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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20
QUOTES AUTHORITIES AS TO
STATE AND PRIVATE FARMS

POMONA, Nov. 1S.--[Edltor Herald:
c. T. Sprading has asked that Mr..
White and Mr.. Stone occasionally quote
from some Socialist author. WE'LL here
is for once: Walter Thomas Mills in
his textbook, 1.-THE Struggle for Elk
istence," says: There will be no oc
casion for attacking the small farm on
the Inauguration of Socialism"
Frederick Engels in 'The Develop
ment of Socialism from Utopia to Sci
ence" says: by at last becoming the
representative of the whole social body
it (the state) renders itself super1uous.
Soon, as no longer there is any social
class to be kept down; soon, as to-
gether with class rule and the individ-
ual struggle for life, founded in the
previous anarchy of production, the
conflicts and excuses that issued there
from have been removed, there is moth
ing more to be repressed, and render
ing necessary a special power of re-
pression-the state. The first act
wherein the state appears as the real
representative of the whole body social
the seizure of the means of produc-
ton in the name of society-is also it's
last independent act as a state. The
interference of the state in social re-
lations becomes superfuous in one do
main after another and falls of itself
into desuetude. The place of a gov
eminent over persons is taken by the
administration of things and the con-
duct of the process of production. The
state is not abolished dies out
Mr. Sprading has given an example
of voluntary Socialism in farmers CO.
operating in steam plows, threshing
machines, creameries, etc. That is all
right for capitalists, but how about the
propertyless man, whose wages will not
properly feed and clothe him?
CHARLES u WHITE
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20

TN HE traffic manager of the Associ-
ated Jobbers of Los Angeles esti-
Il mates that the increase of west
bound transcontinental freight rates in
the new tariff, effective on January l.
will add s1O,O00000 to the revenues of
the railroads-yearly, it is to be pre-
sumed.
Isn't that splendid?
What noble tribute to the prosperity
of the country!
It speaks well for the confidence re-
posed In California by Hartman ana
other upbuilders of the west that they
do not hesitate thus to raise the freight
charges. Fully three-quarters of all
the west-bound overland rates have
been increased, a fact which testities
to the buoyant belief in transportation
circles that prosperity is well estao-
lished. and that the people are duly
grateful to the railroads.
OF course the railroads need the
money. Hartman and Hill have long
been of the opinion that rates were not
high enough. And the people of Cali
fornia should be glad and proud of this
proof of railroad faith in their ability
to stand the increase. 1t is a good ad-
vertisement for the state. And If the
knockers will only keep still the east
bound rates may also be raised before
long.
The increase in the westbound poul-
try rate will stimulate the chicken IN
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DEMURs TO INslsTENcE ON
NATIONALITY OF ASSAILANT

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14-[Editor
Herald: I have been steady reader
of your paper and always admired your
fairness until today. In your report of
San Francisco's latest sensation you
state twice that the would-be assassin
of District Attorney Francis j. Heney
was a Jew. On the next page of the
same paper, speaking about the murder
of a Jersey City banker, you gave the
name of the assassin, but fail to men
ton whether he was a Jew or Gentle.
Will you kindly INFORM me what the
fact that Morris Haas was born by a
Jewish mother has to do with his in
sane deed? Do you think If he had
been Christian or Turk he would have
acted differently? Did you mention his
race or creed In order to arouse that
most loathsome vice with which unfor-
tunately many citizens of the land of
the free and the brave" are afflicted
race hatred? Or did you merely record
1t because the Hebrew race furnishes
comparatively few criminals? s. s.
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INSURANCE PATROL

