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Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
UNWILLING AND UNFIT

TN THE Democratic platform the
statement is made that the panic
Il of 1907, coming without any legiti-
mate excuse, when the Republican
party for a decade had been in COM
plete control of the federal govern
ment, furnishes additional proof that
it is either unwilling or incompetent
to protect the interests of the general
public. We regret there was not
slight change of wording in this part
of the platform. Nothing beyond the
exact truth would have been stated in
the assertion the Republican party is
unwilling AND incompetent to protect
the interests of the general public.
Even If it were as "willin'" as poor
Barkis in the famous story, it cannot
protect the general public, because 1t
has surrendered too much of it's power
to Interests" to be it's own master,
and recent events make this very clear.
1.-THE Republican party has so linked
the country TO Wall street." adds the
Democratic platform, that the sins of
the spectators are visited upon the
whole people. While refusing to rescue
the wealth producers from spoliation
at the hands of the stock gamblers and
SPECTATORS in farm products, it de-
posted treasury funds, without in
terest and without competition, in
favorite banks. 1t used an emergency
for which 1t was largely responsible to
force through congress a bill changing
the basis of bank currency and INVIT-
ING MARKET MANIPULATION, and
failed to give to the 100000 depositors
of the country protection in their saw
ings." But, after all, this was only
a typical Republican mode of pro-
cedure. And if by lack of vigilance,
zeal. enthusiasm. aggressiyeness or
watchfulness, the people give power to
a Republican administration WITH
OUT ROOSEVELT TO PUT ON THE
BRAKES, the last state of this nation
will be worse than the first, and the
voters will have only themselves to
blame. The signs of the times indi-
vate that the reign of erstwhiIe "trium-
plant interestocracy is almost over"
but "be not weary in we'll doing"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
State Universities Refuse
to Be Carnegie $S$-Marked

1.-THE purpose of senate bill No. lis is
stated to be to allow the Louisiana
state university to participate in the
Carnegie fund to retire and pension
teachers who have served twenty-five
years. The conditions attached to the
privilege of participation in this fund
are such as to revolutionize the princi-
pies upon which state universities are
maintained and operated. The univer-
stiles virtually remain state universe
ties only in so far as that the state
must pay their expenses out of the
peoples tax money, whIle the state
practically surrenderS control OF them
and accepts the principles of control
contained in the conditions by which
the institutions become beneficiaries of
the Carnegie donation.
when a great state gets ready. to
strike it's colors and make terms with
the malefactors of great wealth. in
order to get the benefit of their lergess
for it's teachers then indeed will it be
time for every self-respecting citizen to
bow his head in shame. What sort of
teachers can we hope to have should
the state once establish the doctrine
that Carnegie, and not the state, must
be the hope of their declining years?
What character of political economy
for instance, can we hope to have
taught to our children by professors
who, through the years of their active
class work, are looking forward to the
time in their green old age when they
shall eat the bred that Laird Carnegie
has generously provided for them out
of the money he has unjustly wrung
from the toiling millions of our coun-
trymen?"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
Shows 7reac1erOuS Hypocrisy
of William Randolph Hearst

portion of 1t is Tammany, with whom
Hearst consorted two years ago and
from which he accepted a nomination
for the governorship of New York. Is
Tammany less regenerate than it was
in the days of its holy alliance with
Hearst? Has Hearst less confidence
sin the ability, in the sincerity, and
even in the integrity of the Tammany
leaders than he had when they gave
him the nomination. Has Hearst or
Tammany changed since that time?
Why, then, this sudden loss of faith,
this abhorrent skepticism on the part
of Hearst? Is it owing in any measure
to the fact that Bryan, not hearst
dominates what is left of the Demo-
cratic party, and that Hearst sees no
hope of getting the Democratic nomin-
alton? says the San Francisco Bulletin.
It Is q pious wish. on Hearsts part
that the Independence party (Which is
the style under which Hearst has IN
corporated his political enterprise) may
give him a candidate and platform
which he will find satisfactory. II the
independence party fails in that duty
Hearst should dismiss every indepen-
dent on the payroll, not overlooking
John Temple Graves of Georgia, whose
duties as editorial writer on the Hearst
papers seem to include running for vice
president. 1t is said that reporters on
Hearsts New York papers are never
surprised when then find themselves
down on the city editors assignment
book for the job of running for some
office. To their minds it is all in the
days work. There should be extra pay,
however, for an employe who takes
from the Independence party the nom
ination for the vice presidency in
year when even the Republican party
had some difficulty in finding the right
sort of man willing to take it.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23

