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Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-04
ENGLAND BEGINS TO
REALIZE FuTILlTY OF
ALLIANCE WITH JAPAN

While England's primary object in
supporting Japan may have been its
fear of future Russian aggression on
the Indian border, 1t Is certain that
John Bull never regarded his new ally
as the dangerous trade rival which
Japan has proved to be. 1t Is said that
England merely used Japan as a cats
paw to pull British chestnuts out of
the Russian fire. But at the same time
gression was more dangerous to Japan
than to England, and that England
rendered greater service to Japan In
backing 1t in the war than Japan rem
dered to England in reducing Russia
to innoccuous desuetude. The service
which Japan has given England was
merely that of navies and armies which
England could have supplied itself by
a greater expenditure. But Japans
very life was at stake, and all hope OF
Japanese national ACKNOWLEDGMENT
given moral support in the fight with
Russia. Even now, II England re-
nounces the alliance, the rising sun Of
Japanese Asiatio empire will surely.
even II slowly, decline.
What of the alliance now?C It is
with mingled feelings of surprise and
disgust that Sur English cousins are
beginning to realize that they have
made worse than dry haul. The re-
suit of the war not only means that
southern Manchuria has been merely
transferred from Russian to Japanese
domination, but that England I'm fos-
terlng and upholding the influence of
Japan has in reality been equipping tho
most aggressive. uncompromtsing and
unfair rival that British interests have
ever encountered In the east.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-04
OF WORLDWIDE INTEREST
| THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE
BY FREDERIC }. HAskiN

Americans object to the trade which
comes to them in this way, the chagrin
of the British under the circumstances
may well be understood.
For @ better understanding of the
situation 1t is necessary to review the
actual status of the several powers
that are concerned Manchuria right
fully belongs TO China. Russia occu-
pied It after the Boxer trouble of eight
years ago and later was driven out of
the southern port.ln because,it selfish
ly endeavored to secure for itself the
exclusive control Of this rich country.
When Japan went in TO oust Russia
it was with the understanding that the
success of Japanese arms would nean
the restoration of the "open door
policy, or equal trading rights for all
nations The assurances OF Japan's
fair intentions were widely published
throughout England and America with
the result that q most favorable public
opinion was created In these countries.
America was led to believe that Jap
anese success meant an open field, and
as consequence it's moral support was
freely given. England, particularly,
believed Japan would play fair with
her and gave the moral and financial
assistance without which the forces OF
the mikado could not possibly have
pushed their campaign to success.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-04
CONSCIENCE cALLsl

II Official emancipation is not an
iridescent dream. California may
= obtain it, Los Angeles may share
in it if good Americans will cour-
ageously respond to the call of con-
science and OF country and do their
duty by smashing the machine and
beating the bosses. A great movement
for political freedom must be begun
at the primaries. Great issues confront
the state and the nation this year. The
country's destiny, for veal or for woe,
will be affected greatly by the politi-
cal record of 1908. Good citizens must
take an active interest in politics. They
must realize that indifference will not
elect good men to office; that apathy
will not effect reforms; that they who,
politically speaking, stand idly all the
day long are in reality participants In
causing any evils which activity on
their part might have helped to pre-
vent or check. We often hear of the
increase of the idle classes in the
United States, of the ills that must
affect the country If the idlers do not
adopt new modes of life. But some
worthy citizens who have never con-
sciously wronged or defrauded their
neighbor or done anything seriously
amiss all the days of their lives are
chronic political idlers and will con-
tinue to be political idlers unless they
can be aroused from their indifference.
u
IL that will produce the desired effect
of stimulating them to political activ-
ity. We would dare to remind them
that a man who, politically speaking,
is an idler is as much of a loafer polit-
ically speaking, as the man who shirks
daily toll is loafer, socially speaking.
With an opportunity for political
emancipation like that presented by
present conditions and prospects, men
who by slackness and sloth make
naught of conditions and destroy pros
poets of anti-machine success, are
traitors to their homes, traitors to their
families, traitors to their city. traitors
to their state. traitors to their country,
traitors to themselves and traitors to
their God, the God of their fathers,
hymned in the great American song
as Author of Liberty" In the name
of the Author of Liberty, quit ye like
men. Let there be among you no
sluggards, laggards or dodgers. You
are Americans. Act as If you were
worthy of the name, as indeed you are
when you illustrate Americanism and
the first principles which made this
country a great MORAL POWER in
the world as well as great physical,
material power.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-04
SAYS DOG CATCHER LURES
ANIMALS. OFF PROPERTY

