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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-23

A REMARK was heard a few days
u ago that western magazines and
"a newspapers are too provincial
that they deal too much with western
subjects. AS the remark came from
an reasterner it deserves attention in
order to refute the charge of provin-
cialism and place the accusation where
it belongs.
If there be in all creation set OF
newspapers or lesser magazines more
provincial than are to be found east
Of the Allegheny mountains, they do
not come within the range of average
information. There are a few of the
greater magazines of the east that are
cosmopolitan and sweep the earth for
the best in fiction, description, essay
and treatise. But the average metro
politan magazine is absurdly provin-
cial dealing only with the limited sec
ton in which it is published and in
many instances with the least attrac-
tive features of that section, says the
Pasadena Star.
The same charge of provincialism lies
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HOLDS PEOPLE CANNOT BE
TYRANTs OVER THEMSELVES

LOS ANGELES, Nov. I'll Editor
Herald: Some of the writers for the
Letter Box seem to think that SOCIAL
ism would be a tyranny. NOW every every
tyrant must have power 10 lIIiI ,l
wrong upon others, or he would not pe
much in the tyrant line. -, u4
Under Socialism all power VII! resC
with the people themselves. 80, II
thev nlayed the tyrant they would
have to tyrannize over themselves.
It may be urged that all power now
rests with the people, but TINS slate-
ment. although often made, Is not true true.
either de lure or de facto. Unuer our
present form of government the people
have no power to initiate or pass any
law. They must depend upon sinai ~
number of men, called a legislaIuIGs 70
do that for them. And If the leglsla-
fure henpens to be owned by a pri-
vate CORPORATION the laws in the inter-
est Of the people are not passed:
Neither have the people the rignt 70
veto a law that they do not WANT
They must depend upon one man. the
GOVERNOR to do that. And II the gov
ernor should chance to be the properly
of the Southern Pacific railway tlle
laws in the interest of that corpora
ton are not vetoed. 4 49,
Again. if a law in the interest or the
neonle should run the gantlet OF Dolu
houses of the legislature and the gov
ernor. there still remain the courts TO
declare the law "unconstltutlonaL
Under Socialism the lnuustIlai
tyrants would be shorn OF their poM y,',l,
and with the initiative. the referendum
a,1 the recall in the hands of the peo-
PIC - A LAWYER.
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DOES NOT BELIEVE AT ALL
IN MAKING WOMAN BETTER

LOS ANGELES, Nov 22.-[Editor
Herald: am thunderstruck / entered
into controversy on the woman ques-
ton with the object of showing that
the absolute dependence in which wom-
an finds herself is due to causes far
deeper than those usually assigned,
being the inevitable result of a devel-
opment which has rendered her super
huous economically.
1 expressly said that she was in the
same category scientifically as the UNI
employed man. l covered with the
scorn feel they deserve all those quacl5
remedies of prohibition ar1 similar
blue laws that reform women are adj
vocating because they are under the
delusion that their position is due to
vice. Most distinctly have said, over
and over again, that have no belief
in supposed individual reform.
Now comes Marion Martin and, in
criticism of my last letter, in which l
classified woman's trouble as that of
the compulsorily unemployed, says:
"But stayl T. X. G. wants her saved
by being made better! Bravo!' Hon
estly, l regard controversy, under such
circumstances, as waste of time.
/ am a profound admirer of Ibsen,
whom I regard as woman's greatest,
because most revolutionary, friend.
should like to quote here from Bernard
Shaw's "Quintessence of Ibsenism,"
but space forbids. Anyone who wants
to know my views can find them on
page "A, where Shaw gives the parable
of the parrot who is determined to get
out of the cage. ! think it will be
found one of the most amusing and
instructive passages in modern litera-
ture. I. K. G.
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Pr0VinciaIiSnl Is Marked
in the Eastern Publications

