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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
STARVING CHILDREN

n UR EVENING Republican con-
temporary, Los Angeles Express.
~ is thoroughly honest both In its
editorial expressions of opinion and in
its news columns. Many Republican
papers which have been trying to put
a good face on very bad circumstances
for the sake of the editorial page and
the political argument thereon would
have suppressed the terrible story
about the condition of the school chill
dren of Chicago, published on the first
page of yesterdays Express.
Invitations to be enthusiastic about
the Republican ticket and to vote for
the &c. o. p" even when extended in
the dignif1ed and mannerly manner of
our excellent neighbor, lose all their
force when read in the light of an ac-
count of actual social conditions under
Republican rule. The eyes of many
fathers and mothers were blurred with
sympathetic tears as they perused the
dreadful story of the ten thousand
starving and insuffciently clothed
school children of Chicago, the city OF
the beer trust and or many other gross
material evidences of what Republic
cans call prosperity"
Some day Republicans including our
honest friend and contemporary, will
realize that the only true prosperity of
which this or any nation may justly
and conscientiously boast is that
which produces the greatest good,
moral. mental and physical, for the
greatest number of citizens; and, above
all, takes care of the children, with
out whose careful nurture and liberal
education, in order that they may
grow up with sane minds in sound
bodies, the doom of any country, no
matter what may be it's form of gov
eminent, Is sealed.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
Many Changes Have Been
Made in Business Methods

new vocation. Each year 1t evolves
into something broader ana better
and the growth of business and the
ramifications of industry make 1t nee
essary for investors to follow a dollar
throughout It's many ramifications and
make estimates that show what be-
comes Of every fractional part thereof
A young man or woman with an or
ganizing systematic, mathematical
brain might do well to investigate the
field offered by this important. rather
new and rapidly growing profession.
1t has its codes of ethics, its chairs in
important universities. and business
men are demanding experts In this
line, says the San Francisco Globe.
The old professions are overcrowded.
The new ones offer great opportunities
to those who have the perseverance,
foresight and skill to master them.
Those now seriously planning for the
future would do well to Investigate
those professions that have come into
existence by reason Of the phenomenal
growth of commerce, science and art
The trend of human vocations con-
tinually multiplies the number of use
full occupations. Learn some one prac-
teal trade or profession we'll and your
future will be far more certain than
IL you should drift thoughtlessly. as
the majority of your fellow men are
doing.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
INVENTION

n RIVEN distracted by the thought
that the labor vote will go to
~ Mr.. Bryan, the Republicans
are indulging in reckless invention
which is neither decent nor becoming
in representatives of a truly Grand Old
Party, We do not know who was re-
sponsible for the frivolous and inconse-
quential falsehood to the effect that
Herman Ridder. treasurer of the DEM
ocratic national committee, is hostile
to labor; but 1t is the most ridiculous
untruth of the campaign, and is suffi-
GENTLY answered by the announcement
that on Sunday Mr.. Ridder will ap-
pear before the Central Federated
union and make a statement of his
position with regard to organized labor.
Mr.. Ridder has always employed
union men, and no newspaper office in
the United States is conducted with
less friction or more success than that
of Mr.. Riders great publication, the
Stats Zeitung.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
THE SOLID THREE

A GAIN have the Solid Three given
~ the people cause for rejoicing that
- their tenure of office is very linn
tied. They have again attached scan
dal to our good roads project by award
ing the contract for engraving and
furnishing the good roads bonds to a
bidder several hundred dollars higher
than other and more responsible bid
ders. The contract was given to a
company the head of which is a prom
inent Republican politician. The plea
that the bid was awarded to w. p.
Jeffries e. Co. because of a patriotic de-
sire to encourage home industries is,
on the face OF it, speciously hypocrit-
ical, inasmuch as there were three
other home bidders. and two of them
both concerns of excellent reputation,
both noted for good work, both well
equipped for engraving the bonds
were willing to execute the contract al
prices much lower than the sum pro-
posed by the successful firm. 1t Is
evident the Solid Three intend to en-.
courage not home Industries but home
political industries.
There is no reason why anyone should
be surprised at their conduct. because
they were acting in strict conformity
with q precedent which they have es-
tablished. Still, it might have beer
thought the severe criticism of the at
tempted private sale of the bonds
would have deferred them from taking
any action which might again provoke
criticism or subject them to public
censure. Apparently the Athos, Por-
thos and d'Artagnan of the board OF
supervisors are beyond deterrent infiu-
ences, and as long as they are In office
will be in thought. word and deed not
the servants of the public, but the
same old Solid Three.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
HEROISM

