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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11
OUR VISITING CARD

II OS ANGELES CITY passes out
its annual visiting card from the
- assessors office this year. in
scribed with s250,OOO,OOO valuation of
property and asks "Howd'y?" of the
whole round world. That the people
who see the boosting literature used
to advertise the city may know on
what basis it is written and issued
this statement is made.
All the world knows that a tax val
uation is much less than a true valu-
alton and the colossal sum represented
by the assessors figures is the effec-
tive answer of the people of these parts
to the quips of the world in general,
and San Francisco in particular. With
seaport facilities only partly developed;
transportation facilities, transcontinen-
tai, coastwise and foreign, to be fur
ther developed; the city limits to be
enlarged; the trade of the whole mining
district south of Salt Lake and west
of FL Paso secured; the unprecedented
settlement of land south of Tehach-
api; the coming defeat of the Southern
Pacific strangle hold on business, and
a revision of the present onerous tariff
laws, what may not Los Angeles look
forward to in the way of progress!
Real estate movements and building
were never so profitable; the returns
from the great citrus crops were never
better, and the possible extension of
markets under thorough revision of
railroad rates to come next season,
promise great advance. Manufacturing
interests are locating here and every
avenue leading to metropolitan great
ness is crowded with purpose.
In the political world great things
are outlined by present pressing needs
and the men who made all of the fore
going things possible will see to IT
that political freedom and equality are
parts of the peoples assets. Transitory
labor troubles, so common in congested
trade centers, are few and far between
and remunerative labor is plentiful; all
of which is respectfully submitted tc
the world at large.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11

tended. as acknowledged by even the
Anglo-Indian officials and newspapers, to
curb the strength of the independent
spirit of the educated Bengalees VINO
criticised governmental actions with tree-
dom and Justice and exposed British mis-"
rule with vigor and intelligence. BY
dividing Bengal into two provinces called
east and west to be administered by TWO
lieutenant governors in the place of one
he wished the Mohammedan population
to preponderate in the eastern province
and then to set them against the Hlndoos
In the teeth of the widest protests from
almost the whole of India, English and
Indian, this measure was passed ana the
partition brought about instantly. Ihe
Bengalees driven to desperation, punished
II bv boycotting British goods.
The psychological moment which in
spired the boycott movement soon gave
birth to another called the "swadeshi,
which means national" and whose OBJ
tect was to encourage indigenous manu-
features. This and the boycott spread
fike wild fire all over the country, kindling
the dormant love of nationality in every
Indian breast The result was that British
imports suffered terribly, and the govern
ment ever arbitrary whenever the IN
terests of the whites are concerned, tried
to kill this "swadeshi spirit with bare
faced repression and oppression.
The greater the repression the more anu
more vitality the movement betrayed
Japan's example and success in the late
war served to add incentive to the per-
sistency and boldness with which the
people stuck to their resolution to revive
their national industries killed by the
enormous imports of free trade-cheapened,
machine-tur products OF the west. Be
sides, the educated people had lost all
faith in the political honesty of their
rulers and in their promises of justice TO
India, all their appeals against most pal
pable injustice having been ignored for
the last forty years. They now wanted to
rely upon their own resources to better
their economic condition, rendered miser-
able by British exploitation in every
shane and form. This reused the ire of
the government, and couple of unimpor-
tant riots in the Punjab served them with
the handle which they were badly want
ing to break the back of the wonderfully
growing national spirit with severe
measures, more unwarrantable than any
as yet adopted in Russia, excepting the
massacre of the Jews.
Thus the unrest is in the minds of the
English educated Hindoos who have been
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11
THE COAL QUESTION

