Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-13

4 S the result OF the agitation Gre
II ated by the labor unions of Chi
- cago against tuberculosis, which
agitation has been kept up by means
of lectures such as were given here re-
Gently in the Labor temple by the
Typographical union, the city has be-
come aroused to the danger of the
spread of this disease and taken steps
to stamp it out entirely. By a vote OF
4 to l last week the city approved of
building municipal sanitarium, and
steps will be taken Immediately look
ing toward it's establishment. This in
stitution will be maintained by the
citizens of Chicago, the funds for the
support of it to be raised by taxation.
This sanitarium will be built outside
of the city, where the patients may
have pure air, but wills be located con-
Veniently to street car transportation
lines. so that it may be easily reached
by patients and friends. 1t is pro-
posed that the institution will have
accommodations for $50 unfortunates
at one time. Statistics show that there
are usually between 10000 and 10000
victims of tuberculosis in Chicago.
One-fo fourth of these are in the early
stages of the disease, and it is on this
basis that the estimate of $50 is made
of those who would seek entrance to
the sanitarium. This estimate includes
only those of the poorer class of un-
fortunates the wealthy class being
able to seek health and happiness in
various parts of the country.
Only those in the early or moderate
ly advanced stages of the disease will
be accepted, as the project was
launched for the purpose of curing the
patients and not for those who have
reached the advanced stages of the dis
ease This latter class will be cared for
at the county hospital, a new and larg-
err building being erected for that pur-
pose.
Secretary Straus recently said that
the way for California to settle the
veXed Japanese question was to employ
white persons, and when the Japanese
saw there was no work for them they
would cease coming to this country
Stockton has applied this advice to its
fashionable Yosemite club. which has
recently fitted UP at great expense
three floors in the Stockton Savings
Bank building for club rooms. lmme-
diately upon moving into the new
quarters the directors decided that
Japanese would hereafter be excluded
from rendering service to the club and
the nine Japanese servants We're dis
charged their places being filled by
white men.
Before the New York council OF inc
National Civic Federation in New
York few days ago addresses were
delivered by Prof Frederick j. Slim
son of Harvard, Prof. John Bates Clark
of Columbia university and Samuel
Gompers of the American Federation
OF Labor. In the course of Professor
Stimson's remarks he said: "A black
list is unlawful but a white list which
commends is lawful" In other words,
it is lawful to speak the truth pro-
vided it is commendatory, but unlaw-
full to speak the truth should it be
derogatory The right to organize and
solicit patronage for persons who con-
cede that right was denied by Profess
sor Stimson, declaring it to be a con-
spiracy and unlawful. Tn reply Presi-
dent Gompers said: ''If the laws do
not properly safeguard the fundamen-
tai rights of the laborer then they
should be changed AS a representa-
tive of labor I know the laborer has
morally-and should have under the
law-the right to organize and protect
what he possesses, which is the power