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chances as to the sort of a chap that ne
becomes. His father, Prince Chung,
has been appointed regent.
What is hard to understand Is why
if Prince Chung is the right man to
be the head of the Chinese government,
he is not made emperor and let his
son succeed him when he dies.
OF one thing we may be sure. The
forbidden city is a hotbed of intrigue,
and the city is forbidden" in order
that it may be made difficult to find
out what goes on there. There is no
reason for secrecy in regard to the
conduct of any government, except as
power is made use of to promote the
fortunes of individuals in ways that
will not bear the light. How the i'm
perial government of China is really
carried on is doubtless very well un-
derstood by the diplomatic corps, whose
members will not tell. 1t is to be
hoped that Sir Robert Hart will live
many years, but he must die some
time and it will be a calamity if he
does not leave to the world the infor-
nation about the actual government
of China which he certainly possesses.
1t has been asserted that the death
of the emperor or of the dowager
empress was sure to be followed by eff
forts of the young Chinese to dis
place the Manchu dynasty and set up
a real Chinese emperor, but thus far
there are no signs of 1t. All that can
be done is to wait and see.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24

1T NOW appears that Norris Haas
unwittingly did the very thing that
a was needed to aid the graft prose-
cution to complete success. 1t is unde-
niable that prior to the attempted as
sassination of Heney there was a
growing sentiment, constantly fostered
by the newspaper organs of the higher
ups" that the prosecution was not ike
ly to succeed, and that it would be
better for San francisco to drop the
hopeless task Each failure to convict
was artfully used to strengthen this
idea, and even some stanch citizens
who had favored continuing the war
on grafters so long as might be neces-
sary to mete out justice began to
waver and to wonder if, after all, it
would not be wiser to abandon what
appeared to be a losing fight.
1t was at this psychological moment
that a cowardly attempt was made to
murder the one man whom San Fran
cisco boodlers most fear. 1t produced
a tremendous revolution of public
opinion. 1t strengthened Weakened
friends of justice. People recalled
other acts of lawlessness which, if not
inspired by grafters, were at least in
the interest of grafters-the kidnapping
of a San Francisco editor, the spiriting
away of Latham, a witness for the
prosecution; the dynamiting of Witness
Gallaghers house, the attempt to bride
prospective Ruef jurymen, and the con-
fession of the man guilty of that crime;
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CALLS coLLEcTIVIsM THE
GREATEST OF MoNoPoLlES

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19.-l Editor
Herald: 1 am asked by another Social
istic protagonist to tell when and where
Socialism proposed to make monopoly
supreme, 1 will tell you; But first,
what is monopoly? 1t is any legislative
grant giving to an individual or class
of individuals special legal privileges
Socialism proposes to give to that class
of individuals constituting the majority
the privilege of controlling all the
means of the production and distribu-
ton of wealth. Socialism is monopoly
par excellence. Not even an absolute
monarchy can compare with 1t.
Power of the majority, like the power
of monarchy, is none the less power
and is monopolistic in character. AL
ready l have reafhrmed suf1cient rea-
sons for any logical mind to see that
the very foundation of parliamentary
Socialism is compulsory. 1t is based
on majority rule, and this is compul-
sorry or it is not rule
Mr.. Slocum, like many other Social
lists, has his heart in the right place,
but mistakes his own transformation
for mine. I am glad he wishes to
abolish monopoly and wants equal free
dom, but, bless you, only the mo rule"
Socialists propose to work for these.
If Ms Slocum is not as familiar with
this school of Socialism as he thinks
l am with so-called Scientific" Social
ism, let him read a little. Perhaps
Proudhon, Tucker. Steven Pearl An
drews, etc, are as unknown to him as
Marx, Engels, Kautsky and company
are supposed to be to me. II logic
will not convince can quote.
CASSIUS ". COOK.
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SAYS REDUCE THAT DOG TAX
AND SAVE FURTHER TROUBLE

