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CHARTER SETBACK

nY THE negative votes of Council
X men Healy and Clampitt, and by
~ the absence from their posts OF
Councilmen Wren and Blanchard, and
also on account of the absence of
Mayor Harper, which makes President
Niles Pease of the council mayor pro
TEN. and prohibits him from voting, the
ordinance for a special election for a
board of freeholders to frame new
charter was defeated. Citizens of Los
Angeles interested in the well being,
prosperity and progress of the city
will have scant patience with this ex-
PLANTATION of the delay in the charter
work. The charter revision committee
has declared an intention to invoke the
initiative, but in order to put the in
itiatiye into operation it will be neces-
sary to secure the signatures of 10 per
cent of the total vote polled at the last
municipal election, and 1t will be no
easy task, as Is per cent means 1880
signatures.
Wen may responsible citizens be in
dignant over the stupid misnanage-
ment which brought UP the special
election ordinance at the precise
psychical moment when everything was
most accurately arranged for its de-
feat. When, on a weeks leavel Blan-
chard, in Bear valley! The mayor In
Texas, and Niles Pease bound and
gagged, as far as the ordinance was
concerned, through having to occupy
the absent mayors chair! What dis
appointing record for public servants
entrusted with the most momentous
measure of the day. AS far as Its
effect on the charter was concerned
absenteeism at such crisis was no
less reprehensible than direct, open ana
above-board opposition. And the abb
senteeism Of men supposed to be cham
pions of the charter is no less incom-
prehensible than reprehensible. What
on earth was the meaning Of the catas-
trophe of Tuesday? What excuses will
be offered by those who supplied the
contributory causes Of the setback of
the new charter?
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MAKES PROMPT REPLY TO
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

LOS ANGELES, July 14-[Editor
Herald: In reply to Mr.. Holbrook's
request for enlightenment, permit me
TO submit the following statement:
Surplus value is that value which
accrues to the capitalist-employe
through surplus labor given by the
employee to the employer in the pro-
duction of commodities. Thus. A works
ten hours a day for B and in that time
produces $40 worth Of labor product.
He receives for himself SO a day and
the employer receives 81 the So would
be the value of the labor product and
the 81 would be surplus value. Hence,
the workingman gives seven hours of
his time to his employer for the pur-
pose of himself getting three hours
worth of his labor product. In other
words, in working ten hours a day at
the rate of production named, he works.
practically speaking, three hours for
himself and seven hours for the boss.
Another point 1t is we'll to take into
consideration is that the greater the
productiveness of labor the less in pro-
portion to his product does the laborer
receive.
According to the following table
taken from the International Wood
worker we find that in the United
States the wealth producer obtains less
of his product than in any other civ
uized nation of the world. While he
gets more in wages so far as dollars
and cents are concerned. he gets lesa
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PLATFORMS

