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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-16
OUR JAILS INDICATIVE
OF MODERN CIVILIZATION

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14-[Editor
Herald1: Being blessed with a wander
ing disposition and after having lived
in seven different lands, am often
aghast at the presumption of very
primitive barbarians sending mission
aries to other people whose ethical
conceptions the aforesaid barbarians
are not even capble of grasping. Net
the student hunt up Lord Macauley's
report on the futility of sending mis-
sioEaries to India).
The jails in this city, county and
state are SO shocking that have never
heard of equal horrors outside the
Soudan and that was before the British
occupation; man would get far more
humane treatment in Kartoum than in
this city of dark angels.
AS an ex-member of THE church l
should like to know what are they do
ing about it? Although they are not
important in Europe, being confined to
rapidly disappearing rural communities,
they are numerous here and consider
ing the calm with which they look on
at the outrages described by Colonel
Griffith and others makes me agree
with Horace Greeley when asked by a
sleek man of the cloth for a subscrip-
ton to keep mems souls out of hell,
''Why there are not half enough go
there!''
This is my little protest against both
the condition Of our penal establish
ments, and the outrage on the patriots
from Mexico.
1 am a pathfinder. You will notice
by my signature that I was not born
in Budapest. JOSEPH RYAN.
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MIND is NOT THAT WHICH is
MAN, BUT DIVINE PRINCIPLE

GLENDORA, Jan. 15.-[Editor Her
add: Mind is not that which is in man.
but the divine principle, or God, Of
whom man is the full and perfect ex-
preston.
There can be but one mind, because
there is but one God; and if we claimed
no other mind and accepted no other
sin would be unknown.
Scripture informs us that man is
made in the image and likeness of God.
Matter is not that likeness. Matter
cannot see, feel, taste or smell. 1t is
not ognizant-cannot feel itself,
see itself nor understand itself.
Take away mortal mind, which con-
stituted matters supposed selfhood,
and matter can take no cognizance of
matter.
Does that which we call dead ever
see, hear, feel, or use any of the phys
icaI senses?
Why do c. Severance and others ma
lign Christian Science for instructing
mortals how to make sin, disease and
death appear more and more unreal?
If the five corporal senses were the
medium through which to understand
God, then palsy, blindness and deafness
would place man in a terrible situa-
ton, where he would be like those haV-
ing no hope.
God is mind, and God is infinite;
hence all is mind.
To say that strength is in matter is
like saying that the power is in the
lever. L. H. BROWN.
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A PARADOX OF BUTTER

N OTHING more extraordinary or
humiliating to intelligent citizens
- of Los Angeles has been recorded
tnan the defense of a representative
of a grocery company, fined by Police
Justice Rose for selling packages of
butter that lacked an ounce of being
a pound. The defense attempted to
establish as a fact the incredible al
legation that it is customary in this
city to sell short weight butter and to
folst upon customers pound pack
ages weighing only fifteen ounces. The
manager of the company went so far
as to make the remarkable assertion:
1T is impossible to get sixteen-ounce
pound packages of butter in Los An
geles." Police Justice Rose indicated
the good name of our city by refusing
to accept the plea that the customary
prevalence of a wrong makes it
right, and fined the offenders $40. Not
only is it conventional habit through
out the United States to deal in pounds
that weigh sixteen ounces, but in Los
Angeles the habit is enforced by law,
for an ordinance says distinctly that
in this city a pound MUST weigh six
teen ounces. Justice Rose ruled most
righteously that the law requires pack
ages stamped sixteen ounces to contain
that amount, that a pound is a pound
for a that and any dealer selling
short-weight butter is responsible. To
say a dealer was himself short
weighted before he short-weighted the
customer will become a good excuse
when two blacks make a white. When
a customer asks for pound of but
ter he asks for sixteen ounces Of but
ter. Fifteen ounces are not sixteen.
We hope the paradoxical pound of
butter will be eliminated from the
commercial economy Of Los Angeles
without delay.
If 1t is difficult to believe in the
prevalence of the paradoxical pound Of
butter it is equally hard to credit the
statement which has been made re-
Gently that in some city restaurants
ten oysters do duty for a dozen and
five for a half dozen. Yet we have
been informed that an order of dozen
fried oysters yields result which
would lead the logicaI-minded person
to infer that two oysters had been pre-
digested, for only ten answer the roll
call. If we were to credit other state
ments we have heard it might be pos
sible to demonstrate that certain Los
Angeles purveyors are burdened by an
oppressive sense of humor which
causes them to convert each order into
laborious joke on the customer. We
hope these statements are without
foundation in fact. If they are not as
groundless- as clear coffee they ought
to be.
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TAKES ISSUE WITH WAY THAT
is SUGGESTED BY w. {. BROWN