TN VIEW of the disinclination of in
surance companies to establish and
l. maintain in Los Angeles a fire
patrol which would more than pay for
ITSELF the figures pertaining to the
latest annual revenues derived from
this state by fire insurance companies
are unusually interesting and signiti-
cant. The annual report of the insur-
ance department shows the revenues
Of the companies greatly exceed the
expenditures, and that after discharg-
ing all obligations there is a huge sum
left on the right side of the ledger.
We call the attention of our readers to
the figures in the report published in
detail elsewhere. They will see for
themselves that the fire insurance
business in this state during the year
under review was exceedingly profit
able, even when payments for old
losses incurred in the San Francisco
fire are included. In view of facts and
figures, the refusal by the companies
to provide fire patrol becomes moth
ing more nor less than discrimination
against some of their best patrons, as
well as what on the face of it would
appear to be an extraordinary disregard
of the best interests of the companies,
which. any mere business citizen would
imagine, would be helped greatly by the
extra protection of an efficient and
vigilant fire patrol. The reluctance or
refusal of the board of fire underwrit-
ers to incur the relatively insignificant
cost Of a patrol is inexplicable.
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RELATES INDIAN PARABLE
AS SUGGESTIVE OF CHRIST

PASADENA, Nov. 17.-IEditor Her
add: Parable sometimes teaches bet
ter than precept Dealing with the
problem of prostitution, some of that
same tender fellow feeling Jesus
showed for so-called evildoers seems
not out of place. The following chap
ter from the sacred writings of India
is so full of this touch that 1t will bear
telling again.
Mahaboe, which is one of the names
Of the supreme divinity of the Brah-
minis, in his eighth incarnation, as
sumed the form of Q high caste young
man, wandering on foot about the
earth. He was approaching the out
skirts of small city. AS usual in that
country among the buildings farthest
out was the cottage Of a bayadere
(prostitute). Spying the stranger from
the distance she came, appareled in
her best, to meet him.
Gayly smiling she advanced toward
him. Yet could a touch of that mod
esty Unborn in every female breast not
escape the observation of the god.
With daintiness and banter she enticed
him into her dwelling. Daintily she
served the social meal and genially en-
tertained the stranger until they re-
tired. Falling asleep among caresses,
against morning she awoke to lind her
guest dead.
In anguish she embraces the corpse.
The priests arrive, according to the
prevailing religion, to burn the body.
She insists on being burnt with 1t.
They restrain her: "Only the true wife
burns with the husband. That's duty
and virtue. But you are bayadere. Go
and enjoy life"
She tears herself away and when the
flames are fiercest vaults into them.
Her body quickly burns. But the god
rises from the flames and in his arms
carries her with him to heaven.
Naturally, there is something pa
thetically beautiful in every human
soul. Our cruel system tends to crush
and corrupt this. L. w. ID.
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NOBLE EXAMPLES

AT OBLE indeed and inspiring to the
youth of America are the stories
~ of two immensely wealthy men
which are now being published. What a
grand example is that of John D. Rock
efeller, who early in life, with sublime
philanthropy, set about devising ways
and means Of controlling the oil indus
try of the United States. This Shake
speare and Milton of oil applied him
self to his task with the enthusiasm of
youth, and even in old age that en-
thusiasm still fingers. He is rich be-
yond his ability to appreciate riches.
A years income-the unearned incre-
ment--of his accumulated fortune alone
would make a vast fortune, while his
yearly profits from his controlled in
dustry would make another.
How glorious it is to think America
has produced a man like John d. Rock
fortunes, other men their liberties,
other men their pursuit of happiness.
other men their lives, but he is not
popularity regarded as an ogre, and
when he enters the courtroom fawn-
ing newspaper correspondent, a repre-
sentative of the public, jumps to his
feet and offers him a chair. We cam
not blame this newspaper man, or any
other citizen who mistakes accumulated
wealth for honor and successful ac-
quisitiveness for achievement. Yet it
is hard to understand why man who
is utterly foreign to everything repre-
scented by Americanism should he
treated as If he were better than an
ordinary citizen.
Nobody can blame Rockefeller for
becoming rich, any more than he can
blame a pig for eating to repletion in
a clover patch. But everybody can
blame a system which is so careless
that it prevents hundreds of thousands
of citizens from having supply of the
necessaries of life, causes hundreds of
thousands of others to live in constant
fear of being deprived of the oppor-
tunity to work and to earn a livelihood,
and at the same time permits others to
become unnaturally and, we might say,
ridiculously rich from owning and
operating something which God put
into the ground for the use Of man.
How the name of Rockefeller will shine
in the histories Of the future, which
will judge him in his exact economic
relation to the social problems of the
time, undertaking, overcrowding, ig-
norance, racial deterioration!
The other great man whose example
win inspire the youth of America is
the late Nelson Morris, who, it is said,
in his early days-or, rather, nights
slept with the hogs and left fortune
Of many millions derived from skillful
mercantile transactions involving the
sale of defunct swine in various guises
and DISCUSSES. Misery, they say, makes
strange bedfellows, but so does fortune
building.
The moral of Rockefeller's career is
Beggar your neighbor. and in your old
age receive the adulation of a nation,
even when you are being Intercepted
as a suspect.
The moral of Mr.. Morris career is
Sleep with the pigs and arise early in
the morning and slay them, and you
may be wealthy yet. you bet.
UGH!
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20
SETS HIMSELF RIGHT BY
EXPLAINING TYPO. ERRORS

