryan. coming from the people.
felt the heartbeats Of distress. and, like
knights of old. they answered the cali
Of the suffering world.
Lincoln stood for principle, and con-
tending for that principle in the Lincoln
Douglas debates, lost seat In the Unit
ed States senate.
Mr. Bryan, contending for cause as
Just as Lincoln's met defeat at the hands
Of the allied money power Of the world,
but in his defeat became greater man
than II he had won. He showed him.
self man in his prompt note of congrat-
ulation to Mr.. Mckinley. and in his later
appeal to his thousands of followers
He has proved himself knight sans
peur ct sans reproche. One whom the
masses look upon as leader in their
great fight for Justice. Looking into
the heart Of things, finding grin of
truth, he plants it in fallow ground that
it may bring forth an hundred fold. He
has the tender insight of poet, and no
man reading his address at the bier of
q friend can ever doubt his faith and
belief in the good and true and the
beautiful eventually overcoming evil.
Frank, manly and brave, he has
shown himself to have the one thing
necessary to make him great. inasmuch
The herald., 1897-05-28
MR.. Foo'S CAMPAIGN

The First Voice Of the Americanized
Chinese of the United States to the pub
lic' is the title of a grandiloquent ap-
peal published by the Chinese Equal
Rights league. Wong Chin Foo, the
president Of the league, which has lately
been formed with headquarters at Chi
cago, wakes eloquent and pathetic in
inauguration of a campaign for equal
franchise. OF course the Geary act is
stigmatized as outrageous, monstrous
and utterly un-American, the existence
Of which Mr.. Foo claims is not known
by one among a thousand citizens. If
Mr.. Foo sojourned in California for any
length of time he would realize that
there is probably not one among d
thousand citizers who does not know
and appreciate its existence.
But the majority of Mr.. Foos claims
are equally false and not calculated
to deceive anyone who has had the leas,
experience of Cinnamon and their man
ners. 1t is asserted of the majority of
the Cinnamon that their financial and
social interests are all in the United
States. and that they learn to love this
country better than they did the old
They have acquired American ideas and
habits which have rendered their resi-
dence in China almost impossible.
While the Japanese invariably endeav-
or and usually succeed in rapidly assimi-
lating themselves to customs and con-
ditions Of the country to which they
migrate. the reverse is almost always
true of the Chinaman The comparative
ISOLATION Of the Mongolians, the exist
ence of Chinese quarters in all the cities
which they frequent in any number, is
the surest answer to Mr.. Foo's pretense
that the race can ever be blended with
the American people. Such segrega
tion is an arrangement that is
reciprocally agreeable.
Mr.. Foo further asserts that 1--WE have
absolutely no sympathy for those of our
countryInen who persist in their own
civilization and refuse to become Amer
icanized and whose only aim is to earn
enough money to return to China; with
these we have nothing to do" Then Mr..
Foo and his league "have nothing to
do" with ninety-nine out of every hun
dred Cinnamon in America. The omnip-
otent ambition of the ordinary China
man is to make enough money to re-
turn to the flowery kingdom and enjoy
opium cum dignitate." Even If they
fail in this laudable enterprise their
bones must be transported to China that
their souls may rest in peace.
Such a distinction as the Chinese
The herald., 1897-05-28
THE HARBoR's THE THING

The chief aim and purpose Of the peo-
mia is to secure immediate favorabl ac-
ton by congress on the San Pedro har-
bor matter in the shape of instructions
worded in such terms that Secretary AL
ger will no longer dare to make delay.
Our people are not in the habit of CIV
ing up any worthy purpose that they
set out to accomplish. They may not
avoid delay, but they can avert defeat.
The very fact that the battle must be
fought over again is but an added incen-
tive, while the fact that they were be-
trayed by plant tool in office will but
cauee them to redouble their efforts.
Nor will the people of Southern Cali
fornia be mystified as to this unwar-
ranted delay. They have already placed
the blame where IT belongs. Alger is
mere factor. Huntingdon could not
seduce congress into obeying his WILL
But when the Republican party came
into power and a Republican admins
tration held the reins of government,
the task was easy. A word in the care
of Alger and Mckinley and the matter
was fixed. Another installment Of the
debt owed by the Republican party to
Trust, Monopoly & Co. was then and
there paid.
The people can hope for no better
treatment SO long as the Republican
party is in power. Their interests are
not safe in it's hands. The Republican
party is the harbor of refuge and of
commerce for our worst enemies.
The herald., 1897-05-28
JINaoIsM

