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CALLS ATTACKS ON WOMEN
ILLOGICAL AND UNSEEMLY

LOS ANGELES, July 5.-lEditor
Herald: The opposition of your Let
ter Box" contributors to the equal OPP
portunities and fair deal to our TOLL
ers in manual labor are we'll met by
those who know whereof they. WRITE
and 1t is gratifying to see the vigorous
men of our able William H. Stuart
again in this service. The illogical and
unseemlv attacks upon the women of
our time, who are seeking, also, pet~
fer conditions and legal rights for
themselves and children, are abundant
ly and convincingly met by otner con
tributors. But there remains soinetnlhg
to be said of the attitude ana state
ments of Mrs. Humphry WARD. Ihese
betray inexcusable ignorance Oh tne
facts in the case, or a STURDY preyu-
dice which we would fam pelleVe MRS.
Ward incapable of. :.
Mrs. Ward was in this country, II
would seem. when the monster Demon
stration" of all Hyde Parks vast gain
erings took place, as asserted by lead
ing dailies of London. In TINS there
were seven great professions entering
the different gates in the most orderly
fashion: a remarkable exhlpltlon OF
Womanly generalship, as confessed py
ali observers. Three thousand pan
ners. with most expressive mottoes'
were borne aloft, and each speaker was
quietly marshaled to the designated
platform of the twenty.
There were delegations from wales,
Scotland and Ireland-even one from
the French "Solidarite des Femmes."
In the great English contingent as IN
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WHY DO AMERICAN MEN
OPPOSE WOMAN SUFFRAGE?

LOS ANGELES, July 29.-[Editor
Herald: I ask American men why
they object to woman suffrage. Not
because women are inferior, surely. II
that is bar great many men would
also be unqualified.
Negroes who were ignorant slaves for
years and years were given the ballot
without being qualified.
1t has always been commended we
have our fights through our male mem
bers of the family. But that is not the
liberty men enjoy.
1t is hard sometimes to find man
to vote as we think, SO why may we
note vote for ourselves?
Men and women should work togeth-
er for good government, the same as in
the home There is little truth in the
cry that women do not want the ballot.
There are a great many men who do
not. judging from their lack of interest
even in city elections. Every good
woman should take an interest in the
government; it is her duty, and she
should have full power. 1t is her chill
dren for whom the laws are made.
Men are willing to do our voting, but
very few who would accept a jail sem
tence If we should break mans laws.
have asked so many men why they
object to woman suffrage. Most of
them contend we do not understand.
Just think of it, Our American girls
going to school side by side with the
boys, doing the same work, and yet at
graduation many times excel, and still
are unqualified to help make laws I'M
der which she lives. There are a great
many evils going or which women alone
| could eradicate, as women only under
stand these evils. We should be al
lowed to help ourselves, not wait to get
some man to do so.
MISS WILLIAMS,
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the Scotch and Irish, were names well
known and honored, in literature. art
and sane reforms: Mrs. Cobden-Inwin.
MRS. II. G. Wells, the Zangwills, Miss
taraden, Miss Meynell, whom we have
known in Los Angeles; Miss obins. the
author of THE Convert" and the
famous play "Votes for Women" which
has held the London stage and pro
Voked wide discussion.
Could Mrs. Ward be ignorant of this
immense success, to which all the met
ropol1tan journals gave columns, the
Times leading in sympathetic and clev-
er description? A demonstration which
was called forth by Premier Asquith's
promise that when women showed
that they really wanted the ballot, they
should get it," and, being with his wife
a spectator on the ground, he has per-
sonal proof that they do. The ants
should not protest, since its use is not
compulsory.
Those interested, and doubters who
nave not seen the London papers, which
ours seldom copy on these reform ques-
lions, would do well to order the able
Woman's Journal, July II and IS, of
Beacon street, Boston, which gives full
reports, we'll classified and covering
many issues, from London papers.
Mrs. Ward, quite illogically grants
the right of women to the many pub
lie positions which they now hold in
Englandi and they now have the vote
for all but the members of parliament
The decadence of the interest in and
progress of the suffrage movement with
us in America she must have taken
on trust from the ants in few of
our eastern cities, whose facts have
been abundantly disproved by those
who are in the movement; and, in the
case of Wyoming, with it's many years
experience, by the officials of that =
state, under oath. The defects, which
have been few, have been, as in Oregon
and California, directly traced to the
INSCRIPTIONS liquor interests, which
naturally and logically dread the votes
of intelligent and of heart-broken wives
and mothers. Let us do justice, with
no fear that the heavens will fall there
for and see that we ''bear no false wit
ness" G. M. s.
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EX-GOVERNOR BUDD

