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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-12
STILL GROWING

NDGAR VAN ETTEN, until recent
NJ ly vice president of the Wander
bilt lines, says the growth of Los
Angeles in recent years has been ire
mendous. All-the-year-round residents
realize the steady expansion of the
city, its constant Industrial, CONNER
cial and political development. They
see green lanes and grassy meadows
disappear and streets of closely built
houses take their place. New corner
stores are opened by butcher, baker,
grocer and druggist. A quiet little
neighborhood trade soon grows into a
big business. The little grocer, the
butcher, baker druggist, becomes
big man" by the force of circum-
stances His store is enlarged. He
finds himself with a bank account. He
buys lots and builds and owns proper
ty, which increases steadily in value.
This has ben the history of thou
sands. The growth of Los Angeles, un-
precedented, but no longer astonishing,
for surely we are accustomed to 1t, has
made more comfortable little fortunes
than has any other industry in the
United States.
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SUNBEAMS FOR ALL

n UILDING is going on briskly in
II Los Angeles. The rapid expan-
~ sion of the city has ceased to be
a nine days wonder, but in reality is
as wonderful as ever. Los Angeles has
broken all records, both in number of
new buildings erected and In additions
to population. The number of homes is
constantly being increased, and, while
there are a few apartment houses, the
great majority of the new chums'
who flock to this most delightful of
cities prefer the trim cottage "all in a
garden gay and green" Having &C
quired the cottage, they take a pic
ture when the roses are in bloom and
send copies to their eastern friends,
who promptly make up their minds to
come to Los Angeles, and come and
bring others, and so on and so on. And
we welcome them all. There Is always
room for more. There is enough sun
shine to go around--no interest" has
ever managed to effect corner in sun
beams, though there are sunbeams in
every corner in Los Angeles, and no
dark corners at all.
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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
EASILY. THE BEST

II OS ANGELES HERALD in its issue for
L, Monday, May IL, held its leadership
Ia among locsl newspapers. In twelve
pages it published 1871 items Of news,
while in sixteen pages the Examiner pub
lished 1853. The Herald is always COM
plete newspaper, giving its readers accurate
reports of the life of this big nation. Its
local news Is written by experienced report
ers. Special correspondents are stationed
at all centers of news interest in the state
and throughout the United States, and the
complete news service of the Associated
Press gives all the leading news of all the
world. Locally, nationally and internatlon-
ally The Herald is a complete newspaper,
and it is written concisely and compactly.
1t Is clear, crisp and clean.
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AMERICANISM

TN several Los Angeles pulpits Sun
day Americanism was theme
"A One minister quoted from The
Herald's editorials on this topic. we
hope we will be able to record in due
course of time that all the ministers
in the country have taken 1t up and
that it is being taught in the schools
as a distinct subject worthy of especial
attention. The American nation itself
Is like a church. 1t has a creed and
many supplementary rules of conduct
These rules should be well known
Citizens should realize that the faith
c. the American fathers is not dead.
The commercial spirit is necessary to
the life of a nation. Growth without
it would be impossible. excepting per-
haps in Utopia, which is not on the
map.
The subject of Americanism should
be taken up not only in churches but
in schools, where children should be-
come familiar with the principle UNDER
lying it from the signing of Magma
Charta-when 1t first took definite
shape--to the signing of the second
and greater charter of the English
speaking races, the Declaration of In
dependence. The spirit of the race,
expressed in both declarations, resents
int difference with individual liberty by
interests" whether those interests be
rota Nrsx CO.. IL or
privileged plutocratic. We use the
word plutocratic without the slightest
demagogic intention. 1t is the only
word which expresses the power or
rule of wealth. Corruption and bribery
are forms Of plutocracy, from which 1t
may be inferred truthfully that "plu-
tocracy" may become on occasion an
extremely vulgar "cracy." There is
nothing more despicable than the use
of undue influence. The independence
of the nation begins with the inde-
pendence of the voter. When that in
dependence is interfered with, direct
ly or indirectly, national independence
is interfered with. Therefore we say
that unconsciously (although that does
not palliate the offense) an interest"
may occupy with relation to the gov
eminent of the United States and the
freedom of the United States. which
government is supposed to express and
perpetuate, the position of traitor.
When voters understand thoroughly
that reasonable practices may be do
nestle and 1t is not necessary to give
aid, comfort and support to an outside
enemy in order to be false to national
principles, there will be less talk about
machines and more about the national
spirit, which is one of declared, I'M
equivocal hostility to conditions which
permit interests to be fostered at the
expense of the people The injury of
one citizen is the injury Of all. OIL.
garchies of all kinds should be i'm
possible in the United States.
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not show an enormous increase for
some time. Sugarcane cannot be
grown over night. Each crop grows
two years in Hawaii. Evan the two
year period was not the beginning OF
the greater da.-, for all great businesses
must grow. Modern methods of agri-
culture have brought the Hawaiian
cane fields to their present produc-
tivity, but 1t was the abolition of the
duty on sugar entering the United
States that made this development pos
sible.
Twenty years after that treaty went
into effect Hawaii became frightened
lest the United States might abro-
g;-te it, as it had the right to do upon
one years notice. Hawaii was clam
oring for annexation. The war with
Spain came up. Hawaii's great stha-
tegic value was impressed upon con-
gress, and annexation came. Free SUI
gar was made fixture by that act,
for Hawaii was annexed and made a
part and parcel of the United states
before the "insular possession" to
which the constitution does not follow
the flag, was invented.
The treaty of 1875 was made before
there were any beet sugar interests In
the United States, or it would never
have been ma at ALL If the Amerf-
great in 1898 as it is now, Hawaiian
annexation probably would have been
defeated.
Hawaii, having benefited by these
things, is now a unit in opposing the
extension of like assistance to the
hilippines. The worst nightmare that
can come to a Hawaiian planter is
the dream of Cuban annexation. Ha-
wall has the backing of the powerful
beet sugar interests in this, and the
beet sugar people have the backing
of the entire stand pat" party on
principle, so its danger Is remote.
1t Is interesting to take a retro
spective glance at the industrial his
tory of Hawaii to show what King
Sugar, with an American free mar
ket, has done. Just twenty-five years
ago a pamphlet was published in Hon.
olulu reviewing the sugar industry or
the islands. Maps of the various is
lands were given with the plantations
marked in red. Tables showed how
much land was planted in sugarcane
and how much more there was avail
able for that purpose. At that time,
1882. there were $1,000 acres of cane.
and the estimate of the maximum
possible" acreage was 1880. AS a
matter of fact the present acreage Is
213 400. or nearly three times the
maximum possible" of twenty-five
years ago. The same authority said
that on the island of Oahu, where
Honolulu is situated, the acreage was
5000, and that it's maximum extension
would be $500. The sugar acreage OF
Oahu now is 1852.
The statistician of 1882 was honest
and painstaking. and his estimates of
the maximum possible extension OF the
industry were not made by guess, but
by careful surveys. But he did not,
and could not take into consideration
the present methods of irrigation and
steam cultivation.
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HOLE AND DOUGHNUT

