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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13

My fifteen days until that great Red Letter day will be
here when the whole world greets one another Peace
on earth and good will toward fellowmen." Many lit
tie and big too) all expectancy wondering what
Claus will find for them Will it be rocking horse or
solitaire?
Remember for the night before Christmas this old adage "a
little revised) early bed early RISE will make more
happy, wealthy, perhaps more wise
To the poor of city, it will big Christmas dinner
and toys from The Herald.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13

Mrs. L. Harter of Los Angeles, for
mer resident of this beach, visited
friends here Sunday and Monday and
attended the installation of officers OF
the Eastern star Monday evening.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13

Mrs. H. A. Spies. a former Santa
Monican, and Mrs. Smart, both OF on
terio. were here Monday to attend the
installation of officers of the Easter
Star.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13


The Christmas oratorio of Saint
Saens will be given Friday at the reg
nlar meeting of the Friday Morning
club, under the direction of William H
Lott.
The following professional singers
will present the oratorio: Sopranos,
Mines. Edmund s. Shank, Charles G.
Stivers and Bertha Vaughn: altos,
Miss Catherine Estelle Heartt, Mrs.
Charles i. Richards and Mrs. L. J,
Selby; tenors, Messrs. Sheldon Balm
ger, jackson S. Gregg and John Doug
las Walker; bassos, Messrs. Nigel de
Brulier, Harry Clifford Lott and Ed
mund S. Shank.
waldo r. Chase at the organ; Mrs.
Harry Clifford Lott, pianist; Miss
Eloiga Coutelenc, violinist, and Nine.
ELSA Aenasco, violoncellist, will furnish
the accompaniment.
-
Before pupils and friends of the De
rhsuvenet Conservatory Of Music Sat
urday afternoon at 4 o'clock James A.
Fnshay will deliver a complimentary
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-26

INF Gaker is president of the First Ma
tional bank of New York;
Mr.. Bakeries. sir.
Mr. Bryan-Why hasn't II been rene
died? Because the managers of the bad
banks don't want to be restrained; be-
cause the good bank is not anxious to
have the other ones restrained SO that the
good bank can point to the recklessness
of the others and thereby draw away
deposits.
We will have to meet this issue some
time. and we may as well do so frankly
and boldly now. If you tell me that you
need an elastic currency. will take your
word for 1t, but If you tell me that you
object to it unless you hold both ends of
the elastic l will tell you that you do not
need ii as much as you thought you did.
Trust the government. the representatives
elected by the people. If you want
this elastic currency. let the government
issue it and control it. and you will have
no difficulty about the security. Then
lay upon the banks the responsibility for
making the banks safe. If the banks
say that they do not want to be held re-
sponsible for other banks, my answer is
that if your bankers will not trust each
other they should not expect the people
I to trust them with their money.
This is the most respectable crowd that
1 have ever talked to in my lifc-that Is
measured by New York standards 1t is
| IlO liiOit ifSlBEN'SlDlt IlO"eNGl- llltli
| people among whom live. The man who
| tolls by the day. who goes out in the
morning and works all day. who COM
menccs in the spring and works all sum-
| mer. though his hands be hard from work
| and his clothing not of the latest cut. he
| Is a respectable man. and have been ad-
| dressing such respectable audiences all
| over the country. but this is the most high
| ly financial audience that l have yet ad.
| dressed And. If have exceeded my time
| limit and spoken with an earnestness fol-
| which / should apologize. just remember
| how long l have waited for this oppor-
| tunity and remember also that / may
| never have 1t again.
The stenographic report of the meet
ing now in my possession indicates thai
Mr.. Bryan's speech was punctuated and
followed with long and continued ap
plause.
The Republican National Convention.
From the headquarters of Chairman
New and Secretary Dover of the Re
publican national committee here th'
news leaked out that the officials of th'
Chicago convention expect that it vii
last at least five days and apprehenC
that it may extend TO eight. At any
rate. the string of tickets which viii
be given to each person entitled to ad
mission is going TO have coupons 70
the sessions of the eight days. Shoul,
1t last that long it will be the longes
national convention on record. Ever
the famous convention of 1880. whel
the indomitable phalanX of 306 stoo,
desperately back of General Grant
| candidacy did NOT extend TO such
period. The significance of the prepa
rations being made by the nationa
committee for long convention is ar
parent. 1t indicates that the practice
politicians-and the Republican ia
tional committee is eminently practice
, are quite convinced that the admin
i. istration plan of nominating Taft o
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-26
THE LOCAL PROHIBITION
QUESTION

