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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-14
OF WORLD wilde INTEREST
COSMOPOLITAN HONOLULU
BY FREDERIC J. HAskiN

ing schemes now exciting the minds of
Honolulu promoters is the utilization
OF the artistic temperament of the Jap
anese colony. The beautiful and ro-
mantle Nnuanu Is little stream flow
ing through a picturesque valley to
which 1t gives Its name.
Nnuanu valley was a battle ground
in the glorious days of the ancient Ha-
waiian war gods. 1t was sacred as the
site of native temples long before the
missionaries came, and now 1t Is mostly
given over to beautiful villas, golf links
and a fine automobile road. In this
picturesque and romantic valley 1t Is
proposed to transplant bit of old
Nippon. The stream looks as If 1t were
fed from the SHOWS of the sacred Full
yama, and the rocks throueh which 1t
scurries might be in Nikko. There VIII
be a Japanese tea house, temple, an
avenue of sacred lanterns, and a bevy
of geisha girls. 1t will no longer be
necessary for the tourist to go further
than Honolulu to Lave his fling at
Japan.
The common ordinary American from
Iowa Is apt to- make many mistakes In
sizing up natfonalities when he Is new
to Honolulu. The Chinese walters, mi
nus their queues, he thinks are Jap
anese; the Japanese newsboy from
whom he buys newsnaper Is 40
rean, the half -f1aWallan woman nc
sees on the street is Spaniard; ana
the Hawaiian rellboy, who is well edu-
Gated and polite, is a Samoan 1t Is
perplexing mixup of races and color.
The color line has not been oDllter-
ated, but 1t is drawn In a very, very
soft gray. There are people who are
immensely proud of the fact that they
belong to an old family-that Is, fam
lily which has been in Honolulu for two
or three generations and whose blood
is still ali white. But they do not adj
vertise this pride of white blood with
brass band, for they have some es-
Unable neighbors in the highest circles
of society whose blood is mixed. Let 1t
be said to the everlasting credit of
Honolulu that 1t has kept natural and
Unborn race prejudices well curbed. So
far as color is concerned, there is al
most no manifestation of prejudice as
against the yellow, the bronze or the
brown. But the black--that is another
story.
A teacher in the Honolulu public
school who has had charge of hundreds
of pupils of all races for many years
admitted that the only time there has
been any trouble among the children
on account of race prejudice was when
some American negro children came TO
school. A distinguished negro lawyer,
now attorney general of Liberia, made
great onslaught on Honolulu politics
and society a few years ago. Good
New England sentiment opposed him
and stern New England steel put him
to flight.
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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
HERALD'S LEADERSHIP

Os ANGELES HERALD beat all its
competitors yesterday in the number
-l4 of news items published, and proved
conclusively that prolixity, verbiage
and tediOusness are not necessary in a great
paper. 1t printed ZIG compact items In
fourteen pages, while its nearest rival, the
Times, needed twenty-four pages in which
to print the 215 items which constituted its
total. The Examiner in twenty pages
printed 176 items. Every day The Herald
is showing the advantages possessed by a
paper which makes its news clear, crisp and
clean.
All the news of Los Angeles and neigh
borhood is gathered for The Herald by
bright reporters who are experienced and
stationed at all the principal news centers
throughout the state and the United States,
and their work is supplemented by the COM
plete service of the Associated Press, the
greatest news gathering organization in the
world, which through the Los Angeles Her
aid brings to this city not only the news of
all civilization, but of all the world. In
addition to news The Herald has special
features of great interest, notably the let
ters of Frederic j. HasI1in, whose japanese
and oriental ews-gathering tour has been
a great success. Haskins correspondence is
highly appreciated by all our readers, es-
pecially by those who belong TO that class
to which we refer or appeal from time to
time In our editorial columns, composed of
"the people who look over the wall" The
Herald Is in every respect complete news
paper, the peer of any published in the
United States.
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THE WHIPPING POST

