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Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
CALIFORNIA WEDDINGS

UHAT painstaking inquirer, the
state board of health, has made
Il the discovery that the proportion
of widowed and divorced people VINO
remarry in California is notably high
for counties like Marin and San Mateo
in the north, and Orange in the SOUTH
adjacent to the great cities of San
Francisco and Los Angeles. Analysis
of marriage records shows that on the
part of many Los Angeles couples there
is tendency to go to the suburbs to
get welded. This preference for a sub
urban town rather than the city proper
as a place Of marriage is most marked
in the case of widowed and divorced
persons marrying again. The shy di-
vorcee, even more than the coy maiden,
seeks the quiet or secrecy of a sub
urban Gretna Green.
The proportion of widows among
white brides is higher for southern
than for northern California. while the
proportion of Divorces is also greater
for southern California. Both in first
and second-edition marriages, Los An
geles county leads the state. In mar
riage percentage our noble county also
leads the nation, and, as the cautious
Sam Weller observed on a memorable
occasion, we are rather more than
half way inclined to think it leads
the world.
Native sons and daughters are hardly
ever divorced, and divorces seldom fol-
low California marriages. But people
come here in order to be divorced, Just
as they come here when they are in
curably i'll.
In both instances the injustice to Cali
fornia is obvious, and this state is
held up to the world in a false and
misleading light, The board of health
reporter says: "That the native daugh-
ters should constitute the bulk Of the
single brides necessarily follows from
the fact that most of the marriageable
young women in this state were born
here, and incidentally from the fact
that the sunny climate makes Califor-
MIA girls especially attractive"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
WHY WARP

+" G. WELLS, in his remarkable
book, First and Last Things"
AAs paints a vivid word picture of
the horrors of modern scientific" war,
which, he says, may put back the or
derby progress of social construction
for vast interval of time.
He adds: zone figures great towns
red with destruction, while giant air
ships darken the sky; one pictures the
crash of mighty ironclads. the burst
ing of tremendous shells fired from be-
yond the range of sight into unpro-
tected cities. One thinks of congested
ways swarming with desperate fighters,
of torrents of fugitives and battles gone
out of the control of their generals into
unappeasable slaughter. There is a
vision of interrupted communications,
of wrecked food trains and sunken food
ships, of vast masses of people thrown
out of employment and darkly tumul-
tuous in the streets, OF famine and
famine-driven rioters. What modern
population will stand famine? For
the first time in the history of war
the fighting line becomes insecure, as
sailable by flying machines and subject
to unprecedented and unimaginable
panics. No one could tell what savagery
of desperation these new conditions
may not release in the soul of man. A
conspiracy Of adverse chances might
contrive cataclysm. There is no eff
fective guarantee that it could not
occur"
This plain language does not re-
semble the half-ashamed apologies
of those who say: Let's make war
terrible Then there won't be any war"
To make war difficult will not make it
impossible. DISARMAMENT must pre-
cede the universal peace pact. Disarma-
ment is not popular theme, and we
admit frankly it cannot be advocated
reasonably unless 1t is absolutely uni
versal. If all nations but one disarmed
that one would have an advantage over
all the rest. But universal disarmament
is possible. 1t will be brought about
when "the people rule" in every coun-
try in the world. The people do not
make the wars. They only fight them
for the war makers, who, personally,
never go to war. They bleed for their
country by proxy, and die by substt-
tute!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
coMPULsIoN INHERENT IN
COOPERATIVE COMM oNWEALTH

