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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-08
A Friend Of the Negro.


Mr.. Lacey won the gratitude ofBooker
T. Washington and the friendship OF
the negro race in the south by securing
grant of $4,000 acres of Alabama
coal land for the Tuskegee Institute.
When congress was preparing code
of laws for the Philippines, Mr.. Moody
of Massachusetts, afterwards attorney
general and now justice of the U. S.
Supreme court, came to Mr.. Lacey by
the unanimous request of the whole
committee on Insular Affairs and
asked him to prepare the laws for the
public lands, forestry and mines OF
these islands, and also for the adjust
ment of all controversies as to the
church lands.
h Mr. Lacey was not on the commit
tee butShe appreciated the high compli-
ment OF such request. He obtained
translations Of all the previous Phil
ippine and Spanish laws on these SUBJ
jects from Mr.. Taft and went diligently
to work on the bill, and the bill pre-
pared by him with but very trivial
changes is now the law in the Phil
ippines on the subject Of lands, for
estry and mines.
He procured the passage of bill
forbidding the importation of the eggs
of wild fowl for commercial uses. The
wild water fowl of Canada were being
eXterminated by the gathering and
shipment of their eggs to the United
States.
Helped Frame Pension Laws.
He served part of his time on the
now on the statute books in the in
to frame some of the generous laws
now on the statute books in the in
terests of the old soldiers. During the
time that Cleveland's secretary, Hon.
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, was so busy
canceling pension certificates. Mr..
Lacey electrified the House in one OF
his characteristic speeches by saying:
In 1863 the Boys in Blue were march
/ ing through Georgia.; now Georgia is
marching through the Boys in Blue.
This became one of McKinley's favor.
lite expressions in the next campaign
An Advocate Of Sound Money.
Mr.. Lacey was constant advocate
OF sound money. and campaigned his
district thoroughly in the interest o.
maintaining our currency at the high
i est standard known among nations
When he was confronted with the prop
osition that the gold standard was
British" he answered that this coun
try was entitled to as good money a!
Great Britain or any other nation OF
EARTH
In the great campaign OF 1896 HI
bought large quantities of free coin
age Mexican silver dollars and car
ried them with him as an object les
son, selling them openly in his meet
ings at fifty cents apiece. These coin
remained in the hands OF the purchas
ers, and although they had five cent
more silver in them than the American
dollar the holders could only get tn
bullion value for them, and the logi
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-08

1t only remains to remark in pass
Ing that Standard Oil always was a
great illuminant.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-08

Uncle Joe" Cannon is not running
for congress in the First district of
Iowa. Not this year, at least
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-08
Voted for Allison In 1870.

Major Lacey in 1870 was member
of the Iowa General Assembly, and, as
such. cast his vote for VIM. B. ALI
son in the senator's first and unsuc-
cessful race for that office. Since that
time Senator Allison and Major Lacey
have been warm personal and political
friends, and during Mr.. Lacey's six
teen years of congressional service
they have been in constant and friend
ly touch on all public questions. When
Major Lacey's name was suggested
last winter as possible candidate for
the senatorship, he promptly an
nounced that under no circumstances
would fail to support his old friend
with all his vigor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-08
Was a Union Colder.

Iowa has, in the last few years. suf
fered much from purely factional con-
troversies. The selection of Major
Lacey for the senate would give us a
senator broad-minded and experienced
who would at once take that rank in
the senate that he held so long in the
House. Iowa has never sent soldier
OF the Union army to the United States
senate, and now for perhaps the last
time the opportunity has come to do
SO.
Major Lacey was born in Virginia
(now West virginia) on May 80. 1871.
He is in vigorous health and engaged
in active work. as he has been since
his return from the Civil war. He en-
tered national public life in 1888, when
he was unanimously chosen to lead
the Republican party in the Sixth
district, which has been the scene OF
SO many defeats.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-08
Mr.. Lacey's Work In CONGRESS.

