The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-21

EDITED BY ENOCH KNIGHT
Democracy

aas Jagged TOO long IN pOrts ana we nave
An idle crew or with wild mates caroused.
Forgetful Of our part In Freedoms wars.
But now, at last, with sail taut to the spars.
For her whose rightful cause our sires
espoused,
Again our ship must steer where blow IN
The winds Of God. beyond the shoals and
bars.
For still our orders hold, as In the past
That glorious day we shook our banner
free,
And broke from out the line and took the
van,
with linstocks lit. and bade them follow
fast,
Who held with us-to sail and search the
sea
Until we md a better world for man.
william Prescott Foster in the Atlantic
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One by one, a group Of new literary lights
u passing away. The Chap Books demise
has been duly noted-gone to be with the
Dial and to know itself no more-and this
event has called attention to the death Of
many of the lesser curious and ephemerei
weeklies and monthlies that have been
thrust upon US these last few years. Let us
hope that many of them win never return
i
silly stun that followed in the wake of
some early and creditable ventures long
ago reached its height, and now is ebbing
fast. May we have long rest.
Mr., CUTLER Couch-whose name is to be
pronounced as If spelled "Cooch"-has be-
come the editor of the Cornish Mazazine,
a new venture, which is supposed to contain
matter of special interest to Cornishmen.
The first number is a good, all-round maya
zine, and the name will probably prove to
be q mistake. Had it been called anything
else, it would still have been read by Cor
nishmen for the sake of its editor, while
the general public would not have been led
into the mistake that it is desig.ec only
for readers in the extreme southwest of
England.
LEARN SPANISH.-A few weeks ago In
these pages we showed the growth o. the
English and the loss of the Spanish Ian
guage, very interesting study. by the way.
But the Spanish language is still very
important one, and to us Americans it is
Of the highest necessity to be able tc speak
It Not orly do the Central and South
American states employ 1t almost entirely
bu. now ore to be added practically TO cur
borders the more material interests OF the
Spanish West Indies, with the closest bust
ness and social ties to follow. To be able 10
speak Spanish is now become prime neces-
sity of every person who proposes to profit
by our new acquisitions. VIII our young
men be wise in time?
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PUBLIC OWNERSHIP REVIEW Is the
title of a very handsomely printed pub!ica-
tion which comes to US for recognition 1t
is edited by Morrison I. Swift. and its
publication office is in this city. Its de-
clared mission is to bring about a more ra-
tional Industrial and political life in the
United States. Its program, to which it in
vites attention and support, is.
II. Public ownership of all monopolies,
including land and trusts.
III. Entire civil service reform: ]. e., ap-
pointment of all officials on their merits
for the particular office in which there is
vacancy;
I'LL Direct legislation; that is, the initia
tive and referendum. proportional repre-
sentation and the imperative mandate.
.fv The Immediate employment of the
unemployed upon public work."
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MR.. HOWELLS ON BELLAMY.-Mr.
Howells, whose altruism is well known,
has always been great admirer of Ed
ward Bellamy. In the Atlantic he writes
tenderly but appreciatively Of the purpose
of that authors books. The whole article
is Of interest, but we can only give the
closing portion of it:
II recall how, when we first met he told
me that he had come to think of our hope
less conditions suddenly one day, in look
ing at his own children and rejecting that
he could not place them beyond the chance
of want by any industry or forecast or
providence; and that the status meant
the same impossibility for others which it
meant for him. l understood then that
was in the presence of a man too single,
too sincere, to pretend that he had begun
by thinking of others, and I trusted him
the more for his confession of a selfish
premise. He never went back to himself
in his endeavor, but when he had once felt
his power in the world he dedicated his life
to his work. He wore himself out thinking
and feeling about 1t, with a belief in the
good time to come that permeated his
whole being and animated his whole pur-
pose, but apparently with no manner of
fanaticism. In fact, no one could see him
or look into his quiet, gentle face, SO full
of goodness, so full of common sense,
without perceiving that he had reasoned
to his hope for justice in the frame of
things. He was indeed a most practical.
a most American man. without a touch of
sentimentalism in his humanity. He be-
iieved that some now living should see his
dream-the dream of Plato, the dream of
the first Christians, the dream of Bacon,
the dream Of More-come true in a really
civilized society; but he had the patience
and courage which could support any de-
lay.
''These qualities were equal to the suffer-
ing and the death which came to him in
the midst of his work and cut him off from
writing that one more book with which
every author hopes to round off his career.
He suffered greatly, but he bore his suffer-
ing greatly; and as for his death, it is told
that when, toward the last, those who
loved him were loath to leave him at night
alone. as he preferred to be left, he asked,
what can happen to me? 1 can only die
II am glad that he lived to die in the viii
lage environment by which he interpreted
the heart of the American nation, and
knew how to move 1t more than any other
American author who has lived. The
theory Of those who think differently is
that he simply moved the popular fancy;
ana this NAV suffice tn exnIa IN tho ut a 20 ~