as justly against the metropolitan
newspapers of the east. Pick up any
of these papers at random and motto
their contents. The whole first page
frequently is given up to local sensa-
lions, Outlines two or three inside
pages as we'll. Then a page or two to
state news, little foreign and still less
from the United States in general. On
the other hand, the larger newspapers
of the west cover the news of the world
symmetrically, with due regard to its
intrinsic value. A better, more COM
prehensive idea of the important hap
penings throughout the United States
and the world can be had from the Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and
Seattle papers than from the ponderous
dailies of Boston, New York and Phila-
delphia.
The newspapers and magazines C.
England, as a rule, are consistently
cosmopolitan. They have descriptive
articles and fiction with local color
about Australia, South Africa, India,
Egypt, South America, Japan, China,
the United States and, indeed, every
part of the world where British cap
itaI is invested and British interest
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BELIEVES MIND AND MATTER
ONE INDIVIsI5LE SUBSTANCE

LOS ANGELES. Nov. 19-[Editor
11oroId1 "Senex'' of Long Beach IN
vour paper today talks of a question:
tha ."Power of Mind Over Matter =
which is of great interest to many peo-.
ME There can be no doubt tnat IN
limited degree it has been proved that
mind has power over matter Inc quSs-
ton then arises, How Tar can inns
power be extended? Is there any unit y
to it's extension? is the eAeloise VI
this power useful?
ssSenex" saws this power has been
exercised by man in all ages, I'm
doubtedly that is true. Then II must
he in process of evolution. Has any
Individual experiment passed the lap-
oratorv stage? There seems to be evil
dence that mind and matter are IN
separable. If so, there can be only one
ubstance-which may be called Mind
matter"
There was an old metaphysical joke
which ran as follows: What is mat
ter? Never mind. What is mindE
Never matter" But If there is only
one universal substance, this bewhisk-
cred tibe is henceforth non-risible.
Then all thought and action is simply
the exercise of the one intelligent sub
stance. which, in it's infinite variety of
forms and degrees of individual de-
velopments, composes the universe.
Hence the Power of mind over mat
ter" is merely intelligent action, and
lack of that knowledge is ignorance.
Eighteen years of earnest study on
my part have demonstrated to me in a
small way, comparatively, that this is
true and 1t has been of wonderful use
to me in everything, and what little
knowledge 1 have on the subject is
priceless-to me. ASBURY CECIL.
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WHITE MANS BURDEN

~ MPEROR WILLIAM says Japan is
II fomenting instruction in India.
H He also says England" is a
traitor to the white mans cause, and
is friendly to the race from which
trouble is to be expected. According
to williams diagnosis, John Bull is
about to be "hoist on his own petard."
If the British government lost con-
troll of India, what would happen to
the empire? How many dinner pals
have been filled by the occupation of
Hindustan? Kipling meant more than
most Americans perhaps were in a
position to appreciate when he wrote
the white Mans Burden" But why
should the white man continue to carry
his burden? The white population of
India is not increasing. White children
do not thrive there. Sooner or later
they must seek the tonic climate of
northern Europe, or suffer the conse-
quences. 1t is almost impossible for a
white girl to grow to maturity in Hin
dustan. That great peninsula is con-
stantly telling the white man: Il was
not credLeu loI youl hOSo. @NSeNNiS
forbids me to shelter or support your
race. refuse to nourish your brood"
And the Caucasian poet laureate"
roars Take up the white mans bur-
dem" The white ambition to own
Asia will never be gratified; and If
the white man does not get together
and produce for his race the greatest
good for the greatest number. at some
date in the future Asia will own him
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-23
OLD AGE PENSIONS

