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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
LAWSON'S DEVIL

IN HOMAS w. LAWSON makes an
nouncemept he Ia conducting the
Il affairs of his National Stock
solely for the purpose of destroying the
system, freeing the American people
from the great evil which has OPP
pressed them, and securing for the peo-
nile. in the form of enormous profits
mart of the vast sums of which they
have been defrauded by the System.
Mr.. Lawson's National Stock" prom
ises are large. He says: national
stock, after 1t has made helpless the
Rockefellers, Harrimans and Morgans
in the same way the System rendered
helpless the people last october, after
II has vast sums of cash In its treasury
and has banded together millions or
Intelligent stockholders, will use these
stockholders and its vast resources TO
convert back to the peoples ownership
the great Industrial and financial IN
stitutions of the country"
In order to take national or indlVid-
ual stock in this promise, it is neces-
sarv to have a great deal of faith in
InQrndS w. LdW0Olit anu No ASiNA@
out works is dead it is also necessary
to become an investor with him. In
order to kill off a system of gambling
which is undoubtedly pernicious' alb
horrent and disgraceful to the United
States he proposes to use a deodorized
or Lawson gamble, and, by engaging
the public in philanthropic dice game
to beat the men who play with loaded
"bones."
The Devil is a popular character in.
American playhouses these days-or
nights. Mr.. Lawson proposes to take
the gambling Devil. clip his claws,
trim his wings. put beautiful gilt knobs
on his horns, shoe him in patent leath-
ers and thus revised and amended
commend him to the confidence and
support of the American people.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
CHARTER AMENDMENTS

T IT'S next meeting the city council
II will act on the petition for a
- special election in Los Angeles to
submit six proposed charter amend
ments. The organization which took
charge of the task of securing sigma
lures was so successful that it believes
in its action public opinion has not only
sustained it definitely but overwhelm-
ingly.
For the petition 1850 signatures were
secured, or 1000 more than the number
required by the per cent of the vote
fixed by the charter. And with this
majority over the required per cent the
advocates of special election were con-
tent. They would not have had any
difficulty in getting even more sig
natures, but believed the number OBJ
tanned establishes their contention that
public opinion is decidedly, undeni-
ably and aggressively in favor, of rem
dering verdict on the charter amend
ments. One Of the most far-reaching
of the proposed amendments is that all
members of the council shall be elected
at large, which will help prevent our
democratic method Of government from
being juggled to suit non-popular in
terests which may think it to their ad-
vantage to have a few pocket council
men at the city hall.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
VICIOUS PROTECTION

nROTECTION of interests instead of
ueople is vicious. This vicious
4 kind of protection robbed millions
OF American children of square deal
education, and from the public schools
transferred them to the mills, found
ries, factories and sweapshops. rms
vicious system OF protection" falsely
so called, emptied the dinner pals Oh
hundreds of thousands of working peo-
ole, filed the poorhouses with paupers'
and dumped upon a community utterly
unprepared for it, and consequently
unable to deal with it, social problem
of portentous dimensions, fraught with
real danger to the American republic
This vicious kind of protection Gre
ated, for the first time in the history
of the United States, genuine class
feeling, far keener and far more bitter
than any class feeling which has char-
acterized or characterizes the European
monarchies. This is explained easily.
In Europe the people to some extent
have become accustomed to a class
system which has lasted, in one form or
another, on the continent for nearly
two thousand years, and in England
since 1906. But the United States sig
nalized the beginning of an Independent
career by proclaiming to the world In
noble rhetoric that in the land of the
free the day of class was over, that all
men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable equal rights, that among
these unalienable equal rights are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
And shallow pated, shortsighted, I'M
reasonable and unreasoning Republic
cans arise and accuse of demagogy
the man who asserts that these rights
are still unalienable, and that every
American of today is entitled to life,
which of course must include the means
OF subsistence; to liberty, which i'm
plies a living; and to the pursuit OF
happiness, which again implies con-
dition in which the daily bread is as
sured.
Every American today is as much en-
titled to the complete and uninterfered
with enjoyment of these rights as is
any other American or as was any
American who ever lived. Prove to US
that the people are protected in these
RIGHTS, prove to US that the mis-
named robber system, that most cum
ming device of privilege and un-Ameri-
canism, falsely and fraudulently and
with intent to deceive entitled PRO
tection," protects the wage Garner in
his wages, the workman in his oppor-
tunity to work, the child in his right to
attend school, the woman in her divine
right to be a mother and to take care
of her children at home, NOT IN THE
FACTORY, and we will agree that it
is protection" and mot a constituencies
imposture on nation which can no
longer be fooled by phrases and cozened
by casuistry.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
DISADVANTAGES