w HILE the people are looking
wv anxiously toward the district
attorneys office for results in
the matter of the recent rise in price
of ice let it be remembered that some-
where between the mines and the
people a set of equally greedy manip-
ulators are initiating the price of coal
unjustly; giving earnest of what they
may be expected to do when cold
weather comes and the need of coal
then is as great as the need of ice now.
Coal that costs $7.40 per ton at the
freight yards in Los Angeles costs the
consumer $1S per ton in his cellar now,
and is scheduled to cost SIS per ton
after the 18th of this month. The
proportion of original cost and excess
of local charges holds good on coal
imported from British Columbia.
Such unusual profit could not be ex-
acted where open competition existed,
and If it is true that the whole rise is
in the manipulation of prices made by
the retailers 1t is certain some form
of combination in restraint of trade
was made by them, and prompt and
complete examination Of the whole
matter is due the people from the
authorities.
Forehanded and thrifty men who
take advantage of the season to ben
eft in household expenses are check
mated by such tactics, but the greater
and farther reaching bad effect of such
10 fyta
where the thing stings worst. With
pardonable pride the leaders of local
progressive life publicly tabulate pres
ent undertakings and past achieve
ments, but the effect of such good
showing is killed by just such trade
crookedness as is evident in the coal
and ice business just now, making these
wrongs the concern OF every man who
has the welfare of the city at heart.
The man who could make the state
ment that such a piratical rise was
due solely to the workings of the law
of supply and demand must be disin-
genuousness personified. If that were
true coal, during the past winter, in the
great northwestern section Of the coun-
try was worth $1,000 per ton, and had
to be stolen. in many cases, to be
obtained at all.
1t is hoped the district attorney will
take as prompt action in Investigating
the coal trust as he did in moving
upon the ice trust.
The people are back of Captain Fred
ericks and his able staff of prosecutors.
Point out quickly those who are re-
sponsible. and nail them high as a
warning.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11

Vermont, Kansas and Minnesota. Battle
ships of medium size: Nebraska, Vir-
ginia, Georgia, New Jersey Rhode Island,
Maine, Missouri, Ohio, Alabama, Ken
lucky, Kearsarge, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Oregon.
Armored cruisers of the larger size:
Tennessee, Washington, South Dakota
and California Protected cruisers of the
largest size: st. Louis, Charleston and
Milwaukee. Protected cruiser of the me-
dunn size: Chicago; gunboat Yorktown.
Forty Vessels in the Armada
BY the time sailing orders are issued
the armada will consist of at least forty
vessels of all kinds and descriptions, for
the larger ships cannot go on such
long cruise without being accompanied by
GOLFERS, refrigerating ships, tugs and dis
patch boats. The probability Is that 1t
will be accompanied by large number
of cruisers.
The cost of maintenance, according to
the classes of ships that will compose
the armada, is as follows: Larger battle
ships. S3.767, 125; medium sized battle
ships $S,245,3l5; larger sized armored
cruisers, s2,535, ,236; largest size protected
cruisers $1,4S5OOO; medium sized protect
ed cruiser Chicago, 1906, 900; and gunboat
Yorktown S175 00O These make total
of S17.1O2, ,676. Two-thirds of that sum,
the cost of maintenance of the ships dur
ing the cruise lasting two-thirds of a
year, is $11, ,4O1 ,450. Adding to that sum
two-t thirds of $5,O0O,OOO the estimated cost
of the maintenance of the auxiliaries that
will have to go with the fighting ships,
the grand total of expenditure during the
cruise reaches the sum of Sl4,I34'IsS.
The answer militarists make to such
facts is that the cost of maintenance
would be the same, no matter where.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11
CITY WORKHOUSE

A RENEGADE to parental duty was
sentenced last week to 120 days in
IA Jail for failure to provide for
minor child. The wife and mother
pleaded for mercy.
'Have you enough confidence in him
to return to live with him?" asked the
Judge.
81 will have" said the wife.
"Well, you have more confidence in
him than the court has; but I will let
him co.
Thus was re-enacted the age-old
tragedy of the crucifixion of woman's S
heart upon the altar of maternal love-
and the Judas in the case did not go
and hang himself.
The compassionate judge was doubt
less moved by the hope that the mans
labor would provide for the mother
and child. What a powerful argument
this case is for city workhouse,
wherein such rascals could be con-
fined and made to labor at some indus
try and the wages so earned be turned
over to the family. Such man will
not voluntarily labor, and certainly
will not contribute to his family's sup
port unless driven thereto.
This phase of crime is on the in
crease all over the Pacific coast, and
like wife-b beating and kindred brutal
crimes, can be checked only by drastic
measures, and the most drastic meas
ure possible to one who is guilty of
such crime is to force him to labor
under stress of prison sentence, that
the market value of such labor may
be given to the suffering women and
children.
1t is certain that the chivalry of
organized labor would not object to
any possible competition that might
arise from the prison labor of the men
who neglect and abuse their defense
less families.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11

