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Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14
EAsTERNER SEES SIGNS OF
PROSPERITY ALL AROUND HIM

PASADENA, July 13.-[Editor Her
add: 1 think Tourist" is right in his
diagnosis of the case of the disturb
ers. Keep them busy. l, too, am an
easterner here by the grace Of the
countrys prosperity. Since / nave
been here I have seen signs of Cali
fornia's prosperity all around me.
have seen no poverty, no unemployed,
and am 10th to believe there Is any.
take little alarm in the whine or the
incompetent. That is an old and world
wide complaint. Let them whine and
rest TRANQUIL. When they cease to do
1t win be time enough to be on guard.
I recently read some verses which these
'spineless" ones evidently overlooked,
though they were prominently dis
played. Did you see them, Tourist?
Here are few OF the lines;
Then here's a health to the lackeys
merry toast have we;
From lordly might to eaintly right,
From 'Is'' to "Fair-would-be';
From the eagle to his quarry,
From the hunter to his deer;
The health OF red-lipped courage
To the pallid cheek Of fear!
OF truth, find small difficulty in
the situation. All is well, my brothers;
do not worry. AS long as there is moth
ing worse than a whimper soyez vous
tranquille. SIGNEUR.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14
CONVERSATIONAL CATERPILLAR

well puff and puff about. Won't that be nicer
"I think that would do at ALL" said Theodore
"I would feel very to me, and then, what
WOULD people say? What they saying now? II
is all do to keep from crying at the thought OF it.
who the people?" asked the Caterpillar
why you silly old thing, must be joking. Is 1t
possible you know? If wasn't for the people there
wouldn't be any you and there wouldn't be l."
VERY strange" said the Caterpillar, and very hard
believe Have you had the habit long?"
What habit?
"The habit of telling hbs," said the Caterpillar 'Tt
is highly infections afraid have been reading
the yellow papers and have caught it."
TheodoreAice began to feel irrtated by the manner
the Caterpillar and said shortly:
Better look out, freshe 1 might get busy any
minute"
81 don't believe it," murmured the Caterpillar. "At
rate not long sitting here out of reach
of everything and everybody"
"But you not of reach of the people, my dear
sir" said Theodore-Alice, frownng
T your dear sir The people be DAMNED.
Smoke up" said the Caterpillar. Theodore-Alice
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

HE Caterpillar and Theodore-Alice looked at each
other in silence At last the Caterpillar took the
hookah of it's mouth and addressed her IN
languid sleepy voice.
1--WE understand each other, don't we, dearie?" said
the Caterpillar with a wink.
II do know" said Theodore shyly.
Il hardly know whether ought to we do, because
might be overheard which would do at ALL My
mind is this any ether subject Perhaps
was born that way, and then again perhaps wasn't
think must have been changed several times in the
course of my career"
What do you by that?" said the Caterpillar
sternly. Explain yourself"
II cannot explain myself" said Theodore-Alice Il
have often tried do and each time have made the
attempt the interview has had to be denied
well know. They asking all the time when
to begin business
What business?" asked the Caterpillar, dreamly,
taking a long draw at the hookah.
why, silly thing, the business of prodding up
That's what am here for"
Better have Whit of this pipe, my DEAR"
INJURED Caterpillar "Come up and sit beside me and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14
CRUEL AND COWARDLY