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. I'll Edltor
Herald: NV answer to your clear
as mud correspondent has preclpitaLeo
a fable from the philosophy OF his de-
defender, Val Stone. - .,., 4,,o
I shall concern myself first Win the
"fool-killer" philosophy. 1 quote:
"There will be no compulsion In the
co-operative commonwealth, but VINO
will not pass the salt can't expect
to sniff the porridge."
Under political Socialism the CO.
operative commonwealth will be, by
virtue of majority rule, in possession
of all the means of production. Ihefe-
fore, he who would consume must aploe
bv the rule Of the majority in order 10
produce, lust as today he must bow
to the monopolists, whose power pre-
walls and is sanctioned by the majority.
When forty-nine men are compelleo 10
comply by virtue of the power of fifty
one. is it any less compulsion? A CO.
operative commonwealth is simply ma
jority rule gone to seed-made uni
versal.
The liberty to produce is denied, lib
erty to exchange products is denied,
and even liberty to consume will be
regulated unless permitted, by ma
iority rule Is this lack of compulslon!
Don't answer with a fable!
Not even "So-shall-ist" excels me
in a desire for freedom-yes, even free
dom from majority rule. l want all
the freedom possible, and this consists
1 think, in equal freedom"
I will now return from the philosophy
of equal freedom to fabledom. Oppor-
tunity to obtain food is not limited by
nature-as the fable presumes-but by
artificial man-made monopoly. Abil-
ity is not to be despised for producing
more than the average, but for
monopolizing opportunity by the use
of politics. No other method is i'm
pregnable. Unlimited liberty for the
non-invasive individual, resulting in un-
impaired opportunity for production
and exchange is not contemplated by
any other school of thinkers than the
voluntary Socialists, or, as they are
better l-nown, the Individualistic An
archists. CASSIUS V. COOh.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
QUOTES ANCIENT AUTHORITY
TO OVERTHROW Mr.. STONE

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9.-[Editor
Heraldl Mr.. Stone calls on me and
others to prove that political Socialism
will be a state Socialism, and will
WELD authority as the state does today.
comply with pleasure. Here is the
proof from their leading text book, the
Communist Manifesto" by Marx and
Eugels:
1.-THE proletariat will use it's political
supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all
capital from the bourgeoise; to CEN
tralize all instruments of production in
the hands of the state, |. e., of the
proletariat organized as the ruling
class"
Again: GENERALIZATION of credit in
the hands of the state by means of
national bank, with state capital and
an exclusive monopoly"
Capitalization of the means of COM
munication and transport in the hands
Of the state'
Extension of factories and instru-
ments of production owned by the
state.'
Doesn't this prove it to be state
Socialism? If we are to be ruled by
the laboring class, as this text book
plainly says what becomes of Mr.
Stones statement that one class will
not rule another class? Who is the
greater authority, Mr.. Stone or Marx
and Engels?
What would change the nature of the
state when the proletariat was welding
the big stick? 1t might benefit the ones
that were using the power, as it always
has benefited them, but how about the
minority that does not agree? Won't
they have to submit, just as they do
now?
This text book says, and Socialists
conventions have so declared, that the
Socialists will take over all means of
production and distribution. If they
do, what will be left for the nom
Socialists? Won't they have to submit
to the Socialist majority or starve?
If they submit to their rule, would
that be administering" and not gov
ernment?
'lauff." C. T. SPRADING.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10

which they sell, that swell the bulk of
commercial mail. There is a substan-
tial profit to the postal service in carry
ing this mail at 1 cent for every two
ounces, and presumably more profit in
transatlantic carriage than in carriage
by rail for any considerable distance.
A postal service is mainly supported by
business mail, and there must be direct
intercourse with ultimate purchasers
before business mail can very largely
increase.
The fact that there has been a de-
cided increase in the exchange of
printed matter between this country
and Great Britain indicates that in one
country or the other business firms are
getting lists of purchasers at retail and
are laying the foundation for future
correspondence by sending out the pre-
liminary advertisements. AS all in this
country know, whose names get on to
the mailing lists of business houses,
very large amount of printed matter IS
sent under the 2-cent rate in the eX-
pectation that matter in a sealed en-
velope will receive better attention.
Any immediate and large increase of
first class matter would indicate that
business houses were adopting that
plan in seeking international trade.
And that being the case, 1t will be In
teresting to note in which country con-
Germs seeking direct trade are most
alert and aggressive. To consider
able extent this will depend on which
country admits, duty free, the largest
number of commodities usually solu py
correSpoOdenCe
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
UNFAIR COMPETITION

