Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-03

Contlnuings ne balus OnueE tno
| teachings of President Roosevelt the
people have awakened to the fact that
if they want a high standard of moral
ity In state and national government
| they must establish and maintain q
high standard in the cities first.
Corrupt municipal government
means corrupe national and state gov
ernment. It therefore behooves us to
study our government and to under
take to find some remedy for those
evils.
Stamp Out Gambling
zone popular move now on in cities
is to attempt to stamp out gambling.
| Another is to close saloons or have
them licensed at high rate.
"These are good in their way, but
| those are evils by which the individual
| Injuries himself alone or those imme-
| diately about him. There is a greater
evil which fosters gambling, prostitu-
ton and liquor traffic. 1t is found in
the attempt by public service corpora
tions to exploit the people.
"Street railways and all public SER
vice corporations have an interest In
controlling the government, and to dc
It they must enter into unholy alliances
with gamblers, the vile wretches who
| live upon womens shame and the
! liquor dealers who control the low
dives.
"In many cities the lowest dives are
owned and controlled by the wholesale
liquor dealers and not by the men
who conduct them. For that reason
we must take the government out of
the hands of such men as Abe Ruef,
| for such men often have managed to
get control of mayors and police COM
missioners.
Herrin, Parker and Ruef
"Boss Tweed once said: The people
| can vote for whom they please II they
let me do the nominating Boss Her
| rim learned that lesson by heart. So
| have Walter Parker and Abe Ruef,
and the latter undertook to nominate
the candidates of all three parties the
| last time he was out of jail.
"In the last election in which Ruef
| participated he made a fight to NOM
| mate the judges. In that fight Abe
| Ruef, with the consent of w. f. Her.
| rim, nominated crooks He went into
| the Democratic convention and NOM
| mated the same crooks. He went into
| the labor union convention-and let
me tell you right here that while the
| labor unions are blamed for some
| things, the labor unions are the result
of the public service corporations.
Popular Government inefficient
"a popular government like ours Is
the most inefficient on earth. Does
! that strike you as strange? A mon
archy is far more efficient when you
| have a good, benevolent monarch-but
you are never sure of him. But that
| is offset by the fact that our govern
| ment is the best and freest government
| on earth for equal opportunities for
! all men.
"The railroads want exclusive oppor-
| tunities. Others have thrived on ex-
| elusive opportunities. We want to con-
serve them for our children, and we
can do it if we have spirit enough to
! fight for them. Well have a hard
fight because selfishness inspires these
| men.
During the campaign that gave San
Francisco it's corrupt administration
made speech in which l predicted
| that If the people elected that ticket
they'd send me to prosecute Abe Ruef
and put him in the penitentiary.
didn't know then that a committee of
prominent men back of the Republican
fusion party had entered into a written
agreement with Herrin that Herrin
could control just the same If the ticket
| was elected.
"I did know that Abe Ruef had a
verbal agreement with Herrin that
Herrin should control if the union
| labor ticket should be elected.
"Ruef had an agreement of the same
kind with almost every other labor
| leader. including p. H. Mccarthy, one
of the greatest crooks of them. 1 men.
tion Mccarthy so that there will be no
occasion for any one to say that l am
working for the union labor party. I
want to declare myself now as being
opposed to all forms of class govern
ment.
Class Government Condemned
1--WE haven't room for class govern
ment in this country. We don't want
any distinctively labor union govern
ment and we don't want any distinc-
lively business mems party. The con-
stitution of the UNITED States begins
with a preamble which says that all
men shall be free and equal, whether
| it is the man who carries mortar and
bricks to the top of the building or
the president of one of our railways.
But there seems to be a disposition to
forget that the man who carries mortar
| is free and equal and has certain rights
for himself and his children.
1.-THE deal with Ruef had been com.
pleted three weeks before the earth
quake, at time when nine-tenths of
the people would have voted against the
granting of the franchise.
Patrick Calhoun, knowing that the
deal would be defeated if left to vote
of the people, paid Ruef 100000 in
order to land the franchise.
was Calhoun compelled to pay Ruef
and the supervisors?
Eyes. 1t was this way:
after Mr.. Huntington had disposed
of the system the new owners watered
| the stock and then sold it to Calhoun
for $39, ,000, 900. 1t did not take Calhoun
long to water the stock up to $4,000, 900,
but he found it difficult to pay the de-
sired interest on this amount of stock
with 5-cept fares.
With Both Sides
so, you see, he had to buy Ruef in
order to make good.
"Why should the banks be clamoring
for Calhoun not to be prosecuted, you
ask.
II will cite an incident which will
throw some light on this.
Zone bank floated those bonds when
| Calhoun watered them UP to $4,000, 900.
| "And man after man who patronized
that bank was taken into back room
and told that some bonds were to be
| floated and that he was to be let In on
the ground floor.
"Those patrons still are standing on
the ground floor, and they find 1t pretty
| hard.
"These men asked to subscribe said:
What kind of a game is this? You