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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
FRUITS OF REPUBLI-
CANISM

N EXCLUSIVE dispatch to Re-
~ publican newspaper says that on
Wednesday night there was a
storm in New York which drove many
Of the men; women and children who
had been s1eeping in the parks and on
the streets to seek shelter in the
morgue. In this grewsome bedroom, side
by side with the unknown pauper dead,
were huddled two hundred men and
women. "many of the latter with babies
In their arms The storm showed
that Republican managers who say the
hard times In the east are over and
prosperity has returned are either too
sanguine and credulous OF guilty of
deliberate invention.
Never in the history of the United
States has such misery for such pro-
longed period been the lot visited upon
any citizens as that which has afflicted
New Workers who could not find work.
had no money and had families to sup
port. It is hardly credible that con-
ditions such as those described could
be allowed to exist in any civilized
country. One would think that COM
mon sense would suggest that at any
rate immigration should be suspended
entirely until some kind of social re-
adjustment has been made.
According to our Republican contem-
porary, the poor victims Of conditions
produced by Republican prosperity"
passed the night cheek by jowl with
death in many hideous shapes, but,
illustrating the old saying that misery
makes strange bedfellows, were content
to hob and mob with the king OF terrors
for the sake OF clinging to their own
starveling lives. Oh, pitifull
"The demands of the homeless men
and women were too great for the ca
pacity of the municipal lodging house.
During the height Of the storm they
applied for shelter in such numbers
that every chair and bench was taken
before the usual hour" And, finally,
there were many who "were willing to
sleep even under the roof of
morgue."
In the west we know nothing about
conditions like those described. But
in happy California we should not self
ishly forget our brothers and sisters,
the citizens of the United States, who
| by Republican prosperity" have been
deprived of everything but life, and in
order to save thai have been willing to
huddle among collins containing the
corpses of their wretched neighbors
--,ho tova 00ora hefora -
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
JOHN w. KERN
STOP THIEF

HyHE THIEF who has perpetrated a
robbery is usually the first to raise
n the cry of 'stop thief" with the
idea Of diverting the attention of people
from himself, the real cuiprit. and thus
making good his escape with the traits
of crime in his possession.
Mr.. w. r. Hearst. the founder and
supporter of the Independence league,
commonly known as the Doodle Dees,
gave an excellent illustration of this
trait Of evil human nature in recent
editorial in his papers in which he full
minated against Mr.. Bryan. The edi-
torial, among other Illuminating state
ments. says:
mo man can serve two masters.
whoever tries must serve one and de-
ceive the other; must make public pre-
tense to the people and private compact
with the trusts
Certainly the gentleman who makes
such vociferous pretense of having con-
stituted himself the peculiar champion
of the people through the medium of
his Doodle Dee organization on the one
hand. and is taking the money Of Mr..
Hartman, whom the president Of the
United States, on account of his pred
atory pursuit of wealth, has denounced
as an undesirable citizen, on the other,
should be able TO speak as an expert
upon the matter of serving two mas
ters.
We do not know in all our acquaint-
ance of an individual better capable of
descanting upon that particular text.
In this respect the owner of the Doodle
Dee party certainly speaks ''as one hay
ing experience"
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WOMEN NOT CONTENT TO
ABIDE BY ANCIENT LAWS

