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Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
. ASHIMURA TOGO, the Japanese
schoolboY. WAKES sarcastic on the

=" ASHIMURA TOGO, the Japanese
schoolboy, wakes sarcastic on the
- subject of hats and the women
who wear them. He writes in Golfers:
But 4th of them are a Girly Person
to which I must own up. She are by
initials Miss Evelyn Suki & have be-
come a dear schoolfriend to Miss Fura-
oki and very oftenly they meet to-
gether to do some cumming & other
giggles. And very oftenly 1 make a
drop-in to home OF Cousin Nogi for
borrow opera glass or cigarette or what
he got. And oftenly Miss Suki make
door knock for see Miss Furaoki, &
Japanese boy are accidentally there.
make eye-wink of soul to think how
sly are.
BY last Wednesday p. m. I get
nervous about Cousin Nogi & go see
him offhandedly. Miss F'uraoki come to
door and J. make very humble signals
to her with derby hat.
st am delicious to ask it, please, Mrs.
Madam, thank you so much, so sorry
come. Are Cousin Nogi inside, thank
you?"
mo, he are entirely out!" dib Miss
Furaolzi who despises me earnestly.
'Then 1 shall remain, thank you"
say for cheerful smiles Sc take set-down
to parlor where I see Miss Suki doing q
fansk task in companionship with Miss
Furaoki. On center table was large
objeck to resemble a clothes basket g.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
HISTORY REPEATED


(" ISTORY is being repeated in the
Philippine islands, and any one
IL who wishes to see for himself
the religious liberation we now enjoy
in the United States in the crude, rude
evolutionary process, when sect wars
with sect and all endeavor to enlist the
sympathy of the government, should
visit Uncle Sans annexed district in
the Philippine islands. Rioters having
disturbed a congregation in act of hold
ing services. the encouragement re-
buked the presidente of Pasay in a let
ter from which we quote because OF
the quaintness of the fact that Ian
guage of the kind should have to be
resorted to in the twentieth century,
in a part of the world over which
waves the American flag:
Let me urge upon you the fact it is
your duty as the municipal presidente
Of Pasay to impress upon your people
the meaning of the constitutional guar
antee as to religious worship. Cath
olics, Professionals and Aglipayans I'M
der the law, have the right to worship
God in the way which best satisfies
their own consciences, and any inter-
ference with it constitutes an invasion
of their constitutional rights which
cannot be permitted. Citizens, what
ever their religion, should be treated
with impartiality ana justice, and no
discrimination should be made in favor
Of or against any man because of his
religion. As was well stated by the
Justice of the peace he could not do
anything unless a proper complaint was
filed, and you upon your part could
infict no punishment upon alleged in
tractors of the law, inasmuch as the
authority in that behalf has been con-
ferred upon the judicial department of
the government. You can, however, by
enthusiasm and energy impress upon
your people the ACCESSIBILITY of leaving
all persons free to worship their God
as may please them, without let or in
reference by those who may hold to
different religious belief"
Since the Philippines are still young
as American territory it is in order to
quote to the Filipinos the constitu-
tional guarantees. It Is refreshing to
see the phrase. We have used it from
time to time in these columns, but many
Americans in the United States seem
to have forgotten the existence of con-
stitutional guarantees, which are be-
hind all law and may be appealed to
by citizens should occasion require.
The constitutional guarantee of free
speech, for an assertion of which The
Herald fought successfully, is as plain
as any rule that was ever drawn up for
the guidance of human beings. Equally
plain are the constitutional guarantees
of liberty and a living" and these
guarantees are being as ruthlessly neg
lected and as arbitrarily set aside in
the United States as if congress with
the consent of the nation had re-
pealed the Declaration of Independence.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
Hon. HnShimura Togo Becomes
Sarcastic over Topic Of Hats

