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Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13
DEAR REPUBLICANISM

A THOUGH Los Angeles did not
IN suffer much by the financial de-
"A preston, yet she suffered more
than was necessary. In other words,
the financial depression was unneces-
sary. There should have been no de-
preston in times of peace and plenty,
and people who look back at the period
when the financial sky was overcast
without resolving to do all In their
power to promote Democratic success
are surely unusually long suffering.
Indeed, citizens who still shout for
Republicanism and still propose to
vote for the dear old Republican party
show a touching resemblance to the
simple soul who would never @esert
Micawber." Los Angeles has resumed
her old stride. 1t is Impossible Tor
business depression to be permanent
or even long lasting in a community
which is young. healthy, high-spirited
and high motived. But the little Re-
publican Jolt from which she suffered
reduced the movement Of money and
the rate of activity in an industry for
which she is famous. 1t is all very
well to say Suffer in silence and grit
your teeth and bear it," but the I'M
necessary slackening in the building
activity of Los Angeles In one month
was so far reaching, affecting so many
auxiliary trades and interests, that al
though, verify, we must bear 1t, 1t were
sheep like to keep quiet about 1t.
Republican mismanagement of ma
tional affairs, resulting in financial
panic, threatened Los Angeles while
she was enjoying growth and prosper
ity unprecedented in the history of
this or any other city. Conditions
throughout the country were far worse.
The Salvation Army visitors and other
! quiec emissaries of the Prince or Peace
know that in many little eastern
homo there was Republican adversely
and the wolf at the door wore a collar
tagged &c. o. F." Los Angeles will
go right on booming" Nothing can
stop her. But any interference with
the growth of this city or any menace
to it's prosperity was absolutely I'M
necessary and under normal and con-
sentative governmental conditions
could hardly have taken place. the
Republican party does not deserve the
vote of confidence which it Will ask
for in November. 1t deserves instead
a vote of mo confidence" and that Is
the vote it will get. The Democrats
NAV defeat themselves. 1t is barely
possible, but hardly probable If they
let well enough alone they will surely
| win
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13
MERRY JESTER
[<NF LONGWORTH was sc
wi overpowered with merrimen'
IA that she left the gallery OF

[kNFRS. LONGWORTH was so
wi overpowered with merriment
A'l that she left the gallery of
the house." What caused her merri-
ment? A distinguished foreign diplo-
mat sat on a tack and swore. The
cream OF the joke, however, was that
the tack on which he sat had been
placed by Mrs. Longworth on chair
reserved for him. He bowed to her,
gracefully sank into the seat and I'M
gracefully sprang to his feet again,
"smothering some language that would
not sound well in a parlor," says a
Washington dispatch, but which was
evidently not considered out of place in
that hall of 1ocund jest and mirthful
merriment, the congress of the United
States of North America.
Henceforth no sessions of congress
will be complete without a variety show
nrogram provided by distinguished en-
tertainers, the more distinguished the
better. Trick chairs will be scattered
about which will collapse when stout
diplomats and legislators attempt to
sit in them. When the reading clerk
tries to grab a public document it will
crawl jerkily away from him. Some
playful visitor, the more distinguished
the better, will have attached a string
to it. When the speaker raps for order
the head will fly off the gavel and with
a merry whizz will hit the bald pate
of a rural representative. When the
representative utters discordant and
undignifed language the joke will be
complete.
How thoughtful it was of the presi-
dents daughter to think of enlivenng
congressional proceedings by entrap-
ping a diplomat with a tack! With re-
newed interest the public will scan the
daily dispatches from the headquar-
tiers of the national government. We
hope Mrs. Longworth has not estab-
lished a precedent. Surely the young
matrons and maids of the United
States will not bring the tack joke into
fashion. We would hate to have to
near mor-plated-let's see-what dye
call 'em?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13
ALOST EXPLORER

