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Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
THE CORNERSTONE

nN the day following the publication
of the presidents message the
~ prospect of tariff revision at this
session Of congress was extremely
small, great as is the recognized need of
such a measure; but with every days
progress the prospects that something
may be accomplished after all, in spite
of the diligent efforts put forth by
the stand-pat obstructionists, grow
brighter.
Strange as 1t may appear, the issue
of the tariff was nearly lost to sight
during the period of financial de-
preston Logically it should then have
come to the front and been more con-
snicuous than ever; for no student Of
economics, if honest in expressing his
convictions. will deny that the high
protective tariff lies at the foundation
of the evils which so agitated the busi-
ness world three or four weeks ago.
Tt is as certain that the tariff is at
the bottom of the trusts as anything in
this life can be certain. The trusts
are at the bottom of the vast fortunes
which make the exploitation of the
finances OF the country possible. These
vast fortunes dominate the money
market and through their manipulation
bv unscrupulous men cause the PEN
dulum of values in securities to swing
forward and backward as their holders
decree. knowledge of how this pen
dulum Is to swing makes gambling
easy. In fact, when we come to con-
slider it carefully, it reduces gambling
to an exact science. In the cases OIL
the big gamblers, as we are wont 10
call them, there is no gamble; for the
outcome of the game is assured before
the first play is made.
Eliminate the high tariff duties which
the consumer in America is now conf
peIled to pay and we will annihilate
the monstrous monopoly which creates
the fabulous fortunes employed in con-
trolling the market price of securities
offered by the immense industrials OF
the country-and by regulating this
feature of high financiering we VIII 40
avay with all probabilities of a recur-
renee of the past few weeks.
The tariff question is bound to come
to the fore during the present session
Of congress, and it is well that this is
so. Who cares what effect the agita-
ton may have upon the success of the
Republican party in 1908? What peo-
ple want to know most is what the
effect upon the welfare of the nation
is going to be.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
SPECIAL HOLIDAY LAW
SUSTAINED BY COURT
Highest Tribunal in State Renders
Decision UphoIding Recent
Enactment of Legis-
lature

By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9.-The special
holiday statute, recently passed in ex-
traordinary session of the legislature to
protect the banks and at the same time
provide for the business of the courts.
was sustained this morning by the SUI
preme court. which holds the new law
constitutional.
The case passed on is that of Albert
Risser, charged with felony in Sacra-
mento county. His trial was set for No
vember g. but his attorneys appealed to
the supreme court for writ of prohibi-
ton on the ground that their client could
not be tried on a special holiday.
Their contention was that there was
no difference between a legal and special
holiday and the courts could not sit in
Judgment during such periods.
The petition for this writ was denied
this morning and the law, which it at
tackled, is upheld. The higher tribunal
declares the recent statute strictly with.
in the limits of the constitution and tnat
it does not jeopardize the rights of any
defendant
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
FEARS NO THREATS

UVoU can threaten to ruin my
business, but you can't scare
me or the shippers of San
Francisco any more" said Isidore
Jacobs of the San Francisco organiza-
ton of shippers which is preparing to
hale the Southern Pacific before the
courts as a common criminal for viola
tion of the organic law forbidding the
giving of rebates by railroads. Go as
far as you like, but I am telling you
that your old game is ended. We are
ready for you. I have kept in touch
with Secretary Oscar Straus of the
commerce and labor department and
with Interstate Commerce Commits
sioner Franklin K. Lane, and the ship
pers of San Francisco feel assured that
the government will support us and
protect us in our efforts to assert our
rights. The day is over for the big
stick OF the railroads"
This sort Of talk to the erstwhile
autocrat of California, the Southern
Pacific political bureau, tells us of the
spirit which is actuating the members
of the shippers organization in their
effort to punish the railroad officials
and agents for the manifold crimes to
which that great corporation has con-
fessed. Mr.. Jacobs speaks by the card.
probably. when he brings the name of
Secretary straus into the matter. Mr..
Straus and Mr.. Jacobs are cousins.
This is an important fact and should
be borne in mind by those who may
otherwise be misled by the utterances
of the bought papers of California.
The day Of retribution is rapidly ap-
preaching the doors leading into the
offices of the railroad oligarchy in this
state. For years the shippers of every
city and town in California have SUI
pinely permitted the railroad to gag
bind and rob them, fearing that If they
raised an outcry they would be crushed
out of existence. But the day for fear
ing this really puny institution is past
From the hour when. The Herald first
called the attention of the public to the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
THE MAN AT THE LEVER

