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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22
Advises Government TO
Steer Clear OF Socialism

the banks. Either the help furnished
the classes mentioned should be de-
clared unlawful and those punished who
violated the law, or the great mass of
our population should be helped at
need with like motive and by like
means. When it was proposed to make
special issues of currency on good Sc
curity to the farmers that their crops
might be sent to market Republicans
quoted the law and stood by the letter
of the constitution; why should the
rigidity be RELAXED for the banks and
financial institutions when denied
first to the farmers and now to the
mechanics and to unskilled labor?
Let there be a fair deal. Let each of
us be treated alike, If this govern
ment is to steer clear of Socialism, let
it do so; il 1t is to adopt Socialism as
rule, let 1t begin by helping the poor
rather than the rich. We believe in
the constitution and hope to see it OBJ
served in letter and in spirit, but it
cannot be made contemplate sooner or
more utterly than by using it as au-
thority for denying favors to the poor
or the helpless which are extended fire.
quently and freely to the rich and the
powerful.
The Republican party has now lived
long enough to realize the harvest it.
has sown. Let us see that fair dis
tribution is made.-Florida Times
Union.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
RUFF PROSECUTION

~ ISTRICT ATTORNEY LANGDON,
ID by his decision to waive all fur
~ Their dickering looking toward i'm
munity for Ruef and to bring Ruef at
once to trial, lifts a cloud of anxiety
from the public mind. Ruef out of
Jail and all other accused men in
would make the graft prosecution
measure look like the play OF Hamlet
with the character of Hamlet omitted.
The taking of the decision of the
court of appeals, in the case of Schmitz,
up to the supreme court is in line with
action toward Ruef. and both incidents
revivify hope that at last some ade-
quate returns to the people and the law
may be looked for.
The question of the expediency of
dealing at all with Ruef is now open
to grave objections, and the one GER
tain way to re-establish unbounded
public confidence is to push his trial
and hasten his punishment. While the
people wait on the action of the appel
late courts on the cases now before
them, let Mr.. Langdon press some of
the many other cases on the docket and
so make this master schemer feel the
dread power of law honestly admins
tered.
II Ruef threw down" the prosecution
in the TREY Ford case common sense
tells it's members he would throw
them down" in any other case, and
even the questionable gain of another
convict at the loss of the chief male
factor does not give room for two
opinions.
The judicial backbone of Judges
Dunno and Lawlor is something to be
proud of and thankful for, and Mr..
Langdon will receive the heartiest and
most loyal support of all the people as
he pushes to conviction this man who
has been the rallying point of all the
roguery, the disgrace of which now
whelms San Francisco.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22
Westinghouse Pleased
With the Direct Primary

equipped for office as they are; prob
ably no candidate would deny that
Seattle can produce some men who are
ADLER than each of them; but the can
didates now before the people can claim
that they are the best that the public
could procure, and that such being the
case, the public must choose which of
them 1t wants.
In order that this shall be done it is
not only desirable but imperative that
every citizen who is not sluggard, a
sloth or a drone should, If he is able to
walk, both register and vote. If he
does so he may feel conscious of hav-
ing done the best that he can, and that
If no one of the candidates proves
wholly satisfactory it is up to the
voters to get better ones next time. If
he does not do SO, he may rest assured
that he has lost all civic pride or con-
science and deserves to have his prop
cry taxed out of existence and his
public treasury robbed by the political
freebooters of the old system.-Seattle
Observation-Disclosures
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

It will be amusing to watch the red
tape of courtmartial proceedings to
discover where Reuterdahl got infor-
nation any one might have secured at
the library at Washington or from
talking to any naval officer, active or
retired. The magazine article contained
no information not already on file in
the war offices of every power in the
world. Everybody seems to have known
these things except the bureau chiefs
at Washington.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

Eastern papers are fretting about
Jack London and his failure to appear
at some scheduled port. After some
nice moralizing, the Milwaukee Sentinel
speaks of the Shark as a "cockleshell of
a boat" London's ketch rig auxiliary
ship was built for rough weather and
will probably ride out storms that
would wreck most larger ships A full
and capable crew is on board. The
cruise is not considered by seafarine
men to be a rash undertaking. The
Shark will turn up at some port when
the party gets ready to cast anchor.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

