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Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

mount to a direct committal to that
system. He says "rhe American peo-
pie are pledged to the speediest pos
sibie construction Of q canal adequate
to meet the demands which the COM
merce of the world will make upon it,
and I appeal most earnestly to congress
to aid in the fulfillment of the pledge"
As engineers generally agree that a
sea-leveI canal will require ten or
twelve years longer for construction
than would one with the lock system,
the latter certainly fills the require
ment of "speediest construction"
The purpose OF the president in re-
serving for a special message his con-
slderation Of the canal question Is obvi-
Gus. He evidently means to treat the
subject in the exhaustive manner shown
In his handling of the railway rate
question in the annual message. And
as ne expects to do this "at an early
day" It is probable that we shall know,
before the end of the year, just what
he will suggest and what he will urge
for congressional action.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
QUESTION WORTH PIONEERING

In yesterdays Herald the facts were
related concerning a typical but ag-
eravated case Of grip-the kind the
brewers hold on the retail liquor traffic
Of this city. These facts should be i'm
pressed deeply upon the conscience Of
the community and they also should be
considered in their business aspect.
They show that the saloons are ope-
rated largely in the interest of brewery
corporations, the saloon men being
usually the main representatives of the
brewers. And they show how absurd
II Is for Los Angeles to tolerate pro-
prietary control OF saloon licenses,
from which vast revenues are derived,
when the city should have the full
measure of beneht therefrom.
In the particular case to which ref
erence now Is made, the corporation
owning the license is a San Francisco
concern. In an attempt to secure a
transfer Of license the fact was revealed
that the brewery corporation valued
the license at about $4,000, although
the stock and fixtures Of the saloon
we're worth only $3.50.
Now that license, and the 19s other
retail liquor licenses operative In this
city, have no tangible value whatever.
They simply represent a privilege
granted by the city for a monthly con-
sideration to sell liquors under certain
conditions. The brewery corporations
are large capitalists, and like their
kind in other business activities, they
have the means of controlling the
licenses, just as II they were tangible
property. And, with the 200 saloon
limitation in the city, these licenses
have increased In value immensely,
in conformity with the law of supply
and demand
But it is outrageous that a few Floh
corporations, not all even resident in
Los Angeles, should gain such immense
revenues from the liquor traffic,
through the medium of city licenses. 1t
is into the Golfers OF these corporations,
not into the till Of the average saloon
keeper, that the lions share of liquor
selling profit goes in Los Angeles.
AS the city has the fundamental
right to control this line of business,
why should the enormous profit derived
from it be poured into the already
plethoric pockets of the brewery mag
mates? Why not introduce such a sane
system as the Gothenburg plan offers.
whereby the evils of the liquor traffic
may be reduced to the minimum, the
number of saloons decreased to one
third the present figure, and the legit-
innate profits Of the business be turned
into the city treasury?
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
PRESIDENTS CANAL VIEWS

The only disappointment in the presi-
dents message relates to the public ex-
pectation that 1t would contain a
strong Endorsement of the lock sys-
TEN for the Panama canal Assurance
on that point, however, seems to be
only deferred for a brief time.
After noting the fact that there are
no physical obstacles on the route thar
American engineering skill will not be
able to overcome without serious diff
Guilty" the president says; "On this
point hope TO lay before tho congress
at an early day the findings of the ad-
Yisory board of American and Euro
pean engineers that at my invitation
have been considering the subject, to-
gether with the report of the commis-
sion thereon, and such comments there
on or recommendations In reference
thereto as may seem necessary"
But while the president thus leaves
the distinct expression OF his opinion
until a future time. he gives reason t.
believe that he win favor the lock sys-
teln, In fact his allusion "a this phase
Of the canal question is almost tanta
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
THE HARBOR PERIL

