Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-17

FRANKLIN X. LANE
a radical instrument, so fast have our
| ideas developed in these matters
Gentlemen, there is one thing that
| perhaps 1 can say to you, and then ]
| must conclude, as 1 want to hear a
word or two of the addresses that are
| TO be presented. You must, in taking
up fights of this kind, know no friends.
You must be absolutely loyal-as loyal
| as soldiers in an army-to the interests
of your city. You must know no party.
! You must WIN WIN WIN WIN wmwmw
| city, because you are its sole represen-
tatives. There is nobody to fight for
| Los Angeles unless you do. If you
| shlrk your duty, if you regard personal
| considerations or party considerations
| as superior to the welfare of Los An
| gels, then who is to make her battle?
IF each one of you shirks, if each
| one of you neglects, if each one of you
| is moved by other considerations than
your sense Of loyalty to the city, then
where must you look for a champion?
1t is the individual duty of each in
Gividual citizen to make it his business
| to fight Loyalty for the welfare of the
city and to put that interest superior
to every other consideration.
''The time will come when these same
ideas which now you regard yourselves
as loyal to-the ideas Of non-partisan-
ship and superior interest in your mu-
nicipality-will spread throughout the
country. l mean not only to other
municipalities, but into the interior of
states, so that we may deal with state
affairs in the same fashion.
What is the significance of Governor
Hughes message to the New York leg
islature, advocating the Massachusetts
Australian IolIn
pardon me for saying so, before that
matter was drafted and presented to
the Massachusetts legislature 1 went
before the legislature Of California with
a similar measure. I presented it to
the committee and was derided for It,
But it is the bill, the measure, the
scheme of ballot reform to which we
must return. According to 1t, the
names of the candidates are arranged
upon the ballot alphabetically, accord
ing to the Office, and the party designa-
ton is put alongside the names.
Must Uphold Right
ct believe in organization. 1 believe
in party organization. L believe that
the success that we have achieved in
our political system is due in consider
able part to party organization. But
every individual member of the party
must feel always that he has the right
and that it is his duty sometimes to be
superior to that party.
$50 what l say is that the power
should always be in our hands as the
people Of the United States, as the peo-
pie of California, as the people of Los
Angeles to make our own laws and to
unmake them; to make our own Of
ficers and to unmake them; to do
directly what we want done with our
affairs. And if we can't rely upon the
Ill
people then we simply confess that, so
far as this government is a democracy,
it is a failure. But as l look into your
eyes I know that there is that con-
fidence, that optimistic confidence, in
you that there is in myself; that we all
Of us believe that it is possible, If we
will work and if we will do more in
the way of self-sacrif1ce and less in the
way of serving self-intereSt, to make
this form of government with which
we are experimenting a success.
"An that you are now doing is
simply trying to develop the machinery
We are in the process of evolution, and
you are trying to make this scheme of
government successful; whereas, if it
were in other hands-hands that took
less interest in it's affairs-it were
doomed to failure"
Amendments Considered
The regular program for the after
noon was the consideration of various
charter amendments.
To Capt. Amos A. Fries was assigned
the discussion of those charter amend
ments relating to the harbor. In intro
ducing him Judge Hunsaker eulogized
the work of Capt. Fries has done for
the improvement of San Pedro harbor
and his earnest cooperation with the
citizens of Los Angeles to preserve that
harbor for the free us of all the people,
Capt. Fries pinned a large colored
map Of the inner and outer harbOrS of
San Pedro on the curtain, and with this
map before them his audience under
stood the Importance of the amend
ments concerning the harbor.
He dealt chiefly with charter amend
ment No. /, which will be subdivision
Z OF section Of article 1 of the charter
when it is carried. This amendment
provides the city with power to con-
struct wharves and docks on the water
front and lines of transportation be-
tween Los Angeles and such water
front. He strongly favored this amend
ment. Capt Fries also dwelt at length
on charter amendment No. which re-
lates to the consolidation or annexa-
ton Of contiguous cities and the right
Of the city to own water frontage He
| explained that under the terms of the
ordinance the city could not lease any
water frontage it acquired until it had
secured title to 10000 linear feet. It
may lease any amount over the 10000
| feet, except that not more than 1000
| feet may be leased to any one person or
corporation, and these 1000 feet must be
in parcels Of 1000 feet each and might
not adjoin each other.
A. P. Fleming, secretary Of the har-
Dor commission, said several persons
were opposing the bill for consolidation
before the state legislature because if
| was alleged this leasing feature would
| interfere with private business in
terests. Capt. Fries explained how by
building their slips these private cor
porations could greatly increase theil
frontage for business purposes, and de-
clared no private interests would be
jeopardized.
Charles F. Lummis, librarian, spoke
in favor of the library amendment
This amendment gives the council
power to call an election for the issue
of bonds, the amount to be $4,000 fol
the purpose of acquiring land and
building library building. While bond.
will be issued this library building vii
not cost the taxpayers a. cent. The