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Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
DEMOCRATIC UNION

WE HOPE and believe the Demo-
wv cratic delegates from Los Ange-
les county will act as a unit in
the interests of clean politics and good
government. Danger of the intersection
of the worst element into the partys
activities or of the interference of an
undesirable factor or force was re-
moved when Eddie Norris was defeat
ed. The Herald trusts that the men,
bers Of the delegation will get together
and work together for decent politics.
In certain quarters there was an
impression that there had been some
irregularity or something upon which
talk of irregularity might be founded
on the Endorsement of Mayor Harper
and Nathan Cole, jr. as delegates at
large to the national convention. Such
rumors were exceedingly disquieting,
and The Herald is glad to be in
position to state there is no founda-
ton for them in the facts of the case
We are glad they We're foundationless
IT is of the utmost Importance not only
that factional fights but fractional feel
ings should be eliminated from Demo-
cratic councils, and that nothing of
personal nature should be put in the
way of party harmony and party sue
cess. 1t is Of supreme importance that
the Democratic party should act
strongly and unitedly in favor Of good
government and clean politics. The
delegates at large who are suggested
are men TO whom the honor and the
interests of the Democratic party may
be entrusted safely. BY the very fact
of their selection they are committed
to a clean, strenuous fight for the better
government of the American nation,
and we have no doubt they Will give a
good account of themselves. A united
Democracy with a patriotic purpose
will be invincible.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
NEW CHUMS"

HOLONIST rates to California may
be put into effect again next fall
~ by transcontinental railroads. The
total number of persons who came to
California this spring is greater than
last, and yet the spring colonist move
ment was hardly as great as that of
a year ago. The explanation is that
more people came on first class and
fewer on second class tickets. Cali
fornia is still the most attractive state
in the Union, and the old Roman say
ing may be applied to it, for "all roads
lead to California"
The citizenship of the state is pc
culiar. 1t may be described as the
essence of everything that is American
and therefore California is peculiarly
and particularly the most American
state in the Union. Here local antag-
onism and sectional prejudices are for
gotten. The colonist soon becomes a
Californian. One touch of California
sunshine makes the whole world kin.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
LOS ANGELES HERALD

T Os ANGELES HERALD for May 10
4, again led its contemporaries in the
Ia amount Of news matter printed In
fourteen pages it printed 500 items.
The Times in twenty-six pages published
200 items the Examiner In eighteen pages
printed 202.
In addition to a complete local news
service and the complete report Of the
Associated Press The Herald had special
dispatch from a staff correspondent attend
ing the Republican state convention at Sac
ramento, a special report of the bankers
convention at Pasadena, written by one of
the most brilliant descriptive writer's in the
United States, n mastery analytical review
of the subjects engaging the attention of
the history making conference of governors
at Washington and other noteworthy feat"
ures of far more than usual or merely tran
sient interest. Los Angeles Herald Is one
of the best all around newspapers in the
United States, and may be compared favor
ably with any published in the country.
Several of its staff writers have more than
local regulations, and all the members OF
the staff are men who are picked for char
aeter as well as for ability. The circulation
of The Herald is increasing constantly and
it is a daily morning visitor in many thou
sands of homes. 1t Is welcomed because
every reader knows it may be trusted. is
always reliable, always conscientious, always
clear, crisp and clean.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
A BALLApE OF WHEELS

Time was when Molly ought a pike
Was just the thing and every DAY
Her little wheel spun down the Pike
Over the hills and far away.
The pace she hit was my dismay,
pedaled on with aching brow;
But all OF that Is now passe,
For Molly wants an airship now.
The little sticks she used to hike
Across the links. her suit OF gray
And sweater red. and caddy. Mike
She raved about them-where are they!
And likewise tennis and croquet,
Her trim canoe ?-Well anyhow.
These things have all become passe,
For Molly wants an airship now.
Last year an auto was her strike
And Oh the bills i've had to pay!
She kissed me then and said she'd like
A motor boat--What could say?
She knows I cannot say her nay,
That 10 her fancies I must bow
But both OF these were soon passe,
For Molly wants an airship now.
Bridge, roller skates, her ponies gay.
Angoras bull dogs-Pll allow
Molly herself is not passe.
For Molly wants an airship now.
From Kjmono Ballades.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
FARMERS ARE NEEDED, BUT
MONEY Is NECESSARY TO
TIDE OVER LONG WAIT

