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Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19
CLEAR. CRISP AND CLEAN
THE GAMBLING EVIL

EASTERN STATES are rebelling
II, against law sanctioned race track
- gambling. Governor Hughes of
New York says the evil must be abol-
ished in the Empire state. be the politi-
cal consequences to him what they
may. In consequence of his determined
stand on this matter he has been
savagely attacked and viified by the
state assembly, where the gambling
element has a large and unscrupulous
representation of legislators. In order
that he might be fully justifled-al-
though why he thought his splendid
action and attitude needed justification
we cannot guess-Governor Hughes
made public some of the letters he re-
ceiyed after it became known that he
would war on gambling and gamblers.
One poor woman wrote: MY husband
earns a pretty nice salary and we could
live comfortably were it not for the
race track. During the seven months
of racing my husband draws his wages
and goes to the track. and after losing
one-half or three quarters of same he
brings the rest home, which is not
much. | have a crippled child
whom l take to the hospital twice a
week, but during the racing season
cannot do same, as have not carfare
at times"
The principal of a Brooklyn school
wrote: 81 have had pupils, many of
them less than 10 years old, gambling
led on by the tracks close to my
school I have seen burglary COM
mitted by boy less than Is years old
to get money to go to the race track.
I hold a Cancelled check given to
young man for one of his family less
than year ago, which check was
never received by the person to whom
it should have gone; the bookmakers
got it. Three of my late graduates,
bright lads every one, are going down
largely through gambling, and one has
begun to steal from his parents"
A young man who had spent all his
savings on the race track wrote: TO
day find myself out of work through
no fault of my own, and thinking how
happy I'd be if l had left the money in
the bank and could draw a few dollars
to help me along during the hard times.
1 have no other bad habits and have
confidence that I'll get work-start all
over again to save my money, but gov
ernor, if you don't stop this game it
will surely kill me-"
The governor will not only endeayor
to stop the game in New York, but to
set an example that other states will
follow. Gambling is responsible for
much misery in the United States. and
large proportion of the crime which is
at once SO costly and so humiliating to
the public is traceable to this cause.
Gambling has no place in the national
life of the United States. 1t will be
outlaWed and outlived-some dav.
Meanwhile, any efforts to help or hasten
the moral evolution that will result i'm
its extinction are TO be Welcomed for
their own sakes as well as for the sake
of the example they give.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19
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The Wiawau Goat

Hes lean but he's a sassy looking
goat" said Nebraskan on board the
Washington at San Pedro yesterday.
"Betcher binnacles he's sassy" re-
piled the jackie. sizing up the visitor,
whose former experience in naval af-
fairs has been confined to prairie
schooners. I'll admit he's a bit slen-
der amidship, Bill is. but if you'd been
as long without green fodder as Bill
has your cardboard strakes would show.
too"
Educated, I suppose?" asked the
landsman.
Educated? Why, mate. he's an
Annapolis grad. He savvys more about
navigation than the captain of the
bilge."
you don't say!"
Bet / do. Bills down on his luck
cause he amt had a circus bill or a
stack O. tin cans to eat for months.
We're goin' to set i'm ashore. though,
and give him a wild old deebauch on
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

grass. He'll get soused on grass JUS
like a sailor will on sody water"
"S'pose you've taught him lots of
tricks?"
mo, sir; nary one. You don't need
to. That animal KNOWS. You
wouldn't go to teachin' Noah Webster
how to spell two sillable words would
you? Bills wiser'n most A. BIS. He
knows as much as any commander
since Cap'n Sawbones sailed the
Taddly Addly, the famous old hooker
with three decks and no bottom"
"If you ever get hard up for meat
won't William go into the mutton pie
business?"
"Now listen to that Say, matey;
William here's an enlisted man. He
belongs to the signal corps. He reads
the wig-wag like any old-time signal
man. He can read the wireless. too.
He always knows what the old man
wants. Ought to see him talk to the
signal men with his tail. Just h'ists it
and wig-wags it, beggin' for a chaw
o. tobacco or can of beer"
How on earth did he learn it?"
Didn't. Just come to him. He
knows every combination in the inter-
national code. Tell you what he did
down there at Callow. A wig-wag
man was dippin' and flirtin' flag up
or the port side of the bridge. He
was addin' some items TO an order of
things to be bought on shore. The
man signaled wait minute and laid
down his flag to let a swab have the
mo okin's of a cigareet. Nobody was
lookin'; the officers all below in the
ward room playin' billiards. Bill.
here. picked up the flag while the
signal mans back was turned and
ordered six bales of alfalfa and two
bushels of peanuts"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

