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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07
Satisfying Him.

Small Boy--Can have a ride on
n donkey, ma?
Ma-No, dear; your papa says you
are not to have one
Small Boy--Why can't have ride
on a donkey?
Ma Ito her husband) oh, for
goodness sake. James, give him ride
on your back and see If 1t will keep
him quiet,-Illustrated Bits.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

After woman is granted the ballot
she will inform her husband that she
has nothing to wear TO the polls on
election day" says the Washington
Post Experience in Utah, Wyoming
and Colorado bellies the statement, She
informs her husband that she is going
to the polls and win be back soon;
and is. Woman suffrage is a success,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

In its plea for a 100000 bond the
organ of the American party forgot
for once, to berate the leaders of the
Mormon" Church and its adherents.
How soft and sweet the voice of the
deceiver when il would beguile the peo-
nlni
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07
Not All Pleasure.

Mrs. Gay-of course we must go to
the ball at the club next week.
Mr.. Gay-O, you think of nothing
but pleasure
Mrs. Gay--Not at all. expect to
dance with you several times.-Phil-
adelphia Press.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07
Whore Is DIR. Oslcr?

A Montgomery County man sixty
eight years of age cultivated corn
crop last season with a horse twenty
five years old and two ploughs. one
twenty-five and the other thirty years
old.-Kansas City Journal.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

In studying the method of control
of the social evil in San Francisco. let
our mayor remember the fact that it
was one of the great sources of graft
there
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

Peace hath her victories no less
renowned than those of war" That
is the kind the fleet achieved in San
Francisco yesterday.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

There is great difference between
weatherlng q storm and storming about
the weather. 1t never profited any one
to do the latter.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

The Santa Fe railroad advertises
Chicago as an ideal summer resort.
The Santa Fe doesn't seem to have a
high IDEAL except for temperature.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

If Judge Laoombe's decision on NOV
ing picture shows Is sustained, the
moving picture shows Will have to
move on.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07
Ruins.

Englishman-What q pity your
country has no ruins.
New Yorker-Ruinsl ] guess you
haven't seen the Metropolitan Street
Railway.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

why doesn't Andrew Carnegie fit out
an expedition to go in search Of the
fountain OF youth?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07
No Advance Agents.

1t would seem that we have not as
yet made sufficient advancement In
science to be able to predict anything
about the coming cyclones until after
they have arrived.--Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

The pictures OF some OF the graduat-
ing nurses look as though their special
~ was heart troubles
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

The Socialists are calling on Jack
London TO be their standard bearer. Is
not this the call Of the wild?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07
JUST FOR FUN.
Just for Fun.

No woman should trust her llfes
happiness to a man who kicks dog.
Jacksonville Times Union.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

''Fightiug Bob" is good but Our
Bob brings him nearer to the hearts Of
the people.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

A Mr.. Meal Is running for mayor Of
Harrisburg. Pa. His platform Is a
square Meal and full dinnerpail.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

Freight trains viii not go faster be-
cause freight rates have been add
ynnCed
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

Bella Guinness should have called
her farm Bella Vista, II was such n
beautiful place.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

ono merit of the Merry widow"
hats is that they do away with the
need OF parasol
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

That 1aporte farm surely was one Of
the portals OF death
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

Wien ore runs over $1,000 a ton the
owner generally carries AL of It In his
pocket.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-07

The Leslie Shaw boom has simply
gone the way that many booms will
10.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30
DoGGEDNEss
kSETI HE HOMELY QUALITY OF
DoGGEDNEss" will be the