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27-[Editor
Herald] While many of your readers,
with earnest people everywhere, cherish
the hope that men and women will soon
work together as comrades for the gem
eral good and with equality of oppor-
tunity in every line, in comes Homo
and others to preserve an irritating
difference established by law.
AS authority Homo first cites the Mo
sale law. That was pronounced of
course (to quote canon law) because
adam was beguiled by Eve, not Eve
by Adam" But someway since the
study of geology and other modern
sciences has rent riffs in the good sto-
ries, the bad behavior of Eve does not
stagger the modern women as much as
it did her grandmother. The Mosaic
law countenanced many things that
modern society does not see Mt to fol-
low. Why follow this one? Some one
said of the Pilgrim fathers that before
leaving the Mayfiower they made
compact to be ruled by the laws of the
better ones. But 1t seems that time to
improve the code for women has not
yet come.
Homo's second bulwark OF authority
for woman Is the common law of Eng
land. Here we read just after the Nor
man conquest Green H. Eng. p, vol
1, o. 2S): "The runaway slave could be
logged, or, If a woman, burned to
death" What was fogging for man
was burning for a woman. Later, In
the humane days of Blackstone, man
had legal grant to whip his wife, but
with stick no bigger than his thumb.
To come to our own time (Kent, vol. IL,
D. 1881, "the husband is the guardian of
the wife-the law has given a reason
able superiority and control over her
person, and he may even put gentle
restraints upon her liberty" The hus-
band In the first instance being the ar
bitter Of what constituted the proper re-
his restraint she had no appeal except
to the judge-a politician elected by the
husbands vote.
Statute law has done much to relieve
woman's condition.; but remember no
law helpful to woman has ever been en-
acted without the work of grave woman
agitators who had to dare public opin-
ion, and the Adverse advice of many
Homos. in their efforts. But they per-
sisted until they changed public opin-
ion and got the better laws. There Is
much more to be done.
By the civil code of California--sec-
ton 172-the husband has the manage
ment and control of the community
property. He has the absolute power
to sell, mortgage or exchange 1t. This
though the wife may have made 1t by
her own efforts and toll unaided by
him, Again, the father of legitimate
minor child is entitled to its custody,
services and earnings (sec. 1877, civil
code). And by section 200 Of the same
code the mother is given the Same con-
troll over an illegitimate child. And
this has been the law through the ages.
II a child was welcome it was the fa-
theirs. If unwelcome it was the moth
ers.
Men may have had good Intentions.
But they have never been able to make
Just laws for women. They have al
ways failed to grasp the woman's side.
And only by the combined voices of
both men and women can we hope for
equity for both sexes. A. H. D.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
Canal VIII Be Completed
Within the Newt Few Years

tif' Of the contemporary isthmian
game. When the Canal Record began
printing the monthly records of the
shoVels It put the crews on their met
tie. Great are the uses Of printers ink.
The rapid progress of work on the
canal is testimony to the efficiency of
the American army and especially its
engineering and sanitary corps. Col.
Goethals and Col. Gorges are the men
of the hour. They are doing a magnih-
cent work, doing 1t well and doing it
more quickly than anybody could have
expected.
The Panama canal will be Roosevelt's
monument. Although not completed in
his administration, he gave the work its
impetus and organization. It is the
prime quality of great captain Of in
drstry that he knows how to select his
rlost efficient instruments, his qualified
working force. The men whom Roose--
Welt put in charge have never slipped
a cog from the start. Their work IS
evidence of what the government can
do In lines of work that we have been
accustomed to regard as peculiarly the
field for private enterprise.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
WOMAN FORCED TO MARRY AND
TO CATCH ANY MAN SHE CAN

SANTA MONICA. Aug. 25.-[Editor
Herald: w. B. @. is the first man
have ever known who upon the mem
ton of the vice OF men would not say
that is not fit subject for a woman
forgetting that it is the respectable
woman who is the real sufferer in the
end. 1t has been a law (thank good
ness, growing weaker as woman's
power grows stronger) that all women
must marry. She must catch that man
where she can. His morals are his
own, Hers? That's another story.
She is denied the right to seek the good
man. She must take what Is offered
her. Hence, many OF the "dance hall
acquaintance"
No, the dear girls are not looking for
evil. They are taught that man Is her
protector. There you have the secret
Of why the victims Of man are so easy
and so many.
What do the clergy DO? Preach
only to women and children.
NELLIE GARTxN
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
A CORKING TIME