The Hartman combination is TO an
intents and purposes undergoing the
process which, ever since a famous in
vestigation. has been known as Lexow-
ing. Government has instituted a suit
to dissolve the merger of western
roads. The state railroad commission
of California is charged with the duty
Of prosecuting the road for giving re-
bates. Mr.. Hartman and many other
citizens are beginning to realize that
the way of the transgressor may be
hard even when it is a railway. They
are also learning that contempt for a
law does not repeal a law; that where
ignorance leads to trouble 'twere folly
not to become wise; that there's many
slip 'twixt cup and lip and that as
we have remarked before, the best laid
plans o. mice and Harrimen aft gang
agley. At the end of his ordeal Har-
riman VIII be rich in experience and in
proverbial philosophy.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

The California George Junior repub-
lie will inaugurate a president and
vice president tomorrow. What a fate
full name is George in the history of
the English speaking peoples, and par
ticularly in the history of the United
States. First there was Saint George,
patron of old England. The third roy
al George was chased out of the United
States by an American George-George
Washington. Henry George was man
of new ideas and worldwide fame.
And now comes the George Junior re-
public.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

President Castro of Venezuela has
earned a reputation for forfeiting
franchises and concessions of foreign
terests of his country. The Beers did
that-for a while. Castro has twice
been saved from Dom Paurs fate by
a powerful shield called the Monroe
doctrine. But now he has defied the
United States, and European nations
are snickering and giggling behind
their hands end waiting in joyous sus-
pense to see what we are going to do
about it.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

A large number of citizens, many of
them members of New Yorks -Four
Hundred, are wondering whether at the
end of his Imprisonment Hon. Abe
Hummel will write a book of remi-
niscences. 1t is not at all likely that
Hummel will ever be allowed to lack
the price of a meal ticket during the
rest of his life. He is on intimate
terms with the Family Skeletons of
some of the "wealthiest and best peo-
pie of the United States"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

thankfulness. The jolt from which we
are recovering will have, been admins
tered in vain if it does not admonish
us lin times of peace to prepare for
war; in times of prosperity to prepare
for panic" Lord. give US good con-
ceit of ourselves" is a popular prayer,
but self esteem and confidence may be
overdone. To be sure, 1t is not unlikely
that the beginning of the panic was
planned politically. to discredit T. r.,
but the trouble about fooling with a
panic is that it may run away with its
plotters.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

When someone suggested banquet
for Rear Admiral Sebree, he said:
Postpone it, my boy; postpone 1t
again, and then forget it." Landsmen
think of banquets as the height of
hospitality. Seamen detest them. They
are not Indifferent to good things to
eat and drink, but they loathe speech
making, and next to speechmaking,
they hate having to listen to speeches.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

General stoessel is to be confined
in fortress for ten years. But, as he
is under sentence of death, he will
be dealt with legally as dead man,
and his estate will be partly confis-
Gated and partly administered" The
Japs should send an expedition to res
cue him.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

goal to which his
ambition leads him
or not, Mr.. Bryan
stands before the
country as one of
its really remark
able men. Twice
he has gone down
to defeat in a bat
tleground of his
own choosing. the
second time worse
than the first. and
yet he commands
fba 1oyal caIrnn0rt
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

Methods Of grating were specially
considered at the pathological labora-
politicians were among the speakers
we must conclude that the conference
thought it could get along without ex-
pert testimony.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19
But He'd GET There

Senator Tillman says he has never
been on warship. Some of those
fellows who make rules for the navy
wouldn't know the BOBBY hatch from
wardroom billiard table.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

Anyone who has ever suffered Sc
verely from rheumatism knows that
Bob Evans is entitled to a special
medal for bravery. That he should
have stuck to his post so long is as
good an evidence of sheer grit as ever
he showed in his gritty life.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

