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Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
THINKS DOGS KEPT HOME
OUGHT NOT BE LICENSED

Los ANGELES, Aug. 7-[Editor
Herald: l notice the" dog catching"
problem is occupying much time and
space of late. so 1 will make bold to
offer a few suggestions. 1t seems to
me the council is not trying to solve
the problem of dogs running loose on
the streets, but is striving to find out
the most effectual way of compelling
citizens to pay a license on the dogs.
Now, the fact that dog has q little
brass tag attached to his neck does
not make him less dangerous or less
of a pest than if he had no tag at all.
If a man keeps his dog on his own
premises he should no more be COM
PEELED to pay a license fee than he
should for cat or canary bird. If you
want to do away with the dog nui-
sance why not make it unlawful for
any dog to appear on the streets of
the city unless carried or tied by it's
owner or wearing a muzzle? It should
not be a question of simply licensing
dog to run on the street but of
keeping him o ffthe street. Let the
council pass a sane ordinance of this
kind and am sure the people will be
satisfied. ROBERT SAULTS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
DEMocRAcY's DUTY
EnHE HERA1p wlshsa AGAIN to II

| TT HE HERALD wishes again to i'm.
press In the strongest possible
"A manner upon the Democracy the
Importance of choosing only men OF
the highest class as delegates to the
nominating conventions. so that only
men of the highest class may be nom
mated by those conventions.
The nominees of conventions rarely
rise above the character OF the con-
ventions from which they receive their
nominations. It is obviously the fact
that at the approaching election the
party which puts in the field candidates
of the highest character win most
likely receive a majority of the votes
cast at the election.
There has probably never been a
time in the history of the state when
so much attention has been paid to rid
ding the state of the incubus of rail-
road control as is now being devoted
to that question. The Republican party
that, on account of its dominance in
the politics of the state. has been here
tofore selected as the particular instru-
mentality Of the Southern Pacific COM
pany by which it's political control of
the state was secured and perpetuated,
has become divided into two bitterly
hostile camps uponethe question of rail-
road domination Of that party.
Should the railroad machine succeed
in controlling the nominations it is very
certain that the good citizens who have
allied themselves against that iniquity
are not going to be dragooned in the
name of party loyalty into longer per-
in the state condition which
they are organizing to oppose with all
their power.
1t is the part OF good citizenship. and
at this Juncture 1t is the part of the
highest party policy for the Democracy
to place in nomination for the official
positions to be filled at the coming
election only men of the most unin-
peachable character and integrity and
who are notoriously free from all rail-
road control and corporate influence
With candidates of this character the
prospects of success are of the best, |
anu Will men OF any otner character |
the party not only will not succeed but
it should not succeed.
The Herald hopes to be able to
give its unstinted and most ener-
getic support to every candidate
nominated by the approaching
Democratic convention, but The
Herald desires to say in advance
that it will not permit its support
% be controlled for men of no.
.oriously unfit character and
Known Southern Pacific affili-
ltions.
No party can pledge The Herald to
he support of candidates who, in the
interest of good citizenship. it believes
hould not be selected to fill the official
POSITIONS of the country. K
Again we urge upon the Democrats ;
he Importance of selecting men of
uch unquestionable character and ]
tanding that no possible issue of this I
ort can arise.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
BRYAN-KERN CLUBS
HTE CALL attention to the fact
Nv that Bryan-Kern clubs are be-
ing formed in Los Angeles. and

HTE CALL attention to the fact
Nv that Bryan Kern clubs are be-
" ing formed in Los Angeles. and
ask all our readers to aid the good
cause and the winning cause-there's
always a peculiar joy in training with
the winner-by taking an interest In
all such campaign clubs and by form
ing them.
Every Bryan-Kern club is unit of
force and efficiency in the political bat
tie. 1t represents a group of workers
who can make their influence felt in a
wide circle and can aid in teaching
voters the true meaning of the great
campaign.
This presidential election is the most
serious fight of modern times. The re-
narkable interview with Charles Ram
Kennedy published in today's Herald
helps to explain why. If the Repub-
1ican party is returned to power, and
we believe it is an open secret that the
radicals are wishing, praying and hop
ing for it's success, logic and COM
mon sense teach us that whether the
presidents name be Taft or Roosevelt,
the governmental policies are
my policies" or those of another, the
country will not submit to the colossal
financial disaster which would be in
vited by continuation of the tactics
which by many are blamed for the
panic, from the effects of which dis
tricts are still suffering.
Such Of the Rooseveltian policies as
are distinctiyely and recognizably re-
form policies are Democratic policies, |
and are repudiated by the Republican
party.
Now the election Of Taft would not |
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

