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Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10
SOCIAL QUESTION

TN his convention address Theodore
Bell said: 1.-THE Chicago platform
Il points with pride to the passage OF
a child labor law for the District OF
Columbia. Let the Republican party
go further than the enactment OF penal
laws and in the name of humanity use
its vast energies for the removal or
conditions that are forcing our chill
dren into the labor market. 1t is the
reign of monopoly that is emptying
our schoolhouses and filing the sweat
shops with child labor, and this same
system of monopoly is fast limiting the
opportunities for independent livelihood
among those who are forced into the
industrial field, and thus it is douply
blighting that hope of youth which In
former stages of our national growth
opened an avenue of honor and inde-
pendence to every child reared upon
our soil"
In this statement is the crux of the
ereat debate in which the nation Will
be engaged until election day. This is
the sum of the whole matter. The So
cial question is the only vital question
before the American people today.
other topics are important only be-
cause they are relevant. 1t is because
of it's relevancy to the social question
that tariff gains significance, and from
the social question all economic ques-
tions derive their existence. 1t is in
deed high time that we Americans
knew once and for all whether men
CAPABLE of rendering excellent service
in return for a living wage or salary
NAV be allowed to exercise their abili-
ties during all of their working lives,
or. IL that boon may not be granted, at
any rate during the years in which
there is devolved upon the citizen the
duty of educating his family. And of
educating his family-his boys, let us
say-for whom? For themselves? OF
what use is education, mental train
ing. to a recluse or hermit, unless to
stimulate his meditations? A seclud-
ed educated man who does not express
himself is of no benefit to. the world.
A poverty gagged and bound educated
man who is not allowed to express him
self is of no benefit to mankind, al
though it is through no fault of his
that this may be said. For whom are
the boys of the nation to be educated?
For the nation. For the public good.
How nationally suicidal it is, then, to
promote conditions which rob the chill
dren Of the American nation Of their
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10
AQUEDUCT BONDS

HNHE board of public works and the
city council, with the possible ex-
ception of one member, are unani-
mously of the opinion that the interests
of the city will be best served by the
acceptance of the latest proposal of
the New York bond firm which offers
to take $2,O4O,00O aqueduct bonds, with
immediate delivery, and $2,04O,O0O on
February 1, on the basis of AZ per cent
interest, with premium of one-fourth
of per cent.
The board considers this to be not
only a much better offer than any
heretofore made, but better than any
that other firms will make. Although
no binding obligation will be entered
into to take up the options, the board
of public works has faith in the pro-
lection guaranteed by the financial rep
utation of the New Yorkers, who have
always carried through their deals both
in the spirit and the letter of their
agreements, even when by this scrupu-
lous fidelity they have lost money.
1t seems likely the council will settle
this important question at its meet
ing this morning, and while there is
no anxiety over the outcome, citizens
Of Los Angeles will breathe freer when
it is finally settled.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10
Leading EpiScOpGIiGnS
Plunge INTO Sociology

A CCORDING TO the Literary Digest
~ the two leading subjects dis
Ia cussed at the worlds congress of
Episcopal churches held in London,
called by the English the pan-Anglican
congress, were socialism and divorce.
The Episcopalians condemned the di-
vorce evil, but recognized in socialism
great new sociological force, which
may not only reconstruct but reform
society and work along with Chris
tianity to make the divorce evil almost
unknown.
Socialism, says the Literary Digest,
found only one dissenting voice among
the speakers at the session of the
Pan-Anglican congress, London, de-
voted to that subject. The discussion
at Albert hall attracted the largest
crowd yet gathered at any of these
meetings. says a London dispatch to
the New York Sun, the writer of
which regarded the demonstration as
"highly significant Of present day So
Geological thought" One hundred and
fifty archbishops and bishops, a null
titude of minor clergy and a large as
semblage of laymen and laywomen
were present. The bishop Of Birming-
ham was scheduled to preside, but was
prevented by illness. He sent a paper,
however, that was read by Bishop
Lawrence of Massachusetts, "the key
note of which was the injustice of the
existing division of the profits Of in
dustry." From the Suns dispatch we
quote further:
after contrasting the grinding pow
erty OF the workers With the extrava-
CANT luxury of the idle rich, he de-
manded from the church "a tremendous
act of penitence for having failed SO
long and so greatly to champion the
oppressed and weak. penitence to be
followed by reparation ere the well
merited judgment of God take all
weapons of social influence out of our
hands,
There followed a series of eloquent
addresses, the first of which was from
Mr.. McBee of New York. All the speak
ers except one displayed socialistic
tendency, basing their arguments on
the character and teachings of the
Founder of Christianity and the broth
erhood of humanity. The abolition Of
wage earning and the public mainte-
nance of child-bearing mothers were
among the reforms predicted or ad-
vocated.
"The Rev. ]. G. Simpson, principal of
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10

