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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-17
DON QUIxoTE

hon QUIXOTE of tho Independence
~ party is preparing for the fray
= He has groomed his Rosinante
until that lean and knobby creature
displays many unsupported points of
excellence. The gallant knight hath
emptied many fair bags of gold, and
yet his restless eye eagerly scans the
horizon, looking for more windmills to
conquer. IT'S a restless and sleepless
force. is Don Quixote's ambition. 1t
haunts him in his dreams, glares back
at him when he faces the looking glass,
sits at his elbow when he eats, attends
him wherever he goes. 1t grows on
what 1t feeds on, which is to say van
ity. And now the lank, lean Knight of
the Rueful Countenance, looking as
lugubrious as a lantern of antique pat
tern, once more is applying his rowels
to the TANKS of poor old Yellow Jour-
nalism Rosinante, and is organizing
the Adullamites. All the men of the
back woods, all the citizens who never
see any journals but Hearst's, all the
deadhead list, all the people who are
mad at everybody ana dlscontenteu
with themselves, all the gifted men
who hate to work and think the minor
political offices would be to their Xix
ing, all, all are fiocklng to the trusty
spear of the Doughty Don. If he cam
not be president of the United States,
he intends to have proxy in that Of
fee. So he has prepared ticket which
will soon be submitted to the nation
for its suffrages: For president Of the
United States, the Yellow Kid; for vice
president, Uncle Heinie. In order that
the merit of the illustrious godfather
of the Yellow Kid may not be over
looked, new cabinet office will be
provided. In addition to the usual Sec
retaryships, ETC., a special position will
be created, of vast responsibility, with
a salary to match. Therefore, among
the candidates on the Independence
party ticket will be:
FOR GENERAL MANAGER OF
THE UNITED STATES, DON QUIX-
OTE HEARST.
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ANSWERS CORRESPONDENTS
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

LOS ANGELES, July 15.-[Editor
Herald: With your kind permission I
would like to answer Joseph Holbrook's
request for a definition of surplus
values and wealth"
Creation is the first source of wealth.
After nature has done its part in fur
nishing the raw materials, such as iron,
timber and cotton, knowledge and la
Dor are applied, and the wealth is
produced on which, we subsist and
without which a large population could
not exist. All unnecessary labor or
handling of products are profits or sur
plus values.
AS an example 1 will use cotton
goods:
A farmer hires labor to plant and
pick his crop of cotton, sends it to a
gin mill, then is baled and shipped to
the cotton mills. The farmer has
made profit off the work Of those he
hires or they have not received all they
have produced. The gin mill, railway
and cotton mill owners, after having
paid their employees, add a surplus
vaIue-their profit-without having
done any useful work. The railways
then haul the finished cloth to the gar
ment manufacturer, and the railways
handle it again in taking it to the
wholesalers, who sell it to the retail
ers, and we get 1t of the latter after
nine or ten profits have been added.
Money is but a means of exchange,
and when anyone gets a dollar that he
has not earned, somewhere there is
some one that has produced a dollar
and did not get 1t. w. >. >.
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DANCE HALLS

ONE of the principal assets of a
city is its reputation for moral
~ ity, and this reputation must be
founded on actual conditions. Los An
reles should be in a position TO smile
when anyone talks of an investigation
into what may be called its public
morality. 1t should be in position
to say to every would-be investigator;
"You may conduct your inquiries
wherever and whenever you please, and
call to the witness stand whomsoever
YOU please. We are sure we have a
clean city, and your investigation Will
be a highly desirable advertisement.
When it is known that conditions Of
fensive to decency and subversive of
morality exist In the city efforts should
be made upon the part of officials and
of others whom 1t may concern to have
the conditions remedied before they
have reached a stage where exposure
will attract the attention of the entire
country to undesirable social con-
ditions which exist unrebuked in Los
Angeles. There is a big branch Of our
public service to which is entrusted
the duty of keeping the city morally
clean, and it is as much the duty of this
branch Of the service to keep the city
morally clean as 1t is the duty of the
street cleaning department to keep the
streets clean, and the duty of the
board of health to take precautionary
measures which may give Los Angeles
a clean bill of health. A dictionary
definition of the word police" is as
follows: 1.-THE system by which public
order, liberty, property and individual
security are maintained in a commun
ity; body of civil officers for enforc-
ing the laws respecting good order"
etc.
1t is the duty OF all governing bodies,
and first of the city council, to take
action when fragrant violations Of NOR
atty and orderliness are complained of
by self-respecting and municipality re-
speeding citizens, and there is no ex-
cuse for the liberation of even one of
the disorderly dance halls which are q
frequent cause of complaint. These re-
sorts have been well named Satan
recruiting stations for the army of the
half-world, and his army is constantly
being increased in Los Angeles, in
great measure owing to the pernicious
influences and activities of dance halls.
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SAYS POLICE STRAIN AT
GNAT AND SWALLOW CAMEL