OS ANGELES HERALD has called
4 attention to the fact that, singular
~ to relate, the whipping post is a
feature of American civilization, and
that this relic of barbarism and of cru
city to men is still lingering in an age
when it is a punishable offense to whip
a dog severely. In Senator Coles me-
moirs, published recently, there is a
graphic description of whipping wit
messed by him.
This description is sufficient justifi-
cation for all who hold that under no
circumstances should whipping be re-
vived in California, and that it should
not to be tolerated in any other state
From time to time The Herald receives
whipping post as cure for brutality.
For instance, it is sometimes recon-
mended for wife beaters. But we ques-
ton whether a sober man ever beat his
wife or raised his hand to any woman.
A man guilty of such offenses is gem
orally brutalized by drink, and a state
which allows a man to brutalize himself
SnOulQ not treat MIN DTuldlly LOT max
ing a brute of himself. His crime de-
serves serious punishment, but not
punishment like whipping, which de-
grades the person who administers the
whipping and the community which au-
thorizes it. Following is the extract
from Senator Coles book:
MY distaste for criminal practice
was augmented by witnessing once, and
only once, the administering of cor
poral punishment. l am ashamed to
say that California-it was a long time
ago--authorized by law the whipping
post. For some offense, trifiing 1T may
have been, poor man, not young, was
given the sentence of a certain number
of blows, to be well laid on the bare
back. BY some chance saw the pun
ishment inflicted, or so much of 1t as l
could bear to witness 1t was to me
most horrible sight. A big, burly po-
liceman, whose name l have never for
gotten, was selected as executioner.
With some sort of cat-o'-nine- tails he
dealt blows that drew blood at every
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GOOD ROADS

TN HERE is much merit in the good
roads movement of the Automo-
u bile Dealers association and it is
to be hoped the missionary work to
be Systematically undertaken will re-
suit in general improvement of the
highways. Never was need for i'm
provement shown more strikingly than
on the day of the arrival of the fleet
at San Pedro, when ninety eight ma
chimes were laid up along the highway.
Bills for expenses incurred during that
drive to the sea are still pouring in.
The proposal is made that at least $50
machines should take part in a tour
of Southern California. The tour
would occupy a week. The investi-
gators would go by way of the coast
route to San Diego and return by way
of Riverside. Thus the roads to Or
ange, Riverside and San Bernardino
counties could be observed.
Los Angeles owners of automobiles
all desire better roads. C. D. Daggett,
chairman of the highway commission,
says he will welcome suggestions from
autoists. He asks those who have
ridden over the roads of the county
and wish to aid in molding a senti-
ment that will demand better high
ways to call and discuss matters with
the commissioners at any time. Not
only is it desirable that there should
be roads over which automobile tour
ing would he pleasant and inexDensive
but that the work, labor and costliness
Of farming should be decreased by
roads over which hauling would be
easy, Smooth highways on which the
farmer can haul his crops to market
in half the time now occupied would
be of great benefit and value to farm
ing and allied industries.
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OFFERS GOOD HOME TO CAT
WHICH EATS MANS CHICKS

HOLLYWOOD. May 13.-[Editor Her.
adj; With ghoulish glee, unblush-
ingly confess it, l read the pitiable
plant of Poultry Raiser" in this
mornings Herald. The depredations
of those cats in his poultry pens were
awful.
Ever try to raise garden Mr.. Ed
itor? Ever try to grow few pretty
posies jim your back yard? Ever have
neighbours chickens. turkeys and
other plumed pirates come over and
make the scene look like harvest
home in about twelve seconds? |
have. I've been there; so have lots of
other readers. have a neighbor who
keeps an assortment of poultry guar
anteed to dig miniature Panama canals
through flower beds at a rate calcu-
lated to make steam shovel hide it's
head in shame. If Poultry Raiser"
will trap that cat I'll take it off his
hands and promise to give it a good
home with rich picking of choice young
birds. A. SANDLOTTER.
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THE G. o. p.