in Is a y the Southern Pacific seem
ia B IA Nl unnecessarily alarm d.
lM e MAl Whether or not they were
zszsal speaking by the card when
one told the Wyoming
Wool Growers association and the
other the California Fruit Growers
association that new railroad con-
struction was on the verge of ceas-
ing altogether, because of restrictive
railroad laws, and frightened investors,
one cannot say; but Mr. Mothers fears
at least seem far fetched. H. is scared,
he says, by the spread of the prohibit
ton wave in the south. He classes it
along with other reforms as an impede
ment in the path of the railroad. Since
the government income from the liquor
business will greatly decrease because
of prohibition, Mr.. Mohler has an idea
that the authorities will try to tax in
terstate business. It's a queer notion.
Somewhere in that little-heeded and
oddly interpreted document, the consti-
tuition of the United States, is a pro-
vision that no tax or duty shall be laid
on trade between the states. OF course,
there have been occasions when depen-
dence upon the constitution might not
have been wise, but the words here and
the intent are so plain that they cannot
be misunderstood. If Mr.. Mohler will
take but a brief half hour to glance
liberties he will observe his qualms to
be the product of an overheated mag
nation.
AS for prohibition itself, one of its
greatest aids has been the railroads.
They have come to demand men of
clear eye, clear brain and steady hand.
Liquor has probably cost the railroads
more than it has all the other business
interests of the nation combined; and
the railroads have done more than the
united efforts of all the churches and
the forces of reform to diminish and
end its use Twenty-Five thousand en-
ployes of the Northwestern "signed the
pledge" the first day of the current year
at the solicitation of the company Of
ficials. So, If reproach for prohibition
is to go anywhere. Mr.. Mohler may
heap it on his associates and on eco
nomic necessities.
Nor need Mr.. Mohler and Mr.. Shoup
worry so much over frightened dol
lars" The west must have railroads.
The west knows this and the west is
ready to supply the money to abolish
it's own deficiencies. Restrictive legis-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22
LINE VS.. STAFF

DGTTER partisanship has drawn its
X line of cleavage in the matter of
~ the dispute between President
Roosevelt and Rear Admiral Brown
son, and calmer and dispassionate judg-
ment may now be heard.
For years an army staff officer has
been in supreme command of the great
steam transports plying between San
Francisco and Manila, and no friction
resulted The master of the ship, for
all purposes of navigation, has been a
man duly licensed as master, and from
the moment the ships lines are let go
in San Francisco till they are passed
ashore-or to the buoy-in an eastern
harbor the ship master was in abso-
lutte control and was held responsible
for her safety and service. A hospital
ship is a floating hospital on a sea-
going steamer, and her master would
be equally free from interference from
DR.. Stokes or any other surgeon while
the vessel was en- route to and till she
was anchored at the desired port. All
internal economic questions arising
while EN- route would be with the sur
geon in charge, but if any or all of
them infringed on the things held in
the judgment of the sailing master to
be prejudicial to his view of duty the
law and custom give his wishes pre-
cedence; and there you are.
The gravamen of Brownson's COM
plant lies in the fact that line" Of
ficer in command of a naval hospital
ship would be under the orders of a
STAFF officer in charge of that ship.
1t is not a question of the service to be
rendered to the country, but question
of the precedence of line" over staff
officers which has honeycombed the
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22
Declares Railways Need
MOI Fear Restriction

lation is doing no great harm. The rail-
roads have found that they can live
under commission laws, even one so
drastic as that OF New York. In fact,
they find that these laws are an
economy, since they save the railroads
the price of political backsheesh.
But, really, it is not in accord with
Mr.. Mothers gloomy views to note that
the Union Pacific has ordered 17s miles
of 90-pound rails to be used this year
in building valuable line from Port
land to Tacoma-a line, by the way, the
Union Pacific plans to build in spite of
prohibition, frightened dollars and re-
srictive laws.-Tacoma News.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22
MY LITTLE GIRL

love wood violets found in May;
love the roses which make June gay.
love the mating song of the thrush,
And the bunting's trill from the underbrush.
Yet fresh wild flowers, are not so sweet
As my little girl to me;
Nor the songs of birds SO sweet as the words
OF my little girl TO me.
I love the crisp wind across the fields
When summer time to the autumn yields;
love the quiet of cozy rooms
And a CHEEKY hearth when the winter comes;
Yet more than the fields and the bright
1reside
Is my little girl to me,
Yes more than the whole bright world
beside
Is my little girl to me.
kansas City Times
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

The Merchants and Manufacturers
association reports that Los Angeles
did not suffer in any marked degree
from the effects of the recent indus
trial, commercial and financial unrest.
The reason for our immunity is that
our institutions are founded on solid
business principles. The stability of our
banks and commercial institutions was
never for a moment questioned by any
body anywhere during the entire period
of uncertainty.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

In the innocence of his heart a
learned gentleman discussed the posi-
ton of the two great political parties on
the liquor question. Nearer, election
time, in many regions of the United
States where some authorities might
be in favor of changing the name to the
Benighted States, there will be anxious
meetings of representatives of grog to
discuss the position of the liquor party
with regard to the two great political
interests
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