4 T A comparatively early age ex-
IA Governor James H. Budd is dead.
- Much of his existence of less than
three score years was devoted to the
service of California, and whether in
office or out of it he was citizen
who led a life Of devotion to the well
fare of his fellow citizens. Such a
character is sometimes called "a pub
lie man. but would it not be more
correct to say "the publics MANI"
AS Democratic governor, as con-
gresham, and in many minor posi-
tions he served the public faithfully
and well. Helpfulness was the key
note of his temperament. He was
helpful to his state, his country, to
all who knew him, and to the public.
An attractive and gracious personality
endeared him to his friends and their
grief is as keen as is the regret of
his fellow citizens, who realize Cali
fornia is the poorer for the death of
this loyal, devoted, upright, patriotic
citizen.
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DANCE HALLS

LII good citizens sympathize with
~ the Church Federation of Los An
geles in its effort to induce the
city council to adopt an ordinance pro-
hibiting minors from entering dance
halls. The sentiment of the commun-
1ty with regard to the question of
morality is not divided. No human
being in this city desires to see condi-
tions encouraged or perpetuated which
may bring temptation to natures too
weak to withstand it, and may cause
anguish in many homes. The dance
hall evil is fragrant unmitigated, OBJ
Vious. While the authorities were pif-
fling about free speech and the police
were causing a commotion which made
Los Angeles a subject of comment all
over the land, the council could have
settled the dance hall question a dozen
times over. What is the matter with
the members of the city council? Do
they want the public to understand
they approve the dance hall evil? Do
they think the unholy business with
which the names of some Los Angeles
politicians have been associated would
suffer if moral restraint were imposed
on dance halls? 1t looks like it. The
dance halls are the recruiting grounds
for the houses which have been subject
for discussion recently. 1t would not
be possible to extort big rentals from
tenants of houses" unless they were
we'll filed, and how are they to be
kept well filed and (God forgive the
offenders) "ATTRACTIVE' unless new
recruits are added from time to time?
And where do the monsters who make
a living by debauching youth and de-
stroying innocence-where do those
loathsome and wretched miscreants go
for new blood" unless to the dance
halls? Where would these Satanic par
asites of society go? Not to Sunday
schools. Bold as they are, they would
not dare. Not to day schools. They
would be detected. Not to homes, for
the blaSkguards are towards, and they
know II they went boldly into homes in
search of victims sooner or later they
would be killed. Where should they go
If not to the dance halls? Where
would you expect to find them If not
at the dance halls? Are the council
men so verdantly green that they don't
know why respectable people and IA
theirs and mothers of families are max
ing objection to dance halls in any
guise or disguise? And If they are not
green, what rs the matter with them?
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CONTRASTS

