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The herald., 1898-01-12

The year 1898 will be a very important
of view. A general election will be held;
a new set of congressman is to be chos-
en-; the coming legislature will elect a
United States senator.
1t is too much the fashion among the
party organs to regard political news as
a legitimate mark for distortion and
Misrepresentation in the interest of the
persons and policies they represent and
champion. To such an extent Is this
idea carried by some newspapers that it
is impossible for their readers to gain
Intelligent correct impressions and in
formation upon political subjects.
Nevertheless it is very important that
the people should be rightly informed
concerning political matters, local,
state and national, and it is upon the
newspapers that they must, to a very
great degree, rely for information. In
this emergency The Herald proffers its
services to the people of California.
The Herald is a firm adherent and
champion of the principles of the Demo
cratic party. and it upholds them to the
best of it's knowledge and ability, giving
place to none in Its loyalty to the cause
of the common people. 1t will print the
news and support the just, honest acts
of that party as the situation may de-
mand.
rIo zee n
and every other citizen who believes in
free silver and tariff reform, will find
in The Herald a newspaper to their
liking, a paper that will be indispens-
able if knowledge Of the truth and the
news when it is news is desired We
shall make especial efforts to make the
paper a faithful mirror of the political
situation in this state.
But The Herald is most of all a
newspaper, aiming to print the legiti-
mate news of the day as it occurs. In
its news columns it is neither a Demo-
crat nor Republican, a gold bug nor a
free silver advocate, d tariff advocate
nor free trader. 1t will not print edi-
torials in it's news columns.
1t is necessary in order to have an in
telligent conception of political events
to become acquainted with the news of
all parties; to know both sides. The
member of any political party or of
none, for that matter, will find The Her
aid an adequate medium for becoming
acquainted with both sides of any po-
litical issue that may come before the
people.
1t is we'll to begin at the beginning.
Now is the best time to invite The Her
aid to become a regular visitor TO your
office or household.
The herald., 1898-01-12
Preparing for the Feast

In the North of England cold ham is
considered the only respectable piece de
resistance of a funeral .ea. Friends
and relations are always put away with
ham.
A dying Yorkshireman was visited by
the doctor, who informed the weeping
spouse that her husbands hours on earth
were numbered, and that she could give
him anything in the way Of food he fan
cied or craved for.
rs there aught you fancy, love?" she
asked him.
Nay. woman" he said, feebly. "Af
cannot bite aught."
Suddenly his dim eye caught sight of g
freshly cooked ham reposing ON "t' best
dish" embellished with pink and white
paper
ZEE. All could like slice O. yon am, v
he whispered eagerly.
Nay, mon, All cannot coot into thot!
she cried, its for t. funeral lad. ."-Spart
Moments.
The herald., 1898-01-12
PRIMARY SAFEGUARDS

Primary election laws are as obnox-
ious to the professional politicians as
the Australian ballot law is to the re-
peaters and ballot box suffers. Prop
erly devised and rigidly enforced the oc-
cupa ton Of both elements is gone. The
interest of each in the public welfare
diminishes in equal ratio with the sue
cessful operation of the two reforms
Popular pressure few years ago COM
PEELED the enactment by the Colorado
legislature of primary law quite sim
liar to the California enactment, and it
was generally conceded that the pri-
maries held under it were the only fair
expressions of public sentiment ever Sc
cured in the state. The law was, in
deed, so strikingly successful that the
professionals in the succeeding legisla-
ture, without agitation or warning to
The herald., 1898-01-12
PROTECTION AND WAGES