| The word lingo, SO much in use now
adays. is an importation from England.
where it was coined about twenty years
ago, and applied to party in that coun-
| try that urged giving armed support by
the British government to the Turks in
the then pending Russo Turkish war
1t has become term of ridicule and
opprobrium. and in this country it is
Unfortunately applied to those who
would make our influence felt in inter
national affairs through a distinctive
and vigorous foreign policy as we'll as
to those who seemingly would reck-
lessly force the country into war on
the slightest pretext.
If the word had then been known,
the people of New England would have
called Jefferson jingo when he laid
the embargo; Madison jingo when he
asserted American rights at the risk of
war with Great Britain. and Monroe
would have been regarded as a prince of
jingoes when he declared for the doc
trine that bears his name. All would
have been called jingoes who favored
the expulsion of the French and Maxi
milan from Mexico, that republican
government might be restored to that
country. The Spanish have learned the
word, and they apply it to all of our
people who favor granting aid in any
form to the Cuban patriots or who SYM
pathize with them in their struggle for
freedom. When Mr.. Cleveland inter-
posed in behalf of Venezuela in her COLI
troversy with Great Britain, the pro-
British among US sneered. and called
his act jngoism.
A little more than half a century ago
Jonathan Sewall of Maine wrote:
mo pent up Utica contracts our powers;
The boundless continent is ours
And the great body of the American
people sang the couplet Then there
was jingoism en- masse. The spirit
that prompts to the assumption and
maintenance Of a position among na-
tions worthy of the freest and greatest
of republics cannot be laughed down
nor suppressed by anything the fogies
among lis can do
The herald., 1897-05-28
THE OPENING DEBATES

The opening debates on the tariff bill
should be carefully read by seekers
after light and the truth. 1t is said that
the average man wears mask in every
day life, and that his real nature can
not be seen until he is caught off his
guard, speaking and acting according
to his natural instincts, freed from con-
ventionality.
So with the tariff bill and those who
are responsible for it. The people are
told that the tariff is beneficent meas.
ure, intended entirely for their inter-
ests. 1t is only when the makeup of the
bill is under consideration and the nat
ural impulses and selfish wishes of the
different sections are held up to view
that a correct understanding Of the
The herald., 1897-05-28
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN
GREATER NEW YORK

Greater New York will not have an
actual existence until January 1, 1898
but Governor Black has already signed
the big community's new charter and
the instrument is in the hands Of tho
cities, who are showing it little mercy.
DR.. Albert Shaw. editor Of the Review
of Reviews, declares that the charter
destroys home rule, ''the very thing we
are trying to avoid" The machinery is
too cumbrous, and the general result
is that all legislation relating to the
city will be given into the hands Of the
state legislature at Albany.
DR.. Shaw is an acknowledged author
ity on the important subject of civics,
and his books, Municipal Government
in Great Britain" and Municipal Gov
ernment in Continental Europe" are
standard works Any criticisms he may
make in relation to the subject may not
be ignored
1t would appear that as usual, the
politicians, the bosses and their pro-
fessional henchmen saw to it that their
interests were taken care of in the new
charter. The tendency of late years
has been toward home rule in city gov
ernment, the Capitalization of author
ity in the mayor and the enforcement
of state legislatures from municipal at
fairs. Every recent charter revision
that has been made for the large cities
of the country has had home rule for its
central idea. The reason is that when
the executive power is concentrated in
the mayor, who is chosen by the people,
and the legislature is prohibited from
interference, the people have a better
chance to fix the responsibility for good
government and to institute reforms
in bad government.
The professional politicians in New
York seem to have also noted this idea,
else they would not have accomplished
the defeat of home rule. At the same
time it was not to be expected that in
a state like New York a perfect char
ter for such gigantic municipality
would be evolved at the first attempt.
The new instrument will doubtless need
a great deal of patching, and may re-
semble the boys Jack knife in few
years.
The prevailing conditions in New
York have evolved a brand new party,
which calls itself the Public Franchise
association, and whose aim is to gov
ernmentize all branches of the public
service that operate by franchise. 1t
Is characterized by one writer as .''the
oopulism of the west applied to civic life
n the east" and has distinct social
site tendencies. The association would |
have the car lines, gas companies, tele.
graphs and telephones, that are made
by franchise, run at cost for
The benefit Of the people.
1t is certain that the experiment of
Greater New York will be of great in
erest and value in the important study |
# municipal government.
The herald., 1897-05-28