n OCKEFELLER' lordly pleasure
X house at Tarrytown is certain
~ to evoke unfavorable comment.
When a man of vast wealth enjoys his
fortune he is spending a part Of it
and putting money in circulation. AS
Mr.. Carnegie is fond of saying, he is
the steward of his estate. But the
critic has anaopportunity for that gen.
eral and sweeping denunciation which
is dangerous to social stability when
he compares the luXuries with which
Rockefeller is surrounding himself and
his descendants with the pitiful pow
erty and gaunt starvation of many
deprivation and starvation by the
present social order are simply out
rageous and diabolical. There is not
the slightest shadow of an excuse for
this barbarity, and "exotic plants
worth $4,000 apiece" and "palatial play
rooms for Rockefeller's grandchildren
won't mend matters.
If Mr.. Rockefeller were really a
steward of the wealth which had come
to him on account of the Standard Oil
monopoly, which, when 1t ceased to be
a monopoly, took it's competitors I'M
der its black wing and became a trust,
he would have a social secretary"
who would have nothing to do with So
ciety affairs. He would not be that
kind of social secretary-the kind de-
scribed by Robert Louis Stevenson
with grimly humorous fidelity. He
would have for secretary student of
the social question, and with his aid
would be engaged in the work which
some rich man must undertake some
day and which only q rich man can
accomplishing work of effecting re-
generation in social life and restoring
the conditions which were aimed at
and intended by the founders of the
United States, unless the American
language has lost its meaning and I'M
less the Revolution was fought and
won under false pretenses.
Let not this plain speaking offend
you. 1t is time for plain speaking. In
phrase colloquial and forceful, cit is
up to US to make good"
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GOOD ROADS

VII ITH that appreciation of oppor-
w tunity which has been its char
" acteristic during all it's splen-
did career, Los Angeles voted yester-
dav for GOOD ROADS by sanctioning
the issue of bonds which will defray
the work of construction. Like the
quality of mercy, the action of citi-
zens in voting the bond issue is twice
blessed, as it will bless not only the
community, and all who have a bust
ness interest in this section of the
country, but large number of work.
men who will be put upon a wage
earning basis, and will be the means
of circulating ready money There
will be an immediate increase of BUSH
ness activity in the area happily af-
fected, and property values will re-
ceive an immediate boost in all the
region traversed by the roads. The
good roads bond issue has thus been
the means of adding to present pros
perity, even as 1t will be the means
of assuring a constant increase of
prosperity. We rejoice we are able
to chronicle the success of the good
roads bond issue Immediately after
the publication of glad tidings about
San Pedro harbor. Both are popular
victories, in the literal sense of the
word popular. It was to the interest
of the people that the good roads
bonds should carry. 1t was to the
interest of the people that San Pedro
harbor should be free. Prosperity Isl
not only ahead. 1t is here. If man
does not know it is here, it is because
his eyes are not open. Everywhere
are evidences of prosperity, and the
success of the good roads bonds issue
will have the effect of improving
greatly the real estate market in Los
Angeles and throughout the country
traversed by the good roads. Citizens
are to be congratulated on the sue
cess of the good roads bonds. They
did their duty and to the pleasant
consciousness of duty done may be
added no less pleasant consciousness
that there will be increased prosperity |
for everybody.
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ETHICS OF CUSSING

A JERSEY justice says a man has a
"a right to cuss In his own home.
"A That may do for the land of apple
Jack, the depraved country where even
the cider is hardened. But in Califor-
MIA, the land OF sunshine and good
morals, of sweetness and of light, the
very thought of profane or turbulent
language, whether used at home or
abroad, is disgusting. We often regret
cussing Is so easy. The fact that it is
generally conducted in words of one
syllable makes 1t accessible to all ranks
of the community. If our forefathers
had had the forethought indicated by
their designation they would have reg
ulated cussing by making it less COM
monplace. If it had been restricted to
polysyllabic monstrosities, uttered in
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-31
Is Modern Civilization
DIVING Faster" Than It Grows?