r T. 1T BE true the three tremendous
Dreadnaughts now being built
II in English shipyards are intended
for Brazil it is a serious matter for the
United States, because it means our
naval supremacy in the western hemi-
sphere is challenged if not threatened
There will be a sigh of relief If 1t should
turn out that the ships will be added
to the British navy and that Brazil
will not become the predominating
naval power Of South America.
But we may as well open our eyes
to the fact that If tho United States
should ever have a rival in the western
hemisphere that rival will be Brazil,
country of incalculable natural
wealth and of vast resources. The
awakening of Brazil might be a much
more serious matter for the world than
was the awakening of Japan. Why the
British government should allow Brit
ish shipbuilders to strengthen foreign
naVies to such an extent that the
strengthening of the British navy be-
comes an immediate and imperative
necessity is one Of the mysteries of
modern civilization. Britain builds
ships and America makes weapons of
precision which are sold to any coun-
try which "has the price," and upon
occasion either country might be lit
orally "hoist with its own petard."
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
BELIEVES MAN SHOULD BE THE
MASTER OF HIS ENVIRONMENT

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1-IEditor
Herald: Mr.. Stone Is having hard
time establishing his environment n.y.
pothesis. Such puerile argument as
he employs in his illustration only con-
firms the conviction that he Is arguing
from false premise.
Man, according to his view, is only
a marrionette and chance pulls the
strings which move him, and his ex-
preston, life and character sort OF
battledore and shuttlecock experience.
In his letter of yesterday he talks OF
one character In his illustration as
having through heredity and environ
ment been inclined to magnanimity
(mark you, he says inclined). Why
has he brought heredity into this dis
cussion at all? That is something
antecedent to environment and de-
stroys the allness of the latter for
which he has been eontending. And
then he proves its infallibility when he
says that his magnanimity Is sudden
ly changed to resentment by BIS sheer.
How unstablel
Verify, out of his own mouth Mr..
Stone refutes his argument. II A had
allowed reason to control him instead
of error he would have remained mag
unanimous, and SO the environment
would not have effected him or In
fected him. Did the abuse Of Jesus on
on the road to Calvary change his de-
meanor? No! And yet, according TO
Mr.. Stone, his environment at that
period should have been manifest In
a different attitude. Quoting again
from the illustration: "Quick as a
fash AS generous impulse feels the re-
buff" Because he was not great
enough to overcome the impulse of an
antagonistic circumstance. My stand
point from the outset in this discussion
has been that environment Is not a
hindrance to the expression of great
ness and that man shapes his environ
ment and is not shaped by 1t. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Stone, If man is born
In q stable, he is a horse.
1 am glad to acknowledge that / DO
go to the Bible for my science, for 1t
teaches that man was made in the
image of God and not of environment.
When the book of Genesis Is under
stood 1t will be found the most COM
prehensive compendium of human his
tory extant.
I find Jesus a more reliable teacher
than Mr.. Stone by demonstration. so !
follow his example so far as am able,
overcoming evil with good; accidental
heredity and environment by reason
and understanding.
II I may presume further on the in
diligence of you, Mr.. Editor, I will
take the liberty of quoting from Mr..
Jacob Riis, the great sociologist, whom
President Roosevelt denominated our
most useful citizen. He says: you
have to get down to a working basis
for good and ] just leave the hered-
ity to the doctor. You can't change
that, but you can change the environ
ment." r. N.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
HOT AIR