ways attention to the fact that the
Southern Pacific has just closed its
shops in this city, throwing 500 men
out of work. 1t is true that the
wealthy class is prospering, but the
wage earners are on the decline. Mod
ern machinery is constantly throwing
more men out of employment, which
tends to decrease wages, there being
more than enough labor to supply the
demand. Prices are remaining the
same or increasing, and with each i'm
provement in machinery the capitalist
makes more on his investment, while
the laborer makes less.
The modern steam shovel with two
men will handle two tons of dirt per
minute, scooping it out and loading
it. In one hour 1t handles 120 tons, or
1900 tons per day of ten hours. IL
formerly required eighty men capable
of shoveling fifteen tons per day each
to do the same work.
Modern machinery should snorteh
the hours Of each laborer and give en-
ployment to all.
AS to patrolmen using uhoue IoIce
in making arrests 1t is done to start n
riot If possible in order 10 give the
Ispeakers a "black eye" before the
public and keep people from attendlhg
their meetings.
I would suggest that the police use
little Judgment at least in their nan
ding of crowds.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10
THINKS CITY PROSECUTOR is
RESoRTING TO A oUI55LE

LOS ANGELES, July 7.-[Editor
Herald: 1 am an admlrer OF Ine
bright, fearless young American VINO Is
now the prosecuting attorney OF Los
Angeles. l have thought since ne Went
into office that we now have man
upon whom we could rely TO stand Ior
public veal and be fair to everybody.
/ am not a Socialist or symaptnlzer
with their philosophy. 1 am, however,
an advocate of fair play and ooserva-
ton of the laws. 1t was with mucn
regret I read In an evening paper that
the prosecutor brought forth a weak
plea that these people have been DOCK
ing the streets. Were they arrested on
that charge, Mr.. Woolwine? Are they
not held because they made political
speeches on the streets? Let US not
resort to a bubble. THESE men ana
women leave their families and go into
our filthy 1ail because they. In their
helief declare the city of Los Angeles
is transgressing on the constitution OF
the nation and state. Let US stand by
the real issue. Does not the constitu-
tion guarantee free speech? Can city
abroeate that guarantee? Other states
have tried it and the higher courts
have supported the constitution and
granted free speech. Let us be just,
Mr. Woolwine. You can lose moth
inc bv that and you can lose much to
try a bubble. H. H. SOOr ne l.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10

the Clergy school at Leeds, assured the
vast audience that all over the north
of England they were face to face with
rising tide of Socialism which thew
were powerless to stem even if they
wished to do so. Countless workers in
the forges, furnaces and Iaills of the
north had adopted the socialistic idea
and held to 1t like religion and loved
II like q bride. He demanded that the
church give a free field to Socialism.
He appealed to IL to try to understand
it and not to hasten to discount it.
more significant than the speeches
themselves was the keen interest shown
enthusiasm with which such points as
those above given were greeted from
all parts of the hall"
On Tuesday, June is, the subject of
marriage and divorce was before the
congress. According to accounts in the
London papers, the American repre-
sentatives had the most sensational re-
ports to offer. Bishop Doane of AL
bany was the principal speaker on this
subject, but DIR. d. Charles Gardiner, a
minister of California, said that he
must confess with some shame that in
the city of San Francisco, near which
he lived, there was one divorce in every
six marriages, which he regarded as a
scandalous state of things" The Lon
don Standard quotes from Bishop
Doane's paper the following paragraph:
Here in America we are compelled
to strain every nerve in our insistence
upon the sanctity of marriage because,
I grieve to say, the country has gained
a shameful and sorrowful pre-eminence
in what one might almost call the di-
vorce habit, the statistics of which
are alarming and shocking to the last
degree. Slowly and steadily the pub
lie conscience is being stirred. Not
only in ecclesiastical bodies, but in the
legislatures and in conferences called
by the civil authorities there is a wide
spread and strong movement toward
reducing the causes for divorce a
vinculo, and toward arresting the pos
sibility of remarriage, If not TO the one
only possible scriptural exception at
least to only six causes at the outside.
Meanwhile the safeguards against
hasty and ill-considered marriages are
coming to be more carefully defined,
and in many states increased. With
the door of entrance into the holy es-
tate guarded and consecrated 1t Is
hoped that the door of exit. 1.-THE
shameful divorce court" may some day
be closed.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10
MASTERLY INACTIVITY