CANDIDATE KERN'S advice should
be taken by all citizens. Read
~ the platforms of the two parties
carefully and intelligently, then cast
an intelligent vote" That is all the
Democratic leaders ask. That is the
extent of the Democratic canvass.
Read the two platforms CAREFULLY
and cast an INTELLIGENT vote. In
order to explain away the inconsis-
tencies and anti-Americanism of the
Republican platform Governor Taft
would have to be a bigger and better
palmer. was the champion Of his age.
He explained his party out Of many
awkward fixes, but never out of such
a quandary as the Republican plat
form. All the doubtful elements in
the voting community are falling in
line for Bryan. He will receive the
solid support of voters of German
birth. who In New York form such q
large proportion of the community
that it is now as certain as anything
mundane may be that New York will
vote for Bryan, and "as New York
goes, so goes the nation"
President Roosevelt must be chuck
ling quietly-up his sleeve-as he views
the detection of faction after faction
which was "tailing on" to the G. o. P.
elephant merely because the mahout
was T. R. The consciousness that his
popularity has had almost
everything to do with Republican ma
tional success must be gratifying to
President Roosevelt. Herman Ridder
has wired Col. Bryan: you may rely
on the sincere and earnest support of
the New York Stats Zeitung" Rid
der and all other American publishers
who are not PREJUDICED are dee
lighted with Editor Bryan's enthu-
siastic support of the proposal to put
wood pulp on the free list, in order
that the paper trust may be smashed
and that newspapers and other liter
ature may continue to be sold at pop
ular prices. Part of the Democratic
program is Cheap school books, free
schools, education for everybody"
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the lawyers themselves The 1avnaY,
is not competent to suggest the needed
reforms. The subject is too commit
Gated for any but expert handling. 1t
is not a sufficient answer to say that
these conditions have been in the first
instance fostered and brought about
by lawyers. 1t is equally true that no
class of men realize SO fully and SO
clearly as the lawyers the denial of
Justice resulting from the laws delay
in California, and they And their bust
ness dwindling in consequence The
duty and obligation rest on the rep
utable lawyers to take up this matter
and suggest reforms. For instance, one
of the most scandalous abuses of pres
ent criminal procedure in this state is
the time wasted in harassing and inn
pertinent examinations of veniremen.
This business sometimes runs into
months, and its only result is to drive
conscientious men off the jury. A cor
rupt or corrupted venireman can al
ways answer the questions in such
shape as to make himself eligible for
service, while an honest man often
gets himself tangled in the intricate re-
hnements of the multifarious case law
on this subject. Possibly If the func-
ton OF examining talesmen were placed
exclusively in the hands of the court
the difficulty might be met.
Without going farther into the tech
meal features of the subject IL is OBJ
vious that there is really important
and much neglected field here awaiting
concerted and energetic action by the
bar associations, state and local.
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Japan AGGRIEVED

HUCH displeasure is being ex-
W pressed in Japan with the Asiat-
~ ic exclusion plank in the Demo-
cratic platform Christianity is an al
truistic religion. yet it sanctions this
action. II there is not enough bread
for the children of the family, why
throw 1t away to outsiders? said the
founder of Christianity. The person
whom he addressed answered back, .
saying the dogs under the table were
allowed to eat the crumbs which fell
from it. The children of the house
hold, however, have the best right to
Its comforts and privileges. The fact
that three million white children have
been forced out of school by Industrial
conditions does not improve the orien-
tai argument. Uncle SANS first duty
is to his own. When the fathers and
big brothers of the exploited children
are at work and they are all at school
it will be time to talk about unre-
stricted oriental as well as European
immigration. The Japs are not the
only foreigners who have expressed
warm disapprobation Of the Demo-
cratic platform. The imperial Germans
are outspoken and unabashed in their
denunciation Of Col. Bryan and the
policies Of the Democratic party. They
don't like Americanism, and fear that
under President Bryan it win be re-
stored to the United States.
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ADVISES CHRISTIAN WOMAN
TO STICK CLOSE TO CHURCH

LOS ANGELES. July 14.-[Editor
Heraldl Some Christian w. woman nan seems Gems
ton the church occupies, yet she Of
fers nothing in the way OF relief. l
would like to know what she thinks
l-ere is my idea of it: Church: The
structure Of truth and love; whatever
rests upon and proceeds from divine
principle. The church is that institu-
ton which affords proof. OF it's utility.
and is found elevating the race, rous-
ing the dormant understanding from
material beliefs to the apprehension
OF spiritual ideas and the demonstra-
ton of divine science, thereby casting
out devils, or error, and healing the
sick"
fail to see where she can blame
the church for the wrongs that come
from mortal, erring man. She says
"AIl her efforts to find and induce the
poor to come to church We're baked In
every instance by the preacher and
his rich members" She admits that
her undertaking was a failure, for
which / am sorry, indeed
My boy came to me one day with
his arithmetic book and tried to make
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PROSPERITY