4 TAXPAYER advises Los Angeles
III city council to start eucalyptus
Ia farm. He thinks tramps and
petty criminals might be employed in
tree planting. and says men out of
work would be willing to help in re-
turn for small wage.
1t is always pleasant to see a new
plan for the relief OF the workless men
which is not thoroughly Utopian, but
we are not by any means as certain
as Mr.. Binney is that workless men
would share task with tramps and
petty criminals. While tramps and
petty criminals would receive food and
lodging from the city, the wage work
ers competing with them could not
expect to receive more than a wage
which would barely buy food and shell
ter.
II the city government or any other
branch of government is to provide
labor, let it go into the labor market
with a resolution to give those whom
it hires a square deal. There cannot
be q square deal If the wage Garner
IS to be ground down to a next-to-
nothing wage because Of the competi-
tion of some welI-fed rascal who is
the city's guest.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
DARKNESS BEFORE DAWN

n EPUBLICAN papers announce
X there is no question about the
Az election of Speaker Cannon. we
never doubted it. Every we'll informed
person knew that if the Republicans
carried the presidency, Cannon must
be reelected speaker as corollary to
that quaint proposition, the election
of Sherman.
Republicans may talk--in an uncer-
tain way--about revision of the tariff,
but there will be no real reform of
any kind under the Taft administra-
tion. The trusts will be in control of
the government of the United States.
They will rule through Sherman, who Is
a trust man first, last and all the
time. They will rule through Cannon,
who cannot be regarded as friend
of Americanism. Friend of American
ism? Why, he doesn't understand the
meaning of the word.
Never was the United States as COM
pletely enslaved as today. Sherman
will take care of the senate, Cannon
will look after the house, and 1t is
highly improbable that Taft will ever
hold up or veto any legislation ae-
cepted by the law-making bodies.
We are not surprised at the AN
nouncement Of Republican program
Of anti i-Rooseveltism, managed by Can
non and Sherman, with the assistance
of John Dalzell. Washington is to
have a Solid Three, composed of Can
Trha nannIA
will have no champion in high office at
Washington during the next admins
tration. The people will not rule. Led
away by deceptive promises, which
will not be kept, the wage earning Vot-
ers of the United States threw away
the opportunity of giving official power
to good, plain, decent, God-fearing,
brotherly loving, fair, square, honest
and honorable American home bodies,
and gave 1t to a man who lives in
palace. and confesses he doesn't know
anything about the social problem, and
to another who was formerly the
"gang" mayor of Utica, N. Y, later
the leading mileage grabber in con-
gress, always the friend and ally of the
interests, always hand in glove with
Cannon and Dalzell. We hope for the
best. Let US try to believe the spots
will come off the leopards and that
they will not raven and make prey
of the American people. Hope on
hope ever" is a good motto for the
United States today. Another is: 1.-THE
darkest hours before the DAWN"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
T, r., THE PRESIDENT MAKER,
AND T. r., HISTORIAN, DIFFER

Los ANGELES. Nov. 9.-[Editor
Herald: Truly circumstances alter
cases. Mr.. Roosevelt says Mr.. Taft's
creed concerns only himself. I agree.
But when Mr. Roosevelt wrote his
Life of Gouverneur Morris" speaking
therein of another Unitarian (or Deist),
the great Thomas Paine, to whom the
cause of American independence, and
indeed the cause of humanity in the
large owes so much, the strenuous"
author described that great man as
"a dirty little ATHEIST"
DR.. Moncure d. Conway. who has
written the only well-informed and
trustworthy life of Paine, has since
made Mr.. Roosevelt acknowledge his
error, so it is said, but still he has not,
or had not, in a recent edition ex-
plunged the slanderous passage.
By the way, Mr.. Editor, while all
sorts of people know that Thomas
Paine was 'an infidel," how very few
know that he was a pioneer # the old
age pension idea; that he was the in
venter OF the iron bridge, and also had
a very large part in the invention of
the steamboat. The schoolbooks and
histories which tell us about Fulton
and others, never mention this. Why?
VAL STONE
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
COMMENTS ON EDITORIAL
ABOUT SOCIALIST POSITION