IA rule, in delivering philippics against
on the assumption that the money ex-
pended on the same is utterly wasted;
that the use of these drinks is the
chief cause of poverty, that if the
money were expended for the neces-
saries of life instead it would give
rise to a great business expansion.
Referring now solely to mechanics
and common laborers, any fair and
candid statement of the case would
require the admission that liquor and
beer contain nutritious properties and
aid in rendering the food consumed
by these classes,often wanting in
variety and nutriment-more palata-
| BILE. Besides this there is both men
| tai and physical refreshment to of
set, in measure. and repair the wear
and tear of hard and often monoton-
Gus, dispiriting manual labor. 4
There is in this agitation, moreover
| the assumption on the part of the pro-
hibition agitator that on account of
occupying a slightly higher plane and
possessed of some book learningS"
he is better qualified to know what
| is good for the mechanic and common
| labOrer than these men can of their
own knowledge and experience in life
ascertain without assistance. While
| it is proper to allow that generally
this gratuitous interference with the
habits of these classes arises from
| well-meant efforts to promote their
welfare, it would serve a better pur-
pose to insist upon self-restraint and
self-control in every phase of their
| lives
The true solution of the liquor
problem and the temperance question,
is not in the curtailment of our indi-
vidual personal liberties. and in the
attempt to regulate our appetite by
law, but lies in the granting of the
greatest personal liberty consistent
with public good.
Our personal liberties we prize
and our rights we will maintain"
PRESS COMMITTEE ANTI-PROHI-
| BITION LEAGUE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-26
The Commission Form.

Leavenworth, Kan, the last week,
by a majority of 500, adopted the com
mission form of government, better
known as the Galyeston-Memphis plan,
and the supreme court of Iowa also
affirmed the law by which the cities
of Des Moines and Cedar Rapids have
already adopted it in Iowa.
People all over the country are
watching with deep interest the opera
ton of this plan of municipal govern
ment. 1t seems to be much better form
than the American heretofore, or even
the European, cities have devised. 1t
puts the entire government into the
hands of a commission of five men,
and these are usually business men
who run the government on a business
basis. They increase the revenue by
savings, decrease the expenses, clean
up the city morally as well as in q
business way, and so far the plan has
been much of a success. In truth, the
cities of Memphis. pauperized by the
yellow plague, and Galveston, with
one-third of its people and property
destroyed by hurricane, were unable
to carry on their government by the
usual method. They were compelled
to go into the hands of a receiver fOl
a time, and held their creditors a
arms length until the treasury cOulC
be reinforced In both these cite
the new government has been an i'm
mense success.
There are number of novel feat
ures in the Iowa plan, as the EN-
ployes of the city are under civil sery
ice regulations from the attorneys t
janitOrs. The commissioners are electe
for two years. the salaries are modest
and the commissioners can be recalle
when over % per cent of the voter
sign such a petition. Ten per cent {
the voters, can compel the commission
ers to take up an ordinance, or subm
it to popular vote. All these provi
ions were savagely assailed by the OF
ponents of the plan in the suprem
court, but their efforts were unavai
ing.
The initiative, referendum and reca
were specially discussed by the cour
which declared that it was within II
power of the Legislature to enact la
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-26

