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Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
Southern Pacific Has Designs
UDOr1 Streets of Alameda

to the railroad for freight purposes.
They should consider whether IL is to
the interests of Alameda that either OF
these avenues be sacrificed. 1t may be
found that the Southern Pacific Rail-
road company can get along very well
without either of them-by going to a
little extra expense in providing for the
convenience of It's customers. Or, II
may be found that although the adj
vantages of having a freight line In
this part of the town are great, the
advantages will be more than offset by
the disadvantages to Alameda. If this
be the case, of course no franchise
should be given at all. At any rate.
no steps should be taken that Will
compromise the city until the munich
pal authorities know precisely what the
result of their action will be. Further
more, no valuable privileges should be
given to the Southern Pacific Railroad
company or any other corporation un-
less the community be amply compen-
stated. To be sure. Alameda has ac-
CURED the giving habit when dealing
with the railroad. 1t Will be a good
idea in this north side question to make
a start in placing the relations be-
tween the city and the railroad ON
business basis.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07

IL ROM the talk on the street 1t is
evident that the Southern Pacific
II Railroad company is endeavoring
to make it appear that it does not care
whether it secures a franchise for
freight line along the north side or
not. Few will be Influenced by such
Misrepresentation, says the Alameda
Times. AS matter of fact, the South
ern Pacific recognizes fully the enor--
NOUS value of the franchise, and
whether it wishes to avail itself OF
freight line privileges at present or not
will leave nothing unturned to get the
franchise for itself. The people of the
north side will not be coddled into
sense of security by statements that
the Southern Pacific is Indifferent
They may as we'll make up their minds
first as last that the Southern Pacific
proposes to bottle up the north side
against possible competition and incl
dentally to provide for the enormous
increase of business which will develop
in this county during the next four or
five years.
The mayor and members of the city
council should not confine themselves
to the question whether Blanding or
Clement avenue should be turned over
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
THE LESSON OF MORSE

TN THE TRIAL of Charles w. Morse
for violating the United States
a laws in his management of the ma
tional banks with which he was con-
nected, and the resulting sentence of
fifteen years in the penitentiary, is con-
tanned a lesson which every man, and
especially every young man, in the
country should take deeply to heart.
Mr.. Morse is a striking example of
the results of the INSCRIPTIONS pur-
suit of wealth. Some years ago he first
attracted attention by the formation
OF the ice trust, which had the effect
Of arbitrarily and largely increasing
the price of ice in the city of New
York.
This increase in price was greatest
to small purchasers of the article, and
was therefore particularly burdensome
upon the poor.
The first summer during which Mr..
Morse's ice trust was in efficient work
ing order the writer passed some time
in the city of New York. The city was
in the throes of one of those frightful
spells of hot weather which 1t some
times experiences, and the suffering
from the effects of the heat was par
ticularly great in the congested dis
tricts occupied by the poor, as 1T al
ways is.
This suffering was greatly intensified
by the fact that Mr.. Morse's ice trust
had arbitrarily placed the price of ice
SO high that many of the poor were
deprived of this vital necessity. of hot
weather.
At that time the newspapers of New
York were commenting upon the suf-
fering which was being occasioned by
Mr.. Morse's ice trust, and one result
particularly shocking to every humane
person was that many babies and
small children in the congested dis
tricts, whose parents were unable to
furnish ice for them, died as a result
of being deprived of that necessity.
Good people all over the city were
contributing to fund for furnishing
ice for the use of the poor children of
the city, and these gifts of charity
went to enrich Mr.. Morses wicked
trust.
Now that he is about to be punished
because his uncomfortable pursuit of
gain has led him, in dealing with his
banks, to violate the laws of his coun-
try, as in the past he had violated the
moral code in the management of his
ice trust, no one probably VIII be
found to sympathize with him.
And those who know the suffering
that he has occasioned the thousands
In his home city, and the hundreds OF
little lives that went out as tribute
to his greed for gain, will feel that the
sentence of fifteen years in the peni-
tertiary which has been imposed upon
him is a well-deserved punishment,
and that the pitiful little victims of
his greed are in some sort avenged by
it. Verify, 1.-THE mills of the gods grind
slowly, but they grind exceeding
small"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
PROSPERITY WEEK

