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Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

places upon the coasts, bays, sounds
and navigable waters where competing
commerce might pe carried on and to
thereupon plug up such ports and har-
bors, and that is the reason he is
called the chief plugger."
The first two paragraphs contain mat
ter we'll known to the people at large,
and the facts cited in the last one
have been the burden of several ar
ticles in these columns of late. The
certain coming of traffic through the
Panama canal lifts San Pedro out Of
the category of coasting harbors and
places her among the great deep water
bases of the coast. The Hartman peo-
pie thoroughly understand this, and
with their ruthless bride and bits in
the mouth of commerce. when that time
SHALL come, they may snap their fingers
at our merchants and bid them whistle
They can, and will, control all ship
ping in this section, hence all sea
tr. ffic to come with. 1t. The 'plugger'
has done his duty well, and every pos
sible foot of overlooked land has been
labeled IS. P" or something with the
same meaning, and a complainant con-
gressional delegation is dumb to the
appeals of the people.
There is as has been proved in the
cases of San Francisco, Seattle and
Tacoma, a higher law, competent
through federal enactment, to confer
on the people the right to improve
deep water and navigable channels,
just as the right of eminent domain
may condemn land for needed improve
ments in the city proper. The plug
GER has worked to defeat such relief,
not only by the act o. occupancy
through state title questionably OBJ
tained, but through sending to congress
men who wear its collar and speak
at its bidding.
The Herald urges a popular awaken
ing to the crying need of immediate
action that, failing relief at this ses-
sion of congress, men who will give
relief may take their places at the
coming fall elections
The case may be summarized as fol-
lows: mo channels dredged, no har-
Dor; no harbor, Los Angeles an inland
town; Los Angeles. an inland town,
must pay tribute to s. P. for ooastwise
and foreign traffic and be more thor
oughly damned in the matter of traffic
tolls than ever"
Attorney Joseph H. Call has fear
lessly done his duty. Will the people
of Los Angeles do theirs? Shall the
railroad people own and operate San
Pedro as a maritime storehouse and
toll station. or shall Los Angeles and
Southern California generally own it
and make it a chief seaport on this
coast? 1t is up to" the people.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
THE WALSH VERDICT

THE conviction by a Chicago jury of
John r. Walsh of the crime of
Il rnisapplying the funds of the Chi
cago National bank will have far
reaching effect OH financial institutions
in this country and serve as a sadly
needed check on the prevalent ten
dency of bank officials to embark in
speculation with depositors funds.
In a recent article in these columns
on the financial depression just pass
ing leading Los Angeles banker aptly
said:
"The occasional bank, particularly in
large money centers, has had more in
terest in the formation Of some public
utility corporation than it has had for
the commercial interests which it is de-
signed to serve.
1.-THE public regulation and super
vision Of banks is not stringent enough.
This lack makes the small percentage
of banks that do a speculative BUSH
ness go too long without check.
Those having the management of a
bank are charged with high trust, and
they should not have their principal
activities in other business.
The foregoing were advanced, among
other good reasons, as the causes which
led to the financial stringency and may
be said to be the real causes of the
downfall of John R. Walsh.
When the verdict in the Walsh case
was wired to the United States comp
troller that officer answered: Verdict
a just one. Should serve as salutary
warning that banking laws cannot be
violated with impunity no matter
what may be the size of the bank or
standing of a banker in the COM
munity."
The cases of Heinze, the copper king,
and others add emphasis to these
words, and with the added weight,
morally, of this conviction, depositors
may be said to be reasonably assured
of legitimate handling of their money
by bank officials.
Where this and similar trials have
shown legal loopholes in current bank
ing laws it is certain the present con-
gress will sufficiently amend them TO
insure safety. If this is done thorough
ly the furry" will have given us one
real blessing.
John r. Walsh, convicted of mean
crime, yet defiant of the outraged law
which, rightfully, classes him with
criminals. is a sorry spectacle to the
rising generation; but the awful warn
ing to the world which his case affords
may be some measure of compensation
to a wronged people. Age, with honor
wealth, station, influence-all were de-
liberately gambled away, for what? TIC
crafty the lust of speculation;
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
CRUISERS PLATE