Los ANGELES, May S.-[Editor
Herald: The letter you publish signed
"A Lover of Dogs brings up in my
mind again the whole question OF how
best to deal with the dog problem.
Is it right to penalize the indulgence
of so amaible and refining hobby as
the keeping of dog as we do at pres
ent by levying q tax beyond the means
of a poor man or woman? The amiaDie
traits in human nature should be en-
couraged, not repressed. The love and
companionship of a dog has kept many
a man out of the saloon.
Registration of dogs is correct IN
principle; it tends to restrain the hap
hazard and irresponsible practice of
taking in dogs "to please the children
or to crafty a passing whim and then
turning them adrift to starve when
the novelty has worn off. Compulston
to register brings home to person his
or her responsibility in the necessity
for deciding, more or less definitely,
whether they mean to keep dog or
not, and this is good both for the dog
and for the public. But the principle
Cor want of principle) that seizes the
occasion to work kind of graft upon
the public end a special hardship on
the poor by coupling with the registra-
one. A registration fee of 25 cents or
so cents at outside should be the limit.
The present method of imposing q
tax TOO heavy for poor people to pay
and then empowering a certain official
to levy blackmail on those same poor
people by stealing their dogs and
holding them to ransom is an injustice
of the rankest and crueiest kind. Be-
cause a man can't afford a dog tax of
81 and yet has the love of dogs so deep
in his heart that he cannot forego the
companionship of one. the council sets
q city official to steal that mans dog
even enticing him off his owners prem
ises by means of decoy-and proceeds
to exploit that most beautiful attri-
butte of the civilized human heart
the love of a faithful dumb animal
to extort $3.50 or 1--WE kill your dog"
The pretense is, of course, that 1t is
only sought to gather in the stray
dogs found on the street; but this dirty
trick of trailing decoy to draw dogs
on to the street gives the whole graft
away.
Similarly with farm stock. Only re-
Gently the residents of an outlying dis
trict had to complain and the council
had to warn the poundkeeper that too
much stock was finding it's way to the
pound; he must moderate his trans
ports" Verb sap. VAL STONE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-04
CORRESPONDENT WANTS TO
KNOW ABOUT PRIMARIES

LOS ANGELES. May 3.-[Editor
Herald: Said Mr.. Dooley on a men,
orable occasion: "Kipling is beyant
question the gre-a-atest writer sence
What-ye calm, an be the powers,
Hinnissy. must look UP Kipling an
see what 1t is he did write"
Similarly think the primaries" OF
which you treat editorially in this
mornings Herald Is a great subject
and a most important "question'-the
question being, what Is a primary,
anyway2" The general ignorance
which will confess to sharing is so
widespread that am going to ask The
Herald to put out an explanatory ar
ticle for the enlightenment OF our ig-
norance. What plentiful lack OF
knowledge aon the subject really is
widespread have proved by question:
ing good many people. Their answers
60 to show that while in general and
indefinite way they understand the pri-
mary to be--as its name implies--a
first or preliminary selection or ex-
preston Of preference for certain cam
didates, they have but the very vaguest
idea of its precise working or object
or of its ultimate bearing upon the
final election. What is especially puz-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-04

