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Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
OPPOSES STATEMENT MADE
BY "SENEX" AS TO LINCOLN

GLENDORA. Feb. 22.-[Editor Her
add: L see that "Senex'' is greatly agi-
tated because someone has claimed that
Abraham Lincoln was believer in the
Christian religion. He says such a
claim is silly claptrap and that we
should be ashamed to make such asser-
tions.
Then he goes on with more big words
and a Latin proverb to still further i'm
press US with his superior wisdom and
learning. Then he informs us that Lin
coin lived without an enemy and left a
world weeping when he died.
[ was always under the impression
that he had some enemies, and that he
was assassinated by his enemies. 1t is
a slander on any good man who has
ever held high Office to say that he
never had an enemy. Lincoln also had
some fool friends, whose friendship only
added to the burden he had to bear.
Some of their descendants still live,
and, to bolster up their infidelity,
solemnly inform us that Lincoln was a
skeptic, and try to use his name as a
weapon against Christianity.
Other Judases, who would have us
believe they love the memory Of Lin
coin, are found in the ranks of the
brewers, who have made the assertion
that Lincoln once tended bar and
favored the whisky traffic.
So we see that there are those who
would pose as friends of this great man
and drag his name from the highest
place in the hearts of all true Ameri
cans to the level of inf1delity ard
saloons.
But 1 am glad that we have history
which gives the true life Of this, the
greatest of all Americans, a noble,
pure-minded, God-fearing man.
No, "Senex," it is useless for you to
try to use the name of Lincoln as a
tail to your kite Of infdelity.
DE WITT CLINTON.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
SAYS PREACHERS PERoRATIoN
MADE HIS LISTENERS sQUIRM

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25.-[Editor
Herald: Several days ago, when I
first came to this city, I heard a series
of lecture-sermons delivered from the
pulpit in which DR.. Locke made his re-
cent utterances regarding the theater
Those lectures were excellent until the.
speaker reached his peroration. From
that moment he handed out the old
line of hell fire and birthstone theology
that made many intelligent listeners
squirm. 1 finally abandoned the lee
lures, and have not been inside of a
church since. My brother did the same,
with the exception that he went to one
of the Torrey meetings. That settled
it for him. We attend the high class
theaters regularly. I was delighted
with Mr.. Broadhurst's reply to DR..
Locke's attack. Permit me, Mr.. Editor,
to thank The Herald for running an
open forum for the peole. Keep it fair
and give all sides to every controversy
an opportunity to present their case.
and l am a lifetime subscriber.
WILLARD G. HOLBROOK.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
TAFT ON JOURNALISM

UDGE TAFTS Washington Birth
day speech contained passages
which remind US that the profess
sional special and magazine writer who
at present is president of the United
States is to be succeeded by profess
sional reporter of the newspaper press.
Judge Taft said:
Its power of public instruction is
very great, but when it panders to the
Vulgarest taste for sensationalism and
becomes entirely irresponsible in its
influence for good its pernicious ten
dency is obviated only by the power
of the people to procect themselves
against it by a safe discrimination and
healthy skepticism.'
Merely pausing to call attention to
the fact that Judge Taft's modes of
expression and his phraseology resem-
bic so closely those of Grover Cleve-
land as to suggest he must have been
a student and observer of that staIwart
and fearless American, we proceed to
ask our readers to note how accurately
Judge Taft explains the fact yellow
journalism has obtained any foothold
at all in the United States. 1t was
cheap. 1t caught many people who
had not been in the habit of subscrib-
ing to morning papers. Immediately,
instead of treating those people as if
they represented an educated and re-
fined class, Hearst insulted them by
assuming they were neither educated
nor refined, and by establishing a style
of Journalism which he imagined would
be suited to the tastes of these people,
who, he thinks, are his interiors. Even
granting that the patrons of cheap
journalism must necessarily be cheaper
people than those who pay high prices
for papers (Which, Of course, is a wild
absurdity) there is nothing to justify
the conduct of the man who attempted
to lower American journalism to the
level that he believed represented pub
lie intelligence. Even granting that
high class reading would not appeal to
all the people, Mr.. Hearst ethically had
no right deliberately to impoverish the
intellect of his readers by interfering
with their higher mental processes.
Even granting his judgment of the
mass of the American people to be
true (and we do not believe it is true)
was it not his duty as a rich man who
could afford to buy brains to surround
himself with men who would work with
the understanding they were working
for the improvement of society, labor
ing for the best interests of the people? I?
While the people, as Judge Taft says,
may be able to protect themselves
against the pernicious influences Of the
Hearst style of journalism, what right
had this Harrimanized inheritor of a.
fortune to exercise over the American
people or any portion of the American
people an influence which was entirely
irresponsible and was pernicious in it's
tendency?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
EMIGRATION