OF all the states in the Union after
which warships have been named,
" California, be it sorrowfully said,
is the only one in which it has been
found difficult to raise the money to
purchase 4 gift OF plate to its name
sake. This is reversal of custom and
precedent, and it is earnestly hoped
that for the good name and fame of
the state the present effort to raise the
| money will be successful. The ship is
now in commission and may be ordered
on a foreign station any day in the
near future, and it would be CALLING to
Aer officers and crew, nearly all of
them native Californians, to have to
admit the fact that the people were mig
gardly in subscribing for such worthy
and patriotic purpose.
Among the excuses offered in lieu OF
subscriptions is the fact that the ship
will one day go to the scrap heap and
the service be lost. If the present
California sinks in storm or battle or
goes condemned to the scrap heap,
another and finer ship will be built to
take her place and name, and use the
service, endeared to the officers by his
toric associations
Men of means should give freely for
this purpose, and when the time comes
to approach the poorer people the
smaller sums should be forthcoming
with the cheerfulness and alacrity that
have always attended popular acts in
California.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
Makes Vigorous Defense
of James Hamilton Lewis

schools were compelled to study these
works thoroughly before they could be
admitted to lectures on evidence or on
any other branch of legal knowledge,
then, indeed, would they be immune
even to the shadow of a suggestion,
from the lips of Colonel Lewis or any.
other man, that woman could be guilty
of saying when under oath, or offhand,
to the examining lawyer, her lover, or
her husband, anything but just what
was actually so, or almost so, or APP
proximately SO.
The only trouble, indeed, with what
might be termed the teachings of the
Lewis Institute of Calamity would pc
that we-meaning men-would fall into
the habit of devoting so much time to
the alteration OF the other sex that we
could not find time to earn money
enough to provide them with things
which they need even as much as they
need our admiration and our love.
But, even so, such a condition would
only go to prove that Colonel Lewis,
in his enthusiasm for the sex, in his
desire to do homage even to the weak
nesses of the sex, had taught us all to
love not wisely, but too well.
colonel James Hamilton Lewis say
anything to reflect upon womankind?
Nonsensel He could not do it if he
trled.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
SMOKERS ADOPT
STRANGE SCHEMES
TO STOP HABIT
Ten Out of Every Thirty-one Los
Angeles Men Use Tobacco, Ac-
cording to a sharp-Eyed
Observer

How many smokers of cigars, pipes
and cigarettes are there in Los An
geles?
Standing in front of one of the prin-
cipal cigar stands of the city for an
hour yesterday a keen observer made
a memorandum of the number of men
purchasing cigars, tobacco, stogies
and cigarettes, and his table of statis-
tics at the end of that time showed
that one out of every thiCty-one men
stopped and invested in nicotine-c con-
tanning materials, while nine of the
same number PASSED by putting con-
tentedly.
Thus he figured ten out of every
thirty-one of the male population of
Los Angeles were addicted to the
habit and he forthwith made the
rounds of a number of friends who had
given up the use of tobacco and in
CURED concerning the means taken
to aid them in overcoming the desire
for the weed.
The remedies ranged from strength
of will to powerful antidotes, simple
cures to the most complicated Latin
phrased prescriptions. One man said
he had cured the habit simply by eat
ing apples, another by masticating
oranges and still another by drinking
milk.
One man who had smoked five or ten
cigars a day for a decade said he had
become permanently cured of the habit
by placing a 1-6O grain strychnine nj
trate tablet on the tongue and allow
ing it to dissolve, while another said
he had placed a little chloride of gold
in his mouth and couldn't light a cigar
for days.
But when the keen observer began
interviewing the smokers he discovered
that 80 per cent had given no thought
to the subject and didn't care to quit
the habit anyway.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

lEz55Eza1HE statement made by Mitchell
KTAA d. Follansbee of the North
III western university law school
~ N1&I faculty, who presented Colonel
eE James Hamilton Lewis on The
occasion of his lecture before
the law students last Monday evening,
denies that the colonel made any ref
erence to woman which could be fairly
interpreted as a reflection upon the
general trustworthiness of her sex.
If all the kindly, pleasing, beautiful,
truthful things which Colonel Lewis
has said about lovely woman could be
collected, properly compiled, classified,
indexed and bound, we should have an
encyclopedia of inestimable value to
every admirer, lover and champion of
womankind.
And if the volumes could be illus
trated, showing the colonel in those
chivalric attitudes which are at once
the envy and despair of members of his
own sex, with just enough color to
bring out the ever varying tints of his
knightly whiskers, as they are oaressed
by the lake breeze; and if we could
have mere and there some pictures
which would in a measure convey an
impression of the sound waves that is
sue at intervals from the depths of his
foliage, and students at all of our law
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
SAN PEDRO CASE