II OOK at the doughnut, not 1t the
| hole, is the latest Republican slo
~ gan. Mr. Bryans comment on
this is, "All right, but the doughnut
would be bigger If the hole were small
err" Evidently Republicans intend, if
possible, to concentrate public atten-
ton on what they have done and di-
vert it from what they have left UNI
done. This would be an agreeable
mode of conducting inquiry into their
record, and it is exactly the mode sin
ners hope will be adopted at judgment
day. But let's look at the doughnut.
What have they done? They have eX
banded the United States territorially.
Blu annexation has not been an UNI
qualified success. The Filipinos are
about to send delegation to tell the
people of the United States that they
have not had a square deal. The ad
ministration of the Philippines is part
of the doughnut But it is not appetite
ing. What else have they done? Eos
tered American industries" But
American industries have fallen into
the hands of small group of mag
nates-when compared with the total
population of the United States most
ridiculously and disproportionately
swaziland no pretense has ever been
made even by the magnates that the
trusted industries have been admin
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STARVATION

THE ugly word starvation" has
come into too frequent use in the
u United States recently. There
was time when It was almost un-
known. There was also a time when
at least among English speaking peo-
pie on either side of the Atlantic the
condition described was practically un-
known. The wore starvation is a mod
ern word, coined in modern times to
express modern conditions.
Famines have been experienced in all
periods of the worlds history They
have been caused by crop failures. war
and earthquakes and other natural dis
turbances. Conditions which in times
of plenty cause hunger among large
masses of people were unknown before
the Industrial or manufacturing era.
The word starvation cannot be found
in Shakespeare, the files of the Spec
tator, Milton, or the English transla-
ton of the Bible. We guard against
the possibility of confusing famine"
with starvation. In the Biblical narra-
tives and in the histories of all nations
there are accounts of famines. But
the deprivation of masses of the people
of constant supply of food when food
is abundant is an entirely modern con-
dition, created by entirely modern con-
ditions. mainly invented, like the word
starvation itself, by the great and
glorious nations which use the Anglo
American language and lead the world
in manufacturing industries! The first
man to use the word was named Dun
das. He was member of the British
parliament, and one day made the
shocking discovery that under condi-
tions which were beginning to approx
mate those from which civilization is
now suffering the poorer people were
exposed to a new state, or permanent
condition, caused by lack of constant
opportunity of earning wages. This
of starvation" coming the word,
hich was at first received with de-
risive laughter. Derision extended to
Dundas himself. He was never allowed
to recover from his outspokenness. To
his dying day he was nicknamed Star
walton" Dundas. But as the condition
could not be derided, the queer word
(Which does not seem queer to us who
are accustomed to hearing it) was
added to the language, which 1t must
continue to disgrace as long as the
novel and entirely modern conditions
it describes disgrace the nations which
use the language.
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SUPPRESS SWINDLERS