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19.-[Editor
Herald: Did you ever get into the
hands of the devil-the printers devil?
so that when you wrote freedom
FROM" he printed it freedom FOR"
and when you said a man who was
celled IAN ass" was "insulted' he fig
ured him as an ass outright by making
him INSTALLED? That-and similar
has befallen me in recent letters, and
1 don't complain, but I want to set it
right by this little explanation, for the
benefit of those sufficiently interested
WORD" for worst and Correlation"
for "correlative" are other examples
that will arouse suspicion that my
writing is not exa- -ly copperplate. But
I should probably not have troubled
the letter column with this, had not
lin today's issue) for the second time
been made to call Mr.. Sprading "Mr
Speading." The affectation of forget
ting or bungling a PERSONS name is a
rudeness the imputation or even sus-
picion of which l cannot endure.
VAL STONE.
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PROSPERITY WEEK

n USINESS concerns, factories and
II Industrial institutions kept open
Il house yesterday and gave informal
receptions to thousands of visitors who
made a tour of the factories and
workshops of Los Angeles.
No more impressive demonstration
of the resources of Los Angeles could
have been made, for the visitors saw
the industrial activities of Los Angeles
in actual operation, ''in their working
Clothes" so to speak. The Industrial
life Of Los Angeles is still young, but
it gives excellent promise of maturity
which will place Los Angeles high in
the ranks of Industrial cities.
The development of the manufac-
receive new impetus by the progress
and development of San Pedro harbor
plans. The Los Angeles of the future
will be great industrial and manufac-
turing city as well as the greatest
health and pleasure resort OF the Pa
cific coast. Prosperity week is fulfill
ing its mission by impressing not only
on the home folks" but on the peo-
pie of the nation some of the facts
regarding the commercial and manu-
featuring progress of Los Angeles.
Prosperity week has shown the ma
ton some of the reasons why Los An
geles will be the principal city of the
west, the mercantile, manufacturing,
artistic, literary, musical, educational
and social metropolis Of the Pacific
coast
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What Some of the Original
Americans Are NOzV Doing

dian sits in the cab of the engine as it
speeds over the prairies.
Hollow Horn Bear, chief of all the
Sioux. returning from a visit to Sem
ator Gamble at Yankton, found himself
"broke," and through Interpreter Ellis
ton sought Judge Witten, in charge of
the Trip registration, and asked for a
loan of IS to buy food for his family
When the judge presented a So bill
Elliston pointed out Hollow Horn Bears
picture on it. Judge Witten kept the
bill and gave the chief specie. He
wished to retain the bill which con-
tanned the picture of the only living
man ever photographed in that man
ner. Hollow Horn Bear made a speech
in congress in 1889, and as he is a good
looking specimen of his race his pic
ture was engraved on both the So and
500 bills.
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THE SOLID THREE

