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The Newtown bee., 1908-01-03
WOmen's Coats Very Low.


 slo mixture coats $7.5O 12. 50 mixture coats 1000 l2.50 to 16.50 long loose coats 9.9O 12.50 to l5.O0 short, tght-ftting coats
 of broadcloth and cheviot 9.9O f65O to 1850 short tight-ftting coats,
 broadcloth and cheviot l2.5O Sl5 to IS. 50 striped mixture coats 12.5O 1850 3-4 length tght-ftting broad
 cloth and cheviot coats l5.OO S20 to 25.00 long loose coats SIS and 1850 22.5O 3-4 length tight-ftting black
 broadcloth coats 1850 22.50 to S25 50.inch tight-ftting black
 broadcloth coats 1850 29.75 to 32.50 loose braided broadcloth
 coats 25.OO 30 to 37.5O 3-4 Length Plain and Trimmed
 Black Coats 10.75 32.50 and 39. 75 Imported Mixture Coats 25.OO $500 5O-inch Long Tight-ftting black
 Broadcloth Coats 27.5O 42.50 to 49.75 Long black braided Coats 37.50 35 to 39. 75 Fancy Caracul Cloth and Vel
 vet Coats 2o.75 45 Short All Over Braided Coats 37.5O 55. 200 Long Imported Caracul Cloth Coats 42 25O
The Newtown bee., 1908-01-03

We regard this as the greatest fur-lined coat offer ever made in this town and one not likely to be repeated The best maker of fur coats we know sent us these garments to sell at this remarkable low price, and we are going to sell them.
 The coats are made of imported mirror kersey the Things are of natural and blend ed selected musk-rat ,the absolute staple in fur-lined garments, worth one hundred cents on the dollar year after year; collars are of fine selected skins.
 We repeat, this is the greatest fur-lined coat offer, and you ought to take advantage of it.
The Newtown bee., 1908-01-03
Skirts
Price Clipped

IVY 0IIPPOu $5.90 Black Panama and Mixture Skirts $3.0O 7.5O Black Panama and Mixture Skirts 5.0O 8.75 Black Panama and Mixture Skirts 7.5O 1000 and 1075 Broadcloth and Panama
 Skirts 8.75 12.50 and 13.75 Broadcloth and Panama
 Skirts 1000 1850 to 2Or00 Broadcloth and Panama
 Skirts l5.oo 25.75 TaSeta Silk Skirts, extra Bands, 90 to 36 inches 18.50
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28

of cures till we get at causes. Is IL
possible that anyone cannot see that
the cause lies in the arbitrary posses
sion by those who do not work of the
means through which alone the work
ers can work? And that, when the
owning magnate can find no market
for the stuff which his workers nave
piled up for him, he is obliged to stop
producing said stuff, and the workers
must wait on his convenience, starVa-
ton or no starvation, thus causing the
spectacle we periodically witness OF
hard times, jobless men. begging 1or
work (Which means for bread), soup
Kitchens" bread lines, poverty, despair,
crime, suicide, prostitution ana death
One more question and l am dolie.
Are the people, the bright people, the
workers of this land eager for the con-
tinuance of such a system? Are they
overjoyed with the prospect OF contln-
uing to see, in the years to come, those
who work and produce perloolcaliy
walking the streets with misery
stamped faces, while the owner or the
means by which they live, with hands
folded over a comfortable stomach
recommends them to the care of the
Deity? And if not, what remains put
that the people, the workers, the pro-
ducers, shall collectively own and car
rv on the industries by which they live
and eat-a system which alone can
drive away the beast of hunger ana tne
dread of life and living from the mlnos
of men? If this be Socialism, make
the most of it" j. M. GHEENE'
sos West Eleventh.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28
plSLIKES TAFT'S REPLY TO
WORKERS Pertinent QUESTION

