Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-12


@ Decker, Denver, Colo
@ CALIFORNIA STATE FEDORA g
o President-Mrs Edwin D. Buss 6
@ Bakersfield g
8 Vice president-Mrs. J. W. 9
o Bishop, 714 North Main street, 9
o Santa Ana g
o Vice president at large-Mrs. 9
o Charles ]. Woodbury.. 1915 Brush 9
o street. Oakland @
@ Recording secretary-Mrs. j. @
o Benson Wrenn. 2OO3 B street, @
8 Bakersfield. @
o Corresponding secretary-Mrs. o
o ]. F. Kaar, 914 NJ street, Kern. @
@ Treasurer-Mrs. Charles l.. @
@ Donohoe. Willows. @
O Los ANGELES DISTRICT FED @
@ GRAFTON @
9 President t-Mrs. Florence Col @
@ Inns Porter. South Pasadena. @
@ Corresponding secretary-Mrs. @
@ F. Hooker Jones' 2114 Bonsallo @
@ avenue, Los Angeles. @
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Members of the Friday Morning club
and guests, among the latter few men,
filled the auditorium yesterday morning
to hear Lee c. Gates, who had been an
nounced to speak on Independence in
Municipal Politics"
Happily introduced to the club by the
president, Mrs. Shelley Tolhurst. Mr..
Gates spoke forcibly to his subject, and
also 1.-THE Restoration of the True Dig
nifty of Politics" He said in part:
Madam President and members of the
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your invitation to speak before you this
morning. In presenting the subject of In
dependence in municipal politics I shall
speak not of the possibility but OF the
desirability of independence in matters
municipal. should hardly undertake to
prove that independence in politics is yet
possible. although Los Angeles took a
long step toward it in the last nonpar-
tisan campaign.
"I would speak to you of the dignity
Of politics, and let me ask you women OF
the Friday Morning club" and here an
accusing finger made the question a per
sonal one for each woman in the aud
ience, what are YOU doing toward
municipal probity? If your husband
should tell you that he had been asked to
run on the ward ticket as councilman
what would you say?
'If your husband should ask your ad-
vice about accepting the nomination fol
mayor what reply would you make?
Would you advise him to keep away
from the filth of politics or would you
encourage him to enter the fight and il
elected do the best that in him lay fol
the people who had placed him in office?
Politics is the science of self govern
ment. Our form of government is no
the highest or best but it is the mos
ntio ha
Thinkers, writers. economists all agree
that monarchial form of government
administered by a monarch with goot
judgment and pure intent, is the bes
government, but 1t is necessary that tn'
man at the head be an ideal monarch.
1--WE have failed in large part In thu
destiny the American government should
have attained, because in my opinion w
have failed in one of the primal prin
cipals of government, because we hav'
excluded from our voters one-half of ou
citizens-possibly the most intelligent ant
the better half, Self-government shoult
be of the people, for the people and b,
the people governed, deriving its jus
powers from the consent OF the governed
Have we done this when we have ex
cluded one-half of our citizens from par
ticipating In said government? This Il
one of the questions that Is confronting
high minded, public spirited men; If w
have not representative government a.
citizens, we have not anything.
''Self government should be representa-
tive government, and that means compro
mise. Life is largely compromise aloni
all lines, and the exercise of Independent
Judgment in politics is not possible an!
more than is independent judgment in
business enterprise that is controlled b,
directorate. Representative governmen
must represent everyone; man holding
national office conferred by his part.
must of necessity represent those Of hi
own political faith; city government 4
purely a matter of local control, and tn
man elected to municipal office must rep
resent not only his constituents but IN
entire people.
National and municipal government
are rapidly becoming the great integer
that make up our national life, the on
dealing with the greater concerns of tn
whole people and the other with the NOR
intimate matters of daily life that NEE
us as we turn the street corner, that con
front us in our business and homes AM
that often go with us hand in hand Il
our daily walk. The nation is rapid,
becoming supreme and the state govern
ments are gradually dropping out o
sight. An instance proving this 10 tn
settlement of the San francisco Japanes
school trouble
San Francisco is an example Of a cit.
governed by one man for one class o
citizens only, boss ridden city, a cit,