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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-16
PEACEFUL NATIONS

O ECRETARY ROOT at the formal
y opening Of the Army War college
~ declared militarism forms no part
of the American program, and that
any attention which is being given the
art and science of war is forced upon
the government by what seems to be
necessity. I'VE are not military ma
ton, and never shall be-" said Mr..
Root. 1--WE are warlike enough to rise
in defense of our rights. We are sin
gularly like the British and singularly
unlike most Of the nations of the con-
tinent. Our ideas are political and
not military. We do not therefore nat
urally run In the mould of military
organizations"
In some respects we are certainly
"singularly like the British" 1t is talk
like this which causes the continental
peoples of Europe to call the British
a nation of hypocrites." No nation
of the European continent has ac-
quired as much territory by conquest
and annexation as either the United
States or the United Kingdom. Here
in the United States we are too prone
to point to our kin across sea as hor-
rible examples of ruthless acquisl-
tiyeness, but for our part We never
could understand why a California ed
itor could rebuke the British for the
sin of annexing foreign territory, and
we don't intend to be guilty of this in
consistency.
The United States is not warlike'
yet it has fought three ''whopping big
civil wars. Thrice within eighty-four
years did nations of common blood
common traditions, and, to a great
extent, the same history, engage in
struggles fiercer and bloodier than any
wars in which they were ever engaged
with foreigners. In the hundred years
before North America became the
scene of conflicts between branches or
the Celto-Saxo races there were two
civil wars in Scotland, one in England
and one in Ireland. In less than two
centuries the Celto-Saxons (Anglo-
Saxon is an incorrect term) have waged
seven fraticidal wars. But militarism
forms no part Of their program.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-16
America Is NOzV Weather
Than the Island of Britain

basis, the banks OF the United King
dom would make a much more favor
able showing; but 1t should be re-
membered that while the exhibit for
the United Kingdom is practically that
of all the joint stock banks, includ
ing the Bank of England, the exhibit
for the United States is only for the
national banks, and there are thou
sands of state banks and trust COM
panies outside of these institutions
which carry on much the same class
of business. If the aggregate depos-
IS of all the national and state banks
and trust companies of the United
States for 1907 were compared with
the total deposits in the joint stock
banks and the Bank of England for
the same year, and then reduced to
the per capita basis, the comparison
would be slightly in favor of the
United States. In that year the de
posits in the commercial banking in
stitutions If the United states amount
ed to about SIP per capita, of popu-
lation, while the deposits in the joint
stock banks of the United Kingdom
and the Bank of England the same
year amounted to about $10S per capita
of population.
These are the two great countries of
the deposit currency. Nowhere else in
the world is the check system so highly
developed as in England and in the
United States. Nowhere else in the
world is such d vast aggregate of bust
ness carried on by means of checks as
in these two countries. There has been
no more marvellous development of
modern business than the growth of
this deposit currency.
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LIBERTY
j." ERE is part of the examination Of
Jan Janoff Pouren, the Russian
refugee demaded by the czar:

" ERE is part Of the examination Of
Jan Janoff Pouren. the Russian
refugee demaded by the czar:
''Why did you leave Russian"
because the Russian government
wanted to hang me, shoot me, was al
ways after me-"
ibid you go to Belgium from Riga
by rail?"
"I decline to say 1t might interfere
with others who wanted to get away.
1t might incriminate someone, too"
Not since the old days before the
war, when slaves who escaped to the.
north by the underground railroad"
were. once in a while, placed under ar
rest by northern authorities by request
of their masters, has such an examina-
ton been conducted as that of Jan
Janoff Pouren. And, it appears, there
is an underground route from Russia.
Poor people, In terror of capture and
Imprisonment on charges which would
send them to Siberia, have found
way of escape. There was time when
in the United States. There was time
when America was a refuge for the
oppressed of all nations excepting the
nations of Africa. Then came day
when there was no Except" and when
there was absolute freedom on Ameri-
can soil for every man, black or white,
brown or yellow. who was not a Grim
inal.
But now, Mexican political offenders
are arrested in California on accusa-
lions which are so trivial and trumpery
as to be ridiculous. And Russians who
reach the land OF freedom by the I'M
foreground road are captured as tf
they were fugitive murderers.
Alas Liberty! What crimes are COM
mitted In thy name!
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-16
BALLOONING
n ADJOINING is not an exact sci
II ence, and perhaps that is why 1t
~ Sc mora ayrifipD thap afrShiD