TAR FREDERICK A. COOK, the ex-
plorer, is lost in the Arctic re-
~ gions; the history of all polar eX-
ploration adventures and attempts Is
about to be repeated. An expedition
is being organized for the purpose OF
finding the man who went to find the
Pole. DIR. Cook, like all Arctic ex-
nlorers, is a man of unbounded grit
and pluck, and. to be entirely frank,
has such a profound belief in himself
and his ability that it surpasses or
binary self confidence, and is almost
ouixotism. But no explorer can be i'm
agined who is altogether practical. The
practical man Is necessary. The world
would soon become socially chaotic
without him. But he is not the man
who discovers America and electricity
and the law of gravitation. The dis
coverer is a dreamer, who sets about
the task of making his dream real
ity. Sometimes that is impossible,
Great dreams have frequently cost the
lives of great dreamers, especially OF
Arctic explorers. Funds are needed for
the new expedition. Mrs. Cooks ad-
dress is go Bushwick avenue, Brook
Ign, N. Y.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13

"a Baltimore physician wants to use con-
victed criminals for the cultivation of anti
toxins in place of the present methods of
punishment.)
Abandon the penology we've studied such a
time;
Behold in toxicology the scourge that fits
the crime!
Is 'Rastus captured stealing fowls behind
the hen house locks,
No fine the Judge imposes but ten days OF
chicken pox
Let roisterers at midnight. whom the wagon
carries Off
Expend their surplus energy In siege Of
whooping cough.
The burglar who breaks in at night, to
prowl about bed.
A term of measles will persuade to go break
out instead
Our fuddied dpsomaniacs will be reformed
again.
Conference.-The sixty days in jail with water
on the brain.
While as 20 automobilists who so insist on
speed,
And pass the corners on our streets much
faster than they need?
Wen let them go again to ride and toy
with brake and lever.
After incubation with genuine slow fever!
Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13
OF WORLDWIDE INTEREST
LABOR CONDITIONS IN HAWAII
BY FREDERIC J. HAskIN

about one-fifth of them are now work.
ing in the fields.
The reasons for the migratory habits
of these laborers are many and COM
pick, but perhaps the principal one is
that with few exceptions the most of
them can without Inconvenience pack
their grips and move at an hours no.
tlce to any quarter of the world and
be just as much at home where they
go as where they came from. The
great majority of the laborers live In
quarters or In barracks. These build
ings are sanitary and reasonably clean,
but so small that there can be little
privacy between members of the fam
lily and so close together that there is
but small separation from neighbors
They are so crowded that sanitary cir
cumstances prevent keeping chickens
or pigs, while a COW or horse is an
impossible luxury, even though the
householder has means to afford it.
The thinking men of Hawaii realize
that something must be done which
will make the life of the agricultural
laborer in the islands so attractive and
so homeike that he will be content to
stay and raise his family on the planta-
ton. thus building up permanent
home labor supply. Lorrin A. Thurston
in discussing this question said: THE
remedy will be found in domiciling the
employee. BY domiciling him l mean
giving or selling him, at a price within
his reach,s piece of land on which he
can create home; on which he can
raise fruit and vegetables for his own
use, maintain a few domestic fowls and
animals and in connection with which
he can gather around him few lux
uries and conveniences such as are not
and cannot be accumulated and pro-
tected in plantation camp. He should
have a home to which he can retreat
and be his own master place where
he can live and where his family can
live without being subject to the pos
sibility of dispossession without days
notice; a place where he can feel that
he can be an Independent man, instead
of a dependent hireling, subject abso-
lutely to the orders of another.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13
FIRST CHINESE TAKEN
TO THE ISLANDS WERE
PRACTICALLY SLAVES

