Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14

ghosts, Professor g. Stanley Hall
Of Clark university, the, institu-
ton which recently offered a casn
prize for the capture or authentic
proof of the existence of a spook, has
started telepathists and investigators
generally by announcing that if ghosts
do exist they ar undoubtedly unhappy
what TUCK Finn would call poor
lot" After investigating hundreds of
cases, DR.. Hall is more than ever UNI
convinced of the existence of ghosts
Nand in an explanation of his attitude
which he contributes to Appleton's
magazine cites his reasons for his posi-
ton. mo ghost was ever seen to do
or say anything important" he says,
but all their reputed acts and words
are so trivial as to intimate that such
life as they lead must be boresome."
The president of the ghost-seeking
university, in answer to the assertions
Of persons who declare that they have
seen ghosts, makes the novel retort
that plenty of persons who have been
struck on the head have seen stars,
without the sparks being in any way
real. IT'LL comparatively recently,
says he, 1.-THE whole world believed that
the sun went around the earth, but
this consensus does not add an iota to
the probability that it ever did So"
Likewise" says the university pres
ident, sit is not logical to believe that
ghosts exist simply because some peo-
pie believe In them. The list of once
universal superstitions is long one,
but it does not prove anything. 1t is
hard to realize that our inmate
friends, especially if they died sudden
ly and afa- off, SO that we did not see
the corpse or the interment, are really
dead, and this has good deal to do
with cases of those supposed to return
to earth The chief result of years of
investigation, however leads DR.. Hall
to conclude that by their manifesto
tions even if such manifestations be
accepted ghosts must be a sorrowful
lot, a statement which shows the posi-
bilities for the formation of society
for the amelioration of the condition
of spooks.
"Few men have enjoyed for as many
years as Senator German did the conf
dence of his party as its leader, ana OF
the senate as a whole. Wise, moderate,
honest, he led his party with consum-
mate address. When we met in Wash
ington upon this serious business, l
found him quite satisfied that the pro-
posed bill (the Wilson bilD would in
jure some of our industries" says An
drew Carnegie in the December Cen
fury, which prints his article, my FIX
perience with and Views Upon the
Tariff" in which he sets forth state
ments, facts and manufacturing cond1-
tions that were peculiarly accessible 10
him as a great industrial leader, which
convince him that protective duties
should be abolished and a tariff for
revenue instituted. Continuing his re-
marks on the drafting of the Wilson
bill, Mr.. Carnegie says in part: After
several conferences he finally said to
me: can afford to oppose this bill
and beat the president, but / cannot
afford to oppose and be beaten by him.
Now if the Republican party will
stand firm for a measure that carries
great reductions of duties-remember
great reductions we must have, es-
pecially upon iron and STEEL can
carry q reasonable bill. Our people
have little confidence in the represen-
tatiVes of manufacturing interests. All
of these clamor against any measure
that touches their pockets but If you
will make out a schedule of reduc-
lions in duties which you assure us
can be made without injury to Amer
lean industries-for I don't want to
injure one of these any more than you
dol can carry enough of our people
with me who are good Americans and
feel as L do"
If were a national Santa Claus,
would give to the American people the
same opportunity to use their common
heritage. the land and the resources
of nature, as is now enjoyed by the
squirrels in our woodlands or the bees
in our meadows, where labor receives
the full product of it's toll, and thrift
with a bountiful harvest means plenty
for ALL says Tom L. Johnson in sym
postum, IF I Were a National Santa
Claus" in the December Delineator
l would establish just method of
taxation. Public improvements raise
land values only. The growth of popu-
lation increases them. Justice de-
mands that the public should enjoy the
values which the public has created.
A Inc "a q fhpTa9Ora
just and honest tax.
The taxation of land values would
raise wages to labors full product. 1t
would destroy monopoly, for monopoly
is rooted in the control OF land and the
resources of nature. Monopoly also
limits the output of society by the
title-deeds by which it encloses the
land, and abnormally increases the
prices of all commodities.
Wages are fixed by rent. By taxing
rent we would increase wages. BY tax
ing rent it would be impossible to hold
unused land. By destroying gambling
In land more land would be put to use.
The more land put to use the greater
will be the demand for labor. Then
Jobs will seek men instead of men seek
ing jobs
Unbiased investigation has proven
drunkenness. with it's attendant vice
and crime, to be the result of poverty,
rather than poverty the result of
drunkenness
To abolish poverty shorten the hours
of labor and raise the sun Of hope for
many who see nothing but revolution
ahead. We need an honest, simple,
scientific system of taxation to free our
land from monopoly. Liberty will do
the rest.
If in my power, this is the Christmas
gift 1 would give our people. But these
plain rights of the people cannot be
given; they will be taken as soon as
the public mind sees a little more clear
ly the truths Henry George set out in
Progress and Poverty"
The Mcclure company announces for
early publication the third and con-
Guiding volume of 1.-THE "reminiscences
of Carl Schurz." which will bring Mr..
Schurz's life down to it's close. Gem
eral Schurz died while this volume was
being written, leaving, however, behind
him a mass Of material intended to as
sist him in the completion of his task
He had carried his work down to the
middle of Grants administration, and
the material left was intrusted to a
well known and thoroughly competent
historian, Frederic Bancroft, who. with
the assistance Of William A. Dunntng,
has constructed out of it a concise and
rounded account of the latter part of
Mr.. Schurz's life, which was filed with
SO many important political activities