"Been taking some air ct the
springs?''
"Yes. and I'm feeling flne'
when did you get here?"
Got here this morning by water.
Had a nice trip, but 1t was little
rough. 1 am fine sailor, however"
D HIS thrilling conversation signal
lied the meeting of William II.
Il Taft and Senator Foraker, who
until that meeting were leaders Of rival
Republican factions in Ohio. Those IA
miliar with the picturesque history OF
politics in the Buckeye state find 1t
hard to believe that Fire Alarm ana
Big Bill Ito give them their pet names)
have really buried the Ratchet and are
obeying the scriptural injunction to
love one another.
II it be true that these mutually
hated rivals have figuratively kissed
and made up In all sincerity and not for
campaign stage effect and Republican
vote getting purposes, then we are con-
tent to don our ascension robes on any
date that may be designated by the
harbingers of millennial dawn.
OF course we hope the two war
riors have become reconciled. We do
not like to see family dissensions. We
did not like to read what Foraker, In
his fiery and alarmist way, said about
Taft, and 1t made our withered heart
bleed as 1t hasn't bled since 1t was
wounded by loves young dream to
Iearn what really dreadful things Large
William Chat sounds better) said re-
garding Foraker.
However, a habitual cynicism. for
which we have been using all kinds of
remedies without appreciable effect.
constrains US very much against our
will and In spite of our better nature,
to suggest that when Foraker said to
Taft: "Been taking some air at the
springs?" he meant ''hot air." with
which he was proving he himself was
well supplied.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
CENSORSHIP

N CENSORSHIP of the press is a mark
4 of governmental cowardice or OF
~ barbarity. The highest civilization
demands a free press, which will stand
or fall on It's merits. But what shall
be said of a censorship Of literature
Local library officials have called pub
lie attention to a book written by a
Chicago university professor. They
say it is not fit for public circulation.
The point will be finally determined
after some further examination of the
work-that is to say, after a favored
few have read it-men who are sup
posed to be so angelically pure that,
without turning hair, they can read
from end to end 1.-THE Decameron" or
an unexpurgated arabian Nights"
It is not for US to say whether or not
the banned bodA is immoral. At the
same time we refuse to abide by the
verdict of the library book tasters."
Who made them rulers and judges of
literature over an educated, appre-
ciative, highly intelligent public? And
IL they begin to weed out of the library
all books which have alleged immoral
passages or tendencies, where are they
to end? Alasl a millennial library
would be indeed anemic and shriveled.
bereft of Shakespeare, Byron, Burns,
Fielding, Smollett, Radicals, the
ARABIAN Nights" and Swift's works,
including "Gulliver's Travels"
English and American literature-the
literature of the language-is not only
the purest in the world, but the purest
in the worlds history. Public opinion
and public taste have chastened It,
trimmed it and made it pre-eminently
proper. In our public libraries censors
are not needed. The public reserves the
right Of censorship and resents the re-
lection on its intelligence and Its
morality made by the appointment OF
official censors of it's reading matter.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
GIVES SPECIFIC INSTANCES
OF WRONGS DONE TO WOMEN

SAN PEDRO, Sept. 2.--IEditor Her
add: Homo" wishes to know some of
the specific wrongs women are suffer-
ing at the hands Of men. I will try to
enighten him little along this line.
Under laws enacted solely by men,
young girls are held as asserting to
tnelr own ruin at an age so tender
tnat their evidence would not be taken
state senate voted, % to 8, that a girl
OF IL years was of sufficiently respon-
sible age to consent to take the first
step in immortality.
The same senate afterward voted
unanimously that a boy OF 16 years
was not old enough to decide for him
self in regard to smoking cigarettes
1t was not until 1882 that the SUI
preme court of the state of New York
decided that wife could sue her hus-
band for damages for assault and bat
terry, thus recognizing a wife as pos
sessing the common rights of human
being. The United States, making pre-
tense of being the land of the free,
and in reality according freedom to
men of every color, degree of intelli-
gence and property, still holds woman
in shackles.
In many of the states the old re-
strictions of common law still prevail.
hCLo dI0 SLstlcS WH6Tc Luo pIOp0Ily VI
the wife upon marriage falls into the
absolute control OF the husband. In
many states a woman cannot make a
will nor has the wife the same control
over the children OF the marriage as
has the husband.
In some of the states the father is
assumed to be the sole owner of the
children. who can be bound out, willed
or given away without the consent or
even knowledge OF the mother. And
this is the boosted civilization of the
twentieth century, A true republic
should suffer oppression to no one.
however humble. dwelling beneath its
flag, and the ration that substitutes
chivalry. so-called, for justice. and
that lowers and humiliates its women
can never reach its highest POSSIBLE
tiles.
The woman's cause is mans: they rise or
sink
Together, dwarfed or godliise. bond or free;
II she be small slight-natured. miserable.
How shall men grow?
SOPHIA HILDRETH.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
JOHN w. KERN
FAMILY FRUIT