TIME motorman who, through driv-
ing his car ruthlessly around a
Il curve, wrought the death of his
conductor and narrowly escaped with
his own life. should be punished to the
limit of the law If investigation develop
criminal negligence on his part. We
all ride on the cars, and it is Impossible
to predict just when some other man
tehind the lever will hurl car full of
passengers to destruction.
The early accounts of the disaster on
the West Sixth street line point to in
excusable carelessness on the part of
the motorman in not holding his car
back when passing curve. 1t hardly
appears possible that there were any
mitigating circumstances. The motor
man says according to one account
that he "did not realize that he was at
the curve and was letting the car go at
full speed
This is a flimsy excuse. 1t was his
business to realize-to know where he
was. If the early morning had been
foggy this excuse might have been
good, but at ten minutes aIter o at lIlls
time of the year there is light enough
to enable one to see where he is going;
and more than this, motormen travel
ing over their lines several times each
day are supposed to know every crook
and dangerous spot in the road and so
to regulate the speed of the cars in
their control as to insure a reasonable
degree Of safety.
This is a case which should be sifted
to the bottom, regardless of where the
responsibility finally will be found to
rest. The tens of thousands of persons
who ride daily on the trolley cars of
Los Angeles do not want to fear need
less repetitions of the disaster of Mon
day morning.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10

constitutional provisions making the
punishment of the Southern Pacific for
its criminal operations possible there
has been great activity in the ranks Of
those who have suffered so long and so
much at the hands of this arch con-
spirator against the welfare OF the
people. By the dozen men of this class
are rallying to the support of the San
Franciscans who have determined to
bring the Southern Pacific to book,
and the representatives of that con-
Germ in this state are fairly quaking
with fear over the prospects of heavy
punishment for their crimes.
And it is all so easy to accomplish.
There is no need of statutes. The SUI
pren1e law of the state outlines the pro-
ceedings that may be instituted While
this law makes it the duty of the rail-
road commissioners to proceed against
these self-confessed criminals and while
it likewise confers upon the attorney
general and the governor the power to
do so, it likewise makes it possible for
any citizen to go before the district at
torney of any county in which such
crimes are alleged to have been COM
mitted and proceed along established
lines. This doubtless is what the San
Francisco shippers intend to do. In
the meanwhile it is the duty of every
citizen of California to extend to his
fellow citizen in the metropolis OF the
state such aid and encoura cement as
he can; for the outcome of the legal
steps to be taken will affect each one
of us as vitally as 1t will affect the
people of San Francisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
A WISE DECISION

HI HE HERALD congratulates Mayor
Harper and the people of Los An
Il geles on the wise decision to re-
the board of public works.
Under the law. as interpreted by City
Attorney Leslie r. Hewitt. the munic;-
pality may not create any permanent
body such as an owens river commits
sion. An advisory board may be estab-
lished to give expert advice, but such
a body would have nothing whatever
to do with the disbursement of the
money to be expended in the construc-
ton of the aqueduct. This takes away
from any such commission as Mayor
Harper hoped to appoint all the power
of disbursement and therefore leaves
the board of public works the puissant
body in the great constructive work
about to be undertaken. 1t is in the
position as head of this paramount
board the people of Los Angeles want
Mr.. Anderson to remain.
This decision will sweep away the
doubts and fears from the minds of
many citizens The mayor will reap
point the president of the board of pub
lie work, Mr.. Anderson will accept and
the people of Los Angeles will know
that construction of the aqueduct,
under the guidance of such men as An
derson and Mulholland, will go forward
in safe hands.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
A LITTLE LEAvEN