Hawaii is not the place for, the
moneyless man who expects TO grow
rich by tilling the soil. The farmer
in these islands faces vastly diff
ferent conditions from those he en-
counters in the cotton fields of Texas
or the corn fields of Iowa. This is a
semi-tropical country and the methods
of agriculture differ as widely from our
own as our climate differs from that of
Hawaii.
The settler who comes here must have
enough money to buy his land. to en-
ploy his labor, and to live from two
to four years while waiting for his
first crop. There are a hundred little
things he will have to do which re-
quire that patience which comes only
with the consciousness of a balance in
the bank.
On the other hand. he who comes
here with the necessary capital and
the required patience finds awaiting
him an opportunity that is probably
not equaled by any spot on the globe.
And If he be citizen of the United
States he will receive welcome from
his compatriots here that will warm
the cookies of his heart.
Hawaii neds farmers. She must have
American citizens. She wants some of
that conquering blood to which our
western prairies and mountains have
yielded their treasures of mine and
field and forest. In the language of
Governor Frear-"The policies of small
landed pro 1rietorships and diversified
industries are not necessarily antagon-
istic to the prosperity of the sugar in
dustry.
probably nowhere are business en-
terprises, large and small. conducted
more generally under corporate forms
but probably nowhere are they con-
Quoted more honorably or with less
abuse of capitalistic power. The sugar
industry is that from which directly or
indirectly the territory and it's people
derive their main support. But 1t will
be conceded that the territory should
not keep all its eggs in one basket
especially when that baskets upset is
threatened by probable tariff revision.
The high interests of these islands re-
quire them to be peopled as far as may
be by small landed proprietors."
Not even lie solid phalanx of the
beet sugar interests of the northwest
can protect Hawaiians from seeing the
ghosts of tariff revision Philippine free
trade and Cuban annexation. Some of
the Hawaiians are already at work
heaping their eggs in baskets other
than the one of sugar. They have
blazed the way and opened the door
of opportunity for the American who
has youth, industry and a few thou
sand dollars. All who desire to turn
these assets into wealth and happiness.
the while living in veritable paradise,
should answer the Turing call of Uncle
Sans little ocean gem-Hawaii
Copyright. 1908, by Frederic ]. Haskin)
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
AN EXPLANATION

II YMAN J. GAGE, former secretary
of the treasury, gave the bankers
- in convention assembled what
may be regarded as an authoritative
diagnosis of the panic. In his explana-
ton there was a good deal that was
not reassuring, for he left the impress
sion that a similar disaster might over
take the United States at any time. He
blamed the present system of organl-
cation for much of the trouble. To the
banks of the interior alone New York
banks last October were debtors in
the sum of almost $400,000,000 That
period of year always witnesses an
outward movement of money to move
the crops. Under our system that
annual movement has often devel-
oped a temporary crisis, under the
influence of which the rate of in
terest f0r bank loans has reached
all sorts of ridiculous figures. In
1907 that movement occurred at the
moment when a crisis was in evidence.
Moved by the instinct of self preserva-
ton. the savings banks and trust COM
panies proceeded to increase their
actual cash in hand by Withdrawing
their deposits in part or all from the
clearing house banks. Public comment
inflamed private fears. and against
this combined pressure the banks
sought to strengthen their resources
by calling payment on outstanding
loans. Securities were offered upon the
market for sale regardless or prices,
but without much effect. Where all are
forced sellers there can be few or no
buyers. Panic ensued. Fear took the
place of Judgment. The banks suspend
ing cash payments resorted to clearing
house certificates as a means OF read
iusting balances between their MEM
bers. but refused to meet acquisitions
for money from their correspondents
and local creditors. This explanation
is lucid and impels us to ask why MT.
Gage. A. member of the Prosperity and
FuI Dinner Pail cabinet, did not fore
see the possible consequences of sys-
tenn for which he was in some measure
responsible, and with the innermost
workings as we'll as the outermost evil
dences of which he is thoroughly
familiar-which is one reason why he
can talk about it so effectively and
forcefully. He is now advising the
country by all means to clock the
stable door," but, alas! some of the
1,oreac baVa bp0n stolen.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
GROWING INFAMY