N ANY valuable horses and dogs
wi have been poisoned in Los An
geles recently. The wretched
and depraved creature who takes Joy
in the agony and death of animals is
far beneath the level of the brutes
whom he murders. He goes about HIS
work in such a sneaking. skulking,
cowardly way that it is almost impos-
sible to detect him.
Sometimes he is the victim of a pas
sion for cruelty to animals, and to him
the thought of the misery and NOR
tality he causes affords the keenest
joy. Being thick headed as well as
flint hearted, this cruel idiot forgets he
may also be causing misery to the
owners of the tormented animals, espe-
cially to women and children. In addi-
ton he overlooks the fact that he is a
thief as well as a murderer. He steals
the animals from their owners.
Drugstore keepers should be more
than usually cautious about selling
poisons to unknown persons, or to peo-
pie who give unsatisfactory reasons
for their wish to purchase poisons. No
animal hater can do his work without
his weapon. Poison is his favorite
weapon, because he is the most arrant
and perverted coward who afficts CIV
ilization.
If the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals should find the
task Of catching the poisoners and end
ing the reign of terror among domestic
animals and horses is beyond them, we
suggest that citizens who own horses
and dogs form Society for the Pro-
lection of Animals, and by working in
cooperation with the police, the S. P.
c. A. and the drugstore proprietors
and clerks, make some attempt to catch
the cruel rascals who are disgracing
Los Angeles. We have often con-
tended that the sale of poison should
be prohibited in civilized community.
So should the sale of firearms If dis
armament is a good measure for ma
tions, it is also a good measure for
communities. Until we see a COM
community-in civilization
disarming itself, we must refuse to
believe that talk of national and inter
national disarmament is sincere.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14
WILL ASK MAYOR HARPER
TO EXPLAIN HIS POSITION

Los ANGELES, July 1s.-LEditor
Herald: approve of Mr.. Harrington's
suggestion that Democratic speakers
go on the platform and explode the
false theories of the horde of maIcon-
tents who. seek to overthrow our pres
ent prosperous conditions. 1 am not
quite as conservative as Mr.. Cumming
way, "a Gentleman" and Tourist" but
there is much truth in what they saw.
When Mayor Harper returns from
Dallas Lam going to try to get him to
make a speech which will clear away
the misunderstanding regarding his
position on speaking on the streets. I
think our mayor was right in saving II
was too early to open political cam
paign. DEMOCRAT.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14
Honest, Capable Men Needed
for the State Legislature

support of the members of that party,
says the San Francisco Chronicle.
The machines all have their plans
laid by this time. Have those not of
any machine got any places? If they
have, there are no signs of 1t.
BY "plans" we mean the selection of
good candidates for the legislature and
judgeships. The interests" have their
men picked and will not usually tell
their names. The first duty of the
good citizens in each assembly district
or senatorial district which elects this
year is to find first class man, compel
him to agree to serve If elected, and
then make a primary ticket pledged to
vote for that man in convention. 1t is
not enough to elect good citizens" on
the primary ticket. 1t is essential to
elect good citizens pledged to nominate
some other particularly good citizen
who will be the real issue in the pri-
mary. 1t is safest to oppose any man
affiliated with any machine, or at least
who looks to any machine to secure his
nomination.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14
Says WIN AnSVer Arguments
But Spare Me Vain Repetition
BY FRANK f. STONE

AM glad Mr. Graf has Clipped in
that CSC (the paper edition can
4 be got for 16 cents) for copy of
mot Guilty." because when he has
read 1t he will probably begin to un-
derstand the subject of which it treats
and which he assumes 6piease don't
imagine l said "presumes') to discuss.
Since his letter is dated the 7th, the
day on which the review closed, I
take it Mr.. Graf has read 1t through,
and l cannot help thinking he should
have had some grasp of the subject
from the review alone; indeed, I fancy
had he waited day or so. giving him
self q little time to think, he would
hardly have written his letter. But obi
this impulsiveness that prompts us to
strike back without due thought
against what touches our ingrained
prejudices and old habits of thought.
Had Mr. Graf been a trifie more con-
tinent / might have escaped the
"drudgery" of writing this letter and
of going twice over the same ground.
For that is all 1t comes to. Every
point Mr.. Graf raises has been dealt
with in the book exhaustively and in
the review with moderate fullness, yet
Mr.. Graf airs them as II they were
new points. If he would attack Mr..
Blatchford's premises or arguments on
any given issue l should be happy to
meet him; but confess I find it just
little tiresome, after Mr.. Blatchford
has not only declared but proved In
detail that certain thing is black
to have Mr.. Graf (without advancing
one little of rebuttal evidence) calmly
assert or assume that the thing is
white; ergo, Mr.. BIS conclusions are
false. It is almost as disconcerting
lin view of the brevity of space to
reply in) as If had to argue ques-
tion in geography with some one who
would commence his every opening
with "Well. seeing that the earth is
fat" and that he who goes far enough
will inevitably fall over the ledge,
etc.
Now briefly: Mr.. Graf has not met
my challenge to show any factor out
side of heredity and environment that
enters into the formation of mans
character. Unless he can do this his
mention of heredity and environment
as the principal factors, ETC., is
Heredity and environ
ment are the only factors. Let Mr..
Graf show otherwise. The nearest he
comes to meeting this challenge is to
ask whether 1 consider "severe case
of uninherited dyspepsia" as an en-
1 have, in fact, answered
this beforehand in my review, quoting
Mr.. Blatchford where he says: by en-
we mean everything that
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14
SAYS HUMANS IN JAIL ARE
TREATED WORSE THAN ANIMALS 8