TROM the north comes story of
4 heroic self-saerifice and of faith
n fulness unto death" Edward
Ryan and six other men were at work
in the hold of the steam schooner Pasa-
dena when a steam pipe burst. Think
ing only of his comrades who were In
imminent danger of death, Ryan
CROPPED his way through a thick cloud
of scalding steam to a valve which
controlled the flow and turned 1t, say
ing the lives of his fellow workmen.
Then he dropped to the floor exhaustd
and suffering from frightful injuries.
Greater love hath no man than that
he should lay down his life for his
friends" From time to time in the
days news comes a story showing that
this greatest love still inspires greatest
deeds even in this sordid age.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
TO FIRST VOTERS

n UR Republican neighbor advises
ID first voters to cast their ballots
" for Taft and Sherman for various
reasons, one of which is, "As a Demo-
crat you stand still and amount to
nothing" Tomorrow the same emf
nent authority will be telling its read
ers that Democracy is too radical,
which is to say, too progressive to suit
the conservative tastes of the old
fogies who really would have the peo-
pie stand still and amount to nothing,
while Republicans pick their pockets.
Among the "achievements' Of which
the Republicans are Dragging today
the greatest of all should be included.
Why was 1t left out? Not a word
concerning it appears in the paid read
ing matter of the Republican party,
in the advertisements which the Re-
publicans are printing in the maya
zines and the Republican newspapers.
Nothing was said about 1t in the plat
form. Nothing has been said about
it by the president or by the presi-
dents candidate.
Sunny Jim Sherman has not cast Il
single illuminating beam upon it.
First voters. you are young and SYM
pathize with youth. Remember that
two million American boys and girls
who should be at school and in the
playground are at work in mines, mills
and factories. They are being dwarfed
physically. stunted mentally and
warped morally. What have Repub
licans to say about it? Not q word!
Why are they silent on the subject Of
the children who have been robbed
by their protective" system? How
can they explain this strange para
dox? How can protectors be thieves?
What does 1t mean?
LAS a Republican you are in the
midst of great activities" says our
neighbor. What kind of activities?
What activities, beyond those Of rob-
berry and oppression, are peculiarly
Republican? Are not all the legiti-
mate American activities Democratic
as well as Republican? Are they not
national? Is not Americanism at the
SOdlSO VI GIL c~SlAfALJ !" AlSAl RdA ~
is the more devoted to Americanism-
the party of strikes, starvation, lock-
outs, roguery, hard times for the
many, multi millions for the few. the
mill and the mine for the child-and
the schoolhouse for the rats and the
spiders-what matters it, as long as
the supply of cheap labor is abundant?
Or the party that promises and pro-
poses to remedy the injustices which
are marring the republic, reducing it's
population, lessenlng its moral influ-
ence and to substitute for the depriva-
ton of the man and woman and the
spoliation of the boy and girl, the
restoration of the first principles of
Americanism and a practical Ieeognl-
ton Of the fact that among the I'M
aIienable rights of human beings are
life. liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness, and that to SECURE THESE
RIGHTS FOR EVERYBODY and not
10 gouge and injure the many for the
sake of a pampered few, governments
are instituted among men.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03