TT THE machine element of the Re-
publican party which controlled
e the Sacramento convention had
been looking for a browning touch of
infamy with which to. decorate itself,
it certainly found it when it elected
a man like Michael Henry De Young
of the San Francisco Chronicle dele
gate at large to the national Repub-
lican conkention, and in the same vote
defeated a man like General II. G.
otis of the Los Angeles Times for
that position.
1t is true that the belligerent editor
of the Times has accumulated very
extensive crop of enemies in the course
of a strenuous journalistic career Some
of these enemies have, no doubt, the
right to complain that in the Berserker
rage of combat the blows of the bel
ligerent editor have fallen upon inno-
cent heads, and undoubtedly he should
be. and we hope he is, sorry that those
things have occurred. But whatever
opinion may be cherished as to the
attitude of the Times in the present
fractional fight in the Republican party.
there can be no question that that
paper and it's owner have behind them
a long record of financial honesty, and
NAV point with pride TO many pa
triotic public services rendered the
community in which and upon which
they exist.
The result achieved in a convention
so completely dominated by the South
ern Pacific interests also suggests the
idea that some of the delegates have
borne in mind the lamhasting the OPP
posing influences have received, and
have governed their actions accord
ingly.
AS compared with the owner of the
malodorous personal and political rep
utation which distinguishes the editor
of that san Francisco journal, whose
political reputation is best illustrated
by the extended hand, the editor of
the Times who met defeat at the hands
of the convention which chose Mike
De Young, is as Hyperion to satyr
Verify the machine element of the Re
publican party has piled an Ossa Of
infamy upon the Pelion of disgrace.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
OF WORLD wilde INTEREST
HAWAII WANTS HOMESEEKER
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKlN

wall. 1t grows in the high, cool regions
of the islands. 1t does not Tequire ex-
pensive machinery either to grow or to
prepare for market. Neither does 1t
deterioate with age, but rather i'm
proves. 1t is a cash crop and can be
drawn against as soon as single bag
reaches the market. The yield is high
and the returns sure, while the trees
themselves are exceptionally free from
disease.
Twelve acres of coffee land have been
known to yield twelve tons of. coffee,
although a good crop is thousand
pounds an acre. One man can attend
to twenty acres, except at picking time.
Pickers are paid so cents per hundred
weight of berries brought to the mills.
Women are the best pickers and can
pick about 200 pounds a day. Children
are employed to pick the lower
branches, so that STOPPING is almost
eliminated. The annual crop is valued
at about a third of million dollars,
some $4,000 acres being devoted to it.
Nearly all of Hawaii's coffee goes to
the mainland of the United States, the
greater part being used on the Pacific
coast. IL Is mild in type and has
very different flavor from the heavy
South American coffees which find such
favor in the States.
The rubber industry In Hawaii is still
In the experimental stage. but experts
believe the opportunities for profit are
going to be large. Preliminary expert
ments by the government indicate a
high yield from even young trees. Over
100000 rubber trees have been planted
in the islands, and still other planta-
tions are being established. The in
creasing demands and the inadequate
supply of rubber in the commercial
world makes the price of this commod-
ity very attractive proposition to the
planter. But rubber growing is a bust
ness which requires scientific knowledge
and which yields slow returns. 1t is
not inviting to the small farmer.
Experiments with tobacco show that
grades which compare favorably with
the best that Cuba and Brazil have to
offer can be grown on Hawaiian soil.
Hawaiian tobacco can come into the
United States duty free, and therefore
has an enormous advantage over that
of Cuba and other countries. With this
advantage, and an equally good grade
of leaf to offer. Hawaii tobacco grow
ers certainly, stand to win big returns
from their labors.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16

