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Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
SOCIALISTS EXULTANT

n UR Republican friends tell US So
cialists are disappointed with the
" result of the election. If the
Democrats had been successful. this
statement could have been made with
out risk of contradiction. But the So
cialists are not disappointed with the
result of the election. and anyone who
thinks they are simply does not un-
derstand 'the game"
We wish we could say Socialists are
disappointed, but nothing could be
further from the truth. The result of
the election suited them exactly. These
people did all they could for Taft ex-
cept to vote for him. They are Jubi-
liant over the election al declare their
vote this year was rockbottom So
cialist vote; all business, without
sentimentalism, and without emotional
ballots. They say their enemies over
estimated their vote purposely to de-
ceive people and point to a slump"
Socialists are decidedly unfriendly to
the Democratic party. They believe It
is the only obstacle to their capture
Of the United States. They worked
hard to bring about the defeat Of the
Democratic party. They want to get
1t out OF the way. Nothing would suit
them better than It's disintegration.
They think many men voted the Demo-
cratic ticket, and not few the Re-
publican, who would have voted the So
cialist ticket If the new party had
had more prestige" For instance, one
Republican of this city said he would
have voted the Socialist ticket If he
had not thought It was inimical to re-
ligion. He believed many Socialists
were Freethinkers. When he was re-
minded that many Republicans were
Freethinkers, and that the Repub-
lican orator who nominated James G.
Blaine and called him 1.-The Plumed
Knight" was an agnostic, this Repub-
lican had nothing more to say, ex-
cepting that he would CONSIDER So
cialism next time, for he really thought
it had the best program for such a
large population as that of the United
States now Isl
Believers that the success of the
Democratic party with a guarantee
of a national return to the first prtn-
ciples of Americanism, which are de-
spised or ignored by the Republicans,
would hinder the progress of Social
ism in the United States are certainly
deeply disappointed, and also some
what disguised What is the use of
preaching truth to people who stop
their ears? But Socialists are exultant,
not disappointed Don't make any
error as to that point"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
ELKS

II URING this week the Elks will
own Los Angeles. The great
- Harvest Festival will be opened
tomorrow evening at the AL Malaikah
Shrine coliseum, and the citizens of Los
Angeles will help the Elks to make it
a success. Indeed, the public should
be aware that much depends on the
success of the festival. It is the fore
runner of a greater event, in which
Los Angeles will be deeply interested,
financially as well as in other ways.
All the funds derived from sales and
entertainments at the festival WIN be
used for the entertainment of guests
who will come here TO attend the grand
lodge and Elks reunion in July.
The greater the success made at the
Harvest Festival the greater will be
the success made in July, when $4,000
Elks will flock to Los Angeles to at
tend the big conference. AS many OF
the Elks will bring relatives or friends,
it Is easily probable that Los Angeles
win be called on to entertain more than
100000 visitors in addition to the us
ual army of tourists But we believe
our big city can stand the strain.
AS they say back east, I'VE guess she's
MT" In view of the benefit Los An
geIes viii derive from the reunion, It
is certainly the duty of citizens to
make the Harvest Festival a success
financially as well as socially.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
Period of Prosperity and
Peace Should Be Enjoyed

speech and action that characterizes life
under the stars and stripes, says the
San Francisco Globe.
Brethren, this great continent is here
intact, and the Union still consists Of
free and united states In California
the sunny fields Of opportunity contain
ripening .harvests that beckon to the
Industrious and skillful who would
pluck fortunes therefrom. Let us
buckle down to work, resolved to foR-
get our disappointments and give up
such aspersions as may have charac-
terized our conduct.
Great national elections come only
once in four years. They purify the
atmosphere, enable business to settle
down to its accustomed methods, and
give the population an opportunity to
guide its energies for four years longer
unhampered by political discussions
and uncertainties.
A new president of the United States
has been elected, and with him the
people have chosen their representa-
tives in congress. The country is to be
congratulated that the turmoil is over,
the period of peace and prosperity at
hand.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
sOUL-LoSS