EMOCRATS will be angered and
the rest of the country amused by
- Hearst's comments on the Demo-
cratic party in the published statement
of his reasons for refusing to support
Bryan. He calls the Democratic party
"discredited and decadent," having
neither conscientious conviction nor
honest intention and then adds:
IT do not think the best benefit of
laboring men lies in supporting that old
party because sop of false promise,
when the performance of that party
while in power did more to inJure labor
than all the injpnctions ever issued be-
fore or since. I have lost faith in all
the empty professions of an unregen-
crate Democracy. l have lost cont-
dence In the ability, in the sincerity
and even in the integrity of its leaders.
I do not consider it patriotism to pre-.
tend to support that which, as cltlzen,
1 distrust and detest, and earnestly
hope that the Independence party VIII
give me an opportunity to vote Tor
candidates that are both able and hon
est, and for declaration of principles
10th sound and sincere"
There are those who will suspect that
Hearst, too, kas neither conscientious
conviction nor honest intention" when
they recall that four years ago, When
the Democratic party was just what II
is today, Hearst was an eager aspirant
for the nomination which Judge Parker
got. If it be true now it was true then
that the Democratic party while IN
power did more to injure labor than all
the injunctions ever issued before or
since" yet the fact did not stay
Hearst in his headlong pursuit of the
party's nomination.
'JJnregenerate'' the Democratic par
ty may be, but the most unregenerate
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23

there is an increase in population, an
increase in industrial and agricultural
productivity, and a great increase in
the possibilities of rewards for labor
and skill In other words, in coun-
try where there are good roads, life
becomes more worth WHILE" whether
regarded commercially, socially or in
tellectually. Travellers know there Is
world of difference, even in the
"backwoods districts" between families
living miles from anywhere, out of
reach of roads, and families whose
homes are near the beaten path or the
made road of traffic.
People who pass their lives away
from the main roads are almost like
jewellers in another world. Man is gre
garious, not solitary by nature, and
good roads help him to develop one of
his higher instincts, the instinct of
humanitarianism.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
STRANGE DOCTRINE

KIT T rs a strange doctrine" says the
Standard Oil opinion, which of
Il course must be treated with all
due respect, "whereunder a million dol
lar corporation such as the defendant,
the Standard OIL company of Indiana,
may be fined twenty-nine times the
amount of it's capital stock in order
to punish defendant not under indict-
ment" By this latter is meant the
parent company the Standard OH om-
pany of New Jersey. American citi-
zens have the greatest respect for con-
stituted authorities, but Americans are
human beings, and the ancestors of
some of them signed the Declaration Of
independence, and the ancestors of
many of them fought for 1t, and all
of them approve it. So, in the spirit of
Americanism and the Declaration of
Independence, we say it is a strange
doctrine by which an august court asks
the American nation to stultify itself
by making believe 1t believes in a
fictional differentiation of ownership
which does not exist in fact Three
cheers for good old COMMON HON
ESTY!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23

