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Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
Hawaii Says Francis Heney
Is Man of FHuIfIeSS Courage

platform. Heney was there. but the
boss kept away. The young reformer
made a telling speech, opening with
the statement that "a young man
starting out in life as 1 am ruins his
future, ruins his prospects of adj
vancement in his profession and of
preferment in his party by having the
courage and manhood to stand forth
against corruption in public affairs,
after a man has been nominated by
his party. If that be the consequence"
he said, Il accept it with pleasure"
Heney put loyalty to his country
first in this speech. 1t was higher
than his duty to his family and. as
for parties, they were means to an
end. Therefore" he said, ''when we
find that a corrupt man has been
nominated by a party it becomes not
only our privilege, but the bounden
duty of every man to fall back upon
the first principles which caused him
to join that party, towft: The welfare
of the country generally. Patriotism
and manhood must rise above party
fealty and boss rule" Then he pro-
ceeded for two hours to charge, in
general and in detail, with the evil
dence, that the boss he had challenged,
a man named Barnes, stood for cor
ruption in politics.
Here is the Heney method: To as
sail, arraign and, If possible, to con-
Wet public thieves; to accept no brides
to let them alone; to be ready to fight
If they turn on him personally; to
know of no such words as fear or fail;
and to everlastingly hammer away
until he wins his case. One cannot
read the history of the long battle for
good government in the United States,
especially Francis ]. Heney's part in
it, without realizing the immense val
ue of such a method and of such
man
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
INSISTS ON APPLICATION
OF ONE LAW TO EACH SEX

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4.-[Editor
Herald: T. K. G. says similar rules
do not apply to men and women, and
illustrates by citing the supposed case
of devoted mother whose son and
daughter might visit the "redlight dis
trict," and asks if she feels equal grief
in each case.
The writer believes she expresses the
sentiment of American motherhood
when she says that knowledge of the
fact that her son was a visitor of such
dens of infamy would cause as much
anguish of mind as to know like evil
of her daughter. If, however, there
are mothers of a different opinion, there
is ample opportunity for their daugh-
tiers to be offered up on the altar of
human sacrifice without any wrong
doing on their part.
William Allen White has an editorial
in the September Ladies' Home Jour
nal that fully explains the "modus
operandi" of the sacrifice, and gives
food for reflection for every father and
mother in the land.
He makes the statement that 60 out
of every 100 young men are sowing
their crop of wild oats. The harvest Is
not gathered alone by these young men.
There seems to be no. way of protect
ing our girls from this damnable
slaughter of the innocents as long as
parents, through mock modesty, will
not discuss such matters with their
children, or warn their daughters of
the danger of condoning in young
man what they would condemn in
woman. MARION MARTIN.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
IRELAND

IRELAND during recent years has
been the subject of much pro-
Il gressive social and agrarian leg
islation. According to dispatches pub
lished in eastern newspapers, Irish
men, Catholic or Protestant, landlord
or tenant, are practically unanimous
in regarding the Wyndham land pur-
chase law as a blessing to Ireland.
Stripped of all localisms, what has
happened in Ireland may be BADLY
stated thus The government has at
tempted to restore the land to the
people and the people to the land, and
to provide opportunities of earning
living to many citizens who under
g-prevalent conditions were de-
prived of opportunity.
Here let us state with emphasis that
the uninterrupted prosperity of Amer
lea during many years and It's long
freedom from social problems were due
in great measure to it's fortunate po-
sition with regard to land, vast
acreage of which was not privately
owned and was open to settlers. Ow-
ing to a variety of causes the social
problem is becoming pressing in the
United States just at the time it is
easing up in Ireland, and Americans,
according to present indications, may
soon find themselves presenting the
Notifying spectacle of a complete re-
versal of conditions, with Ireland in
a superior and patronizing position.
One after another the countries that
use the English language for literary
purposes, breaking away from radi-
lions and facing conditions as they
exist, are manfully and resolutely at
tempting solutions of the social prob
lem, even at the cost of having to
throw away great mass of old ira
ditions and customs.
In the United States we are still
welded to our idols. Capitalism, which
is merely another way of saying land
lordism, is the predominant social pol
icy, and anyone who questions its di-
vine right to usurp the best the nation
affords in society and state is regard
ed as little less than a traitor. George
washington, standing on street cor
ner, preaching the doctrine OF revolt
and rebellion against oppressive social
conditions, would be arrested for in
cendiary speaking. Thomas Jefferson
would be thrown in cell among the
Mexican patriots. Alexander Hamil-
ton would probably be hanged on ac-
count of his anarchist sentiments.
Think of the frightful rashness of his
statement that ALL men are created
equal! Thomas Paine, because of his
freedom of religious as well as polit-
ical views, would be doubly anathema-
observation-disclosures maranatha. We fancy
we can hear DIR. Torrey giving him
birthstone fits. We hope the United
States will profit by the example of
Ireland, New Zealand and other free
countries and make an honest effort
to abolish that form of slavery called
extreme poverty, caused by the vic
TINS social deprivation of all oppor-
tunity to work and &rn money.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
MIND, MATTER AND PERILs
OF USING LANGUAGE LOOSELY