them Ladies was fondly trimbing it
with smilax, ribbons and other laces. Oc-
casionally they stand off-side, mouths
confused with pins: sometimes they
make critick faces and speak in mil
mary language.
what you call That what you are
doing?" / wander.
Intelligent persons calls it a Hat"
snip Miss Furaoki.
''By Bible you could not wore such a
Hat" are NOPE from me.
"What-say Bible about it?' require
Miss Suld, who are studying to be
missionary
Hon. Bible say. DO not hide your
light under basket" are all sound
make.
ut look like famous Play to me-"
commune for pious regard.
what famous Play you meant?"
queery Miss Alice. You meant the
jolly Widow"
Maybe 'Payed in Full are Play them
Hat look like" beseech Miss SulSi.
"Ah, mol" I revolve, another from
theml''
"Then which play it look like, if SO
smart? % rasp wife of Nogi.
"It look like The Devil to me-" /
assassinate, and go out by door. Sound
of crushing furniture inside, and other
symptoms Of an American Girl. Also
some delicious smokers from Miss Suki.
Thank her SO many!"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
TEACHERS TOUR

NEW YEARS week should be
IN GOOD week for the teachers
~ Their friends should help them TO
celebrate it by voting for candidates
for The Herald's school teachers ex-
cursion to the great Alaska Yukon-P
cific exposition which will be held at
Seattle, Wash, from June to OCTOBER
IL. 1909. The exposition will be well
worth visiting. 1t will cost SlO,oOO'oOV'
and will be by far the greatest and
most important enterprise of its nature
ever attempted by the residents OF the
western coast. 1t will be of great edu-
cational value, and will be of especial
benefit to teachers. No instructor can
visit it without receiving an impression
of the resources and possibilities OF the
Pacific coast much more vivid than can
be ACQUIRED from books or magazines
For this reason The Herald's twelve
teachers on their return will be the
means of disseminating much valuable
information in Southern California; and
while the tour will be pleasant, at the
same time the trip will be valuable for
practical educational purposes.
Travel is education: therefore all
teachers should travel. At present So
ciety entertains such a narrow view OF
a teachers career and responsibilities
that as a rule salaries are small; and
teachers cannot afford to travel. But
the time is g-rapidly-when the
proper economic relation of the Ameri-
can school teacher to the American
people will be realized, and then the
most important of all the professions
will no longer be moderated or under
paid.
Readers of The Herald are being
asked to vote for twelve young women
to take the trip to the exposition as the
guests of The Herald. The teachers will
not incur any expenses. Surely no OPP
portunity has ever before been pre-
scented whereby the educators who are
shaping the destiny of the nation can
derive so much pleasure and benefit at
NO COST.
By the votes of our readers-who will
find details as to the voting conditions
printed on another page-six school
teachers will be chosen from Los An
geles county, three from the city of
Los Angeles and three from the county
at large outside the city. one from San
Bernardino county, one from Orange
county, one from Santa Barbara
county, one from Riverside county,
one from Kern county and one from
Ventura county. The contest from
now on will become daily more
exciting. Vote for the teacher of your
choice, and conduct a campaign among
your friends. If you work hard to
secure votes for your favorite teacher
in all probability you will see her name
among those of the lucky twelve.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28

TIME efficient and self-reliant ohlnese
Iaborer is quite as objeetlonaple
Il as the lazy or vicious one. Inc
dishonest merchant is nearly as Wei
come as the honest one. That 49, we
are willing to have merchants, travel
ers and students come in freely. re-
gardless of their personal qualifications,
while we are not willing to have the
common people come in at all, no mat
ter how high their individual characs
ters. 1t is a question of race ana Oh
economic class. not of personality
There are enough intelligent, clean,
seif-suporting laboring men OF gooo
character in China to swamp this whole
country and make it Chinese, ana tney
will do it if we do not prevent. Chlnese
must be kept out precisely because they
are Chinese, and not at all because
thew lack character or capacity. IL
any Chinese do come, we prefer to keep
them out of the public schools, where
for our very salvation we compel the
children of European immigrants 70 go,
and we prefer them to live with tnelr
own kind, in Chinatown, rather than
scatter them among our own people.
All the conditions are absolutely re-
versed, as applied to immigrants OF our
own race and TO immigrants OF anotner
race.
OF immigrants whose admission raises
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
Why Wee, Wee German
LQirdie Likes Manchester

man girl in everything except birth and
early schooling. Her father is Ger
man, as is her mother, and all her
tastes, just as her Language in her
fathers home was, are Gereman. She
seems, by all we hear, to have been
unspoiled by wealth, and her home life
is happy. She is content, with her hus-
band and her children, just as any Ger
man woman would be.
When we hear that King Edward
likes to see and talk with her, we know
the reason. He is a German himself
in everything except birth and eduoa-
ton, and his language has been Ger
man to a large extent all his life. His
mother was a German and all the ruiz
ing family of the United Kingdom are
German in thought and even in physi-
cal appearance.
What wonder, then, that King Ed
ward and the Duchess of Manchester,
with the bond of common nationality
should be friends? 1t is a mistake to
think that, even were the English
women to be jealous of the lady, it
would be jealousy of an American. The
duchess is a German girl.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
GAMBLING