TN HERE is note of rugged republic
can resistance to subordinatin3
Il state universities to private inter-
ests in the protest of the New Orleans
Daily States to university professors
being pensioned by Andrew Carnegie.
In a ringing editorial in its issue OF
June A, that newspaper says
'Senate bill No. lis came up yester-
day on final passage, but owing to the
fact that It had not been printed 1t
was allowed to lie over We sincerely
hope that it will be allowed to lie over
forever. If there ever was a pernicious
scheme to undermine the very founda-
lions of higher education In the country
than is contemplated by Mr.. Carnegies
proposition to pension university pro-
fessors, we have never heard of it."
Goodl That is the sentiment of self
reliant Americanism. The proposition
to make university professors preach
ers and teachers and others pensioners
on the fruits of exploitation by one of
the most infamous monopolies civil
liked country has ever tolerated, Is to
make them ''particeps criminis," that
Is, partakers in the fruits of crime.
We do not believe that Mr.. Carnegie in
this is actuated entirely from principles
of philanthropy, but the canny Scot
sees in these subsidy schemes shrewd
method of entrenching the system of
special privileges through which he has
extorted millions of dollars from the
wage earners and consumers of the
country, says the Oakland Inquirer.
The Daily States continues its timely
comment upon the Carnegie system of
subsidy as follows:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
MR.. BRYAN

G INCE he began to address Ameri
can audiences on political subjects
~ William Jennings Bryan has lived
to see his suggestions adopted by men
who at first scoffed. because they did
not know any better. They did not I'M
derstand that a student In politics
could treat the matter both subject
lively and effectively, and the greatest
mistake the Republicans made with
regard to Bryan was in esteeming him
to be a man of one idea. Many of the
best of the men originally opposed to
Mr. Bryan are Fastening, like the
Americans and gentlemen that they
are, to acknowledge their mistake, and
TO admit that Bryan's student mind,
with the aid of keen reasoning and
perceptive faculties and applied philos
ophies, could read the future better
than the business minds of astute mas
ters of finance. In a word, the
psychical element in Bryan was entire
ly neglected by practical politicians,
and history has always shown that this
element can never be ignored, for 1t is
the only element which has in it either
the possibility or the probability
of duration, as the founder of
Christianity over and over and
over again pointed out to the money
loving Hebrews and materialist Ro-
man colonists. The campaign is only
begun, and already one of the sayings
which show Bryan's intellectual depth
and his mastery of the art of convey
ing ideas by means Of expressive Ian
guage is becoming proverbial. In his
address at the conference of governors
in Washington, Mr.. Bryan used met
aphor which was adopted Immediately
by President Roosevelt. He said.
There is no twilight zone between the
nation and the, state in which exploit
ing interests can take refuge from
both, and my observation is that most
mot all, but most-of the contentious
over the line between nation and state
are traeeable to predatory corporations
which are trying to shield themselves
from deserved punishment, or endeav-
oring to prevent needed restraining
legislation"
It is significant sign of the times
that many of the business organiza-
lions and associations which opposed
Mr.. Bryan in 1896. within the past few
them. They realize he has done a
great deal of thinking with his strong,
well trained brain, and that most of
that thinking has been for the benefit
of the United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
DEEMS WOMEN UNFIT
TO ACT AS LAWMAKERS

LOS ANGELES, July 21.-[Editor
Herald: am glad to see Economist
taking a fall in your columns out of
the women of Southern California for
one of the numerous follies that in
their uninstructed mania for reform
they are attempting to force on long
suffering community.
AS a critic of the insanities of would
be legislators / followed with interest
the correspondence in your columns on
the petty and other graft connected
with our school system, and was par
ticuIarly struck with the feeble grasp
of the subject shown by your woman
correspondents. With one exception
they all dealt with effects, whereas
your male correspondents concerned
themselves with general causes.
That is entirely natural and as it
should be. BY the special role of con-
tinuer of the race that nature imposes
on her. woman is SO constituted that
she always takes individual and not
general views. She will always sac
rifice the entire male species for the
one particular man on whom her heart
is set.
Hence she is by nature incapacitated
for playing the part of lawmaking
since. if we must have laws imposed
five that they should be made by those
who are capable of embracing the en-
tire community in their Views.
| was delighted to read the other day
Mrs. Humphry Wards able letter in
the London Times, in which she shows
thar the suffragette movement in this
country has broken down already from
its own inefficiency. That is as it
should be. L. *. g.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
FROM A RECENT NOVEL