PASADENA, Nov. 8.-[Editor Her
add: In your editorial of today en-
titled Socialists Exultant," you say
1--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 exl
cept to vote for him. They are Jubi-'
liant over the election"
These words are true and they repre-
sent a shameful position. Let us ana
lyze it.
1t is universally conceded that the
Republicans represent the money pow
err The Socialists themselves will tell
you so. And what they, who pose as
the great foes of the money power,
are doing is to rejoice in its triumph.
The Democrats knew, for example,
that the tariff business is a special
privilege swindle, and they have tried
to open the eyes of the public to that
fact The Socialists rejoice that they
have not succeeded, and that the peo-
pie are still in ignorance.
The Republicans are a war party,
and the Democrats have tried to show
the people that militarism means al
ways the slavery of the masses. The
Socialists rejoice that the Democrats
have not been able to enlighten the
people on that point
The Republicans have multiplied ex-
penses and offices, to build up a pow
erful bureaucratic machine, and the
Democrats have endeavored to make
this clear to the voters. The Socialists
rejoice that the public is still unen-
lightened.
1t is as if the comrade with whom
I was trying to storm the fort should
shoot me in the back that he might
be the sole leader.
Forth cause of Socialist jubilation
is the insane idea that the Democratic
party will go to pieces and the Social
list party step into its shoes.
II. ]. 4. HITCHCOCK.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
COMIC" SUPPLEMENTS
M OST newspaper readers will agree
N with Rev. DR.. Burdette in think
LII ing the so-called comic" sup

M OsT newspaper readers will agree
N with Rev. DIR. Burdette in think
III ing the so-called comic" sup
plement published with Sunday papers
has outworn it's welcome. The legiti-
mate resources of the alleged fun
makers seem to have been exhausted,
and mirth- provoking pictures and jokes
have been succeeded by CHASTITY buf-
foonery and painfully extravagant
caricature. Comedy gave way to farce,
but that in it's turn has - succeeded
by knock about, slap stick business,
which finds material in the misfortunes
of simpletons or of grotesque char
acters. There is nothing new under
the sun, and this applies to the hideous
taste for minor horrors. Every bib
liophile knows that accidents, bumps,
bruises, mishaps, misfortunes and vul-
garities form the basis of much "com-
ical literature" of the chap-book va
riety. The ideas presented in the
Comic supplements are not new.
They are several hundred years old.
Some of them amused that coarse
minded, red-headed virago, Queen
Elizabeth of England; dozens of them
can be traced back to the reign of
James VI of Scotland and 1 of the
United Kingdom, under whose foster
ing influence literature and art among
the English-speaking peoples began
to take definite form. Even the series
pictures. portraying the "comicar" ad-
ventures of an alleged humorous"
character, are old and stale. Some OF
the first "comic Sheets or chap
books, have survived in our modern
nursery books. Simple Simon" and his
pieman have come chortling down the
ages because they are clean, which is
more than can be said Of most Of the
series pictures and illustrated jests
which amused our ancestors. The
pictured jest went out of fashion be-
cause it became grossly vulgar, and
constantly increasing vulgarity is the
distinguishing characteristic OF that
astonishing modern recrudescence, the
"comic supplement" We believe pop
ular taste demands something better.
1t has ceased to be entertaining, and
1t never was artistic. So what's the
use of it?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
ELKS

MOT only the general joy but the
general prosperity of Los Angeles
~ was added to when the Elks' Har-
vest Festival was opened successfully
last evening. The community has an
interest in continuing the record of sue
cess to the end of the SHOW"
The money derived from the festival
will be used in the entertainment of
the thousands of Elks and Elks' friends
who VIII be attracted to Los Angeles by
the grand lodge meeting next summer.
The Elks' organization is not merely or
namental, but useful. 1t has a splen-
did recordsfor good work. and it's sphere
is one of practical benevolence.
Socially, the organization is one of
the foremost in the United States, but
in addition to it's social aspect it has
a philanthropic, and an important part
of it's mission is to comfort the COM
fortress, aid the suffering and relieve
the needy. The festival will be con-
tinued throughout the week, and the
amusement features alone should be
sufficient to attract big audiences. But,
in attending, citizens may have more
than the mere satisfaction of being
amused and getting their moneys
worth" They may derive enjoyment
of the kind that money cannot buy in
realizing they are helping an excellent
cause.
The brotherly spirit should be en-
couraged. Such events as the Ell1s'
festival shine in sordid age, even
as in Shakespeare's time a good deed
shone in naughty world. OF course
ethe world is no longer naughty-we all
know that. 1t is a new world; a re-
orned world; an always-adyancing
BGorld. But with all our progress, "the
ur cor we have always with u.s." and
Z one of the principal objects of the
daIks' organization is the elimination
NY poverty from the life problem of
q 2most deserving class OF citizens, the
Harvest Festival is worthy of the
.Iheartiest and most generous support
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10

