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Examination For Middies.

Albany, N. Y, Feb. 24,-An ex-
animation of candidates for mid
shipmen at the Annapolis naval
academy was held here today, the
successful applicants to be appoint
ed by Congressman G. N. South
wick
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Notice..

My buggy and carriage paint shop
is now open for the season, 1908.
All work. will be done by practical
carriage painter. Bring your work
in at once and avoid the great rush
son. c. N. Anderson, iii Water
street.
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OFFICERS and DIRECTORS.
G. w. Mcknight, President and
Treasurer; Ed Cunningham. Vice
President; C. w. Kent, Secretary.
Directors: T. A. Ferris, G. w. Nc
knight, Ed Cunningham, C. W.Kent,
DR.. G.. w. Simpson.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30
Day OF Machine Politics Is
Over. i'm the United States

H HE power of close organization,
and especially the power Of
money in carrying elections, is
one of the crying evils and most alarm
ing signs of the times. In the time Of
Jackson, Harrison and Lincoln things
were done openly and in sight of all
the people. Now too many things
which determine results are done in
back rooms, in secret caucuses and
under cover. There money gets in its
work The great corporation, the
powerful monopoly, the gigantic trust,
never goes before the people in a
struggle for justice and right. 1t gets
into the back room, and there wins its
victories. 1t believes in stalking its
game; in the still hunt. For a good
many years now this policy has pre-
vailed. Things have been settled in
caucus, and money has too often
bought the caucus. The people have
been called upon in the election simply
to record the DEGREES of the caucus, to
swallow the program. OF course, under
such conditions there is no call for
general political excitement. Excite
ment is an invariable feature of the
action of a great democracy when
deeply interested. If everything is
slated beforehand, why should the
democracy be excited?
We are thankful that this sort of
thing is coming to an end in this land,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30
TAFT ON TRUSTS

FUDGE TAFT has called the atten-
ton of the public to matter
y which with singular hardness of
heart that public wss persistently over
looking. The public was engaged in
making enthusiastic remarks about the
trusts. The statements which have not
been stated with regard to the trusts
may be hardly worth stating; the
things that have not been said may
h hardly worth saying; if any accusa-
lions have not been hurled they were
probably not worth hurting. The fact
is. the people, after suffering from the
effects of a financial stringensy caused
by financial economic Encouragement,
became indignant at the trusts They
realized that trusts were interfering
not merely with big industries but with
little homes. They lost all patience
with trusts. and when Roosevelt said
he shared the popular idea with regard
to predatory wealth the people roared
with delight. But now comes Taft to
split a hair and say while there may
be unlawful trusts. as a matter Of fact
LTuSIS III B6IicIdl diO Gil
necessity. 1.-THE combination of capital
in large plants to manufacture goods
with the greatest economy is Just as
necessary as the assembling of the
parts of the machine to the economical
and more rapid manufacture of what
I'm old times was made by hand. The
government should not Interfere with
one more than with the other and when
such aggregations of capital are legiti-
mate and properly controlled they are
the natural results Of modern enter
prise and are beneficial to the public"
says Taft. We are rather more than
half way inclined to think the public is
also more or less beneficial to them.
When Judge Taft proves trusts can
get along without the public, we will
vote for him.
The Republican candidate is bewil-
dering. No man who was ever ION the
stump" or engaged In canvass for high
office had the distracting knack which
Judge Taft possesses of making all kinds
Of plausible differing statements with
regard to the same general propositions.
The mental condition which produces
this variety of expression may be
understood when we think how difficult
1t must be for candidate to try to
please both the people and the trusts.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30

TN regard to the career of the politi-
cal pariah, parasite and prestidig-
Il itateur called William Randolph
Hearst. who is now posing as some
body in the world of politics, and who
is bowling himself hoarse against peo-
pie who "change their political opin-
ions and affiliations" and who also
declares his loss of faith in political
'Ieaders" of the "old parties" let me
Is this the Hearst who was a Demo-
Graf. then a bolter, a labor union agi-
tator, a Democrat again and crazy to
run for the presidency as Democrat
in 1904, then a fusionist for the mayor
atty of New York city and for the gov
ernorship of New York state, then an
Independence League organizer of a
personally conducted party of "abso-
Lutte Independence" then keynote"
chairman who has not been in America
for a long time?
Is this the man who can choose a
pure party" from Totally corrupt old
parties" who can choose pure lead
ers' from what he calls corrupt lead
ers of old parties? Is this the man
who used his mothers money to run
papers to fight such pure, decent and
clean men as Stephen M. White, when
he was the Democratic candidate Tor
United States senator from Cai1fornla;
who fought the hon. James VI Ma
guire when candidate for governor, Till
his good mother told him he was
wrong?
Is this the immaculate Hearst who
fought our splendid Franklin X. Lane,
now honored by the nation, and who
fought our equally splendid Theodore
A. Bell, also now honored by the ma
ton, when they at different times ran
for our governor on the democratic
ticket, which the Hearst claimed to
support?
Is this the Hearst who printed Priest
Yorke's diatribe against Hon. James
G. Mcguire in huge letters on the
front page of his sheet, who did the
same with Roosevelt's ante-election
statement about the campaign money
which he got from corporations? Is
this the Hearst who has refrained from
criticising said statement ever since,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30
LAND AND PEOPLE