The wages of the operatives in the cot
states have been reduced 10 per cent.
The people in Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts alone who will be affected by
this reduction number 80, 900. The whole
number of operatives in the New Eng
land states whose wages have been cut
is about $4,000.
This is not the first reduction in wages
since the Dingley law went into effect
Hardly day passes that the telegraph
does not bring news of the closing of
mills and the cutting of wages.
1t has always been claimed that a pro-
tectivc tariff was necessary in order to
keep our mills open, and thus to give en-
ployment and high wages to the aborer.
The Dingley law was enacted on this
theory. But facts are stubborn things.
The Dingley law has been in force some
seven months and certainly for sufficient
time to prove or disprove this theory.
What explanation can the advocates
of a protective tariff wall offer to the
$4,000 operatives of New England whose
wages have been reduced when, accord
ing to prophecy and theory, they ought
to have been increased? What message
of comfort has President Mckinley for
these operatives? During the last cam
paign it was he who said to the laboring
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the people, combined in successful ef-
fort to repeal it, since which time 1t has
been impossible to induce any legisla-
ture to re-enact it. Inasmuch as this
country must ever be governed by po-
portance that the popular conscience
should not periodically revolt against
the manipulation of primaries and con-
ventions by designing men. Effective
reform can only be accomplished by the
proper safeguarding Of the primary
elections.
The herald., 1898-01-12
That Settled It

A story is told of very popular cavalry
officer. He was being tried for drunken
ness, and among other witnesses was his
Irish soldier-servant. The court, anxious
to give the officer every chance, put sew
eral questions to this witness with view
to eleciting any facts that might be in his
masters favor. When the Irishman. said
that his master, on going to bed, had ex-
pressed wish to be called early, the court
was distinctly pleased. l
A man who gave special instructions to
be called early could not-they argued to
themselves-have been drunk. Hoping to
get favorable particulars, they put another
question.
"And why did Major - wish to be
called early?' 4f
Then, Faith! an he tould me 1t was
because he was to be queen of the May"
came the answer.
That settled it.-Tid Bits.
The herald., 1898-01-12
A Quick Trip

The quickest trip ever made between
Randsburg and Mojave was made a
week ago last Thursday, when Mr..
Archie Cruise drove down with a physi-
clan in three hours and forty-seven min
utes. The drive from here to Garlock
was made in fifty minutes; from there
to Kane Springs, nine miles, was made
in Just thirty minutes. Here fresh
team was secured, with which the rest
of the trip was made. The rapid drive
was made owing to the serious illness OF
Mrs. ]. H. Underhill, who is Mr.. Cruse's
daughter. She is much better now anc
is thought to be out Of immediate dnn-
ger. This record will probably never be
broken.-Randsburg Miner.
The herald., 1898-01-12
AN UNCHRISTIAN ACT

The refusal of the cemeteries and
crematories in San Francisco to receive
the body of Theodore Durrant, or to
assist of disposing Of it in any way,
iorms an almost incredible chapter in
the strange, abhorrent case.
Why should Theodore Durrant be pur-
sued beyond the gates of Death, where
he had been sent by the just decree of
the law, approved by the almost unani-
nous voice of the people? The Herald
crime for which he was tried. convicted
and punished. 1t urged that the sentence
imposed under the law be executed; but
there it stops.
What excuse for their unchristian, in
human action have the people who de-
MED to Theodore Durrant's body the last
rites that civilization gives to pulseless
human clay? What right had they to
compel those parents TO hold the re-
mains almost beyond the point OF sani-
tation, to say that even the dead shall
have no place to lay their heads?
1t looks as If the ancient superstition,
that denied a suicide Christian burial
and planted the body at crossroads
and drove a stake through it, still sur
wives and hourishes in the management
of the San Francisco cemeteries.
But the parents of Durrant did not
wish to bury the remains of their son.
They wished to have them cremated, thai
they might always have them under
their personal care, and in order that
vandals, grave robbers and too curious
men of science might not be tempted
But even the crematories, which are
supposed TO represent advanced mod
ern ideas, would not crafty the wish
of Mr.. and Mrs. Durrant. What ex-
cuse have they for their indecent ac-
ton that is not prompted by supersti-
tion and failure to regard the common
decencies of Christianity and civiliza-
| ton?
The managers of the crematory at
Pasadena are to be commended for TAX
ing a common-sense and Christianlike
view of the matter.
The herald., 1898-01-12
ANGLES EAaRIE2nNq ff2a 1i,ss.s >H H!s:iss rs
QIEKHEZszGysM EYs1I AY5IZI2o