A TTORNEY JOSEPH II. CALL, in
Al his notable address before the
IA City club on Saturday, sounded
warning to Southern California which,
if not promptly needed, will leave Los
Angeles an inland city for all time.
The dredging of necessary channels
across and through corporation hold
ings, below the nigh water line, is
necessary to make the harbor avail
able for general shipping purposes, and
the power that fought so long and so
hard to defeat the attempt to build
the breakwater, baffled in that pur-
pose, has set all its enginery of tainted
talent and tainted money to work to
compass the defeat of the people in this
vital matter.
Mr.. Call says: 1.-The Hartman sys-
TEN directly controls all railroads
reaching this coast lying south of the
Columbia river and west of the Mis-
souri,, and the reports of the interstate
commerce commission show that this
has been accomplished through the
ACQUISITION of a controlling interest in
the stock of competing lines.
'In violation of their franchises and
OF the common law and Of the laws of
the United States the railroads have
combined together, not only to sup
press competition and advance and
maintain rates, but to suppress all COM
petitive commerce by water. and in
o..t1,, t, ,.aacb fhoee resIlts IN control
political affairs and to usurp the entire
political power of the American people.
1.-THE last department, which is not
the least important, is managed by a
chief plugger. whose duties are to in
spect and ascertain all the points and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
Railway Employees Are
Punished for Accidents

the strictest sense for the manner in
which they perform their services; that
they must satisfy themselves of the
safety of what they carry and employ
men with sufficient skill to handle their
various classes of freight. ut is the
clear duty of tho company" concluded
the court, ito te Ike due care of the
lives and property of others, no matter
what 1t may cost"
With regard tc the relative guilt of
the company and its employees, the
court found in he first place, that the
former had by its own negligence sub
jected its employees to unnecessary dan
ger, and, secondly, as matter of law,
that while negligent employees may be
punished criminally, the company can
not in any circumstances escape re-
sponsibility for it's own omissions and
failures. The court added that for
many of the accidents" that occur
on railroads Grimes would be far
better word.
How true this remark is of our own
accidentsl And the way to diminish
such crimes is to punish criminally
those who are responsible for them and
to the degree of their responsibility-
Chicago Record-Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

keep them up as long as tney labl, IoI
it's going to be a mighty dry period
for Cavity.
Nurse-Freddie cried for an hour last
night.
Maid-Did he get it?
Nurse-No, his father came in and
gave him three minutes to stop.
d
. President Roosevelt has been made a
member of the American Bison society.
Many of us remember when we Joined
the Buffalos.
It's a curious thing; you may note it;
The man who is down believes in luck,
While the man of affairs. though he may
put on airs,
Ordinarily spells the word pluck"
And is never happy when he finds a
fat goose with a liberal collection of golden
eggs. ready for the pluching.
g
The new prohibition law in Georgia
is more severe than anyone suspected.
Housewives may not use those luscious
scuppernong grapes for wine to use in
domestic purposes. What will they do
for the rosy that kept the wing of Dick
Swiveller's friendship from ever moult-
ing a feather?
y
Down in Texas the women call their
husbands "bohunk." Add that to your
dictionary of picturesque language.
s.
Manhood suffrage was lost in the
Prussian landtag. 1t probably didn't
have it's fingers crossed.
Many persons believe Admiral Brown
sons mot a word" is the lid of a vol
cano. Here's hoping he keeps it down.
The Courier-Journal says a Georgia
cocktail is now made of Jamaica ginger
and hydrant water, a glucose cherry
and dash of tobasco sauce. If Marse
Henry should find himself marooned ir
Atlanta he would probably take his
tobasco straight.
s.
What is permitted and what is not
Is much mooted question, know;
Thus, in hammocks. the way Of a man with
a maid,
As a precedent elsewhere doesn't go.
q
The days best bet-That Pop Blanch
ard gets toupee.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
Guessed RIaht