LOS ANGELES, July 1s.-[Editor
Herald: 1t is little less than amazing
that the city of Los Angeles, which
we are fond of calling the garden
spot of the world" should suffer the
present conditions to exist at the tail.
The writer has never been SO unfor-
tunate as to be confined in the CITY
Jail, but judging from the stencil that
issues from the grating at the en-
trance thereof it is not difficult to be-
lieve the stories of our Jealous friends.
the Socialists, when they tell of the
filth and vernin that they find in the
apartments that the city has pro-
vided for them. We are too apt to
treat with easy indulgence abuses
which do not have any immediate per-
sonal effect upon us, but our attention
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14
Fill You with Glamour and
Other Things -CdlifOrniaiS

this honest California wine that is good
for the stomach"
And they did, and their friends fol-
lowed suit and some friends of the
friends friends, and then some
The Californians brought with them
for entertainment and advertising pur-
poses about half carload of fruit and
the finest of their wines. They are
welcoming everybody and trying to fill
them with the product as well as the
glamour of their state, and are maxi
ing hit by doing it. They discovered
that eight cases of California cham
pagre were missing when they ar
rived; then a table collapsed and $50
more quarts of wine were smashed
beyond recall but still they have plen-
ty of everything for all who come.
And, as might he expected, it is the
something doing minute" place
of the big Democratic national conven-
tion.--Trank Thompson Searight, III the
Denver. Exrress.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

N HE most important issue before
the people of this state is that
Il the next legislature shall be COM
posed Of honest and capable men, and
unless we greatly mistake the temper
Of the people, personal character will
weigh more with the electors than
party affiliations or factional affilia-
tions within the parties. We do not be-
lieve that either Republicans or Demo-
Gratis can this year be fooled into vot-
ing for a man of unsavory reputation
or affiliations to be assemblyman or
state senator in order to make sure
that the United States senator to be
chosen shall be of their political faith.
The party will be surest of securing the
senatorship which nominates the men
of best character for the legislature
Party allegiance works both ways. If
the party management betrays It's tol-
lowing by promoting the nomination
of bad men, it has no claim on the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

has been pointedly called to the con-
ditions existing in our midst by the
fact that respectable women have been
confined in quarters in comparison
with which the cages Of the animals
at Eastlake park are much to be pre-
ferred. 1t is, as l said, amazing that
one of the foremost cities in the 1ore-
most country of the world should pro-
vide such accommodations for such
human beings as 1t may deem neces-
sary to restrain temporarily, especially
in this day and age of the world when
so much attention is being paid to
hygienic conditions and when disin-
fectants and antiseptics are SO easily
obtained. r. c. STEWART.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

Bell. Certainly not. No good Ameri-
can can find fault with Roosevelt's
program of reform. But the Republic
can platform, which eliminated every
trace of Rooseveltism, leaving the
craziest patchwork ever presented to
the American people for their con-
tempt, is an issue on the Pacific coast,
and an object of attack and derision.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14
KIT ONESTLY, this makes me
homesick," said a visitor to