FITS the duty of all of us to do our
best to make prosperity week"
Il huge and unqualified success. The
object in view is one in which every
citizen is interested. It affects every
one. Many home industries have been
established In Los Angeles. This city
has many manufactures and has a
manufacturing district. Its industrial
life is healthy and vigorous, and In
dustrialism here is not synonymous
with squalor, SCOT, CRIME and hard
ship, as in many eastern manufacture
ing centers.
Because the tourist does not see our
atmosphere obscured by huge clouds
of greasy, black smoke, and because he
cannot watch big army of begrimed
humans on the march to and from the
workshops, he fails to realize the
growth and prosperity of nanufac-
turing industries in this city. Hence
it is necessary to teach him and the
world the lesson that Los Angeles is
industrially independent. So many
goods are manufactured here that our
citizens do not need to send to any
outside city for any ordinary article.
Our manufactures cover wide field.
They range all the way from heavy
machinery to jams and jellies. There
is hardly any human need that may
not be satisfied by goods made in Los
Angeles. During prosperity week"
citizens will patronize home indus
tries and buy home made goods. Some
of our people, who perhaps are not as
well posted as they might be on the
subject of the amazing Industrial
growth and advance of Los Angeles,
may be surprised. to find that they will
not necessarily be required to spe-
cialize their purchases during Pros
perity Week. Almost everything used
in daily life is manufactured IN Los
Angeles. Our home industries make us
Independent of all the world, and we
are becoming a great exporting center,
and are destined to be the greatest in
the west when corporations have been
taught to respect the rights of San Pc
dro harbor and it is allowed to become
the greatest port Of the Pacific
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07

TAAIES KING of William was assas-
sinated by Casey because heck
- posed the jury bribing that freed
criminals. GaIlagher's houses were
dynamited because he confessed and
showed up the rottenness of Schmitz,
Ruef and the higher ups" says the
Oakland Enquirer. Judge Dunno IS Pc
ing attacked, yilified and lampooned be-
cause he insists that fair trials shall be
given to the indicted bribegivers OF
high and low degree, because he will
not lend himself to the conspiracy TO
defeat justice. Schmitz and Ruef,
thanks to the hair-splitting technical
decisions of the courts of appeal, have
been purged of some of their crimes In
spite of the verdict of guilty delivered
against one by q jury and the plea OF
guilty by the other. Both were able
to defy the courts, make farce of
justice and drag out to indefinite and
disgusting length their trials, which, If
corruption were not triumphant in San
Francisco, would have taken days,
whereas they have taken weeks and
will take months. Blake, the convicted
jury-briber, has confessed that Ruef
lawyers, Murphy and Newburgh, insti-
gated the attempt at jury-bribing for
which he now stands convicted. II
there be any depth of infamy and cor
ruption to which the Ruefs, Schmitzes
and "higher ups" have not descended,
any heights of indecency, law-break-
ing and justice-defying to which they
have not aspired, the public has no
cognizance of 1t. They have spent
money like water, they have bribed,
threatened and corrupted. They have
corrupt influence to turn away the
course Of Justice They have brow
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
Cr-in1inGIify Is Triumphant
over Law in San Francisco

beaten courts, intimidated, abducted
and dynamited witnesses. They have
made California and San Francisco the
laughing stock of the civilized world.
They have set up on imperium in i'm
perio which threatens to become, seems
already to have become, stronger and
more powerful than the law, greater
than the honest, law-abiding, patriotic
power of the people themselves. So
long as these malefactors and criminals
keep out Of states prison, no man is
safe in his person or property, and the
lives and liberties of innocent, law
abiding men, women and children are
in jeopardy The decent portion of the
people of the metropolis and this state
owe it to themselves, their children and
their childrens children to stamp out
fine corrupt influence of these traitors,
iailbirds and criminals, and, rescuing
of the imperiler law from their
clutches, send them to prison where
they belong. Our politics, dominated
by these corrupt men, have sunk to so
low a depth that governors do them
homage, lieutenant governors apologize
for them in public and ADVISE the
youth of the state university to honor
them as leaders, legislatures obey their
orders limited States senators do not
dare spurn them, and judges gratefully
receive from them their nominations.
San Francisco will continue to be
modern Sodon and California modern
Tyre until these corrupt men are given
their lust deserts and wear the motley
garb of states prison birds which they
have so well earned. No honest man is
lust TO himself his wife, his mother or
his children who does not raise ms
voice in open, public condemnation OF
these law-defying, crowned-kings Of
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
TEMPERANCE GAINS