FIT SCARCELY seems as IL Mr.. Con-
molly wen writing about real peo-
n pie in his article on "Loopholes in
the Law" printed by Golfers Week
ly. 1t almost carries the atmosphere
OF a Gilbert and Sullivan opera. The
Alabama supreme court that turned
loose a convicted murderer because a
copy-not the original, mind you-of
an indictment contained an error in
spelling should find its ut environment
among the fantastic folk OF Pima
fore"
Unhappily, these judges and scores
of others like them are very real peo-
pie, and. indeed, they have multiplied
in such inordinate degree that the pub
lie has come to lose confidence in the
courts and tbs administration OF JUS
tice in America. 1t is a widespread
scandal and undoubtedly the most
damaging reproaclf on our national life.
The monstrous decision In the
Schmitz case by the California SUI
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
REPUBLICAN PROSPERITY

nEPORTS from Bakersfield indicate
X, the hobo problem is likely to be
AZ serious this fall and winter. 1t
is not necessary to assemble Coxey 8
army this year in order to impress on
the people of the United States the
fact that Republican policies have
been followed by a large increase In
the army of the wanderers. Unfor-
tunately this fact will soon be patent,
especially in California and the Pacific
states, where life in the open air dur
ing midwinter is not as trying as 1t is
IN the east. With an object lesson
10 illustrate the failure of Repub-
licanism viii the voters be per-
suaded that the Republican program
was disaster breeding? And will they
heed the warning and vote in a man
ner which will give Republican lead
ers an opportunity to retire and think
over their shortcomings?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
INVITES EDWIN r. BROWN
TO STAY WITH LETTER BOX

WHITTIER, Oct. 2.-[Editor Her
add: Where is our enthusiastic young
friend, Edwin r. Brown? | am among
the hundreds awaiting his reply TO
his critics. I feel sure he will be able
to reply to them one and all.
Mr.. Brown should be in a position to
say whether the contention Is true
that workingmen attend church. re-
greet to say my own observation mas
convinced me they do not. l have
attended Mr.. Browns church and
heard him preach. The men saw
there could hardly be called working
men, though. No doubt each one OF
them thinks he works Do the WORKERS
go to your church, Mr.. Brown, III
not, why not? BY workers l mean
real creators of wealth, not the manip-
ulators and soft-handed entrepreneurs
of the masters. BY all means let the
ministers take up this question. am
willing to follow If 1 am shown.
HAROLD.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
LoOphOIeS i'm the Law Are
a Serious National EDI

preme court supplies the text and in
SEPARATION for Mr.. Connolly'ss article.
The facts that 1t conflicts with the de-
cisions of other courts. that 1t makes
extortion and biackmail no crime. and
that 1t refuses judicial notice of
Schmitz official character and place
are some of the grounds for Mr.. Con-
nolly's Judgment that cit has given
comfort to the enemies of good gov
eminent, high up and low down." The
sentence is just. says the San Fran
cisco Call.
If the criminal law were "a joke"
as Mr.. Connolly says, these facts laid
bare by him in their naked monstros-
ity might be intelligible; but, In fact,
abe administration of justice on GRIM
inals is or should be a serious matter.
In the st. Louis Doodle eases there
was the same failure OF justice as in
San Francisco, due to the same cause
The evil is national and 1t justihes
the most severe and searching criti-
cism of the courts.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
ACKNOWLEDGES LETTER AND
ASKS FOR MORE INFORMATION

POMONA, Oct 2.--[Editor Herald:
Permit me one more question for the
good of us all and that will be my
last in this line. have just read
Economists list of books of the two
Socialisms. / now will ask d. Bond of
Sawtelle to tell me whether I am
wrongly informed concerning the So
cialism of the Socialist party. 1t is
thus The Socialists will not take con-
troll of the state until they are ma
jority. This majority will then CO.
operate because they choose to do so,
but will not compel the minority to
cooperate. It is thought that the
minority will soon see that co-opera-
ton saves labor and time and Is more
pleasant and that they will lose by not
cooperating and then join the major
ity. q. U. WHITE.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03

We believe the judge who says the
office of court stenographer should be
abolished, end that litigants desiring
verbatim reports should furnish their
own short land writer's, is proposing
a step back yard. Imagination is stag
sered at the thought of the compiled
lions and disputes which might be In
,Yoduced into legal procedure by reason
Of lack of reliable and exact record.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
John w. KERN
AT THE THEATERs