| A M0NG useful suggestions made in
| n the Public Letter Box of The
- Herald that of Joseph Bell with
regard to the Improvement of Los An
geles river bed is of especial interest.
| five feet wide and five or six feet deep
or only three feet deep could be laid
| in the river bed before or after the pro-
posed superstructure for railroad pur-
poses is built. This fume could be
| filled and emptied daily. and boating
and canoeing on the Los Angeles river
could thus be indulged in for several
Fmiles. The fume could be filled from
an artificial lake, which may be made
north of the city and south of Burbank
and east of the S. p. railroad and the
road to San Fernando with an earth
dam and a concrete gate to regulate
the flow of water. 1t is proposed that
the lake should cover several hundred
acres. From it the fiume could be
filled and emptied daily, so that both
lake and flume would be kept fresh and
pure. Our correspondent suggests also
that fish could be propagated in the
lake. This would afford fine sport for
the angler" and Mr.. Bell says lovers of
boating canoeing and fishing should
unite in movement to persuade the
| city council and park commissioners
tina. the improvement is necessary.
1t is somewhat strange that the
value of the river bed to a city of the
rapid growth and future prospects of
| Los Angeles should have been over
| looked so long. We presume that If
| the suggestion for a flume should be
| adopted provision will be made for
controlling the Los Angeles river when
it IS in food, and to all appearances a
sure enough river and a boisterous one.
| So many jokes have been made on the
subject of boating and fishing in "our
| noble river" as Mr.. Bell calls it, that it
is refreshing to think the serious
minded Mr.. Kidder has succeeded in
turning attention to the matter in a
manner which has yielded most use
full result in the suggestion of Mr..
Bell. The community is under obliga-
tions to Mr.. Kidder. We have had our
river for long time. in fact it was
here first. But never until Mr.. Bell
made his excellent suggestion in re-
sponse to the letter of Mr.. Kidder have
we believed 1t possible to have what
theatrical men call practical water" in
the river all the year round in quanti-
ties sufficient for boating and bathing.
The suggestion that our river should
be watered and boating. bathing and
angling made possible on its hitherto
somewhat arid surface seems to be too
good to be true. But we must believe
Mr.. Bell when he says at can be done,"
and we thank Mr.. Kidder for having
written the letter which inspired Mr..
Bells suggestions.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-04
TRICKERY

ETy HERE are already enough evil
dences of machine trickery and
n intended trickery to startle the
least impressionable voter out of his
tranquility, or shall we say torpidity?
The Tammany Hall-like performance
in the Seventy-flfth district was a fair
sample of what may be expected from
machine made "leaders" of the type
of Eddie Morris. who, by his fantastic
"caucus," was empowered to name the
ticket for which the regulars must
vote tomorrow. Morris, who is the
chief of motley following of ward
heelers, is authorized" to name the
seven delegates who shall go to the
state convention from the Seventy
fifth. The authority in fact does not
exist. 1t is invalid, and Morris is not
invested with any real power. But
even if the extraordinary transaction
in which he figured Saturday evening
were valid, is it possible that the re-
spectacle voters of the Seventy-flfth
would allow Morris or any one like
him to hide from them the names of
candidates, to withhold information
from them and deny them until they
go to the polls to vote? Voters of the
Democratic party in every district must
see to it that their votes tomorrow are
cast for the league. The Morris Incl
dent was a fair sample of the un-Ameri-
can methods which the league is fight
ing to exterminate. All of the regu-
lar rnachinery is tainted by the spirit
OF un-Americanism.
The lower order of machine politics
is marked by petty bossism. corrup-
fion control and Grass ignorance which
lends its self-confident victims into
blunders as weird and eccentric as
mat of the Morris caucus; mistakes
witch must be shocking and exasper-
attne even to the better Informed
bosses Of the regular machine.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-04
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
NAVAL MARTYRS

A 8 IL for a contrasted sequel to the
N triumphantly successful Ameri-
a. can naval display in South
California, Great Britain had to pro-
vide one of the most unfortunate ac-
cidents in naval history, one which, IN
point of pathos, although the number
of the dead is far less than in the other
instances, will rank with the loss OF
the Royal George and the destruction
of the Maine. The collision between
the st. Paul and the Gladiator could
not be helped. No one was to blame
All the ordinary precautions for safety
at sea were being observed. Only the
second sight could have foreseen the
disaster. But as corollary TO the
facts established by the cruise of the
American navy, 1t proves that the Eng
lish speaking seaman is made of differ
ent stuff from many others. Whether
it be that the long freedom of the race
has bred self reliance and individual
responsibility, or that the blood Of the
vikings whose wandering barks, sail
ing by guess, blundered on the British
isles in the darkest of unchronicled
ages, and founded nations that had no
power but sea power, that had to de-
velop sea power or perish, the fact
remains that from time to time, In the
face of an unspectacular death, with
out the pomp and circumstance of war,
the bravery which kept the marooned
vikings alive on the misty islands still
characterizes the sons of the vikings.
They still show. from time to time, that
heroism Is in the blood.
Toll for the brave.
Tho brave that are no more.
All sunk beneath the wave
Fast by their native shore.
Such deplorable sacrifices are of no
value excepting for their inspiration.
There is hope for the race that boasts
the martyrs of the Royal George, the
martyrs of the Maine, the martyrs of
the Gladiator.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-04