A PHENOMENON that was first
"a perceptible during the financial de-
"a preston is again noticeable; in
deed, there may be grave doubt
whether it may not be called a
condition instead of a phenomenon. The
emigration from the United States is
greater than the immigration to the
United States, and the country is set
ting down into the normal condition of
it's birth rate.
But Washington reports not only
that emigration as to which definite
figures may be given is increasing, but
that during 1908 many naturalized citi-
zens of the United States left America
in order to take up permanent resi-
dences abroad.
Moreover, there has been a great
emigration of "old stock" Americans
from the northern border states into
Canada. This emigration presents a
problem intimately connected with the
law Of supply and demand. Intelligent
people like those who constitute a large
majority of the population of the
United States will NOT calmly settle
down to endure a condition of hope
lessness without any outlook or future
prospect.
A great many people came to the
United States because of the advertis-
ing literature, in which America is
richer than is any other country under
the sun. When we proclaim that here
we have land of life. liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, thousands of
Europeans are reached and convinced
by the appeal. Perhaps they find it in
their school books. Perhaps the minis
ter or the priest refers to it in the
course of a sermon. Perhaps a "radi-
caP' orator quotes it in an impas-
stoned address. Perhaps it is printed
in a newspaper. Invariably it is used
by steamship companies when they are
drumming up steerage passengers.
Large stories have been told and are
being told of the happy land where
Jacks as good as his master" ana
everybody is equal to everybody else.
Evidently many thousands of people
have been disappointed in the United
States during the years Of the growth
and prosperity of the trusts. It is inn
portant that understanding Americans.
believers in the first principles of
Americanism, should work to promote
the true and permanent prosperity OF
the United States by producing condi-
tions of general contentment and hap
piness.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
SUGGESTS WHY WOMAN
SUFFRAGE FAILS TO ADVANCE

SANTA MONICA, Feb. 24-TEditor
Herald: If an outsider may be allowed
to strike into the very interesting con-
troversy that has been going on in your
columns on the subject, primarily, of
Woman's suffrage and, incidentally. Of
restrictive legislation, 1 should like TO
say a word
When movement that seems to have
the right on its side goes on for years
without making appreciable headway.
IT Is sensible to suppose there is some
tlIhg wrong either with the demands
themselves or with their advocacy. So
cldllSm and wOmanS suffrage both
seem to come in this category. Thev
poth started out generations ago to can
ture the world with what seemed all
the odds IN their favor. Neither has
made anything like the progress its
early supporters confidently expected.
anticipate that, if we search care
Iully enough, we shall always find a.
cause Tor failure, and l wish to adj
vance the proposition that there is one
feature common to both these move
ments, and that it is just that feature
y hich is fatal to each.
one OF your correspondents who signs
herself Elizabeth Quigley'' attacks
most vigorously another of your writ
ecs, beginning her letter with the phrase
little one," which is evidently meant
contemptuOusly 1 wonder how she
would like it if he replied by addressing
her as ''tootsy-wootsy." Well; this cor
respondent says that the women want
the ballot because they want power,''
and, although she declares that the
working people have been living under
the rule Of monopoly for years, and
complains bitterly that they support
this, she still asserts her belief in some
holding power over others, expressly
approving Of ''the law personified in
blue and brass buttons"
That, as it seems to me, is the trouble
with both the Socialist and the woman's
suffrage movements. The public thor
oughly understands, after all these
years of agitation, that both are anx-
ious for power and rule, and [ believe
that there is a strong psychological
conviction among the men and women
Of this generation agaisnt the love Of
power, and that, while they will listen
to educators, they will not listen to or
How, in any considerable numbers.
those who place themselves under the
suspicion of being anxious to get the
other fellows out and themselves in
power. H. T.. WILSON.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
Missing Steamship Link
i'm Pacific Nails. p. Game