another way of saying that they do
not need the children. Financially.
the parents are better off without
children, and that is why they do not
have them.
This theory is at variance with the
doctrine that poverty, not wealth, is
the principal cause of childlessness,
but that theory is refuted by facts
OF common observation. The poorer
families have the most children; nor,
in the majority of cases, is poverty
the result, rather than the causal con-
dition, of the large number of Off
spring.
The sum of the situation is that
modern civilization is dying faster
than 1t grows. Civilization has taught
the modern man and woman to live
for themselves, rather than for pos
terity. 1t has taught them to squeeze
out of life with a refined selfshness
all that they can get for their own
generation; to spend their lives in self
culture or self-indulgence, as their in
stlncts are high or low, rather than in
toiling for the next generation and
serving 1t. This intellectual egoism.
however, is not in accord with the
plans OF Providence for the perpetu-
alton of mankind. A sterile civiliza-
ton yields the land to the more pro-
life immigrant, whose children, rising
in their turn to culture and egoism
under the influence of easily acGuired
wealth, are blighted in their turn by
the same sterillty, and give place to
races coming later from the crowded
countries, where children are still re-
garded as valuable item of a fam
lly's wealth. The birth rate in this
country viii increase when, upon the,
exhaustion of the nations patrimonv
or public land, the struggle for ex-
lstence becomes keener.
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nj OWADAYS the security of prop
erty is so great that old age
~ can be safely protected without
children. Respect for vested inter-
ests'' has become a stronger starr TO
lean upon than filial duty and affection.
1t has come to the pass that the dam
ger of the confiscation of property,
either by foreign foes or domestic
tyranny or violence, is less than the
danger that sons and daughters will
go their own ways and leave their
parents to scratch for themselves.
Life insurance, fire insurance, ma
rine insurance, government bonds, rail-
road bonds, annuities and all the otner
safeguards which modern business ana
the law have thrown about property
make children, from the commercial
point of view, a negligible asset. In
deed. on a modern ledger chlldren
would be put down, in all likelihood,
as a liability. AS an Investment
viewing them strictly on the dollars
and-cents aspect-they cost more IMAM
thew bring back. AS education be-
comes more expensive and prolonged
the earning capacity of the children
for the parents diminishes. The mod
e.rn Young man, son of parents IN a
prosperous condition, does not pegln
to earn money until he is about ~
wears of age. About that time he
begins to think of taking a wife and
quitting his father and mother the
modern Young woman, daughter OF the
same parents, is brought up in the
parlor, and the bills for her CLONES
amount, usually, to more than a rea-
sonable wage for such services as she
performs, says the San Francisco Dull
letin. 1000.
True. the parents of modern young
men and women do not need any help
from the children; but that Is only
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DISCUSSES POLITICAL PLANKs
AND THE Philippine ISLANDS

