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The herald., 1898-03-18
THE BOARD SHOULD ACT

| A few months ago it was heraldet
with great rejoicing that large sum o
money was available to construct new
buildings for the State Reform school a
Whittier. That the need of the improve
ments was urgent was freely admitted
Elaborate plans were drawn up ant
submitted to the board of trustees, who
agreed upon what should be done, ant
submitted their conclusions to the state
auditing board. composed of the gov
ernor, secretary of state and treasurer
! as required by law. The plans were sem
to the capital over a month ago, bui
even their receipt has not been acknowl.
edged.
There should be no further delay ir
this important matter. The principa
cause of the difficulties that have been
encountered in the administration of the
Whittier Reform school has been lack
of proper facilities. The accommoda-
tions are inadequate and antiquated. II
is impossible to conduct the school ac-
cording to approved modern methods
There is one great administration build
ing so constructed and arranged that it
is a hindrance rather than a help to
good government in the institution. The
plans submitted by the board of trus-
tees are drawn on the "segregate" idea,
SO called which has been approved by
all the leading penal reform authorities.
1t is absolutely necessary that they shall
be carried out if the welfare of the in
mates of the school is to be properly
looked after.
AS before stated, the money necessary
to carry out the improvements is ready
and waiting. The fund now amounts to
100000, and in the course of year or so
it will reach a total of $125,0O0. OF the
amount now available, Los Angeles
county, in which the school is located.
provided $4,000, and the people of the
county have the right to demand that
the money shall at once be devoted to it's
intended, legitimate purpose, and to no
other.
So long as the fund is not devoted to
its legitimate purpose there will exist the
constant temptation to fritter it away
in needless expenditures. 1t is due the
boys who are sent to the school to be
reformed and taught useful occupations,
and to the several counties whose tax
payers have provided the money, that
the plans of the trustees be carried out
The Herald hopes that the state audit.
ing board, of which Governor Budd is
the head, will pass upon the matter
without further delay.
The herald., 1898-03-18
FoRAKER's CoWARDICE

People who talk loudest about the
national honor" ignore the fact that the
most confidential friend of the chief eX-
ecutive occupies a seat in the highest
legisla tive body in the world by no other
right than that of purchase, and that
his colleague, fully aware of the methods
employed to secure it, declines to aid in
purging that body, although the bribe-
giver has been his traditional enemy.
The refusal of Mr.. Foraker to repre-
sent the protest that has gone up from
the honest people of his own state and
which is confined to no party or class,
cannot but be regarded as base and
cowardly betrayal of a trust and an
abandonment of the friends who made
the fight against Hanna and his pow
erful influences, if it does not really
make him an accessory after the fact.
Forakers excuse is that, however con-
vincing the proof that money was spent
ing positive evidence that it was Han
mas money, or that Hanna expended it
or approved of it's expenditure in behalf
of his own candidacy.
more puerile plea was never before
advanced. The case against the Ohio
boss is as fully and convincingly sus-
The herald., 1898-03-18
A SPECIAL NEWS SERVICE

The Herald has a specia al and exclusive
telegraph service that is unequaled by
any paper west of Chicago with the
single exception of the San Francisco
Examiner.
Not only is to be found in these pages
the full report of the Ass sOciated Press.
the greatest newsgathering agency in
the world, but an exclusive service from
special correspondents at San Francisco,
Chicago, New York, and Washington,
who have exceptional advantages by
their connection with the greatest news
papers in those cities.
The full reports ofthe A Associated Press,
day and night, amount in all to an aver
age of $4,000 words. These are daily
supplemented in The Herald by exclusive
dispatches, which vary from 500 to 1000
words per day,
The herald., 1898-03-18
ROYALTIES Who Sing

Few outside Of the intimate court circle
at Berlin are aware that the kaiser has
a very fine barytone voice, and that he is
exceedingly fond of singing German and
English ballads, which he does with a
good deal of expression and feeling.
1t is King Oscar, however. who possesses
the finest barytone voice in Europe, and
experts have declared that had he been
forced to sing instead of to reign for a
living he would have surpassed every pro-
fessional barytone now on the stage.
Our queens third daughter, the Princess
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, belongs
to choral societies in London and Windsor
which give public concerts. In these the
princess takes an active part. Nothing is
more inspiring than to hear the Prince of
Wales singing on Sunday at church. at the
top of his voice, his favorite hymn, "On-
ward, Christian Soldier" the rolling "r's'
giving it something essentially militant
and military.-Rival.
The herald., 1898-03-18
MARCH