WHERE are millions of acres of va
cant land in the United States,
and yet from time to time many
people lack employment. Surely some
method might be devised by the gov
make a living in the cities might be
settled on the land. There are often
hungry people in the United States, and
there are always people who find it
difficult to obtain employment. While
ideal conditions might be impossible of
attainment, 1t will be realized, especial
ly by those who have visited the slums
of New York and Chicago, that there
was something reasonable behind the
merely sensational features Of DR.. Nc
Glynn's once famous "Anti-Poyerty
Society,"" which was a Quixotic but
well meant endeavor to relieve over
crowding in cities and persuade slum
jewellers to cultivate health, happiness
and small acreages of land. The ne
cessity for some means of social relief
Is more urgent today than it was in
McGlynn's time, for government re-
ports state that children who should be
at school are at work in mines, mills
and factories. In many cases children
went to work because parents could
not get work. Capable men were told
to go ''starve, OF hang themselves"
while their children were able to OBJ
tain employment And we do not need
to sit up and look superior and assure
ourselves that no matter what other
states may have done, child labor was
unknown in California. Unfortunately
there were examples of it in this state.
In California, however, child labor is
not such a slavery as 1t is in the east.
It is in the mining regions of Penn
sylvania and in the factory districts of
New England that the cry Of the chill
dren ascends to heaven. A distressing
condition has been produced by a lack
of intelligence, comprehension or APP
preciation on the part of the Republic
can administration; and it will take
years of good government before the
effects Of humanitarian, just and sane
economic policies become manifest. The
Republican party will not be continued
in power if the voters understand that
grievous social conditions result di-
rectly from Republican disregard Of
economic doctrines, and contemptuous
and scornful neglect of the first princi-
pies of Americanism, among which is
the great social-economic principle
which vitalized the nation, the princi-
pie which recognizes in popular free
government an organized method of
bringing the greatest good to the great
est number of citizens. If some method
is adopted which will take the denizens
of the crowded city slums to the mill
lions of unoccupied acres which might
be cultivated, the social problem will
be in fair way of being solved.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30
SAYS OF Mr.. sMooTE's PLAY
NOT CRICKET AND NO SCORE

LOS ANGELES, July 27.-[Editor
Herald: What are we to think of a
man who Gin a recent controversy
strenuously advocated the actual and
concrete cruelty of sentencing petty
criminals to long years of Giving
death" in jail, yet pretends to be
shocked and panied at the abstract and
impersonal levity of another in quot
ing mild joke on purely suppositi-
tious) person afflicted with the stutter-
ing habit, said joke being quoted for
its peculiarly apt application in an
argument on woman's legislative ca
pacity?
I venture to suggest that the protes-
tant is too obtuse to perceive that the
butt of the joke Gas here employed)
was not the lingually afflicted, but an
attitude of thought figuring in the
"suffragette" discussion. Or else-car-
ing nothing for the real questionable is
making it an occasion for an unfair
personal attack on the writer who
quoted the joke. In either case-be it
stratagem or stupidity-he flakes the
issue" That issue is not the unim-
peachable good taste Cor otherwise)
of the original joke-now, but casually
used as an illustration-but is q ques-
ton as to the truth of the charge that
women are intrincically and essentially
unfit for governmental functions.
The parrot story was quoted-as
am sure the rest of your readers under
stand-to point the moral In humor-
GUS way-of woman's right to retort
upon her male belittlers: IF we couldn't
with practice legislate as well as you
men, our capacity is poor indeed" and
,take comfort in the conviction that
1t is only one of your readers for whom
this spoon-meat explanation becomes
needful.
Similarly on previous occasions Mr..
Smoote has needed much calling black
to the mark" This time, l fancy, 1t
will be generally agreed that his play
is mot cricket" and that the umpire
will say, mo score" VAL STONE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30
ADVOCATES GOOD ROADS AND
ADOPTION OF THE SINGLE TAX

