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Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
CONSUMPTION DURABLE

ut OBLE indeed is the work in which
~ the National Association for the
~ Study and Prevention of Tuber-
culosis is engaged. After much obser-
walton and experiment, it has reached
should have most beneficial effects in
reversing a current of thought which
is responsible for much mischief and
in changing a mental habit far more
deadly than any disease.
The National association is ANNOUNCE
ing, and is asking the newspapers of
the United States to announce, con-
sumption is durable. Consumption
owed its deadlness to the fact per-
sons attacked by it succumbed almost
Immediately: that is to say, if they did
not die in a short time, they died after
while. Some had stronger bodies
than others: but when patients of weak
physique made up their minds they
must die, why, they died of what is
called "galloping consumption" Stron-
ger persons fingered and it would be
said of them they put up a good fight"
against Tie QlSHdSei d HSlll llldl SOIlC-
times lasted for years. However, as
they had made up their minds they
must die of consumption, and had read
and thought about the various stages
of the disease until they had mentally
arranged for themselves a program of
gradual extinction which, barring acct
dents, was followed faithfully, 1t was
impossible to make them change their
minds, and of course equally impossible
to cure them.
Attacking the disease from this point
of view, the anti-tuberculosis society is
already working wonders-that is to
say, it is persuading people to stop
thinking an attack of tuberculosis is
sentence of death. 1t is not at all i'm
probable that if people would studi-
ously adopt the same mental attitude
with regard to toothache which has
become habitual with them when con-
sumption is mentioned, the ravages of
toothache would shortly be frightful,
and the mortality from this cause very
great. Fresh air, rest and wholesome
food with the aid of tuberculin will
cure consumption.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
PACIFIC COSTUMERS

n URING 1903 the Asiatic trade of
ID the United States amounted to
~ 1926, 119,33S, of which $195, 271, 552
represented imports, and 1929, S47, 1856 ex-
ports. 1T averaged over $27 600 900 a
month. Our leading individual Gus
toner is Japan, which takes $685. 624 Isl
worth of goods. Japanese China took
1881, 800 worth more, bringing the total
up TO $50, 256,2S1. The second individual
customer is Australasia, which bought
1872 792, 642 worth; but when to the Aus
tralasian figures are added those relat-
ing to other Pacific and Asiatic coun-
tries in the British empire, Japan must
take second place. The British empire
in Asia and the Pacific bought SAL, 4S2,
933 worth of goods.
According to the figures, we could
more easily afford to lose the oriental
trade of all the world excepting Britain
and Japan than to lose the trade of
Britain and Japan. A war with either
country would be ruinous to many
departments of American industrial or
commercial activity.
AS far as its effect on trade would
be concerned it would be more costly
and more disastrous to Industrial west
ern America than a war with all the
rest of the world combined War with
either of our great Pacific and Asiatlo
customers and friends is unthinkable
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
COAST EQUIPMENT

A BILL asking for five coast light
u and signal equipments for the Cal
IA ifornia coast has been introduced
by Senator Perkins. A revolving light
and keepers quarters are asked for
Point Firmin, light and fog signals
for Anacapa island, fog signals and
keepers quarters for Point Hueneme,
fog signals and keepers quarters for
Point Iona. and revolving light, signal
and keepers quarters for Santa Bar
bara.
With the coast we'll equipped with
lights and signals and with San Pedro,
one of the safest and best harbors in
the world, coastwise shipping Will
be greatly encouraged. Government
steamship lines and thoroughly safe
coast will be of great advantage to
California. 1t is to be hoped, and, in
deed it is expected Washington will
deal generously with us in the matter
of safeguarding our shore. 1t is not
dangerous shore. The stern and rock
bound coast of the Atlantic is far more
perilous.
But it is not yet as familiar to the
merchants and shippers of the world
as is the Atlantic coast, and the news
that every possible precaution is be-
ing taken to reduce to a minimum the
risks of navigation in California wa
tiers should have the effect of inspiring
with confidence the maritime mercan-
tile interests of the world and of giving
rates of maritime insurance that will
encourage California commerce.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
GREATER LOS ANGELES