Anyone" But Edison was not without
sentiment when the time came. One day
as he stood behind the chair of Miss Still
well, a telegraph operator in his employ,
he was not little surprised when she
suddenly turned round and said:
''Mr. Edison, I can always tell when you
are behind me or near me- Edison fronted
the young lady. and, looking at her f1xedly,
said:
i've been thinking considerably about
you of late. and If you are willing to marry
me would like to marry you
The young lady said she would talk the
matter over with her mother. The result
was their marriage, and a very happy one
1t proved to be.-Boston Traveller.
The herald., 1898-01-12

Encouraged, no doubt, by his recently
acquired San Francisco champion, and
hoping that the bluff may divert public
attention from himself Director webb
at last nights meeting of the school
board demanded an investigation of Di-
rector Bralyis corHuct, in that the
Savings Bank of Southern California
of which Mr.. Braly is president, cashed
certain teachers warrants. The public
will not be deceived by this latest and
most ingenious strategy of Mr. Webb
which simply amounts to his snatching
up some of the mud with which he is be-
spattered and hurling it at Mr.. Braly
The investigation will probably amount
to little, for Mr.. Braly has made frank
statement, concluding: 1--WE will not
try to conceal anything, because there
is nothing to conceal"
The herald., 1898-01-12

The moral support Of every gold
standard advocate in the country was
solicited for Hanna when he seemed to
be losing, and the solicitude aroused
was quite natural; but why the gloom
in the White House, If the president be
such a devoted bimetallist as Senator
Chandler would have us believe?
The herald., 1898-01-12

Foraker, as an instrumentality to un-
life, was to be tolerated. He will now
take his place among the everlastingly
discredited
The herald., 1898-01-12

The money squeeze in Indiafbegins to
tighten, to the discontinue of British
statesmen, who ever seek a remedy in
the wrong direction. The !exigency of
the situation may yet, however, force
open the colonial mints to the free coin
age of silver, the Traditional money of
the Indian people.
The herald., 1898-01-12
On the Street
| |Injudicious
| Punishment
Whatever may be
- aaA - A. l~.t

at OentOus SCHOOl last
week. which Is now being investigated.
both by the school authorities and the
courts. the injudicious use of corporal pun
ishment Is certainly to be deplored. Is 1t
prudent to give the power of administering
this form Of punishment to every teacher,
male and female. in the public schools? Is
it not. on the one hand, preposterous
task for a young girl to whip fourteen
year-old boy, and on the other. is 1t fair to
submit boy to such punishment at the
hands of a woman? 1t is generally con-
ceded that corporal punishment should
only be resorted to in extremely aggra-
waiting cases. and then it is very doubtful
II as many boys are not hardened by 1t as
are softened. Again, II child has been
unruly or insolent. II is heavy tax on any
body's control to administer punishment
of this sort without a loss of temper. Young
women. presumably, have had little ex-
perience with straps or rods and are nov
ices at the art of whipping: they are very
liable to lose all track of the number and
severity of their blows Finally. 1t is not
a pleasant thing to contemplate, that 1t
should be the duty of a young woman In
the public schools to whip boy. Such
punishment II necessary, should be the
province of the male principals. The pend
ing investigation will at all events disclose
the looseness and the license with which
this serious question is handled in our
schools.
The herald., 1898-01-12

The secret service agents bent out to
Columbus to aid Hanna may now be
expected to put in bills fort overtime.
The item of wear and tear of conscience
obyiOuS reasons
The herald., 1898-01-12

Senator Whites methods are ever open
and direct, and, with characteristic can
dor, he made strong appeal on Monday
for consideration of the Hawaiian
treaty in open session of the senate. But
senatorial precedent is a difficult barrier
to overcome, and he failed in his con-
The herald., 1898-01-12

It is not clear how the Western Union
Telegraph company can maintain Its
claim against Spain on account of dam
ages sustained by the censorship exer-
cised over dispatches originating at
Havana since the beginning of hostili-
ties. Such powers would seem to be
coincident with the usual prerogatives
conceded to countries under martial
law
The herald., 1898-01-12