AUDITORIUM-"The Test"
BELAsCO-''The Love Route"
BURBANK--"The County Chairman"
GRAND-"rhe Girl from over Yonder."
MASON-"The Squaw Man.
PEOPLE'S-Dark.
ORPHEUM--Advanced vaudeville.
LOS ANGELES--Fashionabl vaudeville.
EMPIRE-Vaudeville
FISCHERS-"Three of a Kind"
UNIoUE-"The Devils Dolr'-"Mr. Pickle
In Pickle"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03

Although the original intent Of the
Monroe doctrine was probably bellig-
tIent. it has done more than anything
else to preserve the peace of the
wcrld, a lact which is being ac-
lmowledged gratefully by London
ewspapers that are commenting on the
voyage Of tie American feet.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03

Again the Republican administration
is spending more than it is earning.
Once more Uncle Sam hefts his old
wallet gloomily and murmurs mourn
gully, "Ano iner Republican deficit"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03

President Mott Of the Citizens Bank
ot New Orleans, who is visiting Los
Angeles, says the south will be solid
for Bryan. Seems to us we have heard
that before. but oft repetition cannot
stale good rews.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03

Some of the people who are fore
seeing the election Oh Taft" have the
second sight mot the inherited kind
but that which is acquired after see
ing through glass daykly. not wise
ly, but too well.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03

Monday morning the Civic associa-
ton will hold the first meeting OF the
season. Los Angeles is noted for So
cieties like the Civic, which do good
and useful work in the community.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
with carry Nav York

Chairman Corners of the Democratic
state committee Is out with a prophecy
that Bryan will carry New York state
by hundred thousand. Binghamton
Republican,.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
The Boss
EnIlvened !

Roosevelt thought this campaign
needed livening up. SO he took straw
and tickled the heels of the Oklahoma
mule.
"FIe seen his duty and he done IT.
And SO did the mule.--Washingto
Star.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03

California Equal Suffrage association
is in session AS the old hymn says,
Keep silence, all We sons of men,"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
Unworthy

The presidents reply to Mr. Bryan Is
wholly unworthy of him. 1t reveals
him in the light of a rabid partisan, q
small pettifogger and a shifty distorter
of facts.-Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
Political Points
AlrshIps


The statement that ten years hence,
or a quarter of q century for that mat
ter, the airship will be as common as
the automobile now is would be taken
as a newspaper Joke. But there is more
in 1908 to warrant such a prediction
than there was in 1898 to say that the
automobile would within ten years be
as much in use as the bicycle was
then.--A1ameda Times.
-
The Boss
at am king today, but what of tomor-
row." asks the poet. "Well, If I can
get in William Howard Taft" medi-
tatively remarks President Roosevelt,
1T don't think 1t will make much diff
ference to me. 1t will be the voice OF
Taft, but the hand of. Roosevelt will
be welding the big stick just the same.
Taft does what tell him to do. See? p
Seattle Times.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
The State Press
Punishment

A purse snateher has been sentenced
to five years Imprisonment for stealing
35 cents, or at the rate OF a year for
cents. on this basis, how long should
a man who wrecks a bank and robs
widows and orphans of hundreds of
thousands Of dollars, be incarcerated
in the penitentiary and which Is the
greater crime ?-Oakland Enquirer
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
Protected Trusts

Mr.. Taft and his platform demand
o protective tariff SO adjusted that the
trusts shall have protection" equal to
The difference in the cost. Of labor at
home and ABROAD but In addition shall
have "a rea sonable profit" But neither
Mr. Taft nor any of his supporters Will
,ell us what is mean by reasonable
p1 oft ."-Malera Tribune.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
The Public Letter Box

intended publication
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-03
And n Would


1t is announced that President Roose-
velt may &c on the stump to aid in
ldr. Taft's election. If he does, as a
matter of course, there will be a Demo-
~ attic roar: the burden of which will
Sc that this act would lower the dig
rity Of the presidential ofice.-San
Jose Mercury. "
SymbollcaI
The "fuli dinner pail" resurrected
from the limbo of things that were,
vas feature at the barbecue given
nv George AIDE, the hnmorist, in honor
Of William H Taft. The Joke is that
there were not enough dinner pals to
SO around San Luis obispo Breeze.
Yellow Claimant
Pretty soon we shall find William
r Hearst claiming not only to be the
heir. but tie testator of the Roose-
..tlt policies. Philadelphia inquirer.
The Washington herald., 1908-06-08