TN addition to commercial fruit grow
ing in California, there is an ever
n increasing yield of what may be
called family fruit" grown by happy
families who sit under their own vines
and fig trees. There is a popular i'm
preston that California raises mostly
citrus fruits, but there are so many
individual growers of other varieties
that the seasons yield must be huge.
In spite of the fact that the rain
fall has been below the average, this
has been most prolific fruit year, and
as a consequence the housewives who
preside over suburban homes are able
to point with pride to record-breaking
batteries of jars of jams, jellies and
preserves. In many cases the family
trees of California, which are much
more useful than those supplied by the
genealogists, supply their owners with
-. for all the year round, and yield
a surplus which the housewife may
send to market for extra pin money.
Owners of suburban homes have little
private "orchardlets," in which are
cherry trees, peach trees, plum trees, fig
trees, etc. Fig trees are grown so sue
cessfully in the suburbs of Los Angeles
that this years newly planted twig or
sapling in three years will be yielding
more figs than the owners can use. Peo-
pie fortunate enough to own suburban
lots, with foresight enough to plant
fruit trees, within few years from the
time of planting will have enough fruit
all the year round.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
SAYS MEN TOO IGNORANT TO
PROTECT OWN INTERESTS

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1.-[Editor
Herald: r. N. says that l am con-
spicuous through inaccuracy OF state
ment," and quotes my remark tnat
men have never been able to make just
laws for women. He attempts to dis
prove this because sometimes men
have made some laws that were just.
IT scarce needs be told the discerning
reader that did not mean that no law
had been made at any time, according
her justice, but rather that the laws as
whole-the general scheme or equity
had not done Justice to woman, and
that even r. N. agrees to. Should one
assert that a certain house was no
good 1t would not be incumbent to
show that there was not single good
timber in It. 1t would be sufficient II
it were shown that 1t lacked in general
ouate for the purpose for which 1t was
intended.
scheme of laws that gives it into
a mans hands to dispose of property
that a woman has earned by her own
toll does not do her justice. A scheme
of government that taxes woman's
property and uses that tax without &C
cording her voice in its use, is not
lust to her. But what is far worse
and much more serious is that woman
has not even the right to protect her
own labor power The question OF a
contract WIN H6T employer OIL LILO
hours that constitute a days work, of
the notice which she must receive on
dismissal, OF the safety appliances in
shop or mill, of the employers LA
bility, of factory inspection, these and
many similar questions are matters of
legislative enactment in which woman
has no part. a
To be sure man as voter does not
protect his own rights in this respect
as he should, but 1t is his ignorance
or his Indifference that keeps him from
realizing larger measure of industrial
freedom. Woman emancipated politi-
cally would also labor under a heavy
load of Ignorance and conservatism,
but with more than one-fourth of the
women Of this country who are now at
work in the industrial field they should
be given the ballot, the theoretic right
to protect their working strength,
which is the only barrier between
them and want. a. IL D.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
Graft Was a Leading Cause
of the RuSSO-J1p1neSe War

