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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-28
A COQUETTING NATION

Only yesterday the whole English
press referred to Germany and Germanic
affairs in a spirit of but thinly yelled
belligerency. A war between the two
countries seemed possible, If not prob
able contingency, for the Teutonic pa
pers were as pungently hostile in their
illusions to "perfidious Albion" as were
the Britons.
But now comes the London Morning
Post, a conservative journal, and seri-
ously suggests an Anglo-German alli-
ance, with the possibility of the United
States becoming third partner of the
outfit! In fact, England like an anti
quated maiden lady whose chances of
matrimonial preferment are growing
smaller by degrees, is in the market
ready for the right kind of an alliance
when it comes along. The Morning
Post declares, with genuine English can
dor, that the most important develop
ment in modern times is that England
may be had as an ally"
On this side of the Atlantic we have
been laying the fiattering JUNCTION to our
souls that an Anglo-American alliance
was the darling wish of our kinsfolks
of England, and many of our optimistic
citizens could already see the imprint of
a divine hand ratifying the proposed
treaty in the sole interest of Anglo
American civilization. But the Morning
Post says that both Great Britain and
Germany are anxious to work for the ad-
vance of civilization as we'll as for their
own benefit. German expansion" says
the Morning Post. means the expansion
Of British trade, and vice versa. Ger
man expansion should lie in the direction
of Asia Minor and it should have the full
support of Great Britain there"
Now, does not this look very much like
giving Uncle Sam the slipper-if, indeed,
the old gentleman had ever yet en-
Miss Britain? At any rate, the attempts
recently made by sober British journals
like the Morning Post, to lead the Brit
ish public opinion in the direction of an
the fervor of several of our worthy citi-
zens to embrace the British lion sans
ceremonie. Englands making up to
Germany so soon after the latter ma
tons impudent interference in Ameri-
can affairs at Manila and Subig bay,
should give pause to our over-Zealous
Anglomaniacs. One of the essential in
gradients of American citizenship is
self-respect.
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UNTIL SEPTEMBER FIRST

Tho Los Angeles Daily and Sunday
Herald. will be mailed to any address in
Southern California or Arizona for three
months for % 90. cash In advance. Are
you q Democrat? Now is your OPpor-
tunity. This offer does not stand good
after September L.
The Los Angeles Herald Is the only
Democratic daily in Southern California
publishing full Associated Press re-
ports. Ifyou are already q subscriber
induce your political brethren to sub
scribe to the best Dem ocratic exponent
in Southern California.
Send In your subscription of $500 for
the campaign before September 1. Mako
all checks, drafts and money orders pay
able to The Herald Publishing Com
pany, Los An geles.
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THAT RAILROAD PLANK

The pretense of opposition to the rail-
roads is an amusing feature of the Sac
ramento platform. In the whole news
paper page full of verbiage there are
only a few lines devoted to the vital
question of railroad transportation.
With gloved hand the subject is thus
delicately touched: I'VE pledge our
for railroad commissioners
to reduce, wherever practicable and
needed, the rates of freight" etc. Just
when and where such reduction may be
practicable and needed" will probably
be contained In letters Of advice from the
Mills building, New York, and will bear
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COLONIAL KINDERGARTENS