SHT1 HE HOMELY QUALITY OF
DoGGEDNESS" will be the
theme ora visiting minister
this evening. We presume he refers to
the quality sometimes known as the
perseverance of the saints" who were.
and are. admonished never to be weary
in well doing. If it had not been for
the homely quality of doggedness, sheer
obstinacy on the part of men who at
various times have been characterized
as fanatics" "fools," radicals" and
unreasonable beings" the human race
would not have made the progress
which has marked its wonderful ca
voted eloquence and logic to proving
that 'love" is the greatest thing in the
world-"faith, hope and love, and the
greatest is love''-but perseverance,
which surely is the offspring of faith
and hope, is hardly less great. 1t is by
means Of the human quality of perse-
verance--sheer doggedness--that divine
Providence has wrought most of the
wonders and marvels of human en-
deavor and achievement, moral and
spiritual as well as physical 1t is the
fashion to talk of the progress of the
race with reference to its material
progress.
Mankind boasts of the conquest of
sea and land and announces the ap-
preaching conquest of the air. Mas
ter of the elements, within his limita-
tions man will be monarch of all he
surveys. When, through his faith in
things seen and unseen, his belief in
himself and in his powers and his
belief in the overruling Providence
and through his hope which causes him
to pursue an end until endeavor has
been crowned by attainment, hG has
demonstrated the power of dogged per-
severance properly applied, is he to for
get that there is something which is
greater even than dogged perseverance,,
greater than this wonder working
offspring of faith anG hope, and that
charity, love, aItruism, as Professor
Henry Drummond said, is ''the great
est thing In the world?" No matter
what may be the achievements Of man
kind, without love and brotherly love,
without altruism, in the long run. in
the final summing up they will amount
to exactly NOTHING.
A world Of milIionaires and paupers.
of men with too much money and men
with none at all, of pampered children
and working children, OF people born
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30
WILMINGTON

nY THE decision of the supreme
n court declaring the validity of
the annexation of the shcestring
strip, and sustaining the city's conten-
tion in every point, the annexation Of
wilmington and San Pedro to Los An
geles has become probable. and all at
tempts by the Southern Pacific to pre-
vent our city from becoming a great
seaport in fact as we'll as in theory
have been thwarted. 1T is said consoli-
dation is ) much desired by the peo-
pie of Wilmington as by the people of
Los Angeles. There are important pos
sibilities in the development of the
inner harbor, but Wilmington needs
the strength of Los Angeles before 1t
can take advantage of these possi-
bilities.
Out Of sight is said to be out OF
mind, and because 1t was not possible
to view the ocean from the steps of
Los Angeles city hall, it required pa
tience and perseverance on the part OF
the discerning to make those who took
every day as it came and accepted
the situation aware of the fact that
the maritime future of Los Angeles
will be one of ever increasing great
ness and Importance. IL the city will
only live up to all it's opportunities ant
take advantage of them. The recent
maritime progress Of Los Angeles, the
triumph of the advocates of a free
improved harbor at San Pedro, and the
revival of public interest in the Pacific
ward prospects of our metropolis, along
with the assurance of the compare
lively early completion of the Panama
canal, which win give Los Angeles an
all waAr route eastward as well as
westward, combine to make most
important chapter in the historical an
mails of this city, which can now look
forward with serenity to a career OF
unchecked and ever increasing pros
perity.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30

with every advantage and people from
the cradle to the grave deprived of all
advantage, will work out its logical
destiny.
1t is reasonably certain that If you
sit on a powder keg and handle a
match carelessly there will be an ex-
plosion. Every force of religious and
secular scholarship should be bent on
the task of preventing conditions which
might cause this simile to become ap-
plicable to modern civilization. The
remedy for all existing evils-or almost
all-is easy and obvious. Christianity
shows "the way out" So does Ameri-
canism, the noblest secular creed ever
devised by man. Let us appreciate the
effectiveness of "the homely quality of
doggedness" and with dogged persever-
ance preach, preach, preach, primitive
Christianity and a return to the first
principles of Americanism, and for this
vexed land and for the weary old world
will dawn a new era of prosperity and
of brotherly peace among men of good
will.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30
All Who Violate the LaW
Should Receive Punishment