II ACE TRACK gambling was the
II subject of attack at big mass
Az meeting held yesterday afternoon
at Temple auditorium. The position
asserted by those who called the meet
ing is that race track gambling takes
money from the channels of legitimate
trade, that it is responsible for much
crime and annually causes a great in
fux of criminals to Southern Califor-
MIA, and that it offers a fascinating and
subtle temptation to the young and in
experienced.
Similar objections, and many more,
may be urged against all kinds of
gambling. Frequently there is SEN
sational suicide in Wall street, New
York. Men have ended themselves in
front Of the Stock exchange, and from
time to time some ruined gambler kills
himself at the sub-treasury building
under the august auspices of the statue
of George Washington. No matter what
form of life or activity it affects,
gambling is injurious. Horse racing
would be much better and cleaner with
out it. So would automobile racing.
So would baseball and football. So
would college sports and boat races.
SO would presidential elections.
From time to time men are tempted
to gamble. although the loss of their
wager will certainly bring ruin upon
them. Gambling is responsible for an
appalling amount of trouble in the
United States. Its supporters, especial
ly those who operate on the stock ex-
changes of the country, where the
gambling makes horse-race gambling
insignificant by comparison, say the
business of the country could not be
conducted without gambling. This
claim is subject to question and open to
doubt. While it is true the foundations
of some of the large fortunes of the
United States were laid by gambling,
in one form or another, it is equally
true business has frequently suffered
from gambling mania which seemed tc
sweep over the land. Beyond reason
able doubt, gambling is a national evil
and measures should be taken to dea
with it in a way which will promote
the cause of "the greatest good for the
greatest number"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
Loss OF Life and Waste OF
Materials Are Appalling

1.-THE seriousness of this loss is more
clearly appreciated when it is remem-
bered that our production and con-
sumption are increasing much more
rapidly than is the population of tho
country; that the mineral supplies for
future use are limited in quantity and
cannot be reproduced. No new sup
plies are being created to take the place
of those being withdrawn from the
earth and either used or wasted. When
once these supplies are exhausted the
exhaustion is complete and permanent
At the increasing rate of consumption
which has characterized the industry
during the past few years the available
supplies of certain of our more i'm
portant resources, like the coal and
iron, win be early in the next century
so nearly approaching exhaustion as to
bring real hardship to the nation.
but more serious even than this
waste of materials is the excessive
loss of life in our mining operations.
We are grieved to find that during the
past year in coal mines alone more
than 5000 men were killed and more
than 1000 injured; and our distress is
Increased rather than diminished to find
that the number of men killed in the
United States for each 1000 men em-
ployed in the mines is from two to four
times as great as it is in other coal
mining countries"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
SLEEPING STONES

No presidential job for me,
Except as such a place might be
A stepping stone to bring at once
Engagements for Chautauqua stunts.
four-year course would help me get
The very highest figure yet
And presidencies now are wings
BY which we fly to higher things.
I would not be a senator
Unless it led to something more;
Dan Webster at his grandest height
Drew no two hundred plunks night
Nor saw placarded on the bills:
Hear Honest Dan on Current IllsI'
But having said what was to say,
Saw no cashier walk up and pay.
1 would not care to be Judge
And render solemn judgments-F1ldgel
Unless 'twould help me tread the walks
or glory in Chautauqua talks.
/ often think now Marshall might
Have drawn more money every night
By merely speaking in between
A cornet and tambourine.
And Washington received much less
From his we'll known farewell address
Than II he had appeared to speak
one single night In every week.
How gaping circles now would gorge
Themselves on George on Valley Forgew
Sometimes I shed a transient tear
To think of what he's missing here.
II can serve my country we'll
/ have a call 10 go and tell
M story and 10 travel far
wherever these Chantauquas are.
No offices have charmf for me,
Except, I say, as they might be
The means Of bringing me the ''bones-
Chautauoua- reaching stepping stonesi
-. W. Foley in n. Y. Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28