What is our moral and social duty
toward the new wards Of the nation
That question is obtruding even before
the late masters have had time to make
their exit from the conquered territory
The strong arm of the government is re-
lied upon to bring order out of chaos
but there are limits to its functions
The inhabitants of the new colonies are
in the aggregate far more helpless than
the Southern negroes were when freed
only ignorant. but many of them, if we
count the Filippinos, are not more than
half civilized. And their habits. Gus
toms and methods are for the most part
unknown to us.
In the east, we notice, the matter is al
ready a subject of spirited agitation
There is general agreement that a
mighty task is opening up and that II
will tax the ingenuity Of the nation to
grapple with it successfully. We are at
the entrance of labyrinth. and as we
progress it is necessary to make sure of
string to guide us back in case of
trouble.
Cuba and Porto Rico are the fields
that eastern discussion centers upon
now. 1.-THE work of destruction in Cuba
must be followed by construction" says
one apostle of advanced ideas. And then
follows this outline of the measures that
should be adopted: "All who have visited
Cuba agree that the Cubans should be
put on their feet by course Of thorough
intellectual, religious and industrial
training"
That plan cuts out an immensely of
work. One half the population of Cuba,
at least, is composed of negroes or mu
latoes. They are illiterate and the veneer
of civilization on them is very thin. Of
the white natives Of Cuba, large pro-
portion are also illiterate. The popula-
ton of Cuba is about one and half mil
lion. Add Porto Rico's three-fourths of
a million of similar inhabitants, and
some idea is obtained Of the task of CIV
ing them "a thorough intellectual, reli-
gious and Industrial training"
Without extending the proposition to
the Filippinos. at this stage of the in
quiry, it looks as II 1t would be wise to
proceed very cautiously in the stu
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THE CAMPAIGN OPENED

The state campaign was virtually
opened by the large and enthusiastic
meeting at Hazards pavilion last even
date for governor Judge Mcguire gave
a thoughtful, candid and impressive re-
view of the leading issues of the cam
paign and won his way to the esteem of
all who heard him. The Herald publishes
this morning a stenographic report of
his speech, which will be welcome to
thousands of Democrats. Silver Repub-
licans and Populists throughout the
state.
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I never thought then could eer be drear,
Sweetheart, sweetheart, ah, you were dear,
so dear.
never knew how long the twilight Is
Until shared 1t with lone memories.
1 never thought how low the daisies grew
Until gathered those that bloomed Ger
you.
never thought how sweet your name was,
dear,
Until saw 1t on the tombstone here.
Oh, could we know our Joys while yet they
last,
Nor live in heart-break DER blinded past,
Nor know our loving when tits all too late j!
Sweetheart, without you am desoate.
80 EDNA H. EDWARDS.
Los Angeles, August 81. 1898.
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the signature Of Mr.. Cages political

the signature Of Mr.. Cages political
sponsor.
The only other allusion to railroads is
In single sentence that makes just
nineteen lines of type. There is nothing
in the scope of language that you can't
avoid saying in a sentence of nineteen
lines. AS we make 1t out, the Central
and Union Pacific railroads are advised
to accede to the demand Of congress for
the money they owe the government. II
they decline to do this, 1t is recommended
that the mortgages be foreclosed and the
proceeds applied to the construction of
the Nicaragua canal. Possibly it was
Uncle Coils hilarity over the proceed
ings Of his convention that gave the i'm
preston. at his place in the New York
woods, that he had been shot.
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ship was caught in the ice and had to be-
abandoned. 1t was not destined to go to
pieces in frozen waters, however. An
American whaler discovered and extricated
1t in 1855, and it was subsequently purchased
and sent to her majesty by the president
and people of the United States as token
of good will and friendship.
In an English dockyard the Resolute was
at last broken up, and from her timbsrs a
desk was made, which was sent by her
majesty "as a memorial of the courtesy
and loving kindness which dictated the
offer Of the gift of the Resolute."
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COLONIAL COMPETITION