LOS ANGELES, July 29.-[Editor
Herald: In support of the cause of
our good roads and as a fitting supple
ment to the paper In yesterdays Let
ter Box by Mr.. Moriarty, submit the
following remarks:
Query: In speaking of land values,
what is meant by the term "unearned
increment" in our political economy ?
1t is that value which owners or
buyers of land acquire by the future
advance of price.
All citizens throughout the county,
I think. much prefer the town or city
lot to the farm acre, because of the
much higher rates of profit the invest
ment will yield. And in saying as
we do that this value is unearned we
mean exactly what we say. And then
the question arises: "To whom does
the increase rightly belong?"
This is value the assessor should
asses, and of which he should make
special mention. This is the one par
ticular thing to bear taxing. The
owner has obtained 1t, Furthermore,
entirely without labor or effort, with
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30
KISSING AND LAW

NHERE can no longer be any doubt
as to the status of an unsolicited
or unacquiesced-in kiss. Justice
Chambers yesterday sustained the
opinion of Guy W. Eddie, assistant
attorney, that kiss thus
bestowed is battery. From time i'm
memorial a kiss that was taken from
a fair lady without her leave was re-
garded as a stolen kiss. Therefore, to
kiss a girl who said Nay, nay, was a
species Of petty larceny. If Mr.. Eddie
had followed the old precedent, and
had ruled that what was formerly a
poetical theft in this prosaic age was
a literal theft, we would not have been
surprised; although after a picnic or
some frivolous diversion of that kind It
would have been little short of scan
dalous If all the girls had sworn out
warrants against the boys for oscula-
tory thievery, or If the boys who were
injured by the labial depredations of
the girls had sworn out warrants. But
to make a new precedent, and say an
unwilling kiss taken from a protesting
maiden is battery, may cause trouble.
AS this is a delicate matter, we must
be explicit. Herein lies the trouble.
Solomon himself could not always tell
when a girl is really unwilling to be
kissed, or when she is only making
believe.
And so, Mr.. Eddie and Justice Cham
bers, when a man kisses his wife
without giving her fair warning and
asking her permission, he is guilty Of
WIFE beating, Is he?
Dllnti fn,Al
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30
SAN PEDRO HARBOR

WITH great qualification friends of
wv San Pedro harbor and citizens
DESTROYS of the prosperity OF
Southern California learned yesterday
of the governmental decision which
will set the harbor project free from
the hindrances which interests"
sought to impose upon it. 1t is ap-
parently decreed by fate that the peo-
pie shall have the untrammeled use Of
the harbor for which they have fought
so long and so well.
The prosperity Of Southern California
will be greatly enhanced by a good
public harbor at San Pedro and by
Eastern commentators will have a
great deal to say about the usual good
luck" of Los Angeles which has now
given the city a magnificent harbor
and a splendid highway system. But
while we accept the gifts Of the gods
when they come, we may be pardoned
if we refuse to confuse good luck"
with good pluck" and 1t is owing to
good pluck Southern California has
won nearly everything which makes
it the most remarkable section of the
most remarkable state in the Union;
while Los Angeles, with its marvellous,
unprecedented and unparalleled spirit
of public progress and civic patriot
ism, not only has set an example to
every other city in the land, but has
set a pace which she herself must
follow, if she would ito her own self
be true" We therefore claim moth
ing more than what is indicated by
the march of events and the signs of
the times when we say the destiny of
Los Angeles Is not only to be the
greatest city of the Pacific coast but
the metropolis of the west. With San
Pedro harbor, good roads, the COM
pletion Of the interoceanic canal and
the progressiveness, grit and good
sense of the finest body of men. wo-
men and children in the world, nothing
can prevent our queenly city from full.
filing her magnificent destiny.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30

say the San Jose Mercury. The great
democracy of the United States are
rising up. and saying that we are done
with being slated; done with being
sold out to monopolies; done with hav-
ing to take program in the making OF
which we have had no part; and now
we shall vote as we please. Roosevelt
is the prophet of this new era. He has
kindled a spirit in the people which he
cannot himself control. Parties and
candidates must now stand on their
merits. The reign of the democracy
is again coming in. Men and parties
must appeal to the people. No longer
is caucus king. The people are king.
Hence, in this campaign more than in
many preceding ones, the appeal must
be to the people. The caucus is dis
credited; money has lost it's power; the
people have resumed their own. Con-
sequently we believe that both parties
in this campaign will do well to en-
pioy some of the old methods. Let
them go before the democracy. Do
not rely on the secret plans of the
machine, whether big or little. Rely
on the people. Not for many years has
the machine been SO nearly imbecile
as now. Roosevelt, Folk, La Toilette,
johnson, Hughes and many others won
victories by defying the machine. They
appealed to the people. The people are
sound. The machine is a rays I'M
sound, commonly rotten.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30