KIT ONESTLY, this makes me
homesick," said visitor to
IL the California delegation's
headquarters on the second floor of the
Hotel Law on Stout street, near Seven
teenth, last night.
Thousand and nineteenl" said the
Californian as he made a note in his
memorandum book.
What does that mean?"
"It means that you are the 1019th
observation-disclosures Californian, to be
correct-who has made that honest
confession that Is good for the soul"
The visitor was yisibly pleased at
hearing that there were other repent
ant backsliders to keep him company
He was from New Jersey and had just
been stung-mostly by Standard Oil
Guffey-however
"AIl right" he said, "and now that
we have applied the honest confession
to that part where it will do the most
good, suppose we have little more of
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

1t will be great day for Los Angeles
when the police show as much zeal for
the punishment of women of the red
light houses, who are menace to pub
lie health and morality, as they have
shown for the punishment of women of
irreproachable moral character who
have been engaged in missionary work
for a social cause.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

Southern vote sure for Bryan. North
ern vote certain for Bryan. Eastern
vote overwhelmingly for Bryan. West
ern vote solidIy for Bryan. Middle
western vote all for Bryan. White vote
all for Bryan. Negro vote all for
Bryan. You Republicans can have
what's left.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

Hawaii will welcome the battleship
fleet. After all it wasn't bad idea to
hoist the stars and stripes over Homo
lulu. And it's pleasant, isn't it, to think
Australia and New Zealand are not
owned by a nation that can't read
doesn't know how to yell Hooray?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14
PEOPLE HAVE A MoUTHPIEcE
EVEN YET, SAYS WRITER

Los ANGELES, July 1s.-[Editor
Herald: Bravo Herald Those two ed
itorials Free Speech" and political
Prisoners" are the right stuff. The
Herald leads after all Yours for
Americanism. JULIAN. COUGH.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

Olympian games have been begun in
London. IF they are not hurt by the
wretched English weather, American
athletes have an excellent chance of
bringing home the big trophies. These
great international games should be
held in California. The Olympic stadi-
um should be In sunny Los Angeles,
not in sooty, foggy, chilly, drizzly,
shivery, shakey London.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

Wireless messages are being received
from the fleet. The long voyage upon
which the ships have entered will af7
ford the severest and most practical
test to which wireless has ever been
submitted. What is the distance limit
of sending power?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

Cleveland national forest, which ad-
joins Angeles national forest, is the
first national monument" to Grover
Cleveland. And there is none that
would have been more delightful to the
heart of the big man who was really,
by instinct, a woodlander. a hillman
and hunter and fisher, with the out
of doors nature developed and not re-
nressed
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

Taft is debating his acceptance
speech. Our great and good friend
should pack as much as he can of his
views into his acceptance speech, be-
cause his inaugural address win be de-
livered by somebody else.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

struggle. I do not intend to exag-
gerate the outrage-I am only going
to repeat the truth as I saw it. L
hope it will not be long before justice
puts an end to this mockery of the
constitution. GEORGE HARRIS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14
The P ubIic Letter Box

Letters intended for publication must be
accompanied by the name and address Of
the writer. The Herald gives the widest
latitude to correspondents. but assumes no
responsibility for their views Letters
should not exceed 300 words
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

In the United States there are only
eighteen cities that are as large as or
larger than Los Angeles There are
none better. In fact. there are, none as
good.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

Southern Pacific rebate cases post
poned until SOME TIME AFTER Jam
uary 1, 1909. How surprising!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-14

Roosevelt reforms will not be an is
sue on the Pacific coast, says Theodore
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Call up Loving's Stables. phone 81,
for baggage transfer. e.
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We sell 'Everwear"
hosiery for ladies and
gents. Absolutely guar
anteed for six months.
Slim w. j. Josey.
Things are Better Now.
Savannah Press