NEANY well known, successful bust
Nl ness men, among them Marcus
IN Marks of New York, have ex-
pressed alarm over the tendency of the
age, which is to esteem a man accord
ing to the size of his fortune. This
artificial valuation and a desire for
gain which grows on. what it feeds
on" are responsible for the reluctance
with which men retire from active life
after they have accumulated large
sums of money or vast possessions. Mr..
Marks has advocated retirement from
business at a comparatively early age,
because he says many men become lost
in their business pursuits, and their
Identity is extinguished. Many cen
turtles ago the Great Teacher put II
thus: What shall it profit a man If
he gain the whole world and lose his
own soul?'
The word "soul" in this instance per-
haps does not convey accurately the
meaning Of the original Greek. Jesus
did not say a man who devoted his
whole life to gain would be condemned
to everlasting torment, although some
preachers have taken that view Of It,
and with cheerful complacency have
looked forward to their JOY in viewing
from across the great gulf the torments
of men of the class of Dives. The
meaning Jesus meant to convey was
one much more easily grasped, one that
might be illustrated without Dore pic
lures. for instances Of it abound. He
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08

empha sized, as a warning to the COW
etous and greedy, the miserable fate Of
the wretched man who in his devotion
to money getting lost his own identity.
Many of the rich men OF our day have
no Identity excepting that which they
derive from their association with the
wealth they have accumulated. They
shine by a luster borrowed from the
gold heap. Money is power. They
possess this power, and THIS POWER
POSSESSES THEM. They are its
slaves They are its creatures. They
have created it, but like Frankenstein's
monster 1t has dominated them. Mr..
Blank attracts no attention In the
drawing room. He 10 commonplace. He
is dreary. He has not wide range OF
vision. He talks in platitudes. Sud-
denly a newcomer says, Glad to see
Blank here. You know he is now the
chief partner In Croesus, Midas & Co.
I wish 1 had as many thousands as he
has millions" Immediately there is a
rush of people who wish to pay their
respects to Blank de, worship Blanks
money!.
His money talks with his lips and
uses him, Blanks fortune becomes con-
spicuous in the drawing room, and
Blank becomes, apparently, something
more than a social nonentity, although
the discerning realize In his recogni-
ton proof of the miserable and awful
fact that it is Blanks money and not
Blanks self which constitutes Blanks
identity" His own identity is lost.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
THE SIMPLE LIFE

NROM time to time there Is what
n might be described as an agita-
a ton In favor Of the simple life.
Philosophers and teachers, who as a
rule are wealthy and well fed, publish
books or deliver lectures on the neces-
sity of reducing the problem of life in
the United States to the simplest pos
sible terms and factors. The subject
is always fascinating to one who has
not been compelled by circumstances to
live on roots.
Eating may be only habit; nay, 1t
may be bad habit, but when a healthy
man is forced to break himself Of the
habit. temporarily, he will never again
stand by patiently while wise person
expounds the virtue Of diet Of three
teaspoonfuls of sAwdust and one bean
per day. To say nothing Of the incon-
venience OF an unsatisfled interior de-
partment, It is proved that underfed
nations cannot fight. That was one
reason why our American soldiers
whipped the Spaniards easily. In
South Africa the Boer soldiers were al
ways we'll fed. The British for a while
were half starved, and we all rennem-
Der the consequences to Thomas At
kins until the railroads were opened and
provisions began to reach him with
comforting regularity.
The average spaniard is the most
perfect exponent of the simple life to
be found among civilized nations. With
the exception of small minority who
initiate the Why's of the moneyed
classes of other countries. the ordinary
Spaniard will go about his daily work
clad in the cheapest and poorest clothes,
while from an American standpoint his
home comforts are very meager. This
frugal mode Of life has no doubt some
merits-the faddists say it has-but 1t
is not conducive to trade. In Spain
upskilled labor is considered well paid
by a daily wage varying from 20 cents
In the villages to 80 cents In the large
cities. AS the cost of the necessaries
of life is increasing year by year 1t
will readily be understood how little
can be spared for clothing out Of so
poor a pittance. Still less can be spared
for those little comforts which, in other
countries have become Indispensable,
and which add appreciably to the
volume of a nations commerce. There
is, relatively speaking, no purchasing
power in the country.
The simple life is an economical
fallacy. The Hottentot leads It,
The Digger Indian is devoted to IT.
But the American, and the Britor
despise 1t, no matter what they may
say in lectures and books, and that is
why they are world leaders today.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
pEPLoREs TALK OF RUDENEss;
CLAIMS COMMON SOCIAL DEBT