congress to establish government line
between these points, and when it came
up for action the whole railroad lobby
and delegation arose to bury it in the
committee on common carriers.
While this link in transportation is
missing, a child may understand how
the railroad can set transcontinentaI
rates, and Pacific coast merchants
know to their sorrow how thoroughly
the S. P. does this.
There is a keen sarcasm in Senator
Wolfe's resolution to look into the
high cost of living in California, when
he knows this missing link is largely
responsible for it.
Some day the men who till the soil
will get to see how very near these
things come home to them, and be
more careful i'll choosing men for leg
isIative office.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27

HN HE missing link problem takes
on a new nature and force in the
game still being played by the
Pacific Mail company and its twin in
rate making, the Southern Pacific, says
the Brawley News.
The government runs line of steam
ers from New York to Aspinwall, and
controls the Panama railroad across the
isthmus, whence freights to the United
States must seek the Pacific Mail
steamers. This gives control of rates
to the competing transcontinental line,
as the stockholders of that and those
of the Pacific Mail are almost identical
in personnel, and are fully so in inter
est to keep up rates.
To cover this missing link between
Panama and Pacific points, Senator
Sanford introduced a resolution asking
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
BELIEVES WORKERS WILL GAIN
FREEDOM THROUGH BALLOT

POMONA, Feb. 26-[ Editor Herald:
w. H. Steel says the Socialists seem
to overlook the worst part of the bad
of today, but gives no hint
as to what they are. He says: "The
correction must be some moral force"
The international Socialist movement
of today is now the greatest moral
force we have and perfectly efficient
1t is the only force that purposes to
make possible for everyone to own his
own home and his personal property
secure. We shall not need to beg
crumbs from Dives to feed Lazarus as
charity does. The ballot will bring the
cooperative commonwealth. The ballot
will not invade the home or regulate
every personal move or thought, as ct.
X. c." thinks. 1t is for the social work
only that the work may be harmonious.
CHARLES U. WHITE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
The State Press
Modesto RuraIar,s Diary

IL p. m. Dead broke.
a. m. Entered California wine house
securing S15.25.
a. m. Returned to lodgings and to
bed.
a. m. Routed out and arrested by
Modesto officers
a. m. Arrived at county Jail.
a. m. Breakfast
a. m. Confessed the whole - thing.
10 a. m. Pleaded guilty in superior court
IL a. m. Held in $1,000 bail
IL m. Had picture tkaen for Rogues'
gallery.
1880 p. m. Sentenced to five years in San
Quentin-leave tomorrow fnorning-Mo-
desto News
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27

Miss Jane Addams says there should
be recreation grounds for adults as
well as Fairgrounds for children. Civil
lization is slowly awakening to a sense
of its responsibility to all mankind.
More harm than can be accurately in
dicated has resulted from social exclu-
stveness summed up in the old pro-
verbal saying, 81 and my wife. My
son John and his wife. We four and
no more"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
Impendina Trouble

''I am sorry for poor Snidgeley. He
has always been such a care-free chap
that it will be particularly hard for
him to bear up under trouble"
Whats going to happen to hino
Has he been indicted by a grand jury
for a divorce?"
mo, it's worse than that, poor old
chap. He's going to build house,
Chicago Record-Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27