III HH memoirs OF Gen. Kuropatkin.
published by McClures, demon
strate that the Russo-Japanese
war was brought on by Russian graft.
says tho San Francisco Call. A Rus
sian promoter interested members of
the imperial family and Admiral
Aiexieff in timber enterprises in Ko-
rea and Manchuria, and 1t was the
exploitation of these resources, fore
snadowing annexation of the territory,
that forced Japan to make war. In a
report to the car of observations made
wrote:
Our action in the basin of the Yalu
ana our behavior in Manchuria have
excited In Japan feeling OF hostility
TO us which upon our taking any in
cautious step may lead to war. The
activity OF State Secretary Bezobra-
zoir mas practically brought about g.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
BELIEVES FRENCH REVOLUTION
OF GREAT BENEFIT TO PEOPLE

LONG BEACH, Sept. 3.--[Editor
Herald: Noticing the remarks OF your
correspondent, who writes from under
cover of the letters "w. b. about the
actions of faction of the French rev.
olutionists of the eighteenth century,
says that the leader of the attempt to
establish a state religion to which the
people were not accustomed lost his
head largely by this divergence from
the true principles of the revolutionary
party, which was economic and polit-
ical reform.
In religious faith the revolutionary
army was filled with loyal Catholics
and their power was potent to put
down all of their leaders who were
senseless enough to try experiments in
government foreign TO the cause Of
their being af1eld.
The French revolutionists cannot be
condemned at this time by any person
without being subject to the suspicion
of being political reactionary. To
measure the merit of the work accom-
pllshed by them 1t is only necessary to
compare the economic and political con-
dition of France before and after its
great revolution. Dickens Tale of
Two Cities" will briefly and graphic
ally inform you that previous to the
Revolution the state of the masses of
the French people was as pad as tnat
of the Irish during the period of the
worst of English misgovernment. Now,
dating from the Revolutionary period
France has the most admirable Ian.
laws in the world.
Theirs, in his history Of the French
revolution, shows that the excuses of
the revolutionists were provoked by
the assassination of republican lead
ers, and in respect to this divides his
history into three epochs. each marked
by the assassination of notable re-
former.
BY his youth, Napoleon was pre-
vented from participating actively In
revolutionary matters, civil or mill
tary, until about four years after the
commencement of the revolution, dat
ing from the assemblage OF the states
general, and then only In a military
way. Eleven years after this, when
his military genius had made him the
most conspicuous parsonage Of his age.
he seized the crown. An of the mis-
cries OF war which followed are
chargeable to his mad ambition and
cannot be put upon the French rev.
olutionists. FELIX t. CANDY.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04

Recently Santa Barbara listened to a
sermon on Socialism. Sunday evening
the Rev. John Gilbert Blue, the tenn
porary occupant Of the pulpit Of the
First Presbyterian church of Pasadena,
will deliver a Labor day sermon on
1.-THE Church and Labor" Men and
brethren, the social problem will not
down" In the near future it will be
the commonest pulpit theme and will
occupy columns of space In the news
papers. The great discussion cannot be
avoided.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
Venezuelan Hedgehog Is the
Despair of DipJOnl1fiSfS

m HE perplexity OF the nations over
the case of Castro amuses. The
Venezuelan hedgehog has rolled
himself in ball all prickles outside.
The diplomats are hugely disguised
because he will not play the game ac-
cording to the musty rule which thew
have learned to regard as sacred. Cas-
tro takes to the brush and adds In
suit to injury by calling them all "bar-
barians." 1t is sacrilegious at least
It is a dull week in Caracas when this
absurd and ill-regulatee potentate does
not dismiss with ignominy some min
lister plenipotentiary. It seems as IL
the very foundations of government
were threatened because we all know
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-04
WESTERN MARATHON

ON ADMISSION DAY twenty-one
bright and stalwart young men of
" Los Angeles, members OF the Los
Angeles Athletic club, the largest ath-
letic body in the world, will run an
eighteen-mile Marathon race from Los
Angeles to Venice, and will establish a
precedent from which there may be
developed national or international
Marathon for South California, which
is the best place in the world for such
a contest. A Marathon race is the most
severe test of endurance in all the
range of athletics, and the victors in
such a contest undoubtedly illustrate
1.-THE survival of the fittest"-physical-
ly. We hope and believe great success
win attend the first western Marathon.