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Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-04
RIVERSIDE ROMANCE

T N Riverside a pretty little runaway
bride is suing her parents for pos
n session of personal belongings
they are Withholding from her. The
girl had to elope in order to get her
husband and now she wants a novel
called For Loves Sake" another
entitled "St Elmo" a gilded horse
shoe, a doll trunk covered with
tin and painted brown. green doll
dresser and contents. high school
books, dumb bells, photographs and
canary bird. How cruel are the
parents" says an old song. But, after
all, the parents have lost their daugh-
ter.
The sweet-faced little grille who
sat with big eyes absorbing the con-
tents of For Loves Sake and
"St. Elmo" has gone out of their lives.
For Loves Sake" That is probably
why she ran away. Parents who al
low their daughters to read stories
about the beautiful self sacrifice of
devoted heroines who shin down a
clothesline and get up on saddles
with Young Lochinvars must take the
consequences. When a real Young
Lochinvar" comes a-whistling and
singing the girl will suddenly forget
the doll trunk and the doll dresser
and the high school books, and even
the canary bird. But, by and by, she
will remember them ALL She won't
want to leave Young Lochinvar-he is
hers forever and a day, and she is
Mrs. Young Lochinvar-but she will
want all the little bits of her old life
so that she may include them in the
wonderful mosaic of her new life,
which will be incomplete without
them, just as her old life was incom-
plete without Young Lochinvar.
Confound those silly, sentimental
books and songs, anyway What fan
tastic ideas they put into girls head
especially the Scotch songs, that tell
her about Young Lochinvar and bid
her expect him, and ask her why weeps
she by the tide and command her to
follow the Highland laddie over the
hills and far away, even though she
have to forsake father and mother and
books and dolls and canary. But a
lawsuit is poor sequel to a pretty
story, and we respectfully suggest that
this one should be ended with kisses
and hugs all round, while the orchestra
plays "Home, Sweet Home"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-04
FOOD FOR MINDS

TN q magazine article published re-
Gently Rev. William P. Mckenzie
\ wrote: Are men not interested in
what is normal and beneficial? AS
matter of fact they are, only this in
terest has not been appealed to nor
trusted sufficiently by the newspapers,
but the time has come when mems
minds do not respond to the stimulus
Of the sensational as once they seemed
to do.
"The human mind requires food, and
the food should be wholesome. To feed
the body on piquant sauces and relishes
and sweetmeats alone would result in
physical inefficiency. The craving would
come for plain and common food. So
does the overstimulated mind revolt
from sensationalism, and desire the rest
given by consideration of normal con-
ditions.
''If we mistake not, the revolt has
already begun. People are honestly
tired of incessant appeals to their emo
tions of fear, horror amazement. They
would like wholesome stimulus to be
daily given them by the newspaper of
their choice. There is an uplifting in
f1uence which comes from every presen-
tation of the ideal. When some man
has made the ideal practical, the news
thereof may well be made known uni
versally, for in emulation there is a fine
pleasure; also, the story OF successful
goodness enables ten thousand strug-
glers to pluck up their courage. 1t
makes them work with hope. There
seems to be therefore a great field for
a paper devoted to exploitation of posi-
tive goodness, useruiness and success,
one which will not consider the abb
normal to be news, but which will
minister to mans legitimate interest in
the good that men TO-"
To be a newspaper of this kind has
been and Is the aim of Los Angeles
Herald. We give all the news of all
the world, but we see no reason why
evil tidings should be preferred over
good. We see no reason why this
or any newspaper should make the most
of the worst and the least of the best.
For our part, we make the most of the
best and the least of the worst, as our
readers we'll know, and that is why
the circulation of Los Angeles Herald
has been growing steadily, and will
continue to grow,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-04
HINDOO CRITIC

