Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06
PRINCIPLE AND PROGRESS

and aptitude of the work. The Herald
is to be reckoned with now and here
after"
TheSPomona Times says:
"The Los Angeles Herald has COM
pleted little more than year under
its present management with I. E.
Gibbon as president. Its patrons were
promised a clean, honest newspaper;
the news without bias or prejudice;
opposition to wrong both inside and
outside the Democratic party, of which
1t is an exponent. We are pleased to
say The Herald has made good it's
every promise and that it has pros
pered so that considerable improve
ments in 1t have been decided on.
Republicans can read it with pleasure
and profit, always keeping in mind that
1t is Democratic and supports Bryan
for president"
Many other contemporary news
papers have spoken of The Heralds
work in terms of the highest appre-
citation, among them the Chino Cham
pion, which remarks:
"The Los Angeles Herald is by far
the sanest and most carefully edited
paper now published in the city of the
Angels. People who want news free
from prejudice and bias are learning
more and more to depend upon The
Herald, and through that fact the
paper is rapidly growing and increas-
ing In power"
We appreciate the appreciation OF
our friends and are glad we are un-
derstood This paper Is not an AK
grinder. The only interest it serves
is public interest. The only ism with
which It concerns itself is American
ism. 1t believes firmly the first prin-
ciples of Americanism are binding
upon the United States. They cannot
be abandoned or even neglected by the
United States. Without them the
United States would be like church
without a creed.
Fortunately the first principles OF
Americanism are clearly stated. The
fathers of the republic were not given
to quibbling. When they wrote the
greater Magma Charta. the Declaration
of independence, they were too much
in earnest to consider qualifying
phrases. They said certain truths
were self evident; that is, they are as
plain as the sun in the sky or the
features of the landscape or the fact
of existence. They do not need to be
proved. All men are created equal.
The word equal, as applfed to society,
means "One not inferior or superior
to another" Men created neither SUI
perior nor inferior to each other are
endowed with certain unallenaoIe
rights, which cannot under any cir
cumstances be taken away from them
They are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness" The Herald has made
a hit-we might as well be straight
forward about it-partly, we believe,
because we have the habit ee Ameri-
canism and are constrained to ask
questions like this:
Is Miss Margaret Carnegie (who is,
unquestionably, a charming chlld)
treated as if she were neither superior
nor inferior to Miss Maggie Murphy
of the New York Bowery? 1t would
be considered somewhat sacrilegious
to talk of Miss Maggie Carnegie, and
miss Margaret Murphy" of the Bow
cry provokes a smile. Yet we are GER
tain no one would smile at "Miss Mar
garet Murphy If she were q Million
aire. Neither superior nor tnferiorl
Humph! About a million American
garet Carnegie are shaving from eight
to twelve hours a day in mills and
factories.
Not long ago-we recorded 1t in The
Herald at the time it happened-one
of them, about the age of Miss Mar
garet Carnegie, suffered the loss of her
arm, which was pulled out of its socket
and wrenched from her body in an
eastern mill. Then her parents wanted
damages. They thought the child
should at least receive some money
from the mill owners by way of COM
pensation for her terrible injury, and
the owners said there had been con-
tributory negligence on the part of
the child! Well, what in the name Of
all that is American was she doing
in the mill? "Oh, she was working
there because her mother was work.
ing there-could not take care of her
at home" So two blacks make
white! That is the favorite argument.
The Herald refuses to admit that
two blacks make a white in this or
any other world. And it does not be-
ueve the men who wrote the Declara-
ton of independence and the constitu-
ton were untruthful. We refuse to
take the view of the organs of pro-
lection and privilege.
We believe and maintain the Declar-
alton Of Independence is as good today
as ever it was.
We believe the constitution is In
word and letter as much alive today
as ever 1t was.
We think 1t is time the nation were
again living UP to the first principles
of Americanism, and The Herald owes
it's undoubted success to its continuous
advocacy of conservatism and consti-
tutionalism and it's opposition to all
forces, powers, influences and interests
which would substitute might for right
and undo the work of the Revolution
nv educating the nation (heaven for
1.-Two +benn-we caunot) to a heretical