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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
MARTYR TO DUTY

VIZ HEN a police officer is killed in
w the performance of his duty, the
public is, at least temporarily,
shocked out of its usual attitude of
criticism or Indifference, and realizes
that the guardians of the public peace
and property are always exposed to
danger, and sometimes run risks great
front is subject, for when a policeman
is killed, he is generally the victim Of
cunning or treachery.
Armed criminals are out of place in
a civilized community. The fact that
criminals are able to arm themselves
at will and with what weapons they
will is a reflection on civilization, and
on every community in IL. We know It
is practically impossible to prevent
criminals from arming themselves as
long as arms are manufactured and
Sold and we know the necessities of
civilization demand the manufacture
and sale of arms, or surely they would
not be manufactured and sold. At the
same time, every crime like thai which
has deprived Los Angeles of the valu-
able services of one of its higher po-
lice officers, with long record of eff
cheney and merit and pluck, calls at
tention anew to the fact that crimes of
violence, or murders by the use of
firearms, are commoner in the United
States than in any other civilized coun-
try and that more firearms are manu-
featured and sold in the United States
than in any other civilized country.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
BLOW TO EDUCATION

TN city of progress and prosperity
1t is regrettable that financial re-
Il trenchment should be made "at
the expense of serious detriment to the
educational interests of Los Angeles"
The news columns of The Herald have
already shown how serious the detri-
ment will be.
The evening high school will be dis
continued; two Of the three elementary
night schools will be closed; not more
than six teachers will be assigned to
the Olive street night school; no new
kindergart n, sloyd rooms or centers
for instruction in cooking will be opened
during the year; no new school rooms
beyond those already arranged for will
be opened during the year, unless i'm
peratively necessary; no new positions
will be created in the high schools and
no teachers beyond the number already
arranged for will be assigned there; the
staff in the repair department will be
cut down; the vacancy in the superin-
tendent's staff will not be filled; only
1880 viii be allowed for school library
/ oks and $4,000 will be saved; only $780,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
Country Is Fast Recovering
From the Republican Panic

24o, which, In spite of the large sums
paid to foreign ships for transporta.
ton, leaves very large sum to be
added to the favorable trade balance
already existing. AS we are axnortine
rather than importing Securities. and
as the gold borrowed last fall has long.
since boen repaid in one form or an.
other, financiers believe that for most
OF the balances due us we shall ret
actual gold to be added to our already
superintendent store. 1t is evident thar
there will be no occasion for the issue
OF emergency currency under the AID
-Vreeland bill, although the secre-
tary OF the treasury Is ready for II.
The plan Is not popular with the large
banks, which object % assuming the
responsibility for the weaker banks,
which the law requires. The controller
of the currency has ascertained that
the banks own ample supplies of bonds
Of the classes which the law makes
available for emergency currency
without resorting to commercial pa
per"-that is, without resorting to the
very best security for emergency issues
but which there is q disposition to dis
criminate against.
This piling up of money is evidence
that condolences Is not yet sufficiently
restored to encourage Investment in
new enterprises. There are plenty of
people who would gladly borrow all OF
this money and more, but money can
times proof" Money can be got freely
for new enterprises only when there is
q belief in rising prices. 1t continues
to be the general belief that we shall
again be in full swing in 1909 for en-
terprises which have evident merit
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10