kSN REATER Los ANGELES!"
eT Hold the thought. Realize
VI what it will mean to California
and the United States Consolidation
will give the Pacific coast one of the
greatest cities of the Union. The very
fact that the future of Los Angeles will
be assured by consolidation will make
that step more beneficial from bust
ness point of view.
Confidence in continued growth and
prosperity will tend to stimulate
growth and increase prosperity. Since
the predominant thought of every resi-
dent of Los Angeles is that the city is
bound to grow and to flourish, it will
certainly grow and flourish. Since cit
liens have made up their minds that
Greater Los Angeles, with it's fine sea-
port, San Pedro, will be the leading
maritime city of the west, it is certain
Greater Los Angeles will be the prin-
cipal maritime city of the west.
1t can no longer be Urged that the
growth of Los Angeles is accidental
fortuitous or phenomenal OF course
it is phenomenal: but it is more. 1t is
an assured and constant circumstance
attending the history of Los Angeles.
The city is still being made and is only
in an early stage of its making. 1t is
for this reason a speedy increase of
population to a half million may be
predicted with confidence. And Great
er Los Angeles will be the maritime,
commercial, industrial metropolis of
the west
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
CITY CLUB

r OS ANGELES HERALD congratu-
lates the City club on it's new
- officers It's president John d.
Works; it's first vice president, Frank
G. Finlaysoa it's second vice president,
S. c. Graham; it's secretary, Frank G.
Henderson: its treasurer, Stoddard
Jess, and the new members of its board
of governors. Gilbert S. Wright and
DIR. Sherwin Gibbons, are all represent
tative citizens, whose disinterested 10y
atty to the club and the community
may be depended on. We say the club
and the community; for it is difficult to
regard the City club as other than an
auxiliary branch of the city govern
ment. an advisory body pledged to care
for the interests of the majority of the
voters. the mass of citizens and tax
payers.
We commend to the careful attention
of our readers the following passages
from Meyer Lissner's excellent address
on Reform in Los Angeles, Retrospect
tive, Prospective:
There should be Good Government
club In every precinct in the city. of
which the earnest, active workers in
the precinct should be officers, and each
of these precinct clubs should be en-
titled to one representative in the coun-
ellis of the Good Government league.
THE RECALL is ALL RIGHT. IT
HAS COME TO STAY. REACTION
ARIES WOULD BETTER LET IT
ALONE. IT WILL NEVER BE SUR
RENDERED. If ever the people are
compelled to choose between saloons
and disagreement on the one hand
and no saloons and good government
on the other. they will vote to close the
saloons. The most dastardly thing that
was done in the recall campaign (and
it has been done in other campaigns in
the city of Los Angeles), a thing that
is absolutely subversive of one of the
fundamental principles of our American
institutions, was the attempt to preju-
dice the minds of many voters against
cur campaign and against the men con-
nected with it the movement on ac-
nected with the movement on account
of religious and racial considerations"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
FREE COUNTRIES

w HEN we realize that Madame
w Helena Modjeska, one of the
" most brilliant, talented, gifted
and cultured women who ever lived
was forbidden to live in her native
land, we have an appreciation of the
meaning of the word liberty"
There is so much freedom in the
United States and the British empire
that many citizens have ceased to value
it. They take it for granted" They
don't know what it means. Americans
hear or they read with only languid
interest or amused smiles how an I'M
Europe; how he was thoroughly at
home and uninterfered with and had a
bully good time" in Scotland, Ireland
and England, and how, when he set foot
on the continent, troubles began that
were of a nature of which he had not
even dreamed. He was cross-ques-
toned here, halted there while his bag
gage was searched, held up" in an
other place until he could prove to the
satisfaction of a pompous official who
had never heard of George Washington
that he was himself, and was not tray
cling with a passport stolen from a
tourist who Cheerful thoughD had
been murdered in backwoods village.
They read or hear how he fell and
scratched his face, and was imprisoned
and registered as a suspect because he
no longer resembled the photograph
which accompanied the passport; and
how. when he was about to be sent to
the mines or an isolated fortress as an
anarchist, he was rescued in the nick
of time by the united efforts of the
American and British consuls, and put
under the guardianship of commits
sionaires who by accompanying him to
the border saved him from further an
noyance, or the possible risk or incon-
venience of being kidnapped.
When we realize that, as in the
case of the gifted and lamented Mod
ieska, thousands of men and women are
residents of the United States and the
British empire because they are not
allowed to live in their own countries
and are not safe in any lands but ours,
we see the word liberty in a new light.
Nothing more awful could befau the
children of men than to have the free
countries" conquered. Meanwhile,
these countries are the beneficiaries OF
the narrow, penny wise, short-sighted
methods of most of the continental
governments, for the history of the
republic and the empire shows they
are both deeply indebted to European
refugees or descendants of refugee fam
lilies. Statesmen, business men, artists,
bankers Of the refugee class have con-
tributed to the wealth and greatness
of the free peoples, and to European
tyranny we owed our lamented adopted
citizen, Madame Modjeska.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
EASTER