kkTNHE Southern Pacific will protect
itself, but it will keep hands off
II legislation that does not con-
Germ itself" This is the way Walker
Parker is reported in Los Angeles
interview as sizing up the situation.
If it were only true! But the Southern
Pacific notion Of protecting ITSELF has
always been so elastic conception that
there is little hope to be gathered from
this reiteration of the empty phrase;
The Southern Pacific has protected
itself by absolutely controlling every
department of the state government,
and. so far as possible, everybody IN
It. 1t protected ITSELF by paying Abe
Ruef $4,000 to get delegation to santa
Cruz, which it then compelled him.
against his personal inclination, to de-
liver to Giliett. 1t protected itself
by sending Abe Ruef to sacramento
with orders to elect Frank Flint sena-
tor and by providing legislature that
would take those orders, says the FIRES,
no Republican. 1t has protected itself
by a consistent policy of controlling the
nominations of judges of the hlgher
courts for the deliberate and acknowl-
edged purpose of having judges Wno
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
OPPOSES STATEMENT THAT
MATTER HAS NO INTELLIGENCE

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22.-[Editor
Herald: December IL, "R. N" wrote:
TT is illogical to reason that mind is
the intelligence of matter, for matter
has no intelligence; to be that it would
have to be in matter, and therefore
under matters control" Here is one
syllogism:
Major-Whatever evinces knowledge
is intelligent.
Minor-Matter evinces knowledge.
/ support the minor, first by negative
testimony. I have never seen (that is,
oomprehended) any knowledge outside
of matter; that is to say, no mental
phenomena of any kind have ever been
produced outside OF, separate and apart
from matter. Therefore, matter, and
matter only, evinces knowledge. Now,
some positive evidence. The gray mat
ter of the brain evinces knowledge.
To me this fact seems to be so self
evident as to be beyond successful dis
putation. Therefore, there irresistibly
follows the
Conclusion-Matter is Intelligent
1t seems to me, therefore, Logical
to reason that mind is the intelligence
of matter"
1. If any one can disprove the minor
he must show:
l. That knowledge is evinced out.
side of matter;
q That the gray matter of his brair
does not evince knowledge, which
would be a distasteful admission.
So much for the logic. Because mind
is in matter it is no more under mat
ter's control than a man in a house II
necessarily under the control of thu
house. see no evil or moral wrong II
matter per Sc. To me the sparkle o
| the diamond. the beauty of the ros'
and the fairness of the woman all lool
good. ASBURY CECIL.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28

II ING EDWARD is being criticised
II by British writers because he
Ia finds pleasure in the CONVERSE
ton of the American woman, now
Duchess of Manchester. That the
English have any feeling of jealousy
toward the duchess is a ridiculous as
sumption, for we do not believe that
any Englishwoman cares whether the
Duchess of Manchester was born in
America or in any other part OF the
world. The fact that the English
papers publish such tommy-rot, how
ever, shows that some of the men
would willingly try to excite prejudice
in this way, says the Fresno Herald.
The sovereign of the United Kingdom
is a pretty good sort of fellow, we
should judge by the news that has come
over to this side of the world in the
many years that he has filled the pub
lie eye of the globe. He is we'll edu-
Gated, appreciates a clever saying, likes
to see the homely virtues practiced and,
considering that he has little time to
himself, is reasonably fond OF domes-
ITCHY.
> The Duchess of Manchester is a Ger
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
SHOULD BE UNITED WAR CRY