~ NE OF the significant lessons OF
the election is the victory of anti
" saloon forces in the country dis
tricts of Southern California. Returns
all along the line show great in
crease of anti-saIoon sentiment. One
of the precincts in which the ''wets'
we're outvoted by the dries was Ar
eadia. 1t is both remarkable and true
that Lucky Baldwin's reservation is
showing decided signs of all around
reform.
other captures on which the anti-sa-
loon forces are pluming themselves are
those of Acton. which was formerly
considered one of the strongholds Of
the Royal Arch. and Newhall. which
was believed to be one Of the banner
camps of the 'wets."
These indications give only a faint
idea OF the radical change of thought
on the subject Of liquor traffic which
is affecting practically every commu.
nifty in the United States. The tenn
perance cause is winning. and the ma
tional political party which has the
common sense to advocate temperance
principles and legislation, instead Of
fiehting shy of most important re-
form, which fairly clamors for atten-
ton, will provide itself with a winning
platform.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
ATTRACTION OF THE SEXES
NATURES GREAT LIFE POEM

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6-[Editor
Herald: 1t is not natural for woman
to yield to man whom she never has
seen before, and to whom. therefore,
she feels not the slightest attraction.
And, despite the fundamental physical
differences which make the male
throughout life the pursuer it Is not
natural for a man to seek possession
of a woman who is an absolute stran-
ger to him.
All life is governed by the law of in
heritance, under which like hegets like.
If, therefore, we find unnatural condi-
tions as between the sexes, we may
be certain THAI they are the children
of unnatural conditions.
On the other hand sexual attraction
is the life-giving law of the universe,
and from the lowliest to the most high
ly developed form of organization ma
ture forces the male to seek the fe-
male, that the worlds life may not
perish.
Every page of science bears on 1t,
writ in the largest letters, the truth
that natural selection" is the method
by which nature produces life and
raises the type Darwin, Haeckel and
10000 less known writer's have shown
that to the efforts of the sexes to at
tract one another we owe the coloring
of the flowers, the brilliant plumage
of the birds, all the gorgeous beauty
with which nature decks herself for
those who have eyes to see.
The researches of science have result
ed in the establishment of the mighty
power of love. not as vague dream,
but an irrefutable, universal fact. The
scientists have written the greatest
poem ever conceived.
But the basis of it is natural selec-
tion," and 1t is this we wantonly in
terfere>with by monopoly, by caste, by
all those untrue-to-nature arrange
ments of society which spring from the
indomitable ignorance that still per-
sists in following man-made creeds in
stead of the immutable laws of life.
Not in restriction, -but in return to
the liberty-law of life lies salvation.
T. K. G.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
coMPuLsIoN MUST GO WITH
MAJORITY ADMINISTRATION

LOS Angles, Nov. 6.--[Editor
Herald: On August criticised Mr..
Stone, saying the first anecdote he had
told was pointless and the second a
Misrepresentation. He has again brok-
en- out.
1 do not wish to be rude. considering
1t an outrage that the valuable space
of the Letter Box should be frittered
away with personalities. 1t is, there
fore, solely for the sake of truth and
in the hope that I may stop inconse-
uuentia1 talk that / say Mr.. stones
last fable is both pointless and mis-
representation.
It is pointless to elaborate the state
ment that some have excluded others
from the salt. That is agreed on by
all and is not in dispute.
1t is Misrepresentation to say that
"there will be no compulsion in the
cooperative commonwealth"
1t may please Mr.. Stone to say so,
but all Socialist literature is there to
prove that the majority will rule
will compel.
obviously, If the land, and the indus
tries that spring from it, are to be
administered collectively it must be the
majority, speaking through the Off
Gals supposed to represent them, who
will have the sole say as to how the
property shall be administered and the
salt distributed. In other words, they
will command the supplies and hold
the power of life and death.
j. a rebel against majority rule, would
get no salt.
Prove to me that my salt will BIO
secure and you will have done some-
thing. 7. X. G.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
PUTS CONFIDENCE IN NONE
BUT POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS

los ANGELES, Oct. 31.-[Editor
Herald: Our republic is fast outgrow-
ing the purpose for which it was estab-
lished. viz: for the benefit of the peo-
nile. and especially the poor, worka-
day people. 1t is rapidly drifting to
the condition where Nthe rich, having
been allowed to exploit the working
classes, begin to think that the poor
are purposely created for their benefit,
and that they may fleece them with inn
punity. =.
our legislators or representatives do
not represent the majority of the peo-
pie. who are the workers, and the poor,
but special interests, for selfish pur-
poses.
Now here come the bankers begging
the voters to change the law specially
for them, that they may be allowed 70
prey 30 years more on the people and
save expenses.
What we want is not banks, which
are commercially all right, but govern
ment or rather postal savings banks.
Every working man or woman develops
a desire for saving, and millions every
year might be saved to better advan-
tage by postal banks, because there
can be no question of their being sale'
while the banks are not.
/ have lost money in savings banks
when was assured that, as they were
under government control, they were
perfectly safe. know better now, ana
say. "never again." Give us postal
savings banks and there viii accumu-
late national wealth that cannot be
frittered away by crazy spiritualistic
hank directors, whom nobody seems to
have any control over. Z. =.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
TOURISTS

I'VE CALL our winter visitors tour
w lists because once upon a time
it was customary in the east to
talk of ''the California tour" just as
the English talked of 1.-THE grand tour
of Europe" Modern California was
made by tourists, who came here to
see the sights, forgot to return home.
and wrote ecstatic letters to their
friends in the east, urging them to
come to the land Of promise and
health. Now, as then, tourists are of
advantage to California because Of the
advertising they give the state. Think
of the thousands of visitors who send
letters describing climate, scenery,
cities and people! Naturally hospit-
able, the people of California enter
tanned early tourists in a way that de-
lighted their hearts. This, too, made
California a winner. Some of us who
have lived in the east can doubtless
remember the glowing stories told by
returned travellers concerning the
warmth of a California welcome, the
hospitality of a California home.
Los Angeles lives up to the Califor-
MIA reputation for hospitality. In no
city in the world are guests as well
treated as they are in our hotels. In
no city in the world does tourist get
as much in return for his money as
he gets in California. We have al
ways urged and always will urge
square dealing with tourists-not that
there is any of the other kind, but we
think California's reputation for square
dealing should always be part of its
advertising ammunition. We hope all
the tourists who are flocking by the
thousand to Los Angeles and South
ern California win have the happiest
time of their lives in this lovely land,
and that when they return east it will
be with the determination to buy homes
and settle down in the land of sunshine
and hospitality.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
GUFFEY

~ UFFEY of Pennsylvania is rejoic-
NT ing over the defeat of the spir-
VI itual moral, progressive Ameri-
can element in the United States. Moth
ing could be more striking than
the contrast between the views of Col.
Watterson, quoted on this page, and
those of Guffey. The leader OF the
Pennsylvania Democracy says the cleo
ton of Mr. Taft was a good thing for
the country. Why? BecauseNit will
bring prosperity to the country? With
that reply no good American could
quarrel. But 1t is not Guffey's. Mr..
Guffey thinks the Democratic patry
is not broad-minded enough, that 1t has
become "too moral" and that Its NOR
atty has been rebuked by an indignant
nation.
This is a novel view Of the election,
which will doubtless be intensely graf
flying and inspiring to clergymen and
others who may have voted for Mr..
Taft because their fathers and grand
fathers were Republicans and they
thought Mr.. Taft was a typical Re-
publican.
When Americans think of William
Jennings Bryan they may thank God
and take courage for though defeated
at the polls, he is neither dead nor
exiled. He is much better known than
the president-elect, and should there
ever be a real emergency in our ma
tional life, which will call for man
of discernment and judgment, beloved
and trusted of the people, the nation
will turn to Bryan.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
Far and Wide
Standard of Living

