Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-10
BY JOHN F. HUMPHREYS

BY JOHN +.
n NE of the most popular ministers
ID took for his text on a recent sun
day John 1915. There shall be
one fold one shepherd" AS the minis
ter made no reference to the presnt
flocks, nor how they were to protect
themselves from the fleeing shepherds
of today, the congregation was sup
posed to determine as to which branch
of the ancient flock were they the
descendants and whether they belonged
to the flocks of either Rockefeller, Nor
gan. Hartman, Hill or Armour as
their shepherd; If so. 1t becomes seri
Gus matter as to their future for pas
lures green, If they rely upon state
ment made by Congressman w. Bourkc
Cochran, as quoted from the Los An
geles Herald January g. 1908: "These
five men constitute a plutocracy more
powerful than any government which
has ever existed on earth, and the peo-
pie have become callused to political
robbery, as the OK to the yoke.
And greater will be the alarm II
Shepherd Morgan is correctly quoted
from the Los Angeles Times February
9, 1908: 81 think this depression very
useful and do not care to see 1t re e
lieved just now. 1t will serve to crush
the power of labor unions and will be
used to reduce wages, then the laborer
must submit or starve."
To Prove Point
If results prove anything it is vet to
be determined to what extent ouI in
telligence Is inferior to the instincts
of the sheep. For sheep are docile,
good natured not inclined to injure
each other, nor as easily excited to
jump the precipice as we are; while we
are busy at all times in ten thousand
deceptive ways building pitfalls to en-
orr
army of officials erecting the gallows
and prisons for those entrapped and
the asylums, the poorhouses and soup
kitchens for the poverty produced
thereby.
For instance, we legalize the liquor
traffic, then fight its death-dealing eff
fects. Again. we elect men to high Of
fetal positions (at the suggestion of
cprporatiois). then expend large sums
through Hobbies and committees of
safety in trying to prevent said officials
from robbing the people to benefit cor
porations.
Again the sheep have been greatly
improved of late years in all essential
qualities. While we do not consider
hereditary misfortunes and imperfec-
tons of any consequence when applied
to humanity, and yet we wonder at the
many weaklngs on the one side and
the hungry NAV of the shepherd kings
on the other
Panic Only Nightmare
AS the pasture pickings" for the
flocks become dryer and shorter and
the collar tightens, and the shepherd
kings become fortified behind great
concentrated wealth and power or a
government of their own choice we be.
gin to hear a faint bugle sound from
the seat of government: THAT concen-
trated government for all important
questions would cure all of our ills.
1t is this cure that sustains the hellsh
government of the car today.
Another tin bugle just sounded from
the same section: 1.-THE late so-called
panic was but nightmare. Stats
tics as quoted from the Los Angeles
Herald April 2, 1908, placed the unem-
at 100000" Do they consider this
panic or depression nightmare? and
as they plead for work or bread for
crying children, and from hunger are
driven to steal. For the most trivial
offense they are often imprisoned from
five TO fifty years, as compared to the
gigantic thefts of the special privileged
classes unmolested. Among the many
instances even in our own state and
within the past few weeks boy was
sentenced to five years in prison for
stealing pair of pants and $1.40; an
other for fifty years for stealing
cheap watch. and three others. each
fifty years for robbing, of a sum less
than $3.50. One of many thousand in
stances of the latter as quoted from the
Los Angeles Herald March 2. 1908:
'NIr Lloyd of the lower house of con-
gress made the charge that the rail-
roads had by system, ranging TWEEN
ty-seven years back robbed the United
States of $70000000 in mail matter
weight alone" Naturally when this
was referred to railroad committee
1t was practically the end.
Four Blamed for Graft
Again the 80 900, 900 graft stolen from
the 5000 900 for furnishing the Penn
sylvania state capital, after some two
years technical sparring and white
washing, the courts have finally sad
died the blame upon four out of the
several political experts, with a max
imum peralty for each of two years
Imprisonment and $1,000 fine. This
makes political grating quite encour-
aging and profitable under the leader
ship of Quay and PenroSe, but no poll
teal debauchery seems to change
single vote among these good Quakers,
and since the late scandals of "burglers
on the police force in Philadelphia" 1t
is barely possible the grand old state
is Justly entitled to the compliment just
passed upon it by a leading journal,
namely: "The wickedest state in the
Union"
Rev. ]. L. Jones of Chicago as quoted
from the Los Angeles Herald March IL.
1908: 'Ine great OBSTACLES TO Ino Det-
terment of life are partisanship in poll
tics, sectarianism in religion and greed
for display" The Rev. Burt Estes
Howard of Los Angeles makes it much
stronger as quoted from The Herald
January 5, 1908. he says: God himself
cannot make a good government out of
a bad people" To quote Rev. c. ].
Hall from The Herald March s, 1908:
I'VE cannot have permanent and uni
versal prosperity as long as the gov
eminent of city. state and nation legal
ize a business to grind out pauperism.
We must destroy the liquor traffic."
Greed and Prejudice
But strange it is that these and
many thousand similar true state
ments are made by those splendid peo-
pie, and yet no practical remedy is
even suggested, much less any united
efforts to put 1t into effective practice.
II greed and prejudice have not sup
planted all honesty and common sense,
and there still fingers with us enough
Of the true patriotic Christian spirit
Of our forefathers to perpetuate Amer
lean institutions upon the foundation
they laid for us, then. in laying the