in the past. For an enslaved mother
hood cannot produce a free race of men
and women.
But let US go further than the mere
ballot right, and say that, under proper
economic conditions, where women are
not dependent upon men, women would
have the right to choose their mates
and say who shall be the fathers of
their children. Houses of prostitution
will not be abolished until we have
the single standard of morality in sex
life and the economic freedom of
women.
To the class-conscious workingwom-
an the ballot will be a chance to ex-
press herself against child labor and
the low wages of girls in stores which
often send them on the downward step
to the scarlet life
So let us give woman the ballot that
she may vote for her own emancipa-
tion-and If she doesn't, then II is her
own fault II she is not any better off
than formerly WORKINGMAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
OLD SOLDIER PROUD OF
FACT HE'S A DEMOCRAT

POMONA, Aug. 7.-[Editor Herald:
/ have been taking your paper every
day since last February. 1 like your
mode of conducting the campaign of
William ]. Bryan and Kern for presi-
dent and vice president. was born in
1888 and have been a lifelong Demo-
crat. My first vote was cast for Ste
phen A. Douglas in 1860. and 1 have
voted for every Democratic nominee
ever since. I served three years in the
army and received an honorable dis
charge. I guess out of every twenty
old soldiers one is a Democrat. 1 am
proud to be that twentieth. Success to
The Herald and to our great party.
GEORGE WILEY.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
Knowledge OF the Language
Essential to Citizenship

A DECISION that is likely to at
u tract much attention and may
IL have a far-reaching effect has
Just been rendered by Federal Judge
Lewis in Denver In brief he held that
a foreign-born person must speak the
English language before he can hold
clear title to a homestead. Il cannot
allow final papers to be given, said
Judge Lewis, where the party seek
ing the same is unable to speak the
English language. He cannot under
stand the laws of this country, its con-
stitution nor any of its acts that go
to make citizenship. He may prove
homestead upon land, but he must read
and write English before he can secure
his final papers, and come before this
court with a native-born citizen who
can swear he has known the subject
for a period of five years"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

1t is said that the ruling is likely to
cause considerable hardship. Still,
there seems sound sense in the de-
.cision. Foreigners who cannot speak
English are certainly not equipped for
the duties of citizenhip or for those
OF property-owning member of the
community. Years ago there was a
strong effort to induce congress to
enact law compelling immigrants to
fulfill certain educational requirements
as condition of their being allowed TO
land. Many persons now believe that
the failure of the so-called Lodge bill,
which dealt with that subject. was un-
fortunate. Its passage would have
certainly resulted in giving this coun-
try a better class of immigrants, and
very possibly there would be no
ground for such decision as that just
rendered by Judge Lewis.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

Election Commissioner Emerson of
Erie county, New York, refuses to rec
ognize the Independence party, says he
doesn't know anything about it, and
that it won't get place on the official
ballot in Erie county unless a court
order compels him to give it place.
The three Doodle Dees and the four
Doc Decides of Erie county are holding
a mass meeting to consider ways and
means of dealing with the naughty
commissioner.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
PEANUT POLICIES

nOL1CIES of the peanut order char
acterize the railroads, which have
arisen with snobbish hauteur to
refuse to- grant reduced rates for the
Bryan notification meeting at Lincoln,
Neb., although their snobships readily
granted reduced fares on the occasion
of the Taft celebration in Cincinnati
Norman e. Mack. chairman of the
Democratic national committee, is
doubtless justified In making the state
ment: "The action of the railroads is
simply discrimination against the
Democratic party" He adds: "They
state there is a 2-cent rate law in Ne
braska, which will not permit them to
give a reduced rate to Lincoln. But
desire to call their attention to the
fact that there is also a 2-cent rate
law in Ohio, which' did not prevent the
granting of reduced rate to the Tsft
meeting in Cincinnati. Besides, as I
understand 1t, many of the railroads
which compose the Central Passenger
association are members of the West
ern Passenger association"
Here, then. is discrimination. And
discrimination means-what? That
the railroads, which as it were con-
spired to help the cause of Taft and
are now as it were conspiring to hurt
the cause of Bryan, are afraid of the
of Democratic victory.
So they are afraid of a Democratic
victory. They believe there will be a
Democratic victory. The stupid, pea
nutty. un-American action of the rail-
roads Is another sign of Republican
scare and of Democratic victory.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