criminality it is for men to steal rides
on railroads.
What's the remedy for all this aristo-
cratic defiance of law?
The election of men to administrative
and judicial Offices who will punish
every violator of law as such violator
deserves, and not gauge his culpability
by the size of his bank account or his
station in society. Heaven knows.
there is nothing in this palpable dis
elimination in social estimates of law
breaking to incite class feeling. The
poor but honest man need not envy
the rich but dishonest lawbreaker.
However, this aristocracy of lawbreak-
ing should be broken up with a strong.
relentless hand. The kidglove should
go to jail along with the horny hand,
If the offense each commits is the
same. The snobbish standards should
be tolted out of American society by
firm, wholesome, fearless execution
of the law and a general denunciation
by healthful public sentiment of such
sickening un-American fiunkeyism.
Crime is crime, whoever commits it.
Justice is not blind to the offenses of
the rich and exalted, and open-eyed to
the delinquencies of the poor and hum
ble Law Is for the protection of all
honest men and the punishment of all
who violate statutes. And that pun
ishment must be the same for all men
guilty of the same offense, whether
such offenders be rich or poor, high
or low, white or black. The recogni-
tion of any other principle or any other
standard of practice by the courts and
constituted authorities would be sub
versive of true Americanism and would
SOW the seeds of ultimate anarchy.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30
SEES NO USE IN INCREASING
VOTE UNTIL. REFORMS MADE

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29.-[Editor
Herald: l am inclined to think that
If the powers that be" should continue
to juggle with the ordinances they pre-
tend to pass but really make farce
of they will soon create an environ
ment'' such as even Mr.. Stone will
find it difficult to describe or account
for and some other writer's will not
be apt to care a continental whether
women vote or not.
Most letters to be found in The
Herald lately would indicate that their
writer's must be something like the
steamboat / heard a man describing
one day--she had a very small pro-
peller and a large whistle, and when
it was necessary to blow the whistle
the propeller would stop.
Just why people want to increase
the number of voters till some steps
are taken toward the nomination of
me1 Cor women). as the case may be,
who will faithfully serve the public in
their official capacity is something |
cannot understand; for what is the
benefit of polling heavy vote for an
unfaithful governing body2 Better
look well to the nominations and If
that is useless in city politics, glance
over the charter and find out where
the trouble is. aIAWATHA.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30
BRAINS

n EHOLD how good thing it is
n and how becoming we'll together
n such as brethren are in unity
should dwell. We are delighted with
San Francisco's attitude toward Los
Angeles. Admiration has been sue
ceeded by respect, and respect by irni-
tation, which is the sincerest flattery.
San Francisco sent to Los Angeles it's
assistant city attorney and gas ex-
pert, to take lesson in the useful art
Of minimizing the cost of public util-
tiles.
The supervisors of San Francisco
reduced from 81 to 80 cents per 1000
cubic feet the rate at which artificial
gas may be sold. The northern gas
companies say they cannot manufac-
ture and sell gas at this rate, and are
trying to break the new ordinance.
San Francisco officials knew Los An
geles companies sold gas at 80 cents
and rs cents, and this suggested the
question: Why cannot the San Fran
cisco companies go and do likewise? I?
In a manufacturing economy, why
should Los Angeles be ahead of San
francisco? There Is an answer to the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30

A CERTAIN element of men and
"a women Of riches and station in
"A this country long have been en-
gagged in trying to establish an aris-
tocracy of lawbreaking. Among the
"swell set"-whose chief claim to being
swollen are enlarged purses and ex-
banded but vacuous heads-it is re-
garded as a special mark of smartness
to break law so as either not to be
caught at it or to escape punishment
if they are caught. One OF the late
examples of aristocratic lawbreaking
has been unearthed in Chicago and
Boston. Two blue-blooded society Wo.
men are involved in the smuggling OF
large quantities of costly tapestries
paintings and statuary from Europe.
Evidence was found of conspiracy
to smuggle on gigantic scale.
OF course these cerulean-corpuscleo
danes will worm out of 1t in some way
and will have added social prestige be-
cause of their cleverness. They and
their friends will continue to speed
forth in their autos, regardless of speed
ordinances and careless of life and
limb. And they and their like Will
continue to raise their hands in holy
horror at such manifestations of de-
pravity as 'moonshining' in Kentucky.
How on earth could people become SO
debased as to violate law that way!
says the Pasadena Star.
And in another set the magnates who
have fattened in wealth from rebate
robberies chuckle in glee when tramps
stealing a ride on the "blind baggage"
are arrested What an evidence of
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30
ASKS FOR SPECIFIC CASES
WHERE WOMEN ARE SUFFERING