The standard of living is a polite
fiction. 1t is a relative term. It finds
it's satisfaction with the conditions we
would like to have, not in comparison
with the American ideals of wage earn
ers worthy their hire and gaining free
ly enough to own their homes, support
their families. and educate their chill
dren, but with the conditions which
obtain in Europe. The standard of
living in this country is not so high
as it should be and not so high as it
would be if there were approximate
economical harmony between the rate
Of wages and a cost of living increased
enormously by insistence on a privilege
begetting tariff.-St. Louis Republic.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07

California congress of mothers will
consider the question of petitioning the
city authorities to provide work for
the unemployed.
See yonder poor, o'eriabored wretch,
So AFFECT, mean and vile
Who humbly begs his brother-worm
To give him leave TO toll.
Some day civilization will outlive the
monstrous barbarism which robs men
of the means of earning a livelihood.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07

John D. Rockefellers chauffeur was
arrested for reckless speeding. But
John d. was in the auto and announced
himself. Il AM JOHN D. ROOKIE
TELLER. l am hurrying to see my
doctor" SO the chauffeur was re-
leased and later on, at his convenience
and John DIS, was fined So We think
the New York judge who imposed this
penalty was cruel and tyrannical.
Probably he was an anarchist. II
nearly broke Johns heart, but he paid
the fine. It was NOT big enough to
take to the court of appeals.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07

BY a big vote California has COM
manded the legislature to frame and
adopt a direct primary law. Repub-
ucans and Democrats can unite in con-
eratulations. The day of the bosses is
in its twilight. The S. p will still
attempt to reign. but it will find the
task much more complicated and diff
ficult. Now let us extend the system
to the nomination of presidents, and
let us elect them by popular vote, and
not by proxy, and Let the people rule"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
What Was SONG

In all the dispatches from Toxic, de-
scribing the welcome of the American
sailors, it was stated that the thousands
of children who took part in the first
ceremonies sang our national anthem
as the train bearing the visitors to the
capital passed through their far flung
lines. None of the dispatches, however
told what song it was that the little
Japanese warbled, and we are sorry
for that, since the problem is one va
riously puzzling-New York Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
AT THE THEATERs

AUDTrORTUAE-~Forty- Minutes from
Broadway"
BEI,ASCO-"Old Heidelberg"
BURBANK-Florence Stone In "eardou'i
cleopatra"
GRAND-Dark.
MAsON-"A knight for q Day"
PEOPLES-"The Four Corners OF ths
Earth"
ORPHEUM-Advanced vaudeville.
Los ANGELES-Fashionable vaudeville.
EMPIRE-Vaudevflle.
FTsCHER'S-seThe MiI1ionairess."
uNIQUF-sfPaid Back in His Own Coin."
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
CALIFORNIA
PRODUCTS ONLY
SOLD HERE

will establish for himself a
place in history and will be
recognized and remembered as
one of the pioneers of perma-
nent prosperity. There is only
one way in which to bring
permanent industrial prosper
ity to Los Angeles; the prac-
teal way. The buying public
will flock to the enterprising
store which adopts and lives up
to the motto, California
Products Only Sold Here"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07
PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia, which claims the dis
tinction Of being the "most thoroughly
American city" is 225 years old and is
proud of it. When called SLOW she
noints to the fact that she mothered
the Declaration of Independence, pro-
duced Betsy Ross and was the first
seat of government of the United
States.-Seattle Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07

Over a million dollars has been con-
tributed by the Methodist church for
mission work in Africa. What an i'm
mense amount of good could be done
with such a sum if it were used at
home among the poor, the needy the
voorhees,, the hopeless, the despairing.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07

Judge Taft says he intends to give
the country business mems admins
tration. We hope he will, and that
he may be successful. Business mems
administration! Where have we heard
the phrase before? Seems TO us Judge
Taft is infringing on Mayor Harper's
copyright.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07

A man threw a strong cheese at an
other and knocked him out. 1t would
have been much better If the owner
of the cheese had compelled his victim
to eat a slice. Then he would not have
been arrested.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07

President Eliot's resignation from
Harvard is almost incredible. We all
know it is true-but Harvard without
"Old Charlie" as he was CALLED irrev-
erentIy but affectionately, is almost
unthinkable.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-07

OIL producers Of Los Angeles are
talking of organizing an Independent
association. 1t is believed the indie
pendents will help the industry.