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Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
REPUBLICAN FOLLY

HTHY some immigrants come to the
w United States is question an
" swered satisfactorily by late I'M
migration statistics. Since there began
to be a bruit abroad Of the decrease or
opportunity in America the loaves ana
fishes brigades of the immigrating army
lost interest in the Star-Spangled Ban
ner. The decrease in recent immigra-
ton is very large, ranging from " to
70 per cent. Much of the work in the
far western states north of California
is being done by Japs, Italians and
Mexieans, who are willing to accept
any wages at all, and are displaclns
white men. Strange to say, the con-
tractors who are betraying the inter-
ests Of the United States and creating
poverty and discomfort among its ma
tive white sons are also white men,
But they regard themselves as superior
to the toiler.
AS a disguised Californian newly re-
turned from the north said yesterday:
'These fellows go out to the market.
They want to buy pigs. They want to
buy workmen. They go to contractor
and order so many head of pigs. They
go to another contractor and order SO
many head of workmen. Conditions
worse than slavery exist in the United
States. The black slave was sure OF
his food, clothing and shelter. The
white slave may be thrown out of
Job at the whim of the overseer and
deprived of all three necessaries,"
Our informer ended by predicting an
armed rebellion of white workmen in
the United States, and perhaps rev.
olution. Something must be done to
change conditions" he said, ''for white
people won't stand them much longer.
There was 0lenty of work in the far
west and north Pacific country for
thousands upon thousands Of the men
who were unemployed and starving in
the east, but the Republican govern
ment stood by helpless and gaping, ut
terIy paralyzed by a simple social-eco-
nomical difficulty-the transfer of Ia
Dor from the place where it was not
needed to the place where it was want
ed badly"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
LONG BEACH FESTIVAL

II ONG BEACH festival of the sea,
1 planned for September 15. will be
- one of the quantity characteristic
California celebrations which help to
make this state renowned.
Preparations are being made for a
festival which will delight eye and ear,
and will be conducted on such large
scale it will be impressive and mem
orable. Decorations are being arranged
which will make Long Beach look like
fairyland, and with natural beauties
and artificial additions, there can be
no doubt an unusually rare and
Satisfying picture or series of pictures
will crafty visitors. We hope there
will be a big attendance, and that the
festival will help to spread the name
and fame of Long Beach far and wide.
The festival viii help to remind visitors
of the ever increasing maritime impor-
tance of California, which now pos
sesses in San Pedro harbor a splendid
seaport, which win be of great value
to this section of the state and will as
sist in the development of a maritime
commerce which will increase local
prosperity.
The sea festival should remind all
citizens that California is only at the
beginning of her seaward commercial
history, and that when the Panama
canal is completed San Pedro will be
one of the most important harbors in
the western hemisphere; important not
only commercially but strategically.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
ENGLAND

TT IS NOT yet one hundred years
since Waterloo, yet Herman Rid
- der announces that England and
Germany are the two opposing powers
in Europe. OF course this statement
does not need to alarm any one famil-
lar with political geography, because
England is only a part of the United
Kingdom and a very small part of the
British empire, and England's feel
becoming of less and less moment
every year. But even If we realize
and somehow all Americans do not
reallze-that England would have seri-
Gus difficulty in embroiling the empire
in a quarrel with power popular in
almost every part of it excepting Eng
land, 1t is deplorable that Germany's
former ally should be Germany's mod
ern enemy. Is Mr.. Ridder sure there
is not some exaggeration Of national
feeling? Is there not some force in the
suggestion that aristocracy and bu-
reaucracy may be responsible for a
condition of feeling which would be
unknown to the democracy IL the
democracy were left to itself?
We have seen nothing whatever in
the Scotch, Irish or colonial, or even
In the English provincial newspapers
to warrant belief there is any real
feeling of antagonism between the
Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon branches Of
IL tell nr1d
colonials have only friendly feelings
for Germany. England's attitude on
many questions differs from that of the
rest of the empire, and the rest of the
empire has acquired cheerful habit
in talk" while it carries out its own
plans and pursues its own purposes.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
AhOciOnS Double Crime OF
DeSfiftAtiOr1 and Starvation

no doubt there were then gr9aning with
food ten thousand other tables in that
town, the crumbs falling from any one
of which would have cufficed to sus-
tain her vitality, says the Washington
Post.
New York is the city of millionaires
and of paupers. It's aggregate wealth
amounts to thousands of millions. Ex-
cept in Paris, more money is prodi-
gally wasted in New York for vulgar
animal pleasure than in any other city
in the world, and yet this moment men
and women of good family and good
repute tramp up and down Broadway
begging for opportunity to earn a
living.
1t was Victor Hugo who wrote: "It
is a disgrace to heavens azure that
there is one unfortunate man in the
world" and that there as so many of
them only makes the more certain that
to their fortunate fellows will come in
the end the awful Interrogation, Where
is thy brother?"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
TAFTsS RIGHT BOWER