A little old woman with soft blue eyes,
white ringlets around her ears and a
quaint purple gown got on a Ninth street
car In Washington on a very hot day.
She looked rosy, but cool and comfort
able, while the others on the crowded car
were hopping their brows tanning them
selves and cursing inwardly.
AS she got on the car she said to the
conductor, Hi wan. 10 get hoff at Hem
street"
"AlI right" said the conductor, and the
car went on. Nothing happened until /
street was reached, when suddenly the
old lady looked up and asked. His this
Hell"
"You bet IL is" said a big. perspirinr
man, and soft. low cries Of Heart hear"
mingled with the laughter that rippled
through the car.-Harper's Weekly.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

The world will watch with deep in
terest the outcome of all other parties
in France combining to combat the
growth OF Socialism. The collectlvists,
strangely enough, are elated at the new
move, as they say it leaves them an
open field with the reactionaries and
conservatives. Americans will do well
to study the movement. as many of our
wisest statesmen and economists be-
lieve we shall have Socialism to deal
with in this country some day
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
The SKY

Above the walls and climbing high,
The blue begins they call the sky;
It's made so high and wide-I know
To give the wind place to blow.
And clouds that go a-sailing by
Need every bit of all the sky
Besides, II II were small and tight,
How could it hold the stars at night?
But one thing that I can't see through
Is why they made the sky all blue;
And now, in April, it is spread
With blue like violets overhead
l think I'm glad 1t is not white,
For then the sun would be too bright;
Perhaps they thought blue sky might be
More comfortable for you and me.
Sometimes it looks so soft and deep
j wish 1t were not quite so steep;
Too steep 10 climb-and when 1 fall
/ don't 90 the right way at ALI
One morning for an hour !
Kept trying to fall into the sky.
But fell into the grass instead,
And almost always bumped my head.
Grace II. conlkllng in HarDer's.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20


A jury of twelve good men and true
had found the defendant guilty of
grating and the verdict had been her
aided all over the country as the first
step in vindieation of a great city's
civic morality. Naturally the case had
been appealed; and in the appellate
court it had been argued with all the
specious reasoning. all the fallacious
finesse of which experienced and highly
paid attorneys are capable. Now the
higher court was ready with it's de-
cision.
I'VE find" wrote the presiding judge,
that the trial court erred in admitting
evidence calculated to prejudice the
jury against the innocence of the ac-
cused; that error was committed in
line thirteen, folio three of the trial
courts charge to the jury, where the
letter IT appears without being crossed
I'VE find that error was committed
again in the courts reference to the
biblical Injunction: Thou shalt not
steal,' for the reason that the informa-
ton filed against defendant does not
allege that said defendant is now or
was at the time said crime is alleged
to have been committed either a preach
er, priest or rabbi.
1--WE find also that the prosecuting
attorney erred in his injunction to wit
nesses to tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, well know
ing at the time that the same would
be highly damaging to said defendant.
Judgment reversed and case re-
manded for further hearing Defend
ant admitted to bail in the sum Of 20
cents"
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

In the course of his sermon yesterday
morning Rev. DR.. Robt. j. Burdette told
a little story which displayed flash
of real wit on the part of Los Angeles
motorman. He said: zone day Mr..
Thomas, one of our ushers, was coming
downtown when at one of the stops a
woman boarded the trolley car in con-
siderable haste and sat down in seat
near the front. The car had just got
under Roadway when she sprang to her
feet, and in great excitement called to
the motorman to stop the car. II must
get right off" she pleaded, catching mis-
arm. Il didn't bring a cent of money
with mel left it all at home" The
motorman strained the rules and
stopped, but as he slowed down he fired
a ministerial rebuke at the woman in
very sarcastic tones. Where did you
think you were going?" he growled,
ito church,"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20


