The San Francisco call., 1898-01-27
LOS ANGELES
 IS AROUSED
 IN DEFENSE A Great w ater Mass Meeting to Be
 Held. The Recalcitrant Public Servants Will Be Called to Time. Now Will Come the Punish nent Of Those Who Be-
 trayed the People. 
SUBSIDIZED PRESS SCORED.
Never Has There Been Such an Awakening in the Southern
 Metropolis.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26.-On Satur- day evening the citizens of Los Ange- les will assemble in mass-meeting for the purpose of receiving information and instruction on the water question. and to take such action as may seem to them meet after they have had the facts laid before them by the able gen. tlemen who have accepted invitations to address the meeting.
 The fact that the people of Los Ange- les have not been able to secure infor- nation as to the water fight through local newspaper channels, owing to the policy of the three syndicated dailies to give.only such intelligence as is in the interest of the water monopoly and it's efforts to defeat municipal ownership, has rendered the calling of the mass meeting imperative. The syndicated dailies were putting forth their every effort to keep the people In ignorance as to the real facts of the situation, by misrepresenting true friends of muni- cipal ownership to a marked degree.
 But The Call entered the field and laid bare the nefarious plot in all of its details. and the result has been a great awakening. The people are now up in arms against the syndicate press, and they are in the field to see to 1t that the public servants whom they elected in December, 1896. proceed to carry out their ante-election pledges without fur ther unreasonable delay
 AS an evidence of the fact that the populace is aroused 1t is only neces- sary to refer to the mass meeting which is going to bring forth an ex- pression from the men who represent the bone and sinew of the city. Mayor NJ. P. Snyder will deliver an address in which he will take occasion to in- form the public as to his position in the matter. This the local syndicate press has never stated. Councilmen l.. NJ. Grider and F.. l.. Hutchison will also tell briefly of the struggle they have made in the Council to carry out their pledges and of the difficulties they have met with at the hands of the tools of the corporation who are ensconced in public office. and Judge C. c. Wright, the author of the Wright irrigation act. will speak, as will also F. H. Gill. the president of the Los Angeles County Council of Labor; Ernest Abs Hagen. the civil engineer; M. w. Conkling. Professor w. c. Bowman, Milton Carl son and others.
 The programme Is to have short. pointed addresses, so that every citizen who Is present in the hall, after he hears a full, fair and complete exposi- tion of the water issue can 20 forth as a lecturer and inform his brethren of the course to be pursued in this mat ter, which is to his interest and for the benefit of the whole people
 Thus will the great work The Call has undertaken to secure for the neonIe of this city possession and control of their water plant and to protect then, from any $2.000,00 steal and from an extension of the monopoly's franchise be assisted. The meeting is to be abso- lutely non-partisan in its character IT is for the sole purpose of discussinp the water question and no other issua will be permitted to come up. Music Hall, on South Spring street. has been selected as the place of meeting.
 The Los Angeles Times has. bv si- lence, pleaded guilty to the charge made against it by The Call of purposeIv and Intentionally deceiving the people as to the water company's plant in a page article appearing in its midwin- ter number. The paper, at that time Set forth an alleged map of a port,on of the. company's system which was a lie and fraud upon the reading puhIic It depicted mains which in size are not in the positions indicated in the alleged map, and generally showed a system which has never been built, but which is a reproduction of map in the Citv Engineers office of a system pronosed for the municipality by Ernest Ans Hagen, formerly the city's expert en- gineer. The Call has made this charge of deception against the Times and has stated that it was made Intentionally and purposely in behalf of the water to deceive the people and lead them to believe that the corpora- tion had made improvements to it's plant, which it had not. The Times has had three days to answer the charge but it has failed to respond in any way.
 Among the ministers of the citv the water question Is now attracting some attention. The Rev. Bliss Is delivering a series of lectures here under the auspices of the Episcopal and almost every evening he refers to the subject. This is exciting comment in religious cir cles, as it is a departure from the or- thodox rules. Rev. Bliss has clearly and in bold and outspoken words lined