NJ EARLY dozen states are enjoy
" ing Republican fractional fights.
One of the most curious results
OF the long continuance in power of
national government which was first
elected be 'ause it promised the people
would always have food, clothing
shelter and education, is the quarrel
someness which has disturbed it in the
latter days of its reign, and many
of its friends confess frankly. may
cost it power. We have no quarrel
With quarrelsome or quarrelng Re-
publicans. But we would like our
readers to understand plainly what
the Republicans are quarrelng about.
In every instance the cause of trouble
is the same. Office holding Repub-
leans have held on to their places
for such long time that Republicans
who are among the outs or awaiting
their turn begin to fear their turn will
never come and they will be among
the outs forever. There is nothing lofty,
ennobling, inspiring of elevating in the
Republican jangle. 1t is a vulgar row
over the loaves and fishes. Organiza-
ton Republicans find themselves con-
fronted by angry anti-organization Re-
publicans, among whom must be in
cluded many good citizens of lofty
principles, who detest the hoggery
which has become associated with the
name of the party of which they were
once proud and of which they would
like to be proud again.
The opportunity presented to Demo-
Gratis for the restoration of their party
to power is unequaled in modern
times. Sick and tired of rows among
Republicans of this or of that brand
or stripe, thousands of citizens will
gladly turn to old fashioned American
Democracy, in the hope it will revive
Americanism, send back two million
working children to school, guarantee
a regular square meal to the man
whose life is a square deal to his
family and his fellows, and, in the
scriptural phrase, provide things
honest"
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MAKES SUGGESTION TO THE
COMPLAINING POULTRY RAISER

LOS ANGELES. May 13.-[Editor
Herald: Allow me to suggest for the
benefit of chicken raise1-s who COM
plain of the depredations of stray cats
among their broods that this trouble
may be entirely done away with by
the purchase and proper use of few
yards of rabbit wire. This material is
both inexpensive and easily handled,
and in pens so covered the young chicks
are perfectly safe from the visits of
cats.
To talk of taxing cats as a remedy
is ridiculous. A licensed cat would
have no more respect for a young
chickens life than would an unlicensed
one. Also to restrict a cats liberty
would be to curtail it's usefulness as
an exterminator OF mice and other
pests.
If people will persist in making
barnyards out of city lots they owe it
to themselves at least to protect their
feathered property In this manner,
even though they have no respect for
the comfort of their neighbors, who
many times bear uncomplainingly- the
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HOLE AND DOUGHNUT

HTEIRD looking doughnuts like
w those turned out by the Repub
lican baker will never become
popular Instructions to look at the
doughnut and not the hole won't do
any good. The more one regards the
thin rim of doughnut the more i'm
mense seems the hole. BY gazing the
citizen will realize there is only
meager margin between the dOughnut
and sheer nothingness. And the par
able of the picture holds good in fact.
When Republicans invite the people of
the United States to look at the dough-
nut and not at the hole they merely
call attention to the miserably mean
and meager proportions of the dough-
nut and the greatness of the hole.
When the Democratic party is restored
to power it will set about turning out
a new batch of doughnuts of the old
fashioned, toothsome, satisfying. stom-
ach-staying kind, with plenty of good,
"doughnut." With a restor-
alton of Democratic prosperity there
viii be a new deal in doughnuts.
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HEARST ON THINKING

w ILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
w does not believe in hiding his
light under a bushel. He has not
a bushel on his premises and probably
does not know what bushe1 is. His
latest effort to explain himself is based
on a text he has taken from Nietzsche's
"Genealogy of Morals" Why Mr..
Hearst should have thought worth while
to look up the genealogy of morals we
are at loss to know, but he may
have believed they were of doubtful
origin or ancestry. 1t is evident from
his contribution to the literature of
morals that he has lost himself. He
confesses this. saying after Nietzsche:
I'VE are strangers to ourselves, we
perceivers-we ourselves to ourselves;
for this there is reason enough. We
have never sought for ourselves"
Now we know why the independence
league is. Now we have an explana-
ton of numerous other eccentricities.
Mr.. Hearst has lost himself. He does
to find himself, and even as the Budd-
hists believe that by numerous REIN
carnations a man at last reaches a
perfect state, Hearst by numerous
metamorphoses purposes to achieve
something. What that something may
be we cannot even guess. We must
apply to 1t Taft's answer. Mr.. Hearst
says: at may seem foolish to write
an editorial and publish a big picture
about thinking" 1t certainly does,
William and you have our sympathies.
Did 1t hurt much?
"If you have half an hour after you
have put down this page" he adds,
think for yourself of the work that
thought has done and how humbly 1t
has worked" We are thinking. brother
Thought imagined yellow journalism.
1t was a nightmare. the kind of
thought produced by organic irregu-
larities. Thought made a little man
with big fortune think he was big
man with his way to make in the world. |
Thought made a Tom Thumb aspire to
the rank once held by Abraham Lin
coin. Thought depicted a gilded youth !
on a pedestal alongside of pedestaled !
statues of Grant and Washington. |
Thought made him so conscious Of his |
superiority to everybody that he did
not hesitate to publish grotesque de-
famatory caricatures of President Nc
Kinley. When he was urged to desist
he retorted by gathering the worst and
vilest of the cartoons in a book and
selling it. Thought inspired him with
the belief he was greater than Nc
Kinley, and we verify believe thought
even suggested to him he was perform
ing some kind of public service and
showing up the president. 1--WE do not
any of us think enough" adds the most
garrulous and irresponsible daily chat
terbox in the United States. 1--WE talk,
gossip, listen. We think only for a
second at a time" We believe you,
William. we believe you; nay, we re-
alize it is a long time between your
thought seconds.
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POLITICAL JEALOUSY
ROUSES WRATH AMONG
FOREIGN RESIDENTS

There is still another feature of the
cosmopolitanism of Honolulu which Is
quite different from anything that Is
known in any of our cities on the main
land, not even excepting New York.
1t is an unpleasant feature, and there
fore one Is glad to say that it is slowly
but surely passing into the limbo of
forgotten things. This feature Is the
political jealousy of the British and
German residents of Honolulu who
have not yet recovered from their cha
grin because of American annexation.
Many of them have become naturalized
Americans, some of them never VIII.
The British in Honolulu is quick to
tell the visitor that it would have been
far better for Honolulu If the Stars
and Stripes had never been unfurled
over the island. At first he suggests
that the independence of the monarchy
was ideal, but If that could not be
maintained he Is quite sure that 1t
would have been better TO add Hawaii
to the domain of Britannia.
The German is pessimistic and dis
gruntled and he is still hopping mad
because the United States will not let
him import Chinese laborers under
contract. Until a few years ago the
Church of England had a strong fol-
lowing here which aimed always to
secure British political supremacy. The
work of this church has been taken
over by the American Protestant Epis-
copal church and many of the old
wounds caused by the battles between
the British and the missionary parties
have been healed. But this is a pass
ing affair, and 1t Is not uncommon to
see the children of British royalists
take violent issue with their parents
on the subject of Americanism and
politics of today.
Cosmopolitaism it is. metropolitan 1t
must be, Honolulu Is still American.
The American element Is dominant in
practically every walk of life. The
street railway system, the sewerage,
the clean streets. the schools, the poll
tics, nearly all that Is good and much
that is bad, is distinctvely American.
If all of the territory were as much
under American dominion and infiu-
ence as is Honolulu, there would be
no strife in the issue of the American
ization of the islands. The careful
property owner who displayed his
warning in so many languages, begin
ming with good English and ending
with American slang, paid his tribute
to cosmopolitan, poyglot Honolulu,
but he acknowledged that the Ameri-
can was the beginning and ending OF
it all.
Copyright. 1908, by Frederic J. Haskin)
TOmorrow-Hawaii Wants HOmeseekers.
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MARITIME CALIFORNIA