zling (and suspicious) to me, who
learned long ago to look to the secret
ballot as the sine qua non of an in
corrupt election-is the (new?) rule by
which you are barred from voting in
the primary unless you first consent
to do something which may be detri-
mental to your bread and butter in
terests-namely. disclose your politics
at time of registration?
Having a job to hold down and
having reason to believe my political
faith was opposed to that of "the
firm" and being by habit and conyic-
tion antagonistic to any breach OF the
secrecy of the ballot. declined to state
my party" Every WELL" said the
registration officer "you can't vote in
the primaries. that's ALL"
Now. like many others, don't un-
derstand the matter clearly enough to
know just what liz any) loss / suffer
by this; but strongly suspect some ul-
terror object inimical to the exercise
Of free and secret ballot. Would not
The Herald like to expound? You
would he ministering to popular need
which / think no other paper In Cali
fornia is attempting to meet nor even
to recognize.
A TRUST EMPLoYE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-04
TARIFF REFORM

~ ONIMON decency demands tariff
reform. Interests which have
" been protected" have black
mailed the nation long enough. That
the workingman has not been benefited
let his empty dinner pail and his child
at factory instead of school attest
Philosophical and rational inquirers'
whom it is impossible to bamboozle by
Republican buncombe, have made OF
this whole matter thorough investi-
cation, provoked, no doubt, by the
financial panic and other untoward
events which were utterly >irreconcii-
able with Republican premises Of "pros-
perity which would be uninterrupted ii
Republican rule were uninterrupted"
We pity the poor people ruined by Re-
publican cupidity and stupidity. The
word protection had an enticing sound.
Many voters could not find it in their
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-04

hearts to vote against Republican cam
didates. because they said a vote
against a Republican would be a vote
against the protection Of American in-
dustries. Republican orators and edi-
tors fostered this deiusion. They pic
tured the horrors that would come up
on the country II 1t were opened up to
the unrestrained competition OF the
foreigner. Level headed men foresaw
the inevitable result OF the kind Of pro-
lection proposed by Republicans. Pro-
lection OF industries is an en-
tirely different matter from protection
OF citizens, as citizens have discovered
to their cost. A great Republican in q
moment OF enthusiasm made the re-
mark, "a cheap coat makes a cheap
man." According to this method Of
appraisement what would be the value
of an unfortunate citizen who could
not buy any coat, because he had not
been allowed to earn the money with
which he might purchase 1t? Protec-
ton to favored industries fattened q
few at the expense Of many. and sharp
ened the greed for gain to such a keen
edge that the rapacious protected ones
could not endure the thought OF any
competition at all, domestic or foreign,
and in order to kill American compete
ton formed trusts. In the face Of such
a reduction of the protection principle
to an absurdity, 1t might be thought
the nation will listen patiently to only
one kind of protection talk. 1t will
welcome an orator who will advocate
Democracy and a return to the first
principles Of Americanism in order that
the nation may be protected from the
trusts. But the old-fashioned SPELL
binder will find the protection spell has
lost its charm and can no longer bind.
There Is surer and more perma-
nent method of reforming the trusts
than by enacting special legislation.
America will learn the lesson that
Mexico had to lean. Our neighbor was
being eaten up by trusts until her
statesmen proposed and adopted a
remedy as simple as it was radical
and in practice marvelously efficacious.
1t reformed the tariff and incidentally
reformed the trusts. Tariff reform will
bring about trust reform.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-04
JAPANESE BELIEVE THEY
ARE RIGHTFuL HEIRS
TO ALL MANcsluHIA'