"EARST has at last shown SPARK
III or two of common decency. In
IL credible as this statement may
sound, he has actually confessed his
intentions in financing his Doodle Dee
party are not to found new political
party, not to beat the Republicans,
but to hurt the Democratic party and
If possible to help the party of priv
ilege, tyranny, oppression and depriva-
tion to retain it's czardom of this af-
ficted, trust-ridden nation, where the
rich are growing richer an the poor
poorer at constantly acceleTating
speed, and where every year there is
an increase in the number of children
robbed of education in order that
Mammon's mills, factories and foun-
dries may be supplied with cheap
labor.
Mr.. Hearst, in the local representa-
tive of his newspaper trust, quotes
the following from the Colorado Post:
"with decided appropriateness does
Mr.. Hearst brand Democracy as a
decadent party"
From the Brooklyn Times he quotes
approvingly:
"The Hisgen-Graves ticket is strong
ticket and calculated to reduce the
Democratic majority in more than one
of the sure Democratic states. 1t may
also reduce the Democratic vote in
Massachusetts. and dull the vivid rain
bow hues that are now pror sing san
guine Democrats large gains in the
house of representatives from the
states west of the Alleghanies."
From the Pittsburg Press he takes
the following pleasing selection: "The
Independence party is the outgrowth
of the Independence league, which two
years ago came within few thousand
votes of electing William r. Hearst
governor of New York. In Illinois.
Missouri, California and other states
1t has shown itself quite formidable,
and its advent into the national field
is a serious matter for Mr.. Bryan
At least, Mr.. Hearst HOPES it is
a serious matter for Mr.. Bryan. That
much is evident. And that is exactly
why the Independence party is in ex-
istenee today-it is a spite party
founded by an irresponsible spend
thrift for the purpose, if possible, OF
wrecklng the Democratic party and
If possible, spelling Mr.. Bryan's chance
of election. There is nothing Mr.
Hearst would not do to prevent II
possible the election of Bryan. Rather
than see the candidate of the Democ.
racy succeed, Mr.. Hearst would not stoI
short of even turning respectable. He
is desperate enough for any imagin.
able extreme. Hearst does not hon
estly think his Independence party has
the ghost of show. He knows he II
Taft's right bower, and that his sole
purpose in life is to try to help tn,
Republican candidate euchre Mr.
Bryan. The Independence party hal
not really an honest independent pur
pose. 1t has no legitimate excuse fol
existence. 1t is dishonest In inception
and aim, and represents nothing bu
the malice of Hearst.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20

M ayor Harper and the police COM
mission have again truckled to the Lib
eral alliance by granting it permission
to sell intoxicating liquor to persons
who attend a picnic at Chutes park
next SUNDAY. While Harpers brother,
who is a Presbyterian minister when
he is not city forester, is preaching
sobriety and godliness to his sedate
congregation in Knox church, at the
park a few blocks distant from the
church, by special permission of Har-
per and the commission, the worship
of Bacchus will be conducted with all
due rites and ceremonies, and as the
flowing bowl o'erflows Mayor Harpers
health will be drunk mid shouts of ap-
plause, followed by the sacred chorus
"For he's jolly good fellow,
Which nobody can deny"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
Dear Mr.. Editor: Although I am not

Dear Mr. Editor: Although / am not
a member of the sect called Shakers,
the spirit moves me to ask you to vim
oicate Brother Hartman, who is
laboring under the aspersion of having
restocked your lean purse out of his
big barrel. Surely you will not allow
your fellow Christian, the great and
beneficent railroad saint, to rest under
the odium of this accusation while
word from you will clean UP his good
name and restore his reputation. Say
that word, Mr.. Hoist-Oh, utter the
language which will bust your ominous
silence into fragments. Let truth pre-
vail. AS the poet says, Speak, if
the heavens go out of business"
Where did you get It? Yours sincerely,
zEPFIANIAH STEPHEN WILKES.
owe assure our correspondent that,
like George washington, we cannot tell
a lie. Therefore we do not see what
good we could accomplish by answer
ing an irrelevant and meaningless
question. We have thrown Mr.. Wilkes
letter in the waste basket,-Ed.)
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20

Wigan, England. is notorious for
coal mining disasters. After the dead
are buried and the wounded are sent
to the hospital-and the poorhouse-
the mine managers will be besieged by
applicants for positions. In the days
of old there were individual cases of
heroism. But in these strenuous times
men are to be found by the thousand
who are willing to take desperate risks
in order to earn a little money to buy
bread, clothing and shelter. Our civil
ization is far from perfect.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
SPECIAL NOTICES