She dropped her eyes; he threw up
his head.
Her face fell; he ground his teeth.
Her cheek burned; his heart sank.
She grew cold as Ice; his brain was
on fine.
Her heart came up in her throat;
his brow grew dark.
Her eyes flashed fire; he tore his
hair.
Her very soul was rent; he could
have bitten his tongue in two for
saying it.
She cast the lie back in his teeth;
he swallowed a lump in his throat.
She shuddered as with a mortal
wound he grew weak as water
An icy hand clutched at her heart;
then he trembled like an aspen.
She grew faint and sick; he was in
agony.
Plainly she strove for breath; his
eyes blazed.
She swept from the room; he fell in
a heap on the rug.
Plainly, after all this, life could
never be the same again for either of
them.-Success Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
Editor de Young PrOpheSieS
Republican National Defeat

influenced by them. In our opinion
three-fourths of the small politicians
who habitually struggle for places In
such organizations as county commit
tees" take orders from some one, and
that this is true of all parties, and all
factions. of parties. No one experienced
in politics will pay any regard to the
professions of such men. In regard to
the Republican squabbles, as our read
ers know, we have no confidence what
ever in the leadership of the faction
which calls itself the "Lineoln-Roose-
welt league" 1t has never displayed
any sense. The regulars" however.
who doubtless take most of their in
spiration from corporate sources, are
so unpopular with the masses of the
party, and the masses of the party are
so easily induced to follow any leader
ship which loudly processes reform"
that the league has a very good chance
of carrying a majority of the districts
at the coming primary If it will stop
bothering with the county committee
and go to work at selecting its candi-
dates in the districts. If the league
puts up men of character and standing
and the regulars put up political hacks.
the league will win out.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
LOS ANGELES GRIT

MI ORE money is being spent in pub
WI lie improvements by Los An
A'A geles than by cities of greater
population. There can be no ques-
ton as to the enterprise and public
spirit of this community. The bigger
the undertaking the more joyfully and
enthusiastically it is tackled by Los
Angeles. other cities constantly ex-
press surprise at the nerve" of
"city of sunshine and flowers" Some
how they cannot realize that in addi-
ton to sunshine and flowers Los An
geles possesses industrialism, enter
prise and energy. 1t believes in git
UP and git there" in getting up and
getting what it wants. And whatever
it wants it gets, because it goes after
it with irresistible directness, force,
pluck and enthusiasm. 'Only climate?'
said a shrewd visitor from Pennsyl-
vania, who had visited Los Angeles and
was discussing California with his
friends. "Only climate? No, they have
far more than climate. There isn't an
other city in the Union that has as
much of one particularly valuable
article as Los Angeles possesses.
"Oh, you mean gold" chorusede the
friends. "Well, but the gold diggings
are not at Los Angeles" mo, don't
mean gold, said he. "The stuff I'm
speaking of is much more valuable
than gold, and they have all kinds of
1t at Los Angeles, in the largest guam
titles I ever heard Of" well, what
on earth is it?" asked his friends,
eagerly. Crit" was the reply. LOS
Angeles has more grit than any city
in the Union, and consequently will
always go right on getting everything
| it wants"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
JocKEYED

LFRED G. VANDERBILT has
n been skinned alive by English
"A horse Jockeys, who formed a
trust which kept down the price of
sixty Vanderbilt coach horses when
offered for sale, bought them at the
artihcially depressed rate, promptly
resold them at enormous advances and
cleaned up such huge profit that the
vanderbilts are beginning to believe
the goddess of finance has forsaken
them. The old Commodore would
have picked up sixty Skates and sold
them to the English at from ten to
twenty times their value. If he knows
that one of the modern representa-
tives Of the house of Vanderbilt has
been taken in and done for by gang
Of "samivel wellers" he is turning over
and over In his grave.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23