PASADENA, Dec. 4.-[Editor Her
add: v. s. asks: eff mind is something
quite separate from, antecedent to and
independent of matter, how is 1t that
mind only evolves and develops as the
physical body of the creature evolves
and develops from the lower forms OF
life upward?"
Cannot V. S. perceive that to make
it possible for a particular mind 10 &C
quire or possess knowledge OF any,
thing "antecedent'' to matter land
without such knowledge the question
cannot be answered, unless by hearsay
evidence, which is equally inadmissibie
in law and in logic) that particular
mind must have existed and observed,
before there was any matter, ana tnae
therefore the asking of the, question
assumes the answer? Which Is reason
ing in a circle and absurd.
But, more than this, V. s. uses the
nhrase "eVolVes and develops" twice In
the above question. What Is the dlfter-
ence between evolves and "deveI-
ops? If there is no difference, why
mystify by using two synonymous
words? The words quite separa,te oSa
cur in the question. Can too things be
separate without being quite separate!
Then why mystify by using notn
words? The phrase physical body"
occurs in the question. All bodies are
physical Unless they are physical they
are not bodies. To use the phrase
physical bodies" implies belief in bod
les which are not physical, which again
is absurd.
Before v. S. is competent to enter
tain or PROFOUND such problems ne
must learn to use exact language. and
not indulge in such vague indefinite
ness as in the above question. There
after the writer will be happy to dis
cuss such problems with him. AVIS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
Heney Has LabOred Long
Without Any Compensation

lie good, the more they are prone to
think some unworthy motive prompted
his conduct.
Inquire among the politicians and
you will find that nobody goes into
public life except from self-interest-
not necessarily for money or employ
ment, but otherwise from love of no
toriety or power or from a desire to
display ability. And the most painful
thing about this is that it is not far
from the truth.
Have not evil days come to this re-
public, when the highest and best pa
triotlsm Is discredited and even men
of the Roosevelt or Heney type are
accused of mere self-seeking?
Is not the nation paying too great
a price for prosperity if it means the
decline and fall of lofty ideals and of
generous devotion to the public good?
Doubtless there is still much genuine
patriotism in the nation, of the kind
that fights corruption as readily as 4
foreign foe. But only brave man now
dares to avow patriotic motive for a
public service, lest he be derided as
hypocrite and a humbug
What does he want?" asks the ready
tongue of detraction?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
BELATED CONFERENCE