" URRAH! At last an attempt is
II being made to suppress the ir-
- responsible rapscallions known In
the east as 1.-THE California con men,"
AS long as no notice was taken in
California of the operations of fake
real estate and other concerns which
have been advertising California land
paradises in eastern papers, and bring
ing unfortunate people who found they
were come ons' who couldn't go back,
the good name of California suffered
and reputable men who advertised In
the east did not pull as much business
as they should have attracted. Now
let California advertise that none but
square deal operators will be allowed
to transact business here. And let it
live right up to THAT advertisement
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CORRUPTION FUNDS

:" LILLIAN ]. BRYAN will probably
w succeed in concentrating public
attention on the fact that gov
eminent by corporations" is not an
empty phrase, but that there is truth
in statements made repeatedly that
principals Of several great eastern bus
mess asso ,iations made up their minds
they must go into politics in order to
stave off hostile legislation. In other
words, in order to thwart American
ism and bring about the greatest good
for the greatest number of corpora
lions, reckless Of other or popular in
terests which might be jeopardized,
corporations deliberately interfered be-
tween the citizen and the expression of
his will at the ballot box. This trea-
son was practiced for the purpose of
securing and preserving power for the
Republican party, to which the cor
porations looked for protection" of a
different nature from that indicated by
the high tariff war cry. One specific
accusation made publicly by Mr.. Bryan
is that in recent national political
campaigns in which Republicans have
been victorious money has been used
to debauch the debauchable part of the
electorate and to betray the country.
Special interests, scared at tie thought
of the punishment which might be in
ficted on them by a just, American,
Democratic government, gave huge
sums for campaign contributions.
What was done with this money? 1t
could not possibly have been expended
for postage stamps, stationery and the
fees of patriotic spellbinders. These
mercenary mouthers could not possibly
have absorbed the millions of dollars
spent on the campaigns. Doubtless
they got their share, but none Of them
was advanced to the millionaire class.
Mr. Bryan says one corporation in New
York contributed $500, 900, a sum larger
than the total amount Democrats We're
able to raise for legal expenses from
more than 100000 voters in either Of
the political campaigns in which he
was a candidate. What was done with
the single half million dollar contribu
ton of one New York corporation? 1t
almost staggers imagination to think
of the possible amount of the secret
service or corruption fund which Re-
pubIicans may have raised. How big
was it? We would like to be able to
point to it with pride as another evil
dence of the vastness and grandeur
with which America docs things"
was 1t a billion or more? Or could it
only be counted by mere millions?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-12
PLANTERS LOOK TOWARD
SOUTHERN EUROPE FOR
FUTURE LABOR SUPPLY

The sugar barons apparently have
not been put to the necessity OF study
ing politics. They had bill In the
Legislature two years ago to enable
them to bring in some Portuguese and
Spanish immigrants, badly needed 10
relieve the labor situation. They didn't
mention it to their leader in the senate
and It went to the table. If he had
known 1t, 1t could have been passed
without a word. AS 1t was, it required
hard work to pull II through. On the
whole the sugar barons seem not to
be such bad barons after ALL The COM
munity knows that they have built Its
prosperity and In measure the COM
munity is grateful.
These things may change. Some OF
the sugar barons are placing obstacles
in the way of demonstrating and other
efforts toward Americanization, fear
ing the effect upon their system OF Ia
Dor This attitude Is antagonistic TO
the moving spirit OF the territory, ana
when the clash comes 1t will be the
sugar barons' heads that are cracked.
Some of the sugar barons, especially
the British and Germans still believe.
or affect to believe, that the United
States will again open the doors to
Asiatic immigration so Tar as Hawaii
is concerned. The majority OF the
American planters look toward the
south of Europe for help.
The sugar planters have problems.
Of course, but in Hawaii their outlook
is rosy. Just now they are glorying
in the biggest crop of their history and
a top notch price. Even If the dreaded
thing happens and Philippines sugar.
or even Cuban sugar is admitted into
the United States without duty, the
sugar planters may find consolation in
the rapidly increasing consumption OF
sugar. Thirty-f1ve years ago the sugar
crop of the world was two or three
million tons each year. over half OF
which was made from cane. 1t did
not reach four million tons until 1883!
when for the first time the beet sugar
production was a little the larger half.
The crop reached the ten million ton
mark in 1902, six of which was made
from beets and four from cane.
The last annual statistics reported
worlds crop of over twelve million
tons, seven from beets and five from
cane. The increase of consumption OF
sugar in the United States. as might
be expected, has been startlingly rapid,
having tripled in a quarter of a CEN
tury. This growth continues all over
the world, and the sugar producing
sections are called upon to do their
utmost So far as Hawaii is concerned
It is believed that practically all the
available sugar land Is now under Gull
tivation. But such predictions are un-
certain, as witness the maximum pos
sible' estimate of twenty-five years
ago. In the meantime King Sugar
smiles on Hawaii and this territory
is one part of the United States that
knows not the meaning of industrial
adversely in the good year of 1908.
Copyright. 1908. by Frederic ]. Haslsin.)
TomorrOw--Labor Conditions in Hawaii.
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BELIEVES THE EARTH is
FILLED WITH POWERFUL GASES