| HIATT and good times is the slogan
! OF the Republican party. Taft art
\ lists are instructed to give him the
smile that won't come of. Writers are
/ instructed to weave romances about
the wondrous prosperity Of the United
States under Republican rule. The peo-
pie are to be jo1fied by being told their
country is much richer than any other
on earth, that it could buy and sell all
the others put together. Then they are
to be told that four years of Democracy
would put 1t into bankruptcy.
When the secretary of what used TO
be the United States treasury is asked
to account for the unprecedented de-
felt which takes its place, he shuts his
eyes and murmurs, What deficit?
After we have done some figuring all
will yet be we'll. Have patience. :"
When leading Republicans are asked
to account for the financial panic which
ruined thousands of Americans and
brought distress upon many innocent
people, they scratch their pates and
say, panic? Did you say panic? What
panic? Surely there wasn't anything
Of the kind in our time"
When the Republican is asked to ex-
plain the fact that three million chill
dren are at work when they should be
at school he is beginning to say, Don't
believe it," When he is told that the
Republican government is responsible
for the census work which enables us
to talk about this huge figure with con-
fident consciousness that it is correct
he says, well, it is queer we saw
nothing about it in the Republican
papers," 1t is indeed queer. But 1t Is
not any queerer than the Taft and
prosperity cartoons which seem to be
based on the assumption that the ex-
periences OF the American people dur
ing the years of Republican adversely
were imaginary. Everything Is all
right" is the Republican cry. ELECT
our man, and help yourselves to four
years more of those lovely conditions"
What would you think of boarding
house keeper who cajoled you into her
place by showing you menu cards and
bills of fare and deliberately worded
promises of the good things in store
for you, and charged you 500 a week.
fed you on menu cards and bran and
sawdust, and at the end of the week
asked you to pay for another week in
advance, and continue to enjoy the
feast Of fat things at her bounteous
table,? You would either tell her you
had had enough of the Barmeeide BUSH |
ness, and must change your boarding |
place, or you would expose yourself to |
the charge of being an "easy mark"
does not mean big fortunes
for the interests which support and are
by the Republican party. 1t
means square meals and a square deal
for everybody; life, liberty and the
pursuit Of happiness for the American
almost a hundred million
strong, and as good an education for
the poor mans son as the rich mans.
That's the UNITED STATES of it.
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MARSE HENRY SAYS

TITS SATANIC MAJESTY sitting to
consider improvements in the Sab
- bath school system, Friar Tuck
preparing a temperance lecture, Robin
Hood framing a bill of rights, King
Richard III drafting improvements for
the decalogue, Nero writing verses up
on the joys OF the simple life, or Ana
MAS decIaiming against the unright-
eousness of the alrbi witness, would not
be more grotesque than Serene E.
Payne ct al. bordering the problem of
revising the Dingley schedule. Ais
Bahia and the Forty Thieves sitting
as Christian Endeavor society would
be as likely to advance the cause of
Christianity as Nelson W. Aldrich's
committee on finance and it's expert
assistants who are to collect material
that will result in the Introduction Of
a bill looking to the amelioration of the
evils of the existing tariff.-Henry
Watterson.
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Critic Says Men Are Nor
All Equal Before the Law

III LILLIAN H. TAFT introduces a
wv recent article in the North
" American Review with these
weighty words:
eff one were to be asked in what
respect we had fallen farthest short of
ideal conditions in our whole govern
ment | think he would be justified in
answering, in spite of the glaring de-
fects in our system OF municipal gov
eminent, that 1t is our failure to secure
expedition and thoroughness in the en-
forcement of public and private rights
In our courts.
In no state of the Union has the laws
delay grown to such menaclng proper
lions as in California, and, in fact, con-
ditions have grown so bad that the
lawyers themselves are complaining
that it hurts business" Inc maxim
that call men are equal before the law
has been reduced to absurdity. In CAN
fornia the poor man cannot anord TO
seek redress in the courts. III ne sur
fers wrong he had best grin and pear
1t and pocket his loss. Such is the
condition as it relates to civil SUITS.
The administration of the criminal law
is even more scandalous. A trlal tnae
ought to be completed in two DAYS Is
often stretched out over months. Ihe
observer might be 1or-
given If he should ask the question
whether the prisoner at the bar or the
men summoned to sit on the jury are
on trial, says the San Francisco CAN
The remedy for this lamentable degen-
eracy of legal practice must come from
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"oNCE AGAIN"