Editor Los Angeles Herald Is there.
in all probability, in the length and
breadth of the land anyone with an
intelligence wider than that of gnat
and a. soul larger than a needle point
who is satisfied with the present indus
trial condition? How do the people
enjoy the spectacle of free and inde-
pendent citizens" natures nobility"
'voting kings" etc, by tens of thou
sands begging for work, supplicating
for work, crawling for work-and
crawling in vain? Is not the sight an
inspiring one, not to say one of dignity
and calculated to increase the self
respect of an admirer of this great ma
tion? -
Meanwhile, a popular candidate for
the highest political honors in the gift
of the supplicating thousands mem
toned above declares that the Deity
alone is cognizant of what should be
done by self-respecting man or wom-
an who, under these conditions, is look
ing for work, cannot find it, and is
starving! What a glorious solution OF
the problem! What tribute to the
sagacity, not only of the discoverer and
his political class, but especially OF the
above mentioned supplicating thou
sands who. if they live long enough,
will proceed to elect him to office!
would ask, Is it possible that any
thinking adult person does not or cam
not discern the cause? Let us be chary
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28
WARD REPRESENTATION
IN COUNCIL

T OS ANGELES HERALD today
IL publishes a letter on a proposed
- improved plan of ward represen-
tation, in the city council. Citizens
may not agree with every detail of
the plan submitted, and there may be
many who think that a salary of $3.50
per month for every councilman would
be too high. Undoubtedly it would
have a remarkable effect in stirring
up patriotism, because almost sixty
dollars per week is extra good pay
in Los Angeles. even for people who
are asked to devote all their time to
their work, which is the stated object
of the high compensation proposed.
There are plenty of good citizens who
would devote most of their time to
the city's work for less than that.
Again, a man might think twice be-
fore making up his mind to give up
literally all his time to public busi-
ness and forget and cut out OF his
life his private occupation during his
period of office holding. The United
States consular service until recently
had a similar difficulty to cope with,
and as result the United States con-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28
BALKAN STORM CLOUDS

THE reform of Macedonia is as far
off as ever. 1t was expected that
L. when the leading Christian powers
entered that little far-away province
to clean house after Turkish misrule
there would be an end of scandal, OPP
preston and bloodshed in the Balkans.
Too many cooks have spoiled the broth.
Altruism is an unknown word in Eu-
rope. The cooks not only got into each
others way, but each showed that his
desire for the meal that was being pre-
pared was greater than his wish for
perfection in cookery. The European
papers have taken down one of their
stock phrases in order to characterize
the Macedonian muddle. They say that
it is IAN unfortunate occurrence" 1t
is a sad affair that it is an unfortunate
occurrence. But what are they going
to do about it?
To Russia's bull-headed, dogged de-
votion to outworn ideas civilization
owes the serious menace by which it is
confronted Menace? Yes. The Turk
has not been dreaming in his tent"
His army is a trained, well equipped
and formidable body of three hundred
thousand men. The European powers
were well aware of this when they in
tervened in Macedonia. For once, a
strictly altruistic policy would also
have been the best possible selfish pol
icy, because by combination for the
benefit of the peasantry and the OPP
pressed races the powers could have
adroitly undone the work of Turkey in
army building. Instead of working
for the common good, the European
nations began to quarrel among them
selves over railroad concessions and
other forms of investment or exploita-
! ton.
The sardonic and cynical Turk has
not missed the opportunity of re-
adjusting circumstances and an old
proverb to the new condition. Praise
be to Allah" he says. when honest
men fall out, thieves come to their
own" and he has set about the task OF
administering his conquered Macedo-
nian and old Greek provinces witt
renewed zest and ferocity. Thus ha:
the clash of sordid money interests
sparring for selfish financial and polit-
ical advantage reduced all Christen-
dom to a laughing stock for the Mos
lem, who may well afford to return to
his poetical tent and take another
snooze while the Seven Champions OF
Christendom batter each other!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28
Do You Know a Reeper?

Los Angeles lovers of music who
have watched the eccentricities of ge-
MUS in tenor singers will appreciate
what Philip Hale. who writes for the
Boston Herald, has to say of them.
He declares there are two kinds of
tenors, the heroic and the beeping.
The latter word is not in any die
tionary at hand, but it is good word
admirably descriptive.
The heroic tenor may bawl and howl
and shrek. The German tenor has
great staying power and he can dc
all this for three or four hours with
out the slightest evidence of physical
injury or weakness. The beeper sings
sweetly. He weeps gently in tones
The upper part of his voice is as the
spray thrown by the Deluge hand fire
engine above the Torrents at the fire.
mans muster on the village green
The middle and lower tones are as
a reed shaken by the wind. Do you
not hear him? "'Tis the flower from
my angel mothers gravel" "She gave
me a pretty red rose!'
I'll sing these songs of Araby,
"Touch the harp gently my-something
or other-Louise!"
There's one little wish l have, love-
See that my graves kept green"
In private life the beeper wears a
muffier and is passionately addicted
to soda lemonade.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28