ito designate the percentage
of wool, cotton and shoddy
in their goods" The memorial was re-
ferred to the house committee on agri-
culture, when apparently a more pro-
per reference would have been to the
committee on manufactures. Some
years ago Gen. Grosvenor introduced 4
bill of the same import, and accom-
panied 1t by a furious speech denuncia-
tive of the fraudulent authorizations Of
wooden clothing, this being a matter
In which the gentle shepherds of Ohio
as well as Oregon have a peculiar in
terest. But neither Gen. Grosvenors
bill nor his fiery declaration received
any attention from his fellow stand
patters in congress, and the oregon
memorial, interesting as it is, will
hardly receive any attention from them
now.
Yet why should not the manufacturers
of wooden fabrics be required to desig-
nate the percentage of cotton, shoddy
and other adulterants in their goods,
since like requirements are enforced
upon the manufacturers of articles of
food and drink? There is, in fact, more
cunning fraud upon both the pockets
and health of the American people in
the authorizations of wooden stufrs for
clothing and blankets than in many OF
the other authorizations against which
partial laws denounce the severest PEN
alties. The census returns showing the
enormous use of cotton and shoddy in
the manufacture OF woolens partially
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
Wants q Law 10 Project
WearerS of Wooden Goods

betray the extent of this class of sophis-
tications. But it is not enough that the
tariffs laws protect the wooden manu-
facturc cf the country ny average du-
ties of nearly 100 per cent upon the
fabrics of foreign competition. 1t must
be jealously protected also by partial
laws which vindictively punish the
slightest adulteration of food products
while exempting from penalty the most
fragrant authorizations of the WOODEN
stuffs worn by the masses of the Ameri-
can people.
In view of the fact. however that the
sheep growers of Oregon are getting
their share of tariff spoil in the shape
of so per cent duties on wool, the con-
clusion of the stand-patters in congress
will be that they have small reason to
complain of the system. Reform of the
tariff and of the laws which protect
frauds on the manufacturer OF wooden
stuffs will come only with the advent
of a Democratic majority in congress
Philadelphia Record.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
DOWN TO THE SEA

My soul becalmed. like to ship in stays
with idle sails, Beneath a white-hot sun.
Lies helpless on the courses 1t would rum
Nay, hath forgot the impulses OF its ways
And broods upon a CLASSY sea of days.
Changeless. inert. with sickening Gains oppres'
In semblanoes of rest which is not rest,
Nor sign of land to solve its aching gaze.
Thou who art life and very breath of Life
Give to my soul embattled winds of strhAl
out of the tumut and the surge of night
I would my ship might fight into the light
And in gray watches Of an unsailed sea,
All spent with triumph, then discover Thee.
Smart Set.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

Now that the prosecution may make
no deal with Ruef to tell the truth on
the witness stand 1t will be interesting
to hear just what he will tell regarding
bribes and bribery.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
On a Hair Line

When wiley frowns her frownest,
Love trembles on a hair
A blonde, perhaps-she's found it
On hubby's sleeve. So there!
When hubby frowns his frownest,
hairs again to blame.
His buffers growing whiskers!
Same cause; effect, the same.
+
The Atlantic Constitution appeals to
readers to keep up Christmas and the
Christmas spirit" Yes, by all means
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

EsSFEEFAHE other day we called atten-
KIAAl ton to the contrast between
~ & German and American meth
DDS of dealing with persons re-
~ sponsible for railroad acct
dents. But Germany is not
the only country in which dis
obedience of safety rules or other
criminal negligence is punished by the
courts and juries if it consequences
have been fatal. . n interesting acct
dent case has asst been reported from
Toronto which may be commended to
American travellers :: nd railroad men.
Last August Il car on a Canadian line
was loaded partly with dynamite,
which exploded and killed two men,
besides injuring over a score. A GRIM
inal indictment against the company,
in addition to the customary individual
damage suits, followed. The company
pleaded, among other things, that the
explosive had rot been properly de-
scribed when shipped and that the
explosion had been caused by the neg
ligence OF its employees rather than by
any direct omission of its own.
The court refused to give the slight
est weight to eth of these pleas. 1t
held that railroads are accountable in
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

Senator Ben Tillman's assertion that
whisky is the most prominent cause
Of crime and misery in this country
will find many hearty indorsers.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

The story of the entombed Ely miners
over a thousand feet under ground
fighting desperately for their lives with
a mailman reads like a wild dream of
Jules Verne.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

New York has decided to photograph
all police officials. This looks suspi-
cious.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

5al7asaz significant memorial comes to
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