n ADJOINING is not an exact sci
n ence, and perhaps that is why 1t
is more exciting than airship
navigation. A balloon ascension al
ways attracts crowds, and if the minds
of the crowds were to be analysed it
would be found that latent thought
in many resembled the thought which
attracts a mob when a man climbs a
steeple. They watch him climb, not
because he is climbing, but because he
may fall There is a fascination in
watching balloons start on voyage.
because no one knows whether it will
be long or short or whether records
will be broken. The wind blowetb
whittier it listeth, and men hear it
but can't see it and can't control it,
and balloons are dependent on wind
currents or caprices.
Much attention was attracted by the
announcement of the balloon race, and
all over the country men interested in
aeronautics waited for news from Los
Angeles. This helped advertise Los An
geles, and there can be no doubt of the
success OF the DauOOn race from lhS
viewpoint of publicity. Los Angeles
is always in the leadership, and that
this city should be the center of inter-
est in matters aerial as well as
matters terrestrial is gratifying. The
weather is conducive to outdoor eX-
periments, and the chances for success
are always great.
On account of military possibilities
the government has taken an interest
in the Los Angeles ascension. The
flight of the Los Angeles balloons will
indicate with reasonable certainty
what might be the course and the
fate or luck of balloons released on
the Pacific coast in time of war by our
own troops or by the enemy. We do
not think the balloon has ever been
seriously considered as a commercial
proposition.
No underwater would insure cargo
carried by craft of this kind. Yet men
are brave enough to take risk to
which they would not expose val
liable cargo.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-16
old Coins Recall Attempt
To Make Mexico Monarchy

pieces which show the emperor's bust
had executed the design in such 81
manner that by reversing the coin a
likeness of a donkey was produced.
1t requires a great deal of magma
ton, it may be said, to work out such
a resemblance.
There is said to be one extremely
rare variety of thes one peso which
was struck at the Mexico City mint
in 1866 According to one story, the
first dies broke after thirty-five pieces
had been coined, and this number rep
resented the age of Macmillan when
he was shot. 1t was said also that
one ball pierced his forehead at the
exact spot where a flaw appears in
the die.
AS matter of fact, says an expert
numismatist, a die did go to pieces
after a few coins had been struck and
the subsequent dies were of far in
ferior workmanship. The coins of the
first set are identified by the letters
on the inscription of the diverse.
which are shorter than those on the
usual issues, and there is a depression
in the temple of the emperor's por-
trait.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-16
SAN PEDRO HARBOR

4 MOTHER chapter in the history
n of San Pedro harbor will be be-
gun today, when the state legis-
lative committee on harbors will meet.
Most important questions will be dis
cussed. One is the desirability of an
issue of $1,5O0,OOO in bonds for docks
and wharves. The other is the ex-
pediency of a state harbor commits
sion. Underlying all the discussion
will be the definite sentiment inspired
by the knowledge 1t is absolutely nee
essary for the best interests of the
harbor and of the community to keep
the harbor project free from any en-
tangling political alliances which
would place its interests and its des-
TIMES directly or indirectly in the con-
troll of the railroad corporation which
covets 1t.
The slogan of the friends of San
Pedro harbor today is what it has
always been. 1t is, mo political con-
troll. No railroad domination" 1t is
highly desirable the development of
the harbor should not be interfered
with. But it must be development for
the people, and not for special
interests. United States govern
ment engineers intimate that in
view of what has already been ac-
complished with the first money ex-
pended by the government 1t will be
easier to secure other appropriations.
The enterprise is not only a public
enterprise, but a national enterprise
of vast importance to the American
people.
1t is necessary that fits national
character should be kept constantly in
view. Nothing should be done, moth
ing should be sanctioned. not any
proposition should be entertained
which may give rise to any suspicion
that after all the talk about the neces-
sity for a free harbor at San Pedro
there is the slightest disposition to
relax the vigilance which has kept
the seaport Of Los Angeles from being
annexed by railroad interests. Los
Angeles with San Pedro harbor may
well attract the attention Of the gov
eminent of Washington, and may we'll
find a definite and recognized place in
plans for the future. Among such
plans should be one for the fortifica-
ton of San Pedro, so that it may be
in every sense Of the word safe
harbor. Another should be for a gov
eminent or governmentally authorized
or subsidized line of steamers, the es-
tablishment of which is warranted by
Atlantic precedent. But not one inch
Of ground must be yielded in the fight
for the perpetual independence and
freedom of the harbor. No proposition
should be entertained for a minute
which has the slightest semblanee of
railroad origin. Remember the fable
OF the weary Arabian traveller in his
tent and the cunning camel at the
entrance. The Southern Pacific is the
cunning camel.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-16
TREASON