pare get ready begin prepare to begin to get
ready put to you in the of the lor"
1.-THE lor" said the Mock Turtle. "What is the lor,
anyway"
1--WE all know that you not very well acquainted
with it." said the Gryphon "and that why Theodore
Alice is about begin prepare start to begin to
make ready make you respect it. TheodoreAlice
you ready?"
Il ready to begin to prepare to prepare to make
ready to begin" said Theodore-Alice
Wonderful child" exclaimed Gryphon. "How
swift after have made up mind"
"To prepare to begin to make ready to prepare to
begin." Theodore-Alice taking the out
of his mouth.
Hold your tongue" said the Mock Turtle. "Are you
green that you don't know meaning of mastery
inactivity"
Explain" said Theodore-Alice.
Il the Master. You the Inactivity replied the
Mock Turtle. II grieved Inconvenience anybody
Hence these There fish in the than
taken out Of it, There plums the
plum than shaken down from it. Never
do today what you put off until tomorrow"
Never mind his old proverbs" said the Gryphon
do your duty"
II WILL" said Theodore-Alce resolutely "That is to
say about to begin to prepare prepare begin
prepare to begin to to begin to prepare
begin prepare begin to prepare begin (by this
time she drawing prepare begin (she nodded
drowsiy) to prepare to begin"
Fast asleep I live" said the Gryphon, Grossly.
"Wel. now, what DO you think of that?"
II never think" said the Mock Turtle. "It doesn't
pay my life everything is conducted strictly
paying live by the golden rule-sman &, small +.
See"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10
POLICIES

NON-PARTISAN trade journal,
n devoted to investment, contains
the following statement: Mr..
Bryan has himself constructed the plat
form upon which he will stand. The
platform contains little that differs
essentially from the White House pro-
duction; it's author has been guided in
its construction by the pledges of his
opponents; he has had the benefit of
the general approval which has been
given by the Republicans to the decla-
ration of principles and policies upon
which they seek to win, and as a poll
tician who hopes to attract votes from
his enemies and weaken his adversa-
ries, he has been careful to harmonize
the policies to which he is committed
with those that are enunciated by the
opposition party"
As matter of fact, all that there is
in the policy of the Republican party
that is outstanding and outspoKen and
not obscured by weak words is Demo
cratic, and if there has been any har-
monizlng of policies the Republicans
have approached and harmonized, as
The Herald some time ago pointed out.
Even with such approaches to Democ-
racy as they managed to make, the
Republicans only succeeded In present
ing to the country a document more
remarkable for puzzling inconsistencies
and obscurities than for plain, out
spoken craftsmanship.
The Republican party is anxious to
retain power, for the sake of power, not
for the sake of the people of the United
States. Not principles, but the inter-
ests of the party, are at stake. Unless
consequences are not traceable to
causes. unless there is neither order
nor logic in the country nor in the uni
verse, the Republican party, if contin-
ued in power, will continue to devote
itself to catering to special interests;
and the consequences TO the country
may be serious.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10
CHARITY NEEDED MOST BY
MEN WHO HAVE GONE WRONG

