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Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03
TAFT'S RECORDS

MIR. TAFT has two official records
| HE which make him a weak candi-
ALA date for the presidency. We do
not care to be too sweeping, and are
well aware that accidents happen, but,
barring accidents, we honestly believe
the election of Judge Taft is almost
an impossibility. At first there was
some ground for apprehension lest the
Democrats during this campaign would
not have the advantage of the publicity
which even the greatest cause would
need under modern conditions. Hap
PLY, that ground no longer exists, for
many big newspapers and vast
number of "1ittle" but influential rural
papers are supporting Mr.. Bryan and
Americanism. With sufficient publicity
Taft cannot be elected, because con-
scientious citizens will not, cannot, vote
for him.
One of Mr.. Taft's records, which in
the opinion of many citizens would
make him an unsafe president, Is that
of his Philippine administration, which
under ordinary circumstances would
have prevented his nomination for the
presidency. That it did not, and hat 1T
was hushed up, is attributable to the
fact that Judge Taft personally is an
upright, steady going person, of the
sobersides variety; in spite of the much
advertised smile, not endowed to any
great extent with the gift of humor.
1t is held that Governor Taft could
not be blamed for the deeds of the
swarm of Republican office holders who
carpet bagged it to the Philippines as
soon as salaried offices were created
for them, at salaries much higher than
the average earnings of government en-
ployes and office holders in the United
States. Perhaps he could not, and the
Democrats are willing to 'let 1t go at
that" Probably to hold in check the
Republican plunder-pack was a task
beyond any mans moral force, and 1t
would hardly have done to have used
gatling guns.
But there is another record for which
Judge Taft must be held to strict ac-
count. If there is any praise attached
to Il, the praise is all his. If there is
any blame attached to 1T, the blame Is
all his. We refer to his injunction rec
ord, which will deprive him of the en-
tire labor vote of the United States.
and the man who says that doesn't
matter" merely shows he belongs to a
large and illustrious family, members
of which are to be found among all
branches Of the human race.
Mr.. Taft's injunction record, to which
we will devote some attention from
time to time, makes it impossible for
any wage Garner to vote for him. A
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03
SINN FEM

VIZ HILE the Irish Sim Fein move
w ment is in many respects laud-
able, it is evident some Of those
concerned with it, like the young heroes
in their fairy stories, should be "sent
on their travels" and allowed to take
up the subject again on their return
home. When the Irish legislature is
established the Celtic language is to
be substituted for English. This is a
policy contrary to that which has been
followed in the home ruled states of the
American Union. Here men and women
of all languages meet, but for CONNER
cial and all ordinary purposes of life
they have found it to their advantage
to adopt the prevailing language, which
might be called American" rather
than English" and is certainly not
English" in spite of it's popular name.
Many centuries ago, before the Saxons
and Normans went to England, it was
"Anglish" or English. Today 1t is a
composite tongue, which does not owe
fealty to any one nation in particular,
but contains words derived from
SEVENTY languages and dialects, an
Client and modern. Our Irish friends
should be careful not to make a KoreS
of Ireland by isolating 1t from the ad-
vantage of easy communication with
the vast population which commercially
and colloquially as well as for literary
purposes uses the American" or ENG
lish" language.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03

the doctorl' The doctor for what.
prithee tell u.s."
That question is easily answered.
When Mr. Herrin appoints men like
Warren Porter, who have neither
knowledge nor training for the manage
ment OF penal institutions, to be prison
directors, and appoints them as re-
ward for political service, then Mr..
Herrin is Justly helC responsible for
the conditions that obtain In the state
penitentiaries. The directing board Is
filled with Warren Porters, appointed
for similar reasons, says the San Fran
cisco Call.
When Governor Gillett refused to
sign bills passed by the legislature for
prison reform and recommended to that
end by the humane and enlightened
Charles Montgomery, president of the
prison commission-when Governor Gill
lett pocketed bills of that character Mr..
Herrin was justly blamed, because he
made Mr.. Gillett governor of Califor-
MA. These are some of the reasons
why Mr.. Herrin is blamed, and there
are others. 1t seems as IL he were not
altogether happy in his friends and
could profitably afford to make his
shasta champion present to his enc
mics.
The scandalous and inhuman condi-
tions that prevail in the California PEN
ttentiaries are due to the fact that
official positions connected Herewith
have been used as pawns in the game
of politics, and the single qualification
for Office was the ability to carry a pri-
mary and deliver the goods to Mr.
Herrin. That is why we blame Herrin.
Indeed, Mr.. Herrin might be we'll ad-
vised to find a gag for his obstreper-
GUS champion in Shasta.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03
LONG BEACH FESTIVAL