NDREW CARNEGIE and James J.
~ Hill are to take part in the con-
ference on the conservation Of
national resources which viii be begun
in Washington, December 8. Mr.. Car
negie and Mr.. Hill havs made so much
money, directly and indirectly, from
natural resources that their advice as
to what must be done with the remain
der will be valuable. Waters, lands,
forests and minerals have all been
affected by vast enterprises controlled
by captains of industry, and we do not
think any one can dispute successfully
the assertion that private appropriation
of natural resources has been the foun-
dation for most--we do not say all, but
most-of the great fortunes which have
created a definite and undeniable plu-
tocracy in the United States.
1t is apparent, and alarmingly ap-
parent, that instead Of being stewards
of their fortunes, instead of admins
tering economically for the good Of the
nation the vast properties which, as
they have said repeatedly, have been
entrusted to them by divine Provi-
dence," these men, we honestly believe
without exception-and If there is an
exception we will be glad to learn his
name-have used their opportunities
for the purpose of ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
for the purpose of piling I'd great pri-
vate fortunes, and for almost every
imaginable purpose except that which
Americanism defines in the expression,
''the provision Of the greatest good for
the greatest number"
Now the ''magnates" are beginning
TO have dim. glimmering perception
of the fact that the social prosperity of
the United States is an inverted pyra-
mid; and that what should be the sup
porting base is up in the air. Self
interest, of course, rather than patriot
ism, inspires the zeal Of men like Car
negie and Hill in behalf Of the con-
servation Of natural resources. They
! foresee a day when either they or their
successors will find it impossible to use
the labor and skill of their fellow men
for the purpose of transmitting the
baser metals into gold for them, for the
purpose of conquering nature and re-
ducing her products to marketable,
mercantile form in order that their cof-
fers may be filed. The reason for the
impossibility of further exploitation will
be simply this: there will be no natural,
wealth producing materials with which
the hired men may work!
Here at last, if we are not very much
mistaken may be seen the beginning
of the end of the extraordinary and I'M
reasonable exploitation both Of men and
Of resources which has distinguished
the United States among all the nations
Of earth, and has built an apparently
gigantic structure of prosperity on q
frightful economic fallacy, the logical
consequences of which are at last APP
healing to the Imagination and the ter
roros of those in governmental circles;
otherwise there would be no convoca-
ton Of gentlemen to devise ways and
means OF locking the door OF the stable
from which several Of the more valu-
able horses have already been stolen.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
BELIEVES SLUR HAS BEEN
CAST ON AMERICAN WOMEN

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4.-[Editor
Herald: Among the Associated Press
dispatches published in your issue of
December 2 appears an article under
headlines Count Boni Is Keenly
Scored" in which M. Clemenceau, in
defense of Princess de Sagan, is re-
ported to have said: 1T should be re-
membered the princess was not young
girl travelling with her fiance, but a
divorced woman in the company of the
man she was going to marry. Further
more she is an American. Conduct that
would appear to be out of the ordinary
in France is perfectly proper on the
other side of the ocean,"
While we should not care for all the
abuse this French puffball may heap
upon prodigal Boni, or upon this chick
en-headed silly princess, yet would
like to hear of this pompous defender
reading through the columns of your
paper such a tart resentment as you
are capable of giving, as also from the
women of America through some CHAM
mel, they being adept in reply to these
dirty slurs. .
John r. HUMPHREYS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07

H HE positive statements of Rudolph
Spreckels, District Attorney Lang
Il don and other persons in a posi-
ton to know the facts, that Francis
j. Heney has labored for two years in
the graft prosecution absolutely with
out compensation and simply as vol
untary sacrifice in the cause of good
government, still meet with sneers and
open expressions of disbelief among
what are called good citizens. Prob
ably only a small minority of the resi-
dents of this state believe that Heney
told the truth when he declared he
was giving his services to the graft
prosecution absolutely free of charge
and without expectation of reward,
says the Sacramento Bee.
And yet there is no good reason to
doubt his truth and sincerity, and he
is entitled to the highest praise that
can be given a man willing to take
such tremendous sacrifices for public
cause.
1t is a melancholy thing that genuine
public spirit and pure patriotism have
become so rare in this country that
most people are even unwilling to
credit their existence. The greater the
sacrifice a man may make for the pub
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
CHRISTMAS HAPPINESS