Out of the cavern of Time I spring.
On the dancing feet of the wind;
Wildly, oh! wildly my way wing,
While the gray clouds hurry behind,
Trailing a mantle far over the sky,
And the maniac winds go believing by.
The scudding grasses all shivering fly,
And the plants crouch down to the earth;
The old oaks groan and the poplars sigh,
But I laugh with frenzied mirth,
And call on the tempest to mock their cries
With thunderous tongues and flaming eyes.
Not a trembling tree but lifts its arms
With vain appeal to the skies,
Oh! 1 love their terrors and wild alarms,
And the merciless, mad replies
From the foam-hecked mouths Of the
chatting hounds
That hold in leash in my hunting grounds
Bernard Malcolm Ramsey in the March
Pail Mall Magazine.
The herald., 1898-03-18

will make an elegant fit on my number
nine foot. Then, again, why Is 1t that the
restaurants where music by the band Is
furnished ad libitum, do such enormous
business. To my mind, the notes of cor
net and the pounding OF piano are dis
turbers of conversation. Give me the soft
strains of the lutte. the guitar and the vio-
lin, mixed In with the ducet notes Of the
Aeolian Tyre. even IL disturbed by the
rough notes of the Los Angeles Tyre In the
shape of real estate man. No music should
be made unwelcome, and this it becomes II
1t is sufficiently loud to disturb the con-
versation Of the spoony couples, the bus
mess trios or the average assortments Of
minated and mismated. who crowd the
festive dining halls where music regns
supreme.
BYSTANDER-
The herald., 1898-03-18

state department to sustain him. Thes'
instructions contained this declaration
The president cannot but regard in
dependence and emancipation, Of
course, as the only certain, and even
the necessary, solution of the ques-
tion of Cuba. And. in his mind, all
incidental questions are quite subor-
dinate to those. the larger objects OF
the United States in this respect.
The terms of pacification, satisfactory
to the insurgents and acceptable to the
United States, because they provided
for the gradual emancipation of the
slaves and a broad measure of autonomy
for the island. were agreed to in 1878
and bad they been carried out in good
faith by Spain. there would today be
no Cuban question to goad us on to the
brink of war.
The herald., 1898-03-18
NOT IN THE GANG INTEREST

The participation in the primaries of
the party by more than fifty per cent Of
the Democratic voters Of Chicago, on
Wednesday, confirms the conviction that
the people generally take deep interest
in public affairs and in good govern
ment, and that they will cease to ignore
primary elections when they are safe
guarded, as they always should be, by
wise provisions to prevent them from
being manipulated by designing men,
with penalties for violations sufficiently
heavy to secure their enforcement. In
other words, the better element will
come to respect the primary system, and
to patronize 1t, just so soon as they are
assured that their will is to be honestly
recorded. This being certainty, we
shall have, in time, almost universal
participation in the primary elections, a
more sincere and cordial acceptance of
the results, a greater degree of reliance
upon the loyalty of the masses in sup
port of the regular nominees, and the
consolation in defeat that it was en-
countered in good cause, for it will
never do to admit that the majority of
the voters of any party will deliberately
nominate unworthy men for responsible
positions in the public service.
The result in Chicago is in the highest
sense encouraging. If the principle of
safeguarding primary elections can sue
ceed in that cesspool Of political cor
ruption, it will surely be acceptable to
this deodorous community, where the
gang element succeeds only when un-
onnOSed.
The herald., 1898-03-18
The Colonel's Opinion

"War," said the old colonel as he stirred
his toddy, sis too terrible to contemplate.
1t should not be lightly spoken of, sir; 1t Is
a serious, sad affair. I have two graves
in Virginia, one in Tennessee and three in
Kentucky, and but for war the men who
fill them would be living yet"
"Your sons. colonel?" asked the listener
in an awed voice.
The colonel tossed off his toddy neat. and
stroking his gray beard said:
mo, sir-my substitutes; the brave men
who fought. bled and died for mel"
Then the listener coughed and observed
that whisky was not as good now as 1t was
before the war.-Atlanta Constitution.
The herald., 1898-03-18
Bright Bits of Philosophy