The discussion Of the Wilmington
harbor question before the board Of su-
pervisors gave assurance OF one thing,
and one only. It ma de the fact plainly
evident that the inner harbor PROPOSE
ton is in danger of being hung up
indefinitely by litigation. The attor-
neys representing the three corpora
tions involved in the issue made 1t
plain that their side would fight to the
last ditch if necessary to maintain the
points for which they contend. There
are Questions of fact, of state law and
of constitutionality that are knetty
enough to require many years of legal
unraveling.
1t Is a rather discoura ging harbor
outlook that is presented by this tangle
over the status of Wilmington. As
| suming that the people and their rep
resentatiyes are quite as determined
as the corporations to fight for their
rights. a long and costly litigation Is
imminent That would give an op-
portunity to congressional opponents of
the San Pedro harbor Improvement to
oppose further appropria tions for the
! government work, with a good prospect
! for success.
! Two of the three corporations thus
aligned in the Wilmington fight are
substantially Los Angeles concerns.
! The Banning company and the Salt
Lake Railway company have been in
timately connected with Los Angeles
city and county from the earliest period
of their corporate existence. And the
third corporation, the Southern Pacific,
is a large financial and industrial factor
in the development of this city and
section.
AS all interests concerned at the har-
Dor would be benefited by the earliest
possible completion of the harbor
work, il would seem to be the part of
wisdom for all to pull together with
that end in view, rather than to balk
and kick over the traces. The ques-
tlon of right and justice in the issues
| involved should be solvable without
resorting to litigation. There is a
way that seemeth right unto a man."
and corporation or a community Is
only an aggregation Of individuals.
The temper shown at the meeting of
the board Of supervisors indicates that
the situation in the Wilmington affair
is acute and that the peril of long and
obstructive litigation is imminent. The
Heralds slogan for Los Angeles-"pull
together" SHOULD be sounded in clarion
notes down at the harbor
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
To. Make Pretty Opera sae
A FIERCE AND DEADLY TIDE
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
A Philadelphia girl was recently
oyertaken and drowned by the incom-
ing tide on the west coast of France.
A transplanted Breton said of this fa-
tality:
Can you, who see your own tides
crawl in at the rate of ten feet or so
an hour. imagine tides racing like wild
white horses up the fiat sands at the
rate of half mile minute?
The extraordinary tiatness of our
Breton coasts gives us these phenom-
email tides. The sea does not rise and
fall 1t appears and disappears. You
have a vast and fiat plain of sand.
At a set hour the sea rushes in, white,
wild. submerging this vast plain. At a
set hour an unseen hand sucks the
water back-thirty. forty. fifty miles
and nothing Is visible but the plain
white sand again.
"Woe unto such as walk on this desc
late plain when the tide begins to
rise, for they must drown! Nothing
can save them"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
HERALD'S GREAT GAINS

During the month Of November The
Herald's columns showed a GAIN OF
TWO THOUSAND THREE HUN
DRIED AND ELEVEN INCHES over
the advertising in October.
This means an increase of 115 col
umns in one month
Almost every representative busi-
ness house, In all lines of trade in Los
Angeles, is now using The Herald as
an advertising medium and is securing
results.
During the same month of Novem-
Der 1900 new subscribers we're added to
The Herald's list. These additional
subscriptions are for periods ranging
from three months to one year and a
proportionate increase is still in prog
ress.
There are good reasons for The Her
AIDS increased business. This paper Is
now equal in size to the best of the
coast newspapers; it prints more news
and fewer pictures; it gives the facts
about all items of public interest and
contains a mass of information daily
that cannot be found in any other
newspaper.
At the same time the advertising
rates are lower and the subscription
price less than other newspapers no;
nearly so valuable or so interesting.
Just watch The Herald grow!
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE REPLY
TO BISHOP OF LONDON
Treatment Of Disease and Its APPiica-
tlon to the Religion OF the
Bible