LOS ANGELES, July .15.-[Editor
Herald: With this issue 1 have sub
scribed for your paper because of the
fair manner in which you handle sub
iects of public discussion and because
of admission of views of the people in
these columns. I cite from an evening
paper quoting Chief Kern as saying,
in regard to the red light" district:
1--WE have talked this matter over and
differences between Mr.. Woolwine and
myself is that he believes that this law
ought to be enforced to the letter and
1 don't"
The chief is very busy man these
days prosecuting members of politi-
cal party for asserting their constitu-
tional prerogative of free speech, which
thing he processes to do by virtue of
city ordinance-and yet he is quoted
with reference to a state law as saying
that he doesn't think it should be en-
forced. Here we behold public official
who shields by deed and word an en-
tire class of most debauched criminals
from the operation of the law. In this
action the official renders law null
and void. The police department re-
spects or violates constitutional rights
as it's interests are concerned. This
persecution of reputable women and
immunity for the demi-monde savors
much of straining at a gnat and swal-
lowing a camel. -
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-17

NHE San Jose Mercury, the personal
organ of Congressman Hayes,
Il prints an elaborate article, partly
disappearing and in part denying
the charges made in the Call concern
ing the nuisance created at the south
ern end of San Francisco bay owing to
the confinement of sewage in the AL
viso sloughs by a dam built by the
Dumbarton Land company. The Mer-
curry introduces its laborious eXplana-
ton with the declaration: In every
respect these statements Tin the CalI
are false" In every respect the state
ments in the Call are true. They are
confirmed by hundreds of witnesses
resident almost on the spot, whose in
terest is certainly not to give their own
neighborhood a black eye. Nothing
less than an urgent and vital necessity
of self-defense would impel residents
and property owners to advertise the
fact that grave insanitary condltions
prevail in their immediate vicinity says
the San Francisco Call.
Reading the fiatfooted declaration
and charge of falsehood in the Mercu-
RVS introduction one might suppose
that some material facts would be cited
in support of the denial, put the
strange thing is that the paper admits
the whole case presented in these col
umns when 1t comes to deal with act
uaI conditions City, Attorney Benson
of San Jose is represented by the Mer-
curry as authority on the subject of the
controversy between the city ana the
Dumbarton Land company. He tod
the Mercury 1.-The trouble with the
Dumbarton Land company over the dis
posal of the sewage from the main San
Jose sewer commenced two years ago.
The city then made an agreement with
the company to dispose of the outflow
in a sanitary way. We quote further
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to SPECTATORS who have taken the
money of the American people for their
Investments in Mexico. hundreds OF
millions of dollars of American money
have crossed the border into Mexico in
this way. Part of these millions goes
to the pockets of the Spectator, an
other part is paid in taxes to the MeAl-
can government for the so-called con-
cessions and the rest, but a small part
indeed, has been spent in farcical de-
yelopment of these concessions. II Is
to the interest of the speculator to keep
I'D this game and make the people be-
lieye that Porfirio Diaz is great old
man and a friend of the American
people. ~,
game believing themselves millionalres
by the grace of Porfirio Diaz, when
in reality, they are lambs shorn OF thelI
fleece.
Naturally, the political prisoners be-
ing against Porfirio Diaz are against
these spectators.
This immense plot Of farcical specu-
lation, into which enter not only the
exploiter and the thousands of stock
holders but also the friends OF these
stockholders and even other people
who are hopeful that at some future
time they also may have the emporium
ity in Mexico of becoming mtlllonalres,
has kept the minds of the American
people away from the crime committed
upon the person of these PRISONERS
against freedom, against Amerlcanlsm
and against civilization. ana al OF
this has been done under the influence
of the despot of Mexico, who sees
clearly and far ahead and is not blind
tn his interests like the American lamb.
hoe K. FERNANDEZ.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-17