WHE arrest of the general manager
and a director in the California
Il Safe Deposi. and Trust company
of San Francisco on the charge of
ny-embezzlement may be taken as
partial explanation, at least, of the
ruin of that institution. The charges
against them are that they hypothe-
Gated securities intrusted to the bank;
and an additional charge against the
general manager is that he accepted
deposits aggregating more than $4,000
a short time before the trust company
closed its doors.
The highly sensational news of Sum
day, involving the integrity of these
two officials, has clarified the financial
atmosphere to some extent. When the
San Francisco institution closed its
doors 1t was generally believed that
this act had been necessitated solely
by the stringency of the money market.
1t would now appear that general finan-
cial conditions were but contrlbutory
cause and that the prime cause was
mismanagement of the affairs of the
company.
Deplorable as the present conditions
are they should go long way toward
reassuring the people Of the Pacific
coast. Criminal derelictions Of indi-
viduals in whose hands the manage
ment of banks and trust companies is
Entrusted not infrequently bring about
the downfall of such institutions That
the san Francisco disaster resulted
partly from operations of this class and
not entirely from the once general de-
preston in financial circles should be
widely accepted cause for congrat-
ulation.
The events Of the past two or three
days return California TO the category
of states free from any great financial
catastrophe due to conditions whicF
brought about the recent crash among
the gamblers of Wall street.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
SEE sTATEs PAGE FOR ALL THE NEWS.
rom YOUR OLD HOME.
TRUE GREATNESS

VII HEN King Oscar II of Sweden
wv went to his final accounting the
other day there passed from the
ranks of the crowned heads of Europe
ruler who, from many viewpoints,
was the noblest of them all. If great
ness is measurable by victory in battle,
the requirement of territory and that
questionable quality of statesmanship
which regards the political coup as a
greater achievement than a victory for
the common people won through the
employment of reason and appeal to
the finer sensibilities of mankind, oscar
was not great. But if greatness con-
sists of personal sacrifice for the sake
of benefiting the greater number in a
domain, of kindness of heart and toler-
ance of spirit so great that self-abne-
cation is never stumbling block in the
path to popular welfare, of renuncia-
tion of power that peace between ma
tions may be maintained; Oscar was
great
The story of the differences between
Sweden and Norway is so recent thai
in order to emphasize the magnan-
imous, kindly attributes of the dead
ruler of Sweden all that is necessary
is to refer to the attitude King Oscar
assumed on this occasion. OF peasant
stock himself, this ruler knew how to
sympathize with the woes of those less
fortunately situated, as the world
reckons it, than he. His whole career
as a ruler, the aching hearts that
mourn his end, attest his many virtues.
What kingly attributes greater than
those to be found in the many graces
of character marking this lamented
monarch. What an inspiring example
to rulers of other countries! What a
model for those vested with temporary
authority, in nation, state or city.
Would that the world had more King
Oscars, whatever station in life they
may fill!
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
SCENT TROUBLE IN
BRYSON AFFAIRS
RoSEDALE VAULT A SPECIAL
OBJECT OF INTEREST
Relatives Differ as to Permanent
Burial Place of Deceased Men,
bers of Family, Though Har-
monizers Are Busy

Once more the affairs of the Brysons
threaten to get into the courts.
Word has reached certain officials
interested in Rosedale cemetery that
dissensions have arisen among relatives
as to the disposition of bodies of mem
bers of the family held in the vault at
Rosedale and suits may be Forthcoming
shortly.
he recent death of former Mayor
Bryson, who for several years after his
estrangement from his wife had been
in the care of Nurse Gladys Lamberton,
opened the way for sensational devel-
opments, but until yesterday no one
suspected that difficulties would grow
out of the interment.
Immediately after the aged capital
lists death the widow took steps to
claim the body and the obsequies were
held under her direction.
Now, if rumor be true, family diff
ference has arisen over the permanent
resting place of certain deceased mem
bers and it is out of this that more
publicity for the Bryson affairs may
result.
Certain close friends are, however,
working diligently to settle the
trouble.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
The Microscope as
q Commercial Tool