The man who has nicknamed the
San Francisco martyr "Rueful Ruef"
is in danger of a chain-gang sentence.
s.
The Florida Times Union runs a head
Poetry, Rhyme and Doggerel," and
prints under it a nice little thing in
three verses from the Yonkers States
man. Isn't this handing it to Oliver
rather hard?
=
Artist (proudly exhibiting large cam
vas)-Here's my latest. It's view of
the rocks near Balboa Beach.
Groucher-Too bad to spoil all that
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

Some of the unemployed in Boston
held up Trinity church for Sundays
collection. Bishop Phillips Brooks sue
cessor, Rev. Alexander Mann, took the
raid in good part, and with keen APP
probation of the situation apologized
because the days collection had already
been pledged to foreign missions, but
promised that next Sundays would be
devoted to domestic needs.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

At Grass Valley the people are ex-
pressing surprise because a poor old
pauper who was buried the other day
owned, once upon a time, a string of
race horses. Now, why should that be
surprising?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22
Modern

He is called the modern Coleridge?"
Yes; his best known poem is entitled The
Ancient Aeriner.' you know. recall only
these lines of 1t:
''Air, air everywhere,
But not a bit TO breathel"
TITS about a party being becalmed right
over the Chicago stock yards. don't fancy
the piece, myself. It's too gruesome. Puck.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

One little street car strike cost Mum
Gle, Ind, $4,000 for martial law. It's
doubtful if the town got its moneys
worth.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

good tarpaulin when it would have
made such a swell tent fly.
IS
The Elks 1909 convention will prob
ably come to Los Angeles. Already a
frivolous bard has prepared the ode of
welcome. 1t is brief poem, perhaps
the briefest ever perpetrated, but in its
scope, it's height, it's breadth, it's depth,
it is epic. please note the Teddy-Bear
spelling):
'Welk,
Elk!'
Stuporous melancholia is the latest
diagnosis for Harry Thaw's case,
That's worse than "dementia Ameri-
cana" but it may bring better ver-
dict.
Georgians are seriously investigating
the Courier-JournaFs assertion that
there's intoxication in the kiss of girl
-
A Los Angeles lawyer has shown
how experience teaches caution. He
sent an order to a high class employ
ment agency for a stenographer, stipu-
lating that she must be blonde and
inclosed a lock of his wife's hair.
-
Beck-My uncle who owned a distil-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22
The Public Letter Box

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j. Letters intended for publica- :
+ ton must be accompanied by the =
i name and address of the writer. =
j. The Herald gives the widest :
!. latitude to correspondents, but :
! assumes no responsibility for :
1. their views. Letters should not =
+ exceed 800 words.
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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

lszza HE sauarest and fairest meth
lNNZ cd Of attaining the best re-
- suits in politics is that applied
I# in the direct primary law,
- provided every one who can
will register under 1t.
If every one who can Will
register and vote, then no one can
have any fair. legitimate, reasonable
objection to the result.
Under the direct primary law any citi-
zen who will consent to the use of his
name may become a candidate for pub,
lie office. Under the convention methou
only those who could manipulate in
trigue and combine in deals and
GRADES" could, with very few excep-
tons. become party nominees, and this
is a government of party.
Consequently, under the direct pri-
mary system, the best that the city az
fords in politics is before the people.
Probably few of the candidates now
hofore the people for nomination to Of
flee would claim that there are no
other persons in Seattle so well
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

A Kansas newspaper has an editorial
headed How Georgia Takes It." IT'S
a safe bet Georgia takes it straight
without chaser--if she can get it.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

A Norwegian inventor has patented
fabric which applied TO a suit as
lining will support the wearer in wa
ter. This ought to be good stuff for
Wall street to print stock certificates
on.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

lery in Georgia has turned it into a
pickle factory.
Peck-Well pickle usually tastes
pretty good the morning after.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

Beck-My uncle who owned distil
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22

r. MOHLER of the Union
Pacific and Mr.. Shoup of
the Southern Pacific seem
unnecessarily a larm e d.
Whether or not they were
speaking by the card when
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-22
''Welk,
Elk"

Georgians are seriously investigating
the Courier-Journal's assertion that
there's intoxication in the kiss of girl
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12

"And what was it like?" said with in
tense interest.
ut was awful. It was unspeakable. 1t
was chaos-raving, mad, bowling chaos
Have you ever been under chloroform' ana
do you know that die-away-a nqwanff
through 1t your head and all the doors are
being slammed. just before, you lose oS Con
PIT If wasn't The darkness-the abso-
Lutte darkness was in your head and your
and yet You we're staT We ia as your
eVes And then through it all, we heard
the rustic of the house, and the music of
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12
That's only tinny-not terrifying, sure