~ ASTERN advices indicate that
III there will be an abundance of
: money this fall and that the
movement of crops will cause no finan-
cial strain whatever. But it must be a
movement and not a storage. Money
Is virtually unavailable to put into
crops for which there is no immediate
active demand. This bears hard on a
few special Enthusiastically wine
and hops-whose consumption has been
materially reduced either by a general
forced economy or by other cause,
such as, In the case of beer and wine,
by unfriendly legislation. There are
large stocks of wine and brewing ma
terials, and banks will not advance
more money to be locked up in them.
With hops selling at cents a pound,
banks do not like to advance money
even for picking, curing and baling.
and 1t Is reported from washington
that many Yakima valley hops will go
unpicked because money cannot be
borrowed to harvest them on the. Sc
curity OF hops. For carrying cotton,
grain and other staple products, how
ever, money Is abundant, says the San
Francisco Chronicle.
We are accommodating gold beyond
any former experience following a
money panic. That is because business
is as inactive in Europe and Asia as
here For the seven months ending in
August our imports were 1896, ,2s2
less than those of the corresponding
months of 1907, and our exports only
$50 O02. 1868 less--the reduced amount be-
ing doubtless largely due to lower
prices. For the seven months our ex-
norris exceeded our imports by S372, 49,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
DRUNKENNESS CAUSES CRIME;
POVERTY CAUSES DRUNKENNESS

PASADENA, Sept. 7.-[Editor Her
add: / quite agree with your cores
pondent who denies poverty is the CHER
cause of crime. While poverty no
doubt is an indirect cause Tor Some
forms of crime, there are greater iotces
at work in producing criminals than
poverty. To begin with, one or the
chief causes is drunkenness, whlcn 10
a great extent causes poverty IN the
home and depraYement in the lnulVlo-
ual drunkard, as some men VINO De-
come drunkards will gradually SINK SO
low in the standard of being tnat noun
ing but the vilest thought VIII come
into their minds. forcing them to COM
NIT the vilest crimes, ana yet we must
go back of that order of depravement
in searching for the chief cause or
criminal thought. In order TO 90 TINS
one must take into consideration the
fact that man is not criminal but
God created being, and Is the victim OF
the controlling influences OF the
thoughts which come into MS MIND
or mental sphere.
Evil tendencies or thoughts are the
natural outgrowths of birth, environ
ment and preceptial influences of early
training. Men and women who have
little or no thought sentiment higher
than those of animal instincts bring
children into the world under the in
rally control the mind according to
their kind. Figs cannot be gathered
from thistle.
What chance has child thus
brought into the world? Good and
pure precepts of early training gen.
orally have a lasting effect, but such
training can only come from parents
who are capable of bringing up the
children in the way they should go.
The law made by man and for mans
qualification forces woman to submit
to her husband under all conditions and
circumstances, which naturally develops
the brute nature, thus the law enslaves
woman in the bondage of hell while it
cheats the child out of its birthright
and sets the mark Of Cain upon the
brow of humanity.
God created man, both male and
female, and in every way superior to
the animal as they were created in the
seventh stage, according to the God Of
glory, woman being finish, but man fell
to the fifth stage, which is the animal
kingdom, and has always tried to force
woman to his level instead of trying
to rise into the glory OF God where he
truly and rightfully belongs.
MRS. FLORENCE G. GILBERT.
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WRITER ACCUSES MR.. STONE
OF REASONING BY INDUCTION

LOS ANGELES, Sept. s.-[Editor
Herald: Epictetus, the Greek philoso-
pher, said: "Men are tormented by
the conception they have of things and
not by the things themselves"
Our human condition would be
greatly improved by a recognition of
this fact and then conforming our
thought so as to govern our life har-
moniously. Facts are not changed by
what we think of them. but our sense
of being is perverted when our thought
is erroneous. LAS a man thinketh in
his heart SO is he" the expression OF
his thought
Shakespeare said "there is no evil,
only thinking makes 1t So" Montaigne,
reasoning along this line, wrote: IF
what we call evil is not evil In itself,
but only that our fency gives 1t that
quality. 1t lies in us to change and
alter 1t. and If fortune (environment)
provides II, tits our business to give 1T
its form. If the original being of those
things we fear had power to lodge
itself in us by it's own authority. it
would then lodge itself alike and In
like manner in all. To illustrate: It Ia
only the belief In ghosts that makes
us timid: when we know the truth that
there are no ghosts our fear Is dis
PEELED and our actions modified, and
they are not guided, influenced or
thwarted by our environment, but by
our thought or mental process. We
bring the conditions we desire into our
experience by rigid adherence to our
mental ideal.
I would like to ask Mr.. Stone. Did
environment teach people that the
earth is fiat7 The truth about 1t al
ways existed, and was 1t also environ
ment that caused the mob to kill the
discoverer of this truth or chagrin
over a shattered idol. If environment
is the great cause, then would Mr.:
Stone have us exercise faith toward
and pray to environment for the
ame1ioration of evil conditions (envi-
ronment). We would be very apt TO
find 1t q capricious God, and instead OF
PRAYER being an effort to realize the
truth, Il would be q petition for raVor
and Partially, so that through our Pc
tition environment would be changed
Mr.. Stone admits he Is considering
fallible man "a fallacy or false mani
he reasons by induction. We don't
learn anything by studying ralliple
mathematics. I am reasoning from the
Standpoint of the perfect man; the
mere physical man may be the product
of his environment, the true man, the
spiritual man, the man who survives
the grave, is the product of truth, II
we recognize that fact now, and not
wait for the future to read 1t to us,
we will be governed by truth and not
by chance and caprice. Truth has but
one fad, falsehood many, and those
who more from falsehood than from
truth do know are more to be heard
than hardened to. K. N.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
HE OF THE HOTEL HOP