4" ITH a program ranging from
w aeroplane contests to poultry
shows, Long Beach Festival OF
the Sea is attracting the attention and
patronage of many thousands Of en-
thusiastic citizens, among them the ad-
vance guard of the noble army of tour-
lists. These characteristic California
celebrations help not only the enter
prising cities which arrange them, but
benefit all Southern California.
The Long Beach festival calls the at
tention of the country to the maritime
aspect of California, and will aid our
eastern friends to correct their modes
of thought, to stop regarding this great
and wonderfully resourceful and pros
porous state as a big orange grove,
with few tourist hotels scattered here
and there among the trees. 1t will help
them to realize the commercial possi-
bilities of this, the most wonderful
section of a. state which in many re-
spects is the most wonderful in the
Union.
San Pedro harbor is the principal sea-
port of Southern California, and in time
and at no very distant date-will be
the principal seaport of the Pacific
coast. 1t is the natural seaport of Los
Angeles, but Los Angeles has a kindly
regard for all seaside communities and
wishes all of them we'll in every en-
deavor they make to advertise the Pa
cific coast, and hasten the day of the
inevitable supremacy of the western
shore of the United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03
PANAMA CANAL

MOSQUITOES defeated the French
N engineers who attempted to dig
4Ix- the Panama canal, but Ameri-
cans will succeed, in despite of mos
ouitoes-or worse. An electrical en-
gfneer engaged on the canal work said
in an interview: '"There is not the
slightest doubt the canal will be ready
on time. The amount of work already
done by Americans is in many ways
little short of marvellous"
With characteristic American wit
Kfor that is the word) the canal con-
structors appreciated the Importance of
the mosquito as factor in the canal
problem, and devoted especial atten-
ton to IT, with the view of eliminating
or canceling 1t. In the future, when
monuments are erected to commemorate
American skill, tee medical man must
be grouped along with the engineer, for
to professional medical science as much
as to engineering science the Pana-
ma canal enterprise is indebted, and
the fact we are able to talk with con-
fidence of the completion Of the canal
at a comparatively early date and to
utter a few natural and pardonable
shouts Of JOY over the bright prospects
of San Pedro harbor and Los Angeles
after that opening is as much due to
the doctor in the case as to the en-
gineer.
From the moment when the president
elect of the American Medical associa-
ton, Col. Gorgas, took charge of the
sanitary arrangements the success Of
the canal was assured. Col. Gorgas
fought mosquitoes and malarial fever,
and whipped them. He is as much a
conqueror as wellington and Grant,
and his statue in one of the public
squares of the Los Angeles of the
future, the greatest city in the west,
will bear the inscription: Peace hath
her victories no less renowned than
war;"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03
TAKES UP cUDGEL TO COMBAT
STONES ENVIRONMENT THEORY