CtINCE the month of December Is
we'll begun, Christmas day may be
~ said to be almost with us. The
days between this date and the glorious
25th win soon pass. All who are
taking part in the preparations for
The Herald's Christmas festivity and
the reception which win be given under
the auspices of Santa Claus are keenly
aware the old Roman knew what he
was about when he said "Tempus
fugit"-time flies. The Herald thanks
its readers for their appreciation of its
Christmas festival. and believes all who
are promising giving contributions of
money or gifts will "get it all back ten
fold" The mere pleasure of giving is
compensation.
What can be more delightful than
to subscribe to a fund for the enter
tainment of boys and girls of Los An
geles. the finest boys and girls in the
world, whose homes are in the finest
city in the world? What can be more
productive of happiness than to help
make them happy9
It is all wrong to say you cannot pur-
chase happiness. You cannot buy it |
in the ordinary way. You cannot walk
into a store and say: Give me a
pound of the best happiness, please"
But you can give happiness to others,
and as surely as you give happiness
to others, happiness will come to you;
and, although you may not like to
have it stated in such a seemingly |
mercenary manner. we must insist |
that, in a way, you have bought hap
piness. Still, 1t is most delightful
transaction. There is nothing really
mercenary about 1t.
So we invite our friends who care to
invest in Christmas happiness to make
the purchase by subscribing to The
Herald festivity fund, or by sending
gifts or good things for the boys and
girls. But, mind you, Santa Claus
wants genuinely good things. He does
not want to have his Christmas larder
stocked up with anything that Will
taste awfully good when it is going
down, and then require the services of
a doctor before it can be benevolently
assimilated--or otherwise. So don't
send any over-rich stuff, unless you
wish to do a kindness to some doctor,
and even at that you won't do it. for
we won't call your doctor. The Herald
will have a doctor on hand. in case of
accidents.
We don't think he WIN be needed,
however We think all the good things
win be strictly hygienic; and while we
are grateful for the gifts promised and
the sums of money subscribed, like the
immortal Oliver Twist on a celebrated
occasion, WE WANT MORE, and are
not ashamed to ask for it.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07

T T needed man of steel nerves and
faultless courage to do the work
- of reform called for in oregon and
San Francisco, and one might have
searched far and wide to find one bet
ter suited to the task than Francis J.
Heney. No man of his years, even in
the west, surpasses him in equipment
for a legal bout with the dangerous
classes. Born and brought up in San
Francisco, "south of Market" where
a youngster finds life battle; a school
teacher in rough mining camps; a stu
dent at Berkeley, earning his way
there in the teeth of his fathers OPP
position, but expelled for fighting a
student who had insulted him; an
Idaho miner; a trader and a fighter
among the hostile Apaches: a self
made lawyer on the frontier and an
educated and admitted one in San
Francisco; one who had killed his man
in an unavoidable quarrel, for which
his acquittal was unanimous; a polit-
ical reformer in Arizona; the blood
hound on the trail of the Oregon tim
Der thieves, and now, despite the bullet
that laid him low, and even more be-
cause of it, the moving personal cause
of San Franchises determination to
send her grafters to the cell and rock
pile.
The career of an adventurer, per-
haps, but it needed a man seasoned
by such a life and nerved to meet any
peril; a man whose own principles al
ways pointed toward honest public
service like a needle to the pole. to
undertake the dangerous but necessary
tasks that fell to Francis J. Heney.
The mettle of the man we have
shown; the soul of the man appears
in these facts; In Arizona he deter
mined to overthrow a political boss
and challenged him to answer some
charges that he would make from the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
PRoPoUNDs SPIRITUAL AS
OPPOSED TO MATERIAL LAW

SANTA MONICA, Dec. 5.-[Editor
Herald: Your correspondent V. S.
desires to have a proof that spirit ex-
lists. 1 think this is a proof.
There is a law in the material world
which says: 1.-THE more you give the
less you. have" We all know this law
and have found it often very incon-
Venient.
In the spiritual world there is an
other law which says: 1.-THE more you
give the more you have" A lecturer
writes a lecture. He gives it to a
thousand listeners; they all have 1t
and give it to others. Millions have
enjoyed reading the thoughts of
Shakespeare, but still 1t always be-
longs to Shakespeare, and no one can
rob him of It.
The spiritual law, "The more you
give the more you have cannot be
applied to the material world, nor can
the material law be used in the spirit
ual world
Is not this satisfactory proof that
spirit exists? b. w.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
SCHOOL TEACHERS