n K. SINGHA, who is said to be
X high caste" Sikh, has expressed
D' disapproval of American women.
Why? Here is what he is reported to
have said: Everything is free in your
country, and especially the women have
the greatest social privileges. Our wo-
men, down trodden as they are, exer-
else more influence over us than do the
American women over their husbands.
Here the women are seeking new ways
of charging their liberties, and your
men are so generous, SO kind, that
nothing is too good for your women,
who are the most over-indulged, petted
and pampered of any women have
met in my trip around the world"
Mr.. Singha, who is a remarkably
good looking, intelligent, refined, we'll
educated specimen of his "down trod-
den race" might find in the social con-
dition of the women of his country
something distinctly approaching logr
ical and reasonable explanation of the
''down troddenness" of his race. Peo-
Pile who practically enslave women,
who for years denied-and perhaps, If
the truth were known, still deny-that
women have souls, cannot expect to
rival the triumphant, liberty loving,
mountaineering Caucasian, whether his
habitat be the British isles or the broad
United States. If the Hindus wish TO
be free-that is to say, if they wish to
be allowed to govern their own coun-
try and at the same time to be able to
prevent it from being annexed piece
meal by Japan, China or Russia, or
amicably "partitioned" by all three, it
must free the women. American mis-
sion workers as we'll as British mission
workers unite in condemning the zena-
ma system, the segregation, enslave-
ment, suppression and repression of the
mothers and wives of the Hindus. If
Britain were to let go her hold the
word "inferno" would only mildly de-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-04
Woes OF San Francisco That
Are Caused BY Corporations

avoided by compelling corporations
seeking injunctions to fund excess pay
ments with the court, as Judge Van
Fleet has somewhat tardily done, and
as Judge Harrington did i'll the water
suit. But the rate payers are not out
of the woods yet and all the ingenuity
of corporation lawyers will still be ap-
piled to defeat regulation of their
clients by the government, federal,
state or municipal. For one reason or
another they usually have had their
way in court 1t is a bad and dan
gerous condition.
Popular government, as applied to
the regulation of corporations, has
been, with the help of the courts, made
a practical failure.
No criticism of the courts is offered
here. Doubtless their action accords
with the law, but the emphatic fact is
that the condition they have created
is impossible. They have brought the
county to a dangerous impasse.
Now, if the courts can not eXtricate
the country from this dangerous morass
of obstructive litigation, the American
people, always practical, will find some
other remedy. That may be municipal
or state ownership, or it may be some-
thing else, but it is obvious that exist
ing conditions of corporation outlawry,
fostered by the courts and permitted to
continue for years, can not be suffered
by a elf-governing people. 1t is the
monstrous fact that the oeople's gov
ernment in San Francisco has been
suspended for six years past by court
orders in relation to water rates, and
not one of the suits involved has come
to trial yet The patience of the people
has been extraordinary.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-04

FUDGE VAN FLEETS modification
of the injunction in favor of the
y gas company puts the order On a
more reasonable basis and affords con-
sumers a chance to recover overcharges
in case it shall be decided that the
rate fixed by the board of supervisors
is Just, says the San Francisco Call.
The money collected in e--cess of IS
cents per 1000 feet of gas during the
months when the original order was
in force may be regarded as perma-
nently absorbed by the corporation, no
matter how the ultimate ruling may
go. The loss to consumers is not tech
nically the sort of irreparable injury
that makes the basis, real or supposed,
Of restraining orders; but, in practice,
1t amounts to the same thing, and the
light hearted way in which courts have
in the past ignored it is responsible,
in large measure, for the popular re-
sentiment due to abuse of the inJunc-
ton powers. 1t was the practice to
give public rights the worst of it on
the least excuse. The mere sayso of
a corporation affidavit man was sutt1-
cient basis for an order suspending
state and municipal laws passed after
months of deliberation and investiga-
ton, and the public was left practically
without protection against exactions
enforced under suspension of law.
Nothing has so much promoted and ag-
gravated the laws delay as this vicious
practice By it's use the water laws OF
San Francisco have been under sus-
pension for six years.
Much of this delay could have been
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-04
NeW Constitutions Are NOW
Being Adopted by old Lands