LOS ANGELES. Sept. 1.--[Editor
Herald: The subject Of environment
having another run in your Letter
Box column, and Frank Stone SEEM
ing to have it all his own way, I
would like to chip in with a thought
or two against his position.
There is an old Scandinavian legend,
very significant in this connection:
There was once a giantess who had
q daughter and the child saw hus-
bandman blowing in the field. Then
she ran and picked him up with her
finger and thumb and put him and his
plow and his oxen into her apron and
carried them to her mother and said,
Mother, what sort OF q beetle Is this
] have found wriggling in the sand?'
But the mother said, Put it away. my
child; we must begone out of this land
for these people WILL dwell In it. "
This giantess might be named En-
vironment, who. until man came upon
the scene of action, had everything
her own way and ruled with an iron
hand. In man she perceived her
match, and eventually her master.
Since his advent there has been one
continuous wrestling game between
man and environment. She has slain
her tens of thousands where he has
once vanquished her. If one man has
thrown her and held her down until
she cried enough" it is an earnest of
what all men will do when a little
more gray matter is developed and
used.
Man has already borrowed the
might of the elements" to take him
on his way. He has harnessed the
forces of steam, gravity, light, wind,
fire, electricity, which were at one
time his cruel foes, and converted
them, through the power of his
thought and his will, to minister to
him-not override him.
The great driving force Of man is
his will. have seen 1t revolutionize
a mans life and character, SO that he
was no longer a creature played upon
by every passing event and circum-
stance, or a slave to the lower i'm
pulses and appetites OF his animal ma
ture, but in twinkling of an eye be-
came every inch a mana creator.
Some strain of music, some word of
passer-by. some sentence in a book,
some apparently trifiing incident may
have been the key to unlock the door
of the prison house in which his soul
was held a captive. These were the
OCCASION and not the CAUSE OF the
'super-man" finding his freedom and
asserting his divine prerogative of run
ming his own business. Shall strain
of music, word, a thought be greater
and more powerful than a human be-
ing who is able to create the strain of
music, speak the word or express the
thought? Shall heat and cold, air and
water, time and circumstance mould
mems lives and character when, by
their very nature, men are made to
command and use their environment,
not basely cringe to it?
"Unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how poor q thing is
man." M. e. G..
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03
Why Blame Poor Mr.. HerY-i1?
Asks Newspaper Champion
NHE Call congratulates MIR. Herrin
on having found an admirer and

lNHE Call congratulates Mr., Herrin
on having found an admirer and
"A champion in the Redding Courier
Free Press, which, in an unguarded
moment, inquiries, ''Why blame Herrin
for all things?" We are not aware
that anybody blames Mr.. Herrin ''for
all things" but the Call is free to adj
NIT that he is blamed for many of the
Ills that afflict the commonwealth of
California, and Justly blamed, because
on him rests the responsibility for the
state government under the present adj
ministration. The instance that prompt
ed the incautious inquiry of Mr.. Her
rims friend In Shasta was the scandal
Gus management of the state prisons.
Because we took occasion to point out
Mr.. Herrin's responsibility, his rather
indiscreet champion made the inquiry
quoted. 1t is like this, says the Courier
Free Press:
"After referring to the 'scandalous
conditions that obtain in our state
penitentiaries relative to the poor dis
elimination exercised In dealing with
young offenders the Call winds UP what
might be taken under other conditions
as a suggestion having for its object
the better disposition of criminals
young in age and crime and with suffi-
cient goodness in their makeup to be-
come intelligent observers of the law.
editorial into an admission that 1t is
merely a space filler with an Interior
motive. There are the words: In a
spirit Of humanity and submission we
suggest that the club Commonwealth
address Its letter to Mr.. Herrin. He Is
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03
WHERE DID YOU GET 1Ta

n NCE more we are constrained to
ask, where did you get 1t, Mr..
~ Hearst? The founder of the In
dependence league and its successor, the
independence party, has had his ups
and downs, but there have been many
downs and few ups. He soon found
that the game of running a half
dozen or more newspapers was more
costly than any other which could be
played. Although he syndicated, in
many instances using the same pic
lures and the same reading matter in
g his papers, yet even by making
"trust" of his various properties and
running them on the trust plan he 1id
not save enough to do much good.
Anxious to economic he began to
cut wages and to slash" bills-that
is to say, when man who was writing
for a Hearst paper put in space and
time" bill for, let us say, GA earned
dollars he would receive about $32, and
would be told to get out of the Hearst
offices or off the earth If he didn't like
1t. He economized still further by the
skillfuI if somewhat inhumane expe-
dent of making one man do the work
Of two. This method of economy dis
tinguished, for instance, his Chicago
establishment, where he publishes a
morning paper and an evening paper
of the all-day-long, extra-every-hour
variety. In order to hold underpaid
positions with Hearst in Chicago men
were compelled to work for his even
ing papers and then do their days
work all over again for the morning
paper. In this way it was easily pos
sible for an unfortunate reporter with
a 'big story" to be worked from a. m.
until ii p. m. or midnight. Easily pos
sible? Why, 1t was nothing uncom-
mon.
And for all this the victim of yellow
journalism would rereive less than ono
days fair pay. In the east one of
Hearst's principal newspaper establish
ments is known as "Hearst's continu-
Gus performance" That a man who
advocates an eight-hour day for union
labor should work non-union employees
LOT Twelve, fourteen ana sixteen 0OuFS
at stretch without giving them extra
compensation is-well, it is Characters
tically Hearstian. It is yellow jour
nalism," which is a fit and proper ex-
emplar and exponent of yellow politics,
represented by the Independence party.
Having been put to such straits that
he had to squeeze his employees and
curtail his expenses. Hearst somehow
to weather the financial storm
and poses as the "angel' of the Doodle
Dees. Where did you get it, Mr..
Hearst? And while he returns (ac-
cording to all indications) to that
pleasant financial thoroughfare named
Easy street the attack on the methods
of the Southern Pacific road ceases,
the champion of the people retreats TO
his tent, hushed Is the voice of protest,
stilled is the click OF the Hartman
roasting typewriter. Oh, eloquent ST.
lencel
Where did you get 1T, Mr.. Hearst?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03
PEACE