Time was when we two gayly danced
And hardly noticed others there;
rown In her face I often glanced
with 10y because its was so fair;
The dullest. least enchanting measure
I listened to with boundless pleasure
How tenderly her hand was placed
Trnon my sleeves. and I recall
How with my arm around her waist
we seemed TO float across the hall;
We hunted hooks that we're secluded
And frowned on others who intruded.
famed her while we sat alone,
And whispered nothings in her ear;
claimed each number as my own.
because / though my right was clear;
scorned her sisters. she my brothers,
we had no smiles to waste on others.
we seldom dance together now.
Because 1t hardly seems worth while;
The sweetest thrill ] get somehow,
Comes when some other deigns to smile;
Although she has not lost her beatty,
dance with her but as a duty.
Her step is light, her waist is slim
But when another leads her out
do not look with hate on him,
For / am short OF breath and stout;
Let foolish ones go gayly Hitting
ia rather do my flirting sitting.
Chicago Record Herald.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
INDECENT HASTE

VIZ HATEVER may have been the
w motive actuating the majority of
the board of supervisors in the
900 bond deal, 1t certainly did not
look much like public spirit; and when
public officials are not animated by
public spirit it, is obvious they are
misfits.
There was no need for the hurry-up
sale of the good roads bond issue. IN
doubtedly much better terms could have
been made If the supervisors had given
purchasers an opportunity to bid. By
the action of the supervisors Los Ange-
les is a heavy loser.
Is it possible, as has been openly sug-
gested, that political disappointment
and a cheap desire for an expensive re-
venge affected the decision?
If this be SO, then we'll may we ask,
Why should Los Angeles be made the
victim of Republican feuds and fac
tons? That internecine Republican
politics should be allowed to affect a
public transaction of the magnitude
and Importance of the good roads bond
issue is outrageous, and would be I'M
believable If explanation could be Of
fered which did not reflect on the in
telligence, the sanity or the honesty of
the supervisors. But as no one wishes
to cast reflections on the intelligence,
sanity or honesty of those good and
faithful public servants, the "solid
three" sllperyisOrs nothing remains hut
TO accept the extraordinary conclusion
that the three were playing politics at
the expense of Los Angeles county and
the good roads for which many excel
lent citizens have made a long, and, as
they have believed, successful fight.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
REVISION MANANA