Facing tomorrow's trials Is turning your
back on today's duties.
Discouraging a good man is the DEVILS
way Of spiking his best gun.
Whatever comes from the heart has Z
voice that speaks to the heart.
Some men make their intentions of be-
ing better an excuse for not being so.
Every good law is public confession
that society is not as good as 1t should be.
What difference there is between what
we are and what we want others to be-
Rams Horn.
The herald., 1898-03-18

tanned by the evidence as any case OF
conspiracy ever was in a court of justice,
Every circumstance points to his guilt
and we will venture to say there is not
an honest man in the country who fol-
lowed the testimony developed by the
legislative investigation that has a lin
gering doubt of Hanna's personal par
ticipation in the bribery of members to
vote for him who otherwise would have
voted for his opponent.
Against the employment Of such meth
ods Mr.. Foraker has been the strongest
protestant, but it seems that, even as he
lacked courage to openly antagonize the
Ohio boss when his fate hung in the bal
ance, and when a word from him would
have saved the state and the nation from
the disgrace. so he now elects to sit with
his tattoed colleague to the close of his
own term without protest or rebuke. and
to affiliate with him in caucus and COM
mittee, thus tacitly indorsing the dis
reputable methods which he has so often
and so eloquently denounced, to the end
that he may escape the censure of pro-
fessional politicians for attempting to
disrupt the rotten party to which he
still adheres at whatever sacrifice.
But it should not be assumed that the
fight upon Hanna and his usurpation of
seat he possesses not a single qualifi-
cation to fill will be abandoned because
Of Foraker's cowardly desertion. Mr..
McKisson will file his contest, the testi-
mony will be exploited by the committee
on elections, and every senator will be
to go on record upon the vital
question, painfully personal to every one
of them.
The herald., 1898-03-18
AS They All Do

''I wish you please, Suh," said an old
darky, write me letter ter de man whut
lists de sojers en- ak him ter gimme a
place in de army
"All right. Any particular placer"
mo, sub, 'cep dat I wants ter be
colonel-des lax de res er dem"-Atlanta
Constitution.
The herald., 1898-03-18
Mckinley May Be Too Cool

What did President Mckinley mean
when he said: "You may rest assured
there will not be war with my consent, ex-
cent for a cause which will satisfy good
men here, the nations of Europe and AL
mighty God?" If he meant that he would
oppose war unless forced to it by the lash
ing anger of all the outside world, he
spoke like a craven.-St. Louis Republic.
The herald., 1898-03-18
Not Just as He Thought

"Well, I've got to square myself; the
other two sides have done so,' said the
ltigant.
"You want to get even, ,heh?" asked the
other.
"Yes."
"You must think you're regular hypo-
tenuse."
Somehow it didn't seem clear, and he
hasn't recovered yet.-Buffalo Enquirer.
The herald., 1898-03-18
This Legislature Named Hanna

Whispers which may develop into open
charges of corruption and bribery are now
heard in Columbus. 1t is intimated' that
the legislation of the house is controlled
by certain members who are willing to
pass of defeat pending bills for consid-
eration.-Cleveland Leader.
The herald., 1898-03-18

We scarcely needed the assurance, con-
tanned in a Madrid dispatch this morn
ing, that Spain will not accept the f1nd-
ings of the American naval board. But
what If that report should wholly elm
mate Spanish responsibility for the loss
of the Maine?
The herald., 1898-03-18
One Of the Forgotten Planks

Just as an evidence OF good iaitn,
wouldn't it be well for congress TO read
that little section in the last Republican
platform about Cuba before announcing
that everything that stands In the way
of adjournment has been attended to?-
louisville Times.
The herald., 1898-03-18
THE PUBLIC PULSE

CThe Herald under this heading prints
communications. but does not assume re.
sponsibility for the sentiments expressed.
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as Is consistent with the
proper expression Of their views.)
The herald., 1898-03-18