Once again they tell the story and relate tne
same old tale, ~,
Once again the q. o. P. and the Wen niieu
dinner pail; -, 80,
breathe into your ear,
Once again good timas are coming, trust to
them and never fear. - -
Once again they shout warning tnat INC
shops will close up tight -
Once again they ask for votes in the Dig NO
vember fight;
Once again they sing the song OF the nation
brave and free,
Once again they make appeal TO our love OF
liberty. 49,. =.
Once again they hate the trusts and intend 10
Once again they need the toiler and the COM
roustabout, 80
Once again they offer prayers TOT the sh0P
girls weak and i'll, an
Once again the grand old party hands US all
orca snsin 1'- we hear the story Of the war Of
once again I'VE try to swallow many things
that will not mix ,,au ,.,,n h,s
Once again the sleek stock sampiSl' WIN as
oily. slippery tongue A,. .avor,ta
Once again the politician wants ms iaSo'i'e
ditties sung; an 81. hail,
Once again he pats the lalinei oH ~ ~
and whispers low 4, .x,,. =.
Once again he says the poor man Is aDou' 10
Once a@ @s he favors freedom for the press
ono. s anu you're careful-he will
steal your vote from you
once again the bands marching through
the streets tse w, Is fres keep the cries of
Labor down;
Once again the parrot taiks' we must near
vote Inc q. O. P.'s new ticket and preserve
the dinner pail
Changing suddenly from verse to
nrose. the writer rises to remark that
the old song, as sung by the Republic
can party for 10, these many years,
date as "Polly Wants a Cracker" or
ssDown Went McGinty." But viii the
voters wake UP and refuse to stand
still and look pleasant while the Re
publicans bat them over the head with
a stuffed club? U. N. NJ. PLOYED.
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GOOD ROADS