That's only tinny-not terrifying, sure
'Wait! I had arranged the things beau
tifully. Tom and 1 and Eva and Geissler
were to sit in front and the children at
the back, because they We're tall and
wanted to talk. You know when you are
absolutely certain of seeing a thing, you
carry the outline of 1t in your minds eye
so that it looks real, don't you? When
saw the stage and so on, because a stage
is naturally what you expect to see from
the best box in the theater: We banged
fhe chairs about-they were horribly dusty
and then I heard the Evans boy saying
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12

Good Godp under his breath. Tom put
bracelet into the bone, Don't jump or
scream he said. Look"
"a headless woman in a vacant chair,
or a red dog, or something nice and maya
ziny Mrs. Skittleworth, please don't" 1
whimpered, because Mrs. Skittleworth is
much above that sort of entertainment.
81 knew you would" she answered.
you. We looked out of the box at the
stage and at the house, and there was
nothing whatever to be seen! Do you I'M
derstand that? Nothing whatever to be
seem"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12

Millions of tons of iron undere the farm lands in the
Guyana District Heavy options for Range
paid since the discovery of in this locality
In instance 100000 cash paid for the privilege OF
exploring fifteen acre tracts The Northwestern improve
Company organized by the Northern Pacific Railway
interests develop iron deposits along their railroad paid
$i0OO fee tract of land which only few years pre-
vous sold by their agent for $4,000.
time invest in lands for future develop.
DON'T hesitate and then always regret aterward
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12

tons carried on by THIS
corporation. as it is not the
intention of The Iron Pro-
ducing Lands Company to
conine their developing
operations to their present
territory.
Now Is the time to invest
in ore lands for future de-
velopment.
Progress in the Lake SUI
perior iron range for the
past IL months has been
rapid. With a production
of more than forty-two mil
lion tons the five ranges in
Minnesota. Michigan and
Wisconsin have sent con-
siderably more ore to the
.ondiuu roariOd1 the history
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12
ARE MAKING MILlIONAIRES
IN MINNESOTA

The Producing Lands Company actually owns the
which operates but to secure money to prop
erly develop offer limited number of shares in The
Producing Lands Company at $1,000 share par value
Producing Lands Company prefers to do its own
developing, money in developing these
a chance of doubling, trebling and even
many times more the amount invested
Those who vest now will benefit of the rise in
value due to this development profit accordingly They
will opportunity participate in all further
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12
Countless Wealth for Future Investors

Approximately billion hundred and fifty million
of the billion of iron still contained the
Lake Superior region undere the Minnesota iron lands.
Could be advanced favor of
ing in their development opportunity for prohtf
invested in shares in this particle
directly all operations carried by the company
and N dividends declared.
Write for free booklet containing pros
and full particulars of position Now is the time
to Minnesota iron lands Take advantage of this
opportunity and write today
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12

The increasing demand
for iron makes the develop
ment of new iron producing
fields a profitable enter
prise and one which offers
attractive inducements to
conservative investors. be-
ing a much differentprop.
OsitiOn than ordinary min.
Ing schemes.
The commercial stan
dard of iron ore has gradu-
allyloweredasthe demands
of the trade increased. Ores
considered worthless n few
years ago are in demand
now. In the iron lands of
Guyana Range in Minneso-
ia are vast tonnages of
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12
Railroads Guaranteed 100000 Tons

Both the Northern Pacific and 500 railroads interested
in becoming shippers of from this One of these
roads has been guaranteed shipment of 100000
Expert mining engineers have offered finance the
developing property share in the
resulting profits
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-10-19
AN ELECTION PRIMER
Pertinent Points about Our Election
Machinery For NeqU Voters and Old
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

When did the Democratic party first national poics7
Under Its present the party first appeared 1925 when
Andrew Jackson elected president party candidate
Democratic party however, far chief principles Co.
from the beginning of the republic
Who is regarded as the party's founder9
Thomas Jefferson When the constitution of the United States
under discussion convention the opposing theories of Thomas
Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton constituted the principal difference
of opinion Jefferson and toward
government while Hamilton and his faction stood for
trazed In after the eersonan theories became
cystalzd into what called first the Republican party later
the Republican party and finally the Democratic party
The present Republican party thn is entirely distinct from the
of Jeferson's tme2
Entirely 1t descended through the Wing party from the
Hamonan Federal party, which took the opposite that
Of jefferson
What presidents has the Democracy electeds
Thomas Jefferson twice. James Madison twice. James Monroe
twice. John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson twice. Martin Van
Buren,, James K Polk Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan Grover
Cleveland twice.
What is the Democratic parys position TARIFF
1t stands for low tariff tariff for only