Mr.. Lacey's work in congress has
been active, laborious and uniformly
successful. 1t has not been largely
upon party lines because his commit
tee assignments have placed him In con-
troll OF legislation of general interest
20 the country without regard to party.
When President Roosevelt spoke at
Oskaloosa he took occasion in clear
words to express his opinion of this
work, as follows: In his address Tues
day evening, April %. 1903. before the
Oskaloosa Y. NJ c. A. building, which
marked the close of the dedication Of
that magnificent structure President
Roosevelt said
Ladies and Gentlemen: It is with
peculiar pleasure that come here II
take part In the dedication Of this
Y. M. c. A. building. and feel that
4 there Is something peculiarly proper
/ In the presence of the veterans of the
great war at any ceremony which
i tends to make for decencv. for high
thinking. for good citizenship.
Il wish to say one word about your
4 congressman, Mr.. Lacey. at whose r.
quest j stopped here. In public l,fa
generally we are not apt to find the
man whose interests go to the whole
country. as we'll as for those who have
his fate in their hands. and wish II
congratulate this district in havine
in the American congress man who
spends his hest efforts for the vel
fare of the whole United States. Now
gentlemen. never say before = man
what I would not say behind him. o,
vice versa. and do not speak hvner
holicallv. When there is q matter
feel is Of real ard serious CONSEQUENCE
tn the nation pc whole. I can asl
Mr.. Lacey to come to mo. or cor
90 to him with the absolute cert, int,
that be will nnnroach 1t si-,nlv fro,
tho stardno'rt Of prhl'c service. VI
wishes to do VOL his duty hv RI.
nuhlic and in his eve the fact tn
the work is worth doiro fl srHi
c'ept reward ard regard this os hig'
preiso for anv r,an In nnhlic l'fe.'
And again in Mr.. Roosevelt's lette
to Mr.. Lacey, July 16, 1906, he said:
| Il desire to say to You how mucl
| it means to any man who believes Il
, hard. intelligent and disinterested pub
: lie service to see such a career a
yours has been in congress. It ha
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-08

novel it is the American man who is
scored.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-08

Major John F. Lacey has. at the
earnest request of great many Re-
.publicans, been announced as a andi-
date for the senate to succeed our Ia
mented Allison. The time in which he
may make his campaign is very short,
and committee of his friends wish
to call attention to some of the rea-
sons for selecting him as successor to
our much loved and distinguished
senator.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-08
Redeemed the Sixth District.


The Republicans had elected Mr..
Cults by division OF the opposition,
but from 1876 to 1888 they had never
had majority in the district. Mr..
Lacey defeated General Weaver, one
of the first campaigners in America.
He challenged the General to joint
discussion and the whole state and ma.
ton watched the contest with breath
less interest. Mr.. Lacey won by S2S
votes. In ten consecutive elections he
was unanimously chosen as the Re-
publican standard bearer and notwith-
standing the closeness of the district
was elected eight times He was de.
feated in 1890 when Iowa 'ost six con.
gressmen, and again in 1906 when the
state passed through a factional con.
test in, which great party losses oc.
cured.
Mr.. Lacey did not seek The nomina
ton fol, the senate, but the fact that
he was the choice Of the great mass
OF the 100000 voters who stood by Mr.
Allison on last June was made evident
In so many ways that he accepted the
demand Of the recent conference Of
Republicans and has already. with hi:
usual vigor and earnestness, begun tbs
work assigned to him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-08

been my privilege to be closely asso-
ciated with you and to watch the
many different ways in which, without
any hope or expectation OF personal
reward, YOU have rendered efficient
public service"
We desire to refresh the memory
OF our people in regard to some OF the
life and public work of Major Lacey.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-08

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Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
MAYOR TO ADDRESS
MEMBERS OF NEW CLUB