fiiied with aspirations which they nave
now found can never be fulfilled so long
as they are under the all-grasping Brltlsh
regime AS that great authority on lndia
ana her people, Sir George Birdwood, Tor
lohg years an Indian official and Keen
student of Indian wants and grievances,
SAID the other day, speaking on the situa-
tlon The only general discomfort is that
OF the educated classes 1t is quite
natural and Is, in my opinion, justifiable
ana 10 pe treated with the utmost con-
siderateness. 1t must be counted with
and overcome in the only way in which
evil can be overcome, by working seri"
ously for their good" Sir George added,
revealing the very core of the situation:
This class Is entirely of our own crea-
ton. The education we give them units
them for any work required of them in
India beyond service under the govern
ment. at the courts of justice and in the
practice of medicine, which is for the
most part, state-subsidized profession
Our education has destroyed their love of
their own literature, the quickening soul
of people and their delight in their own
arts, and, worst of all, their repose in
their own traditional and national re-
ligion. 1t has disgusted them with their
own homes-their parents, their sisters.
their very wives. 1t has brought discon-
tent into every family so far as it's bale
full influences have reached. This is a
terrible evil, and we are the authors of 1t,
and we must get the better of it and
without delay; and it is worth many
heavy sacrifices to secure well-being and
contentment Of the educated classes in
India, for, with the princely and mercan-
tile classes, their loyalty is worth secur-
ing. for 1t would be the loyalty of con-
viction and active in our support.
My own experience of the educated classes
is that they are fervently loyal, but they
feel their helpless, humliatng position
bitterly; and are bitterly discontented and
are disgusted not with British Raj, but
the utter 'cussedness' of the insoluble
dilemma of their position. Englishmen in
the like position are far more disloyal in
their talk. am sorry, therefore, that Mr.
Morley should have used language to-
ward these misguided young people, sa-
voring of threat to place them under
any sort of disabilities, scholastic or
otherwise. Magnanimity must ever be the
keynote of all beneficent statesmanship,
and the chief corner stone of our all
enduring dominion; and the wrath of man
never yet worked out the Righteousness of
God" c. II. M.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11
A RONA=FTDE INVESTMENT

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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11

V1 HILE our self-sufficient optimism
wv leads us to forget the Japanese
" is not the small boy we thought
we could whip at will three years ago
but a power believed by many able 10
drive us from the Philippines when time
and circumstances are in Its faVor, we
read of the reality of China's awakening
with scarcely more than academic IN
terest. Small wonder then that events
in the rest of Asia are of little interest TO
us. Most significant signs, for instance,
of India's awakening have, for the iasV
few months, been manifesting themselves
but Americans have so far regarded them
as mere accidents.
Recent actions of the government, how
ever have invested them with an I'M
portance which has challenged the woriu
attention to the discovery of the fact tnat
the mind of the hitherto mild Hindoo'
is at present in a state of deep political
ferment This has frightened the author
ities into resorting to whaf has been char-
acteriZed as unconstitutional measures
of coercion. Two patriotic leaders nave
been suddenly deported to Burma without
trial, by resurrecting an obsolete regula-
ton which was forged in 1918 and was
considered by the world as a disgrace 10
British rule even then.
ordered to be prosecuted for seultloh'
while a viceregal resolution empowers the
provincial governments to stop polltcal
meetings all over the country. rms pc
tokens a serious state of things. Ana al
this has been sanctioned by the liberal
secretary for India, Mr. Morley, whose
appointment was hailed by all Indians as
a good promise of better government ana
Justice for India. But as all. cats are gray
in the dark. so all British political creeds
assume the imperialistic tint when India
is concerned. India has turned even that
Liberal of Liberals, that great advocate
of liberty and justice, into stern I'M
perialist, out-Torying the rankest Tory
man in the India office.
The root of the matter seems to lie IN
the boycott movement which the people
of Bengal started to prevent the particlpa-
ton of Bengal. most arbitrary and mis-
chievous measure proposed by that most
of all Indian viceroys. Lord
Curzon. who grand-mogulled six years
and succeeded in wrecking the cause OF
British rule in India. This was the last OF
his many disastrous schemes which eX-
asperated the people beyond endurance.
BY partitioning Bengal, Lord Curzon in
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11
WHY COURT RUIN?