The following letter from one of the
most distinguished men who ever stood
in pink socks and wasn't ashamed Of
them speaks for itself:
GIN George Alexander) you picked a
winner. You are carrying the war
along the winning line, too. George
Washington, st. George, George Dewey,
Our George, and BY George, we've got
'em! Yours,
ROBERT J. BURDETTE."
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-"AIi Baba and the Fort!
Thieves"
MASON-"Girls"
BELASCO-"A Texas Steer"
MAJESTIC-'AIarryin Mary"
BURBANK-''A Temperance Town"
0RPHEUM-Vaudeville.
GRAND-"A Chinese Honeymoon"
LOS ANGELES-VaudevilIe
FTSCHER'S-"OthellO for a Day."
UNIQUE-'The Substitute"
MISUNDERSTANDING.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27

Greater Los Angeles will be the best
governed city in the world. That is
the highly desirable end the present
trouble will lead up to. So it is worth
while. Look ahead and boost and vote
for George Alexander.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
UnexnIored California

While the great explorers of the age are
going forth to discover what the Arctic
regions, the Himalaya heights, the Arabian
deserts and the mysterious depths of Tibet
have so far kept from the eyes of civilized
man. 1t may be interesting to Californians
to know that here in their own state there
are tracts that are still as wild as any of
those in Africa or Asia and about which
comparatively little is known.-Sacramento
Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27

In answer to correspondents who ask
us the meaning of the words ''Vestigia
Nulla Retrorsum" on The Heralds edi-
torial page, beg to reply that a correct
translation at the present crisis is
Don't vote for Harper"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
Far and Wide
Britain's Ambition

Aerial league of the British empire is the
ambitious name taken by an organization
recently formed in London by persons inter
ested in the problems Of aeronautics A
special cable dispatch to the Herald from
London declares that the new body desires
to secure for Great Britain the same su-
premacy in the air that she has on the seas
New York Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
Knocks Ridiculous

Some Of the newspapers of the valley Just
now are seeking to boost their own locali-
ties at the expense Of others. This spirit
has done more to hold back the San JOAQUIN
valley than anything else. Let US all pull
together and forget all our petty jeaiousies
knocks" will look ridiculous in print
twenty-five years from this time.-Fresno
Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27

Luther Burbank is fairly embarked
in the plant manufacturing industry.
Well, he has the biggest plant plant in
the world and all mankind will soon
have reason to bless the day the Cali
fornia plant wizard first began to plant
his plant plant
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27

Savage, abandoned by many men on
whose support he had counted, is tame
and unhappy; and his friend Harper,
his sole remaining joy, is feeling like
an orphan boy.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
ProVidentiaI Bachelor

I am bachelor with a peaceful disposi-
ton and bald head. and l live in Provi-
dence. MY state of single blessingness and
my badness are my misfortune not nv
faults. Various girls are to blame for the
first, and unremitting application to novel
reading in bed may have something to do
with the latter.-Providence Journal
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27

Old Hickory Democratic club sent a
telegram TO Congressman James Nc
Lachlan congratulating him on the
Panama steamship line bill and WARMLY
indorsing it. This is not a party meas
ure, but patriotic measure. All good.
citizens are in favor of the proposed
steamship line.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
Only About chiIdrenI

The presidents recent message on the
care Of dependent children, following the
national conference at the White House, has
been almost unnoticed, although the sub
Ject is one whose Importance should not be
depreciated.-San Jose Mercury.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27

We doubt the truth Of the rumor
that the city's chief Harper is learn
ing to play that celebrated harp solo,
The March of the Pink Socks
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
Cost of Enternrise

The country would have been intensely
surprised if it had been announced that the
cost Of the Panama canal would come with
in the original estimate. Vast constructive
enterprises have no record of this kind
st. Louis Globe Democrat
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
UpIift of Clothes

Talk about the "uplift of humanity" what
effect would that have on newly-employed
housekeeper who walks off with her en-
ployer's new suit Of clothes before she even
goes to work for him ?-San Diego Tribune
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
Changes Expected

Mr. Carnegie says far-reachng changes
must be expected in the Industrial world in
the near future, changes that will over
shadow anything that has yet been brought
about.-San Francisco News
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
Explosive Water

A pail of water exploded in Plymouth
Mich, recently. Now, if this had happened
in Alabama people outside that state would
make sarcastic remarks.-Merced Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27