LOS ANGELES, May 10.-[Editor
Herald Senator Coles conclusions in
Sundays Herald in regard to the dem
sity of the earth at it's center, are not
new, nor unreasonable. Undoubtedly
the interior of the earth is composed of
gas, possibly heated gas, as we find
that the temperature increases as we
sink a shaft toward the center of the
earth, and we have many places, in
fact, almost everywhere on land, we
find gases of various kinds ascending
from the earth, such as nealavious gas,
which may not come from the center,
but may be made from decomposing
vegetation, not very far from the sur
face; but we have gas wells which APP
parently supply us with what we call
natural gas" which comes from a
source much deeper and apparently In
very great quantity. How could the
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OF WORLDWIDE INTEREST
KING SUGAR. IN WAH
BY FREDERIC J. HAsklN

1000 shareholders. The control of the
sugar industry Is conferred in the hands
of half dozen big companies in Hon
olulu, sugar factors. These companies
act as agents for the plantations, and
they are not prohibited from owning
shares in plantation stock, not by any
means. There are fourteen sugar
agents on the list but there are six
big ones. These big companies grew
out of small stores established many
years ago in the days when nobody
dreamed of doing business by the mill
lions.
The small sugar planters of the old
days had to have supplies for their
places. They obtained them from
Honolulu trading store. When the
crop was made they sold their sugar
to the same store or employed the
store to act as agent for it's sale. AS
the sugar business grew from q small
matter of farming to the proportions
of a mighty industry, the factors grew
with 1t. But the old days are strong.
and these old institutions can today
sell you anything from million dol
lar steamship to a box of carpet tacks.
They are still supply stores of the
general type, waxed great and rich.
1t is said that total stranger can
buy machinery or other supplies from
sugar agent mucn cheaper imam one
of that agents plantations can buy
it. muck raker would undoubtedly
find some molasses on the tines of his
implement If he trailed 1t over Hawaii.
On the other hand, the prosperity OF
the islands and everybody in 1t has
been made by sugar, 1t is supported
by sugar and without sugar would per-
ish miserably. The sugar barons have
brought great curse upon their land
by the importation of an excess of
Oriental labor, perhaps, but whatever
blessings the country has they also
brought.
Politics in Hawaii Is not ideally free
from corruption. 1t wasn't in the old
days of the monarchy and 1t isn't
now. But 1t is to be doubted IL any
state in the Union has laws which
throw as much light into the inside
workings of corporations as do the
laws of Hawaii. This in spite OF the
fact that a dozen men control all of
the one great industry of the country.
1t is not meant that these laws are
Utopian or that they accomplish great
results. 1t is merely the wonder that
such publicity laws are on the statute
books.
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THE REAL REASON

That midsummer days are the longest
in the year, is because heat expands.
That criminals weigh less than moral
men, is because they're lighter fingered.
That man swears at dull razor, is
because the pesky thing lost it's tenn
per first.
That roses are referred to as "blush-
ing" is because they are properly
ashamed of the prices they bring.
That a wave is called a swell, is be-
cause it arrives at the shore in great
style and goes away broke.
That the army of the unemployed is
not decreasing, is because its members
want too many afternoons off a week.
That the present-day aero clubs are
considered so exclusive, is because the
members necessarily all move in the
II 1per circles.
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DECLARES CHILD LABOR LAW
NOT MEANT TO BE EFFECTIVE

LOS ANGELES, CAL. May Sled
itor Herald: Your article under head.
ing, "The Heathen," reminds me OIL
sociolosical student--was talking to
schoolmaster in the south about a GER
tain little boy scarcely in his teens.
who was yet being employed long
hours in a factory.
the boy. and it is a burning shame.
He was one of my brightest scholars
for his age. He is, of course, much
below the working age prescribed by
law, but what can do? His parents de-
clared him of age, which is all the
law demands. and the boys future is
ruined accordingly. And 1t is no use
blaming the parents-they, too, are the
victims of circumstances-the fathers
work is irregular, and they net nnlt
the child can earn. BUT TIL LAW
IS A FARCE. 1t isn't meant to worKl"
T. ]. EASTET IiKY.