Thy the publication of the Members
n Annual of Los Angeles chamber
of commerce, interest in some
great public questions will be stimu-
lated. Every citizen should read the
complete report of Captain Amos A.
Fries address on San Pedro harbor. 1t
was a great speech worthy of a great
topic. He pointed out that with a total
appropriation Of eleven millions in thir-
ty years, or less >than $4,000 a year,
with free harbor, the commerce would
Undoubtedly grow in proportion to the
opportunities for commerce. The OPEN
ing up of Asia is not an iridescent
dream. The Japs will Il, be allowed to
establish a protectJrate over the orient
A Japanese protectorate would mean
European and American eXclusion-that
is to say, reversion to primitive Asiatic
conditions, with this added, that Japan
would dominate the walled-in portion
of the world exploit it at will, work it
"for all it was worth" Such a condi-
ton is unthinkable. The Pacific coast
needs a free Asia. Captain Fries said:
Notwithstanding the three Pacific
coast states have about SO 1-3 per cent
of the seacoast of the United States,
and 10 per cent of the land area,
they have received only about 5
per cent of all river and har-
Dor appropriations. If we are to get
the eleven millions in the next thirty
years, we must have a free harbor.
j. e., harbor in which every man can
do busin"-s upon the same terms with
every other man, and where the
charges, whether Wharfage dues, space
rentals or freight rates, are reason
able" The visit of the fleet called ma
eilities for anchorage at San Pedro.
There is safe harbor room for all the
argosies of all the world. Now while
we would not be grasping enough to de-
sire everything, we would certainly be
well pleased to see a fair proportion
of the maritime traffic of the world
taking advantage of San Pedro harbor.
This is a subject in which all good
citizens should take a keen, lively and
appreciative interest. Boost California.
The more it is praised at home and
abroad the better, and it deserves every
word of the praise. But in your joy
over rural, horticultural. agricultural
California and in your enthusiasm
over industrial California, do not for
get maritime California and the tre-
mendous opportunities for the illimit-
able development of this state by mer-
camille sea power.
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Los Angeles will send a'delegate to
the pan Anglican conference at st.
Pauls, London. The name pan Angli-
can is misleading, and will thwart to
some degree the good intentions of
those who favor a federation of the
nations using our language. The church
which Bishop Johnson represents is
Episcopal, not merely Anglican, though
it has a large Anglican branch. The
Scottish Episcopal church will not take
kindly to pan Anglican conference,
although over a pan Episcopal confer
ence it might be as enthusiastic as 1t
was over the pan Presbyterian.
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stroke. With short intervals between
the blows, to prolong the cruelty, the
policeman laid them on apparently with
all his might. Such lacerated back
from the shoulder blades down one
ought not to imagine; but the poor
fellow uttered not a cry or a groan
through it all. When let down he was
almost too weak to stand. The law had
been indicated, but who will vindicate
the laW?"
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JAPANESE ELEMENT
MOST AGGRESSIVE OF
ALL NON-EUROPEANS

The japanese element is the most
aggressive of any of the non-European
peoples in the city. The Chinese We're
content for years to remain within that
quarter of the town set apart for them,
but the japanese have resented such a
and have overlooked with
both shops and homes into all parts of
Honolulu. One of the tourist entertain
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California is contributing largely to
the eastern supply of beef as we'll as
vegetables and fruit. The food re-
sources of this state are not only
greater and more diversified than those
of any other state in the Union, but Of
any foreign country.
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A man who walked in his sleep and
fell off hotel fire escape is said to be
worth 100000 The relevancy of this
published fact to the published action
is not obvious. Must we infer that
rich men, like flies. ought to have pecu-
liar adhesive properties?
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Once in a while a man is taken to
court on the charge of neglecting to
send a child to the public school.
What punishment is severe enough for
the party and the interests responsible
for the fact that two million children
in the United States have been taken
away from school and put to work?
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fiance in seven Ian
guages. mot a pub
lie highway" That
is English. "Kapu."
is Hawaiian. MAO
passe aqui." That Is
Portuguese. And then
the hysteric paint
brush says the same
thing in Chinese,
Japanese and Ko-
rean, and finally It
turns to good old
American slang and
says, "Skidoo, 49,"
This property owner,
in his desire to keep
the wanderers off his
grass, has paid a
great tribute to the
cosmopolitanism of
Honolulu. Gre a t
American elite S
which have received
the enormous influx
of a European immi-
grafton are today
enormous congresses
of all nations, but it
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State Press Echoes
Obituary

I'm the man that's dead and buried
I'm the man you all are clear of;
I'm the man that's planted deep
I'm the man you never hear of.
What my name was doesn't matter.
Whether Green or Brown or Spratt,
Yet
1 was the merry widows husband,
And my monuments a hat.
Santa Ana Blade