LONG BEACH, July 90. -fEditor
Herald: The queries of Earnest Stu
dent" regarding the Philippine question
cannot be answered seriatim within
the limits of the Public Letter Box.
There will be plenty of time for acade-
mic discussions after election.
Both of our great political parties
have declared in favor of independence
for the Philippines, and both of them
also make such freedom contingent
upon the establishment of a stable gov
eminent by these islanders.
The Democratic platform plank
upon this subject is more explicit
than that of the Republican, but 1t
says after independence is granted we
should retain coaling and naval sta
lions out there, as we are now doing
in Cuba. Both of these parties in re-
spect to this matter are somewhat like
the man with the bear-dare not let go.
They have both profited by the lessons
of our past political history. Before
the Civil War the Democratic party
was for expansion. Space forbids nam
ing all of the political celebrities of
those days who were felled by the land
grabbers, the last but not least being
Abraham Lincoln, who was called from
his political grave only when the quar-
rel between freedom and slavery be-
came acute as to the disposition of the
booty of the spoilsmen.
In 1890 the humane, eloquent and en-
thusiastic statesman from Nebraska
got in the way of the steam roller of
the expansionists. Like Lincoln, he has
been resurrected and probably will be
elected president as was Lincoln, be-
cause of other issues more pressing for
solution.
The old saying that charity should
begin at home" is applicable to the
Philippine subject Control the trusts
here and nothing will go wrong with
our insular possessions.
FELIX Z. CANDY
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already shown that public that 1t can
mend things which need mending mere
in our own city where we Will oeneht
by the mending.
Now that speech is no longer free to
anyone in the business district; that
we have the dog catcher's scalp IN a
fair way to removal; that we have per-
hans bettered 7. EATERS somewhat In the
public schools-are we through? After
YOU have paid three prices to a con-
tractor for a poor job of street paving
under the Vrooman act, under city m
snection. how do you like to have the
gas company come along, tear up the
street and leave 1t full of burrows ana
ridges?
Are YOU going to chip in to help buy
a new flag for that schoolhouse this
year, after paying 50 into the school
fund, or perhaps Sc or $3.50, II you
neglected to attend to it, last year, In
addition to your real estate taxes, oc-
cupation tax, dog tax, gun license,
hotel or rooming house tax, II you nap
pen to have a roomer in your mouse?
If you will turn the government or
the state Of California and Its NUM-
cipalities over to the Standard OH
company or some other corporation,
1t will run it on the revenue you now
furnish in taxes, pay big DIVIDENDS
give YOU better service, and save you
the bond issues. That's the difference
between the way your public servants
run public business and a business
man runs a private business. If you
want your public servants to attend to
business, watch them; and let them
know you are watching them with the
big stick close at hand! The Letter
Box gives you an opportunity to speak
to them. Use it. After you have
plucked few notes from our mum
cipal ewes if you care to go after
few theological or sociological beams
no one. will complain. ANA -LYSIS.
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'sesquipedalian succession, it's use would
have been confined to the wretched
class which finds morbid joy in loga-
rithms and takes a hideous pleasure in
the contemplation of the fourth dimen-
sion of space. 'Twould have been
"caviare to the general" who could
have scrambled along without it, and
been all the better for the deprivation.
The public has now made free with
hortatory, eXacerbatory and denuncia-
tory language for SO many centuries
that we fear the Jersey justice may
find fasteners who will support him
in his contention that profanity is a
sweetly solemn votive offering to lay
on the domestic altar. But in Califor-
mia, the boss of the domestic altar
may be depended on to exercise her
right of injunction against the exercise
of anathematic maledietion. Go to,
thou Jersey justice, but never on any
account go to California, unless thou
wouldst wish to be dehaired.
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Belgians, by defeating British oars
men, have given British athletic SUI
premacy another black eye, and, be-
CORY, it begins to look as if, even
though it had as many eyes as a
paycock's tail, they would all be
BACKED. Ill fares the land where
wealth 'accumulates and men decay"
OF course what has happened in Great
Britain in consequence of fortune
building, overcrowding, under-feeding
and neglect of children couldn't posi-
bly, happen in the United States. oh,
no. We are immune from 'all the ills
produced by defiance of natural laws,
common prudence and humanity. We
can go right on starving our poor folk
and kicking children out of school and
into factories and mines, and may yet
retain our leadership. We enjoy a
charmed life. Eth?
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7 T appears that in a town in Idaho
where free mail delivery is being
Il introduced a young lady-we as
sumo that she is young-came out num-
Der 1 in the civil service examination,
which is an essential prerequisite to
entering upon that useful vocation, and
was about to receive the appointment
when she was rudely set aside by a
decision of Acting Postmaster General
Granfield that no woman could serve
in the capacity of letter carrier, be-
cause a regulation" of the depart
ment, assuming that all letter carriers
would wear trousers, proceeds to
infinitely set forth the details of their
construction. Whereup, WITHOUT con-
sulting the lady the acting postmaster
general declared it all off and gave
orders for another examination, says
the San Francisco Chronicle.
If the lady will employ a lawyer, we
are of the opinion that she can hold
her job, and do so with complete OBJ
servance of all the proprieties. While
it is true that the regulation" seems
to REQUIRE trousers to be worn and
goes into much detail as to the trim
minis and the location of the hip
pockets" there is not word which
indicates that any part of them must
be in view when the wearer is on duty
They may be, so far as the regulation"
concerns itself, entirely concealed 1t
is reputed to be not at all uncommon
for the most discreet of ladies to wear
garments which are bifurcated, and
while they may not precisely conform
to the pattern set forth in the 'regula-
tion," there III no apparent reason why
they should not and be continuously
worn during the eight hours of duty
which-and no more-are required of
and permitted to letter carriers. OF
course, the department is entitled to
"evidence" that its regulations" are
faithfully observed, but in the case of
ladies an affidavit submitted regularly
every pay day should be sufficient. AS
the regul ton does not require that
the trousers must be worn, as an out
side garment. It must contemplate that