estates Many citizens do not own their
own homes. Many do not own a lot
in any cemetery. In the United States,
in spite of the huge size of Uncle Sans
farm. we are far, far away from the
ownership of the land by the people.
To Americans who love their country
and have a regard for their fellow
human beings there Is something NOR
tifying in the thought that factories
and mills and mines should take so
many young lives while there are still
thousands of broad acres not under
cultivation. 1t is. thousand pities
that the United States has not man
aged it's land in such a way as to avoid
the danger which has caused more
trouble in older nations than all the
other troubles put together.
We will yield to nobody in our adj
miration for Taft as citizen. He
Is a scholarly and gentlemanly man,
and it is not his fault but the fault
OF circumstances that his education has
been so one-sided that he is by train
ing and experience untitled to be the
president of the PEOPLE of the United
States of America. The ideal president
of an industrial republic like this is
man like Jefferson, Lincoln. Mckinley
or Bryan-one who can put himself
in the place of the worker, the farmer,
the clerk. the mechanic. the wage
Garner, the miner. tine man with the
dinner pail. Taft cannot do this. He
cannot understand why people should
not have enough to eat all the year
round. We venture to say it is hard
for him to imagine a meal without
walters to pass around the dishes. He
is not to be blamed for his ignorance,
and it would be as tasteless and foolish
to ridicule or cartoon him for it as it
is tasteless and foolish for some of his
duller witted and more asinine sup
porters to think they can make politi-
cal capital by publishing vile carica-
lures and amateurish cartoons of Col.
Bryan.
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SHOWING COL. WILLIAMS

TOHN SHARP WILLIAMS expressed
skepticism over the statement that
y California is in the Bryan column
and will give Democratic majority.
He says although he is not from Mis-
souri, he is from Mississippi, and we
must show him." Col. Williams, like
other great and good men, you prob
ably do not take into account the fact
that the population of California is
growing at a tremendous rate. Every
thing grows fast here. With the great
growth of population there has been
a great growth of Democratic senti-
ment, for much of our population has
been recruited from centers of Democ-
racy. Much of our population has also
been recruited via the vital statistics
bureau route. There are many native
sons who have strong sentiments on
trusts, pauper wages, lack of employ
ment and the GENERALIZATION of the
Pacific coast. Besides, the people of
California are remarkable for common
sense, Brother Williams. They know
the correct spelling of that once pop
ular expression, the fool dinner pail"
and some of them who come from your
esteemed section, Col Williams, and
are of a vehement and enthusiastic
temperament, put a small. energetic
rnonosyllable in the place where it will
do the most good, which is just before
fool" Oh, yes, Brother Williams. Call
ifornia will support triumphant Democ-
racy this fall. Now, sub, we hope you
consider yourself Shown"
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Corporation INDIFFERENCE
Southern Pacific S Excuse

from Mr.. Benson's statement to the
Mercury:
II do not know exactly how long the
company complied with the terms of
this agreement, but complaints began
to reach the city officers about a month
ago. City Engineer Pieper and myself
at once went to the mouth of the Gray
Goose cutoff and found that the tide
gate through which the sewage was
supposed to find it's way to deep water
was spiked. We at once notified the
company, and through it's attorney it
claimed that the gate had been put
out of operation through inadVertence.
The attorney agreed to send the COM
pany engineer to the scene of the trou-
BILE at once"
The statements in the Call then, were
not false, but are admitted by the Mer-
curry to be true. OF course, the motive
of the Mercury's lame defense is obvi-
Gus. The Dumbarton Land company
is closely connected with Southern Pa
-ci1c interests, and Hayes has bargained
for the support of the railroad political
bureau to help him get a denomination
for congress. 1t is in fulfillment of this
bargain that he makes his hating and
Self-contradictory defense of the out
rage done to the people of Alviso and
that neighborhood
The gate was spiked Through mad
vertence," and doubtless the nuisance
continues through the same variety of
corporation inadvertence. We seem to
have heard that kind of excuse before,
hut now that the Call has drawn atten-
ton to the outrage something may be
done to improve conditions. but appar-
emily nothing will be done if Hayes can
prevent, because, contrary to the testi-
mony of everybody on the spot he in
sists that there is no room for inn
provement, now that the "inadvert-
enee" has been released from its spikes
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STATE LEGISLATURE