Mayor Harper will address the Com
munity club at its assembly hall on
the southeast corner of Seventh street
and Towne avenue on next Tuesday
evening, April z, at p. m. All men
of the vicinity are invited to be pres
ent. Refreshments will be served. No
admission fee or collection. The club
room is in the hall at the rear of st.
Marks p. e. church at above address.
This club was formed for the mutual
educational and musical benefit of the
men of the community east of Main
street. south of First and north of
Sixteenth. 1t is non-sectarian and
non-political; it invites all self-respect-
ing men of the community to join with
1t for above purposes.
A club house is in operation also in
connection with the club, fitted up in
a comfortable manner, where men can
have a. place to go in the evening and
rest. read, play games or otherwise
break the dull monotony of rooming
house existence.
Many men in this district are from
good eastern homes and are self-re-
specting in every way, and 1t is this
class nf rnan tha club was formed for.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
MAY FORCEM ORE
INSIDE ZONE LINES
clTY'S ATTORNEYS ELATED OVER
LIQUOR DECISION
Judge Hutton's Ruling Makes Council
Supreme in Use of Its Police
Powers for Munich
paIlty

In winning the case against the
wholesale liquor sellers who opposed
the ordinance restricting them to a
certain zone the city's legal department
has sustained a notable victory for Los
Angeles.
Judge Hutton, in the case of Alvin P.
Bruce, acting for himself and twenty
other wholesale liquor dealers. a man
damus proceeding to compel issuance
of license, has virtually decided that
the city council has absolute control
over the liquor business as part of
it's police power
In arguing the case the city's counsel
called attention to Pasadena, which
has been free from the saloon and
liquor element for years.
''To hold that a permit to sell liquor
in a certain district of the city is a
continually existing thing" said the
court, would be a violation of the fun
damental rules on which the charter is
based.
'If it can be done with a liquor
license it can be done with a laundry
or permit for anything else"
The city attorneys will probably now
take steps to force the few scattering
wholesale liquor stores now outside of
the zone to move into the restricted ter
ritory or close their shops.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
BRAVE GIRL SENT TO
HOT SPRINGS FOR CURE
Heroic Madeleine Thompson Is Recov-
ering Rapidly from Her Rheuma-
tism-Now Lives at Elsi=
more, Cal.

AS a reward of her bright, CHEEKY,
girlish courage, Madeleine Thompson,
the 15-year-old daughter of Mrs. A. C.
Thompson of 339 Bunker Hill avenue,
is now at Bundy's Elsinore hot springs
at Elsinore, Cal.
This is the young girl whose forti-
tude in spite of a cruel attack of rheu-
matism melted the admiration of all
the neighbors.
The mother is widow, and has be-
sides Madeleine her older sister Gladys
aged II years, to care for, since this
daughter is an incurable invalid.
For time it looked dark and hope
less, the mother having to support
these two sick children.
She cared for them both, since she is
a nurse with hospital training. And
it was here that the courage of the two
girls, and especially of the pain-stricken
Madeleine, helped her keep up heart.
Help Arrives for Brave Girl
Help arrived soon, when through the
columns of the Los Angeles Herald the
public at large was told of the sad
plight in which this heroic widow and
her brave children were placed.
Money came in daily from sympa-
thetic people, and when enough had
been accumulated Madeleine was taken
to Elsinore last Wednesday by her
mother.
There everything is being done for
her, and Manager Amesbury and his
wife are taking a special interest in this
brave girl, whose cheeriness does not
desert her there, although her mother
left her last Saturday to return to Los
Angeles.
All the attendants are kind to Mad
eleine, she is getting along well and her
recovery is now no more a thing of
doubt. Her courage is winning for her
the health and strength which should
go with such a heroic soul as hers.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
WORLD AND CHURCH ARE
EVER MORTAL ENEMIES
Pastor Robert J. Burdette of Temple
Baptist Tells Of Life ain
the Land of Bond
age"