We are willing to concede that the rise
in prices of Ohio commodities is in large
measure due to the Dingley bill. The
Ohio people are quite thrifty just now, in
cnntS
The herald., 1898-01-12
Partition Of China

China under civilized control Is going to
be not a rival but market. Its railroads
will call for American rails AS its wants
increase we are going to feed and clothe
it's millions. The trouble and peril of gov-
erning It is going to Europe. The profit
is coming to us.-Philadelphia Press.
The herald., 1898-01-12
Miserable
Malice
The despicably vile
attempt to attach an
infamous suspicion to
~ - opA Of

the name OF one of
the most respected newspaper men in the
city is hotly resented by the craft. and
those who have lent themselves to the mis-
cradle business of fostering the stupid and
malicious invention are not likely to IN
crease their reputation thereby. Any one
who knows George NJ. Trowbridge would
as soon suspect his own mother of holding
up Webb or any one else for blackmail, but
unfortunately everybody is not acquainted
with this genial and accomplished youne
man. and a gross wrong OF this sort cannot
he too prominently corrected. Tar and
feathers would be mild punishment for
the scoundrel who coined the Call-exploited
document and newspapermen would be
glad to pay a liberal reward for his detec-
ton. Unhappily. in this. as in every other
city of Us size. there are few pariahs on
the outskirts of the newspaper business
who Nave long ago been ordered out of the
respectable offices. but still occasionally
continue to gain credit and advantage by
tEe use OF papers name. which they may
have formerly disgraced for brief term
|before their blackguardly instincts came
to light. 1t may be necessary one OF these
days for the newspapers to publish list of
these gentry, that the public may not be
imposed upon or importuned by them.
The herald., 1898-01-12

The war between the sugar and cof-
fee trusts has broken out afresh, and
consumers are promised an inning.
Belligerent rights should be promptly
extended both factors in the fight.
The herald., 1898-01-12
LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD
SWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION

State of California, County Of Los Ange-
les.-ss.
L. M. 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 6S5
copies, being an average daily circuia-
tion of S6O4.
That the weekday circulation during the
above time was 1,071,567. being n daily
average of S3O0 copies.
That the Sunday circulation during the
above time was 21s, ,059, 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., 1898-01-12
A Minor but Certain consequences

One of those minor consequences that
generally follow the formation of trust,
only incidentally, of course, has already
materialized from the new cracker trust
that is to say, the price of crackers has
advanced.-Detroit Free Press.
The herald., 1898-01-12
How Edison Proposed

The idea OF the great electrician Edison's
marrying was first suggested by an inti-
mate friend. of whom Edison timidly in
quired whom he should marry.
The friend somewhat testify replied,
The herald., 1898-01-12

j. Pierpont Morgan was doubtless in
the cast from the inception of the play,
though reserved for the climax.
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us where we are, but strike out new paths,
forgetting those things which are behind.
and reaching forth unto those things which
are before."-San Francisco Star.
The herald., 1898-01-12

Motions to adjourn are always in or
der. but they are sometimes dangerous
when the bargain counter is exposed.
The herald., 1898-01-12

The satisfaction of DR.. Herr claim for
damages, in the modest sum of three
millions, is likely to create robust
deficit in the French treasury.
The herald., 1898-01-12

Since discussion of the treaty Is to
be behind closed doors, what necessity
is there for discussion? Debate never
changed senatorial judgment.
The herald., 1898-01-12

Hanna should now meet with the In
dianapolis monetary conference and de-
clare the gold standard unanimously
adopted
The herald., 1898-01-12