n r the utmost Importance to Califor-
MIA is the election of a legislature
" COMPOSED of men who realize the
responsibility of their office and are
prepared to measure up to 1t FEAR
IESSLY. A cowed lawmaker or one
whose favor has been bought is or no
more use to the community than a cur
spirited dog is to the householder
When the watchdog will neither bark
nor bite he is not worth his keep, and
when legislators refuse to do their duty
and enforce the law their absence Is
more valuable than their presence. one
Of the urgent necessities of California
is the election Of Legislature when
will take steps to enforce the law,
which has so long been violated by the
Southern Pacific company; the mem
hers of the state railroad commission
and the attorney general, who are
elected to enforce the laws of the state.
The members of the state legislature
must be men who will promptly and
fearlessly institute searching inquiry
into the shameful and notorious failure
of the members of the state board of
railroad commissioners to do their duty
We need legislature which will neith-
er finch from nor evade the disagree
able duty of impeaching the members
of the board of railroad commissioners,
If they find just ground for such i'm
parchment. No member should be sent
to the legislature who is not prepared
TO promise to do his duty in this mat
ter, Of such vital moment to the public.
In plain language the failure of MEM
bers of the legislature to do their duty,
when their duty is clear and definite,
is a BETRAYAL OF THE INTER
EsTs OF THE STATE OF CALIFoR-
MA, and breach of trust.
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Air Navigation Is Not as
Great q Wonder as Wireless

this direction. Their plan requires an
initial start, but there is no gas-bag,
and the control of flight is managed
by means of wings" adjusted to work
automatically. Propulsion is also by
motor and though no great heights
have been attained, they have kept in
the air for considerable distances at
high speeds. Their crafts are believed
to be useful in war and in other direc-
tions, and superior to the gas bags, be-
cause they are cheaper and less likely
to be destroyed by the enemy.
Count Zeppelin has been working on
the older plan of an airship for twenty
years, and after eXhausting his own
fortune has been aided by the Austrian
government until he has accomplished
more than any one else in this partic-
ular field. His ship is an enormous
cigar-shaped balloon, which carries be-
meath it a car containing machinery
which drives propellers. The machine
has against it the enormous cost, its
great size and liability to damage, but
the fact that it has sailed over good
portion of Switzerland in strong winds
and has been under perfect control all
the time makes it seem like winning
proposition.
The date of the arrival of the sue
cessful airship may be some distance
in the future, but the perfection of
such a craft would hardly be so Won
derful as is the transmission of mes
sages by wireless biography.
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GRADE NEAR-IN STREETS FIRST;
TIME THEN FOR "GooD ROADS"

LOS ANGELES, July 16,-[Editor
Herald: Good roads, by all means,
let us have! But let this mean not
only good Outside" roads for the COM
fort and convenience of the wealthy
automobilist, but decent, clean, graded
streets in the residence quarters of the
poor. There Is a street within seven
minutes walk of the court house
which is rendered almost blind alley
at it's hither end through the neglect
of the city council to open it up and
finish the grading which was COM
menced years ago. Ord street at its
western end where it meets Yale
street, is a disgrace at any time; in
rainy weather it is a quagmire. There
is an ungraded, rubbish-strewn hill
abutting into and half way across the
street, and no sidewalk but a bit of
rotten boarding even in the part that
is supposed to be graded.
This is right In the heart Of the city,
though not in the wealthy quarter
(Which explains lott and ought to be
seen to even before the outer roads
are tackled. A RESIDENT.
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424 Henne building,
DUPED BY FALSE DREAMS OF
WEALTH INTO BACKING DIAZ