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Dec. 6.-Editor
Herald: In your issue OF December .
appears an article entitled. "The Bish-
op OF London on Christian Science,
and, as usual. when non scientists at
tempt to explain Christian Science, the
result clearly shows their ignorance OF
the subject. .r.a ~
The bishop is quoted as saying: I'm
Chri tian Science you are erecting de-
liberately a real truth into a gigantic
heresy." BY simple analysis this
charge is instantly seen TO be false
Heresy. according to the STANDARD die
tionary, Is "A denial of some funda-
mental doctrine of Christianity" and
yet Christian Science Is the only re-
ligion that brings forth PROOF OF true
Chris tianity as established by Jesus
Christ, who said these signs shall fol-
low them that believe" and these signs
include the healing of the sick as well
as the reclaiming of the sinner. II the
ability To heal the sick is proof OF
our understanding Of Christianity, what
is to be said of the bishops belief that
does not confer this ability?
True belief will fulhll the Masters
promise--"The works that 1 do shall
ye do also"
The bishop admits that the clergy
ought to do healing. but points out
junction with the medical profession
This, also, is at variance with the
teaching and practice of Jesus Christ
as witnessed In the healing of the wo-
man related In Mark 5-26 And had
suffered many things OF many physi'
clans, and had spent all that she had
and was nothing bettered' but rather
grew worse"
The healing work performed by Je'
sus and his disciples was such that M
human agency could have reached. anc
SO It Is now In the practice Of Chris
tiun Science. as few VIII seek it's helI
until they have exhausted the skill
OF the physicians,
The Christian Scientists do not wisl
to decry the efforts Of the physicians
! as they are well aware what noble
disinterested class of men and womeI
our followers OF materia medica are
| hut they do feel that the method o
Jesus Christ Is superior TO any human
system OF healing and this conviction
| IS Justified by the healing of diseas'
pronounced mcurable by materia med
| lea. W. w. HtoWN,
Assistant Christian Science Pgblica
ton Committee.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
ICE PALACE A "FRoST"

From the New York Press.
"Your Ice palace of Montreal is a
thing of the past, isn't III" said a
New York man to "A Canadian.
Yes, thank fortune" said the other.
ut was a beautiful detriment. 1t cre-
ated abroad false impression of Can
ada. 1t conveyed the idea that Can
ada was bleak, cold place--a land OF
snow and ice-a kind OF Greenland or
Labrador, People sent to their friends
abroad illustrated post cards and large
photographs of the ice palace and the
Ice carnival year after year Hence
abroad. they got TO associating Ice and
Canada together The two words be-
came almost Synonymous and few
would emlgrate Canadaward,
"Our immigration figures fell off to
a deplorable degree on account OF the
false impression of our climate that
the ice palace gave 10 England and
France and Germany. Canada lives on
immigration. She wants all the i'm
migrants she can get. And because
the ice palace lost her thousands OF
hnphKranta yearly she wisely did away
with iG'
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
GOTHENBURGERS
GETTING BUSY
WILL PUT WORKERS IN FIELD
SATURDAY
Thirty Men VIII Canvass City With
Petitions for Legislation In order
to Give Corporation Power to
Buy All Saloons

The offices of the Gothenburg system,
2t2-214 o. r. johnson building, pre-
sented a busy scene yesterday. The
last touches to the prellmnaries of the
campaign were being put on and 1t Is
expected that by Friday evening every
thing will be in readiness to put work.
ers In the field.
A dozen young men and women are
employed in one of the large rooms OF
the suite that has been rented by the
Gothenburg promoters and literature
pertaining to the system which 1t is
proposed to establish is being sent
broadcast and the poll books are be-
ing checked up with the great register.
"When all cancellations have been
made and proper allowances made for
deaths and removals we find we still
have more than $1,000 voters to reach"
said S. Hutton, campaign manager, yes
terday. "It looks like tremendous
undertaking, but we are very much In
earnest and are employing the best
methods possible to reach these per-
sons.
Field Work Begins Saturday
II believe that by Saturday morning
we will be fully prepared to put our
workers in the field with petitions, de-
manding the proper legislation to en-
able us to accomplish our purpose. We
will have at least thirty men out in
different parts of the city with the
petitions. Before we are through
am convinced that this plan will have
become a national issue. We expect
more or less opposition from the saloon
interests, but 1t is certain that we will
ultimately succeed"
Some of the wealthiest and most in
fluential citizens of Los Angeles are
stockholders in the Gothenburg sys-
tenn. The plan is for this corporation
TO purchase all the saloons in Los An
geles and reduce the number to seventy
instead of the 200 that now are in act
i've business. The intention is to re-
duce the evils of drinking alcoholic
liquors by discouraging the treating
habit and selling soft drinks" where
they will serve the same purpose.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