New York reports marked financial
Improvement and we believe that this
represents the state of the country. We
have escaped, as by the skin of our
teeth, from a colossal disaster. "What
might have been" is notin this instance
sad phrase, but one that should cause
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

The largest single lemon grove in
the world has been started near River
side. 1t is expected that the entire
output will be needed at the political
national conventions, where all pre-
vious records will be broken by the
from hand to hand.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

A lecture on New China was de-
livered last evening. Old China has
not been broken yet. but 1t is as well
to be prepared for emergencies.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

The Iowa Republicans who are try
ing to down Taft will have to down
him figuratively. Big as he is. they
must swallow him-and look pleasant
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

l77 7sslORN forty eight years ago
is I'll today. when the politics Of
Is the country had reached that
Isl high and excited stage which
eliminated in the greatest
zzzzz4 war of the ages. little Won
der is 1t that William Jen-
nings Bryan has taken to politics as a
duck takes to water The times un-
doubtedly left their imprint upon the
child. Whether he ever reaches the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

The sight Of few warships cowed
the Haytans. The modern cruiser and
battleship have a s@ative effect on
the most irritable temper.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-19

California is on the eve OF revolu-
tion. AS 1t viii be confined TO the
walnut industry there will be no need
Of calling out troops.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15
BRYAN TALKS
TO UNION MEN
IN GREAT SPEECH BEFORE LINCOLN PRINTERS
THE COAIAIONER EXPRESSES FAITH IN THE
L4BOR ORGANIZATIONS OF THE
COUNTRY.

tion a few years ago by man in
Chicago who was an employer.
He had been appointed as one of
| a committee to arbitrate a strike,
and when the men had secured a 10
per cent advance the question was
raised whether men not belonging to
the union should be employed with
them; and the laboring men pro-
posed that those outside of the union
receive the pay they were formerly
willing to receive, and the members
of the union receive the 10 per cent
increase upon which they had agreed.
1.-The employer said: Why, that
is impossible, for those outside of the
union would not work for the lower
pay if we paid you the increase
Thus those outside of the union
were to receive and did receive the
increase in wages that was secured
by the organization of the laboring
men. Not only do they secure the
benefit of the higher wages that have
been brought about by organization
but they receive the benlafits-the
large benefits-that come from the
Advancement of the various social
reforms behind which the organized
labor stands.
"In the fight to protect the chill
dren from too early work, the chill
dren OF those VINO are not members
of the union share the benefits as
well as the children of those who are
members of the organization. In ev-
erything that goes to provide for bet
ter conditions for those who toll, the
people outside of the organization as
well as those inside reap the benefit.
81 repeat that this world is so con-
structed that no good thing can be
monopolizsd. And it is well that it
is so. The farmer who introduces
new kind of grain or furnishes in
formation in regard to the improve
ment of the crops, one who improves
breed of animals-he may do it for
selfish purpose, but he cannot keep
the benefits to himself.
And these labor organizati
have been teaching the idea of bro
therhood that is larger than any sep
arate organization of men, and this
idea of brotherhood that lies back of
and is the foundation of the various
organizations is the growing idea in
this world.
"And this idea of brotherhood that
is being cultivated by the members of
this organization is going to teach
other that will enable us to solve
more easily the problems that vex
mankind, and, while | possibly could
not earn the wages fixed by your
scale If ! attempted to do the work
/ that you are doing, as am honorary
member Of your organization | can
| be a full member, working on full
time in everything that means the
enlargement of the idea of brother
hood in this country. | am very glad
TO be here"
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15

