Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-05
FIFTY THOUSAND
SEEK LONG BEACH
ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS ARE
BROKEN
Spanish War Veterans of Southern
California Hold Third Annual
Reunlon-orator Ham.
mers Trusts
Long Beach Office,
129 East Third Street.
Phone-Home 297.

Phone-Home 297.
LONG BEACH, July ALL previous
records for Fourth of July crowds were
broken and the expectations of local
residents were far surpassed by the size
| of the tremendous crowd that throngeI
this city from early this morning until
late at night.
Three car trains on the Pacific Elcc-
trio came into town on what was prac-
tically a three-minute schedule thls
morning and this afternoon, and all
were jammed. The Salt Lake ana
! Southern Pacific brought great numbers
and hundreds of farmers buggies ana
| wagons could be seen this afternoon
along the streets and on vacant lots.
The total number of visitors is Vari l.
ously estimated between 10000 and
$50, 900.
i All the Spanish war veteran camps OF
Southern California were represented,
today being the occasion of their third
annual anniversary 1t is estimator
that 500 veterans of the late war were
here and that the friends and relatives
| who accompanied them numbered sew
eral thousand.
| The day was sanely celebrated. No
serious accidents have been reported.
| At dawn a salute was fired by squad
| from the local encampment OF Sons OF
Veterans. At 10 o'clock a parade, in
cluding Mckinley camp, Spanish War
veterans; company H, the local post OF
the G. A. r.; the italian band and sew
eral hundred visiting Spanish War vet
Grams, marched from Sixth street and
Pine avenue to the auditorium, where
the exercises of the day were held. DIR.
L. A. Perce, president of the chamber
of commerce, was marshal of the day.
He was assisted by Lieut. Stevens.
| The program of exercises in the aud
itorium was as follows: Prayer by the
Rev. Josiah Sibley, pastor of the Pres
byterian church; opening address,. the
Rev. e. w. Thornton, pastor of the
First Christian church; reading of the
Declaration of Independence, Rev. Mr..
Sibley; music, Y. M. c. A. quartet; adj
dress of the day, ]. D. Fredericks, dis
trict attorney and a Spanish War vet
eran.
Attorney Fredericks referred to Inde-
i pendence day historically and then dis
cussed present day menaces to liberty.
He said that in government control of
the railroads lay the nations safety,
and predicted that within ten years the
railroads would be dominated in this
way. A system of supervision is needed,
he said, such as that under which the
national banking system is carried on.
The speaker discussed the demagogue
and the trusts as serious dangers to
liberty. He said, however, that thanks
to the laws that have been enacted the
trusts can be controlled.
Hammers the Trusts
His closing paragraphs were:
Instead of various commercial or
ganizations placing their stock in the
hands of trustee, which is now pro-
hibited by law, we are having created
the monopoly-that is, those members
of trusts are selling their property and
their business all to one giant corpora
tion or Individual. So that in very
few years, instead of the defeated trust
we will have the giant monopoly.
This danger will be met by the same
spirit which has met and vanquished
every other enemy to our liberty. The
danger which has always arisen from
the participation in political affairs by
public service corporations has arisen
from the fact that to the public service
corporations has been delegated
measure of the sovereign power of the
government in franchises. The neces-
sity of acquiring these franchises from
the people and adding to them from
time to time has made it advantageous
to the public service corporations to be
in very close harmony with the officers
of the government.
| "CitieS and states are slowly feeling
their way toward removing these fran
chises to themselves and conducting
| their own public service, such as water
light, etc. When this has gone on as
far as it can safely go, and the system
of restriction, which is now being in
augurated, is thrown around the public
service corporations, this danger will
be eliminated and, with it's passing,
will pass much of the dishonesty in
political life. 1t will remove the temp
tation, and the prayer Lead me not
| into temptation, but deliver me from
evil is a mighty one.
$50 we see the dangers to our lib
erty, peace and prosperity have been
met and baffed from the beginning,
and L believe they always will be so
met. There may come times in the
future when the cause of liberty may
suffer temporary defeat, but the right
will eventually prevail, as long as we
continue to work for general moral
uplift in our education and thought
For, after all, the greatest work of God
Is an honest man, and | care not how
pure may be the political professions
of new born parties or the platforms
of old ones, If the individual man who
stands thereon is not firmly grounded
in plain, homely, common, rugged hon
our prosperity, and a blot on the flag
of our country.
"All factions are at present very
nearly united on our policies of gov
ernment-that is, our course is settled
and the best policies for conducting the
government are practically agreed
upon. There is very little difference
between the principles of one political
party and another. The principal care
which must be exercised in the future
is in the selection of the men who will
conduct our governmental affairs, Civ
Ing due thought to their honesty, their
fidelity to the general public good, and
their ability, and if this care is exer-
cised In the years to come our chill
dren and our childrens children will
have as their proudest boast I am an
American citizen"
Matinee Races
At o'clock this afternoon two matt
nee races were run on Anaheim road,
1t having been found necessary to de-
sert the old course on the beach be-
cause of the high tide. f. D. Herd
mans Lady Bug won In the 2220
class, half mile. winning the first and
third heats and coming in second in