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27-[Editor
Herald: BY the reply of Val stone
and of Mrs. M. A. S. upon the SUI,
frage question, I see that the genera
readers of this department take very
little interest in the discussion, or tney
view the matter in much the Same
light as does the writer, as IS niaHi-
tested by their silence.
Val Stone raises no new queslion
nor does he settle any old ONE no
simply INDUCES in a little, petty, Der
sonal sarcasm, bordering on VtupeIa-
tion. and which, according TO an par
liamentary rules of debate or nr~uIheilt,
is entirely out of order. IRIS is the
Public Forum of this city, SO klnoly
permitted by this publication. Let us
not sully its sanctity by low personal
attacks upon fellow perusers or It's val
liable pages. ,4 u4...
sorne of fine specific wrongs that women
are suffering at the hands of men to-
dav and show where the ballot in
feminine hands would remedy the
evils.
Mrs. M. A. S. condemns the wisdom
of the mast as being out of date. AS
FOR me 7 have no way of judging the
frt,,re save by the experiences of the
ra ~ the nages of history are the safest
puides to lead us Alright, that we may
not err in the future. With man at
the head of the home and controlling
the helm of state, the human race has
risen gradually, step by step.
During this period of evolution there
have been times when the rights OF
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30
SAYS LET US CREDIT RIGHTLY
ENGLAND'S OLD AGE PENSIONS

LOS ANGELES. Aug. H.-[Editor
Herald: l noticed your nice little ed
itorial on England's old age pension
act. Might dot the is and cross the
t's little?
You rightly call it an "opening
wedge" and say the Liberals have sig
nified their intention to extend its OPP
GRAFTON. 1t would only be giving the
credit where it is due, however, If you
had said this promisp to go further,
like the passing of the act itself, ana
like the feeding of school children act'
was forced from the government py
those wicked" Socialists, now some
thirty strong in the house of commons.
They have declared from the first that
the age of 20 is absurdly old to start
the pension, and they are for quickly
removing the iniquitous provisions OF
the act by which, on one pretense or
another, many of the most necessitous
are debarred from its beneI-, as, for
instance, a jail sentence for however
small a crime, and however far back,
I'D to ten years, may deprive a man of
his pension, And there are other SIM
liar difficulties and disabilities put in
the way of the aged poor.
Among others who declare that these
pensions (of some $65 a year, will pau
perize the people and destroy their
spirit of self-reliance and independence.
Won mention Lord Cromer. This gem
tleman, after receiving a large salary
for administrative work in Egypt, is
now enjoying a pension from the Brit
ish people of some $4,000 year, besides
having lately received a lump sum
gratuity, voted by parliament, of no
less than $25O,0OO. All this is paid by
the whole people, to the poorest of
whom Lord Cromer begrudges SLIPS er
week in old age. He himself does aot
feel pauperized to accept it. "Brazen
il pudence" is scarcely an adequate
term.
This brings me to your remark that
it is right the rich should be thus taxed
to support the aged poor. want to
emphasize that the bulk of this pension
fund, is drawn, not from the rich, but
from the mass of the people themselves.
In England, as elsewhere, it is the
poor who really pay the piper-in lin
direct" taxation. VAL STONE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30
HOLDS AMERICA FALSE TO
THEORY OF SELF.GoVERNME EMIT