A NDREW CARNEGIE has added
n greatly to his remarkable reputa-
- ton for philanthropy by giving
$15,000000 as a fund from which college
presidents and teachers will be pro-
vided for in their old age. Mr.. Car
negie has acted on the theory that
present conditions are perpetual. and
that they will go from bad to worse.
He virtually acknowledges it will be ut
terly impossible for college presidents
and teachers to keep out of the poor
house unless he takes pity on them.
How this great mans heart must bleed
for poor suffering presidents, profess
sors and teachers as he thinks of their
cherries old age!
Now that Carnegie has set the exam
pie of an old age fund for school teach
ers, it may be time to bring to the
front for popular discussion the entire
matter of old age pensions. Why not
have pensions for newspaper writer's?
Is it not fact that their work is of
vital Importance to the community?
Are they not nearer the heart Of life
lidA dlly OlAAGI GlcAoos - At AApl 1AAoO -
fact that hardly one Of them ever I'M
dertakes the practice Of the profession
with the slightest hope of accumulat-
ing enough to support his family and
himself in the winter Of existence? And
why not have pensions for other pro-
fessional men who give their services
not because of the dollars and cents
they receive, but because they like their
work?
If the professions were suddenly to
be put on an absolutely capitalistic ba-
sis, and If the men who entered them
did so with the hope of accommodating
and investing money. what would. hap
pen to the professions? Commercial
lied, they would be demoralized. 1t is
impossible to think in terms of dollars
and cents and at the same time in
terms Of applied Enthusiastically i'm
possible.
AS far as professional men are con-
cetned, under present conditions So
ciety is forced to be more or less Of
a 'grafter." 1t gets something for
nothing and a great deal for very lit
tie. Why, then. not extend the old age
pension plan? Or, If old age pensions
are Objectionable, why not increase
the revenues of professional men, espe-
cialIy of school teachers, who in many
parts of the country are VIGOROUSLY
underpaid?
Meanwhile, the benevolence of that
great and good philanthropist, Carne-
gle, will be universally extolled. How
charming it is that steel trust mag
mates, after providing plentifully for
the employees who help them make their
fortunes, should have enough left over
to enable them to provide for school
teachers also. The iron and steel work.
ers in the Homestead district should be
the best clothed, best fed, best housed,
best educated in the world, but they
are not. They are underfed. overworked,
9niserably housed and lack everything
that goes to make living a joy.
A man like Carnegie, who is kind
to outsiders and generous when his
name Is to be placed over the door Of
building, should be kind and con-
siderate to his employees. He should
find out why the infant mortality is
so high In the warrens Of the workers
who created his fortune.
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TRUSTS

4 REPUBLICAN newspaper, appar-
u emily by way of indirect apology
- for the trusts, says: 1.-THE econom-
ic. educational and social problems that
confront America are the same that are
before the European countries, accord
ing to the Rev H. N. Dascomb of
Grinnel. Just now in America we are
dealing with the monopoly question,
said Mr.. Dascomb. In Scotland, Eng
land and Greece it is the same. .
There are the same social questions,
The tenement is not only an American
problem. Edinburgh, Rome and Athens
all have their social settlements and
are working along the same lines as
the Jane Adams and the Taylor COM
mons in Chicago and know about them
and are keenly interested"
Misery loves company. so it must be
gratifying to some people to learn the
oldest countries in Europe are no bet
ter off than the United States. But,
on the other hand, is it not a fact that
the United States proclaimed indepen-
dence and liberty and announced to the
world it's intention of bringing about
conditions under which the worst as
poets of European life would be I'M
known? 1t was not merely freedom
which attracted to American shores inn
migrants from the old world, but free
dom with an opportunity to make a
living. America is the only country
which in unmistakable black and white
practically promises and guarantees
happiness to it's inhabitants if their
behavior is good and their citizenship
is patriotic. That America is not the
only country confronted by the trust
problem" is neither excuse nor explana-
ton, and we cannot see that it affords
any reasonable suggestion of a cure
for the trust evil or a solution of other
problems. There may be monopolies
in Scotland, England and Greece. But
this fact is no palliation of the trust
evil in the United States. On the con-
trary, it makes it harder than ever to
understand why this progressive young
nation, with definite program founded
on freedom, should be struggling with a
form of commercial tyranny that is at
tempting to strangle nations that are
our seniors by thousand years. There
should be no trusts in the United
States. There should be no room for
tyranny of any kind under the Stars
and Stripes.
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HocH DER KAISER!