In commenting on the presidents
choice of Franklin X. Lane as a mem-
ber Of the interstate commerce com
mission the Sacramento Bee says: an
this appointment the president Will
honor himself no less than he honors
Mr.. Lane. This selection proves. IL any
proof were necessary, that Roosevelt
proposes, SO far as may lie within his
power, TO have that commission com
posed Of men not only Of sterling in
tegrity, but men OF ripe ability ana
stalBart backbone as well.'
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
BEGINS DOUBLE TRACKING
Union Pacific System Announces Let
ting of Contract for Cor
structlcn Work
~ Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
PORTLAND. Ore, Dec e.--A L.
Mohler, vice president and general man
ager of the Union Pacific system, today
announced the letting of contracts for
the construction of seventy miles of
double track on the Union Pacific line
in Wyoming and thirty miles IN Ne
braska, the long talked of Omaha cut
off.
Fitzpatrick Bros. & Collins were given
the contract The double track in
Wyoming will be laid between Green
RIVER and Lookout and between Han
mock and Point Of. Rocks. and in Me-
braskl 1t will run from Omaha to VAL
ley. The Omaha cutoff will result
when the work Is completed, in a saw
ing of ten miles from Omaha vest.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

The sentence Of a Chinese to ninety
days on the chain gang for conducting
q lottery oonoern is likely TO have
samtary effect on the law breaking
'heathen." But serve all alike, There
are many gamblers in Los Angeles
wearing white skins and good clothes
who would better heat the chain gang
than the posing places on leading thor
oughfares,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

AL records for meanness on the part
OF husband were broken in a local
court by evidence Of wife who had
caused the arrest of her worse halt
for failure to provide. She testified
that in eight months he had supplied
only twenty cents worth of crackers
The court was more liberal, supplying
him with a straight jail sentence "oi
100 daSS
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
IN PLUTOCRATIC KANSAS

From the Chicago Record Herald.
A Kansas postotfice has been abol-
ished because nobody who was will
Ing to accept the postmastership could
be found. This bears out Secretary
Wilson'S intimation that all the farm
ers are Inillionaires. The population of
Kansas Is made up of farmers. and
who could expect any millionaire
farmer 70 fool with a one-horse post
office for the profit there was to be
had from the sale of stamps?
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

1t was understood when the agreed
case on the school bond question was
submitted to the supreme court that
the court was advised OF the neces-
sity for speedy action ana that de-
cision would be rendered at the earliest
possible moment. That was months
ago. The need is now imperative and
the request is urgent and universal for
decision by the court.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

The what. are we here for?" class
ct Republican congressman are said tc
be opposed to the confirmation o:
E<-anxlin K. Lane as q member ot the
interstate commerce commission. Party
and pels before country.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
100 days

a person who had been looking for
purchasable saloon told the police
commissioners that, after three months
search. the cheapest one that l have
been offered was down by the river.
I could have bought it for $500" Nine
tenths of such value, approximately,
is in the license.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

No wonder that poor woman went
crazy at Girard. Kas. That's the town
wherein is printed the Appeal to Rea-
son, organ of the Socialists. Stronger
minds than hers have gone daffy in
that neighborhood.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

Southern California products will ap-
pear next IN an international eXposi-
tion at Milan, Italy. The Italian goy-
ernment Is especially desirous of a
showing of agricultural exhibits that
are the products of Italian labor in
this section.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

Mark Twain says, in passing his sew
entieth yearly milestone, LAS for drink
ing. 7 have no rule about that when
the others drink like to help" 1t is
the helping of others to drink that
downs the majority of drinkers.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

Now comes an eastern corporation,
in the business of manufacturing bill
lard and pool tables, with a threat
of damage suits and mandamus pro-
cesdiRgs uAlass the police commission
issues leases for pool rooms on appli-
cations already turned down. Is not
this Los Angeles?
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

1t is said that the last obstacle to the
proposed boulevard between Los An
geies and Long Beach has been re-
moved by the purchase OF q large tract
of land In the Huntington interest at
Slauson and Santa Fe avenues.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

An interesting question is at Issue in
a local court involving the validity of
a forced marriage "to right a wrong"
If the defendant wins, the shotgun will
suader.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

Now the civil service question Is
raised whether the street superintend-
ent has power TO discharge officials In
his department, money or no money
wherewith to pay them.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