1t is not too early to consider the prob
able effect Of new colonial competition
upon home agricultural interests. The
colonies wrested from Spain have no
manufacturing industries except those
which handle the local products. These
colonies are wonderfully rich in certain
staple products, and under the stimulus
Of the new conditions their output will
be an important element in the nations
resources.
Considerable apprehension is already
manifested, in some industries, on this
subject. The beet sugar industry of
California, for instance, may be seri-
ously affected. All our lately acquired
territory, or nearly all of 1t, now pro-
duces sugar. The present tariff on sugar
is one cent pound, less mere fraction.
With free entrance to the sugars of Ha-
wall, Porto Rico. ETC., the best sugar in
dustry could not. probably. be operated
at profit. A gloomy, and we think prob
ably exaggerated, view of this matter is
taken by an able agricultural journal,
the Orange Judd Farmer. From recent
article we extract the following:
The free admission into the markets
Of the United States Of sugar, tobacco
and coffee from all the heretofore Span I
ish possessions in the East and West
Indies. will be demanded by the few
syndicates that will monopolize the
production Of these crops. They will !
spend money like water to accomplish
this purpose, because IL they win 1t
means untold wealth to them. Sugar
and tobacco plantations and factories,
conducted on large scale in those
tropical countries. employing the native
cheap labor at long hours. directed by
the ablest genius that capital can Sc
cure and that modern industry has Gre
ated, can lay down in the United States
markets either raw sugar and leaf, or
the refined product and cigars, at prices
that will drive out of the business every
planter of sugar beets or sugar cane
within the present confines Of the United
States. Given free admission to this
market, the colonial producer or manu-
facturer can still make magnificent
profits at prices that mean humiliation
to our domestic sugar and leaf tobacco
industries.
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FASHIONABLE FIGHTERS

Richard Harding Davis, who was with
the Rough Riders in the battle of
Guasimas, has published (Scribner,
September) a graphic and interesting
description of that hard fought and
dearly won field. 1t will be remembered
that General Young, who was in the i'm
mediate command of the forces in that
fight on July "a. 1885, together with Col
onel Wood and Lieutenant Colonel
Roosevelt, of the Rough Riders. was the
subject of a good deal of sharp news
paper criticism;
It was contended that Colonel Wood
rushed hisrcommand with great bravery,
but little discretion, headlong into a
Spanish ambuscade, at the sacrifice of
many valuable men, and without the
usual necessary military preparation
and forethought.
Mr.. Davis vigorously denies and ridi-
cules these aspersions and afirms that
the position of the Spaniards at Quasi
mas had been previously and carefully
reconnoitered. Plans of the attack had
Of General Joseph Wheeler and General
Young and the attack of the Rough
Riders upon the concealed enemy in the
chaparral was made strictly in obedi-
ence to military orders. 1t will be graft
flying to the whole country to learn this.
and Mr. Davis, in thus early applying
the corrective to an injustice done the
gallant Cowboys in the premises, per-
forms an act of grace to them and of
usefulness to history.
It will be remembered that, among
the Rough Riders-among the genuine
Western cowboys and large game
hunters from frontier states, who con-
stituted the great bulk of Colonel Woods
cavalry regiment - were associated
many college-bred men, sons of wealthy
fathers, fashionable and dainty mem
bers of society having the entire to all
vigorously exclusive "aristocratic'' clubs.
At these, when called to the front, much
harmless fun was poked by the comic
journals of eastern cities, echoed by
other of our humor-loving press
throughout the country. But the comic
critique now is silent and men lift their
hats to the "dudes" who proved them
selves of genuine soldiery stock and who
on the bloodiest battlefields of Cuba
illustrated, the significant fact that col
lege culture and Chesterfieldian breeding
in no wise crush out the spirit of manli-
ness and patriotic sacrifice on the battle
field. 1t is among the pleasant surprises
of our war with Spain to find the "curled
darlings of fortune"-those at whom the
fixed finger of the public moralist has
hitherto been pointed in proof of the de-
cadence. at the top of our national de-
mocracy-to find these men, in the day of
trial. rivals in endurance and in the
heroic performance of duty of the hardy
less-petted sons of ordinary American
folk. ~
Mr.. Davis speaks in this connection of
young surgeon-"Bob' Church of
Princeton college-whom he knew and
whom he saw during the fighting at
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-28
A Rulers Desk

The desk used at the White House by the
president of the United States in interest
ing in Itself, apart from its connection with
the ruler of the nation, for it is token of
good will existing between two people,
says the Youths Companion.
Although occupying so prominent place
in the official residence of Americas chosen
ture
1t was fashioned In England and was
the present from the queen to a former
president. 1t was made from the timbers
Of H. M. g. Resolute, which was sent In
search Of Sir John Franklin In 1859. The
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-28
Japan,s Commences Augmentine