II EFT us be glad and rejoice in Eas-
ter. 1t is not worth while to quar-
- rel over the origin of this great
celebration. 1t may be an old pagan
festival mixed up with Christianity. 1t
may be the Hebrew Passover mixed up
with Christianity. But all it means to
our civilization is connected with the
story of the Cross, and for Christians
it is a commemoration of the triumph
of their religion. And what triumphal
progress is that of the ever-growing
church through the ages!
Rent into factions innumerable, di-
vided by many quarres some of which
are fantastic and trivial; but united
by a common belief in the fundamental
principles and doctril es of the faith
of the fathers, the Christian church,
many but one, whether it be of Paul
or Apollos,'' of Peter or of Luther, of
Cranmer or of Knox, of Cromwell or of
Booth, goes marching on, conquering
new territory, steadily winning the
world.
All the joy that is in Easter is resur-
rection joy. 1t is springtime in the
colder regions, flower time in Califor-
mia.
1t is the time when lilies bloom.
And clouds highest up in air
Humanity, in response to the urge of
nature, bedecks itself with new finery.
In California, Easter is ideal. The
weather is perfect. The landscape is at
its best. The finest state in the Union
is at it's finest. Every Californian has
cause to be thankful. Life here should
be on higher plane than in any other
part of the country. Here there is no
excuse for sordid meanness, for petty
selfishness, for picayune policies that
produce lack of harmony. 1t is broad
gauge state. for broad-gauge men; and
here should be practiced from years
end to years end the civic virtues
which will give effect to the first prin-
ciples of Americanism and bring about
the greatest good for the greatest num-
Der and a square deal for everybody.
welcome. happy morning." Los An
geles Herald sends its readers Easter
greetings and wishes that every new
hope which will inspire their hearts to-
day may be realized.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11

leaving their old position, and promptly
moved into the camp the Republicans
had deserted. The Republicans made
honors easy by replying that the DEM
ocrats before the Civil War and imn1e-
diately afterward had fought all forms
of protection. They asserted that the
Democrats virtually admitted now the
benefits of temporary protection,
thing which they had vehemently de-
MED in the past.
When the Fifty-first congress was
organized the Republican majority was
so small and the rules so liberal to the
minority that the bitterest parliament
tary campaign in history had to be
fought out before Speaker Reed could
get a firm hold on the helm. 1t was
only by the creation of rules that were
denounced by the minority as arbi-
trary, revolutionary and unjust that
he was able to make tho house bridle-
wise and d steady puller. He justified
his rules by saying that they were born
of necessity. The Democrats denounced
them with all the vehemence they could
command: yet in the very next con-
gress, when they We're in control, they
were prompt in applying the Reed rules
to those who had originally adopted
them, and the Republicans now kicked
as hard as the Democrats had before.
A number of Democratic members
were unseated early in the session and
the Republican contestants awarded
seats. This gave the Republicans
safe working majority. The house then
undertook the serious business ofspass-
ing the Mckinley law. The ways AMI
means committee of that congress was
one of the ablest the house has ever
had. In it's membership was future
president, future secretary of the
treasury, a future justice of the
United States and as many more who
were destined to be governors of their
respective states. Former Speaker Car
Isle was also a member.
The committee reported two meas
ures-one relating to the administration
of the tariff laws, and one general re-
vision of the tariff. The former created
the general board of appraisers, still in
existence. The latter was the McKin,
ley bill, the basis of which was the
Aldrich measure which the senate had
passed as its substitute to the Mills
bill. In preparing the bill the commit
tee was careful to impress on the coun-
try that it was doing what the Demo-
Gratis had failed to do in the prepara-
ton of the Mills BILL The charge was
made that the committee opened its
doors to the manufacturers, but had
failed to give the consumers hearing.
Even the Democratic members of the
committee denied this charge, and the
statement was made that even the
crank was not turned away until he
had been heard.
The Mckinley bill was full of novel
features, embodying more new depart
ures in tariff legislation than any other
measure of its kind ever passed by con-
gress. 1t was the first tariff bill to pro-
vide for protective duties ON all agri-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
PAYNE PUZZLE