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21.-[Editor
Heraldl; Reading your editorial under
caption Humanity" in today's Herald,
/ could not keep the word "poppycock"
out of my head. We have now only a
dog SHELTER, not a dog POUND, we
are told. Let us examine this little
essay in euphemism, and what do we
find? Just this: We have a place
where a stray dog may be kept loI.~
enough to determine whether he has
a selling" value or not. If he has,
then he will be kept, giving his (pre-
sumably) well to do owners time and
opportunity to reclaim him; or some
other opulent person the chance to buy
him.
But if he is a mongrel-a poor mans
dog-he will be killed, "just in the same
old (Vacher) way" unless his owner
(already too poor to pay the taxi con-
sents TO be further soaked-also In the
same old (Vacher) way.
1t is useless CLOSING over the fact.
We have the old conditions (broadly),
but a little furnished up, and in the
hands of more aristocratic manage
ment Like the headsman of old per-
haps they will bow to the victim be-
fore giving him the coup, but hell get
it all the same" while the dog owner
who is poor will be worse off than ever
being, as 1 understand, liable to arrest
now If too poor to pay the ~ tax;
whereas in the old days he could escape
bv not letting his dog run at large.
There is only one reasonable course
open: Reduce the dog tax by half.
That would make for simplicity and
general satisfaction and would be found
10 nav. too. in the long rum
CONRAD WELT.
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SANTA CLAUS

w HEN Santa Claus comes to Los
w Angeles he will make his head
quarters at the Y. M. c. A.
building. where Los Angeles Herald
will superintend a Christmas festival
at which there will be good cheer and a
good time for young folks and for older
folks with young hearts. Contributions
for The Herald's Christmas dinner fund
are being volunteered in that free spirit
of liberal generosity which is charac-
teristic of Los Angeles and Southern
California. This is Neighbor-L Land
where everybody tries to be neishborly
with everybody else, and to give every
body else a square DEAL Neighborli-
ness cannot exist without kindness, and
active kindness consists not merely in
wishing your neighbor a merry Christ
mas, but in helping to give him q
merry Christmas.
All the good people who help The
Herald to give the young folks happy
holiday season and Christmas that
will be memorable may consider
themselves to be members of Santa
Claus committee, and all contributions
will be announced in our news col
umns.
Don't think small contributions are
not acceptable. Send in your dimes or
send in your dollars. Donations in
kind are acceptable. Clothes, shoes and
toys can be used. Santa Claus will be
especially busy this year, because there
are many poor children who will have
no Christmas unless he provide it. Con-
ditions in California Of course are much
better than in the east, and in this for
tunate place we have known nothing of
the great poverty and suffering which
the poor people of the east endured
during the hard times, and from which
many Of them are still suffering. But
even in happy California there are good
reasons why Santa Claus should per-
sonally attend to the Christmas work,
and why he should invite all citizens
who have the Christmas spirit to help
him.
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CARNEGIE AND TARIFF

A NDREW CARNEGIE, the friend
n of James G. Blaine and one of the
chief benehciaries of the tariff, is
in favor of tariff reform, and believes
in a discriminative tariff which would
make the rich bear the burden of
this peculiar kind of taxation and
would exempt the POOR. Mr. Carnegie
says our infant industries of the past
have reached maturity, and the tariff
should be considered only from reve-
nue. producing and not protective
basis.
AS to his own speciality. the iron
master says: 1.-The day has passed
when any foreign country can seriously
affect our steel manufactures, tariff or
no tariff. The republic has become
the home of steel. and this is the age
of steel"
When the chief beneficiaries of pro-
lection begin to talk in favor of tariff
reform, it is time to ask whether the
influences which were used TO give
power to an anti-reform Republican
government really represented the
SolASs SOOCAg 0CSOlAo tAlOu6nl VI liS
American people. According to Mr..
Carnegie they did not.
The chief argument against his
change of front is its inconsistency. 1t
looks as if he had regarded protection
as a means of building up his industry
and his mammoth fortune, and that
feat having been accomplished, as if
he no longer cared for the arbitrary
economical device which he used for
the purpose of becoming a millionaire.
At the same time, the Andrew Car
negie who frees his mind by giving
an honest opinion. unbiased by bust
ness necessities, unmoved by business
prejudicies, is really a more represen-
tative American than the Carnegie who
for years viewed every policy adopted
by the United States from a strictly
business point, and judged it not by
its usefulness to the American people,
but by its usefulness to his steel in
dustry.
1t is hard to realize the man who
says protection is no longer needed"
Is the same who opposed bitterly Mr..
Cleveland's various presidential candi-
datures, on the ground that Cleveland
was a tariff reformer and inimical
to protection. Verify, circumstances
alter cases, and opinions.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24
OBEDIENCE TO LAW