LOS ANGELES, July 13.-[Editor
Herald: Referring to your article in
The Herald of this morning regarding
the Mexican prisoners now in the coun-
ty Jail, permit me to say;
You evince surprise at the lack of in
people concerning these men and give
as a reason the belief that they are
"only Mexicans."
When the despot, Porfirio Diaz, who
has ruled Mexico for more than thirty
years, first began his reign he fiattered
his enemies and political adversaries
in Mexico, making them believe that
he was their unconditional friend and
that the republic of Mexico was ready
to serve them. In this way he imposed
himself upon them, and what he did
with fiattery at first he continues to do
with brutality. He is now acting with
the American people in the same way.
He has long realized the influence of
the Spectator upon the American peo-
pie and accordingly has made many
worthless concessions of land and mines
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DEMOCRATS WISELY SAT ON
HossoN AND HoNoRED BRYAN

LOS ANGELES, July 15.-[Editor
Herald: Hobson wants the biggest
navy the world has ever seen. Thank
heaven the Democracy had the good
sense to squelch him, for the time be-
ing at any rate, at Denver. But Hiram
Maxim draws, with obvious profess
Of fine facility with which the flying
m machine t Of the future will be able to
explode bombs over helpless cities, and
it is only the other day that / read OF
a lecture delivered by a military gen
tleman of New York describing his
own invention for the accurate launch
ing Of torpedoes from airships. The
eastern papers give 1t as quite an in
teresting item.
Down at Venice the other day Cap
tain Fries waxed most eloquent on the
necessity of intoxicating niiltary
spirit throughout the nation, and today
read Toistoi's latest utterance, Il
cannot be silent" in which he gives us
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POINTS TO WHAT HE CALLS
AN UNJUST DISCRIMINATE

LOS ANGELES, July 16.-lEditor
Herald: My wife, Alice Vail Holloway,
arrested for speaking on the streets
without permit from the police COM
mission, which permit was asked for
by her and refused by the commission
ers, has her trial set for OCTOBER Il III
Judge Chambers court. Her bail was
fixed at $500. l notice that DR.. Arthur
Houghton, arrested upon the same
charge, has his trial set for August IL,
and that Judge Frederickson ordered
his bail bond returned to him and that
he be set free upon his own recogniz-
ance. With this discrimination before
them, is 1t wonder there is growing
heller in the public mind that justice
has gone on a long vacation?
w. ". HOLLOWAY.
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VISITING TOURIST OFFERS
SUGGESTION TO LOS ANGELES

LOS ANGELES, July 14.-[Editor Her
add: Lieut.. Col A. Buchanan, a surgeon
in the British army in India, suggests
that If an army of cats were employed
the dread "bubonic plague" distributors
rats and mice-would soon become
exterminated. 1t is an old but true
statement that rats always desert a
sinking ship, and this will also apply
to bare cupboard" as well, and 1
would suggest that we can dispense
with the army of cats by starting
war of education in the household
through our womens civic clubs,
teaching every housewife to carefully
guard the scraps from the table and
place them, every crumb, in recepta-
Gle absolutely secure from rats, mice.
flies and hungry dogs and cats, to be
left in a safe position for the garbage
wagon to remove regularly. If this
was religiously observed what pub
lie blessing it would be to all humanity.
In Colorado Springs and other eastern
cities they have even gone so far as
to adopt a garbage receptacle sunk in
the ground, convenient both to the
kitchen and the health department
garbage wagons, in which the garbage
can is kept securely, no odor even aris-
ing from it. And after every meal the
good housewife or servant, with a tin
pan, conveys all scraps to this recep-
tacle, leaving no excuse for rats, mice
or flies to congregate at the free and
inviting lunch counter in the kitchen,
as is now almost universally the rule
Los Angeles is only posing as 1.-THE City
Beautiful" with such a horrible dis
play of old lard cans, boxes and other
ancient receptacles as now adorn the
otherwise beautiful residential streets
of the city, daily open to and inviting
the myriads of flies, rats, mice and
stray dogs and a stencil lin the nos
trils of the passersby. Kindly accept
this as the experience of a visiting
tourist in the hope that it may prove
of benefit. JOHN G. SAKE.