ny their refusal to follow the advice
| II of Deputy District Attorney Shaw
= to readvertise for bids for the
good roads bonds the Solid Three of
the board of supervisors have again
shown their contempt of public opin-
ion as well as their determination to
have the handling of as much as pos
| sible. of the money to be realized from
the sale of these bonds.
The actions of the Solid Three in
connection with this matter have all
ready disgusted every good citizen of
the county and have at the same time
furnished additional evidence, IL such
were needed. that the affairs of the
county are not safe in the hands of
these unfaithful public servants.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
bonds are not to be readvertised, it is
very probable that bids will be re-
ceived so much greater than the price
which the board agreed to accept for
these bonds in the secret sale as to
show how readily the Solid Three are
to sacrifice the interests of the people
whom they were elected to serve.
It is a great pity that some legal
means cannot be found to prevent
these disgraeed and discredited pub
lie servants having anything further
to do with the bonds during their term
of office
The people are to be congratulated
that Judge Bordwell found a way to
prevent the robbery of the good roads
funds in the printing of the bonds by
enjoining the carrying out of the con-
tract for their printing. evidently made
for political purposes and without re-
gard to the real value of the service
to be rendered to the county by the
bond printers.
Should the bonds be sold and any
part of the money become available
for expenditure before the majority of
the Solid Three retire from the posi-
lions which they have disgraced, the
public may be sure that some effort
will be made by this malodorous trio
to betray the interests of the public
in dealing with the proceeds.
The public must understand that this
is a case where eternal vigilance is the
price of preventing robbery of the
county under the guise of law and
must govern itself accordingly.
In the meanwhile the people of Los |
Angeles county will favorably remem-
Der Deputy District Attorney Shaw's
efforts in the direction of the proper |
Of f6fS
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20

TIoWAs, Comanches and Apaches
N held their intertribal council on
IA October 1. Chief Ahpeaton was
reelected chief of the Kiowas, Quanah
Parker of the Comanches, Apache John
of the Apaches.
Paul Corbett of Kamiah is a full
blooded Indian, but he is a stakeholder
and director in the Kamiah bank. a
stakeholder in the Kamiah Bridge
company and a landed proprietor of no
small pretensions, says the Indians
Friend
A descendant of Tama's band of
Musuuakie Indians is now the engineer
of a fast passenger train on the Bur-
Iington road. He is here on the same
ground where his ancestors lived for
many generations. Few passengers who
ride behind him know that Tama In
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WATER sPRITEs

over the hill-siopes and down through The
hollows
The siiver-clad water-sprites rally and
run;
AS fleet are their feet as the wings of the
swallows.
And whittier they fare there's gladnes.
that follows
As fresh and as bright and as bliths as
the
And loi at their touch there awakens, there
kindles,
A subtle, pervasive, unnamable thingl
The blight upon beauty, like darkness it
dwindles
For the workers of wonders are whirling
their spindles
And fingers are 1.-THE on the loom of the
spring.
Clinton scollard in Smart Set
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When Santa Claus comes to Los An
geles this year he will make his head
quarters at The Herald's Christmas
festival. Preparations are being made
for a good cheer celebration which will
delight the young folks and arouse the
enthusiasm of the older folks. All who
wish to share in the pleasure of maxi
Ing a Merry Christmas for the guests
at The Herald's Christmas tree party
should write the Christmas editor. He
will be glad to hear from you, and
happy to put your name on the list of
those willing by Christmas kindness to
assist old Santa in bringing joy to the
world.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20
The State Press
Herald Appreciated

The Los Angeles Herald issues g. fine
new literary Sunday supplement, well
illustrated and printed on fine book
paper. 1t is creditable improvement.
And while speaking of The Herald, we
desire to commend it for its cleanness
and reliability as a daily newspaper,
and It's pure Democracy and principle
Elsinore Press.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20

A parade and transfer to the new
stockade in the river bed conducted
yesterday with due ceremony showed
the chain gang brigade Of eighty-seven
strong. Sight of the chain gang never
fails to arouse the surprise of visitors
from effete eastern cities, where the
chain gang has long ago been discon-
tinued because, to primitive eastern
minds, it is cruel and unusual punish
ment and violation of the constitu-
ton Of the United States.
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AT THE THEATERs