Beatrice MRfs may marry earl of
Granard." Miss Mills is the daughter
of D. O., who owns a large number
of millions of dollars which were
brought into existence and received
their value by the toll of American
workingmen. Mr.. Mills is more or
less of philanthropist, but there isn't
much philanthropy in his choice of
son-in-law. 1t looks as If the next
generation of the British-Irish nobility
would be half American by blood.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
WANTS WOMAN POLITICALLY
AND ECONOMICALLY FREE

LOS ANGELES, Aug. S.-GEditor
Herald: Historically speaking, wom-
an was a sex slave before ever eco
nomic slavery began; and she has been
the slave of slave. Not until every
man and woman in this world is freed
from both economic and sex bondage
will liberty be aught but a word of
doubtful value upon the braggart lips
of men.
First, man controlled woman's body
and, while denying her soul co-existent
with his own, controlled her mentality
Now, both sexes have their own pc
culiar vices, attributable to sex diff
ferentiation, mental training and eco
nomic environment-so there is no use
our throwing stones at each other; and
even if their economic environment and
mental training had been the same,
there would still have been a differ
ence owing TO nature -decreed differ
eDce in sex construction.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
HearSt's Frantic Efforts
To Help Southern Pacific

W HE Examiner and its pal the
Tribune, are trying to throw dust
n in the eyes of the decent people
by saying that Heney helped the South
ern Pacific to import Mexican poems to
work on the railroad. Upon this, these
two and other railroad organs, base an
attack upon the graft prosecution
and the Lincoln Roosevelt Republican
league, asking, in effect, that voters at
the primaries next Tuesday shall, for
that reason, vote the railroads ticket
for delegates to the conventions which
will nominate candidates for the legis-
lature, says the Oakland Enquirer. As
suming that all the Examiner and
Tribune say about Heney is true, is
that any reason why honest, intelligent
men should vote primary ticket sup
ported by the Southern Pacific, which,
according to the admissions of it's own
organs, imports and works upon its
roads thousands of poems, to the exclu-
sion of an equal number of American
laborers? The railroad organs must
have a very low opinion of the intelli-
gence of the voters of California when
they ask them to vote for delegates to
the conventions who viii nominate men
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

Now that Turkey has a constitution,
isn't 1t about time to improve Ameri-
can methods of dealing with the con-
stitution of this highly favored land?
Here we have had constitution for
such long time that every now and
then it looks as if we--or some of US
had forgotten all about it. School chill
dren should be taught the first prin-
ciples of Americanism, and when they
leave school should be familiar with
the constitution.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
SUGGESTIVE PICTURES