90 FAR as consumption of commodi-
~ ties is concerned it could not be
~ perceptibly affected by any raise
in freight rates which is likely to be
made, because it's effect on retail prices
would not be perceptible. The burden
would necessarily fall almost entirely
on the middlemen, who are, therefore,
strongly leagued together to oppose
the raise. In the case of the higher
class commodities-books, dry goods
and similar commodlties-the effect on
retail prices, even if it could be shifted
to the consumer, as it could be in
many cases, would be imperceptible.
There are commodities, however, fur
nishing a large share of the revenue OF
railroads in which an increase OF
freight rates might interfere with con-
sumption. This is particularly. true OF
commodities taking a long haul in
which the freight foots up to the value
of the product or more. Among these
are fruit and vegetables shipped from
here to the east, and on which the
shipper may or may not be able TO
shift the freight to the consumer. Any
raise in freight would add to the buy
er's risk and so tend to reduce buy
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
Increased Freight Rates
VIII Be Hard on MiddIen1en

Ing. Formerly all shippers of fresh
fruit and vegetables from this state
got substantial rebates from the re-
frigerator lines, says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle. Fruit growers very
justly denounced it as an outrage and
it has been stopped, but IL the oppor-
tunity existed today there would be
many more cash buyers of fruit in this
state, for the $50 or $40 per car rebate
was of itself neat little profit. No
body can ever tell in advance just how
reforms are going to work. Sometimes
they have unforeseen back action and
mp those who feel perfectly safe.
OF course, it is always within the
power of railroads, If unchecked, to
shut up mine or a sawmill by raising
the freight on it's output, because there
are always establishments on the
margin" of profit which any increase
of expense will put out of business.
The railroads can be relied on not to
make increases there. Upon the whole
1t does not seem that any increase of
freights likely to be made will be Sc
riously felt by consumers, but 1t will
be hard on the middlemen, who just
now are not making much money.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
ASKS PERTINENT QUESTIONS
CONCERNING CHILD LABOR

RIVERSIDE, July 22.-lEditor Her
your paper is because of it's liberal
features in general and the open forum
or letter box In particular. Therefore
I take the opportunity to ask the fol+
lowing questions: Is it not fact that
the southern states, controlled entirely
by the Democratic party for years, are
entirely a disgrace to humanity with
child slavery in the mines and mills of
Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia;
the convict camp and chain gangs of
Florida and the Carolinas, conditions
worse than Siberia? In these Demo-
cratic states unionism is a crime and
labor legislation more backward than
in any pretendedly civilized country on
earth. Notwithstanding the Mysteries
of patriots" was it not Democratic
presidents who rushed federal cossacks
into Chicago over the protest of Gov
ernor Altgeld to break the great A. r.
u strike in 1894? I would like to have
some Republican patriot explain the
censorship of and exclusion from the
mails of two great prominent European
periodicals-the Wahre Jacob, Ger
man humorous magazine with over $780,
900 subscribers. and L'Asino, an Italian
anti-clerical and liberal magazine.
These publications have a free circula-
ton in Europe, Asia, Australia and
South America, but are excluded from
the mails in free America. This action
was taken by the patriotic Republican
officeholder, Hon. George Won Len
gerke Meyer. Believing with Patrick
Henry that the world is my country;
to do good is my religion, I despire
nothing worse than nationalistic or
partyistic hypocracy. Yours for open
discussion of vital topics
COSMOPOLITAN.
LSee editorial for reply to correspon-
dents questions concerning child labor
in the south .-Editor.1
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
VOTE FOR GOOD ROADS
I'VE TAKE it for granted you have
w attended to your duty as citi-
30, ond haua haar raorfota Grad

VIZ e TAKE it for granted you have
w attended to your duty as citi-
" zen, and have been registered,
and we now urge you to exercise the
right which you have affirmed and Sc
cured by the act OF registration, and
to vote for the good roads bond issue.
1t doesn't matter whether you are DEM
ocrat or Republican, Socialist or Pro-
hibitionist, your action at the bond
election will be strictly non-partisan.
You will not be voting for anybody.
You will not be grinding an ak for
anyone.
You will be voting for the common
good. nay more, for the greatest good
for the greatest number, because every
one win benefit by the improvement
in the roads. 1t will be a public i'm
provement, and in many different ways
the public will reap6a reward from
1t. A system of good roads will open
up a large tract of country to develop
ment. AS soon as facilities for COM
munication are supplied the progress
i've and commercial aspects Of civili-
cation begin to be predominant and