Francisco weather bureau ofiicial pre-
dicted for Los Angeles. Generally clea'
tonight and Friday; frost where cleai
tonight" The Los Angeles official as
sured us Of Partly cloudy and unsettled
weather tonight and Friday; frost where
clear tonight" If you can think OF any
kind Of weather that you don't want just
ask for IT.
The herald., 1898-03-18
Easily Ascertained

He-Do you know when you get a bad
coin?
She-Why certainly, do.
How do you know?
Why, the man I offer 1t to refuses to
take it.-Yonkers Statesman.
The herald., 1898-03-18

"Too late for peace under Spanish
rule" is the epitome of the conclusions
reached by Senator Proctor, after his
visit to Cuba, and embraced in his
guarded remarks in the senate yesterday.
He freely declared that neither Span
ards nor Cubans want autonomy.
The herald., 1898-03-18
Felicity

Mrs. Crimsonbeak-I read In the paper
the other day, that during the first day of
her married life Korean bride must not
speak, not even to her husband. 1t is con-
sidered very reprehensible breach of ct
iquette.
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-Now, that's some
thing like a Observation-Disclosures States
man.
The herald., 1898-03-18

The conviction that war is not likely
to be averted appears to be infectious.
In our news columns this morning Sen
ator Burrows is made to say that, If
the report Of the naval board meets pop
ular expectation, a collision is inevitable.
The herald., 1898-03-18

The yellow newspapers, by publishing
black lies that are not worth the white
paper they are printed on, make their
contemporaries turn green with envy
and feel blue because they are read
This is wrong, but it is right.
The herald., 1898-03-18
N ext!

Fame is fleeting. Yesterday 1t was tn.
ovthor Of "Quo vadis." Today 1t is thu
gifted composer of 1.-THE Wabash
10 Express.
The herald., 1898-03-18

The committee Of thirty has wisely de-
cided to eliminate "All-Fools Night
from the Fiesta program this year.
This feature inspired the greater part
of the opposition to holding the festival
this year, and its abandonment will leave
the celebration without an Objectionable
feature.
The herald., 1898-03-18

AS to the long-looked-for report Of the
naval board, manana. At least that is
the assurance conveyed by our dis
patches this morning. And after the
report-What?
The herald., 1898-03-18
Sage Advice

One of the best ways in the world to be
cure of putting up good fight is to keep
nerfectly cool until the time comes to
|Aeht.-St, Louis Republic.
The herald., 1898-03-18
Fine Recruits

"Are you,interested in this don't worry
movement"
'.Yes; wish could get all my creditors
into it."-Chicago Record
The herald., 1898-03-18
Ready for a Fray Neverthele

Secretary Long does not believe there is
going to be a fight, but all the same he is
soaking snowballs and putting them out
over night to freeze.-Boston Globe.
The herald., 1898-03-18
Perhaps She Was Farsighted

The Sioux City girl who married another
man, thinking him her lover, breaks all
records for nearsightedness.-St Paul
Globe.
The herald., 1898-03-18

The San Pedro American Is laying up
trouble on earth for itself. It will pre-
sent a gold watch to "the most popular
lady in San Pedro"
The herald., 1898-03-18
A Lobster

1t is generally agreed that the oyster is
fish; but what of Patty du Clam?-Phila-
delphia Record.
The herald., 1898-03-18
Bees in His Bonnet

Senator Mason appears to be mistaking
bellicosity for brains.--Terre Haute Ex-
press.
The herald., 1898-03-18

The council has passed an ordinance
of intention to hold an election to choose
freeholders to whom the very important
work of framing a new charter shall be
entrusted. The first official step has
been taken in the matter, and the citi-
zens should take lively interest in ii
from now on. The way to new charter
is long and hard and weary, but II good
instrument is secured it will be worth
all it costs.
The herald., 1898-03-18

Sidney Lowe, one Of England's most
distinguished editors. this morning tells
the world, through the medium OF the
Associated Press, what his country
would do, or rather what 1t long ago
would have done, had Cuba been within
ninety miles of the British shore line.
His strong utterances, touching the
duty of the United States, are COM
mended to the few in our midst who are
disposed to accept peace at any price.
The herald., 1898-03-18
BRAZEN HYPOCRISY