exporting country of its size In the
world. But sugar is not the only thing
that fiourishes in the islands.
Pineapples are profitable to grow
wherever soil and climate favors them,
and the Hawaiian product is equal to
anything produced in the West Indies
or elsewhere. 1t is not too much to say
that the pineapple may in itself bring
about statehood for our mid-Pacific
possessions.
On the island of Oahu there was
tract of $4,000 acres of land which was
believed to be without value. A col
ony of fourteen families from Southern
California thought they saw living in
it and bought it for a song, settling on
it themselves.
That was seven years ago. Failure
after failure followed as they tried to
grow different crops. AT last they tried
pineapples with the result that their
disappointments were soon forgotten.
That land now sells for 5000 an acre
and shows an annual profit that justi-
fies the price. Hawaii now has over
5000 acres in pineapples and the in
dustry is on such a profitable footing
that in a few years there Will be at
least 10000 acres under cultivation.
Large areas of good land are avail
able and the markets OF the United
then call for more. Pineapples usually
bear fruit two years after planting,
and the first crop averages ten tons to
the acre. The cost of production ranges
from $40 to SIS per acre and the fruit
is sold to the canneries at from 500 to
SIG per ton. The fancy fruit that goes
to the eastern markets is worth as
high as 5000 per ton. Although this is
strictly an "infant industry as COM
rx.sf1 xxy1fn m
even now the annual yield brings a
good half million of hard cash into the
islands.
Bananas grow in Hawaii in great
abundance, but as yet there is little
market for them. Potatoes do not thrive
well, but there is a ready market for
all that can be produced. The agricul-
tural experiment station at Honolulu
finds that a species of rot holds down
the yield. The station is trying to get
the laborers on the sugar plantations
interested in the growing of silk worms.
It is pointed out that If the families
of these laborers, including the chill
dren, can be brought to the point of
giving their attention to this work it
will very materially augment the in
come of the household and tend to give
stability to the laboring class. 1t is
hoped that attending silk worms will
be made a side issue here like the
American hen is made q side Issue on
the farms OF the United States.
Melons do not thrive very well. In
Hawaii they have little beetle known
as the melon bug which is as fatal
to melons, cantaloupes. pumpkins,
squashes and cucumbers as the tsetse
fly is to horses in Africa. The expert
ment station is trying to produce mel
ons that will be immune to this deadly
insect.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
OUR MUSICAL VISITOR

ITO THE Damrosch family music in
America owes much. Walter is
Il a man who has lived music from
the cradle. He knows no atmosphere
but the musical and his brain II
Xrayed and photographed would be
found to be a mass of quavers, SEMI
ouayers. minims and perhaps a croft
Chef or two His marriage to the
DAUGHTER of James Gillespie Blaine,
considered by many Republicans to be
the greatest master of their political
school who ever lived, was brought
about in no small measure through the
kindly offices of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Carnegie, who helped the courtship OF
the Young couple and We're in way
their patron saints. 1t is doupttui
whether many of the music lovers Oh
Los Angeles who attended the DAM
rosch concerts remembered that wal
ter was Blaines son-in-laW. In mu-
steal career relationships count for lit
tie and ability for everything. We be-
lieve it is greatly to Mr.. Damroschs
artistic credit that his musical repu-
tation has exceeded and outlived !
reputation for relationship with the
founder and originator of the Pan
American congresses. If Damrosch
will take a friends advice he Will
work hard for the introduction INTO
American public schools of a sys-
tenn of musical training or education
which will enable the children to un-
derstand thoroughly as we'll as APP
preciate music deeper and greater than
the tinkling lyric style of the usual
school songs. We believe young Amer
leans should be educated so that they
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
EMPLOYMENT SHOULD BE FOR
WORKERS FROM THE EAST

LOS ANGELES, May 15.-[Editor
Herald: In all the "glad hand" and
"glad rags doings to get men to settle
here 1 find no effort to provide employ
ment for them when they arrive.
"All roads lead to Rome" should be
true of Los Angeles, and If 1.-THE of
the boosting done to bring men here
were given to providing manufacturing
plants, and good roads to reach them,
things would be much improved.
There is capital here for tide-water
smelter, dozen factories and 100 miles
of perfect roads. Someone in authority
should take this matter up, and make
the city a real haven for the willing
worker as we'll as for the tourist. A
surfeit of willing labor will ruin any
city that invites it. A city with pay
rolls is a city with unlimited possibili-
ties. WILBUR X. SANDS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
RICE, COPPER AND RUBBER
AMONG CHIEF INDUSTRIES
WELDING LARGE PROFITS