The Fakumen railway incident. shows
how little regard Japan really has Tor
British interests. Fakumen is a mar
ket city on the border between Mon
golia and Manchuria. fifty miles north
east Of Hsinminfu, the. present north
ern terminus of the imperial railroads
of North China. Fakumen Is forty
miles from the nearest point on the
South Manchuria railway. the line
which the Japanese took from the Rus
SLAMS as the spoils of war. The pro-
posed extension from Hsinminfu TO
Fakumen is a part of the imperial
railroads of North China. and the con-
struction is In the hands of the British
corporation, which, as it's name indi-
Gates, Is backed by English capital.
The proposed line would tap a section
of country heretofore undeveloped. end
it's construction could not interfere
with the Japanese railway because Of
the distance between the two. Accord
ing to Japan's ante-bellum open door
promises one would suppose that there
would be no objection to China devel-
oping a part of its own territory. es-
pecially when backed by the capital
of Japan's ally, England; yet we find
Thus Japan coolly announces itself to
-rise on the ground that 1t is q tres
pass on its rights secured from Rus
sia as the result of the war.
Thus Japan cody announces itself to
be the heir to Russia pretensions In
Manchuria, irrespective of any inherent
rights or privileges the Chinese are
supposed to have In their own country,
or without regard to England's inter-
ests. to whose friendly assistance 1t
owes its present position. John Bull
is such slow old soul that no one can
tell just how much disappointment he
will suffer before kicking out of the
traces but that ultimately his patience
will end there can be no doubt. A sur
prising phase of the situation is
Jsoan's seeming indifference to the
mistake 1t is making. In adopting any
course that will ALLEVIATE England.
Japan is merely kicking out the prop
that is holding it up. Has 1t never
occurred to the Japanese statesmen
that IL they insist upon making their
administration in Manchurfa merely an
imitation of Russian domination that
they will inevitably fall heir to the
Finish" that befell their predecessors?
Copyright, 1908 by Frederic ]. Haskin.)
Tovnorrnu---Jnnausa ARMY ana Navv
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-04
FRAGMENT OF DIARY DATED fss


March 2S-My birthday Father has
given me a ninety auto-power Dumont
Have promised my light fiyabout to my
kid brother,
March 30-Can't seem to gauge the
wind in my machine. Slid up on stiff
current of air and tipped out a lot of
supplies. Hope they did no harm be-
low. Back to college. Took some of
the fellows up with me in my machine.
April 12-Flew over to Wellesley with
some cronies to see Bill's cousin.
Dickens Of a scrape over there. Village
has no landing receivers. It's mighty
hard to get up off the ground again in
my machine, SO we tried to drop anchor
and view things a little. Anchor
dragged In village streets, caught In
girls belt, and breeze lifted us bit
just at that minute and the girl was
pulled into a fountain. Just my luck
'Twouldn't have done any good to go
down just then, so we cut the anchor
wire and speeded home.
April 13.--Deuce to pay. My name
was on that anchor. Girl was BilPs
cousin. We're given till Saturday to
go over and apologize.
April 15-Prexy talked in chapel this
ilOiHlilB dDOuL the STUWHlB ulSTcBdF
of human life. 1t seems a student
named Pug Winters flew low over town
today-he was studying for an exam.
and didn't think how low he was-and
his propeller cut off village mans
head. They are thinking Of firing Pug
from college. He told me he shouted
an apology so quick he Is sure the man
heard it. Prex is an old fogy anyway.
April 1S-Got up nerve enough to go
back to Wellesley today. Heard there
was a landing receiver on side of hill
TO south. Flew low over village, and
saw that all the college girls in the
street had printed signs on the tops of
their hats that said, Use no hooksl"
Awful grind on us. But we were for
given after while. Helen Chats herr
says 1t was an aerated fountain. and
she swallowed so much that she took
tho matter very lightly. I often think
she is only half serious in what she
says.
April 25-Got into wireless talk with
kid brother today. He says an epidemic
has struck the Bronx herd of horses.
Glad l saw them before they were all
gone. Father remembers when you
could see them on the, streets.--Har-
per's Magazine.