PASADENA, Jan. 14.-[Editor Her
add: l am greatly interested in w. E.
Browns statements regarding Christian,
Scientists relation to the existing in
dustrial and social order. 1t is a mat
ter of infinite concern both to Christian
Scientists and to all mankind whether
opportunity for material improvement
and consequent spiritual development
shall be extended or withheld from the
great mass of mankind by man made
laws.
Mr.. Brown admits that material con-
ditiOns are far from right as they now
exist, but he says, with an air of
finality, that Jesus way is the only
way" and the question naturally arises
What is Jesus way?
Is the fact that nearly two million
children less than Is years old are now
engaged in productive industry for
the profit of our industrial masters i'll
this nation an evidence Of Jesus way
of doing things? Again, is the fact
that the entire laboring class of the
world is engaged in the production OF
the worlds wealth at wages barely
sufficient to sustain the Iaborer's life
and enable him to reproduce his species
an evidence of Jesus way Of doing
things? And again, is the swollen for
tunes and degrading poverty of the age
an evidence of Jesus way? And, final
ly, are the fruits of the present system
of private ownership of the worlds
wealth for private profit, with it's ter
rible by-prOducts of ignorance, prosti-
tuition, criminality, suffering, sin and
shame an evidence that if Jesus APP
peared on earth today he would lend
his support to such q condition Of
affairs? J. MALCOIB JONES.
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GOVERNORS

AT OTHING is more odious than a
~ comparison, especially when it
~ is to our own disadvantage. But
we cannot help that, and must accept
the disadvantage along with the COM
pariSon when we call attention to the
sharp contrast in character and con-
duct presented to the country by the
governor of New York and the gov
ernor of California. Governor Hughes
of New York is a clean cut, high prin-
cipled American citizen, who does not
fear Interests; in fact, is afraid of
nothing but dishonor. He believes his
first duty is to the people of the state
Of New York, and thinks the greatest
good of the greatest number will be
most effectively brought about by the
protection of the homes of the people.
Therefore he is a strong and resolute
enemy of every influence which may
interfere with the comfort, prosperity
and domestic happiness Of the citizens
Of the Empire state.
For instance, what a contrast there
IL DSIWSSn HIS anu OUISpOh6n
antagonism to gambling and the gam
bling element and interests and the
attitude of the governor of California
toward similar interests in this state!
The governor Of New York is not
afraid to fight vice. He does not shirk
his responsibilities. To him there is
no higher motive power than con-
science, and the dictates of conscience
he obeys unquestioningly In Califor-
MIA conscience has too many qualify
ing and restraining influences. In this
state, most unfortunately, it is not a
case of conscience, but case of S.
P. We hope the day may come when
the people Of California will be al
lowed to enjoy the constitutional self
government to which they are entitled,
and when their political program will
not be interfered with and their officials
dominated by influences hostile to the
general good.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-16
RACE TRACK GAMBLING