u EPUBLICAN promises Of tariff re-
II, vision "mananap remind us OF
~ the fact that in 1904 the Repub-
licans announced they wo-1a revise the
tariff, manana, and urged reformers to
intrust the work to them and not to
Democrats They made the same spe-
cious plea they are making this year,
in almost the same words. At that
time Edward M. Shepard said truly in
a speech at Bennington, VT: "A vote
for Mr. Roosevelt Is a vote for Repub-
licanism. 1t is a vote T. t not even an
effort at tariff reform--even the slight
est measure of it-shall be made, and
that every iniquity of the Dingley
schedules shall be borne in silence"
Citizens who voted for the Republican
ticket in the fond belief they would be
rewarded by living to see Republican
tariff revision are still living, or most
of them are. At the end OF four years
are they still hoping to see the Repub-
lican party honestly engaged in the
work of honest tariff revision?
Not a single schedule has been re-
duced by the Republican promisers
Not even when the president recon-
mended that wood pulp and articles
entering into the production of print
ing paper be put on the free list, not
even when the Publishers association
urged the necessity for this action did
the Republican congress bulge. The
stand-patters stood pat.
Again the Republicans ask that the
work of revision of the tariff be in
trusted to them-manana. The citizens
of the United States cannot be fooled
again.
In November they will return to
power a Democratic American admin
istration, the members of which will
perform the patriotic duties committed
to them unflinchingly, fearless of trusts,
regardless of interests; and the nation
will appreciate their loyal work so we'll
that the Republican party will not be
returned again to power until the day
after manana.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10

900 will be allowed for school supplies
instead of $43171; only $4,000 instead Of
$25, 1856 will be allowed for materials for
repairs.
N view of the fact that popular edu-
CO ton in the United States has suf-
fered. under Republican prosperity"
fNlsely so called, far mores than any
other feature of American life, any
steps which add to the national sum
of educational shortcoming are greatly
to be regretted Enough ground has
been lost already. Retrenchment in
this department. is sacrifice, and the
most vital interests of the nation are
on the altar.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
MARATHON RACE

II 9TH gratifying and inspiring was
II the success of the Marathon
- race from Los Angeles to the sea,
which was run in two hours and won
by e. Dietrich, whose splendid physical
condition at the end of the contest
points moral. This young athlete does
not use and never has used liquor or
tobacco. In his physique, fitness and
form he illustrates the superb condition
which will be the reward of any young
man who will be content to live a sim
pie, clean life, and devote some atten-
ton to athletic exercise.
The Marathon race was magnificent
exhibition of strength and endurance,
and all who took part in 1t acquitted
themselves with credit. California has
reason to be proud of such sons.
The success of the Marathon race en-
courages the hope and belief that the
great race was the first of a series
which will eventually be among the
classics of American sport.
The course is an ideal one, leading
along the outlying districts of Los An
geles, by way of broad streets and
paved roads, shaded with magnificent
trees, to the Los Angeles Athletic
clubs annex at Venice. The club is to
be congratulated on the success of the
race, and so is everyone interested in
Californian outdoor sports. outdoor life
and athletics. The race advertises the
unequaled fitness OF California for a
contest of this kind, and calls attention
to the fact that here, of all places, is
that which is most suitable for an in
Olympic on a heroic scale;
be it added, in a heroic,
American spirit, and not with narrow
and repellent tnsular peevishness.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10

Theodore Bell is within the mark
when he says Bryan is gaining strength
every day in nearly every part of the
country. He is gaining strength every
hour. Mr.. Bell hits the bulls eye
when he says Bryan will be elected by
as large a vote as was given Cleve-
land in 1892. when California went
Democratic. Like all the Democratic
meetings that have been held. the
Turner hall meeting was successful,
enthusiastic and earnest. This Is De-
mocracy's year.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
ENFORCE THE LAW

NITY PROSECUTOR WOOLWINE'S
determined fight to stamp out the
~ social evil by enforcing the law is
justified by him in the following stated
reasons:
First. If the law was enforced it
would take away the support of a
horde of vicious men who now form a
demoralizing political force, the effects
OF which for evil can hardly be overes-
tinated.
Second. If women knew there was a
strict law against their disgraceful
calling they would hesitate to enter on
such career, and thousands of girls
would be saved to decency and home
life.
Third. Enforcement of the law would
remove a form of municipal graft
which, soon or late, eats into the gov
eminent of every city.
Fourth. The people have demanded
the wiping out of the red-light dis
trict, and any city official who hesi-
tates to enforce the law should be re-
moved from office.
The fourth reason is the most CO.
gent. All laws must be enforced. The
people must rule.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10