AUDITORIUSI-"The searchiight."
MASON--''Paid In Full"
BELAsCO-"Madsm Butterfly and "rhe
Critic"
GRAND-"The HOneymOoners."
BURBANK-"Zaza."
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Los MISUNDERSTANDING
PE0PLE'S-"The Rocky Mountain Express.
FISCHER'S-"A Day at Arcadia"
EMP1RE-Vaudeyiile.
UNIQUE-sFun ON the Santa Rosa"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20

In Los Angeles county the Socialist
vote made surprising showing, being
only 80 less than the totals of the
Prohibition and Independence league
parties. According to the ballots cast
there are almost 5000 Socialist voters
in the county.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20

Francis ]. Heney's recovery will be
slow, but he will not quarrel with the
gift of life, even if that gift must
be handicapped by physical disabilities.
Every decent self-respecting citizen of
California hopes Mr.. Heney may be
able to take up his work again, and,
fearlessly and fairly go ahead with
his cleansing Of the Augean stable.'
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Far and Wide
New York Senator's

1t has been the misfortune of New
York state to be without adequate rep
resentation in the United States for a
number of years. Messrs. Depew and
Plat fell upon evil days. The impact
of the Roosevelt "steam roller" and the
Hughes Compressor has been felt by
both. Senator Depew has been making
an uphill fight to recover from the eff
feet of the insurance disclosures of a
few years back and he has succeeded,
but only to the extent of keeping his
head above water.-Denver Republican.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20

An interesting and important cere-
mony will be the dedication of the new
Masonic temple. Its completion adds
another to the magnificent modern
buildings for which Los Angeles is
famous, and the successful manner in
which it was financed bears witness
to the furnishing condition of the
Masonic order in this city.
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Sailor Santa

Capt. James w. Balano of the good
ship Margaret Thomas has for the past
seventeen years been official Santa
Claus, by reclamation, to Rio Janeiro.
Every year, while his four-masted YES
sci lies at her dock at Mystic wharf, he
is busily engaged in making purchases
to take to his friends and his friends
friends in far-off Rio.-Boston Post.
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Menace 70 Liberty

The people of California now have an
opportunity to see the effect OF I'M
controlled predatory wealth in the poll
luton Of the newspapers OF the state
In a purchasable press lies the great
est menace to civil Hberty.-Oakland
Enquirer.
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Jingoes
1apan hath It's 1InEoes

JHIetII HuVII It7 JIIlbV."
No less renowned than ours.
And nobody need be bit surprised If
Mr.. Hobson, burrowing down through
the center of the earth to explode
mine under Toxic, should meet Wis.,
count Torie burrowing upward to blow
up the capitol at Neutrality-suspicious.
City Star.
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Tomorrow will be Star Day. The
Bethlehem institute is worthy of the
encouragement and support of the COM
munity. Everyone who buys star viii
be boosting a good work.
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Common Sense

The first nine months of this year
showed a large falling off in immi-
grafton. This should not worry or dis
please Americans. If there were no
immigration for term OF years 1t
would be healthier for this country
Santa Barbara Press.
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Hard to Please

wealth does not mean happiness"
says Charles M. Schwab, ex-president
of the steel trust, who ought to know.
But what he says is likely to create
the impression that he is mighty hard
to please.-San Bernardino Sun.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20

How much the S. P. really loves
Southern California and the industries
thereof is illustrated convincingly by
the freight rate gouge.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20

What is there in the innocent word
balloon" that is mirth provoking ?
Every time man in Los Angeles says
to his neighbor Balloon" his lneighbor
replies vehemently, ''Ha, ha, hal" 1t
is an easy way to win laugh. Try it.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-20
oeorula's FavorIte Son

John Temple Graves received eighty
five votes in Georgia, which was re-
marlkable achievement, all things con-
sidered-Houston Post.
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The Public Letter Box

for publication be ACCOMPANIED
but for
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Downward Path

New York city Is consuming a glass
and a half of beer now to each glass
consumed four years ago.-Kansas City
Journal.