The first laborers imported to Ha-
wall. when the native Hawaiian laborer
was found inadequate, were 1870 Chi
nese brought in in 1852, during the
reign of Kamehameha III. These Ia
borers cost $50 apiece to bring over.
They were paid So a month IN cash
wages and furnished with food, lodg-
ing and clothes, which cost 81 per
month more. There was no economic
difference between the sytem of con-
tract labor which had it's beginning
at that time, and actual slavery. Since
that day laborers have been brought
m Hawaii from Manchuria, Korea,
China. Japan, the islands of the South
seas. from Norway, Germany, Austria,
italy, Russia, Portugal, spain, Ma
deira and the Azores, While both
whites and negroes have been recruit
ed in the United States. since 1922
the number of labor immigrants TO
Hawaii has reached the enormous to-
fol of 10000. or $4,000 more than the
total incubation of the territory at
This time. What has become of them?
some have died, of course, but the
irn,ierant class is usually sturdy, and
the records show that the birth rate
has been such as to practically onset
the deaths. Still there are 91,OoO not
accounted for. These ngures when all
a1vzed mean that one-half of the Ia
borers brought to the territory go
away. A.
over 1250OO Japanese have come TO
Hawaii. but nearly half of them made
n a stepping stone to go on to the
ITnited States. Before contract labor
was abolished it used to cost the PLAN
Ter in the matter of steamship fares an
average of SIS for Chinese, $65 for
a Japanese, $112 for a Portuguese and
$3.50 for a Norwegian. AS the Euro
peans always came in large families
and as the Japanese usually came
singly, 1t was much cheaper to bring
in Japanese. After the days of con-
tract labor, when the Japanese came
on their own accord the steamer fare
dropped as low as $50. In the five years
prior to 1886 the Hawaiian monarchy
expended over $1,000,000 and the plan
tiers almost as much more in import
ing laborers. Five shipments of Portu-
guese cost per capita $S9.45, of which
the government paid $52.41 and the
planter $3704. AS there were so many
women and children 1t cost for each
adult male Iaborer $266.15 In all, Ha-
wall has expended between $4,000 900
and $4,000. 900 in paying for the trans
portation of laborers which 1t has in
duced to come to it's shore. One-half
Of these have left the Islands and only
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13
SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD NOT
INVITE INDUSTRIAL SUICIDE

LOS ANGELES, May 12.-[Editor
Herald: The Rev. Mr.. Baer dogmatic-
ally exclaims: stop immigration for
one year md industrial paralysis will
ensuel" In the face of the combined
wisdom and statecraft of mankind,
this unsupported and untenable asser-
ton borders on the ridiculous.
Mr.. Baer eloquently and forcefully
showed a moment before he used these
words that the preponderance of emil
grants over immigrants was greater
in numbers than ever: For every fifty
immigrants who have come into the
country this year lat have gone away"
and yet the press and people proclaim
prosperity.
DR.. Baer needs to remember that as
dogmatic theology has famed Chris
tianity, so dogmatic statements are
certain to lame sociology as applied
to peopling this country.
No matter how eloquent and pas
sionate the theory of unrestrained i'm
migration may be made, the dread
condition of pauperized labor must
ensue if it were realized, and the
American people will not invite in
dustrial suicide. OBSERVER
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
HERALD'S LEADERSHIP

II OS ANGELES HERALD on May IL
i, maintained its leadership among local
IL papers, printing 243 items of news in
fourteen pages. The Times had 20S
items in twenty-six pages; the Examiner
174 in eighteen. With the complete Assoc
ciated Press report, together with the re-
suits of the able work Of high class local
STAFF and a staff of competent correspond
ents stationed at all the news centers, The
Herald publishes paper which may De
compared favOrably with any in the United
States or anywhere else. Every day In a
concise manner, which appeals to business
men as well as readers who do not like to
wade through words in order to get at IDEAS
&c presents all the news of all the world 1t
Is not q sensational paper, yet 1t does not
disguise the truth tone down the truth
when the truth contains sensational eie-
ments. 1t gives all the news in way
which makes il acceptable to business men
as well as welcome in family circles. No
better paper is published anywhere 1t Is
free from Objectionable features, clear, crisp
and clean.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13
Los ANGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 13 1908
TAFT's TROUBLES
\ EpuB1rcAN congressional leaders