HTE ARE indebted to Republican
w contemporary for the following
political doggerel, which was
first published in New York paper:
'Pve had perfectly corl1ing time
And I think have done the thing up
primel
I've bottled up business snug and tight;
I've bottled prosperity out Of sight;
I'VE bottled the courts as far as could;
I'VE bottled employers for their own
good;
i've. bottled up labor Of ev'ry grade;
I'VE bottled contentment and bottled
trade;
rye bottled the land Of the erstwhile
free.
And If I had time I'd bottle the sea;
I'VE bottled all wealth-for wealth is q
crime
Oh, I've had perfectly corking time!"
We do not know why Republican
paper should publish this verse, unless
it intends to take a slap at ooosevelt-
ism, and, unlike our Republican friend,
we refuse to believe that Rooseveltism
wae the cause of the financial and COM
mercial distress and the empty dinner
pals of the United States We admit,
however, that Republican interests
found it to their advantage to make
the most Of conditions which resulted
in a panic, but they were hoist by
their own petard, for it was not a
Roosevelt panic. but a Republican
panic, produced partly by scheming un-
American interests, partly by circum-
stances OF which they took advantage.
The rhyme adds force to the argument
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29

A LTHOUGH there has been much
n outcry from certain banking In
"A terests against the Bryan policy
of guaranteeing deposits through the
imposition of q slight tax upon tine
total amount of deposits, the plan has
worked well in Oklahoma, where 1t mas
been in operation since last FEBRUARY.
A statement issued by the banking
board of the new state at the close OF
June shows that while the unsecured
banks, all national, had lost deposits
to the extent Of 100000. those natlonal
banks which had come under the ope-
ration of the law had gained In deposlts
to the extent of $645,Oo0. And the state
banks, all of which were secured, re-
ported total net increase In deposits
of $3,82S,000.
TAFT has attacked this policy, which
constitutes one of the planks OF the
national Democratic platform, but II
certainly wins favor from the pubic
and is destined to grow in popularity
Admitting that 1t imposes a slight pur-
den upon the banking business gen.
orally, the tax required is so very small
as to be virtually inappreciable. And
the benefits far more than compensate
for the cost, not alone to depositors
but to the banks as well, which are
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29

In connection with the Festival Of
the Sea at Long Beach next week. a
poultry show and cat exhibition will
be held. Many special features will
make the big festival especially attract
i've and interesting It's managers have
been most painstaking and conscien-
tious in their preparations, and the
spectators will certainly "get their
moneys worth" We wish success. un-
qualified and abundant. to Long Beach
Festival of the Sea,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29

TIME news from Panama is that the
canal will probably be finished IN
Il 1912. A dozen years ago engineers
were plenty who held that the success
full completion of the work was prac-
tically impossible. 1t may be tnat N
the condition of engineering, skill ana
knowledge of that period their judy
ment was well founded in the sense
that the cost with appliances then IN
use would have been prohibitlve. But
they had not reckoned with the Amer
lean steam shovel of recent eVolutlon'
This monster of hideous mien eats up
mountains, makes the way straight ana
obliterates the tropical morass, says the
San Francisco Call. :,
It is, perhaps, unexpected tnat the
use of this instrument, this gruoby
sapper, should have become Q. form OF
sport, but so it has proved on the
sWeaty isthmus. The shovel crews are
striving for the mastery and record.
Which of them shall make the dirt ny
in greatest volume, which shall tear on
the biggest piece ?--these accomplish
ments are what society calls the mo
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29

Western Union Telegraph company
has scored a point by receiving judi
cial decision supporting 1t in its con-
tention that its franchise in Los Ange-
les was granted by the federal govern
ment and Is not subject to taxation by
county or city. We must continue to
believe, however, that the Gould cor
poration transacts a great deaf Of BUSH
ness In the city and county limits.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
The State Press
aIobular