CIVILIZATION is reassured by the
happy peace speech OF Emperor
William of Germany. The assur-
ance of the war lord that he is the
peace lord will go far toward estab-
fishing an international confidence
which will promote industrialism at
the expense Of militarism. William
says the rulers of Europe feel they are
responsible to God for the lives and
property of the people entrusted to
their leadership.
This is an old-fashioned way of put
ting 1t and sounds strange In the ears
of nation accustomed to hearing that
all power is derived from the people,
and that the people put individuals in
office to execute their will expressed
through the enactments of representa-
tive legislative assemblies. But If
rulers who claim right divine and
power arbitrary, If not tyrannical,
acknowledge their responsibility to a
Supreme Being there is less danger to
the interests of the country over which
they rule than If they feared neither
God nor man.
Emperor William says peace is as
sured on land and sea by the power
Of the German people in arms. The
condition Of Europe, described by Will
lam. is perpetual paradox, but better
a peaceful paradox than a logical
blood-spilling. Some day the nations
will perceive that both peace and JUS
tice will be assured by the co-opera-
ton of civilized people without any
destructive arms. In the meantime,
civilization seems to be committed to
the policy of preparedness in time of
neace for war.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03
FOR PRESIDENT
CITY SHYLOCKS

:" e BELIEVE our readers appre-
w ciate the fact that Los Angeles
Herald spoke out on the subject
of proposal to reduce wages of work.
men in the street department. What
we said we meant, and it was forceful
because 1t represented the sentiment
of large proportion Of the citizens OF
Los Angeles. We are glad the plan
to "dock" the wages of the workmen
from $2.25 to 81 per day has been
abandoned, and now we ask what the
council intends to do in order to make
certain that the men will receive the
$2.25, the two dollars and the twenty
five cents per day that they have
earned?
We think this an opportune time to
put an end to the operations Of
middlemen who give wage earners cash
for their pay checks and take hand
some' commission. These middlemen,
intervening between the city payroll
and the workingmen, make fat liv-
ing from the city, about 1000 per cent
more than any workingman can pos
sibIy make, and they render to the city
no service, but take advantage of
peculiar and antiquated system of
paying wages.
Are we to believe city officials are not
aware of the activity of the middle
man? Are we to believe that city
officials know nothing about the drain
on the city treasury which enriches
the parasites and impoverishes the
wage earners? But the suggestion is
nonsensical. City officials are well
aware of the business arrangement"
by which the workingman is prevent
ed from receiving all the money he
earns, but it is one thing to be aware
of a wrong and another to right 1t.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03

To those who have not studied the
subject the news of the worldwide
growth of the woman suffrage move
ment is surprising. Instead of being
surprised, however, they should accept
it as one of the significant signs Of the
times, like the growth of Socialism
and its adoption by the scholarly, ultra
respectable class. What changes VIII
be wrought on our civilization by wo-
man suffrage and Socialism cannot be
predicted, but that they will be of
a (peacefully) revolutionary nature can
be foretoId with certainty. THE old
order changeth, yielding place to
new" and it is changing with mar
velous rapidity.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03
Government Is PerniciOus,
Says Hartman in I11terUieW