nj o provision of the Payne tariff
~ will cause more comment, sur
~ mise and suspicion than that
which puts petroleum on the free list.
Wary citizens, mindful of the history
of Standard Oil and of its reputation
for direct or indirect association with
Republican influences at election time,
will be so suspicious of the fact that
petroleum is put on the free list that
they will say Timeo Danaos an dona
ferentes. We must beware of the
Greeks" even when they are bring
ing presents, and it seems incredible
that the Republican organization, the
national machine. should have turned
traitor to its benefactor. This political
treason arouses suspicion, even al
though it is true the public service rem
dered by the treason, if frank and out
right treason it be, and not treason
to a trust with a treason to the people
adroitly concealed within the trust
treason is very great.
We are not ungracious when we put
a query mark beside the action of the
house with regard to the Standard Oil
trust. 1t seems to be too good to be
true What motive could the Repub-
licans have had for going back on OLD
John D.?
The theory that a benevolent govern
ment is trying to rescue the people
from the trusts is not tenable, because
the same benevolent government mas
protected the sugar trust. Why make
fish of the Rockefellers and flesh of
Havemeyer and Spreckels? What Is
the inside history and the true mean
ing of the inconsistent and puzzling
Payne bill?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11

TT NDER the Caption "Our Crit
/ les" the editor of "The Harves-
" ter" the weekly magazine
published by the First Methodist
church, has some quiet fun with the
anti recallerJ. The Harvester says:-
In the February issue of the Harvester
we haC something to say about city az
fairs and advised our readers to stand
for decency against indecency. Like
other editors in this city, we have found
it is the best policy to stand for the
right let it cost what 1t may. 1t cost
us lust two cents. Our article was
copied in the Los Angeles Herald and
few days later we received notice
from Postmaster Flint stating that a
letter was in his possession addressed
to the Editor of the Harvester upon
which was due two cents.
We FASTENED to the postoffice and,
after delivering our two cents, were
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
Magazine Editor Has Fun
zvifE1 Pro- Vice Letter Writer

handed an anonymous letter in which
the writer quotes from our article and
then says: "These statements are gross
exaggerations of the facts and are
unworthy the editor of church publ
cation. The Grand Jury distinctly
states: We have found no indictment.
From which it can be fairly concluded
that we have failed to find evidence
that any public official or other had
been guilty of a felony, A little care
OH your part would have convinced you
that these charges were unfounded.
These charges against the mayor have
been made by two men unworthy of
belief, though they be the owners or
editors of daily newspapers.
In the light of subsequent events, we
do not wish our readers to think that
in copying from this anonymous letter
we are running comic page in the
harvester. ToNus 1t is a very serious
matter. 1t cost us two cents.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11

BY the death of F. Marion Crawford
literature has lost one of its most bril-
liant exponents. He was one of the
few men who managed to make sue
cessful and lucrative business of novel
writing; and it is believed several or
his books have permanent value ana
that one at least will become classic
When we say there were no great"
American novelists in modern times do
not let us forget the author of MI.
Isaacs" and "Saracinesca."
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11