Mr.. Bryan's public statement with
regard to- the election must be disap-
pointing to certain Republicans who
were expecting an angry snarl. Like all
of Mr.. Bryans utterances, it is sim
pie, straightforward and sincere. and
In every line and in every word it bears
witness to the fact that the discern
ing who voted for Bryan should be
proud of having supported the greatest
living American statesman, one of the
foremost thinkers Of the day.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
Roosevelt May Visit New
Diamond Fields in A Aff'iC0

was that geologically it has nothing in
common with the blue volcanic earth
sprinkled with diamonds that choked
the ancient craters at Kimberly and
has supplied the world for years with
most its gems. The studies thus far
seem to favor the view that the dia-
d-bearing area near Luderitz bay
is identical with the so-called Brazilian
formation in Brazil, where the gems
are found not in the soft blue rock,
but in granite. AS this plutonic rock
in Southwest Africa has slowly disin-
tegrated 1t has strewn it's content of
diamonds over the sands.
At last reports several thousands of
diamonds, many of them of fine quail
ity, have been collected, and this with
out a particle of systematic mining.
The diamond-bearing territory has
been found to extend some miles TO
the north of Luderitz bay, about fifty
miles south of it to Elizabeth bay, and
inland to Nautilus hill, about ten miles
from the coast. Prospectors supplied
with horses and provisions are now
examining the country further inland
on the suppostion that most of the
diamonds are among the granite noun
tains bordering the sand waste.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10

T HE yellow desert stretching east
ward from Luderitz bay in Ger
II man Southwest Africa has become
a great attraction, though few months
ago it's monotonous sand dunes were
hateful and depressing. Diamonds
have been found there, and a new min
ing fever is raging. Men are throng-
ing where till now wild beasts have
held undisputed sway.
The discovery, says the New YORK
Sun, was made by Germans who are
building a railroad across the coastal
desert and through the mountains and
inland plains from Luderitz bay to
Keetmanshoop, nearly 800 miles from
the Atlantic. They were digging
through the sands at Colmanshoop,
about ten miles from the bay, to find
a solid basis for the tracks, when they
turned up fine diamond. Everybody
said that If one diamond originated In
that region there were others. Was 1t
possible that this thirsty district was
rich in the most precious of all stones?
So the hunt began.
The quest has been splendidly re-
warded and is still in progress further
and further afleld. The first great fact
discovered about the new diamond field
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10
is THE LID OFF2

Mt EARLY sixty persons were in the
police courts yesterday on the
~ charge Of being drunk. Los An
geles is supposed to be a dry town on
Sundays. If almost sixty We're OBJ
streperously drunk, how. many had
been drinking? Who sold the liquor2
Where were the arrests made? Were
there any law-breaking liquor sellers
arrested? OF course we understand it
is not difficult to arrest and incarcerate
a man helplessly intoxicated. 1t should
not be difficult to obtain evidence and
to arrest men who sell the poison. Why
is it not done, Mr.. Kern? Is the lid
off in Los Angeles?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10

Los Angeles city council has received
from the board of fire underwriters Of
the Pacific coast something resembling
what Wee MacGreegor called zane on
the neb twicet." The request for the
establishment of fire patrol in Los
Angeles has been refused peremptorily.
The board says that's the taxpayers
business, not the boards. While coun-
ell and underwriters are disputing, the
fact remains that q fire patrol is a
nanaSsitY.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10

California fruit growers will try to
persuade the government to maintain
the duty on oranges, and raise that
on lemons. The California fruit indus
try is growing steadily, and with fair
play will be one of the greatest in the
country, as well as one of the greatest
fruit industries in the world. The citrus
fruit growers should command most
respectful hearing at Washington.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-10

Tucson, Arizona, is represented in the
field of periodical publications by
nne new illustrated monthly magazine,
The Border, which will devote part
Of its space and energy to advocating
statehood The citizens of Arizona are
on a campaign with renewed
zeal and energy, and say they will
never let up" until they have won
their case.