STOUNDING indeed are the va
n carries of alleged friends of the
best interests of California, who
at critical time in the history of the
development of the state, when every
means possible should be taken to
interest the government in our import
ant local harbor, deliberately defeat a
proposal to take action which would
induce the government to establish a.
the way Of the maritime commercial
progress of California at this time looks
like treason to the state.
In default of some explanation which
cannot even be imagined the construc-
ton which most readily will be put on
the conduct of citizens who refused to
assent to an Endorsement of the pro-
posed steamship line which would have
had weight and force at Washington,
is that they are more devoted to the
interests of the Southern Pacific rail-
road than the best interests of Cali
fornia. If California's interests are to
be advanced, If they are to be promoted
in the right way, then members Of all
advisory and other bodies must make
up their minds to work with a single
eye to the good of this grand state and
the people who live In it, and not with
a sly squirt around the corner to the
S. P. AS a determining factor or any
kind Of factor in popular California
projects the S. P. must be eliminated
from consideration altogether, because
its interests are not popular and are
not even coincident with or parallel
with popular interests, but run in
divergent lines and are as intensely
hostile to the principle Of the greatest
good for the greatest number as selfish
interest generally is.
Citizens of California must take up
with enthusiasm the proposal for a
government steamship line. Govern
mental aid has had good results in the
Atlantic ocean, and it will have equally
good results in the Pacific ocean, where
it is needed more than in the Atlantic.
Nothing but trucking desire to kiss the
corporation foot which has so often
hiCheu NdllloIiid CouIu dCbualS oPPO-
sition to the proposed steamship line.
California has had enough of corpor-
ationism. 1t is now of vital Importance
to the welfare of this great section of
the United States that progress and
development should ''be sure they are
right, then go ahead" without regard
to the likes or dislikes, selfish wishes
or sordid whims of covetous corpora |
lions,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-16
DIRECTS NOTICE TO ANOTHER
PHASE OF SOCIAL EVIL

LONG BEACH, Nov. 14.-LEditor
Herald: Several articles have appeared
in your paper lately discussing the so
cial evil" but, like most writer's upon
this subject, these fail to master the
matter they are discussing.
The true "social eviI' does not confine
itself, in its criminality, to deadening
of the moral sense, its barbaric abuse
by the strong of the weak, its sending
down to future generations legacies OF
overloaded passion and feeble self-con-
troll. This evil of evils is not confined
to the "Whitechapels," where the hunt
ed outcasts of the demi-monde ply their
trade. The race can outgrow the in
heritance of sin from this source.
This branch of the evil is confined
to the cities, and in them to a small
area. The real social evil that has pos
session of the whole of human society,
and is eating the vigor out of the race,
is found in it's grossest form acting UNI
der the sanction of wedlock. We crea-
lures of the male gender are not the
only criminals in this business, but we
are so in the main, and woman is the
victim.
This is a difficult subject to handle,
but it needs handling without mittens.
1t is time that doctors of medicine, as
we'll as of morals, preached crusade
against the frightful effects OF excess
upon the body as we'll as the soul or
man, and show that no priestly or
statute sanction can condone the crime
or lessen the punishment.
More valuable than suffrage, more
tributary to the dignity of true woman
hood than the right to hold office,
would be the law and the enlightened
public opinion that would secure to
woman the possession of herself COM
plete control of her own personality,
and along with these the power to de-
fend her high office of motherhood from
attack. SENEA.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-16
COMPARES NATIONAL CONTROL
WITH INDIVIDUAL MoLESTATION