Pastor Robert j. Burdette preached
at Temple Baptist church on the topic
"In the Land of Bondage" taking for
his text Exodus 2, 23-"And the chill
dren of Israel sighed by reason of the
bondage, and they cried, and their cry
came up unto God by reason of the
bondage"
For Egypt made their lives bitter
with hard bondage For sin is never
yokefellow. 1t is slave or task
master Not a slave, either, but a
CONQUERED enemy, beaten, disarmed,
crushed. chained. Either the church
holds the mastery over sin - and
not a gentle, merciful mastery, but a
pitiless, rigorous, tyrannous mastery,
hating sin to the death as God hates it,
or it is itself the slave of sin.
Righteousness hath no fellowship with
unrighteousness; light hath no COM
munion with darkness; Christ hath no
concord with Belial. Whenever the
church has made alliance or peace with
the world, the church has gone down
into slavery, and the world has made
its life bitter with hard bondage The
world says: We differ, but let US
differ in peace. Let's live and let live;
that's fair. We don't close your
churches on week days; now don't you
close our saloons on Sundays. We
don't hinder Sunday school process
sion of Wednesday-now don't inter-
fere with our military and naval pa
rades on Sunday.
The Worlds Proposal
"'We don't say you shant build a
school house next door 70 a gin mill;
now do you be fair and let us put the
grog shop next door to the school
house. If you will just let the Arcadia
race tracks alone, we'll subscribe some
money to your church work. Why
can't you be as liberal as we are, and
live neighborly?'
$50 long as righteousness and sin
endure the church and the world will
be enemies-unrelentin fierce; hating
each other with hate as cruel as fire,
enemies to the death, until one or the
other is slain. The worldlinesS of the
church Is it's worst enemy In the
Boer war; disease in camp and hospital
killed ten times more British soldiers
than did the bullets of those terrible
sharpshooters, the Beers. So in the
church. Among it's foes it is invulner-
able; a mighty and conquering
church. No weapon that is formed
against 1t shall prosper 1t is wound
ed only in the house of its friends.
Above the sepulcher of every dead
church may be written, Suicide The
faithless, prayerless, worldly church
members are the murderers of their
church The card tables entice them,
first in their own homes, then in the
club; then the race trac'- binds them
hard and fast in the fierce gambling
habit, and from Los Angeles to Ar
cadia the boulevard is strewn like a
slave trail in Africa with the bloody
corpses of murdered women and men,
ruined lives, broken homes, blighted
names The silken legs of the flying
.thorcghbreds are plashed with human
blood as they thunder over the high
way of ruin past the shouting grand
stand, crowded with slaves of the
track"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
SAY ITALIAN SWITCHED
IRON WASHERS FOR GOLD

Nicolo Tarssaro was arrested early yester-
day morning by Detectives Talamantes and
Rico and booked at the central police sta
tion on suspicion
Tarssaro is specifically charged with hav-
ing robbed Michael Jesete. a fellow coun-
tryman. OF 5000 by means of a trick or
device.
The prisoner learned that Jesete was
anxious to return to his home in Italy and
that he had $500. He approached him with
a proposition to go with him and agreed to
put up 5000 as an evidence OF good faith.
the money OF both men to be deposited in a
tin bx.
Each man put the money into the box and
Tarssaro locked the box and then gave the
box to Jesete to keep while he kept the key.
When Jesete got back to his room and
examined the box he found that 1t was un-
locked and filled only with iron washers
and green stage money.
The boxes had been switched in the tran
saction.
Jesete complained to the police and
Tarssaro was arrested in an Ord street
lodging house.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
MOVING PICTURE MAN
BURNED IN EXPLOSION

M. M. Sweet, the operator in charge
Of a moving picture machine at 211
South Main street. was treated at the
receiving hospital last night for se-
we're burns of the hands which he sus-
tanned In carrying from the picture
theater a blazing roll of films which
had taken fire while he was operating
his machine.
After his burns were dressed Sweet
went to his home at 227 North Flower
street. Sweets action probably pre-
vented a panic in the little theater,
which was crowded at the time,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
oERMAN-AMERIC RETURN
FROM TRIP THROUGH WEST

Robert Lorentz and Frank Herten,
president and secretary of the Pacific
Coast Saengerbund, will arrive in Los
Angeles this morning to remain week
and complete the details of the pre-
liminary arrangements for the first
Pacific Coast saengerfest, which is to
be held in Los Angeles next October.
Mr.. Lorentz and Mr.. Herten left San
Francisco last Monday and have been
making short visits to all Of the larger
San JOAQUIN valley towns in the inter-
est of the saengerfest, and they have
written to the local committee that be-
tween 20, 900 and $4,000 German-Am
cans will visit Ios Angeles during tho
fest.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06

itors their first and most enduring i'm
pressions Of Los Angeles the beauti-
full.
If the charter revision commission
will consent the membership of the
commission on art will be increased
from five to eight, and sinking fund
will be provided for the purchase of
municipal statuary and other embel-
lishments for the future.
ut may require years and millions"
said Mr.. Blanchard, "but Los Angeles
is city that does things and the peo-
pie have the spirit to make this what
1t really is-the most favored city in
America"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
GOING AHEAD WITH
"CITY BEAUTIFUL" ]"
MUNICIPAL ART COMMISSION IS
SUPREME
Robinson's Magnificent Plans Are
Being Developed in Griffith
EIysian Boulevard and
New Union Depot