Notice-The yellow contract has been
let for the campaign. At the expira-
tion of our present agreement we will
consider propositions.
Harriman's timetables free to SUBJ
scribers to the Cross Examiner. For
accurate information concerning S. p.
please see Mr.. Hoist or his agent at
any office of Cross Examiner.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
LETTERS

To the Editor: I have found a genu-
Inc Doodle Dee. He says he has voted
the Doodle Dee ticket straight ever
since he was born, and declares he
will keep on voting for it long after he
is dead. I thought you might appreci-
ate such an enthusiast, and perhaps
tell your presidential candidate-I for
get his name--to put him on your pay
roll. He would like to hear from you.
Address him cell 6, tier 8, incurable
row, state lunatic asylum.
Yours admiringly, JAY HAWK.
(You have forgotten to mention the
name of your splendid and patriotic
friend, but we have addressed him cell
6, etc., and no doubt will hear from
him. Have asked him to forward his
picture, and to write page Sunday
special on "What 1t Feels Like to
Have els."-Ed.)
To the Editor: Can you recommend
a good feature for our Sunday school
entertainment?
with pleasure. A minstrel concert
by the Independence party would no
doubt be pleasing. Will be happy to
forward the talent if you will pay the
freight.-Ed.)
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20

4 DAY or two ago nan was ar
"a rested in one of the grand hotels
IA of New York, hailed before a
magistrate and charged with the afro
cious crime of being hungry and poor.
His story, as pleaded in extenuation,
was: "I was hungry and NEEDED some
thing to eat. had tried elsewhere and
been turned away. That is why went
to the big hotel in the hope of getting
food"
"Alas for the rarity
OF Christian charity
Under the SUM-
o, it was pitifull
Near a whole city full.
Home she had none"
Only a few weeks ago in that same
city of New York woman took her
own life because she did not have, and
could not get, food to sustain it, and at
the same moment she perpetrated self
murder, perhaps, there were then in
progress a thousand dinners served in
that same New York at 500 plate, and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20

terly bad, absolutely opposed to the
spirit and purpose of Americanism.
The oppressor and the bully have no
place in the social economy of the
United States.
Send the steam roller to the scrap
heap.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20

Mr.. Taft will talk to the Virginians
on the subject of trusts. We hope some
one in the audience will have presence
of mind enough to ask him: eff a man
has no money, is out of work, cannot
get work, and must support wife and
family, what is he to do about it2"
Taft has had plenty. Of time to think
out a better answer than 'God knows"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
SAYS REPUBLICANS MAKE
SOME SINGULAR PROGRESS

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1S-tEditor
fTsreId1: The eccentricity of President
Roosevelt is shown in his nelection of
members of his cabinet. He has en-
tirely disregarded the custom OF ms
predecessors by taking three OF the
members from his own state. Hoot,
Cortelyou and Straus are All from the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20

California climate is not affected by
party politics or policies. There is no
high tariff on sunshine. The free and
unlimited mintage Of glorious days and
lovely nights is not interfered with.
Probably the Republicans would regu-
late the climate of California, If they
could. Thank goodness, they can't;
and it remains democratic and delight
full, all the year rCAnd and every year,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20

It is evident there is some disposition
to enforce the child labor law in Los
Angeles. If all the young people Of
school age who are at work in the
United States today were sent to
school, and II Cholos. Japs and other
slave labor were prohibited and the
prohibition were enforced. there would
be profitable employment for every
white man in the country.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20

Los Angeles retail clerks Saturday
outing will be great and unqualified
success. especially If it puts the needed
emphasis on the demand for Saturday
half holiday.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20

At any rate. the Lincoln-Roosevelt
league made a game and plucly fight,
and he that fights and does not run
away win fight and win another day.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20

Mr. Hoist will send you his adver-
tising rates on application. Liberal
discounts to all users of his columns
who will support the Doodle Dee ticket.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20

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Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20

Mr.. Hoist addressed a great and en-
thusiastic audience yesterday. His
subject was: "I would rather be writ
ing checks than be president" In
ctdentally, he entered at considerable
length into an explanation of his views
on the currency, which, according to
some, have become tinged with Harri-
manism.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
JOHN w. KERN

Herald subscribers intending to leave the
city for the summer months kindly notify
the circulation department, and we viii
send The Herald to your new address and
change the address as often as desired.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN

Population of Los Angeles 3o2,6o4
New-York tribune., 1908-05-17
MERIcAN LEAGUE STANDING.