LOS ANGELES, July 9.-[Editor
Herald: One can hardly take "a
Gentleman" seriously when he tells us
that there is plenty of employment for
all who are willing to work, but his re-
mark about the Associated Charities
deserves attention. He says that men
do not appeal to that body because
they fear to have their records inves-
tigated."
This has always struck me as one of
the most unsatisfactory features con-
nected with our entire system of or
ganized charity, and, indeed, with the
general manner in which work is doled
out. These people, who invariably pro-
fess to follow the precepts of him who
declared that he "came not to call the
righteous but sinners to repentance"
are apparently under the everlasting
delusion that because a man has at
some time fallen from grace he can do
without sustenance for the remainder
of his life.
If our charity administrators, or en-
ployers generally. had a spark of true
Charity in their hearts they would
recognize that it is precisely the man
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10

education and thereby rob the nation.
1t is worse than race suicide. 1t is race
murder. And the Republican party
produced social conditions which pro-
duced race suicide, to which the atten-
tion of the nation was called by the
alarmed president himself, and race
murder to which the attention of the
nation is called by departmental re-
ports from Washington which have
been suppressed by cowardly, insincere
and aun-American Republican news
papers.
But-like party, like newspapers
Arcades Ambo; perverted Arcadesl AS
Mr.. Bell well and truly remarked: /:
Let any man take the temperature of
the Chicago platform and discover If
he can any sign of human warmth. Not
a single sentiment is there to redeem
it from the MATERIALISM permeat-
ing it through and through"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10
Japan'S Heavy Indebtedness
Hurts National Efficiency

ciers are already uttering notes of
warning, says the Oakland Enquirer
Despite the fact that Japan is devot-
ing greater part of her resources to
preparations for war, that nation can
not afford to go to war, unless other
nations will furnish it with financial
resources. The credit of Japan abroad
has become impaired to a degree that
is likely to cripple her industrial and
commercial expansion at home. Fail
ure to float the last Japanese loan in
London would seem to justify the con-
clusion that Japan has about reached
the limit of it's credit in the great
money centers of the world.
The present international situation
in Japan may presage a financial crash
that will be far-reaching in it's effects,
for the nation has pledged many of it's
sources of revenue to secure the coun-
try upon loans already placed, and 1t is
predicted that the adjustment of her
finances will require far greater in
genuity than the taking of Manchuria.
The rise of Japan to the position of
great power had in it's some of the ele-
ments of the mushroom growth, and
the reaction that has set in was to be
eXpected.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN


"ITH William Jennings Bryan for
w a candidate and with platform
declaring for q restoration of
Americanlsm by the adoption of vari-
Gus reforms essential to a square deal
and the greatest good for the greatest
number. the Democratic party will go
before the country certain that it de-
serves success and confident that it will
obtain the support of an overwhelming
States. Mr.. Bryan is a candidate OF
whom any party might be proud, and
the Democratic cause is honored in its
champion. He is maligned. cartooned
libeled. derided, more than any other
public man of our time. In that re-
spect he resembles the late william
Ewart Gladstone (whom he also re-
sembles in appearance and in oratorical
power), so it may be said he is in good
companyl He resembles Mr.. Gladstone
in other respects. Gladstone cham
pioned a cause which brought upon him
the enmity of the peers, the aristocrats,
the privileged classes. Everybody In
AAAO CAAANt0 0NehNNo cl5A00O NAAoN tAAO NddoS
championed by Gladstone was the cause
of liberty, righteousness, truth and JUS
tice. If the cause championed by Will
liam Jennings Bryan were a British
cause, and he a British and not an
American reformer, we have not the
slightest doubt the entire newspaper
press of the United States would unite
in praising his patriotic boldness, and
in wishing him godspeedl But Ameri-
canism in America is one thing, and
abroad, where 1t may be disguised
under a different name, but is essen
TALLY the same principle, is, it seems,
anotherI Bryans efforts to restore
to policies which will produce the
greatest good for the greatest number
of people are neither appreciated nor
praised by the Republicans and Repub-
lican newspapers that praised the life
work of Gladstone, the great commoner
of the United Kingdom. The cam
paign which Democrats must conduct
is campaign of education. At every
Democratic meeting the Declaration of
Independence and the constitution OF
the United States should be read. and
speakers should point out to their
audiences that the aim of the Democrat
ic party under the leadership of Presi-
dent Bryan will be to revive the spirit
of the declaration, maintain and en-
force every principle of the constitu-
tion, which is the platform of the
United States Of America, and produce
conditions which will make it impos-
sible for un-American interests to in
terfere with or thwart the operation Of
American principles.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
SUBURBAN HOMES