the first bairot is not going to prove er-
fective and further, that they are dis
inclined to believe that after a brief
deadlock on the Taft proposition the
convention can be stampeded for the
Roosevelt third term. 1t Furthermore
indicates that the policy of the anti
administration forces of forcing con-
tests i'll the southern states. Il policy al
ready put into practice in Florida. is
going TO be Systematically pushed and
that there will be enough cOntesting
delegations 10 occupy two or three days
time before the permanent roll of the
convention is made up.
1t is by no means certain either that
contests are going TO he confined to the
| southern states. \ Wisconsin Repub
| !ican. one of the followers of Senator
La Toilette. tells me that there is much
| irritation among Republicans of that
state because of the effort of the adj
| miniStratiOn through its OtficeholdeIs
| to secure a Taft delegation there. He
| points out that as soon as Governor
| Hughes declared his willingness to be
Il candidate the administration forces
1 SocNIttIIg Idil
| with JUNCTION that they would make no
| contest in a state which desired TO
present Il favorite son of its own. The
state of Wisconsin wants to present
Senator La Toilette. yet the officeho.d-
ing caba! is opposing his friends at
every point. Why this differing atti-
tude toward the favOrite SONS of two
states? OF course the answer is easy
Roosevelt and Taft are probably weak
er in New York than In any state of
the Union.
New Workers usually agree that 1t
would have been impossible to get a
Taft delegation in the face of the
Hughes candidacy. wherefore Mr.
Roosevelt. who is nothing If not poll
tician. called off his men and grace
fully left the field to the governor.
But he thinks that in Wisconsin there
may be chance, and therefore there
are no smooth words addressed to the
people of that state in applause OF
their favorite son.
Washington, D. c.
WILLIS J. ABBOTT.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-26
ROOSEvEL7'S PREACHING OvERBALANCES PERFORMANCE

MS violent messages with their tongues
in their cheeks and go on with their
maiefacticns
Currency Reform Again.
The other day Andrew Carnegie. Ly-
man ] Gage and Victor Morawctz. a
prominent financial lawyer of New
York. addressed the Economic club of
that city on the banking and currency
question. They declared that the Unit
ed States had the worst system IN the
world, but no one of them suggested
the way to mend 1t. AZ three pleaded
that it should be handed over to n
commission of experts who should
formulate measure to be enacted into
law. which of course would carry the
question over the next election. Mr..
Bryan. who was present, was asked to
respond tc their arguments. AS the
press associations and daily newspa-
pers made scarcely any prctense of
covering his speech, some of his para
graphs in retort may well be quoted
here:
How shall explain that three conspicu-
Gus financicrS who had given this subject
great thought and who know all the in
/ tricacies of finance should be agreed upon
| but one proposition. and that is that they
do not know what ought to be done?
AS each one approached the important
part of the subject he concluded that we
ought to have a commission to consider
! the matter. Is it not strange that the
commission is always resortCd to by those
who do not care to elaborate before an
! election a plan that might not be popular
. at the election? Is 1t not strange that all
of our great financial programmes are
brought out just after the election, when
the people cannot sit in judgment upon
(; the subject?
| These greenbacks which have been de-
scribed in uneomplimentary language
were not issued by me or by my party
| But 1t seems to me that 1t is straining a
| point to denounce the government for is
! suing 346. 100000 promises to pay. bearing
no interest when he-ex-Secretary Gage
does not denounce the issue of 700. 600 COZ
banks promises to pay that bear no inter
est. If banks promise to pay, bearing
no interest is fit to serve as money. why
should not governments promise to pay
, bearing no interest. be fit to serve a!
: money?
1t is not my business to explain THU
panic. Politically my connection with i
has been anything but embarrassing, TO
1t has at least robbed the country of tht
argument that my party was the onl!
party under whose administration pani
could come.
Some of the little colIoquies which
enlivened the address were interesting
though not reported in the press. Flo
example, Mr.. Bryan said:
Our financiers will tell you that tn
banks that have failed failed in almos
every instance because the officers of tn
bank have violated their trust and use
the money of other people to advanc
their own private interests. Isn't tha
: true, Mr.. Gage?
Mr.. Gage-Yes sir.
Mr.. Bryan-Isn't that true. Mr.. Baker
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-26
Suppressing the Wine Room.