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14.-GEditor
Herald: "Adventitions Aid" sneers
one opponent. venture to remind him
that were my argument not inherently
strong this emphasis would only render
its weakness more conspicuous. Capt.
TALKING and story telling are the ex-
pedients | choose to employ to meet
the difficulty of answering simultane-
ously several writer's who are often as
needless in reading as they are discur-
sive in argument. / have to find some
blanket" method of coVering-not so
much the various points, as the points
so variously handled and emphasis by
capitalization is only substitute for
emphasis by elaboration, which latter
the word-limit forbids. 1t is moreover
a challenge to mark and weigh the
passage--argues good faith surely.
Mr.. Speading's first three paragraphs
demand no notice, and his fourth is
only explanatory. Coming to his fifth,
about pulling down the washing and
telling the man mot to be an ass" is
not this giving me my case-that COM
plete freedom is impossible in human
society? If the telephone-wire-clo clothes
line anarchist were as dead set" upon
complete freedom as Mr.. Spreading
and the rest of my opponents in this
controversy there would inevitably be
wigs on the green" when that wash
ing was meQuleu Win anu It's owner
installed; which all goes to prove the
necessity for organization to regulate
the conduct of social obligation and In
tercourse. Telling a man he is an ass
(even when 1t is true) settles nothing;
the asses among humanity are null
titudinous fact that we must reckon
with and act accordingly. Even the
Individual lass" ION one subjecD has
his rights, one Of which is to be pro-
facted from fnolestatfOn by another in
dividual who may be as big an ass In
some other way. l can bow with Dig
nifty to the will of "the whole people"
where / would meet the dictation of an
individual with mortal resentment.
VAL STONE.
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CRIMES CLIMAX

ny COMMITTING suicide Morris
Haas not only cheated justice,
IL but thwarted possibility of sue
eessful investigation of his crime. We
suspect it was not remorse for his act
which caused Haas to kill himself, but
fear of the consequences of his bungle'
With his victim reported to be out of
danger of death the miserable Haas
saw nothing ahead but condign punish
ment, and he dreaded the ordeal Of an
examination on the witness stand,
where perhaps he would have had to
undergo the cross questioning of the
man he had attempted to assassinate.
DID he fear he might have to incrim-
mate some of those for whose protec-
ton his crime may have been COM
naitted? Was he overwhelmed by the
thought of the newer and graver dan
ger to which he had possibly exposed
those whom he may have been trying
TO shield? Was it conscience which
drove him to suicide or terror of an or
deal to come, when he might perhaps
be forced to tell the story of all that
had led to the shooting of Heney, and
might reluctantly bring to justice, as
accessories before the fact, some of
the men who might have found COM
parative safety by the removal of the
dreaded assistant district attorney?
Whatever may have been the motive
for Haas suicide, it is certain dead
men tell no tales" and there are citi-
zens of San Francisco who may have
slept more soundly than they have for
many a night when they heard that
Haas with all his possibilities of dis
closure, exposure, determination and
consequences to persons higher up and
to others interested was ont of the
way. There is little doubt the graft"
situation at San Francisco was in
effect, or to all intents and purposes, a
vast conspiracy, with as many ramifi-
cations as those which the Lexow in
vestigation revealed in New York.
Operations of the kind discovered by
Heney in San Francisco cannot be
conducted safely or successfully by one
man or by two.
AS in more honorable fields of en-
deavor the cooperation of a number Of
individuals is necessary. Was it a part
of the plan of the conspirators to
smuggle Haas into the jury in order
that justice might be baffled? Was it
the intention of those interested in
hushing up the graft scandal before it
went any further to introduce into the
Jury an element that could be depended
on to prevent a verdict being rem
dered? The public will demand thor
ough investigation, and will ask
whether the crime and the suicide OF
Haas were the sequel to a jury tam
perIng plot which was foiled by the
vigilance of Heney. Another question
that will be asked and must be an
swered is, Why was not Haas searched
thoroughly after he was arrested? II
is said the weapon he used could not
possibly have been struggled to him
Then he must have had it concealed or
his person-in all likelihood in his
shoe-when he was searched" What
kind OF a search" was it?
When a prisoner is stripped is he
allowed to keep on his shoes and stock
ings? Still another question that il
certain to be asked is, What part, II
any, had Ruef and his friends in the
transaction which caps the climax oil
San Francisco's story of crime, shame
disgrace and deviltryg
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-16
rHE BURNING QUESTION