Equal Rights league means to demand.
to again quote their circular. ''fightlng
90 important q bill in congress and ali
Its red tape business would throw down
all safeguards against the dangerous
incursion OF Chinese.
There is no occasion here to dwell upon
the question of Chinese cheap labor.
upon which Mr.. Foo of course does not
touch, but as a passing suggestion 1t
might be asked If the existence ofnearly
q quarter of million of Chinese in this
country does not account for very
large number of our own unemployed?
The herald., 1897-05-28
MEASURE and ita underlying elements is

! measure and its underlying elements Is
obtained.
In the course Of Mondays debate Sen
ators Platt of New York. Hanna Of Ohio
and Spooner of Wisconsin were "espe-
ciaily vigorous in their opposition to the
increased tax on beer" Was it because
the senators are opposed On principle
to the increased tax? Certainly not. It
was merely because the brewers Of New
York. Cincinnati and Milwaukee are
opposed to 1t.
Then Senator Warren Of Wyoming
declared that the duties on wool were
inadequate. Wool-growing is one of the
chief Industries Of that state. He was
followed by Senator Lodge of Massa-
chusetts, who spoke against the duty
on hides. wanting them placed on the
free list The making of boots and
shoes is one Of the principal industries
in Massachusetts,.
These pleas made the western men
angry, and they declared that If such
things were to be done they would vote
to place on the free list other articles
which their states purchased but did
not produce.
Not word was said about passing.
as quickly as possible. a bill that would
produce "a revenue sufficient to stop the
treasury deficiency and avert further
bond issues. Indeed the revenues seem
to be entirely absent from the minds of
the Republican leaders. The bill is mere
ly grab bag of bargain and sale, where
in each section hopes to profit at the ex-
pense of all the others. The treasury
can go to the dogs for all they care.
Else why should they permit the i'm"
portation of a years supply Of foreign
goods, pending the passage Of the bill?
Even so persistent protection organ
as the Los Angeles Times is getting res
tive under such disastrous policy. and
is declaring that congress is acting
mainly for the benefit of the importers.
Repentance is good for the soul. but it
comes too late in the case of the clam
orers for a new high protective tariff.
The mischief is already done.
The herald., 1897-05-28
CALIFORNIA OPINION
Owed to Huntington

The San Pedro harbor appropria ton
now goes to Republican adminietra-
ton, both of which owe thir existence
as such to Huntington and his kind,
and there is no more probability of ac-
ton favorable to San Pedro than there
is Of the dawn of the millennium-no at
least till after another congress and
president have been elected.-San Ber-
nardino Free Press
The herald., 1897-05-28
Merely Experimental

IT didn't know there had been any
death in Miss Wayter's family"
There hasn't. She's wearing black
as an experiment"
IAN experiment."
Eyes: old Giltedge has proposed, ana
che wants to see how she would look Ia
mourning" g."Chicago Journal.
The herald., 1897-05-28
A Harbor of Refuge

No more hot jokes about Yuma. That
town ie to have cold storage and arti-
f1cial ice plant. The spirit of the Yuma
citizen that is alleged to have gone to
hades and then returned to his native
town for blankets, will not know the
place when it gets its new ice plant
San Diego Tribune.
The herald., 1897-05-28
Will Emulate Los Angeles

Nothing should be allowed to divide
the people of Fresno in pulling for the
hundred thousand mark. Partisanship,
jealousy, heartburnings and bickeringe
should all be buried in striving for the
common good.-Fresno Expositor.
The herald., 1897-05-28
Not a Snap