Since the Chino-Japanese war the COM
merce of Japan has shown a remarkable
increase, as compared with other periods in
the history of the island. Her imports last
year were valued at $44, $50 900, an increase
of about $5,0O0, 900 over those of 1896; the
exports reached SAC, 059 100, which is an in
crease Of 81, 800, 900. The share of the United
States in the aggregate is set down at $685.
100000, while Great Britain's was little
over $2O,O00,0 900, of which two-thirds was
with England. Japan's trade with AUS
tralia is also improving rapidly, last years
total representing an increase of % per cent
on the figures of 1896. There is also noted
a tendency of imports to increase and of
exports to decrease.-New York Times.
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Traffic at London Bridge

1t is computed that about 10000 pedestri-
and and 10000 vehicles cross London bridge
every day. Each leaves behind little
shoe-leather or a little iron-just trifle.
But when litter and dust are added to these
minute losses, the whole fills between three
and four carts. The most surprising thing
of all, however, is that the incessant traffic
across the bridge reduces to powder about
twenty-five cubic yards Of granite every
year-New England Magazine.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-28

New York has just begun to enjoy q
fairly comprehensive system Of street.
car transfers, and it seems to be much
pleased. One Of its newspapers says
lines Of travel In all parts of the city,
and one may oftentimes get another
transfer from the second line to a third"
The big city moves, but in the matter Of
street-car service it has been years in
the wake Of Los Angeles.
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That was a wonderfully touching cpl
sode, described at length by telegraph.
about General Ayers interview with the
suffering soldier at Camp Wikoff. The
secretary ordered furlough for the SOL
der. 1t was almost Interestingly pa
thetic.
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The Topeka federation Of women's
clubs has excluded the Womans Bible
from its library because it is "wxitten
In fippant, coarse and inelegant style. Il
A prize competition might be the means
OF bringing out work of acceptable
style.
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1t is doubtless very interesting for
naval experts to discuss what would
have been the wisest course for Cervera,
and where he made the fatal mistake.
The old admiral, himself, is probably
convinced that his great mistake was
in not resigning before the war.
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The war will not leave much salvage
Of swords and spears to beat into plow-
shares and pruning hooks. but we shall
have the smile in far more interesting
shape. The navy department has d.
rected that the splendid transatlantic,
steamers Of the American line that were
fitted as auxiliary cruisers. shall at once
be rehtted and returned to their peaceful
business.
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A dispatch from Hong Kong says the
merchants are anxious to have the
United States arrange tariff for Ma
Mia. They will not have long to wait
In a Republican administration tariff
matters have precedence Of everything,
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The boldness Of a burglar In robbing
the home Of detective should admonish
the force to be very cautious. II such
burglarious effrontery goes on we may
some day hear that detective or two
has been stolen.
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The Japanese are called the Yankees
Of the Orient, and they seem to be de-
serving of the compliment. The readi-
ness with which they adopt American
ways Is instanced in the news that "the
japanese commercial world is being torn
to its center by the discovery Of enor-
nous frauds in the TOXIC Warehouse
company"
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The Lions Share

Mamma-Johnny, see that you give Ethel
the lions share of that orange.
Johnny-Yes, ma.
Ethel-Mamma, he hasn't given me any.
Johnny-Well, that's all right; lions don't
eat oranges.-Spare Moments.
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Hurrah for the Lock-Step Drill

Hurrah! Hurrah! for the lock-step drill;
It's the finest you ever saw;
1t is done with swing and a hearty will,
For all of us know the law.
For Crimmens and Kelly, and dear Daddy
Burns
All point to the narrow way.
The greenhorn bucks, but he suddenly
learns
That the bucking act won't pay.
Oh, onto the neck Of body diseased
We have grated a healthy head;
It smiles, and the bulk of the voters are
pleased,
Nor see that the things half dead.
ALFRED 1. TOWNSEND.
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Too Many Blanks