Widespread attention has been oc-
casioned by the remarks made by
William Jennings Bryan at the ban
quet given by the Lincoln Typograph-
ical Union on Monday night in Lin
coin.
Mr.. Bryan was cheered most heart
lily when he was introduced and
throughout his speech. He said in
part:
This is campaign where we are
going to take the people into our
confidence, and we are going to have
them make the fight for our princi
pies.
81 am glad to be associated with
those who bear SO important a part
in the great work that labor does.
suppose that. If there is one organi-
zation of which | could properly be
made an honorary member, it is an
organization of printers, for, if | am
not a printer myself. l have given
printers more work to do than any
other man, l think. in the United
States.
81 am glad to be associated with
you in the bonds of the organization
for two reasons:
I'm the first place, because you
are the representatives of the great
labor organizations of the country,
and you represent one of the most
intelligent branches of the labor of
the country; you represent one of the
best organized branches of labor in
the country. And / believe in the
organization of the laboring men. |
believe in the organization for what
it does for those who belong to it,
and ] believe in it for what it does
for those who do not belong to 1t;
for, according to my understanding
of the work of labor organizations, its
benefits are not confined u its mem
bers.
God has SO linked us together
that no matter what we may desire
we cannot live alone. God has so
linked us together that no matter
how we may desire to confine cur
efforts to the things that benefit our
selves, we cannot do it, No person
who undertakes good thing can
monopolize the benefits of that good
thing. and the members Of the labor
organizations are engaged in a great
work and a work whose benefits they
cannot monopoliZe, even If they want
ed to.
II believe that the labor organiza-
tions of this country are more re-
sponsible than any other one factor
in the Improvement of labor condi-
tions in the country during the last
20 years And t.. c improvements
that they have wrought IN the con
ditions that surround the laborine
men, these Improvements are shared
by those who do not belong to the
organization and VINO have not as
members contributed to the expense
of the organization.
This was brought to my atten-
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15

Fred Barber will leave for his old
home in Iowa this afternoon.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15

Old newspapers for sale in amy
at the Sentinel office.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15
A.. Spika
The Practical Tailor
Under Grand Valley
National Bank

Trout fishing sport was never bet
ter than this year. Frying Pan riv-
er. Roaring Fork river, Woods lake,
Twin lakes. South Platte river, Lime
creek and Crystal river can all be
reached via the Colorado Midland.
Very low rates in effect. Finest din
ing car service and convenient trains
make the Midland popular. No. LOG
leaves Grand Junction at pm. and
arrives at Denver at s am. r. E.
Vickery, general agent, Grand juno
tion.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15
Cheaper Than Renting

Fine 5-room modern house close
In. good location. Price, $2SOO.OO.
$500 down, balance $25 per month
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15

Seven room modern house, close
in Price. $4,000. $400 down bal
ance very easy terms.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15
TEN THOUSAND NEW
CARS TO BE PURCHASED

One of the results of the an
nounced agreement between
H..rriman and Gould has been
the ordering of 10000 steel
freight and passenger coaches,
which will cost about $1O,OOO,-
900. This order, il is said, has
been placed with the Pressed
Steel Car Company, Pittsburg.
The cars, when completed, are
to be distributed among the var
ious lines of the Gould system.
The rolling stock of the Gould
lines has needed attention for some
time. Reports from the east say that
when e. II. Hartman looked over
the inventory of rolling stock of the
Could lines at the time the agree
ment was made to lend financial as
sistance to George j Gould, he re-
marked that it would take 100000
900 to put the rolling stock alone in
proper condition.
The 10000 cars are to be deliv-
cred in installments of several hun
dred cars at time. When all are
in use by the Gould lines, they will
be among the best equipped in the
country.
1t is understood that the order in
cludes hundreds of passenger and
chair cars which are to be the long
est now in use anywhere in the coun-
try, to be constructed or solid seam
trusses. and will be practically wreck
proof. Delivery of the new coach es
will be made as they are completed
and local railway men are awaiting
the arrival of the first installment
with considerable interest. as it is
claimed that they will embody sew
eral new features.
Reports from New York are that
Hartman is about to spend $4,000
600 of s7.000,0O0 fer 5000 cars for
his own lines.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15

Seat sale at Kraft & Emerson's
Drug Store. 1Oc, zoe, 3Oc.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15
MISS PORTER DECLARES
SHE HAS BEEN BUNCOED