TN VEN If Emperor William had been
HI sober when he gave his yellow
- interview to DR.. Hale, well-in-
formed men who read it carefully
would merely have been struck by the
kaiser's singular ignorance of world
affairs which are not strictly within
the German sphere of influence. His
assumption that the British colonies,
or, to be more precise and down to
date, colonial nations, are in some
mysterious manner enslaved by the
United Kingdom and that the empire
might be broken up" is almost too
ridiculous for serious discussion.
The British empire is becoming more
democratic every day. Various por-
tons of it, for instance New Zealand,
are practieing radical measures of re-
form which are diligently voted down
at the polls by the reactionary pluto
cracy of the United States
1t is impossible for the British EN-.
pire to "break up" in the way the
kaiser would like, and if Germany and
other nations should set about annex
ing the various nationalities which
compose the empire they would soon
rue their temerity for the colonials Of
today, like the colonials Of 1776, if
menaced by any tyrannous invader
would take up arms in defense of their
homes and would lay them down
never, never, never"
An attempt to disrupt the British
empire would have more significance
for the United States than for any
other power Undoubtedly many of
the kin across sea" would place
themselves under the American flag If
they believed there was danger of Ger |
man invasion or attempted annexation, |
while Canada and British Columbia, in
accordance with the Monroe doctrine, |
would be protected by the United |
States. William says modestly all he
would take for Germany out of the |
disrupted empire would be Egypt. |
From this it is evident he is coveting |
the Suez canal and the control of the |
Mediterranean. If, however, he at
tempted to seize the commercial short
route to Asia he would have all of
Europe to reckon with.
There can be no doubt of the au-
thenticity of the interview, but there
is reasonable doubt as to the kaiser's |
responsibility for his utterances, for,
We are told:
1.-THE interview took place one even
ing just after the kaiser had wined and |
dined heartily. He was in a humor
which is said to be no novelty to his
intimates."
We think the W. C. T. U. ought, |
without delay, to take up the case of
Kaiser Wilhelm.
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SAYS WOMEN MOST CRUEL
IN TREATMENT OF BIRDS

PASADENA, Nov. 21.-[Editor Her
add: In the Letter Box of November
Is Elizabeth Quigley writes in criticism
of the proposed spending of taxpayers
money for breeding quail to be shot,
crippled and tortured (by men) and
suggests that women should have the
vote to stop such things.
In this connection it might be inter-
esting to note how men and women,
respectively, obey the laws for the pro-
lection of BIRDS The shooting of
quail, while causing some cruelty,
though not nearly as much as the
transportation and killing of cattle, is
permitted in season by the state laws.
birds is looked after by the state and
any effort to conserve and increase
bird life should be welcomed.
From my observations as an Audu-
bon officer l venture to assert that for
every single violation of the bird laws
by men there are from fifty to a hun
bred violations by women, The mini
mum penalty for each offense being $25.
Our state law for the protection of
the wild birds says that "every person
who in the state of California shall at
any time buy or have
in his possession any wild
bird, living or dead, or any part of any
dead wild bird, or who shall
rob the nest or destroy the
eggs of any wild bird, is guilty
of a misdemeanor." Yet thousands of
women in California not only violate
this law, but openly flaunt their de-
fiance of law and order, public senti-
ment and kindness by appearing on
the public streets wearing hats dec
grated with illegal plumage, the parts
CT dead wild birds. Not only that, but
in spite of the campaign against this
cruelty that has been waged by press
and pulpit for a quarter of century,
appealing first to woman's intelligence,
then to her mother love, and finally to
her good citizenship, we see around us
more illegal plumage worn than ever
before. BIRD LOVER.
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COMPARES RATIONAL BASIS
OF OPPOSING ASSUMPTIONS