HROM time to time attention has
been directed to the fact that
certain methods Of publicity were
likely to suggest immortality or crime
to susceptible minds and to influence
unframed, weak or unsteady charac-
ters. In some respects, more danger
Gus to society than even the billboard
atrocities, depicting all sorts of horri-
BILE crimes, are moving picture shows
which include morbid sensationalism
among their attractions. Such shows
depict thrilling scenes Of highway
robbery, burglary. murder, arson and
all kinds of crimes Of violence in
which the spectators can follow the
actions of the criminals.
The moving picture show as an en-
tertainment is excellent, and as
means of education along certain lines
is perhaps unequaled. For instance, it
gives many people unable to travel
abroad a knowledge of actual scenes
in foreign lands. Realistic pictures of
historical occurrences also add to the
knowledge of the spectator and are
hcCAA Als AoSCAC0 u NOlAlCdy dlG sldlAll-
less, and if they are really mirth-pro-
vol1ing are helpful, because a good
laugh is worth while"
But when it comes to catering to
morbid tastes and depicting in a
graphic and realistic manner scenes of
slaughter OF battle, murder and sud-
den death, we may echo the language
Of the Episcopal prayer book and say.
from such pictures, as well as from the
horrors they represent, "Good Lord,
deliver u.s.
In San Jose a murder was committed
by a boy who had been recently in
Los Angeles, where he attended one of |
the picture exhibitions. We have no |
doubt that harmful picture show and |
others of similar type are still in oper- |
alton. Recently a show which invited |
little children to witness it, and was |
dangerous to impressionable youths of |
the age when Deadwood Dick is a
hero, exhibited Fagin scene, where
the old instructor of thieves, the pro-
prietor of the academy of crime,
taught the boys who were his pupils
how to pick pockets neatly and commit
highway robberies adroitly. While the
effect Of the Dickens description
was undoubtedly meant to be
deterrent, the scenes shown in the NOV
ing pictures would have different
effect. They would be likely to infect
the impressionable youthful mind
with zeal for rivalry, or at any rate
inspire taste for adventures of a
scene in a Los Angeles picture show
illustrated the robbery of a mail car
and the murder OF the clerk who tried
% protect it. This scene, like the
Fagin pictures, was not only morbid ,
out suggestive, and directly calculated
o inaane the minds Of young people
ind give them criminal thoughts or !
deas. The law of suggestion, of .,
'ause and effect. operates in the case
# the moving picture shows as in any :
'ther appeal to the fancy or the pas q
ions.
o the fact that these shows should be
ensored the better it will be for Los u
angeles. All the moving picture en- y
should be inspected, and +
he houses which are responsible for
lem should be told that when sug- a
estive or immoral or e-breeding f
xhibition Of pictures is given that a
III constitute sufficient evidence to p
arrant closing that house.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

A Republican contemporary says
Candidate Taft today drove forty
miles over the mountains of Virginia
and West Virginia, and lent himself as
the chief feature of Greenbrier countys
first horse show" This kind of cheap
wit is always to be deprecated. 1t is
especially Objectionable when published
in newspaper which is ostensibly de-
voted to Taft and the Republican par
ty. We are astounded
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
THE CHILD SLA We
BY r. SHELLEY SUTTON

~ SEE you yet my bOy-I see you vet.
The morn is bright, and by the woodland rill
n The June-red rose is blooming, wild and wet
AS those that watch M rom MILL
How sweet twould be to slumber and forget!
But memry scorns the struggles of the will;
Beside stalks that phantom of Regret;
close but I you still;
shut mT ears but 1 can hear yet:
always will.
The dawn-kissed sky, the brook, robins call,
Inspire my with bliss 1 view
Each sunt bowr, each path crumblng
Which my feet in childhood wandrngs knew
But all around like somber pail,
The gloom descends and though the sky be blue
only the sweatshop and the STALL
The mine, the mill, that awful moil-and you! .
A pale, pinched Thing, which crOuches by wall
And mocks my viewl
singing, their song today
Is like the voice of seraDhs, sweet and grand
1t seems to bear me upward and
To that high hope trembIe to command
hope high 1 would not dare to
You would not know, could not understandi
1t is for you to struggle-and to pray
Perchance to curse the terrors of that Hand
Which holds heart, your brain and soul at bay
BY chain and band!
The bees that fly, gold-visored, in the vale;
The dews that lie every fow'r and stone
Ah what they, when, ever cold and pale,
poor sad face is lifted to my
birds may sing-but hear your wall;
1t matters not-the sweetness of their tones
though every hill and dale
Be bright with bIOom--what beauties atOne9-
little child sOuImurdered, gaunt and fran
Stands forth-aIonel
What sweetness, now, has Iife Joy, song?
What nov grandeur OF the time o. place?
What though my path should lead from the throng?
1t cannot turn mem'ry from face!
1t cannot hide the horror of that
leave the haunting specter of Disgrscei
There still is left the Silence of the Strong
The wanton weakness of a selfish
The dreary path contemplate and long,
Which you must trace
What though the world with should be
What though the air with redOence rife?
brain is empty and your soul is stilIed
Your heart is stepped in sordidness and strife;
The cruel system of lust has killed
The tender, vibrations of your life.
And human greed, inexorable, has wled
That every hope shall perish by the knife;
The mine, mill, the sweatshop must be filed
BY greed and strife!
hear your prayer ascending the steam,
heal your sigh reso-uded the wheel
Each roaring belt and shaft and piston
bid the world in mute obedience knee
And you, my child bartered by the Sehemei
soul OF youth-tae soul cannot feel
Abjures its hope and passes from the dream
To hide the which naught earth heal
And drag to that stygian stream
where may feel!
Where now pink dmple Of that cheekf
What means bend-the burden of that backP
Il Fate that life must reek
With lust and crime until grow black?
Docs earth design that not a tongue shall speak
To save the staggers to the rack2
Shall all. alike, be selfish, vain and weak
Though infants writhe and perish at our back?-
Or shall and in our horror seek
righteous track?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