n UBLIC school teachers render
service to the nation which is
a certainly not adequately paid for
by the salaries allowed. We do not
know upon what basis teachers sal
aries are calculated, but are bound TO
believe the community of the United
State, in order to be "businesslike,"
pays its teachers as little as possible,
while the same community allows Mr..
Carnegie and his friends to walk off
with the biggest industry in Pennsyl-
vania, retire to a corner and throw
dice for the revenues it produces. eve
do not know whether they really throw
dice at the directors meetings of the
Steel Trust This is a Pickwickianism
Perhaps we ought to say "divide the
spoiIs")
Strange to state-because this sounds
like a rebellious heresy-the nation
could get along very comfortably
without the men who compose the
membership of the Steel Trust. But the
nation could not get along without the
teachers. You see, the more we value
people in the United States the less
we pay them. 1t is way we have.
The Herald is providing an easy
method by which the public can show
it's appreciation of school teachers. A
delegation of twelve will be elected by
the vote of the readers Of The Herald
and will be sent on holiday tour to
the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition.
Three teachers will be chosen from
the city of Los Angeles, three from the
county at large outside the city, one
from San Bernardino county, one from
Orange county, one from Santa Bar
bara county, one from Kern county
and one from Ventura county. The
conditions under which they will be
chosen are described on our advertise
ing pages. They are not difficult con-
ditions. and by good management and
generalship readers ought to be able to
place favorite candidates in the
charmed circle of the lucky twelve.
The Alaska Yukon-Pacific EXPOSE
ton will be we'll worth seeing 1t will
be held at Seattle Wash, from June /
to October Is, 1909. 1t will cost &c.,
100000, and undoubtedly will be one of
the greatest enterprises ever attempted
on the western coast. No trip could be
planned in which health, pleasure and
profit could be more delightfully."-
blended than they are in The Herald's
teachers tour to the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
OLD-AGE PENSIONS

CALIFORNIA in 1888 passed state
law providing that any institution
~ maintaining persons over so years
Of age should receive for each person
thus maintained an annual allowance
of 500. The law applied to county
almshouses and other public institu-
tons, as well as to private charities.
1t was repealed on account of abuses.
In the law there is evidenced a dim
attempt at recognition Of the duty of
the state with regard to dependents
who are unfit to work.
The principle has had fuller recogni-
ton in New Zealand in old-age PEN
sions, and in the United Kingdom the
old-age pensions plan has been adopted
because it was found to work well in
the colonies. In the United States the
effect of an old-age pension law would
be to stimulate immigration, unless
immigration were hedged about with
more restrictions. Along with sus-
pension of immigration for term Of
years the plan might be tried.
The old-age pension, it should be
noted, would not pauperize the recipi-
ent, the theory being that during the
period of his activity he had produced
enough to warrant the receipt by him
of small wage from the state-his
fellow citizens-for his work, which
had not been lucrative enough to pro-
vide him an income in his old age.
It would be similar to the army PEN
sion, given for duty done in the mill
tary field. Civil duty is generally as
arduous as military, and frequently it
is exposed to as great risks as military
duty, or in some notorious instances,
in the Carnegie works and the coal
mines, for example, to greater risks.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
ISN'T 1T ODD

That it is usually the man with noth-
ing to do who can never spare you
moment?
That though ''love is blind 1t can
always find the way?"
That good lover is not good If he's
too good to be true?
That an authors royalties are often
far from royal2
That in the mathematics of matri-
mony one and one make three?
That once fellow wins a girls hand
he is under her thumb?
That the well-to-do man is generally
hard to do?
That a heart must be broken several
times before 1t is rendered unbreak-
able?
THAT gild-edged security often is guilt
edged?
That. the big responsibilities of mar
riage are the little ones ?-Walter Pulit-
ger, in Success Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-07
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-"The Only Way"
BELASCO-"The Partisan Romance"
HAMBURGER's MAJEsTIC-"The Alas
KAN"
MASON-Rose Stahl in "The Chorus LADY,
BURBANK-"GIIttering Gloria"
GEAND-''Wang."
ORPHEUM-VaudeTille.
Los MISUNDERSTANDING
PEOPLEs-Richards and Pringles min
strels.
Inconsistencies"
EAIPIRE-Vaudeville
UNIQUE-'Ths Merry Widow"