n HERE is a manifest stirring of the
depths, and those who sit in hign
A places find themselves compelled
to heed. Why do the heather rage?
Why are the oppressed peoples the
world over demanding constitutional
government, by which they mean, for
the most part parliamentary rule?
In Persia, in Russia, in Turkey and
now in China there are brand new con-
stitutions, all making greater or less
pretensions in the way of granting
popular rights. 1t may or may not
be encouraging to find that the insti-
tuition of these reforms has been at
tended in one country after another
by bloody riots, says the San Fran
cisco Ca1.
China is the latest country to join
the constitutional procession. but the
Chinese evolution Of parliamentary
government has not as yet advanced
to the riotous stage. Possibly even the
change may come about in a more
practical way than the road the Turks,
the Russians and the Persians fol-
lowed.
1t is a strange document-this Chi
nese constitution-to the American
matter Of fact eye. The preamble be-
comes almost poetical Every reason
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-04

in the world that can be invented in
favor of popular government is includ.
ed, except the true ground that jus
tiee to the people demands it. We
quote in translation:
I'VE beg, as the condition of the
country is perilous and the hearts of
the people are uneasy-trouble within
and calamity from without, danger
threatening, and no parliament at the
side to investigate matters-that urg
ent measures may be taken to over
come half-heartedness and procrasti-
nation, that there may be peace above
and completion below.
1--WE have, therefore, laid down the
general principles of the constitution
and the program for the work of get
ting everything in readiness in nine
years. These may not be changed In
the least Particular.
"There will be bound1ess daily inn
provement. May the 'silken sounds
descend to inform the empire and fix
the road for ten thousand years, com
forting the hopes of the myriads who
long for peace"
1t is leisurely reform that the en-
peror and empress dowager offer to
patient people. 1t will take altogether
forty-two years to complete the ad-
ministrative changes. 1t is reform on
the installment plan, and it is intro
duced by this fine sentiment that tina
emperor and the dowager take the
measure of heaven and earth as their
measure and the heart of the people as
their heart"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-04
THE ELECTION

nETURNS indicate the election of
X, Mr.. Taft We congratulate Pres
~ ident Roosevelt and him on their
success. We hope President Taft will
have a prosperous and successful ad-
ministration and that permanent pros
perity may be restored to the United
States. We believe in the principles
represented by Mr.. Bryan, in the
Americanism of which he is an ardent
advocate. Many of Mr.. Bryan's prin-
ciples have been regarded with favor
by the Republicans. and he has had
and will continue to have great inf1u-
ence upon the life and thought of the
nation.
While our congratulation of the Re-
publican party and of Mr.. Taft is sin
cere and, as good Americans, we wish
them well, it is impossible for
close students of national affairs to
avoid the conclusion that at this cleo
tion the teacher has been rejected and
the political nominee of a convention
composed of federal officeholders ac-
cepted. Since the majority of the
people have ratified the choice of the
officeholders' convention and indorsed
Mr.. Roosevelt's action in naming his
successor, it is the part Of good Amer
leans to accept the decision In good
spirits, with good grace and with
cheerful hearts. We hope President
Taft will have a happy and successful
administration, and that when he at
tempts to enforce the teachings of Mr..
Bryan and put Organism in practice
he will not be overawed or browbeaten
by the trusts. the money power or the
enemies of the republic.
Mr.. Bryan is today the greatest liv-
ing American. No leader of the Eng
lish speaking world, excepting Glad
stone, has had a personal popularity
like his, which survived and survives
defeat. The influence and the teach
ings of Mr.. Bryan, which are some
times comprised in the word Bryan
ism, have done more to advance purity
in politics, to clear the air and enforce
commerce and in international rela-
tions, righteousness exalteth a nation,
than the influence or the teachings of
any other man of modern times. He has
done more than any other citizen to
advance the cause of reform in politics,
and so statesmanlike, as well as ethi-
cally so sound are his teachings that
many of his suggestions have been ac-
cepted eagerly by his opponents, who |
have not hesitated to adopt issues pro-
posed by him and at the same time, |
with characteristic inconsistency, have
committed to corporation tools the task
of carrying out and enforcing the teach
ings of the great Democratic leader, |
the greatest American Of modern
t--.os.
The Americanism and Democracy |
represented by Mr.. Bryan ave been
rejected, but not defeated. The mighty
truth which is the inspiring force Of all
Mr.. Bryan's policies must prevail.
To the first principles of American
ism this nation must return, renewing |
the vows of it's youth, If it is to con-
tinue to hold its place in the vanguard
of civilization.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-04
POSITION OF
SPENCER TOWARD SOCIALISM