rice, maize and oats, for instance, offer
very great analogy in their anatomlc
structure, which is very complicated
Their integument consists of not
less than six or seven envelops
Ordinary -four is composed almost en-
tirely of the starchy part of the grain,
but it is impossible to exclude the bran
entirely. AS gluten has no anatom-
ical features the only element that re-
mains to determine the nature of a flour
is the starch, with the minute debris OF
the bran that may accompany 1t.
In wheat, rye and barley the starch is
a mixture of large grains with somewhat
fewer of average size in multitude of
very small ones. Rye IS ulstln-
guished from wheat by star-shaped
opening in some of its grains; barley has
fragments of husk among the grains
The starch grains of rice and oats are
simple, angular or compound, while those
of maize are clearly characterized by
their size, their crystalline appearance
their angular contour and their star
shaped marking, which cannot be mis-
taken for that of any of the preceding
starches. i.
''When seeds are pulverized while still
covered with all their envelops the de-
terminative elements are made UP es-
pec;alIy of the debris of their various
teguments. Thus pepper, the most I'M
portant and valuable of our spices, anu
also that which has most excited the
clpidity OF the adulterators -. is
sufficiently characterized by the debris
of its kernel and the nature of the con-
stituent starch grains but the precise
evidence furnished by the fragments OF
the various envelops enable us to tell
whether the powdered pepper has been
prepared from the kernel alone, like the
fine Cerebos pepper, or with the partly
decorticated seed, as in white pepper, or
with the whole grain, as in the black
pepper
OF other powdered substances treated
by the writer in this article we may
mention the oil cake used for fodder,
whose constituents are recognizable chief =
ly by their teguments; the various pow
dered barks, such as cinchona, where the
form of the fibers commonly found in
barls is an important element; powdered
roots where more complex anatomical
elements have to be recognized; and
finally powdered leaves, such as mint,
thyme and other herbs, where the micro
scopist takes into account the structure
of the epideI mis-, the arrangement OF the
pores. the form and size of the hairs. II
any exist, and the character of the
glands that may be present. Here also
certain characteristic crystals may be
found In all these cases it has been
assumed that only one substance is in
the powder Where two or more are
mixed together their recognition becomes
difficult or even impossible, so that here
the fraudulent dealer would appear to
have a wide field open for his eXploita-
tion.-Literary Digest.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
Fish TO the One,
Flesh TO the Other

fornia in the matter Of freight rates;
that it stole from some business men
and enriched other favored ones with the
stealings and perverted it's powers as d
common carrier to private uses and Wick
ed abuses. =.
.e"When shall the Associated Press pc
nermitted TO report Orders were issued
today by Governor Glllett to Attorney
General Webb to make application IN the
courts for the punishment of the Soutn-
ern Pacific Railroad company!
as the governors action in the one
case and his inactivity in the other que
to the fact that the trust company SENDS
no delegates to the Republican state eon
vent,on. while the railroad sends many?
"Why does Mr.. Gillett make fish oil one
offender and flesh of another?
"How that trust company must no"
regret. as it sees the self-confessed South
ern Pacific criminal walk in freedom
that it, too, did not take an interest In
politics and make some political invest
ments in governors and attorney gen.
eralsp'
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10

TTyHE microscope is becoming more and
i more a commercial tool. It's value in
Il the recognition of adulterated Vege-
table substances, especially foods, in the
shape of fine powder is very great. This
appears clearly from an article contributed
to the Revue Scientifique (Paris, Septem-
ber ~ by Eugene Colin. This writer
points out that the growing custom OF
buying certain products In the state OF
powder, which compels merchants to pro-
cure substances in this state, has given
rise to the new industry of pulverizatlon,
whose eXploiters, in order to make use
of their personnel and plant, are now
furnishing in pulverized form host of
natural products that were formerly sold
only whole. Nothing, he remarks, could
better serve the interests of the adul-
terators than the development of this
business, which is the more favorable
to sophstication in that it enables them
to substitute, wholly or in part, for any
substance whatever, the most diverse ele-
ments without any modification of its
external appearance.
The detection of fraud in cases of this
kind must evidently be made by chemical
or microscopic methods. Chemistry, the
writer goes on to say, enables us to prove
the presence of certain well-defined or
ganic compounds such as gluten in flour.
quinn in cinchona, caffein in tea, etc.,
but generally it is able to give no precise
indication of the nature of the various
mixtures that we may wish to test.
Microscopy is thus the more delicate
method, and it has been greatly facili-
tated by the observations and experiments
of scientific men during the past fifty
years on the anatomical structure of
various vegetable products. The writer
continues:
THE microscopic determination of a
vegetable powder demands of the analyst
a profound knowledge of all the anatom-
ical clements composing the vegetable
organ that furnished this powder 1t is
not enough to know the characteristics
of the organ as seen in transverse sec
ton. These, which are generally the only
ones mentioned in the courts, the maga-
zines and the various treatises, may be
useful in recognizing vegetable debris
that may be cut with knife, but they
are quite insufficient for the examination
of a rowder, whether coarse or fine, in
which the elements rarely show a
cross section, but usually appear in tam
genital or longitudinal section. To know
these it is absolutely necessary to have
seen them and compared them with prep
arations similarly made from the vege-
table organ supposed to be the source
of the powder under examination.
For one familiar with this kind of OBJ
servation it is extremely easy to say
whether a vegetable powder comes from
a root, a bark, a seed, or a leaf the
difficulty is greater when the exact botan-
ical origin is required. The fruits
of cereals, such as wheat, rye, barley,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10