II EPUBLTCAN congressional leaders,
IL. who are associated in something |
~ resembling so distinctly an organ
ization that the unthinking may call It
a Taft machine, are working for the
benevolent assimilation of all the in
terests which might disturb party har-
mony. Taft will be nominated on the
first ballot. But his troubles will begin
with the opening of the active cam
paign. He will have more explaining
to accomplish than any Republican can
didate since Blaine. If he has not
Burchardized himself he has shown an
awkward aptitude for the gentle art
of boomeranging. His phrase GOD
knows" which was his reply to an in
telligent question regarding economic
conditions and social problems, will
haunt him as Burchard's celebrated al
liberation haunted Blaine. In the COM
ing campaign there will be a new fea-
ture, because Taft's picture will be as
prominently displayed at Democratic
as at Republican meetings. 1t Will
adorn the banners of Democratic as
well as Republican parades. But the
Democratic portraits of Taft will wear
what the tombstone artists call q suit
able inscription. 1t will consist of two
words, God knows" Mr.. Tafts in
ability to advise a starving citizen, who
with a wife and family to support can
not find work, will be only the least OF
his troubles. The Filipinos will send a
delegation to the United States to tell
voters how Taft administered" the
Philippines. And what have the Philip
pine merchants to say of the first auto
crat of the reign of benevolent assimila-
ton? This:
1.-THE business men of this city (Ma-
nila) have been holding off practically
for a year in hope that Governor Taft
would surrender his position here and
take a seat on the supreme bench,
where his eminent ability as judge
would shed luster upon American juris-
prudence. However, he has declined
seat upon the supreme bench, where he
is qualified to serve in order to remain
at a post of duty which, in the estima-
ton of the business community, he is
UNTITLED BY TRAINING AND
TEMPERAMENT TO FILL. His chief
! recommendation for the position he
holds was that he was not in favor of
the retention of the Philippines as
United States territory. His entire adj
ministration has been along the lines of
this conviction, and he is thereby rear
ing a world of trouble for those who
come after him." Taft is therefore not
merely little American" (to quote
favorite Republican phrase), but his
administration of the Philippines was
marked by carelessness and incompe-
tency which, according to the Philip
| pine newspapers, produced "frightful
industrial conditions" The industrial
conditions In the United States have
been frightful enough under we'll
meaning and forceful man. What adj
jective would describe them after per-
haps a year of the administration of
weak-knee with record for incom-
potency in an executive office?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13
POULTRY RAISER WRITES
OF STRAY CAT NUISANCE

LOS ANGELES, May 12.-[Editor
Herald: Allow me space in your val
liable paper to suggest that it would
be a blessing to the scores of good
people who keep poultry and raise
young chicks if our city solons would
tax cats as they now tax dogs. Stray
cats have decimated my broods OF
chicks and 1 am helpless. | dare not
shooS them in the city limits, and
cannot put out poison for them. In
the vernacular, 1 am up against IL.
7 cannot tell this to policeman, as
most of the "foorce" is from Mis-
soory," and I cannot show but the
place where The chicks ought to be.
If rats are purveyors of plague. cats
are no better. Why not license the
cats? POULTRY FANCIER.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13

At last race track gambling in the
District of Columbia is forbidden. NO
longer can states and communities ask
why should we be better than WASH
ington?" At last we may prophesy
with confidence that race track gamb-
ling in the United States will soon be
a thing of the past looked back at with
much the same feeling with which we
of this generation regard cock fighting
and bull batting. The abolition of
gambling will not kill high grade horse
racing IT. spite of the abolition OF
cock fighting there are plenty of good
game cocks. In spite of the abolition of
bull batting, the bulldog and the bull
terrier are still with us.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13

We hope subscribers to the Y. M. c.
A. building fund will help the boys by
paying amounts pledged as soon as
possible. We are all too apt to regard
a pledge as a form of indebtedness
which does not necessarily need to be
met promptly. AS a matter of fact, de-
lay in payment of pledges sometimes
causes more trouble than delay in
meeting other varieties of Indebtedness,
because plans are made and carried out
in the confident expectation there will
be money to defray expenses. The total
sum of pledges overdue is 100000.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13