A MOTHER race track gambling
IA wreck, in the person of Frank j.
- Barringer, brings home with
tragic force and compelling force to
every self-respecting citizen the urgent
necessity Of enacting useful, efficient,
practicable anti-gambling legislation
in this state. In three years Barringer
lost $4,000 in race track gambling. He
is dead broke" His wife and child
have gone east. He is charged with
giving a check which did not repre-
sent money actually in the bank. 1t is
a most distressing case, and it is i'm
possible to withhold sympathy on the
ground the foolish young man Should
have known better" No doubt he
should, but so should hundreds of
others who follow the "bookies'' and
finally come to grief. Instances of this
kind are always to be found in places
where race track gambling is allowed
Those responsible for race track gam
bling are likewise responsible for such
instances, and those responsible for
permitting race track gambling are the
persons who give opportunity for and
CAUSE such offenses and such stories
of misfortune as that of Barringer
While the opponents Of anti-race track
gambling legislation are inventing one
pretext after another for delay, temp
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-16
SWITCHING INQUIRY

A N IMPORTANT inquiry is being
II conducted by Franklin K. Lane,
"a interstate commerce commission
er, who is visiting Los Angeles for the
purpose of investigating complaints
that railroads signed agreements to
make charges for switching to So
called industry tracks. Representatives
of the Associated Jobbers of Los An
geles are conducting the fight against
switching rates, characterized by them
as exorbitant, unjust and unreason-
able. In Los Angeles railroads de-
mand extra money for switching to the
so-called industry tracks, and it is
charged that up to 1905, fourteen years
after the signing Of an agreement to
make switching charges, some indus
tries and individuals were charged less
than others. Switching charges in eff
feet may amount to discrimination
against some industries, or a special
tax on some industries, or a special
tax on all industries. It is in this light
many local manufacturers have re-
garded the switching charges. They
have held these charges constitute a
tax on Los Angeles Industries, and that
they are detrimental to the business
interests Of this city. The inquiry is
being watched with the greatest in
terest not only by local merchants and
manufacturers, but by the wide and
national circle Of Industrial interests
throughout the United States which
are linked by commercial ties with
the rapidly growing and expanding
mercantile and manufacturing indus
tries of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-16
ASSERTS HUMAN MIND SMALL
PART OF THE UNIVERSAL ONE

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13.-[Editor
Herald1: Charming Severance asks:
eff mind controls matter, why does
three fingers of whisky taken into his
stomach send happy thoughts to a
mans head; and forty drops of lauda-
mum shut off all mental action and
leave him temporarily without
mind? ?"
Here is the argument: If mind con-
trolls matter (the principle), then a
human mind should control any form
of matter with it's forces, as whisky or
laudanum (the application).
Failure of an application does not
necessarily disprove the principle. The
order, harmony and designs of nature,
with the operations of its forces and
laws, certainly show a universal con-
trolling intelligence. A human mind is
a small part of the universal mind. AS
such it cannot and does not control all
the forms and forces of matter. Being
like the universal mind, it does con-
troll some of them. ASBURY CECIL.
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LAND

CONDITIONS in Australia are nearly
as bad as they are in the older
~ countries, said an Australian who
was in Los Angeles recently. A land
monopoly has been created, and indus
trial and economical conditions have
been affected by the change. The Aus
tralian added personal experience and
observation had taught him that as
soon as all the free or easily obtain
able land in country was taken UP
the grim struggle for existence which
is the characteristic of modern civiliza-
ton took the place Of old free, neigh
borly, kindly life.
No country has had common sense
enough to preserve margin of safety
by keeping public lands which may lie
USED for a lifetime but not owned and
marketed. With such a margin of
safety the social pressure in any coun-
try could never become actually dan
gerous Our Australian friend said
times are bad in Australia, and the
poor man without capital has no chance
Of succeeding financially in life and
may or may not earn a living.
Individual effort without the CO.
operation Of backing or capital no
longer counts, and the day Of the
pioneer, with no resources but energy,
genius and access to the land, is over.
Australia is now facing industrial
economic problems which must be
solved, and how to assure the greatest
good for the greatest number and give
a square deal to everybody is as great
a puzzle on the island continent as on
the continent Of North America.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-16
MUCK RAKER?"