Great excitement was caused in Chi
cago yesterday by the closing of the
saloons on account of the primary cleo
tion. This action was unprecedented.
Many men complained bitterly they
would like to create a riot in order to
protest against the drought, but were
unable to get their spirits up to the
rioting pitch by pouring spirits down.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

A Business Mems club which will be
in a sense an adjunct of the Young
Mems Christian association, and yet
will be entirely separate, is being in
This addition to the social
life of Los Angeles will be welcome.
The club will occupy the entire upper
floor of the Y. M. c. A. building at
Seventh and Hill streets.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

There is a movement in Russia to
reform the. calendar. When it is the
first of theSmonth here, it is an entire
y different date there. The con-
servatism of the empire has regarded
what It calls meddling with the calen-
dar traditions as almost on a par with
atheism. But Russia is dimly seeing
the light.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

Christian churches of Southern CAL
ifornia and Arizona in convention in
Long Beach yesterday observed Chris
tian Endeavor day. The Christian En-
deavor movement is one of the most
active forces in modern society, and
its power for good cannot be over
estimated.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

A petition in favor of the new dog
ordinance will be presented to the city
council tomorrow. 1t is requested that
as many citizens as possible who are
in favor of the humane treatment of
dogs attend the meeting.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

1t takes Chicago to supply the ma
ton with real thrillers. All the old
fashioned stories of Lochinvar episodes
have been outdone by the Chicago in
cident of the Leland Stanford girl who
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

"Ain't it awful. Mabel?" Think of
that high dignitary, Col. Britt chief
dog catcher, menaced by forty days ON
the city chain gang in default of a
tne? What frightful disrespect to a
prominent city ofHiciali
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
The ubIic Letter Box

Letters intended for publication must De
accompanied by the name and address or
the writer. The Herald gives the widest
latitude to correspondents but assumes no
for their views Letters
should not exceed 200 words.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

Aviator Wright is birding it around
the upper atmosphere of France as
naturally as If he had been born with
wings.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
JOHN w. KERN

Herald subscribers intending to leave the
city for the summer months kindly notify
the circulation department, and we will
send The Herald to your new address and
change the address often as desired.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-09

SEARCH in vain the shadows of your eye.
No hope joy ilumes its blearing sightj
n 1t does not heed the radiance of the sky,
It does not mark the grandeur of the nightj
Within its depths dreams of future lie
No hope Of conquest lifts it to the height;
No pride aim passion to defy,
No powr plan heart will to fight,
But only that grim problem-shouId you die
Or bear the blight
1 clasp your hand, but il is cold and deadj
The pulse of pride and poesy is still;
The fervent passion of yonr soul is fed
Nor have you learned legal mode to kill
You do not know the Sentence that is saidj
You cannot guess that though you struggle 81
The hand which feeds you with your blood is red,
And drop by drop the crimson flood shall spill
As age by age million more have bled
To feed the mill
hear your voice. but IL Is bleak and low;
The mirth and music of your heart are gone,
You cannot feel. not made to know
The chimes of hope, the anthems Of the dawni
1 watch your feet, and they and slow,
With leadon steps they bear you--drag you--on;
The mill above, the little grave below
A child like you. with staring eyes, and wan
Shall fold your hands, pray, too, that it may go
As you have gone!