Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-19
PASTOR AND WOMEN
JAILED FOR SPEAKING
MANY FREE SPEECHERS ARE
IN TANKS
Eight More Martyrs" Achieve Their
Arrests and Go to Prison
for CONSTITUTIONAL
Rights"

Ten thousand persons on Fifth street
between Olive and Broadway and up
the intersecting streets saw two pa
rades last night, both orderly, good
natured and both rending the evening
air with shouts and cheers for presi-
Dental candidates.
The Democratic parade with several
bands was marching in orderly ranks
westward on Fifth toward the Temple
auditorium when they met an I'M
promptu parade of Socialists marching
eastward on Fifth. AT the head OF
the latter body, which was composed
of about 5000 men and women, man
bore aloft a soap box :. from Whlch
seventy-five men and women nave
been taken by the police. placed under
arrest and locked in the city jail.
Cheers for Bryan and Democracy
rose and met cheers for Debs and the
"Co-operative commonwealth" Inc
bands were almost drowned in vol
ume of sound when the strains OF the
"MarseilIaise" came from thousands of
threats. Someone called for three
cheers for free speech, and no, one
knows who replied but it seemed as
If the Democrats Joined Justify in the
loud response. Utmost good nature
and orderliness prevailed as the lines
of marchers passed each other and
went on their way.
Mothers Are Arrested
Later on six men and two women
in the Socialist crowd were arrested
and locked in the city Jail, charged
with speaking on the streets without
permits from the police commissioners.
The entire party refused to give bail
or allow ii to be given, declaring they
prefer to go to Jail if it may help win
what they call free speech for the
people of Los Angeles.
Uhose arrested were Mrs. L. N,
Hicks of Pasadena, SO years of age
and mother of six children; Mrs. W..
e. Smith Of Pasadena, mother Of two
children; Rev. e. A. Cantrel, a Uni
tartan minister of Pasadena, who for
merly held a pastorate in Los An
geles; Cloudesley Johns, secretary OF
the county organization of the Social
ist party, and husband of Mrs. Doro-
thea Johns, who has been in the prison
two weeks for speaking on the streets,
John w. Flanagan of Pico street ana
Western avenue, a mining engineer;
Jacob Muehleisen, machinist sol
South olive; Benjamin Thatcher, a
grocer of $40 East Thirty-sixth street;
I. B. Barnett, a printer of Santa Mon
White-Halred Woman Speaks
Early in the evening several
speeches were made at Seventh and
Main street, where the Socialists de-
clare they have no permit, but where
the police do not modest them despite
the fact that traffic is blocked every
time a man or woman mounts soap
box at that point. The crowd moved
by a devious course, gathering in vol
ume, until they reached Seventh and
Grand avenue, where the arrests or
Mrs. Hicks, Benjamin Thatcher and
]. b. Barnett were achieved" Each
sneaker was allowed from three to
five minutes before the patrolraen I'M
der Sergeant George Sparks quietly
carried out the dialogue about free
speech and the constitution and took
the speakers away. AIRS. Hicks, D
white-haired, motherly- looking woman,
spoke earnestly about the struggle for
the freedom our forefathers fought for
and for which we arc now compelled
to suffer Imprisonment and persecu-
ton" The patrolmen, who were every
where a part OF the procession, listened
attentively and were very gentle with
the woman when the signal was given
for them to do their duty.
Minister Goes to Jail
The procession" which then had
assumed the proportions Of several
thousand persons. marched to tltth