Spain will try a national lottery plan for
replenishng it's treasury. This Is invariably
the final resort of an oppressive govern
ment for filching the last dollar from Its
poverty-tricken subjects.-St. Louis Globe-
Democrat
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No Vegetarians in the Sea

The sea is said to have no herbiyerous
inhabitant. It's populations live on each
other, and the whole of this immense ex1
panse of water is one great Slaughter
house. where the strong forever prey upon
the weak.-Boston Traveller
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unholv or HolyP

FAN unholy war!" Mckinley he cries.
"a Republican WARP said Chandler, the
wise.
They both may be right. Our leaders must
What results are to follow. that people may
It's root was the essence Of brotherly love.
Twas Humanity's call to relieve the dis
tressed;
Twas Freedoms grand rally to save the
oppressed.
Supreme and majestic did Liberty rise,
Her feet on the tyrant, her face to the
skies.
Amazed at the vision all Europe did stand
Will the nation be true to purpose so
grand?
Let us count up the cost. A round billion
in gold,
And hardships that never were measured
or told.
What value to place on the hundreds who
fell
Ask the hearts that best loved them, they
only can tell.
The hot southern sun and the tropical
damps
Crowned the havoc begun in the Florida
camps;
Improperly clothed, without shelter. Ill fed,
Fierce fever has leveled more victims than
lead.
And what the result? What profit to show
For the millions Of gold and the mountains
Of woe?
Will the nation be true to Liberty's creed.
Or sacrifice all to Monopoly's greed?
Will crucihed Cuba be made to rejoice,
And far Philippine be given her choice?
Or will our nation, while freeing from
Spain,
But bird them again with the .oligarch's
. ell, n? ~, st. e.. ,iGa1'li
Columbias children are waiting to know
What pledge for their future our leaders
can show,
And nations are watching, all over the
world,
The fate of the isles where our flag was
unfured.
g. WINNIE BELL.
Los Angeles. August o. 1885,
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An Eden
In Eden once there
Dwelt a thrice-happy pair;
No evil had entered therein:
The labor was light,
And the pay was all right
Alas! for original sin!
Twas Adam. the man
Who first broke UP the plan
BY losing his temper, ween:
He stormed and he swore.
And he stamped on the floor,
And made deplorable scene.
The cause of the row
Was not much, I'll allow
My story will not adorn-
He found Eve one day
In her innocent way,
With his razor pairing corn.
w. M. P.
Los Angeles, August rs, 1885,
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But Not Lacking in Points

Canada is beginning to notice that Uncle
6am.s farm fence Is not made Of barbed
wire after all.-Philadelphia Ledger.
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I'd Rather Be Governor

There's only one place in this wide world
for me,
Oh, give me that place, entreat you!
love Sacramento as bad as can be,
Mcguire. here's hoping to beat you!
I wouldn't be president. not on my life;
Oh don't, implore you, believe it!
That name Is as common as Mr. Jones' wife,
Don't offer it; won't receive it.
If was the president, now do you see,
And Mckinley was racing where 1 race,
I'd ask him If he would swap places with me,
But he'd answer, "You cannot have my
place."
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THE HERALD'S MUSE
SIMPLE SONGS FOR SUCKERS

Burns, a Fire in MY Brain
Burns, a fire in my brain:
Crimmens, Kelly, cam my paign!
Though I will not honor thee,
Shuck your coats and work for me,
Corporations, rub my head;
Never mind the words we said.
II get there, you'll admit,
I'm but one, and one is nit.
Arnold, raise your voice and sing!
Make the streets and railroad ring!
and Neff, and Waters, too,
Walk the self same plank with you.
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Afterward

Los Angeles, August rs, 1898.
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An Eden

Los Angeles. August %, 1898.