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7.-[Editor
Herald: I don't complain because t.
X. G. finds my stories "pointless" or
"inconsequential," and so characterizes
them. I am content in submitting
them to the Judgment of the general
reader, for whom (and not for 7. K. u.
in particularly write. 1 don't expect
ever to change T. K. G.'s opinion OF
my views; but, all the same, am not
afraid that the general reader will
agree with his estimate of them. l
have too much evidence to the con-
trary.
But why, If I am so pointless and
inconsequential (and therefore presum-
ably negligible) do T. K. G. and one or
two others get so nightly stirred up
that they seek to color the issue either
by charging me with "rudeness' or
else limiting that &hey themselves coulo
an they would--be rude; the impress
sion sought to be conveyed being that
only suffering forbearance under
direst provocation restraints them. |
believe other readers will agree with
me that that kind of talk is uncalled
for.
Now T. K. G. demands proof that his
SAT- Will De SECURE yOt ASPNN :,
env obligation to perform his social
duties. In the terms of my ''pointless"
parable, he wants assurance that soGl-
ETY. will pass him the salt, While he
demands complete freedom to do as ne
pleases about passing 1t to others: TINS !,
Is no reflection, understand, upon Il
K. G.'s personal politeness-ne person
ally would probably "please" to pass
the salt But he wants that ALL PER
SONS RE FREE TO DO OTHER
WISE IF THEY CHOOSE, while he
yet demands their salt be ASSURED to
them. So his idea Of freedom Is to
have h@INDIVIDUAL free to set the
welfare of the MANY at defiance, While
he would put the MANY under com
pulsion to serve the INDIVIDUAL. Is
not this a queerly mixed sort of social
ethics? Can any man, owing as he
does and must to all and sundry, have
complete independence and freedom
from common obligation to others? Do
those common obligations constitute
tyranny? Are they not rather human.
ity's most blessed boon and privilege!
VAL STONE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
ANOTHER SCORES NEGLECT
OF. CITY HOME TALENT

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7.-LEditor
Herald: L am glad to see somebody
taking up the question of the city's
duty to it's own artists. Mr.. Ware
letter in yesterdays Herald is most
timely and to the point. 1, for my part,
understood for years that the stephen
White statue was being made by a Los
Angeles sculptor, and there are doubt
less many Los Angelans who are still
under this impression and will be sur
prised when they learn, as ] did only
recently, that the contract was given
out of the city. AS your correspondent
declares, we have the talent right here.
and there is no shadow Of excuse for
starving our own artists merely that
men In distant cities, who have already
plenty of patronage, should have more
orders piled upon them than they can
properly execute. This kind of thing is
death to art and subversive of our city's
intellectual and eshetic growth. AS
Mr.. Ware says, Let buy and boom
home products include public art"
Why, to put It even on the lowest
ground, surely we should feed our own
clean little pigs before we gorge our
neighbours fatted porker: If we had
not the talent in our own city it would
be different.
MAXWELL IBBETSON.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
PROSPERITY WEEK

nROSPERITY Week will train us to
do unto others as we would have
4 others do unto us. Most of us
expect to make a living in California.
Therefore we should constantly re-
member our neighbor also expects to
make a living, and should buy his
products, even as we expect him to
buy ours. With a big, healthy. active
supply and demand for local manu-
features the trade in imported goods
will take care of itself. The founda-
ton Of prosperity is to patronize home
industries and create a home market.
When this is accomplished the COM
munity IS in a position to engage in
business dealings with other commun-
tiles. The old rhyme says East. west
homes best"
Los Angeles is more than a pleasant
city 1t is a useful city. Its list of
manufactures is already large and its
industrial activity is constantly being
increased. We are looking forward to
San Pedro harbor development and the
Owens river water supply because we
hAON AhCJ Will CtAdH0 SADtlL OQ6ln6Sa
expansion in Los Angeles and Southern
California. During Prosperity Week
our citizens will find that practically
all the necessaries OF life and many
Injuries are produced in California or
made in Los Angeles"
This community is industrially inde-
pendent, and its best interests win be
helped If this fact is well advertised.
The people of the United States respect
independence. They are inclined to be
patronizing. uppish or highly superior
when they think a community Is de-
pendent on hotels or boarding houses.
It is beginning to be understood that
Los Angeles is the Industrial and COM
mercial capital of the southwest, as
well as the educational center and the
tourist headquarters. Work for Pros
perity Week. Work with enthusiasm.
Prosperity Week will be a big boost
for Los Angeles and will help to in
crease its prosperity all the year
round.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
THIS EXPLAINS JUBILATiON
OVER ELECTION OF TAFT