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27.-[Editor
Herald: A. L. Potter says that am
"crassly unimpressed with the value OF
sound argument" am yet "alert enough
to notice and scarify little, tmpa-
tient outburst of Mrs. e. p. f." Why,
1t was her entire argument, as 1t is OF
thousands of alleged reformers who
want to take turn at this ruling game
that kings, priests and thousand ana
one potentates have been playing at
the expense of humanity for centuries.
In that same letter Mrs. e. p. F. said,
referring to me: 'I cannot see for the
life Of me how he knows what women
may do" 1 answer that there Is only
one way of judging how people Will
act and that is by their present con-
duct. At present the woman reformers
are throwing all their weight in favor
of prohibition and other blue laws.
You may justify to yourself these blue
laws on the ground Of public expedi-
ency, but If you have a grain OF mental
honesty you cannot deny that they are
a negation of individual liberty and
that those who advocate them thereby
announce to the world that they intend,
If they get the power, to rule or ruin
the lives of others.
I am an old-fashioned American. ]
recognize that the theory of this gov
ernment Is that men and women shoulo
be self-governing. If that means any
thing 1t means that l should be al
lowed to govern my own life. and that
is what I wish for both men and wo-
men.
This country has never been true to
her principles. Having boldly an
nounced the right of self-government
she Immediately went into the old pa
ternal system of deciding what was
and what was not good for the dear
people, and in the protective policy that
she adopted she paved the way for all
this excessive love of regulating the
lives of others to which America is to-
day so prone.
What is the result? We have the
most threateningly powerful special IN
terests in the saddle. We have the
most bitter class war of any country In
the world, probably Russia not ex-
cepted. And in the face of all this mul-
tiplication of vicious laws we have So
called reformers clamoring for more
and more restrictive legislation.
The alleged right to rule others is not
a right at all, but most wolfsh might
masquerading under the sheepskin OF
a right. L. Il. ".
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30

Continued building activity in Los
Angeles shows that business conditions
in this city are excellent. August per-
mits represented a total valuation OF
about 100000. In it's building activity
Los Angeles continues to hold a fore
most place among the great cities of
the nation and of the world. Condi-
tions which in any other city would be
unusual are normal here. With bright
harbor prospects and great improve
ment in the outlook in every direction,
the growth of Los Angeles will receive
a new impetus. In many respects this
is the Wonderfully of the world.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30
Improvement OF Roads Is
Matter of National Concern

for federal assistance in the making
Of modern roads.
It is true that the rural free deliv-
cry system was originally opposed to
paternalism, as was the law of taxing
oleomargarine. Good roads made pos
sible the prompt delivery of mails and
the transaction of business that is both
state and interstate. President Eliot
of Harvard and Secretary of State
Root believe that the inevitable ten
dency of events is toward the assump-
ton Of additional functions by the fed
eral government.
Mr.. Lowering contends that the inn
provement of state roads is as legiti-
mate a national function as the i'm
provement of navigable rivers and har-
bors In states. The national improve
ment of public highways and public
waterways would make for better con-
ditions throughout the nation, for
which reason there is an increased
agitation in favor of appropriations
looking to the building of permanent
highways in the various states of the
TTDiOu
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30

II ECENTLY throughout the United
X. States there has been renewed
~ discussion of the question OF
good roads. Particularly in California
has this movement gone forward with
marked strides within the last two
years.
1t is gratifying to find such men as
Honorable William G. Lowering a rep
resentatiVe from Massachusetts, taking
a deep interest in matters pertaining
to the improvement of highways
throughout the United States.
In a recent speech in the house OF
representatives Mr.. Lowering spoke
strongly in favor Of federal aid in this
magnificent work of building good
roads.
He says he was not dismayed by the
cry of paternalism, for he believed that
national aid in the building of roads
was within the purview of the law.
During his remarks he said there are
many petitions from the state of New
York and other eastern states asking