The San Francisco Globeg which
seems to believe it has been especially
created to shield the grafters, says that
q newspaper should not tell lawyer
how to try his case. And then, with
much inconsistence, 1t makes a sorry
attempt to belittle the respectable and
law-abiding citizens Of San Francisco
for trying to put Ruef and Schmitz
and their ilk where they belong-be-
hind the prison bars.-San Bernardino
Index.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
Southern Advice to Negroes

would be to vote for Bryan and Kern
solidly. This would assure their cleo
ton by an overwhelming majority in
the electoral college, for It would give
them every doubtful state. Such
result would benefit the whole country
in the improved conditions that would
follow, and 1t would benefit the negroes
in that the Republicans could no long
err count on the negro vote as certain
asset.
VIII the negroes be wise enough to
take this advice?-Augusta Herald.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29

Bishop Peter verdaguer Of Browns
Vile, Tex, says Mexico will some day
become a part of the United States.
Many citizens of Los Angeles, to whom
the name +Bishop Verdaguer" will be
meaningless, will instantly recognize
Father Peter of the Plaza church, who
is none other than the Texas bishop.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29

From the number OF signatures all
ready obtained 1t is evident the city
council will have to call special char
ter amendment election, willy-nilly.
City hall civic patriotism produced by
coercion is better than none at all
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
Sorrows of Taft

Taft Is playing for the Hughes vote,
Odell, Pity the sorrows of fat man
in hot weather who must play golf lest
he say something that will lose him
votes "Mr. Taft will make no
speeches." announces Chairman Hitch-
cock. Did he say little too much In
his letter of acceptance ?-Jacksonville
Times Union.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
Human Nature

The fact that race riots have broken
out with such deadly results in north
ern state proves that human nature is
everywhere the same. Northern resi-
dents will pursue the same action to-
ward negroes as southerners under the
same circumstances, and jewellers along
the Atlantic would hold the same views
in regard to the Asiatics as those who
live on the Pacific coast, were the con-
ditions similar.--Santa Paula Chron-
4ol
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29

Chamber of commerce lectures are
always interesting. We bespeak a
large attendance for the new series of
illustrated talks on various sections of
California and the Hawaiian islands,
arranged by Secretary Frank Virgins.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29

A local Democratic speaker says 1--WE
must poll the workingman's vote In
order to win" Since both organized
and unorganized labor will support
Bryan and vote the Democratic ticket,
the conditions for winning will be
filled.
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RepubIIcan Doodle

The announcement is made that the
Republican national committee is go
ing to send money into Vermont, for
tise in the state election there, which
is less than a month away. If the Re-
publican managers find 1t necessary to
send money into a state SO over
whelmingly Republican that the DEM
ocratic minority is held to be a neg
ligible quantity, how much money will
they have to send into the state OF
Maine, where an aggressive Demo-
cracy is pushing the fight all along the
line ?-PortlanG (Me.) Arr rs.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
Old Aoe Pension

The new British old-age pension Is a
Enthusiastically British example of
doing a Socialistic thing in an unso-
cialistic way. Your true Britisher is
never logical. That lie perhaps his chief
political virtue. II q thing needs to be
done, no mere theory will prevent him
doing it.-Fresno Republican.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
Political Points
Sherman's DerIslon

Mr.. Sherman derides Mr.. Bryan's
declaration that the issue this year is
"Shall the people ruler" 1t was to be
expected that Sherman would say
me, too" to every rhrase of Mr..
Taft's speech of acceptance. 1t must
have been little difficult for him to
subscribe to the supplementary planks
to the Chicago platform which were
written into 1t by Mr.. Taft; but the
New Yorker took his medicine like a
man and Endorsed Taft in everything
he said.--Salt Lake Herald.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
Get Il in Neck

Mr.. Taft urges quicker justice for
the poor, but as a rule thew get theirs
much quicker than the folks who can
afford to hire lawyers.-Danville Ill.)
Commercial News.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29