LONG BEACH, Nov. 5.-[Editor
Herald: The attitude of the Social
lists over the defeat of Bryan is caus-
ing Mr.. T. X. G. much concern, SEEM
ingly. He calls them governmental
lists and lines them up with Republl-
cans as centralists. The Socialists ia
vor ownership collectively of all the
means of production and distribution,
or to make it palmer. all the people
should own the means of life in con-
sequence of their labor, and let those
who will not work refrain from eating.
To this extent alone are we central
fists. The trust or merger is effected
because it is seen that business sue
cess comes with cooperation, and why
should not the people cooperate upon
the same basis to own what they pro-
duce?
Socialists are not in sympathy with
the Republican party. They are astute
enough to see a quicker downfall Of
capitalism under Republican rule, than
under Democratic, because the OPP
pressiYe trusts will reach their limit
under Republicanism, and the long
suffering American people will assert
their Industrial sovereignty.
GRACE VISICK.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08

MT OW THAT the election is over
every loyal American citizen
~ should abide by the result. What
ever have been the differences that
have separated friend from friend,
brother from brother, and political
party from political party, it is car
dinal principle of fair play that the
minority should take its medicine with
out grumbling.
OF course, it is difficult for the de-
feated party to feel the same good
cheer that belongs to the victor, but 1t
is possible, and highly proper for the
vanquished to feel that the fates have
been kind to permit them to live in a
country where every man may freely
express his opinion and vote as he
pleases without coercion. The neigh
Dor whose cause went down cannot
Justly say that there was not fair
hearing and an equal chance for sue
cess.
There are countries of which this
cannot be said. over in the Balkans
and in parts of the orient, as well as in
Africa, and in some of the countries of
Europe, there is not that freedom of
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
A POUND OF BUTTER

WI e HOPE the powers that control
w the butter industry will lose
no time about restoring conf
dence in the pound package 1t has
been alleged many butter pounds are
short weight. When a large amount
of butter is being handled. even a slight
tax on each pound may mean a con-
sidera BILE gain to the vendor. Blessings
were heaped on the head of the man
who invented the butter package. 1t
was much more convenient for the
customer than the pound which
had to be wrapped and tied. Time
was saved by the new method of deal
ing in butter. 1t was heralded as one
of the. great modern economies, which
our grandfathers had been too obtuse
to find out. We agree that our ances-
tors did not know much, when their
knowledge is compared with ours, but
they did know how to be honest, and
had strong prejudice in favor of a
complete pound of butter. When the
pound is shipped or shaved, the aver
age customer may not notice the diff
ference, but many a little makes a
muckle. and out of snippings and shaw
ings extra pounds of butter may be
obtained which are sheer profit. They
represent an unearned increment in the
butter industry.
We believe the moral sense of the
community is distinctly unfavorable to
pound packages of butter which are
not full weight no matter how labeled.
We hope the public viii insist on get
ting its full pound of butter when a
pound is paid for, and that dealers
will see to it that all packages sold
as pound packages are really pound
packages. By a strict attention to the
ethics of business, the butter men will
endear themselves to the public, and
sellers and buyers will be happy.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
INDIVIDUAL REFORMATION
is OFFERED AS A REMEDY