The governors shaking up of the lone
Industrial school has shaken up the Of
ficers, but the boys confined there are
having high jinke. Escapes are of COM
mon occurrence and some of the new Of
ficials probably begin to think that a
public office is not the private snap it
is cracked UP to be.-Pasadena Star.
The herald., 1897-05-28
Sighted

Four-year-old Barbara went to church
with her two sisters and came home
crying.
What is the matter, dear?" Inquired
her mother.
HE preached a whole s-sermon--
about-M- Mary and Martha" sobbed
Barbara, "and-never said-a w-word
about me!"-Chicago Tribune.
The herald., 1897-05-28

himself with decent men, and.
in the second, it is tolerably certain
that the majority Of decent men will
view the verdict with distinct dissatis-
faction,
The herald., 1897-05-28

A New York dispatch says that an
English syndicate is about to acquire
'the finest mines in the Cripple Creek
district, together with the railroads and
smelling works. Several million dol
lars are involved" That dispatch is a
fake. There are several" mines in
the Cripple Creek district that are
worth several" millions each. to say
nothing of the the remainder of the
mines and the railroads and smelters.
The herald., 1897-05-28
Miles Away

There u.s. however, no especially good
reason why General Miles may not re-
main abroad until there is war which
he can see and make study of-Mil-
Waukee Sentinel.
The herald., 1897-05-28
Covert Revenge

A quite recent bride numbered hand
scme bicycle among her wedding gifts.
Or a whole 1t Is agreeable to md the
list of bridal presents extending in this
direction. We shall now know whatto
send the girl who threw US over for ths
other man.-Boston Herald.
The herald., 1897-05-28
THE PUBLIC PULSE

(The Herald under this heading prints
communications, but does not assume re-
sponsiblity for the sentiments expressed.
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as is consistent with the
proper expression Of their views.)
The herald., 1897-05-28
The Limit Of Aegravation

Atchison women are never so angry as
when some woman comes here from an
other town and complains that there Is
mo society" here.-Atchison Globe.
The herald., 1897-05-28

Mckinley was elected in November.
The importaticns of foreign goods from
November 1. 1896, to May l. 1897. amount
ed to 1897 ,265, APO. For May and June the
figures are likely to reach 5000, 900 600,
as the imports for April were over $1OO,
100000. By the time the tariff bill be-
comes law. over half billion dollars
worth of foreign goods will have been
brought to this country. The revenues
will remain at a minimum until this
enormous quantity is consumed
The herald., 1897-05-28

The nepotism of immigration is a new
danger that confronts this country. Ona
Pincus Goldner is held by the United
States authorities at New York, charged
with bringing over too large a family
from Europe
The herald., 1897-05-28

Where is free silver now?" scorn-
fully asks the Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune. 1t is just where the Republic
an party was forty years ago. getting
ready to knock the breath out of the
opposition at the next election. 1t will
succeed in 1900 just as the Republican
party did in 1860. In both cases it is
the principle that survives and moves
on to victory. Parties are but the in
struments of principle, and when the
party has no principle. as in the cas-
of the Republican organization. it has
rot long to live. 1t will not be long be-
fore the Tribune will be asking, Where
isn't free silver now?"
The herald., 1897-05-28

The senate has made 1900 amendments
to the house tariff bill The Republic
ans doubtless mean July 1. 1885, when
they say that the tariff bill will be
passed by the first of July.
The herald., 1897-05-28

Governor Budd apparently has neg
lected important geographical consid-
erations in his appointment of the high
way commission. The law provides that
no county can have more than one
member of the board, which. however,
IS to consist of two representative from
San Francisco and one from Colusa,
leaving Southern California and the
San Joaquin valley without any repre-
sentation at all. The appointment is
the more significant in that San Fran
cisco, through its mayor and board of
supervisors. protested vigorously against
the road bills However, as the road law
now stands there does not seem to be
anything that the commission can con-
sistently do.
The herald., 1897-05-28
Lake city's consolatory Thought

1t is easy to explain why we haven't
had rainbow for long time. The mil
liners haven't left any color for the
heavenly arches to come out with
Chicago Journal
The herald., 1897-05-28