II EV. DIR. LOCKE expressed from
* his pulpit a thought which is in
IL many hearts and minds when he
said that even as eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty. even so eternal OBJ
servance of law is the price of pros
perity. We do not quote him, but be-
lieve we have expressed the spirit Of
what he said, and it is entirely in har-
mony with remarks which from time
to time have been made in these col
umns. II there are rules, then play
the game according to the rules. If
there are laws. let them be obeyed.
DR.. Locke says the church should
help to enforce the laws. This is true
We sometimes wonder whether per-
sons who attend Sunday services don't
leave their consciences at the church
door, because on Monday they resume
business or politics with the same dis
play of (pardon the expressive French)
insouciance and abandon which char
acterized them before the pastoral ad-
monitions fell on their Sunday ears.
1.-THE crime against our cities today
is that bad men and officials conn.ye
at the infraction of the law. We have
good laws, and in most cities sufficient
laws. but we are living in a humiliating
and exasperating era of the non-en-
forcement of law. Here Is the churoh's
chance. Good men are almost GRIM
inally responsible for their lethargy
and unconcern. 1t is the utter lassi- |
tude of the lawkeeping portion of So
ciety which results in the cruel and |
devilish aggressiveness of all forms of
vice"
This is not only true as a general |
but we will venture to say
it is true in the experience of many |
of our readers. We are not half enough |
in earnest about the active and actual |
of our laws. Now, as the |
boys say. Honest Injun, are We? Own
up" DR.. Locke thinks the church |
should maintain a law enforcement bu-
reau in every city. but we think if
every citizen will make up his mind
to take an active interest in the laws
and their enforcement, the church will
be saved from the necessity Of going
into the police business"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24
CONDEMNS SOCIETY FOR ITS
HEARTLESSNESS TO VICTIMS

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20.-[Editor
Herald: The Indian parable by L. w.
H. is certainly most pathetic, and COM
pares favorably with the words OF
Christ when he said to the woman
Neither 40 { condemn thee, go in peace
and sin no more" How different from
these is the attitude of us boastful,
twentieth century savages. I care not
who he may be, high or low, rich or
poor, whose heart is not touched,
whose very soul is not stirred with
pity, rather than scorn, for those poor
unfortunates. He has sunk so low in
the scale of human degradation that
the unfortunate whom he scorns is as a
virgin compared to him.
Not until society has evoluted to
that point where it will attack the
cause instead of prosecuting the eff
feet, will this or any other form or
vice or crime cease to exist. While
we may not fully realize to what ex-
tent society is injured by the so-called
social evil, we know enough of 1t to
know there is a cause for it's existence.
That cause requires but two words to
tell the whole story: Mans cussedness.
Society ostracizes the unfortunate;
does 1t so treat that cross between a
man and a fiend who made the unfor-
tunate what she is? No, it frequently
lionizes him.
When he sees fit to cast her off like
a broken toy even if before our So
called courts of justice he admits ne
killed her, if he has influence the law
says can't prove anything Society
says by it's silence, all right It's only
a woman The case is closed.
This is our system, this our boosted
American civilization. Men and wo-
men of Los Angeles, the city beautit-
full the home of many cults, 1sms and
refinement, will you not see it is this
awful system under which we live
that is the cause of all our social ills.
our social ulcers, our social unrest?
This system where man is lord and
womankind is classed with idiots, you
win see it when the social fiend enters
your home and ruins perhaps once
true loving wife, sister or daughter
Many of you see it now, but the love
of the almighty dollar hardens your
heart and sears your conscience, and
you still try to bolster up the rotten
system that is killing the body; yes
killing the very soul of Americanism.
T. ]. POLLARD.
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F. B. Loomis of the American COM
mission to the japanese exposition is
reported by a Republican newspaper
to have said: 1.-THE Japanese govern
ment and the japanese people were I'M
relenting in their courtesies to the three
separate bodies of American represen-
tatives." What are "unrelenting cour-
tesies?" In the old days they would
have been associated with baths in boil
ing oil. But we thought the Japs had
nationally outliyed that form of siren
1ousness.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24