PASADENA, Dec. 25.-IEditor Her.
add: l take it as the best of omens
for this Christmas morning that it
should be marked by the appearance
in the Letter Box of two straight COM
munications in which, without any
beating about the bush, it is declared
that the sum total of-our social trou-
bles has its root purely and solely in
the denial of equal opportunities. ESpe-
cially, as it is stated that this denial
is summed up in that blind craze for
land speculation and monopoly that,
Within the space of few years has
put in the hands of few Kingdoms
larger than many of the European
countries.
With such communications the Let
ter Box is beginning to talk. A re-
freshing oasis in the desert of almost
universal gush is forming. Realism is
showing its head; we are plucking up
a little spirit and venturing to look
facts directly in the face.
Moreover, we are on the road to sim
plification. Presently we shall get an
inkling of the truth that all these
elaborate schemes for national saliva
ton by the formation of bureaucra-
cies, dignified with democratic labels
that in no way alter the deadly con-
tents of the packages, are clumsy and
utterly inadequate devices. We shall
see that all that is needed is that the
masses should make UP their minds
that equality of opportunity Is the war
cry, resting certain that when this is
won they will be fully capable of ar
ranging their own affairs, as free men,
by mutual agreement.
This means a Titanic struggle with
the powers that be, and it is only the
unflinching recognition of that fact
that can nerve the masses to the effort
necessary for the overthrow of a sys-
TEN of monopoly that long since should
have worn itself out.
FL. L. CUTHBERTSON.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
SAYS HERALD's CONTENTION
is BASED ON GOOD LOGIC

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.-[Editor
Herald: Comments on the recent de-
cision of Judge Wright seems to be In
order just now. The Herald'S conten-
ton that disobedience of the law places
the labor leaders in the position they
find themselves is as sad as it is true.
They admit they violated the law, yet
expect a judge to decide they did not.
Even admitting the legislators who
made the law and the judge who rem
dered the decision are both integral
parts of an unfair system, are they
any more so than the victims them
selves who vote for a continuance of
the system? If men get exactly what
they vote for, why should they COM
plain when they get it? A few more
such decisions as the one rendered by
Judge Wright will probably tend to
loosen the scales on the workingmen's
eyes, if they do not knock them off en-
tirely.
1t is hard to make a guess what the
president may do in the matter, but
the men who, under existing conditions,
humiliate themselves to ask the presi-
dent or any one else to interfere in
their behalf, certainly act the part of
cravens. Only a short time ago those
same men scorned the invitation Of
the president to labor council at the
White House. Now they cringe and
crawl, ana Deg MIN 10 protect Ineni:
From a workingman's standpoint, If
they are all compelled to serve the full
sentence imposed they need not pose
as martyrs to the cause, but martyrs to
the stupidity of themselves and the
class they represent. they knew the
law and willfully violated 1t, instead of
using the power vested in themselves
to remedy existing evils. The outcome
is but another demonstration of the
immutable law of cause and effect.
When will the workingmen awaken?
T. ]. POLLARD.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28

NJ ASTE Of mineral products in the
w United States amounts to
$1,00OOOO per day in value.
The waste of natural gas amounts
to 1000, 100000 cubic feet per day, or
more than enough to light all the cities
of the United States having more than
100000 population.
These statements were made by
Senator Flint of California at the re-
cent meeting Of the national conserva-
ton commission in Washington, d. c.,
in his report on the mineral section of
the commission, says the San Jose
Mercury.
Senator Flint called attention to the
large waste of material and the large
loss of life which characterize the min
eral industries in all parts of the
country which he said was deplorable
1.-THE enormous waste in coal mining
is equivalent to about one-half of the
total product mined, or for the year
1907 about 240.O00,000 tons" said Sen
ator Flint with an entire waste OF
all mineral products approximating
81, 900, 900 per day and with the min
era1 production of the United States
during the past year amounting to
$4,000, 100000, this waste is equivalent
to more than one sixth the value OF
the total production.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
CHESTNUT TIME

~ HAUNCEY DEPEW is at last about
I to publish his "reminiscences. If
~ this announcement had been made
a few years ago it would have aroused
much interest. AS it is, we regret to
be compelled to believe people are al
ready beginning to forget DR.. Depew-
at least they don't remember him as
the old-time, good-natured, hearty,
clean American gentleman, but as a
somewhat soiled and sordid individual
who has been the subject Of much I'M
pleasant comment.
The part of Depews life which is of
most Importance to history compilers
is the Horace Greeley time" when
Depew ran for a state office on the
Inflated Tribune ticket and made it
impossible for the Republican party
ever to consider him seriously as a
presidential candidate.