Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-23
INFIDFLITY AND
DRINK SCORED
DR.. LOCKE DISCUSSES LOS
ANGELES FUTURE
PROSPERITY PARADE HANDLED
WITHOUT GLOVES
Display by 5reweries Criticised as
Not Showing FINISHED Products"
Resulting from the Liquor
Trade

Dr. Charles Edward Locke, to an
audience which crowded the First
Methodist Episcopal church last even
ing, delivered a sermon on How to
make our beautiful and prosperous city
more prosperous and beautiful" His
text was walk about Zion and go
round about her; tell the towers there
of, mark you well her bulwarks, con-
slider her palaces, that you may tell it
to the generation following Psalm
4S:12-13. DIR. Locke said in part;
1.-The Los Angeles spirit is notable.
A gentleman remarked to me IN an
other city of California a few weeks
ago: I tell you, if we could just get
little of the Los Angeles spirit we
would soon have a great city also
Struggle is strength; and in battling
against the natural disadvantages OF
location this remarkable spirit mas
been developed. Here in the beginning
was a town twenty miles from the sea,
with a precarious water supply and no
railroads To-day San Pedro will make
one of the finest harbors in the world;
there will soon be supply OF purest
water for a city of 100000, and there
are four transcontinental railroads.
Here are some of the securest banks,
large and prosperous churches, ESQ
miles of electric roads and city whose
percentage of growth is greater than
any other Of the large cities.
How can we make this beautiful
and prosperous city more prosperous
and beautiful? Except the Lord Keep
the city the Watchmen Waketh but in
vain Among the recollecdons of my
early childhood is waking one night
and hearing the Waterman in the
streets of Pittsburg cell out. after a
custom long since abandoned: Twelve
o'clock and all is We'll
"Plutarch wrote long ago: There
never was a city of atheists. You may
travel ali over the world and you will
find cities without walls, without kings,
without mint, without theater or GYM
nasium, but you will nowhere find
city without god, without prayer,
without an oracle, without a sacrifice.
And even Rousseau said: Never was a
city founded that did not have religion
for its basis All this is equivalent
to the statement that honesty, indus
try, integrity, frugality, social cohe-
siveness, faith, worship depend upon
morals, and there can be no standard
of morals without religion. Great ag-
gregations of people and wealth can
not be held together except by re-
ligiousness. When there is no king in
Israel and every individual is law
unto himself, cities and nations disin-
tegrate. Hence the greater the power
ana DODuldIlOn OL OUT Clues Tie illOAC
important is it that all religious insti-
tutions be strengthened and increased
in their influences. An addition TO the
city's numbers and a decrease of a
city's respect for morals and religion
is an impending calamity.
slums of Big Cities
1.-THE wretched tenement house sys-
tenn makes the problem of the city sad
and vexatious. Other cities besides
New York may be called the homeless
city There are 2,250,000 people in
New York city who live in $4,000 tene-
ment houses. This means large and
dangerous slum region. So vast are
the multitudes and so hurried and sell
fish is the quest for gain that the poor
and the fallen are disregarded and
often despised. Men crlminally forget
that they are their brothers keeper,
or they shift the responsibility from
one to another ana in the meantime
the slums are filled with filth and crime
and suffering.
THE most conspicuous failure in cur
republic is in the government of our
cities. Nearly every large city in this
country is held up by political high
way robbers. The spoils system eats
it's cancerous caverns and blackmail is
practiced as a matter of course. Men
grow rich from franchises they have
stolen and the public treasures are
not need any hiding places. Vice is
legalized and protected and goes on
undisturbed, if the pockets of the Of
ficials are well lined with monthly
payments of large sums of money.
1.-THE laws should be enforced against
the saloons in Los Angeles. Officials
know how to enforce laws against the
Salvation army; why not against the
thugs and guerillas of the whisky
traffic? 1t is said that besides the 200
places where liquor is licensed to be
sold there are 140 blind pigs where
liquor Is sold against the laws of the
city. This defiant outrage of the
morals of the city should not be toll
Grated
Kegs Deadly Torpedoes
II was among those who viewed with
great pleasure the Prosperity parade
last Wednesday afternoon. l rejoiced
with others in this remarkable demon
stration of things Made in California
In common with thousands of good
citizens | was outraged and Inundated
when twenty wagons containing beer
barrels came along. The kegs and
barrels looked to me like deadly tor
pedoes. 1t was understood that this
procession would show articles made in
our state and l noticed that while
other wagons and floats contained the
finished products, this twenty wagon
exhibit did not make any display of
the finished product If it had done
so these twenty wagons would have
been followed by at least twenty other
wagons containing the finished prod
uct' of the liquor business; wagons
filled with the victims of King Gam
brinus inebriates and insane men and
women; little children with pinched
faces and ragged clothing; haggard wo-
men with bruised bodies and sunken
eyes; and there should have been a
float representing a prison with men
in iron cells in the striped garb of
criminals and convicts; ard there
should have been a gallows and hang
man and a poor fellow hanging in a
moose, suffering the extreme penalties
Of the law which he broke when under
the influence of strong drink.
"These things are Made in Califor-
MIA as well as in every other state in
fhis Union, by the detestable and dead
" liquor traffic. but they were not in
the procession. Distilleries and brew
cries are tokens, not Of a city's pros
neritv. but of dissipation, disaster and
decay and death. What a victory for
syood order and true prosperity and q
eober citizenship and happy homes and
ytrrdv character shall be won when
ne saloons and blind pigs'--I beg the
nardon Of the pigs-shau be driven
forever from this earthly paradise!
Fel1ow citizens, it must be dcneI
---ers-s--
Eat at the Angelus grill.