j
Abiding to bitterness in politics
Col. Alex K Mcclure in the Circle
for April tells of the tricks practiced
by President John Adams towards
Thomas Jefferson when the latter
succeeded him as president. Not only
did John Adams decline to attend the
Inauguration of his rival, but he sat
up all night and nominated judges so
that his successor would not have
any important offices on the bench to
fill.
Feeling in "the good old days" ran
much higher than now. The criti-
cism of the Philadelphia Aurora on
the retirement of Washington was
brutal The leading Federalists did
things in the early presidential cleo
tons which are characterized as
'monstrous violations of every SEM
blance of political decency." Courtesy
and chivalry in politics are plants of
later day growth,
1t was President Polk who first
had the courage to disregard the
political passions Of the times by
inviting Henry Clay, who had been
his competitor, to dine with him and
Mrs. Polk in the White House. 1t
was near the close of the Polk admin
istratiOn during which Clay had been
a senator most of the time, and
well remember how it shocked the
Democratic sentiment of the time
when it was announced that Clay had
dined with President Polk not on a
state occasion, but had been WelcOm-
ed at the family dinner as friend.
Polk was a man of unblemished char
acter and high attachments, and his
example of courtesy to Clay has never
since been broken. When Cleveland
was defeated by Harrison in 1888, he
wrote a very kind letter to his sue
cessful competitor, inviting him to
give his views as to all the details
of the Inauguration, and to be the
guest of the White House as long
before the Inauguration as he could
find convenient. When, in turn,
Cleveland defeated Harrison, the
same courtesy was exhibited, and no
retiring President could today exhibit
any measure of discourtesy to his
successor without largely FORGETTING
public respect. When Garfield was
inaugurated in 1881, General Han
cock, who had been his competitor
and received within 10000 the num-
Der of votes that were given to Gar
field in the entire country, command
ed the military escort of Garfield to
the capitol for inauguration.
Colonel Mcclure concludes that
in the dignity of political contests
and the power of the independent
vote, conditions today are immeasur-
ably better than they were in what
we call the 'betteR days of the re-
public"
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.SEABORN TO HEAD
PROHIBITION TICKET
Story Handed Out by ILL
noise Leader.

CHICAGO, ILL, April 14.-(Spe-
cial) The Record-Herald says Sea-
bon Wright of Georgia will be the
nominee of the National Prohibition
part for President of the United States
at the convention to be held in Co.
lumbus, Ohio, July Is.
This was announced yesterday by
Alonzo Wilson, chairman of the Hi
nois Prohibition state committee, who
conferred with the Georgia legisla-
tor while the latter was in Chicago a
few days ago
The prospective nominee has been
a Democrat for many years, for twen-
ty years a Democratic member of the
Georgia legislature. It was he who
drafted the Georgia prohibition law
and led the fight which resulted in
its adoption.
Il am tired of being ruled by Tam
many and the Liberty League of
Chicago, is the message which
Wright sent out to the Prohibition
party leaders of the country after his
success in conducting the prohibition
fight in Georgia.
by that" said Chairman Wilson,
Mr.. Wright meant that New York and
Chicago rule the Democratic party of
the nation. New York is controlled
by Tammany, the Democrats of Chi
cago are ruled by the liberty leagues.
Chicago Democrats control Illinois
Democracy. New York Democrats
control the Democracy of the state of
New York, and New York and Illinois
hold the governing power in the ma
tional Democratic party.
"Mr Wright will undoubtedly be
chosen as the nominee of the Prohi-
bition party for President of the
United States. He is a Democrat, a
Prohibition Democrat, and will poll
the largest vote ever polled by a
Prohibition presidential candidate in
the history of this country.
His great achievement in the State
of Georgia for the cause of prohibi-
ton makes him the leader of the
party, and his work will be recog-
nized by the party"
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Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely de-
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ing it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reputa-
bic physicians, as the damage they
will do is ten fold the good you can
possibly derive from them. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by f.
J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o., acting
directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get
the genuine. 1t is taken internally
and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J.
Cheney 6 Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by all druggists. Price Use
per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
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Death Was On His Heels

Jesse P. Norris, of Shippers, Va,
had a close call in the spring of 1906.
He says: can attack of pneumonia
left me so weak and with such a fear
full cough that my friends declared
consumption had me, and death was
on my heels. Then [ was persuaded
to try DR.. Kings New Discovery. 1t
helped me Immediately, and after
taking two and a half bottles l was
a we'll man again. found out that
New Discovery is the best remedy for
coughs and lung disease in all the
world" Sold under guarantee at
Eldridge Drug Co. soc and $1.00.
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