E. P. Gregson, traffic manager for
the Associated Jobbers of Los Angeles,
says the Wright act, under which Cali
fornia railroads are carrying inter-
state traffic, contains joker in pro-
vision which in plain language means
that when a railroad clerk, officer OF
employee quotes an erroneous rate to
a shipper the railroads are protected
in it and cannot be penalized. Jokers
are never jocular in their consequences.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
Disordered Finances

So the tumult and the shouting have
died away and the lawmakers in wash
ington and all Of the rest of us are
given opportunity in which to take &C
count of stock. 1t is discovered that
there will be much difficulty in pay
ing the piper after our long and ex-
uberant dancing. The national finances
are disordered to an extent that has
attracted practically no attention on
the part of the average voter-Spring-
field Republican
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11

Los Angeles Wholesale Dry Goods
association is taking the local leader
ship in the opposition to the enor-
mously increased tariff proposed on
the cotton stockings used by all Ameri-
cans of moderate means. 1t is pointed
out that this provision of the Payne
bill will create a trust in stockings,
and every family in the land will be
taxed with higher prices for inferior
goods to fatten the purses of a few
favored manufacturers.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11

AIgernon Charles Swinburne, the
poet, is dead. His death is likely to
have a paradoxical effect. 1t will cause
a revival of his works. In the opinion
of most of the scholars and critics of
the civilized world he should have
been made poet laureate instead of the
obscure and turgid person who received
that honor. But in England. as in the
United States, political pull is more
effective than merit.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
Wireless Warning

Fog is the one great obstacle to safe
and speedy navigation, against which
science has made little progress. Science
cannot reinforce eyes or glasses to the
point that will penetrate the curtain
of the fog. but indirectly science by the
wireless telegraphy can throw out
warnings which if not complete are of
mighty assistance to the puzzled man
on the bridge who is enabled to pick
them up.-Boston Transcript.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
Far and Wide
Latest, Not Last

The other day a special train was
fitted with a wireless apparatus and
between Cleveland and Chicago re-
ceived and sent 800 words. The bar
Der shop on the train was fitted up as
a wireless station and wires were car
ried to receiving instruments on the
roof above Messages were sent and
received all the way from Cleveland to
within a few miles of Chicago, the
train meanwhile running full speed.
Wireless te1egraphy takes on new and
higher dignities every day; it is the
last great wonder of the world.-Salt
Lake Telegram.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
II UTTON, button, who's got the but
II ton? 49,, ,.,.ou


~ What have they got the button
for?
1t is stated around town that they
will wear it in honor of the forty-fifth
anniversary of the ushering into mu-
nicipal life of the city of Sacramento.
That being SO, the Bee wishes mere
to register its protest against this sys-
tenn of arithmetic.
The city of Sacramento was born as
a municipality long before 1854 1t was
born to such activity as a city in 1919
From 1S49 to 1858 the city of Sacrament
to was city with it's mayors, clerks
and other officers. From 1858 to and
including 1862 the city and county or
Sacramento was one government Com
nencing again In 1863 the city of Sacra-
mento began and continued as corpo-
rate municipality, says the Sacramento
Bee.
So that the city of Sacramento is not,
as a municipality, only forty-fve years
old. 1t Is sixty years old. 1t was a
city with a government in the year 1S49,
and it's first mayor was A. M. Winn'
who afterward organized the Native
Sons That was a military provisional
government, to be sure. But the first
mayor elected by the citizens under
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
When Was Sacramento Born
Is Subject OF Discussion

proclamation of due authority was
Hardin Bigelow, who was elected as far
back as April 1, 1850.
1t is Just as well to be correct IN
these matters, and just as well to let
not only our own citizens but those
who are strangers, know how old we
are.
only women are forgiven for deciar-
ing they are but 45 years of age when
in fact they are 60.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
The State Press
ANGEL of Peace

If Tolstoy ever brings out new edi-
tion of WAR and Peace" he ought not
to overlook one days work by Con
gresham Hobson. That active gentle
man introduced on March 15 two bills,
two joint resolutions, and one con-
current resolution, all looking to the
end of making this country go about
armed to the teeth seeking some ma
ton with which it may make a lasting
peace.-San Jose Herald.