II OS ANGELES is city of homes.
4 Especially attractive, pleasant,
and, by residents of less favored
parts of the country, enviable are the
suburban homes which BY THE MILE
beautify the outskirts. No other city
in the world rivals Los Angeles in this
feature of highest civilization. Here, ow-
ing to unusually favorable conditions,
which have enabled many thousands of
people to build and own their own
dwellings, homes representing many
different types Of architecture and of
beauty but only one type of solid COM
fort have sprung up in all quarters.
Rapid transit which is really rapid"
brings residents of the outskirts and
suburbs into the business center so
fast that people whose homes are ''close
in" do not enjoy a great advantage
over their fellow citizens who live in
the suburbs. The suburban resident
reaches his home and his vine and fig
tree with such small additional ex-
penditure of time that It makes no diff
ference in the days work. Los Ange-
les enjoys the biggest and best city and
suburban car service in the world, and
the population of the suburban dis
tricts is being increased rapidly. New
houses are being built constantly. On
this department of building activity
the financial panic had not the slight
est effect People in Southern Califor-
mia, and for that matter all over the
United States, are ambitious to own
homes in Los Angeles. Many houses
are built for occupants who arrive from
the east after their houses are COM
pleted and ready for occupation.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10
CAMPAIGN FUNDS

H HERE is nothing unreasonable in
Mr.. Bryan's desire to make 1t un-
u lawful for a corporation to con-
tribute to campaign funds nor in his
advocacy of the publication of all con-
tributions above a reasonable min
imum." 1t is Mr.. Bryan's desire to
prevent undue influence from being
exerted to procure the return of any
candidate. That undue influence may
be exercised in the form OF huge or
unlimited contributions to campaign
funds is beyond reasonable doubt. In
fact, while we admit the sad truth of
the popular expression, money talks"
we believe the less it has to say in
presidential campaign the better. Con-
tributions above a reasonable amount
are suspicious, and If the names of
contributors are published it will be
possible to guess the motive which
prompted the contribution. No cor
poration will give a huge sum to a
party campaign fund unless it is GER
tain of return on it's investment, and
IL that return is to be guaranteed by
the success of the Republican party it
is fair to inquire into the nature of the
guarantee.
What new conditions do Republicans
propose to bring about which will yield
any more of the substance of the coun-
try to few? By what new and cum
ming devices are the people to be
squeezed? Upon what pretext are they
to be held up? How are their tolls
and their dollars to be cajoled from
them in order to enrich the masters of
the land? When corporations make
contributions to campaign funds it is
not from love of the Republican party,
but from fear of the Democratic party,
and fear of the Democratic party is
inspired by a knowledge that the DEM
ocratic party is in earnest and that If
returned to power 1t will use that
power for. the common good and will
seek to bring about conditions which
win assure the greatest happiness TO
the greatest number Of citizens.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10
A FAIR QUESTION

q INCE women Of good reputation
~ have been seized by the police of
Los Angeles and thrust into jail
on the charge Of making public
speeches without official permission, it
is In order to ask, Whose official per-
mission sanctions the presence in Los
Angeles of women who are not of good
reputation, do not pretend to be, and.
in fact, make a living by their lack
of reputation? A list of thirty-two
disorderly houses was submitted to the
police commission by a taxpayer who
accompanied the list with a petition
in which he said: "It is needless to re-
mind you that it is your duty, ur5ar
the charter, to enforce these laws
which are being openly and f1agrantly
violated every day with the knowledge
and consent of the department con-
trolled by you. So that there may be
no mistake about the location of these
places affecting my property interests
I hereby demand the suppression of
the following places" They were not
suppressed. Police were not detailed
to raid the places, put their inmates in
the drunk-wagon and rush them to a
filthy cell. Delicately nurtured women
who made speeches on the public
streets without obtaining permits were
arrested and thrown into prison. These
educated and refined mothers met with
scant regard from the burly, big Of
ficers Of the law. But the sisterhood
of unchastity plies brazenly it's voca-
ton in Los Angeles. Are we to infer
1t has police permit? If so. on what
terms and from, whom was the permit
secured?