Emperor William now claims he
originated the plan of campaign by
which General Roberts defeated the
Beers. He says when the British
forces were meeting continued re-
verses he mapped out line of work
for them, submitted it to the general
staff for criticism and sent it on to
England. This will be cheerful news
both to the Beers, who thought the
German emperor was their friend, and
to General "Bobs," who has claimed
considerable credit for final results in
the Transvaal.
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be established industries which COM
pete with those of the United States we
cannot punish our colonists for our
oversight.
1t won't do. If the annexation of
Cuba, which is now being talked of,
will hurt the business interests of Cali
fornia, then let California protest and
continue to protest against the Re-
publican imperial policy and be fore
most in the fight against the annexa-
ton of Cuba.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24
AT THE THEATERs

AUDITORTUM-+A Stranger in a Strange
Land"
RIsLAsCO-''Madam Butterfly" and 1.-THE
Critic"
HTASON-"Peer Gynt."
BELASCO-''Brown of Harvard"
BURBANK-"Zaza."
GRAND-"The Idols Eye"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
los ACCOMPLISHMENTS
PEOPLE'S-"Uncle Josh Perkins"
FISCHER'S-"The WOoleywine Hotel"
EAfPIRE-VaudeviIle
UNIQUE-"The Doctor"
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Judge Wilbur's wish that the legis-
lature will adopt laws for the ade-
quate protection of young girls will
be shared by every respectable and
self-respecting member of the COM
munity. Crimes like those associated
with dance halls of the infamous and
debased sort should be punished with
the utmost severity.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24

Arcadia race track will open Thurs
day. Let citizens who have the best
interests of this community at heart
keep such close watch over the race
track that it will be possible to present
to the public evidence which will make
a continuance of race track gambling
impossible. The evil is at our doors.
Let us fight it.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24

Royalty in the person of former
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii is now on
these shores. 1t is not every republic
that owns a queen. Hurrah for Uncle
saml What he hasn't in his big out
fit" is not worth having.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24

According to an expert there is a
tendency to improve jails steadily, and
absolute luxuries in such reformatories
may be expected in the future. There
are no palatial suites in the new work.
house, so perhaps 1t is not exactly
down to date. But. at any rate. there
are bathing facilities and the prison
ers will be kept clean. "
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24

A big eastern stock and grain brok-
erage house will open branch in Los
Angeles. Ere many years have come
and gone, Los Angeles business houses
will be opening branches in the east.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24

John D. Rockefeller says Flagler and
Dodd are the originators of the Stan
dard Oil trust. Jawn D., like some
other great and good men, becomes un-
commonly and unprecedentedly modest
when on the witness stand.
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THE THRoUBLE

och, why should 1 think av that ship av
Av that soft little whisp av a thing?
och, why should she throubie bullock like 4
me,
who's thraveled and taken me ning?
Aroo, and a pea is mite av thing.
Tho shut in your shoe and twill shmarti
But mite av a gurl will throuble We more
when she's tight on the tip av your
hearth
Arthur stringer in I1verybodys
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24