The assurance of the yellowest news
paper in San Francisco is not to be
measured; it cannot be compassed by
the human mind. 1t is one of the things
infinite.
The latest scandalous sensation in
San Francisco is story to the effect
that the attorneys for Hoff, the alleged
murderer of Mrs. Clute, have attempted
to sell a confession of the crime to the
local papers for $4,000. Concerning this
report the Call says:
Aside from any question as to whether
Hoff has actually confessed, or whether
Mcintosh was authorized to sell his
confession, or whether Raymond, who
offered the document for sale, was act
ing for Mcintosh, the glaring fact re-
mains conspicuous that these men have
been trafficking in the life of human
being In so doing Mcintosh especially
has been guilty of an objectionable
offense, for which he should be dis
barred and prosecuted.
A few days ago a newspaper reporter
in San Francisco, depressed by his trou-
bles, and maddened by drink, resolved to
commit suicide. He wrote an account of
his troubles and of his determination to
take his own life, bringing the story up to
the time of committing the deed. Then
he took the manuscript to the newspaper
offices, sealed, and tried to sell 1t for 500.
One newspaper, seeing that the man was
not in his normal condition refused the
offer, but the next paper accepted it. The
sum of $1OO was to be paid for it, if it
proved to be the exclusive" that its
author claimed for it.
The name of the paper that accepted
the story was the Call. 1t is fair tC
say that there is no evidence to show that
the managing editor of the Call knew
just what he was buying, and his dis
claimer is put forth in support of the
statement; nevertheless the attitude and
course of the paper in the matter were
strongly condemned by all decent people
The reporter went forth and COM
mitted suicide. The next morning the
Call printed the story under sensational
headlines, not forgetting to call atten-
ton to it's enterprise" in securing an
exclusive account, written by the dead
man. 1t was deemed that the story was
worth the 500, and the money was sent
to the wife and sister, who Indignantly
refused to accept what they called the
"blood-money" of their husband and
brother.
And now the Call virtuously demands
charged with trying to sell murderer
confession. Out upon such vile hypoc.
risy!
The herald., 1898-03-18

The Austrian minister at Washington
appears to be cultivating a passport.
At all events his impertinent sugges-
tion to Assistant Secretary Day, that
Spain's responsibility for the Maine dis
aster be submitted to European board
of arbitration, has been fittingly re-
buked. We still look to the continent
for suggestions regarding our financial
policy, but in other matters Uncle Sam
is Enthusiastically self-reliant.
The herald., 1898-03-18

1t seems that a large portion of the pur-
chase money of the Pacific roads is still
In the hands of the banks that financed
the sales, the treasury having notified
them that the funds are not needed
We presume it will make little difference
to the people whether their money is
in the vaults at Washington or in those
at New York, but the circumstance is
suggestive of the disposition of the ad-
ministration authorities to favor the
money interest in every possible way,
and even in unlocked for ways. If the
government were indebted to the banks,
and the banks were in the condition OF
the federal treasury, who is there that
will for moment suppose the funds
would not be promptly withdrawn?
The herald., 1898-03-18


Enthusiastic Buckeyes are going to re-
produce the Mckinley homestead on the
grounds of the Omaha exposition, and
fill it with souvenirs of the last cam
paign. This is a capital idea. 1t will
be worth a journey across the continent
to once more see those lurid yellow-red
posters, embellshed with pictorial repre-
sentations of mills and factories in full
operation, dense volumes of smoke
issuing from the chimneys and all the
operatives looking fat and sleek in their
store clothes. But if the managers of the
exposition desire to produce genuine
novelty, they will set up a real factory
in the grounds, and put it in operation.
1t is highly improbable that General
Weyler wrote a letter to a Havana
journalist. suggesting the destruction of
any American battleship that might be
sent to that port, as chronicled in our
dispatches this morning. The epistle
is characteristic enough-we are only
skeptical as to his foolhardiness in COM
mitting it to the mails. We believe him
quite equal to the conception of such
q plot, however, and brave enough to-
consign it's execution to somebody else.
The herald., 1898-03-18

theoretically the people Of Los Ange-
les can have any kind of weather they
see TT to ask for. Yesterday the San
The herald., 1898-03-18

Whose business is it to remove obstruc-
tions from the street, MY friend, John