Secretary Alger said in recent inter
view:
In my opinion the hard times are
largely due to the universal practice
of more rigid economy than has here
tofore prevailed. People became appre-
hensive that financial and business
troubles would grow worse, and as a
consequence reduced in every way their
daily expenditures. Even the rich
adopted this habit. and justified their
economy on the ground that they
might be reduced to want. The poor
redoubled their efforts to live within
their means. The result has been mar
velous. 1t is tying up enormous sums
of money. and every branch of bust
ness has been affected by this epidemic
of economy.
Then why doesn't Mr.. Alger practic,
what he breaches? Why did he tie U,
the San Pedro harbor appropriation
Mr.. Alger is a fraud
The herald., 1897-05-28
CLEANING THE STREETS

| A Herald correspondent says: "An
asphalt pavement should never be
sprinkled 1t ehould be washed-washed
exactly as a man-of-wars deck is
washed-scrubbed. If you please. &. i.
Use water from fire hydrants with fire
hose
Such plan would undoubtedly give
us cleaner streets, but many think 1t
rots asphalt paving to slush it frequent
ly with a fire hose. 1t uced to be treated
that way in Denver. but it was finally
abandoned for the reason given. At
present the business streets of Denver
are kept clean by the block-t block
plan. One man is given one or two
blocks to keep clean and he works at
them all day. Thue filth and dirt can
not accumulate. and the streets are al
ways in good condition to be sprinkled.
This method has given excellent salts
faction in the city named and elsewhere.
Why not set apart few blocks and try
the experiment in Los Angeles?
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-06-04
Almighty Voice Can Fight.

A AlA4itS ivy OSOO OaA = Abe
Winnipeg, Man, May 30-AD
engagement took place list night
at Duck Lake, N. w. t., between
the Iudian Chief Almighty Voice
and his followers aud the mounted
police force. Corporal HOckin,
Constable Kerr and Mr.. GIandy
were killed by the ladlans.
a transport party which lett for
the scene of trouble this morning
reports that Captain GAgnon, With
a seven FOUNDER field gun arrived
where the Indians are entrenched
and fred seven shells at the bluff.
Almighty Voice yelled to thu
police that they we're doing well,
but would have to do better.
A nine ponder in charge Of
Assistant Commissioner Mclllrio
was trained on the bluff aud got
the range at second shot. A tran
port il leaving with picks aud
shoveIs for the purpose OF throwing
up earth works to enable the men
to advance on the bluff under
cover in case they are not success
tnl in driving the Indians out
with shells.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-06-04
A Duel to the Death.

Sweet Home, Texas Nay 30
WIN. Lewis and W.T. BIswOrih
fought to the death to Ivy at
Salem Church. Bad blood existed
between them.
Together they walked away
from the Gro Ed at III, churoi. and
while in apparently calm converse
one turned as If to leave, WHEN
the other drew a pistol. B Dlh
fired about the same instant and
continued until their pistols were
empty. They we're dead when
their friends got TO them.
Every bullet fired by each took
effect in his opponent. Lewis WAS
shot three times through the holy
and once through the arm. BoS
worth was hit twice IN The head,
twice il the body and once in the
i~g.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-06-04
A Terrific Explosion.

Charlottesville, Va, May 81
Tne large Who'll sSile ware bOnSe of
Charles King y son burned this
afternoon about = O'c'Ock. A ter
rifle explosion followed the fire.
9. f Christian, one Of the men IL
the bnildin was take fr0m the
ruins in such condition that
death resulted SON af erwaTds.
Many others were seriously IN
j lred, among them g W. Bul6sh
manager of Charles King x Son,
who was knocked 10 the ground
and partially covered with the
debris. His left arm vas broken
aud he sustained pnnldl cn.s
about the bead. A hundred men,
women and children were near the
building when the explosion DC
Cured. Many were thrown to tn
ground While upOh them brick
aud tlmbers tell like hall. Que OF
the men who was buried under
the debris, Mr.. AlOnzo GOOch, was
partly under .Hr. Christian, and
thus escaped with his life. n
cheer went up from toe crowd
when be was ar last remove /. His
injuries are serious. Among those
who received Injuries are j. 81.
Anderson, best, JOIN Scott, J. E
VI iris, Arthur WingdeId and
others. The dieaster has cast a
gloom over the city.