katherine B. Porter, who re-
Gently secured Judgment of
S13,:3:s6.S5 damages from the
Rio Grsnde Railroad Company
for her right hand, believes she
has been buncoed out of $1,000
of il by the United Cities Trus-
tee Company and Cecilia Devere
of Seattle, Wash, and yesterday
brought suit to recover the
amount.
In her complaint, Miss Porter says
that on August she entered into
a verbal contract with the defendants
whereby she was to receive a bond
or investment certificate guaranteed
10 pay 15 per cent interest annually
on the payment of $4,000.
In order to induce her to make this
investment. she alleges that Cecilia
DeVere represented to her that the
company has a capital of 100000
and surplus of 100000, and that
David Keith is backing IL for $780,
600. She was also told that Thomas
Kearns had an interest in the con-
cern.
In addition to this, she says she
was shown a picture of a large hotel
building. which it was claimed is be-
ing constructed in Seattle by the
ConIdiN, ana III picture Ol'alHe city
several large buildings were pointed
out to her as being owned by the
company.
Miss Porter says that all these al
legations were absolutely false; that
the company has capital of but
$40, 900, and is insolvent.
1t appears that Cecilia DeVere Sc
cured Miss Porter's check and i'm
mediately went to Walker Bros. bank
where she obtained all except S349 in
drafts on Seattle. These drafts have
not yet been presented for payment.
ani a restraining order was issued
by Judge Ritchie, returnable Friday.
to prevent the bank from paying the
drafts until the suit is settled.
The complaint asks that the drafts
be cancelled and the money turned
over to Miss Porter, and also that
she recover the s349 paid in cash to
the company and interest since Aug
ust5.-Salt Lake Herald
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15

d. w. Clark and ]. B. Dowd have
been absent in Kansas City this week
and are expected home today. Mr..
Clark made a shipment of sheep to
the Kansas City market and Mr..
Dowd went along as chaperone. Hot
now, but it was hot.-Red Cliff
Blade.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15

L. A. Akin, wife and two daugh-
ters and one son formed merry
party at the Garreltz residence on
East Third street. Monday night the
visitors left over the narrow gauge
to visit Grand junction. They will
then proceed to California.-Salida
Mail.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15

BY "A score of to the Salida
baseball team defeated the Dixie
Boys, the colored aggregation which
is to play Grand functions team next
Wednesday and Thursday. yesterday
afternoon. The Salida Mail states
that it was a fine game. fast and
SnapDy
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15

Now is the time to puy the fine or
chard land while II is cheap in White
will be raised 20 per cent. See H j.
Gray. the Realty Man, ss7 Main street
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15

THE World Against Him" will be
the offering at the auditorium to-
night by the Orpheum Stock COM
pany. 1t is very clever and inter-
esting play.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15

Mrs. E. E. Faux of Grand June
ton, who was a delegate to the De-
gree of Pocahontas great council. is
spending a few days with friends in
Pueblo.-Pueblo Star-Journal.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15

Twenty-Five acres fine land adjoin-
Ing DeBeque; 5-acres young and
bearing orchard. balance in grain, po-
tatoes and cantaloupes. Two good
houses, barn, chicken houses, etc.
Perfect water right. This is cheap
at $25O.OO per acre: one-half down.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-15

Small house and lots in fine To-
cation on Orchard Mesa Heights
overlooking river. For short time
only at S11OO. Easy terms.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-08-28
GNIMERWW
OPIUM

statute BOOKS IL Is thefeioie "a "
erest IN tnou that trained experts In conditions not Only
Chinese agents hut Americans. Englishmen ana
have been semi throughout the kingdom with the
Of the throne to and what extent the laws are oens
enforced ,,r... o.. ,,.,,,,.
Evasions have been In KwangTung TOT instance
one certificates SO freely as 10
dcate that the entire population of the district was more than
60 years of age and immune from the drastic pro
the At. =.
also been while there are eyasions OF the
law altitude throne has borne valuable irt IN
making the Of people regard op" smoking as
longer Of education and breeding
No longer are the young the shops tempted to
qure that everybody else does and
nobody thinks It wrong. ,
The government vigorous as might be de-
sired in furnishing themselves opium smokers
but could hardly expected to have the whole reform
achieved in day been some punshments Two
imperial princes chief officials Of the censorate were
forced give their places because they oVed OPIUM
than the royal command . l.,
yielding worlds opinion and suppressing the
government will lose annually about $6ooooo
outlying provinces will suffer to the extent OF about
$20O00,OO0
that China, deprived of opum is turning
smoking has this
tobacco is infinitely less harmful than the poppy
and argued nation used to smoking for untold
hardly be expected to give over the habit unless
harmless substitute is provided.
With governments all the world forbiddng the
sale opium medical the habit To be
doomed.