Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-14


their aims and intentions in the con-
duct of the paper,
They believe that they fully appre-
ciate the fact that the most valuable
asset which any public journal can
own, and without which it cannot hope
for permanent success, is the conf
dence and respect of the community
for which it undertakes to purvey in
telligence through it's news columns,
and whose interests it processes to
guard through it's editorial columns.
Bearing this in mind, it will be our
unremitting effort to consult truth and
decency in the news which the paper
presents to its readers, and above all
to avoid that sort of sensationalism
which trenches upon and frequently
transcends the boundaries Of veracity
and propriety.
In its treatment of questions involv-
ing the discussion and application OF
political principles. the policy of The
Herald will be broadly Democratic;
but this does not mean that any party
organization can pledge The Herald to
the support, as a candidate for public
office, of any individual whom, for adj
equate reasons, it may deem unworthy
Of the suffrages of his fellow citizens.
AS the owners of The Herald have
never been able to appreciate how
party politics has any more logical re-
lation to administering the business
affairs of a city or county than 1t has
to properly conductino the business of
bank or dry goods store, The Herald
on all matters Of city and county gov
eminent, will be absolutely indepen-
dent; endeavoring to apply alike to
questions and candidates in their re-
lations to local government the one
rule of advocating that which 1t deems
to be to the highest and best interests
of the community that it serves.
The party organization and the can
didate who can be always assured Of
the unrelenting opposition of The Her
aid is the party organization which
shall be dominated by special interests
or public service corporations, and the
candidate whose political sponsors and
support are found in the ranks of such
influences.
In the treatment of the many issues
which are coming (and unfortunately
are sometimes being dragged) to the
front, involving the rights Of capital
and labor and their respective rela-
lions to each other, The Herald will
endeavor to be absolutely fair, with no
enemies to punish and no friends to
reward It's owners believe that many
combinations of capital have been and
will be made which are advantageous
to the public, in that they reduce eX-
penditures while lettering service,
and so long as combinations of capital
for this purpose are formed and OPP
Grated under and in strict obedience
to the law, which should and must
govern alike the great interests and
individual citizens, these combinations
can count upon the friendship and sup
port of The Herald. When they tran
scend the rules of conduct laid down
by the law, they can be equally sure
of it's criticism and condemnation.
There is also no doubt that the or
ganization of labor has resulted in
much good to the laboring citizenship
of the country, which has found ex-
preston in increased wages, better
living and moral and intellectual eleva-
ton.
Indeed, labor could not exist without
organization in the face of the highly
organized condition which capitalize
which it looks for employment - has
assumed. 1t has consequently become
the duty of those citizens of the coun-
try who have their labor for sale to
organize for their mutual benefit and
protection, and so long as these or
CARNATIONS are formed and carried on
legally The Herald may be counted
upon to support and sustain them.
At the same time, as in the case Of
capital, labor organizations, both in
their character and actions, must con-
form to the one standard of respect for
and obedience to law, and, in the event
of any failure so to do. The Herald
shall claim and exercise that right to