Rice offers an opportunity for money
making. A Chinaman was asked
whether he made any money growing
rice. He replied that he grew two crops
a wear. one paid the expenses Of both
and he put the returns from the second
crop into his pocket-only the China
man didn't say it quite that way.
Cotton growing promises to be a
profitable industry in the future. Ex-
periments have been made which show
that a grade of sea island cotton can
be grown which compares favorably
with that of South Carolina, both in
grade and in yield. A Peruvian cotton
has been found which f1ourishes in
Hawaii and yields excellent returns.
Coffee is the poor mans crop in Ha-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16

1t is from 1000 to
5000 feet above sea
level, where the rig
ors OF winter and
the burning heat of
summer are alike
unknown. 1t is a
region Of perpetual
spring.
Perhaps very little
of this land is avail
able for the produc-
ton of sugar. A
farming industry
that turns out raw
material worth $780,
100000 each year,
where the entire ter
ritory is smaller
than even the little
state of New Jersey.
is not likely to over
look any such oppor-
tunities for further
expansion. That part
of Hawaii which is
cultivated already
produces enough to
make ii the greatest
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
PERSISTS THAT CATS SHOULD
WEAR CITY LICENSE TAGS

LOS ANGELES, May 15.-[Editor
Herald: In the case of "Sandlotter."
it is to laugh He has a 2x4 patch OF
late sunflowers and some dwarfed gera-
NUNS. and calls 1t a garden. If cats
were licensed it would do away with
thousands of troublesome felines, and
contribute to the peace and rest of the
people. 1t would afford "puddin'
to the poor cat catcher, and ghoulish
glee to an outraged public.
The deep, scientific knowledge of The
Herald's poultry department. started
me-and scores of others-to raise
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16

Tafts nightmare is a Filipino who
won't be contented with the answer,
God knows" when he asks why he
was impoverished, ill-treated, practi-
cally enslaved, and if he protested too
vehemently, thrown into prison, under
a benevolent administration. The Fill
ipinos have been told that as Anerl-
can wards they have a right to ask
questions and demand explanations,
and propose to exercise that right.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16

Members of the Bar association
heartily approve the plan for a greater
law school at Berkeley. Judge j. w.
Mckinley made public denial of the
statement that President Wheeler is
in danger of losing his place because
of his political activities. Judge Nc
xinley said no regent of the university
was not in hearty sympathy with
President Wheeler ana that regents
have no concern with mis- activities as
a citizen.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16

the peg on which to hang another
story" namely, the question of putting
and keeping in decent order of close
but where residents are compelled to
walk on ungraded mud in lieu of side
walks. and that, too, within few
blocks of the city hall. Ord street, west
of Castelar,, and the only approach to
Yale street at the southerly end, is
such a place, and is disgrace to the
municipality. A RESIDENT
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16

chickens, but no one but "Sandlotter',
would try to raise flowers on 'dobe and
house sweepings, and have the gall to
call it garden.
If "Sandlotter" will come my way
I'll give him clear title to l5Oo healthy
cats and then some; and he may exer-
else his deluded fancy to his hearts
content. POULTRY RAISER.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16

T. L. Woolwine is in a Gilbert &c
Sullivan pickle. AS city prosecuting
attorney he is conducting campaign
to force all social clubs selling liquor
to members to take out license. AS
a director of the University club he
may have to issue warrant against
himself
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16

Admiral Bob Evans has the gavel
used by Admiral Horatio Nelson at the
battle of Trafalgar bay, when the lit
tie man with one eye missing and one
arm gone managed to outwit and OUT
fight the fleets of France and Spain.
1t is a lucky gavel, especially when
used by admirals like Nelson and
Evans.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16

The odylic forceful real estate dealer
who has developed strange healing
powers is another illustration of the
versatility and genius of the world
renowned real estate men of Los An
geles
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
Woes of a Candidate

would be able to pick up musical
score and read it as they read print
ed book 1t would add much to their
lives and much to their happiness.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16
The ublic Letter Box

Letters intended for publication must be
accompanied by the name and address OF
the writer The Herald gives the widest
latitude to correspondents, but assumes no
responsibility for their views. Letters
should not exceed 900 words
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-16

John Temple Graves, Hearsts new
hired man, says: Our platform Doodle
Dees) is not symphony but bugle
call" Is it? Sounds more like a fish
peddler's tin horn.