this right we conflict with the right Of
any other citizen, as would be the case
should any number of people insist on
assembling in a congested street TO dis
cuss questions of either a personal or
a public character.
And surely no good citizen would for
a moment think of such thing, and
should a mob attempt it the whole body
of the people, as well as the law, would
oppose it and prevent 1t.
We are under no obligations to the
law making body of Los Angeles to
ask for a privilege and a right which
are already ours We are community
the city council along with the rest
of us-each having the same and equal
rights, no more and no less, and that
citizen, or body of citizens, stultifies
himself when he appeals to our public
servants to confer upon him a right
which was his long before when, IN
exercise of the elective franchise, he
delegated to them the authority and
trust, not to take away or abridge any
right, but to preserve 1t inviolate.
1 have the right, the constitutional
right. the inalienable right-and so has
any other citizen-to go into any street
of Los Angeles, day or night, and say
or do anything, not indecent or Inn
moral, just so long as my presence ana
conduct there do not interfere with the
any other citizen.
AS Americans, our constitution carl
fed In the blood of the martyrs ana
patriots of the revolution whose NOBLE
lives were a forfeit to the liberty OF
the nerson and to the freedom of
sneech. we cannot afford in the year of
grace 1908 to trifie with the rights they
purchased for us by the enactment ana
attempted enforcement of laws subVer-
sive of that for which they surren-
dered all, even life itself. Let the mat.
ter be pushed by the unwisdom or our
legislators, and American PATRIOTISM
would turn as it did in 1116.
These reflections have developed from
the recent refusal of the board of police
commissioners to grant permission 10
certain Socialist leaders to holo meet
ings on the street, and atterWaru 10
arrest them for attempting to DO So
some of these, l have been Informed,
are women. and would have been COM
nelled to lie in Jail had they not peen
Granted the privilege 60 of bail. Ana
when arrested one of the women was
discussing the condition of the work
less laborer in Los Angeles ana now TO
better his social condition:
stood. and l will not be charged with
favoritism or prejudice. when l say
that I am not q Socialist, but am II
great believer in the square deal.
No. I would respectfully suggest TO
our honorable board of police comiiiis- IL,
sioners to let the Socialists talk on the
street. and the Democrats. and the Re,
publicans, and the Prohibitionists, ana
| The Independence league, and the NUM-
| cipaI Ownership and the Single TAX,
| civic Federation, Salvation Army MOI
mons. Holy Rollers, ct Id genus oHlie'
ana I verify believe it will hasten the
COMPLETION of the owens river aqueduct
and enlarge our hearts so that when he
comes we'll let Fighting Bob" Evans
make a speech from the steps OF the
Alexandria, with no fear Whatever OF
arrest by the police. .11Dr
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28
WOULD OBEY CONSTITUTION
REGARDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27.-LEditor
Herald: The motive of the city council
of Los Angeles in enacting prohibitive
measure concerning public meetings on
the streets was no doubt we'll meant
and supposed to be in harmony with
the genius of our republican instltu-
tions but on reconsideration of the
matter if it will do so, the discovery
will be made that the act, II enforceo'
would raze the pillars OF the repupilc
and rear a despotism in its stead.
The freedom of speech and the rlgnt
of the people peaceably to assemble
shall not be prohibited or abridged
These are inalienable rights-pirth-
rights. The peoples servants dare NOT
mass a restrictive measure IN relatioi,
thereto. Such an act would be ofnclal
BETRAYAL of a delegated trust so plainly
and uneuuivocally defined in the Dill
of rights of the American people as 70
leave no room for doubt as to what are
the rights of very citizen, and What
the duty and limitation of our pupilc
servants in the enactment or laws IoI
our government.
Under our form of government ana
by virtue of the inalienable r1ght Whlcn
the constitution guarantees TO every
citizen of the republic the streets OF
Los Angeles are as free as the an We
breathe, giving to every citizen per1ect
immunity in their occupation for pur-
noses of peaceably assembling, and the
unrestricted exercise of Tree speech
The only constitutional barrier or IN
terdiction is when in the exercise OF
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
Baking THE LAW