Mayor Cook of East ST. Louis has
issued orders relative to wine rooms
which, if carried ont, will effectively
stamp out this rotten offense against
civilized communities.
Mayor Cook has ordered that here
after wherever women are found in
wine rooms, the saloon licenses OF
those tOlerating women in wine rooms
will be at once revoked. and the po
liceman on that beat discharged.
Mayor Cook thus strikes twice and
effectively at the same offense. Sa
loOnkeepers who convert their places
into dives and brothels by having
wine rooms and letting men anC
women frequent them in maudlin de
bauchery. will not permit this filth i
they know they will lose their licenses
Furthermore. if the policeman OF
the beat knows he will be discharged
unless he at once reports such OF
lenses, he will pay some attention tt
the morality of the city and will hav,
some respect for the decency of tn
community.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-26
8be Hrgus Daily Short Story
Roses Red and Violets Blue. BY Temple Bailey.
Copyright c. H Sucine)

The waiting room in the big depart
ment store was in balcony that form
ed a sort of halfway house between
the first and second floors. From 4
seat in one of the bullying corners one
commanded the whole sweep of busy
counters-all the sparkle and glitter
and color of attractively displayed
goods.
To Jessica. nineteen, pretty and VS.
iting the great city for the first time,
it seemed like fairyland.
II want to buy everything" she said
to Aunt Theodore Hancock, who had
brought her there.
Aunt Theodore smiled indulgently.
"All is not gold that glitters," she
said
Jessica smiled back. But like the
glitter" she said. 81 never use scent
ed soap, but l shall surely buy some
because of the pretty boxes. and that
pale green note paper is n dream, al
though never write on anything but
white. And | am awfully drawn &c
those strings of glass beads. even
though am sure that l should never
dare wear them in public"
But Aunt Theodore after years OF
city residence was an experienced
shopper. Beware of temptation" she
warned. Come on upstairs and LOOK
at the sensible things"
81 don't want to be sensible" Jes
sica pleaded. II want to stay here
and see people buying things that they
don't want for the mere pleasure OF
buying"
Aunt Theodore hesitated.
do you really want to sit here fol
awhile?" she asked, with an air of re
lief. II could leave you and slip III
to the grocery department and give al
| order. But you mustn't stir from this
corner, or should never find you"
"Oh, I'll stay" Jessica promised
'You run along. Aunt Theo. 1 am per
fectly happy right here"
So Aunt Theodore took her stately
way through the crowds, and just n:
| she disappeared Jessica's eyes fell OF
| the valentines.
There was marvellous display RICH
| in the middle of the store. and strun.
| from post to post We're plump rec
| hearts transfiXed with golden darts
while fascinating pink cupids bobbe(
and bowed with every tiny current o
air that swept through the store
Jessica's heart gave a little throb O
delight. She would buy one for Cousin
Bob. He would never know who sen
it, and she would like to see his eye!
on st. Valentines morning when b,
opened his mail at the breakfast table
Without a thought of Aunt Theodor:
she hurried downstairs to the crowde,
| counter.
| 1t was not easy to make a choice
| There We're so many beauties-exqui
site, modern, hand painted cards, wit
verses from all the love poets and oil,
fashioned valentines with old fashion
ed rhymes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-26