DAILROAD interests are marshaling
n, forces and making preparations
~ to defeat attempts to establish on
the Pacific a federal line of steamers
which would render ineffective collu-
sion existing between the transcon-
tinental railroads and the Pacific Mail
Steamship company and help give Cali
fornia shippers a square deal. Senator
elect Bristow of Kansas filed a memoir
able report which showed what was
being done by way of rate fixing. One
passage in the report ran as follows:
ga number Of business men and ship
pers called upon me privately and COM
planned against the inadequacy of the
Pacific Mail service. They declared the
steamship company was controlled by
the transcontinental railroads and its
rates were fixed with a view of dis
couraging shipment by way Of Panama
Statements were submitted to me with
q, request that they be not published,
and number Of men who furnished
the information asked that they be pro-
tected from any publicity in regard to
the matter.
These requests came from men in
control Of important commercial and
industrial enterprises; and yet, in pub
lie and private gatherings, where all in
terests were represented, some Of these
same men openly praised the Pacific
Mail and stated that they did not
want the government to do anything
that would impair the efficiency of it's
service" On account of this and other
passages in the Bristow' report he is
hard names break no bones
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VICE AND S, p.

AMES of ten out Of eighteen stock
holders in the Southwestern Pack
ing company were published in
yesterdays Herald as part of the eighth
article in the remarkable series en-
titled us Vice Protected in Los An
geles?" In this article, which, like all
the others published, was clear, crisp,
clean and directly to the point, there
was established in connection with the
Southwestern Packing company what
appeared to be an inevitable sugges-
ton of a political as well as financial
utilization, from the fact that with the
exception of Mayor Harper and j. D.
Ryan, the other stockholders named
for a long time have been prominent in
local Republican politics.
The article went into the subject
Of this prominence in detail as fol-
lows: Walter F. Parker (who holds
5000 shares)) is the recognized head Of
the Southern Pacific Republican ma
chine in this county; D. c. Barber
10000 shares) is superintendent Of
the county hospital; w. A. White
10000 shares) was formerly Repub-
lican sheriff Of the county; w. H.
Cline 10000 shares) is a Republican
township constable; Pete Wilson co.
600 shares), S. T. Eldridge 10000
shares) and c. E. Patterson 10000
shares) were the famous Republican
Solid Three Of the board of supervis-
OrS whose SfranuoIIr affor+c ~ Ir+,o
duce political machine methods into the
handling Of the good roads fund have
recently attracted much attention and
been the cause Of much anxiety to the
citizens Of this county, and John w.
Vaughn 10000 shares) active in Re-
publican politics and at one time in
dicted for defrauding the county by
furnishing inferior drugs to the county
hospital. All these eight Republican
politicians are credited with being
closely affiliated with the local South
ern Pacific political machine Of which
Mr.. Parker is the head"
The demonstration of the problem
Of vice protection in Los Angeles
therefore in the most natural manner
leads by a straight road of proof di-
rectly to the same old railroad corpora
ton influences which have had sinister,
demoralizing or injurious effect on af-
fairs and influences pertaining to good
government in Los Angeles and South
ern California. These railroad inf1u-
ences may be said to be not merely
Mephistophelian, but -Mephisto-
phelian.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-16

Main street, from Jefferson street to
the junction with Moneta avenue, is in a
most dangerous condition. Between the
swamp and the elevated car track peo-
pie are in constant peril. Already sew
eral have had narrow escapes If the
pig trail used to be conspicuously bad,
since the rain it is ten times worse, as
The Herald prophesied it would be if
the street was not attended to. 1t was
an easy prophecy to make. We only
hope the gloomier possibilities of the
forecast may not be fulfilled. Who is
responsible for this outrageous and dis
graceful condition?
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Perhaps We May Now Get a
Good Railroad Commission

H HE uselessness of the California
railroad commission has been
recognized for many years. 1t
has never been a factor of Importance
in the regulation of traffic matters. 1t
will never become so so long as there
are four commissioners nominated by
conventions controlled by corporations,
nor is it likely that much better timber
for that particular Office will be got by
a direct primary. A good railroad COM
missioner must be an expert in traf-
fic matters. That qualification can be
got only by service with the railroads
or by long experience in active work
on an active commission. Neither can
it be got without a quality of brains
such as is rarely found engaged in a
rough-and-tumble scramble for an Of
flee of that kind. A professional cor
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-16
ENTERS PROTEST AGAINST
IMPRISONMENT OF MEXICANS