Los Angeles business men are en-
Enthusiastically in favor of the McLach-
Ian bill providing for a government
steamship line.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
There's the PhonaI

1t is not right to always kick,
But when I'm nightie clad,
To get four dozen wrong calls to
Each right one makes me mad!
Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27

Splendid news! The Calaveras big
trees are safe. President Roosevelt
has signed bill creating the Calaveras
national forest.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
Navy League

Retired Rear Admiral Evans announces
his purpose to devote his entire time and
energy to building up navy league in this
country, in order that the navy may have A
popular backing.-Yonl1ers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
Great Event

Assurance is given that the canal will be
completed in six years That will be a
great event for California and the entire
Pacific coast-Sacramento Bee
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
New York's DISGRACE .

Chicago will spend $4,000, 900 the coming
year in the building of additional school
houses. New York's school children are
still on half time.-San Luis Obispo Breeze.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
Tax Too Small

Bulgaria has decided to tax all bachelors
50 a year. The sum does not seem large
enough to exert much practical influence
washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
Rights and Duties

the safety of their rights than they are
about the fulfllment Of their duties.-GaI-
weston News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27

The harpers wish they wore pink
socks.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-12-21
SouthSidc News.

A very enjoyable time was spent
Thursday evening at the party given
by Mr.. and Mrs. r. Dudley.
Miss Bessie Estes, who has beer
working in Wenatchee for the last
six months, returned home to spend
the holidays.
Everybody is invited to attend the
Christmas program given by Dry Flat
school children, Friday evening, the
cath.
Miss Eula Dudley, who has been
employed by the Wenatchee tele-
phone company, resigned her posi-
ton and will spend the winter with
her mother.
Letha Overturf is quite sick with
la grippe.
Martin Coonan is improving very
fast, which is glad news to his
friends.
William Johnson, of Alberta. Can
ada. is here to spend the winter with
his sister. Mrs. John White.
The Mountain View school close
Friday for the winter.
The Christmas dance given by the
Glee club wiz be held Thursday. the
23d. instead of the 25th Everybody
be sure and come. Lots of room and
fine music.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-12-21
WIRELESS INACTIVE

The local wireless station is still
quiet Operator Selman has been
unable to tune in any of his neigh
bors at Yakima. Spokane, New York
or elsewhere. and is beginning to
think that there is something more
than a lack Of power to be cOntended
with. The first operator that was put
in charge of the plant stayed only
few days. and Operator Selman is
beginning to think that there is some
thing radically wrong with the install
lation. A little time is always neces-
sary to get new station tuned in
with the others, but in the week that
the present operator has been in
charge he has so far only succeed
ed in tuning in with the city pumping
plant next door. He gets the
pumping plant to the tune of where
Was Moses When the Lights Went
Out" any time he wants to.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-12-21

bert McVicar. After two years they
separated, and the woman, claiming
to believe that McVicar had died,
married Eugene LIE Doux. a playmate
of her childhood
The murder of McVicar, her third
husband. was the crime for which
Mrs. lie Doux was tried, convicted
and sentenced to death. On the even
ing of March "a, 1906, the body of
McVicar was found crushed into a
trunk left on the platform of the
Southern Pacific depot in this city
The stencil attracted the railroa l
men after the trunk was placed in
the baggage room. An investigation
disclosed the remains, and the fol-
lowing day an expressman gave de-
scription of the woman who employed
him to move the trunk to the depot
She was Mrs. lie Doux, whom McVicar
had claimed as his rightful wife af-
ter she had separated from him and
married again.
She was traced to San Francisco
and on March &c was arrested at An
t;och and brought to Stockton. She
admitted buying the trunk and rope
used around the receptacle, but
claimed that a mysterious Joe Mil
Ter" had at the point of a pistol COM
PEELED her to purchase the trunk and
rope after he and McVicar had re-
turned from drinking bout. Miller
was never located. but Joe Healey.
who met Mrs lie DouX at the Royal
house in San Francisco, was brought
into the case but later released.
The trial of Mrs. lie Doux lasted