would be content TO enforce the laws
without seeking also to enact and in
terprct them. l believe, in short. that
it would he both patriotic and polite
for the Democratic party to promise
the nation lucid interval of constitu-
tiOnal government"
1t must be admitted that there is
some foundation for the recent gibe of
Mr.. Payne, the Republican leader in
the congress, that half the Democrats
were applauding the president and
half condemning him. But the con-
trast, after all. is more apparent than
real. For example, when Mr.. Bryan
speaks. applauding certain of the ac-
tons of the president. the newspapers
which are hypnOtiZed by the Roosevelt
personality print with much elabora-
ton that part of his address. but re-
frain from publishing his criticisms of
the president. The effect is to make it
appear that he gives umeScrved ap-
prevail to all that the president has
said and to all that he has done, q
difficult thing for any public man to
! accomplish. because most of the things
| Mr.. Roosevelt has said are exactly the
| things that he has failed to do.
The Case of the Muskrat.
Somebody who must live along the
banks of canal where muskrats are
not merely nuisance. but positive
menace. wrote Il plaintive inquiry to a
| New York paper the other day COM
pairing the presidential outcry with the
repeated threats of farmer in his
| neighbOrhoOd to go ont and Kill a
| Observation-Disclosures that were never full
| filled. And he asked why everybody
should turn in and applaud the man
who was always promising to do this
but had not as yet slaughtered one sol
itary rat. The editor sagaciousiy re
sponded that the correspondent might
know something about muskrats, but
he knew nothing about politics. BY
pursuing the policy which he repre-
hended the violent foe of the muSkra1
would get the applause and the vote:
of every man who thought that musk
rats should be eXterminated. while by
not doing anything against the vermir
he would get the support of the musk
rat colony and those who thought /
should be left alone. The analogy Il
perfectly clear Thus far the orator!
of the administration has made 70
President Roosevelt or his politica
legatee, Secretary Taft. millions o
friends among the people who do no
differentiate between preaching an,
practice. between calling criminal
hard names and actually sending then
to Jail. 1t has not very seriously al
fected the Rooseveltian dynasty wit
the malefactors of wealth, who rea
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-26

room and found that young lady in a
pink dressing gown braiding her shin
ing hair.
Aunt Theodore was in gray flannel
and her hair was in crimplng pins.
"JeSsica," she said solemnly as shs
sank into big chair. 'if Bob proposes
TO you. don't accept him the first time
he asks
Jessica stared at her:
"Oh, Aunt Theodore" she stammered.
Cousin Bob isn't a bit in love with
me-"
Aunt Theodore shifted
well, he has reached a condition
very much like it," she informed her
niece. 1T doesn't take Bob very long
to make upI his mind. and he has
known you for years. But know him,
and he'll value your, love if you don't
let him see it too easily"
And then she went away. while Jes.
sica sat like crumpled rose leaf on the
foot of the bed and wept.
For that afternoon she had mailed
| the lace valentine to Cousin Bob And
now if he should discover that she had
sent it and should despise her for
| showing her real feeling.
She made up her mind that he should
not find out, and then she went to bed
| to sleep fitfully. but through her trou-
| bled dreams ran the comforting hope
that Cousin Bob really loved her.
1t was u pale little JesSica who came
! down to the breakfast table the next
| morning. Aunt Theodore was not there
| but Cousin Bob was. He was opening
his mail, and to hide her agitation Jes
sica began to open hers. On top was
a great box, and within was a bunch
of violets and two fragrant American
Beauties, and on card was written
in Cousin Bob's familiar writing:
Roses red and violets blue,
| My heart to you is ever true.
She looked up, and her eyes met his
In his hand he held the valentine she
had sent. But his eyes were not dane
| ing. There was in them instead a very
tender light.
"Jessica," he said softly-"Jessica
did you send me this?''
| Remembering Aunt Theodora's warn
ing, she tried to say NO" but she
was a truthful little thing
Yes" she whispered and bent ovel
her flowers. Then she explained elab
orately: But of course valentines don
mean anything. Everybody sends lot!
of them"
The brightness went out of his face.
Il sent only one he stated sternly
"The roses and the viOlets spoke TO MI
of you, Jessica, and took me back t
the verses l sent you when l was :
little lad. And l meant every word o
it. Will you marry me, Jessica?'
The proposal came so suddenly tina
it found her all unprepared. Her hear
pounded madly. She forgot Aunt TheO
dora. She forgot everything but tina
he loved her.
Yes" she whispered as she hear
her aunts step upon the stairs.
"And the beauty of it, was the wa
Cousin Bob upset Aunt Theodora's fin
theories when that night he told her O
their engagement, was her girlist
ness. 4 woman of the world woul
have held me off, but it was her swee
surrender that won me. 1 was sur
she loved me from the first"
All the news all the time-The Argu