rope as a source of labor supply. 1t
was thought the south of Europe would
furnish hardy laborers perfectly willing
to work for wages which the planters
could afford. Being Christians and
Europeans, they would naturally be in
sympathy with American institutions
and ideals and would bring forth a
second generation of real Americans.
Under the plan adopted by the states
of South Carolina and Louisiana the
planters contributed sums of money to
a fund, and by the authority of the
legislature sent an agent to Europe. He
succeeded in obtaining two shiploads
of immigrants, one of Portuguese and
one of Spanish. Then fell the blow
from the federal government at Wash
ington in the form of a decision that
immigration stimulated in this fashion
was illegal and must cease. Afterward
came the restriction of japanese immi-
grafton. Thus Hawaii found itself in
the position of being prevented by
either private or public enterprise from
assisting immigration. It Is too small
and too out of the way to attract vol
untary immigration, and its labor ques-
ton is most acute.
Politics thrives on conditions. The
southern states of the Union, with
practically no exception, are suffering
from lack of labor supply. The mil
lions and millions of men and women
who have come to American shores
from Europe in the past fifty years
have all found homes north Of the Ma
son and Dixon line or west of the Mis-
sissippi. The southern states were
stagnated on account of the devastation
of the war when the great tide of i'm
migration began and it is only within
the past seven or eight years that the
south has begun to feel the need of
new white blood. The south Is like
Hawaii in that it needs this immigra-
ton. but cannot get 1t. While the
north is clamoring for regulations
which will place further restriction
upon the influx of immigration, the
south is crying for a relief from labor
famine
South Carolina sought to solve the
problem by state-assisted tmmigra-
ton; Louisiana tried the same thing,
but powerful influences at Wash
ington were able to put a stop to the
plan. If it were not for the fact
that the southern states, and some of
the Pacific coast states were thus suf-
fering from a shortage of labor sup
ply. the Hawaiian situation would be
quite hopeless. AS it is, the Hawaiian
| leaders are confident of pooling inter-
ests in congress. Although they have
no vote they will be able to secure
some legislation which will permit the
territory as public necessity, to
bring about artificial immigration from
Europe. Even the sugar planters sadly
accent the fact that the days of ORR
entalism are passed.
The mere question of getting labor
ers to come to Hawaii is only half
the problem-getting them to stay here
has proved equally difficult.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13
CALLS ATTENTION TO THE
DANGER OF EXPLOSIONS

LOS ANGELES, May 12.-[Editor
Herald: The frequent and deadly
burning out of electric connections In
trolley cars emphasizes the need of
strictly placing the responsibility Tor
such carelessness. If competent men
are engaged to inspect cars each time
before they go out on the run such
things could not be.
Some competent law should be en-
acted that would force such examina-
ton, and close the stable door before
the horse is stolen. A recent San
Francisco explosion is due to be du-
plicated here at almost any time.
OBSERVER.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13
The Simpler Method

Bank President--You say you belong to
the Y. M. C. A., the b. Y. p u, the c. Il.
the s. C. A. and other sections Of the al
phabet?
The New Bookkeeper--Yes. sir.
''Well, any time you feel that you need a
few thousands just come frankly to mo.
don't care to have the books all tangled
up"--Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13

Raids on bucket shops are all right
We hope soon there will be no bucket
shops to raid. But how about the
agencies which send the bucket shops
the quotations on which they do busi-
ness? Is 1t impossible to get at the
source of supply of the bucket shops
of Los Angeles and all the country?
Logically the anti-gambling crusade
should not end with the humble bucket
shops. Higher up"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13

In St. Louis a National Prosperity
association has been organized. That's
all right as far as it goes. Yet. when
we come to think of it, the best ma
tional prosperity association is the as
ISOLATION of United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13

wall lives on sugar,
and unless it has a
permanent supply or
remarkably C b e a p
labor 1t faces ruin.
Before annexation
to the United States
the government and
the planters, some
times acting jointly
and sometimes act
ing s g para I e / y.
brought In laborers
from various parts
of the world under
the contract system.
When the United
States flag perma-
nently fioated over
the 1 s a n d s and
American laws APP
piled to Hawaiian
affairs contract la
Dor was without the
pale of law.
The leading men
of II a W ali then
fIIrned toward ELL
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13

At last the Indiana novelists have
been beaten on their own field. Moth
ing they have imagined has APP
preached in strangeness, originality,
horror and human interest the story of
the Guinness mystery farm.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13

Duchess de la Rochefoucauld, who
was once Maggie Mitchell of Oregon
is described as a kind of aristocratic
good Samaritan in petticoats. Well
the original good Samaritan was an
aristocrat, wasn't he? And we are
certain he did not wear trousers.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13
The ublic Letter Box

Letters intended for publication must be
accompanied by the name and address Of
the writer. The Herald gives the widest
latitude to correspondents. but assumes no
responsibility for their Views. Letters
should not exceed 800 words
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13

Tammany Hall is on the move, but
it is not going to move out of New
York. 1t will only move uptown. The
graft center in Manhattan has been
shifted with the Harlemward tenden-
cies of the day.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-13

Shout the glad tidings! Monrovia
soon will have a city directory. There
is no reason why the most beautiful
little city in the United States shouldn't
have a directory. Indeed, we had al
ways supposed 1t already had one. Yet
SO many of the citizens of Monrovia
are we'll known that directory seems
snnerfiuOuS.