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2S.-[Editor
Herald: Your remarkably liberal Let
ter Box deserves commendation. The
matter appearing under this head of
late would almost supply an educa-
ton. especially in the field of sociology
and economies.
But one of your correspondents
claims that the Spencerian exposition
of cooperation Is "as clear as mud
to him. He quotes Spencer as follows:
"The system of voluntary cooperation
is that by which, in civilized societies,
Industry is now carried on" This is
only partly true. An army is not an
Industry, but it is carried on by COM
pulsory cooperation. And so, like
wise. is the street car, gas or lighting
and water industries in many COM
munities. Even where the munich
pality does not operate them, 1t inter-
feres by granting franchises or special
privileges to some one corporation.
We are therefore subject to compul-
sion in the matter Of cooperation with
them.
This is the very origin of whatever
evil we find in the franchise system, or
the system of municipal ownership, or
of national ownership.
Socialism proposes simply to coalesce
nations and make universal ownership
in cooperative commonwealth the
rule. This, will only aggravate the
evil. All cooperation will thereafter
be on a compulsory basis, and it can
be made endurable only by injecting
opportunity for volunteering. But this
bolster is foreign to the very nature
of Socialism.
Under our present semi-socialistic
system the workers still have the lib
erty to work where they will, or leave.
Socialism does not propose to maintain
such liberty. Each man must take
his place in the army of industry.
Their philosophy denies the right of
the individual to his liberty as against
society.
Probably, too, the Spencerian prin-
ciple of equal freedom" as a solu-
tion of the "social problem Is "as
clear as mud' to unphilosophic think
ers. But let them intelligently deny it!
CASSIuS ". COOK
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-04
PROSPERITY WEEK

PREPARATIONS for Prosperity
Week will now be made with re-
n doubled energy. The public mind
is no longer distracted by big po-
litical issue. The deck is cleared for
action. It is a characteristic of the
loyal and devoted citizens of California
that no political differences are ever
allowed to interfere with their work in
behalf of this great western state, the
Empress of the Pacific. And of all
portions of the Pacific shore held by
California, that which is ruled by the
Queen of the South is the fairest and
the most promising.
In Los Angeles art, commerce and in
dustry are united with education to
make one of the foremost communities
in the world in intelligence and
achievement. What must be sedulously
cultivated, in order to advance Cali
fornia, to make her greater and great
er, better and better. is team work. In
union there is strength, and in har-
monious union of effort there is power.
Prosperity week should be distinguished
by the zeal of citizens, by a manifes-
tation Of the spirit of each for all and
ali for each. All citizens Of Los An
geles have a community of interest.
BY recognizing this fact. and by es-
tablishing a community of purpose,
great results may be obtained. Team
work "nlade" the Los Angeles of ear
lier days. AS a result Of team work the
chamber of commerce was established.
1t came into existence with the view
of organizing and directing effort and
preventing waste of energy. 1t has
been the dynamo of Los Angeles.
Everything undertaken by the cham
Der OF commerce has resulted in bene-
fit for the city. In this respect, as in
others, it has a marvellous record. We
hope Prosperity Week will outshine
even the most brilliant previous
achievements Of the chamber of COM
merce or other bodies engaged in the
promotion OF the prosperity Of Los An
geles. Now let's forget politics for
awhile, and "rest up" from the strain
OF the campaign by working for the
success Of Prosperity Week
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-04
oVER-PRoDUcTIoN ARGUMENT
MEANS FOoL-KlLLER NEEDED