TN an editorial published yesterday the
Los Angeles Express, in commenting
Il upon the willingness exhibited by
Governor Glllett to enforce the laws rel
ative to the regulation of trust COM
panies, as in the case of the California
Safe Deposit and Trust company Of san
Francisco, which he has ordered thrown
into the hands of a receiver, commends
the governor for his activity in this dl-
rection, declaring that "the governor
who enforces the law, who compels 10
obedience or. punishment the man who
breaks it, is true executive" And then
the Express wakes optimistic, thus:
with great confidence, therefore. we
call the attention of the law-enforcing
governor and the ttorney general, whose
actions he is shown to control, to the
fact that the Southern Pacific railroad,
in public hearing held before Commits
soner Lane, over two months ago, con-
fessed that it had. for long period,
daily violated, defied and defiled the COD
stitution of this state. 1t confessed that
it Disseminated between citizens of Cali
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
FAIR FORGER, IN
COURT, COLLAPSES
soBRlNe, ADMITS HER GUILT TO
JUDGE
Verona M. Shaw Appeals for Parole.
Passed $25 Check on j. C. Bull
!ock-ls Released Tenn
porariIy

Miss Verona M Shaw appeared before
Judge Smith yesterday morning and
pleaded guilty to the charge of passing
a fictitious check. When it was men,
toned that she might have to be placed
in custody the young woman broke down
and sobbed
Application for parole was made by
Attorney Schweitzer for the defendant
and this will be taken UP by Judge Smith
Thursday. Meanwhile the fair defendant
was allowed to withdraw her plea in or
der to remove the difficulty of imprison-
ment.
Miss Shaw appears to be young
woman of refinement. She is accused of
passing fictitious check for $25 on ]. e.
Bullock and the First National bank of
Los Angeles, signing the name Of Verona
Gibson.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
CITY PROSECUTOR
BEGINS CLEANUP
INMATES OF NOTORIOUS RE.
SORTS ARE ARRESTED
Fleming Declares He Is Carrying Out
P.,lnis, Made to Committee of
Church Federation - Acts
Under Chiefs Orders

The social evil as it exists on North
Alameda street was investigated yester-
day by City Prosecuting Attorney Flem-
ing. when Lottie Gherkens, proprietress
of the Arlington club, and Charles Arm
strong, who says he is employed as
watchman at the club, were arrested. to-
gether with eleven women, and taken to
the police station.
AS a result of the investigation COM
plants charging the keeping of disor-
derby house were sworn to against the
Gherlkens woman and Armstrong. The
former pleaded guilty in Police Justice
Roses court and will be sentenced today.
Armstrong pleaded not guilty and will be
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10

The sage of Humboldt should remove
his headquarters temporarily from Sac
ramento TO San Francisco. The politi-
cal atmosphere is immensely more
healthful in the latter city, and the
telephone quality thereof will enable
him to hear the premonitory symptoms
of the storm that is brewing. Accord
ing to the signs the governor cannot
seek cover any too soon.