WE cannot call to mind a single
w instance where the habitual
W cigarette smoker has reached the
top of the ladder and held his position.
We see heads of large establishments
smoke cigarettes, but the habit was
acquired after the position was at
tanned The cigarette smoker suffers
from lapses of memory; his nerves are
shattered; his judgment is not good,
he forgets things, is irritable and he
cannot hope to compete with the clear
Drained individual who does not smoke
cigarettes
A man needs all his wits about him
in these days of business, and If he
smokes cigarettes he is badly handi-
capped.
1t is not the cigarette itself that does
the harm; 1t is the smoke inhaled into
the delicate lung tissues. This smoke
covers the lungs with yellow nicotine,
carbon and poisonous gases. Lungs
are for the purpose of aerating the
blood, and tobacco smoke will not do it..
Some men smoke pipes because they
wish to escape the criticism to which
the cigarette smoker is subjected. The
pipe smoker who inhales does himself
more injury than the cigarette smoker,
because the pipe smoker takes in mora
and stronger smoke, doubly impreg-
mated by the accumulation of poison in
the bowl and stem of his pipe.
Go to the medical college dissecting
room and see the lungs of man who
inhales smoke and you will quit the
habit if you have been guilty. Don't
burn your lungs out with cigarette
smoke or pipe smoke either.
The fight to get to the front is diff
cult enough anyway, and If you want
to get to the front don't poison your
blood with tobacco smoke.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11
INDUSTRIOUS DOCTRINE
ToHN D. RocKEFELLER made {

II OttN ID. ROCKEFELLER made a
very apt illustration of financial
conditions under trust domination
when he said: 1.-THE business Of our
country is interviewer until It is some
thing like the circulation of the blood
In the body. An injury or an oper-
alton at one point shocks and weakens
the whole"
Unwittingly, of course, this prince of
robber finance truthfully diagnoses the
great evil by which the people are
bonded. The heart is the fountain of
circulation and absolutely controls the
life-no heart beat, no life-and to de-
pend upon the money centers, under
unlimited control of the few, is some-
thing the people will not tamely do.
Popular feeling in the whole country
is shown, touching the big fine placed
on Standard Oil, by the unanimity of
concept of the scores of caricaturists
for the public press. To a man they
depict the rise Of price in oil to the
poor man that the oil barons may
recoup themselves for the enormous
fine, and in doing so truthfully and
forcefully exemplify public opinion.
In the matters of oil and railroad
rebates the Standard Oil corporation
is the veritable heart of the body pol
itic, and bitter experience proves that
heart to be weak and much in need
of medical attention, and the suffering
body polite called, is calling and will
continue to call for the doctor, till the
heart action is normal and the body
properly supplied. The disease is con-
gestion of the aorta, superinduced by
ill-gotten wealth, taken in immoderate
doses, over a period of twenty years,
and at all times and in all places,
utterly regardless of the needs of the
body polite.
The world can know what a man
thinks only by noting what he does,
and survey of Rockefeller's life work
for twenty years back shows unmis-
takably that he began with the thought
of making Standard Oil the heart of
business in his line and has wrought
in consonance with that thought to the
present day. That eighty millions of
free people should be subject to such
devilish philosophy is the political
crime of the century
There is hope in the belated treat
ment of Judge Landis, heroic and dras-
tic though it be, that this seat of
disease is reached and it's congested
valves tapped of tainted blood, drawn
pure from its sources, but defiled in
its resting place.
The monumental "galr' exhibited in
unblushing statement is
the measure of the man and of his power
for harm, and is proof indubitable that
the good work now on for his financial
overthrow must be pushed with a
heartlessness as bitter as justice war
rants, till the body polite is assured |
of a lawful flow of pure blood through |
all its veins.
The monstrous statement on which |
this article is based, if made orally to |
an unprejudiced jury by Rockefeller, |
would insure his conviction for extor- |
tion in ten minutes time
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11