LOS ANGELES, Oct. S1.-[Editor
Herald: A cablegram from London in
forms us that hundreds of thousands
are on the verge of starvation through
lack of work." and another that "some
of the factories have shut down and
others run with only part of the force"
AT times like these, when factories
close because their products cannot
be sold, our statesmen tell us the panic
is caused by oVerproduction. But how
can it be that we have produced too
much when there are so many who
have not enough?
Those who have studied economies
know the panic is caused by under
consumption; that those whose labor
produces the vast amount of wealth
thrown on the market are unable TO
buy and consequently unable to use
it,; and the reason for that is that their
wages are not equal to the values they
produce.
I hope we shall become intelligent
enough to have a system under which
the people will not suffer from so
called overproduction or under-con-
sumption.
Suppose a man from Mars were to
come here at such a time and ask why
these thousands of workers were going
hungry and poorly clad. Have you a
famine in this country?" he would ask.
"God bless you, no! On the contrary,
all this hunger and misery is caused
by overproduction. Oh, yes, sir that
must be the cause, because all our
papers and statesmen say So"
/ am sure the man from Mars would
say: "Well, we'll! So you go hungry
because you have too much to eat, and
cold and naked because you have too
many clothes? 1t is evident that one
great need of this country is an able
bodied fool killer
FRANK w. WILDER.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-04
HEARST'S INSULT
WI HEN the smoke of the friendly
wv battle has rolled away, and Re-
nuhliczD has sbaIxen hands with

WI HEN the smoke of the friendly
wv battle has rolled away, and Re-
publican has shaken hands with
Democrat, and almost the entire Amer
lean nation has resolved to support the
best to promote progress, peace and
prosperity in the United States, there
will be one malcontent, one lone citizen
Will flock by himself. He will not
shake hands with anybody. He will
shake his fist at everybody. And from
the tents of Kedar will come in soul
narrowing ululations, the wailing male
diction of William ALSOrandolph
Hearst.
The lonely one has prepared himself
for his Ishmaelitism by splitting in the
face of the entire American people. In
the history of our nation, no such uni
versally insulting cartoon had ever
been published as that which appeared
yesterday on the first page of our dis
gruntled friends local yellow sheet. 1t
exposed Hearst's contempt for his
fellow citizens, his contempt for the
ballot, his contempt for Ameri-
canism, his contempt for everything
but yellow journalism and for every
body but Hearst. After having formed
a new political party, one would have
thought Hearst would have had enough
respect for the little regiment Of citi-
zens who flocked to his Chinese ban
ner to have at least refrained from
including them in his insult to the
American voter. But, no. Hearst's
opinion of the American people is--well,
it is exactly the opinion which might
be expected to dominate C man who has
insulted and degraded American jour-
nalism by bringing it down to what he
considers to be a depth suitable to the
popular intelligence. Hearst's cartoon
of the sovereign American voter should
be resented by every self-respecting
citizen. It is an insult to the nation;
an insult to every individual In the
nation.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-04

N URING the Columbian exposition
at Chicago there was a federation
- or congress of religions. Men and
women from all parts of the globe met
and discussed the broad principles
underlying all creeds and church or
ganizations. Dissimilar as were their
views, and bitter as were the contro-
versies that had often sundered them,
there was substantial agreement that
nothing greater than the Golden Rule
has ever been promulgated in the his
tory of the world. The disciples of
zoroaster, of Confucius and of Brah-
minism, like the followers of the meek
and lowly Nazarene, alike accepted the
Golden Rule as the supreme law Of hu-
man conduct.
This reminds us that a Danish phil
anthropist some years ago offered re-
ward to that person who should select
from non-religious writings the greatest
rule of human conduct. The prize was
awarded to a competitor who chose
Shakespeare famous advice put into