Good government clubs are adopting
resolutions condemning the city coun-
ellis proposed reduction Of laborers
wages from $2.25 to 50 per day. Surely
the laborer - worthy Of his hire" Is
text wen worth remembcrirE-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29

that the business and other interests
of the country are not safe in the
hands of the Republican party.
Democracy must be returned to
power. The people must rule.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
We Don't Believe II

A majority OF the voters of the coun-
try, on learning that the Republican
nominee is a Unitarian, are likely to
saw. "All right, Mr.. Taft; we'll go with
you."-Providence Journal.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
Taft HuntIna Votes

Candidate Taft fears that his weight
has not been reduced by his golf play
ing. Some ole will be sure to charge
him with seeking to retain the fat
mems vote.-Chicago Record-Herald.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29

Boni de Castellane is looking for an
other American wife. Somebody should
chain that fellow up. He is getting
beyond the Joke point.
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The Public Letter Box

publication must be
should not exceed 800 words
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-29
VIII Seek Rest

Judge Taft will probably feel like
crawling into one of those holes after
elections--BuffalQ Times
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-05-22

The recent convention of govern.
ors which Teddy got up at Wash
ington to boost his forest reserve and
other schemes Of Capitalization Oh
power did not amount to very much
in spite of all the hue and cry. The
governors had nice time but were
wary about endorsing the extrava-
giant schemes of the president ex-
cept in very indefinite terms. News
Cha npion was especially pleased
with the remarks Of Mr.. Bryan who
had been invited. While expressing
agreement with the general idea Of
conserving the natural Resources.
And indeed what American is not
he stated that he was very Jealous OF
the rights of the states in these mat
ters and that he thought taking the
duty off OF wood, coal and iron was
the first and most important step in
conserving our own supply. Mr..
Bryan is essentially opposed to fur
ther extension of the movement Of
the federal government to usurp
state authority and go INTO business
oil selling its grass, coal, timber.
water power and what not.
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-05-22
ItlfrH0Nt NJ ~.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF GuNNIsoN COUNT,

After all the hullabaluo in Denver
Speer was elected by something over
2Oo0 Most of his ticket was defeat
ed. As many thousand Evans re-
publicans voted for him, it is gener-
ally supposed that he is under con-
tract to turn the city over to that
party for Mcdonald and the supreme
court judges this fall and defeat the
democratic state ticket as he did in
1904 and 1906. When will the
democracy of Colorado get done
with both these irreconcilable Denver
factions and select leaders from the
true blue democracy. When they
do they will win and never until
then.
Gunnison news-champion., 1908-05-22
UnS CaalluDs ~

The sss.skuaea are already sestsRs
plSas 90 .a~s for = bsxGer ecsebr.-
tson than ever tss- eoasng Castle
a.e1s hay. Mts,e oii.c.-l scsIoa j.
desSsea sntai after the annual ssssei-
snS June Cab. nearly everyone .,em-
~ sasss II sspo1; I se.isy and Ned
ne~dsy. july Ia and IL Tor the dates
Tins wsll t,e tIse week tollox.n9 the
.stsouai convention An lhsnver The
tfty to one hundEed Thousand vlsa-
tors who vail cSme ~ that event,
viii then he ready - spread them
selves over the state aad Gannssg IN
should do Its share toward enter
tanning them and snv,tsa2 them -
see wbai We have b. offer IN the way
Of gOod country
oar samner resorts are much an
,eres,ed IN 9cttsn9 excsrsions from
beaver 10 the CattIemea l,av. fol
lowing wl.ieh Ut NAV reasonably he
expected that great nuu.ber will
stop for DAYS and fish. Excursions
can probably be arranged over both
G. a ;. and Hio Granae.
News-Champ.on has heard some
talk II grand hay palace aud other
novel features % make this Cattle
mems Dav the bigges, and best ever
held
Let us get buay and boost the
plans along. GunnIsou merchants
can materially help by Offering
special prizes Tor certain events and
exhibits