Former Senator Chandler says after
death men will be reincarnated and
will go to live on star. All right,
senator. What chiefly concerns most
men is how to make living on this
nianet
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24

When Carnegie was poor. Carnegie
protected" would be.
Now Carnegie is rich, and "the deuce
take protection" says he.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24
Obstinate Creature

"a False Sweetheart is the title of
one of the new plays. She probably re-
fuses to let the hero get a divorce
without opposition in Nevada.-Chicago
Record Herald.
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And Vlcs Versa
Far and Wide
Oil Stencil

Since the United States court first
split hairs in the defense of the oil
monopoly it's management has become
a worse stencil in the country's nos
trils. Revelations from the letter book
of the corporation put an unlovelier
face on the pretenee that when the
Standard was taking railroad rebates 1t
was innocent of law breaking. Not
even the Judgment of the United States
supreme court, should that be accom-
plished, that technically the Standard
was guiltless of crime in the Alton
cases, would alter the public belief that
the officers of the company closed a
highway to its rivals by methods
which, in the words of the trial judge,
wounded society more deeply than
counterfeiting or robbing the malls
New York Press.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24
trust oversIaht

A New York butcher died worth $780,
900, 600. The Chicago meat trust evil
IDENTIFY has been overlooking some
.-Washington Star,
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Inquiry from Texas

Nat Goodwin's marriages took place
in 1873, 1888, 1898 and 1908. Now, who in
the devh does he expect to marry in
191g?-Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24

Francis J. Heney is on the road to
recovery. He is giving interviews
which are marked by pith, precision
and pungency.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24

Assuming that Mr.. Hearst has other
letters VIII he keep them unread to
the public until the next election?-
Portland Telegram.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24
The Public Letter BON

intended for publication
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24

Hold on to happiness
Never let 1t so,
Even when the world is dark
And the tempests hlow
Hold en- to happiness,
Come what fortune may;
Twill be all the sweeter when
Sorrow fades agay.
Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24
The State Press
Dishonest Revision

OF course, there will be no mani
festation of honesty in the revision
of the tariff which is to be under
taken by Cannon and his pets next
spring, but the people of California,
by re-electing such congressman as
Needham, Kahn, McLachlan, McKin-
lay, ETC., have signified their desire TO
continue to be made the victims of
the trusts which have been allowed
by the tariff to rob the people Of this
country.-Madera Tribune.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-24
Practical Reform

Congress should get busy as soon as
it assemblies and make it a crime to
wear trousers with pockets. Then, you
see, there would be no place for either
the pistol or the black bottle.-Newark
News,
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California Editors

When you see stately, keen eyed
man wandering about any portion of
the valley during the next two days
spot him, for that is an editor. That
is the man who has made Southern
California famous, who has painted the
lilies and added colors to the rainbow
until everywhere the grandeur and
glory of the land are known.-Imperial
Standard.
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Competent

Gear Nicholas has been warning the
Servian crown prince against the dan
ger of war. Personal experience has
made him a competent teacher of this
particular branch of study.-Yonkers
Statesman
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Hearst

During the campaign just closed
William / lndolph Hearst has proven
to the entire satisfaction of the whole
country what the Star said about him
ten years ago and has been saying
ever since-that he is moral degen-
crate, untruthful, vicious, dishonest
and malicious.-Sa Francisco Star.
Poor Bill Hearst
Politically and socially Hearst is
dead one. Financially, he is reported
to be but little better off. And there
are few to regret. Only certain po-
litical hangers-on, who annexed part
of his former wealth, will shed tears
Visalia Times.
And Vice Versa
Every time a man thinks of matri-
mony he thinks of millinery.-.Whittier
News,