The great quadrennial night Is on
From sea to sea the battle RACES.
Thunders the volleyed lexicon
From mighty mouths and printed pages
And east and west you hear men say:
''Going to the baseball game today?"
Our peerless leader, as Of yore,
Has fired the topmost towers of Hum,
While loud above the cracking roar
Resounds the clarion voice Of Wilyuml
And east and west you hear men shout:
''The pitchsr's rottenl Take him outg'
From the embattled camp Of Taft
Issue alarums and excursions:
While Big Bill, sweating fore and aft
Lards the lean earth with his exertions
And east and west you hear men cry:
wait for good onel That's the eye"
The campaign is at fever heat;
The politicians in his glory;
Spellbinders from their car-tails bleat;
The airs ahame with oratory.
And east and west men yell.
Keep cool Sit down thereL Shall the
umpire ruler"
PUCK. ,
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4 SALE a few days ago for $27 each
"a of two specimens of the gold

4 SALE a few days ago for $27 each
II of two specimens of the gold
IA twenty-peso pieces coined for the
unfortunate Emperor Macmillan OF
Mexico and dated 1866 brings attention
to an interesting series of coins which
made their appearance during the
brief period of the attempt to estab-
fish a European monarch upon the
throne of the Montezumas, says the
Pan-American.
OF course one of the first acts of
Macmillan upon his accession to the
throne was the striking of coins bear
ing his portrait and title. The silver
coins were of five, ten and fifty CEN
tavos and one peso.
The copper coinage of Macmillan
consisted of but a single denomina-
ton, the one centavo piece. The story
was generally circulated at one time
that only ninety pieces of the twenty
pesos denomination were originally
struck. This statement has not been
confirmed, but it is a fact that the coin
is scarce.
The first of the issues of Macmillan
attracted notice on account of the
statement that the engrayers of the
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-16

4 T THE very time when the comp
u troller of the currency makes pub
"A lie the latest reports of the nation
al banks of the United States, the lat
est banking statistics of Great Britain
appear. This makes possible some IN
teresting comparisons. The total de-
posits of all the banks of the United
kingdom, including the Bank of Eng
land, in July, 1905 amounted to about
$4,575, 100000. The deposits in the ma
tional banks of the United states
amounted to over $1,000,Oo0,OOO more
says the Wall Street Journal.
Not only this, but the deposits IN
the national banks of the United States
are growing much more rapidly than
the deposits in the banks of the United
kingdom. From 1902 to 1908 the ex-
pansion of deposits in the national
banks in this country amounted to As
per cent, while in the same time the
deposits in the banks of the United
Kingdom increased only per cent.
This is shown by the following table
comparing the deposits in the banks
of the two countries during the last
seven years:
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Many observant citizens are of the
opinion the California promotion COM
mittee might well change it's name to
Southern Pacific promotion committee.
After Saturdays betrayal of the in
terests of California it will be difficult
for the literary lights OF the committee
to use language which will convince
anyone that all the members of the
committee are animated by sincere
desire to further the best interests of
this state.