LOS ANGELES, jan 14.-[Editor
Herald: 1 wish to register my protest
as an undesirable American citizen
against the outrageous arrest and un-
lust Imprisonment Of the Mexican pa
triots, Magon, Villareal and Rivera.
When / volunteered my services to
help to free Cuba from Spanish oppres-
sion I had little idea that same blood
thirsty profit-mongering gang of cap
italists controlled this country too.
A c. ID.
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poration batter would be as useless as
corporation tool and more harmful,
says the San Francisco Chronicle
There are no laws prescribing the
duties of the California railroad COM
mission, the legislature having steadily
refused to perform the duty Of pro
viding them which was imposed upon
it by the constitution. There are signs
that the coming legislature will pass
some kind Of law, or propose some
kind of constitutional amendment.
There should be a commission or D.
commissioner with a good deal of
power, and the officials who exercise
that power should be men of wisdom,
experience and character. Let us hope
that out of the discussion which is
evidently coming we shall get COM
mission which will be able, impartial,
just, vigilant and active
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ever had, or any other man. Hurrah!
for our brand new girl. Young man be
father. It's lots of fun. Come and
see us; bring your family and stay all
summer. We are not a granddaddy long
leg, but we are a great long legged
daddy. We own this side of the globe
for the next two weeks and that's
about the size of US. We feel so heavy
that we are afraid the town will tip
over if we venture too near the limits.
Hear the baby sing! It's all our own,
too, this eight pounds (dry measure(
Of red flannel and noise. Brother edi-
tors, the young and accomplished Miss
Morehead salutes you. Take off your
hats! every blamed item-stealer of you
or we will cut you from our exchange
list. We would not trade it for the
kingdom Of Great Britain and the
United States thrown in. Give US
some room and let us out! It's our
first offense and we can stand on our
head and kick our breeches off if we
want to-"
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Far and Wide
Near but Far

In fact and in practical way the re-
lations between the United States and
Canada are so intimate and involve
so many questions of state that Cana
dams and Americans alike find it irk-
some to have to do business by way of
London, and many Canadian statesmen
talk very freely of a time when they
shall either be completely independent,
so as to deal directly with other coun-
tries about their own affairs, or that
they will so arrange their diplomatic
intercourse as to have it quite as free
as if Canada were an independent COM
monwealth in fact.-Buffalo News.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-16

A Los Angeles hero, as great and as
noble as many to whom monuments
have been erected, is dead. He was
Brave Bobbie Bradley" who saved
lives at hotel fire three years ago,
and from that time until the day of his
death never was well, and never free
from pain. Truly, he suffered martyr
dom for the sake Of his fellow men.
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GLOWWORMS

Lights dimness on the damp, dense grass,
With faint fragrance of xegret,
Too volatile the heart to fret,
Though curbing gay moods as they pass.
Dusk depths of huge-limber trees that sigh
In sleepy whispers overhead,
And on the path a black cloak spread;
While mongst their boughs weird OWL
wings fly.
Then sudden, swift as flash of lance
Beneath the beaming Of the sun
Where knights of old high honor won,
The glowworms blink in happy chance!
Look! here and there, and there and here,
They draw their little lantern slides
To find what forest secret hides
Within a dewdrop's unshed tear!
And as they glimmer, far and low,
They mimic wan lamps OF hope,
Which fare, then wane; whilst on we
grope
Where Fate's mist-haunted thickets grow.
William Struthers in Ainslee's.
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MARK TWAIN ON BOOKS

A young girl once asked Mark Twain
if he liked books for Christmas gifts.
well, that depends" drawled the
great humorist. IF a book has leath-
err cover it is really valuable as a razor
strop. If it is a brief, concise work,
such as the French write, it is useful
to put under the short leg of a wabbly
table. An old-faShioned book with a
clasp can't be beat as a missile to hurl
at a dog, and large book, like a geog-
raphy, is as good as a piece of tin to
nail over a broken pane of glass; -
Minneapolis Journal.