TROM the first the position OF The
Herald with regard to good roads
has been stated clearly. We are
for good roads, first, last and all the
time. We realize the Importance of
good roads in the progress of a COM
munity; we recognize their Importance
in the making of nation. We have
also realized from the first that such
an intensely practical and business
like movement as a road reform must
be financed thoroughly, for 1t is i'm
possible to build good roads without
good dollars, and In order to get good
dollars 1t is necessary to have the
good will Of the community. This
good will may be counted on If those
familiar with the merits of the ques-
ton will do their best to enlighten
their neighbors who may not have
devoted much thought to it. No COM
munity which, to quote a familiar
saying, KNOWS which side it's bread
is buttered on" can possibly make any
serious objection to a good roads bond
issue. Much enthusiasm has marked
the many pledges of support which
have been given, and the enthusiasm
is based on the knowledge that to
boost the good roads plans and the
bond issue is to work for the future
prosperity of the community and of
every member of the community. No
citizen can escape sharing in the ben
efits OF improved conditions which will
follow road Improvement. This is a
case where patriotism does not de-
mand self sacrifice, but, on the con-
trary, ministers directly to individual
interests. Good roads are not built
for automobiles or market wagons or
bicycle riders. motorcycle riders or
drivers OF fast horses, but for every
body who uses roads for business or
for pleasure and for everything on
wheels, from the Chinese wagon of
garden truck to the latest improved
touring automobile. Everybody is In
terested in good roads, and 1t is to the
interest OF everybody to support and
work for the bond ISSUE
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The marked silence which issues
from the depths of the eighth ward is
caused by Police Commissioner Fuller
as he is inNthe act of refraining from
making any statement in denial Of the
oft repeated assertion that company
of which he Is president owns buildings
leased for immoral purposes. The col
umns of The Herald are still open to
Commissioner Fuller, and, in the in
terests of good citizenship we ask him
to deny the unbelievable rumors con-
corning him and to denounce the
authors of the SANDER.
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me believe something was wrong with
the book because he failed to work OUT
a certain problem. Now fancy TINS
Christian woman is in the same trou-
bic. she does not understand the prin-
cipie, therefore she failed, blaming the
preacher and his rich members, Whom
she calls the church. -
Don't blame the church for the olt-
ference In opinion. She wants to know
how we are going to drive the thieves
out when those in authority foster
them? would suggest this: Stay with
the church; don't quit, as this lady did;
hang on like leech and manifest the
truth. You know good mans heaven
is hell to the sinner; consequently the
erring one would not want to finger
long. Right Is bound to prevail some
time. Be patient. Do ali you can ana
LET God (goed) do the rest. Mans ex-
tremity is Gods opportunity. She
claims l attempt to rob God OF MS
n. ..sonaiity by using an attribute good.
Luke xviii, 10: 'And Jesus said unto
him, why callest thou me good? None
is good, save one; that is God"
r. C. REHFELD.
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So you see that while the United
States is the most productive nation
upon the face of the globe SO Iar az
labor production or wealth is concerned
the iaborer or producer, by virtue oI
that very fertility Of production ge1s
less of his labor product.
Nor is this all! Out of what ne re-
oeives as wages the worker must pay
for living expenses, consisting primarily
of food, clothing and shelter; ana as
most of the consumers or buyers are
from the ranks of the producers, II
must follow that getting only three-
tenths of his product in wages, the
American workingman can only puy
back just that much goods, hence, Ine
surplus value of seven-tenths must
seek and find a market elsewhere. II
not so found, we have an oVerproouc-
ton of commodities on our hanoS,
surplus of goods IN the home market,
and those producing this surplus are
discharged from further productlon 10
become "incompetents, lazy ana unoe-
sirable citizens" if not tramps' Vag-
rants, criminals, madmen or suicides.
This, in brief, is the origin OF what
are generally known as panics, indus
trial depressions, however, being the
+ ter and more scientific term:
], A. NORRIS.
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OIyn1piad Is the Greatest
OF All Big Sporting

athletes from every quarter of the
world will compete in the various ath-
letic contests shows the wide interest
which all parts of the world are taking.
No such structure as the London
stadium, it is said, has been seen in
modern Europe. 1t will seat about So
900 spectators, and the length of the
turf inside its running track is greater
than the external long diameter of the
Coliseum at Rome. The important
Marathon race will, of course, have to
be run for the most part outside, but
the finish of the twenty-five miles will
be in the presence of the spectators III
the great arena.
Only amateurs against whom no sus-
picion of professionalism attaches will
be eligible for the various events of the
Olymplad, and the prizes will consist
solely of medals and a. few challenge
cups. There will be no money awards.
In addition to the ordinary track and
field events there will be contests in
archery, football. fencing, lacrosse, mo-
toring, military riding, polo, rifle shoot
ing, wrestling, swimming and yacht
iEg.
1t is to be hoped that our American
representatives will not overlook the
educational and artistic features of the
Olympic meet in their eagerness to win.
But may they win.
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HNHE Olympic games are so associated
by tradition with purely athletic
n contests that to the mind or the
man in the street the fourth modern
Olympiad, which opens at London to-
day, will appear chiefly important as
determining what country has the pest
amateur athletes. AS a matter of fact
the Olympic games are intended to IN
clude-and this year will include-oe-
sides athletic sports, contests in art,
literature, music and the humanltles'
as well as conferences on physical edu-
cation and development.
To the personal efforts of King Ed
ward is given the chief credit for the
carrying out of the original idea OF
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, president OF
the international Olympic committee In
1896. which was that the Olympic move
ment might perform for the modern
world the same services which the
games of Ellis rendered to the old
Greek communities. King Edward Is
reported as having expressed the wish
that the present Olympiad might prove
the final glory of his reign, says the
San Francisco Chronicle.
More than twenty-five nations VIII
participate in the contests. This testi-
fies In striking manner to the interna-
tional aspect of the event, and the
further fact that more than 1000 picked