Theodore Bell at Bakersfield said all
the things Willie Hearst would rather
have left unsaid. His language about
the hypocrisy and mountebankery of
yellow journalism was to the point. He
exposed Hearst's treachery to the
Democratic party and showed a COM
plete knowledge OF the deal by which
the Hartman interests and the Hearst
interests entered into an arrangement
in the expression: Put
up and shut up
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
JOHN w. KERN
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-"rhe College Widow" SEQ
ond week.
BELASCO-Ferenc Molnars satirical COM
edy, 1.-The Devil"
BURBANK-Ferehc Molnar's satirical COM
edy, 1.-The Devil"
GRAND-"Gayest Manhattan" musical
comedy.
MASON-Dark.
PEOPLEs-"The Montana Limited" west
ern melodrama.
ORPHEUM-Advanoed vaudeville.
Los neutrality-suspicious. vaudeville.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
FISCHER'S-"A Little Robinson Crusoe,'
musical comedy.
UNIQUE-Musca1 comedy and farce
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10

New York Post says the selection of
Secretary Root and Joseph H. Choate
to preside over the Republican state
convention was an attempt on the
part of machine Republicans to toady
to the decent element. The corrup-
ton of the Republican party in recent
years has established a new record In
reckless political debauchery.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10

John w. Gates is distributing taffy
in dear old London. In an interview
he advised young Americans to learn
the business methods of London and
Paris If America is to maintain her
lead. Don't you worry, Unc' Gates.
We guess America will maintain her
lead, If the frenzied financiers don't
check her up.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10

H. D. Barrows and w. H. Workman
both of whom have lived in this city
for more than a half century, will
address the City club Saturday on
early Los Angeles" Few cities of
the size and Importance of Los An
geles can brag that among their hon
ored citizens are pioneers.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10

DR.. John Willis Baer, president of
Occidental college, reports there has
been a decided improvement in eastern
financial conditions. He says business
activities are increasing and money is
easy. We did not dream that DR..
Baer was such an excellent financial
reporter. His candid optimism should
be helpful to the bull market, even
If he is a "baer."
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
But He Hasn't

Mr.. Taft, speaking to Virginians, as
serts there is nothing in present eco
no1nic or political conditions to justify
the solidarity of the SOUTH" If Mr..
Taft has the slightest familiarity with
the very large subject he has tackled,
we wait anxiously to hear the evidence
and see the figures.-Florida Times
Union.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
Absolutely Sure

II the Democrats can only manage to
throw such publicity upon Republican
movements as to prevent the amassing
of an enormous fund for the corruption
of the ignorant and purchasable vote
Of the country, 1t is reasonably sure
that Mr.. Bryan will be overwhelmingly
elected.--Houston Posi-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10

James NJ. Barrie. the playwright,
says every woman knows Eve was
not made out of Adams rib, but out
of his funny bone. Mr.. Barrie's esti-
mate of what Artemus Ward called
the fair sect will bring down on his
devoted head storm of indignation
from clear round the world and back
a
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10

There has been some decrease in the
production of California gold and sill
yer, but the loss is more than made UT
by the ever increasing value Of the Cal
ifornia gold and silver which grows or
thousands of farms and ranches. or
chards and vineyards.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
CoIonIst Rush

Trains bearing colonists are now ar
irving In California every day and all
roads report the heaviest traffic since
the system was inaugurated. These
people are coming with the intention
of making California their home, for
there is no return coupon to the colo
mist tickets.-Riverside Enterprise.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10
Runninq Wild

Hisgen and Graves have been noti-
fed of their nominations. This COM
pletes the ceremonials of that nature
for this campaign. And we may now
expect Hisgen and Graves to do some
running that will make the earlier can
didates in the field sit up and take
notice.-Pittsburg Dispatch.