but the necessity OF advertising itself.
"Ah, my dear sir. who will ever rid
us of that pernicious thing called the
government7'
Is this anarchism speaking or Is 1t
autocracy? asks the San Francisco Bull
letin. .fhat pernicious thing called the
government" has been interfering with
Mr.. Harriman's management of his
neutrality-suspicious. the Alton-and
the great man resents the governments
meddling with matters that do not con-
cern the public. The management OF a
railroad, according to Harriman's view,
is the private business Of the stock
holders, the bondholders and the em-
ployes. True, the railroad gets It's
franchises and many privileges from
the public, but that gives tho public no
rights. The public, represented by the
government, Is merely a flock Of sheep
to be sheared.
Mr.. Harrinian's interviews, given for
domestic consumption, are not quite so
bold. One must go abroad to learn his
true mind.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03
SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD RALLY
TO WooLWiNE's SUPPORT

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2.--[Editor
Herald: cannot be silent when our
noble prosecuting attorney is making
such gallant fight for righteousness.
The good people. of Los Angeles con-
gratulate themselves that at last they
have such a brave, fearless man in
that very important Office. Now let the
Christian public, under the leadership
OF this efficient, patriotic officer ex-
change its cowardly policy of indiffer-
ence to war of determination of the
awful traffic that is sending every year
young girls to dishonored graves.
/ am certain that If the Christian
people and the Press o. this city will
stand by Mr.. Woolwine IN this fight
success will crown his efforts. Los An
geles is truly Christian city, city Of
churches. God will certainly hold us
responsible If we sit at ease in Zion
and permit the vicious element to rule.
MRS. JOHN 60BIEsK1.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03

AIR. HARTMAN apparently talks
U more freely for the foreign than
49, for the domestic press. stephen
Lausanne, editor of Le Matin of Paris,
publishes a singular interview with
Hartman, in which the railroad man,
after saying that his duty was to make
his railroads profitable, both to the cap
ital and the labor employed, declares:
But there Is something else not SO
easy. Suddenly, In addition to the two
sorts of men whom have mentioned. q
third power has arisen. 1t Is the gov
ernment. 1t mixes up everything,
makes trouble and confusion every
where. 1t threatens some people, ex-
cites others. 1t stirs UP quarrels in
order to have a pretext for interfering
In them. 1t brings its fist down on the
fragile chess board where men are
moving the pieces with prudence. 1t
makes laws capriciously, settles ques-
tions to suit it's fancy. And in the
midst OF all this disorder Indifferent
alike to the interests of all others, it
seeks only its advantage, feels nothing
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03

Mrs. Russell Sage has already given
$10,000,000 to fund for elevating the
economic condition of the poor. She
is firmly determined to expend all of
her husbands huge fortune on social
and philanthropic objects. 1t is one of
the most remarkable cases in the his
tory of the world. Somehow, 1t reminds
us of Carnegie's grim remark when he
was asked why he was giving away so
much money. II am buying my SOUL"
he said.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03

Said Mr.. Bryan at Des Moines: ''The
whole (protection) system is vicious
BUSINESS SHOULD NOT BE BUILT
UPON LEGISLATION. It should
stand upon its own merit, and when
it does stand upon its own merit we
shall not only have purer politics, but
we shall have less fiuctuation in busi-
ness conditions and a MORE EQUIT-
ABLE DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRO-
CEEDS OF TOLL" And so says ev9ry
manly, independent American, who
realizes that America is great coun-
try, a glorious country, a full grown
country and not a pulling infant in
swaddling clothes.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03

In Vermont the election for governor
shows a very large decrease in the
Republican vote, while the Democratic
vote fell off by only per cent. This
is due either to Republican apathy or
Democratic gains, or both causes. 1t is
evident there is change in the relative
strength of the two parties, and the
change Is heavily in favor of the De-
mocracy. We believe returns from
Vermont indicate national Democratic
victory in November.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03
On Down Grade

The Examiner of last Sunday printed
a page of press notices laudatory of
the Independence league. but it failed
to state the politics of the papers
quoted. They are all Republican jour-
nails and were merely doing Republican
politics in pretending to take the
league seriously. The truth is that
the Independence league is on the
down grade and will topple over the
precipice of oblivion in November
Fresno Mirror.