Another automobile driver has run
down a woman and brutally driven
away without stopping to ascertain the
extent of his victims injury or offer
assistance. The number on the back
of the machine was so small and COW
cred with dust and grease that by
ISLANDERS were unable to decipher it..
Here seems to be an opportunity for
some much needed reform. Make the
numbers larger, more legible, and in
crease the penalty for reckless driving.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11

]. P. Morgan's art treasures in Eng
land are said to be worth $10,0 900,
and that there is an electric light
turned on each one of them. What
doth it profit a man to have $4,000, 900
worth of art creations if his soul is
worth only o with the rim knocked
off, making the aforementioned soul
so small that all the electric lights in
the world could not find it?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11
FUNNYGRAPHS


The children We're having object lesson on
the heron The master called attention to its
small tail, saying 1.-The bird has tail to
speak o."
The next day he asked the children to write
an essay On the bird, and one little girl con-
cluded her essay by saying: The heron has a
tall but 1t must not be talked of!'--London
Tit-Bits.
You have no art in your country" ex-
claimed the European superciliously.
Haven't ehl'' answered Mr.. Cumrox. reach
ing for his check book. why for the pasc
five years we have been buying old masters
faster than you fellows can pain 'em."-Wash-
ington Star
Has your boy made any sort Of a record at
college?' asked the sedate relative.
II should say Sc" answered the enthusiastic
parent; strained his wrist rowing and was
carried away from the football field three times
in an ambulance "-Washington Star
"That yacht is flying flag OF Distress"
what does she Signal?"
"Wan.s to know If we have a corkscrew
aboard. louisville Courier journal
80 Galley really has to pay Miss Yerner
$40 900 for breach OF promise, eh?
"Yes, and now he wants to marry her for
her money "-Phiiadelphia Press.
I'm Australia" Dragged the native of that
country, you can pick up gold by the pint" I"
1T comes In quartz in America" replied
the quick-witted nephew OF Uncle Sam
Washington Herald.
Mrs Bacon-Where has your cook gone to 2
Mrs. Egbert--I really don't know, but l hop,
she hasn't gone where my husband told her
to CO. She even complained OF the heat here.
-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11

In New York the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has
begun a campaign for better treatment
of street car horses. Can you remem-
ber way back when the old horse cars
used to run on Main street, or was it
Fort?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11

How foolish it must have made
couple of dozen gullibles feel when the
police arrested a fortune teller for
whom they were waiting to give them
a glimpse into the future! Strange
these gifted seers can't see, with all
their vaunted powers, an officer mount
ing the stairs with a felony warrant
for their arrest
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11
ON THE POND

Come. let us row around the pondF
81 WILL" said she, ''if may steer.
He of the maid was very fond.
You SHALL" he whispered in her ear
with steady stroke the lover rowed'
And put into his work his heart;
And ere the trip was o'er she showed
How well she could perform her part
All o'er the pond that summers day
A gentle breeze the wavelets surreo'
Birds made the happy time more gay
Each told loves tale in look and word
And when the youth proposed 10 her'
She promise gave to be his wife
II he would the sweet right confer -
Her hand should guide the boat thro hte'
Bright years have come and gone since tney
Went rowing, when their love was new;
Life to them has been one glad day
To promises they still are true;
Doing loves duty, each in place.
While each the other still adores-
She in the sterii, with smile-ht face
He pulling bravely at the oars.
Thomas F. Porter in Boston Public GARDEN
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11

The Rev. Mr.. Redburn of Long Beach
caused the arrest OLA bather for prom
enading in a long-tailed shirt, and is
accordingly happy If he will extend
his usefulness to the manufacturers Of
short tailed shirts for everyday wear
we shall all be happy, and profanity
will receive a solar pleXus blow.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11

An Irish baron named Palles God
save the mark!) says the people and
law in his country would corner that
$29 1000, 900 fine on Standard Oil, and be
but a short time in doing it. Evidently
there is no ''palleation" of crime in the
land of shamrocks and potheen.