TT is charged that railroad officials
have been trying to secure sig
IL natures of employees to a docu-
ment practically disclaiming and de-
nying interest in the enforcement of
The new nine-hour law for telegraph
operators per day. If reports con-
cerning their actions are true-and
they are substantiated by incidental
and undeniable documentary evidence
then the balky railroads have been
guilty of unaccountable procrastina-
tion, which is their only excuse for
lodging the immediate enforcement of
the law. They have had a year in
which to prepare themselves for the
change in their business routine. Ii
they will give a living wage in re-
turn for skilled services rendered, they
will find there are plenty of unemployed
telegraphers throughout the country
who will be glad of a chance to go
to work. especially under such equita-
BILE and humanitarian conditions as
those to be enforced by the law regu-
lating the length of the working day.
Let the railroad officials rise to the
occasion, put aside all feelings of
chagrin (although why anyone should
be chagrined battles the understanding
and, responding like big-hearted men
and good citizens to the new and bet
ter order of things. offer a wage that,
combined with the assurance of a
definite and regular restriction of
hours, will bring back to the service
all the old workers who in disgust or
despair or for strike-trouble reasons
quit or were laid off, and will also re-
cruit for this responsible calling intel
ligent young men who can now take
up the work without feeling that they
are being imposed upon or are sacri-
fcing their lives to an unequal as well
as risk-producing System"
When you, the people, travel on the
railroads your lives are in the hands
of these telegraphers who handle or
ders by wire governing the movements
of trains. Would you not prefer these
men wide awake and alert to men ex-
haused by long, burdensome hours of
work? This law was enacted for the
protection of the public. To suspend
enforcement is to jeopardiZe your
lives.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28
WILLIAM I. BRYAN

1" LILLIAN j. BRYAN'S relation to
wv the republic differs from that
ever held by any other man in
public life. He mas not yet attained
to that proud eminence which his
friends predicted for him, but his un-
tagging fidelity to the interests with
which he has become identified shows
plainly that Col. Bryan is a true type
of the patriotic American who gives
try's sake. AS an educator he has
been of incalculable value to the peo-
pie of the United Staes. Until he
boldly disturbed its conservatism. the
countrys modes of thought had fallen
into a rut. Looking to the future, Col.
foreseen at other critical periods, that
the life of the nation must either wax
or wane; or, to use another metaphor,
that the United States must either
march forward or about face and
march backward. The motto of the
motto of the American people. "Nulla
vestigia retrorsum." No step back
ward. Let us be sure that we are
right, and then go ahead-always
"ahead"
Mr. Bryan has impressed his fellow
citizens with a consciousness of the
moral aspect of government, and has
performed this task with such persist
ence and success that Americans can
not revert to the modes of set thought
and "laissez faire" that characterized
them before the campaign of education
was begun. The policies of Roosevelt
have put into effect the preaching of
Bryan. No greater compliment has
ever been paid to an unofficial Demo-
crat by the greatest official Republican
than Roosevelt has paid to Bryan by
giving effect to his teachings on mat
ters affecting the welfare and the NOR
al health of the nation. Mems minds
were prepared for the Roosevelt poll
cies by the sturdy and fearless Ameri-
canism preached by Bryan, in season
and out of season, for years, and the
results of his preaching and his teach
ing are today manifest. His service to
his country as an educator cannot be
overpraised, overvalued, overestimated.
He is still young. In educating others
he has educated himself. He is a much
greater man than he was in the full
dinner pail campaign, when the Re-
publicans came into power by an ar
gumentum ad ventrem." People who
think that his career is o.er are de-
ceiving themselves. Bryan was never
as big an American citizen as he is
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28
BETTER METHODS OF JUDGING
SCHOOL DEBATES SUGGESTED