Mr.. Hanna is a good business man.
He bought no more votes than were
necessary.
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AS q fair test of the
erudition of our IL
brary trustees. 1
| A Test
for Trustees


lie meeting at which each should be called
upon to read aloud the following. which
| borrow from THE Criterion"
Cleopatra isolated in the oasis soon
became acolimated and had ample leisure
TO contemplate all the economic details
of her inextricable sword. The wound re-
sisted the allopathic misogynist. who gave
| courteous diagnosis and humbly craved
precedence for tiny idyl in the form OF
vase with an aesthetic, acoustic appa-
ratus This told the news like book. but
it might have been dog living in sQualor
from the look she launched at him when
he wrote down his address. She ate her
breakfast and then fraternized with ma
tional expert in appendicitis, who attended
the obseQuies." A
am willing to wager that not one of the
encyclopaedia dictionaries will escape
without damage to his reputation, and
II only some OF the young ladies OF the
library staff can secure seats in the front
row l warrant them a delightful degree OF
satisfaction.
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tention. The facts which the people
have a right to possess will. therefore,
be buried under the pail of alleged ex-
ecutive secresy, name which has come
to attach to the only partially con-
cealed doings behind closed doors.
Enough proverbially leaks out to dis
tract and distort without satisfying, and
this fact, with others, was urged in
support of the contention for the full
est public discussion.
The herald., 1898-01-12

The transportation companies an
nounce a restoration of passenger rates
between San Francisco and Sound ports,
effective January 20. The increase is
from IS to SIS and from s4 to IS. first and
second class respectively. Intending
visitors to the Klondike can at least con-
sole themselves with the reflection that
the difference would purchase few
pounds of bacon at the other end.
The herald., 1898-01-12

A biased eastern contemporary, in an
imadverting upon the enormous yield of
Colorado gold mines, concludes that dig
ging is more profitable than shouting
for free silver. 1t Is sadly deficient in
knowledge Of the true conditions that
have obtained in the Centennial state,
for the very hotbed of free silver senti-
ment there is Cripple Creek, camp
that produces not an ounce of silver be-
yond that which is incidentally mined
as a by-product of gold. Los Angeles
is not much of a silver camp, but there
are numbers of people here so unreason-
able as to adhere to the demand of SO
for the speedy reopening of the mints
to the free coinage of the white metal.
The herald., 1898-01-12

The just rebuke that the League for
Better City Government has admins
tered to the San Francisco Call for its
spectacle citizens and its attempted de-
fense of boodlers," has already been
voiced by The Herald and two OF Its
local contemporaries. The leagues res
olution fairly reflects the opinion of the
better elements of the community. 1t iF
only charitable to presume that the
Call has been grossly imposed upon.
The herald., 1898-01-12

Gays ,hs, 1t Sc seemed slss.n, a i. ! pity OT,
FOSt nament to society as
that genial. gay and
generous youth Guy. B. Barham, should
remain in seclusfon. When Guy retired
from the board of police commissioners
that body lamented the loss of "a thing of
beauty and a joy forever" Governor
Budd, however, has at last recognized Bar
hams merits and accomplishm 1t was
hoped that he would be selected to fill the
vacant spot on the gubernatorial staff
in place OF the late colonel. John Bradbury.
but the governor was not satisfied with
the dimensions of the Barhamc biceps.
He was, however. gazetted last week di-
rector of the Sixth agricultural district,
vice George Kinds. Mr.. Barham enter
tained the northern visitors during the
race meet so handsomely that he has
earned the honor; his lack of knowledge
concerning agriculture is quite inmate
rial.
The herald., 1898-01-12
Peter
Better

Peter Peter t.Nn Martins ma
Better joice to hear that he
has recovered from
his long illness and left New York last
Saturday homeward bound. Peter had sew
eral troubles to battle with last year and
a severe attack OF typhoid fever in No
vember capped the climax.
The herald., 1898-01-12
| J. A. BIS
| Jaw

savory by reason of his subtle engineering
of the so-called Parkhurst crusade, in
which he pulled the string for the pup
pets to dance by somewhat peculiar meth
DDS. has burst into notoriety in San Fran
cisco to the extent of a two-column cut
in the Examiner. Mr.. Wilson has discov-
cred that the business of the Market street
Railway company is murder for divi-
dend," and has thereby successfully scaled
the first step of sensationalism.
BYSTANDER.
The herald., 1898-01-12
AN IMPORTANT YEAR

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY IL. 1898.