American League Park groaned under record
breaking crowd yesterday afternoon. when the High
anders douned the Detroit Tigers in the first game
OF the season between the teams. the score being
to S. Long before the game was called the seat
ing capacity of the stands had been taken and hun
dreds OF other baseball enthusiasts had sroed out
the field and squatted the grass to view the
contest It is estimated that nearly twenty-five
thousand persons the game. which gin
gerry from start to finish AS far the noise
concerned It might have bitter contest be-
tween rival college out for the seasons
championship. With the Yankees leading In the
pennant and Detroit still holding the cham
pionshp of the league, the crowd had just to
root and root It did with plenty of vim and vigor.
Though the game was not fine sample Of
baseball as might be expected from such high
class teams. it well calculated to please and
interest Saturday afternoon crowd out for
thrills. There plenty of long hits. fast plays
in the field lightning sprinting on the bases and
far too much wrangling and fault finding with the
umpire Hughey Jennings brought his men here
full of scrap. They argued. jeered hooted Knocked
and acted like schoolboys. until IT grew tiresome
to every one. including themselves MI Evans
who umpired behind the bat, will probably jot
down in his diary that May IS the hottest day
of the year while Tim Hurst who held sway on
the bases. may call it ''cool and cloudy" Mr.
Evans hesan to feel the heat early In the after
noon and his temperature rapidly until finally
wild Biz Donovan. who had been pitching for
Detroit was banished the bench. Mullin took
his place. and he. too sent into retirement oe-
cause his views and those of the umpire dld not
jbe. There inning IN the game
when at least ono of the Detroit players was not
finding fault with the umpire Tim Hurst treated
the players If they were children and Wavef1
them suav whenever they protested to him For
time the crowd enjoyed the fun immensely, but
IL soon became boring
The HfShlanders started with a rush. and scored
twice in the opening inning. Then Detroit took the
lead in the third inning, three runs coming IN on
fast base running and stupid playing on the part
Of the Yankees Doc Newton had enough OF u
when this inning ended. and Joe Doyle TOOK MS
Mac. in the box for New York The little p1tcner
retired after he had been hit for tWo-oagser ano
single in the fourth inning Lake took up lhe
work at this point. and more than held MS own
At the end Of the fifth inning the score was tled
at to 1 The Yankees chalked up the leading run
in the seventh when Niles singled. stole second
reached third on keelers out and crossed the plate
on Chasss single To make the game sare tne
Ffzhlanders added two more runs IN the next IN
ming and they we're needed. for two Tigers crossed
tn. rubber in the final inning The crowd was
good natured even though the subway Jam vas
uors. than ever. The score follows:
New-York tribune., 1908-05-17
FRESHMEN LOSE.
Cresr Beaten on Lake Whitney by
Columbia First Year Eight.

New Haven. May 16-The victory of the Colum-
ba freshman eight the Yale freshman eight
was the feature of the Yale navy's regatta on
Lake Whitney this afternoon, in which sixteen
crews took part The race was g. fight from the
pistol until half the course which is seven-eghths
of a mile, had been covered. when Columbia, who
had the advantage by few feet, sent her shell
into the lead nv nearly length This squirt was
maintained and while the Yale boys qufckened
their stroke they could not overcome the lead and
the finish saw clear water between the two shells
The time was 40 compared with AZ. which
is the record for the course
The other feature was the race between the
freshmen second crew and the eight from the
Springfield High School. which the FORMER won
by a little than length.
In the class races the sophonlores beat the
seniors for the club championship. and then the
seniors beat the sophonores for the class cnam-
pionship. The second varsity crew neat lle 'hlIo d
varsity crew The varsity eight as II Is no"
s.ated gave IN exhibition row over the course
showing that it is in good form
New-York tribune., 1908-05-17
NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING.
rBx Telegraph % The rrfaun. !


Cincinnati, May 16-MarheTsou started II 70 pitch
for tho Giants to-day. but he did not prove ths
mighty" and when Nickln sent IN 70 bar
for him in the third inning. Cincinnati had gained
a commanding lead of three runs. chiefly due %
punching hits from his delivery, although aided By
Sevuot1r.s bad rnuT in the fTst inning. The VIC
tory went to the home team by score OF 20 I
the visitors making their lone tally, which saved
them from a shutout. in the eighth inning.
Anes took 1Iathewson's place in the ooT and
pitched good ball. but the only salvation for ths
Giants seemed to rest in getting as many strong
batters as possible into the game, 50 Herzos vas
sent in TO bat for Ames in the eighth inning
Cosklev pitched the full game for the Reds. and
with the exception Of the eighth inning kept the
hits made off his delivery well scattered. proving
puzzle to the visitors. With the exception OF Sey-
nnour,s error the fielding both sides was quick
and snappy-
In the first inning Seymour muffed HUgzl1s's fY
and the runner got 70 first Looert walked. and
on Mitchell's bunt. which caused his retirement
first Huggins got home from second The Reds
won out in the second inning. SChlel started tina
fun with single and scored on a triple ov Hus-
witt. CoakIey's drive was fast for Ns-lewson
to handle and HulsVitt tailed
With the first two men up out m the eighth
inning Tenney went TO first four wide ones
and crossed the plate singles by Donitl and
Seymour. The score follows: