Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-04
the social side of modern civilization

the social side of modern civilization
Female suffrage is no longer an ex-
pertinent. In Great Britain and in the
Scandinavian countries the womer
have municipal suffrage and may vote
at all elections except for members oi
parliament 1t is only in the Latir
countries and in the Netherlands that
women have no voice whatever in the
government and are sometimes hitched
to the plow.
woman suffrage has been tried
in four of our states and has every
where proved an advantage.
Flags Railway Trust
1--WE have in California the most I'M
considerable, the most remorseleSS, the
most insolent of all the trusts. 1t
crushes the industries that profit it
not and fosters those that benefit it.
1t allows the grower of perishable
fruit barely enough profit to discourage
him from digging up his trees and
vines. 1t discriminates in freight rates
between cleaned wool and uncleaned
wool because it needs the freight
money on the dirt. 1t charges more for
carrying manufactures of lead and cop
per and OF soda to market than 1T does
order to force double freight rates from
local consumers. 1t compels the min
ers to pay a per cent on the value of
the ores 1t carries to the shelters, al
though 1t pays him no more for rich
ore than for poor ore If the ore is lost
or stolen in transportation. 1t bribes
assessors and legislatures and boards
of equalization to assess its property
at one-fourth of it's value. 1t builds
up some towns where the members of
its plunderbound have first secured OPP
tions on real estate. 1t dooms to decay
others in whose growth 1t has no IN
terest. 1t nomina.-s your governors
and judges and state and federal leg
islators No man can obtain public
office who does not wear an iron collar
with the inscription. This official is the
purchased thralI of the Southern Pa
cific company 1t is the shark of the
sea as we'll as the pirate of the land.
and IL it's present plans succeed no
man will be able to reach the ocean
except by crossing it's wharves.
Ruled by the Bosses
You fatter yourselves sometimes
that you, the people, rule. You are
mistaken. You are goveneG by COM
bination between a Democratic rail-
road lawyer and an anarchic-Republi-
can boss. California may have re-
publican form of government. but she
has not a republican fact of govern
ment. Ours is a government of Harri-
man, Herrin and Ruef by Harri-
man. Herrin and Ruef for Hartman,
Herrin AMI Ruef.
Beautiful California, she has nursed
her sons with the milk of power from
her ahuent breast She has enrobed
them with golden and emerald drap-
cries of orchard and field. She has
enriched them with wealth of forest
and mine and from the ocean ports
their ships churn the seas from the
Arctic TO the Antipodes,
"Will not the sons OF California now
be Just to her daughters? Will they
not, for their sake. for their children's
sake, for their own sake and In the
interests Of better and puer govern
ment say to the women of California
as Ahasuerus said to Esther. Demand
what thou wilt have even unto the half
of my kingdom, 1t shall be thine. thou
art not my slave. Thou art not my
leman. Stand not in my shadoy. knee
not at my feet, but seat thee on the
throne beside me and together we will
rule our Israel"
Greatest Agency for Good
Mr. Fitch was followed by Judge j.
s. Noyes, who spoke on the Course and
Cure" Judge Noyes stated that he
believed that the granting Of the ballot
to women would be the supremest and
purest agency for good. The curse he
believed to be the morally and political
ly diseased condition Of society. The