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6.-IEditor
Herald: When the moral sense of
community is awakened to the debas-
ing effects of vice forces are set to
work to purge it of the prevailing evils
Social vices, drunkenness, and gam
bling are kindred evils, and the dor
mant sensibilities must be educated to
recognition of the necessity of de-
stroying the error which leads to the
practice of sin.
Individual reformation is the solution
and is gained through a knowledge of
the truth that whatsoever a man sows
that shall he also reap; if he SOW to
the flesh he shall of the flesh reap cor
ruption."
A sure penalty follows the violation
of moral law. the basic principle of all
true law. 1t is no respecter of persons
and never confers any license, and
sound judgment dictates that every
least infraction of it's rules be con-
demned and no civil law should palliate
an offense.
The fact that the three evils above
mentionedfare In some sense condoned
by misguided persons presents to Of
tenders the argument for it's justifica-
ton. IF the light understanding
within you be darkness (non-intelli-
gence) how great is that darkness 2"
and as consequence the Bible says:
II must HeeuS Ne That OIenSeS VIII
come, but woe unto him through whom
they GOMEZ
Mr.. Editor, my own understanding is
not sufficient to warrant me in sug-
costing ways and means to suppress
these evils, but every man must work
out his own salvation and society
must choose the lesser of two evil con-
ditions. The three evils 1 have men
toned are the procuring cause of most
crime. We should lay the ak at the
root of the tree. Experiments have
shown that you cannot curtail evil by
granting license to exploit 1t to Il
limited extent and Its prohibition Is in
evitably meeting public approval.
r N
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
MORAL MAxIMs

There is no better test Of a respectable
member of society than bank-book show
ing a good balance or title deeds to a house
or farm, unincumbered by debt.-Andrew
Carnegie
Ye who would stand the acid test
Which Aandy's golden words suggest
And would by fellow-rnan be blessed.
Adopt his plan.
He is that is of wealth possessed
The moral man.
Yourself from early youth deny;
Avoid what's known as living high;
Bullet the other fellow buy:
Be wisely Scotch
So shall you in the public eye
Rise notch by notch
In Mammon's worship find your pleasure.
Allow yourself no moments leisure
From piling up a bulging treasure
OF dollars. cents.
The single scale by which to measure
Is pounds and pence.
No better test? OF course there's not
A mans esteemed for what he's got
The Christ-taught doctrine is all rot
And anticuata.
The gospel OF the canny Scot
Is up to date. Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08
REGENERATION

1T SAWTELLE the marriage of a
n loving couple was celebrated.
IA That's nothing. Marriages of low
ing couples are celebrated every day,
But the united ages of this couple
footed up to nearly 14O years. Each
was nearing the three score and ten
milestone when Cupid shot his arrow.
This goes to prove there is no old age
In California. We have made this as
new illustration, we repeat it with
triumph.
Sometimes old people come to Cali
fornia because they think it would be
a nice place to die in. Grandfather
summons his friends, and over feast
of funeral baked meats, bids them a
long. a last farewell. and asks them to
pause now and then, amid the roar and
jangle of eastern business activity, and
think of him lying so calm and peace
full in howery churchyard situated in
a mesa or a canyon or something-he
likes to give the farewell a strong Cali
fornia flavor, but suffers from cramps
in his vocabulary. Of he goes, and the
friends who are left behind talk of him
in subdued tones, and wonder whether
it would be worth while to order
mourning, seeing he has wandered sc
far away to die. Then some fine morn.
ing they get wedding announcement
and a bit OF brides cake with a Call.
fornia raisin in it. You see. as soon al
the old man reaches this balmy land Of
joy and gladness. birds and flowers anf
sunshine. he forgets all about his in.
tention to die, and takes q new lease Of
life
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-08

III HE American ambassador to Ber-
lin, DR.. David Jayne Hill, fur
Il nished a front page story for the
newspapers of that city by appearing
at a recent court function In PLAIN
clothes. This does not mean that Dr.
Hill looked like policeman in dis
guise, but that he simply wore the
primitive and unadorned dress coat,
the undistinguished and effacing
'swalIow tail,' says the San Francisco
Call. 1t was a command night at the
opera, when all the high, well-born
functionaries, mugwumps and big
wigs gathered about the kaiser in
every variety of impressive costume.
"There sat-" said a Berlin newspaper
next morning, between Herr Won
Szogyeny the Austrian ambassador.
who wore a picturesque dolman over
his costume of a knight of the round
table, and Sir Frank Lascelles, the
British ambassador, in the glittering
pride of a diplomatic unifornl-who?