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21.-[Editor
Herald: Certainly, c. F., it seems to
me rational and scientific to assume
that from two different animals We
shall get different offspring, and the
same with two different ages. A so
cialism born of the (new) machine age
and with human happiness and uplift
as its central idea, will necessarily dlt-
fer from any Socialism" or attempt
at Socialism that ever was porn out
of a different kind of society, and with
an entirely different mathematician
and military ACKNOWLEDGEMENT for ex-
ample. Wherefore the smoker OF de-
rision behind your words is gratuitous'
AS to a cooperative commonwealth
doing mo wrong" human society, ike
human individuals, will always be
doing some wrong, but ever less so as
Industrial and economic exploitation Is
eliminated, and there will then be
readiness and eagernesS to correct our
mistakes forthwith, instead of as now
continuing them indefinitely (even
when recognized), lest we injure "busi-
ness" or vested interests" There VIII
be no longer anyone "interested IN
nrolonging evils; the IMMEDIATE in
terest of everyone will be in its I'M
MEDIATE remedy. There's where my
"human happiness the criterion and
arbiter" comes in. The whole people
(BEING THEIR OWN GOVERN
MENTC and having inaugurated their
commonwealth with one ob1ect-hu-
man happiness-will make short work
of anything that is tried and found
inimical thereto.
AS to YOUR benevolent assimilation"
will the whole people benevolently as
simulate themselves?
n II seY 1acffiEalW delicious. I1RrG s
No other word, Like the hungry, bat
tered, forsaken derelict who shamoles
from a 1O-cent lodging house or the PARK
benches to shout at street corner
Socialist, Don't Destroy the Home.
so G.. C. H. diving in society where
scarce one family in ten could muster
a complete family gathering even once
in ten years, because some MEMBER Is
always at the ends of the earth chasing =: 3,I, g
his 1ob-it is, I say, a dweller IN tnIs
kind of a society who fears Socialism
might, sometimes, temporarily, sepa-
rate friends. 1t is to Taught! but with
'ne 10 ii'7i VAL STONE.
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SAYS CORRESPONDENT is
SEEING THINGS AT NIGHT

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22.-[Editor
Herald: c. c. H. in Saturdays Let
ter Box" combats Socialism by con-
tending that under the new order the
majority will take extreme pleasure in
Jumping onto the minority and tramp
ing them into the earth.
He says: what matters it if you are
sent to fill in some position remote
from all your friends at a job utterly
uncongenial to your" Why, if you
didn't like it, you wouldn't have to go!
You would have an opportunity to take
some other job-possibly at longer
hours or shorter pay. For the past
year there have been millions of men
who would have been glad to get any
kind of an old job, congenial or other
wise. C. C. H. has been ''seein' things
at night" His idea of Socialism is
that we will all be under strict military
orders-sleeping on our arms, so to
speak.
We ali need food, clothing and shell
ter, and a cooperative system will
make 1t easier for us all to secure these
rules and regulations, of course, we will
have, but c. c. H. need not tremble
deserters will not be shot. If you
don't like it, why quit! If you don't
like your job in the postal service, why
quit and go to work in the municipal
service. IL you nnu tntI uucolSSlldl,
resign and go into the agricultural de-
partment. If that is too remote from
all your friends" why forswear the
entire governmental service and go onto
a piece of free land and dig for your
individual self. Or start a business of
your own. There will be no law forbid
ding 1t, and undoubtedly some private
business will survive in the social body
as the vermiform appendix survives in
the human body. The public schools
did not entirely drive out private
schools, and we do not suppose that
Socialism will entirely drive out private
business. BUT 1T WILL DRIVE OUT
PRIVATE GRAFT
GEO. w. DOWNING.
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LAWBREAKERS

NAFE proprietors in Los Angeles
have been warned they must be
~ more careful in observing the
liquor law than they have been in the
past, or their licenses will be endan-
gered. There is no excuse for law
breaking of the kind characterized as
violation of the liquor license or
dinance' any more than there is for
any other kind of lawbreaking.
If establishments which have Ii
censes are held to the letter of the
law in obedience to the regulations, a
good example will be set in the prac-
tice of being law abiding. Any per-
sons who labor under the delusion that
for some reason they are exempt from
the authority of the law should be dis
illusioned. In our times, obedience to
law constitutes the eternal vigilance
which is the price of liberty.
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Far and Wide
Washington Monumen

With the single exception of the
Washington monument, the national
memorials to the American heroes
erected here have been wholly made
quate. The monument itself will never
be approached in grandeur and slgnifi-
canoe. 1t is not unique in shape, for
it is an expansion of the ancient ODE
lisk, but it Is impressive in its size. 1t
is a great presence in the capital which
was planned by washington himself.
1t strikes the note which should guide
in all future creations of the same
character.-W Washington Star.