LONG BEACH, Cal.-[Editor Her
adj very good statement of the
value of debates in our schools, and
chowing how decisions should be re-
oeived when the verdict is obviously
right, appeared in Fridays paper.
There is no doubt that these debates
are of the highest value and are devel-
oping amongst our young men speakers
who will be a power in shaping our
country's future. When, however, in a
debate the decision appears to the au-
dience as a whole, including newspaper
representatives, clergymen, ex-school
superintendentS, an eastern book pub
Usher, as well as those especially inter-
ested, to be entirely wrong; when all
the judges agree that in oratory and
diction the losing team is far ahead
end one Judge, a teacher of economies,
decides that the team losing also has
the best of the argument, and in addi-
tion to these conditions technical vio-
iations of the rules of the league that
might easily have been avoided occur,
may it not be true that in defense of
true craftsmanship" there comes an
occasion when it is not only right but
necessary to protest?
The right to appeal is not denied in
our courts, but is fundamental prin-
ciple of our American liberty, and If
students do not feel that honest, hard
work will count and that successful eff
fort will meet with fair treatment, how
can the schools make pupils believe
that it is worth while to make honest
efforts? When. moreover, the court of
appeal has listened to both sides and
after due deliberation comes to a
unanimous agreement that the decis-
ion should be declared void, does not
the same demand for true sportsman
ship require that the loser accept this
decision with the same broad gener-
osity and freedom from peevishness
recommended to losers in general?
The great need is some better way of
judging debates Argument should be
decided from written copies of speeches
and oratory from the debate itself.
The protestants submitted their
speeches to each member of the ad-
visory board and requested that they
obtain those OF the other school so that
fair decision should be reached.
Our only desire is that every school
should do its best and the successful
one win. Very truly,
JAMES D. GRAHAM,
For Debating Committee.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28
A WIDOWS WISDOM

Wy HEN rich Mrs. Anne Weightman
w Walker married Frederick Court
w land Penfield she established a
new precedent and disarmed criticism
of her husband by practically making
her will effective. She gave $6OO,oOO TO
her nephew and five nieces, 100000 to
four grandnephews and grandnieces
and s1S5. 900 to various institutions.
Now will they all be good? And will
prejudiced public and a rampant press
keep still? Truly. Mrs. Penfield has
set an excellent example for all rich
widows in like case TO follow. For
that matter, even if a rich person IS
not about to take life partner why
wait until death before distributing q
fortune?
Mrs. Penfield has shown capacity for
management that amounts to genius
and has saved her blushing bridegroom
much embarrassment and many bad
quarter of an hour"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28
Envious Outsiders

Los Angeles girls have banded to-
gether to propose to every man they
meet until accepted. This is hard
blow to the prosperity of town that
has been growing enormously. A town
run by women will at least be an in
teresting study. - Philadelphia In
quirer.
This is the basest libel yet perpetrat-
ed by any scribbler in the frosted
trapped east.
This mephitic outburst from town
where three days fruitless quest for
one pretty girl would make misogy-
mist of an erstwhile gyneolatrist
If that Philadelphian ever gets a look
at one of our apple-cheeked. bright
eyed, dimpled beauties his craven heart
will cease to beat and the Shiny ooze
that stagnates his arteries coagulate
Propose. forsooth!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28
DAILY NAVAL REPORT

The Mississippi has left Hampton
Roads for Guantanamo.
The Arethusa is al Talcahtano; the
Galveston is at Jolo, p /.
The Glacier, the Culgoa and the Pan
ther are at Callao.
The Hannibal has left Bradford for
Boston.
The Montgomery has left Newport
r. l., for Pensacola. Fla
The Porter, the Tingey, the Blakely
the De Long and the Thornton have
left Hampton Roads for Charleston.
Navy Notes
The 12-inch rife has been shipped
from the Washington navy yard to the
New York Shipbulding company for
the New Hampshire. Two 6-inch guns
have been shipped to League island for
the cruiser Minneapolis.
1t is estimated at the bureau of ord
nance that the New York, now being
prepared at the Boston yard, will be
completed by December, this year.
The recent act of congress eliminat-
ing grade crossings in Washington has
caused the Pennsylvania railroad to
consider removal of the tracks leading
to the navy lard and gun factory.
which would necessarily greatly en-
barrass the navy department. Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy Newberry
justment of the difficulty will doubtless
be forthcoming.
Clyde Yachting Notes
Chaplain Johnson M. Bellows, now on
duty at the Boston yard, today resigned
from the navy to take up certain lines
of study in which he is interested.
Chaplain Bellows was formerly chap
lain on the Minneapolis.
Arrangements for the coming drill of
the submarines off Buzzards Bay are
about completed at the navy depart
ment. and Commander Charles c.
Marsh will be ready by April l to put
the submarines through their drill, ac-
cording to the schedule mapped out by
the department.
Steam launches and other vessels will
be chartered to aid in carrying out the
drill regula tions, and it is expected
that the Castine, which is to be the
mother ship of the submarines, will
soon be fitted up and ready for service.
The scout cruiser Chester, built at
the Bath iron works. left the dry dock
at the Boston navy yard today and
sailed for the Maine coast. She is to
have her official trial on the Rockland
course.