TT is WAR all along the line and
no quarter will be asked or given.
Il Every device Of trickery, the steal
ing of representation by the appoint
ment of delegates wherever possible
and the gerrymandering of districts
will be employed by the "organiza-
ton" The professionals and the pro-
gramers know that in straight fight
they would not have a chance on
earth; their only hope to win is by dis
honest practices. By such tactics they
have maintained control in the past,
but they cannot do it when the people
are aroused to sense of the situation,
so vividly and truthfully described by
Otis.
In San Francisco the league conf
IDENTIFY expects to win control of the
delegations from all the important dis
tricts. The thing can be done II all
the Republicans who want honest gov
eminent will turn out for the primary
and the result will be startling to peo-
pie who have been accustomed TO
watch the proceedings of past leg1sla-
lures. 1t has been the repeated history
of these bodies that, with rare excep-
tions, the San Francisco delegations
have been venal, ignorant and depaseo'
They have been a disgrace to this CITY.
A decent delegation from San Francisco
will be almost with precedent, ana the
Lincoln-Roo league means 20
send one of that character, says inc
San Francisco Call.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30
DECLARES STORY OF FROGS
AND CHICKS NOT NATURE FAKE

SANTA ANA, July -[Editor Her
adj: Some one has something to learn.
In yesterdays Herald / read a story
about frogs eating womans small
chicks in New York. 1t Is all right
but the head line wherein you speak or
the item as a mature fake. rms story
undoubtedly is true, for 1 have had
similar experience to Mrs. Ferguson's.
Some years ago in Central New York
was raising Aylesbury ducks near
large pond. I had made some pens eX-
tending down into the pond, and turned
the ducklings into them. 1t was not
long before noticed that my flock was
growing less. Fearing that the cats
were after them, l covered the pens
with fine chicken wire, but still the
flock decreased. What could be CATCH
ing them? Was it turtles? Bullheads?
Or what? Early one morning I was
watching near a pen, when / saw a
large bullfrog come scrambling up the
bank into the grass with q duckling in
his mouth, half swallowed. 1t was so
large that the frog could not swallow
1t all at once. 1 grabbed the frog and
pulled out the partly digested duck,
which was fully as large as the frog.
This frog, and there were many others
like him in the pond, would weigh fully
two pounds. They were a species of
very large frogs, not the common brook
frog. For some time afterward we had
fried frog legs for breakfast-and my
ducks were saved. Yours truly,
A. y. HAWLEY
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30

small expense to himself and witnou1
being deprived of the advantage AZ
cruing. Concerning this possession tne
people of this county must get WISE.
But what should the properly o"nol
be allowed to have that may pc ., eA !,
empted from taxation? "Manl1esty.
you will say, at is the improvements
he may create" 30
But the community has no neeu 70
tax these. A proper subject OF Ia ~,
ton is the value which the coninuni ~
has conferred upon the landed esea tS,.
The title in fee simple rests upon sne
right to take in taxes-an annual ie 81
tai or it's equivalent. The tenure a1a
mains If this is secured. Tne TAX ss'ie
is in proof of the fact.
Good roads in this county must ny pe
paid for without injustice to any. ms
landless class are exempt. Inc IaA -liiis
from all owners this rental In Iull VIII
cause a better regulation OF occupanc y :
All will buy land, and there VIII % no
cornering Of the market. Thus tne iaA
burden will come to rest upon mutt
tude of shoulders. Let us nave snese
two good things at once-tne sin ~
tax and those good ROADS; La uTST tue
advice of ONE WHO Is W1SH'
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30
A Doodle Dee Cdtec1iSn1
BY Anxious He0rStODhiLe

although everybody in America now
knows that said statement was a MON
strous falsehood made for political
purposes only?
Is this the same Hearst who runs
half a dozen papers on his mothers
money, or on Harriman's money, and
who never criticises anybody who is
opposed to the Democratic party? Is
this the Hearst who got mad because
Bryan would not nominate him for.
president in 1904? Is this the same
Hearst who has had fit ever since?
Is this Hearst the "wise and pure
politician" who twice supported Mayor
Schmitz and Abe Ruef and upervisor
Jim" Gallagher in San Francisco and
who in his political wisdom had those
worthless of his selection go to New
York to harangue the town in behalf
of the Hearst?
Is this Hearst the same wise and
self-appointed patriot who puts Mayor
Schmitz and Ruef and Gallagher and
Hearst and the Howard bloviator from
Alabama far above Senator White, and
Lane and Bell and Bryan of Nebraska?
Is this the Hearst who made q per-
sonal record in San Francisco which
has outlived even the fire and the
earthquake, and who is now able with
family assistance to run a political
party without principles and without
remorse?
els this the thing the Lord God made
and gave
To have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the
heavens for power;
To feel the passion of eternity?
Is this the dream he dreamed who
shaped the suns
And pillared the blue armament with
light?
Down all the stretch of hell to its
last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than
this
More tongued with censure of the
worlds blind greed
More filled with signs and portents
for the soul
More fraught with menace to the
universe"
EDWARD L. HUTCHINSON.