That the municipal art commission
hopes to carry out in detail the mag
nificent conception of Civic Architect
Charles Mulford Robinson for city
beautiful has been announced by r.
w. Blanchard of that body.
The construction of the connecting
link of roads between Griffith and
Elysian parks is part OF the system
outlined by Architect Robinson. The
question of a union depot at the foot
of Fifth street is now under serious
consideration by the railroads. If the
plan goes through 1t will be in order
10 widen Fifth street, as Mr.. Robinson
suggested, and make 1t show boule-
ward connecting the depot with the
retail business center and giving vis-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
State Supreme Court Meets Here

With, today's session commencing at
2 p. m. the state supreme court, Chief
Justice w. H. Beatty presiding, opens
its sessions in Los Angeles on the fifth
floor of the Bullard block on Spring
street. There are forty-eight cases on
the calendar besides motions, but it is
expected that the court will finish its
business by the night of Friday, April
10, as no decision is rendered on the
cases presented to this court until
month or so later
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
Commenced Then

Mrs Styles: You say your husband Is
always doing fool things?"
Mrs Myles: HE Is,
Didn't you ever know him to do a fool
thing before you married him7"
mo. not before thatp'--Yonkers States
man.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
"PAREN7S, OBEY
YOUR CHILDREN
MRS. MILLS REVERSES THE OLD
ORDER OF PRovERR
Speaker Interprets the Words to Mean
That Fathers and Mothers Should
Obey Natural Laws Regarding
Themselves and Posterity

Parents. Obey Your Children" was
the subject of Mrs. Benjamin Fay
Mills, who spoke to the large audience
in Blanchard hall yesterday morning.
She said, in part:
Emerson said he had always wanted
to preach a sermon on the topic of this
address. do not know whether he
ever did, but am going to try to do
so now. 1 like these words, Parents,
obey your children. I interpret them
to mean, Parents, let us obey the laws
of our children's being and our own,
and the laws of our relationship
"Our whole ministry to our children
should be based on a clear idea of what
the work of the parent really is. 1t is
not to make a living for the children,
or give them the ordinary material
care. 1t is nothing less than to CO.
operate with the eternal energy in
bringing an immortal, divine soul to
its proper place of supremacy and
command in a human life. There is an
angel in the marble, and we must bring
it out
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06

The chemisette waists are deserved
ly popular and present indications are
that the coming season will bring them
into higher favor than ever. An ex-
tremely pretty model is sketched, and
one that will appeal to the home sewer
because of it's simplicity of construc-
tion. The waist is tucked in front and
back in double box-pleat effect, the
pleats being so arranged as to give the
heightened shoulder required by fash
ion, while tapering to the waist is a
style that is always becoming. The
sleeves may be made in full or elbow
length, the long sleeve being furnished
with pretty turnback, cuff. SILK, wool
or lingerie may be used for making the
waist, AZ yards "a inches wide being
needed for the medium size.
6OS2-Seven sizes. 80 to A inches bust
measure. The price of this pattern is
10 cents.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06

The Herald will pay $40 in cash to any.
one furnishing evidence that will lead to
the arrest and conviction OF any person
caught stealing copies of The Herald from
the premises of our patrons
THE HERALD.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
THE CITY

Strangers are invited to visit the exhibits
OF California products at the Chamber OF
Commerce building on Broadway. between
First and Second streets. whore free infor-
nation will be given all subjects pertain
ing to this e-tion.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06

HOTEL GREEN, European rate
s1.5O per day: American rate $3.50 per
day upward.