Nebraska is croWding Indiana in
means for making 1t hot for cigarette
makers and dealers. In Omaha a man
was arrested for rolling a cigarette for
his own use. bur the court decided that
the anti-cigarette law does not brins
such an act within the scope of man
ufacturing
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
Pi-LimeS and Pick-UpS
A Paradox

y FdTduON
On things when you outpour the light,
You then expect they'll lighter be;
That is the way we reason it;
How else we cannot easy see.
Yet here's a paradox: Explain
why is it so, do you suppose?
We let light shine insurance on,
And still the graft the darker grows!
You may lead a. man to college but
you can't make him think.
A Kansas man headed the Isle of
Pines revolt. OF coursel
The price of silver spoons is going
up. Hurry up and be born with yours.
or they may be too high.
A New York society to save the buff
falo has been formed. The initiation
should be IL cents
Delilah secured u divorce from Sam
son the other day because Samson was
too strong to work. Why didn't she
cut his hair?
Republicans in the senate will fight
the confirmation of r.. X. Lane. Maybe
they think it's a long Lane that gets
no turn-down
A fake car is operating in Russia.
That makes two of 'em.
Seasonable Yell
Celeryi oysters!
Rawl Raw! Raw
Stuffed Turkey! Cranberry
STRAIGHTFORWARD
Moyho that Oakland man x1,Io aIoroJ
with candy maker thought she was
Sweet young thing" Huh?
Butcher Weyler is mentioned for
prime minister of Spain. What Job
he could get in Russia!
A woman in London read an adver-
tisement about some very cheap In
dian shawls on sale on Regent street
She went to the number given and
found the place was a jewelers.. Then
she discovered she had been reading
an 1905 issue of the Times, got out
that day as a souvenir of the battle
of Trafalgar.
Every dog has his day, but many
of them want the nights, also.
Money both talks and creates ST.
lence. Great stuff, money!
The Reason
In marriage, women liberty have
found;
Before they wed, they're hedged about,
and bound.
When Hymens altar they have knelt
before,
They have the freedom that they
craved of yore.
ris singular that "ttss that bind
should free
Pray solve this funny r.adle now for
ne.
Truly. in wedlock, freedom woman
finds, but then,
Think of the liberty the while she
takes from menl
w. H c..
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

There is nothing slow about Pasade-
ma. A lively movement Is In progress
aiming to secure federal building for
the Crown City. Hope 1t will succeed.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

A drastic ruling by the civil service
commission declares that any city
employe who visits racetrack where
gambling is allowed viii be discharged
forthwith, A righteous order.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

1t is a good suggestion that the vari-
Gus societies in Los Angeles repre-
senting states in the matter of nativity
shall pool fund wherewith to erect n
building as home for all, OF course
keeping the lines of the societies dis
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

The Los Angeles Pioneer society
seems to have caught the Wilmington
infection of dispute over the question
of incorporation. There is plenty of
.'hot stuff" in the composition of the
old boys who trudged over the plains
or "came around" in Californias early
days
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
Hunaarian Boycott Extending
By Associated Press.

BY AssOCIated Press.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 6.-The
boycott of the compositors against the
newspapers which are opposing uni
versal suffrage Is extending. Sixteen
dailes either could not be published or
appeared In restricted form.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

Another California town, Red Bluff,
is made happy by notice from Andrew
Carnegie that he will equip it with a
library building. 1t is goodly number
MA towns.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

1t Is regrettable that conditions do
not allow OF acceptance. without quail
ifieation, OF the pleasing report of the
auditor that the City's accounts are
$4,000 TO the good" instead Of about
that sum plus s1OO. 900 ITO the bad"
But, as the auditor says, he deals only
with Estimates allowed and demands
cashed." He is not dealing In futures.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

Venice -bythe-sea reports that the
banks of sand washed in behind the
breakwater which have caused some
anxiety are not without compensating
benefits. They have become a habitat
for countless numbers of clans.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
postn1aste

In the hunting returns that have
come to hand this season in Southern
California the casualties among hunt
ers do not quite equal the fatalities
among the game.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07

IT sounds like far away echo of
home news, that dispatch from Mexico
city telling of the death of the Ameri-
can consul general as the result of an
electric car accident
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-07
Population Of Los Angeles 2Ol,249

The Cotton people are UP against the
question whether they should have a
modern hotel with liquor selling or
prohibition and no hotel.