Is Cy Leland, for many years national
committeeman. now candidate for gov
ernor, and who is known 70 every promi-
nent Republican politician in the United
States
A few other names OF prominence will
be heard in the rolA calls OF the conven-
tior. Leading men from all sections Of
the country will be active In shaping up
the platform and making the nomina-
tions. Powell Clayton, OF Arkansas, who
has not missed a national convention
since the civil war, will be there, as will
also George A. Knight. of California, one
orator in the Republican national con-
vention who never falls 70 make himself
heard by the auditors in the most remote
corners OF the great convention halls
Senators Lodge and Crane. OF Massa-
chusetts. will be there as delegates-at-
large. as will also former Secretary OF the
Navy John d. Long. Of Massachusetts,.
who was the administration and Mark
Hanna candidate for the Vice Presidency
in the Philadelphia convention, when the
West and Theodore Roosevelt carried of
that nomination for New York
Two Women Delegates.
There will be two women in the con-
vention, as alternates for delegates-at-
large from the State Of Utah. It is an
interesting as we'll as significant fact that
these women are alternates for the United
States Senators from Utah. who are
among the delegates-at-large from that
state,
The alternate for Reed SmOot, the
United States Senator whose seat IN the
Senate was challenged on the ground that
he was Mormon If not a polygamist. is
Mrs. Lucy A Clark. who halls from the
Utah town Of noted name. Brigham City.
The alternate for Senator George Suth-
eriand is Mrs. Susan Young Gates, of
Provo
The Washington herald., 1908-06-08
NEW GOLF RULES READY.
st. Andrews Committee Adopts Sug-
gestiOns of L. :. Golf Association.

st. Andrews Committee Adopts sug-
gestiOns of L. s. Golf Association.
In presenting an advance report to the
recent meeting Of the Royal and Ancient
Golf Club Of St. Andrews, Capt. Burn.
chairman Of the rules committee. spoke
In praise Of the suggestions received from
the United States Golf Association. His
remarks made II evident that the revised
code is nearly ready. Capt. Burn said:
AT the end Of February. your commit
tee received from America printed code.
very carefully drawn up, which embodied
the views Of the American association.
Your committee was gratiied TO find that
In the majority Of cases the wishes Of the
United States association had been antici-
pated by your committee: in the other
cases some were adopted as good sug-
gestions. and a few were rejected after
due consideration. On the whole. we
have reason TO believe that the United
States Golf Association viii be satisfied
with the code proposed by your com
mittee. and with the consideration which
has been given 10 their views
The draft of the proposed code was
finally adjusted by the subcommittee and
circulated among the members Of the
rules OF golf committee. Pending a meet
ing Of the rules OF golf committee. vari-
Gus criticisms and suggestions were re-
ceived from the members. and. when
thought advisable. were given effect. FL
nally. the whole matter has been consld-
cred at two prolonged meetings of the
rules of goif committee during the last
few days, and the final draft of the rules
adjusted.
THE new code will be found TO be
somewhat longer than the old one. but
the rules follow natural sequence, and
are grouped under three headings. viz. 4:
General and Through the Green. Hazards
and Casual Water, and Putting Green.
This entails certain amount Of repeti-
ton. but, speaking generally. it enables n
particular rule 20 be found In a third
OF the time formerly required"
Capt. Burn added that copies of the
revised rules would be submitted TO the
st. Andrews members and the Americans
this month. Al his request. the St. Ar
drew's club has called a special meeting
for August 81. at which the resolution
to be proposed will be the adoption OF
the revised rules. If this is done. the
code will be adopted at the general meet
ing of club delegates in September. Once
adopted abroad. the rules VIII be opera-
tive here, unless to avoid confusion the
United States Golf Association committee
puts off the adoption of the new code
until January /.