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Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
BITERS BIT

NAsTRO is in Europe. A new adj
ministration is in control of
~ Venezuela The outlook for the
various claimants against the stormy
republic is gloomy. They failed to
arouse the indignation Of the American
people against the Venezuelans. In
stead, they aroused only suspicion.
The American public sick and tired
of being exploited in order to fatten
predatory interests, will hesitate for
many a month Of Sundays before ap-
proving a policy which would permit
American predatory interests to ex-
plot foreign and weaker republic.
William E. Curtis, in an article
which is popularity believed to have
been 80. KID by President Roosevelt
and Secretary Root before it was sent
out for publication, says 'Mr. Root
realizes more clearly than anyone that
the prosecution Of claims against other
American republics is a disgraceful
chapter in our diplomatic history"
(Think Of a Republican official making
such an admission. Can't you see the
world moving?) "In certain cases our
government has been guilty Of gross
injustice by insisting upon the pay
ment of damages which WOULD NOT
HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED FOR AN
INSTANT HAD THE SITUATION
BEEN REVERSED" With regard to
the claims Of the asphalt trust, George
w. Crichfield, the Orinoco Steamship
company and A. f. Jaurett, Mr.. Curtis
says: with the exception Of the
Crichfield case, these are about the
one government against another, and
like most of the claims made against
other American republics, they are
brought by adventures and specu-
lators who went to Venezuela, obtained
concessions from that government,
with enormous risks, and made their
terms accordingly. Having lost their
money they demand that our govern
ment shall use its mighty power to
recover it for them. All the troubles
come from Adventures who obtain
speculative concessions. or engage in
pIOCOSd1A16S, d4Q lI16LJ
when they are beaten at their own
game, come crying to Washington for
the protection of the government. They
present claims for several times the
amount Of damages they have suf-
fered and give their attorneys half the
money our government can collect for
them.''
The Herald has asserted and proved
repeatedly that the Venezuelan claims
affair was too dirty and despicable a
business for the United States govern
ment to engage in. We believe Mr..
Curtis describes accurately the atti-
tude of Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Root
toward the claimants and trouble
makers. We are evidently called on to
appreciate gratifying illustration Of
:'the would be biters Bit
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
BELIEVE EVIL ABNORMAL;
TO BE DESTROYED BY TRUTH

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 81 Editor
Herald: A much criticised point is
the Christian Science denial of the eX
istence of evil. While Christian Science
are unreal, it does so in the sense that
they are not Of God, and therefore not
eternal. They are recognized as abnOr-
NAL, temporary conditions which right
thinking and living will destroy. The
fact that these conditions can be de-
stroyed proves their unreality as real
things are indestructible. 1t is in this
sense that the terms real and unreal
are used in Christian Science.
Still another critic thinks this Science
ignores erroneous social conditions,
when as a matter of fact it is doing
more to rectify and reform these condl-
tons than any other power on earth.
1t is doing this by destroying the
wrong thinking which is the primal
cause of all wrong conditions.
After all, the righting of the indi-
viduaI is the only true solution of
wrong industrial and social systems.
1t is easy to talk of better laws, but
before better laws can be had, better
legislators must exist to make them.
So in correcting the individual Chris
tan Science is striking at the root of
all evil.
In the meantime and until better
cass of individuals are evolved, Chris
tan Science recognizes the necessity Of
striving for the best laws obtainable
under the conditions. But it must be
remembered that such laws do not
solve the problem. They are a good
deal in the nature Of police regulations,
which aid in suppressing evil until
enough individuals have arrived who
through the hallowing influence of
practical Christianity love to do right
because it is right, and whose only rule
is the Golden Rule.
It may take long time to reach that
condition, but we may as well unde-
ceive ourselves as to there being any
other way. Christ's way is the only
way whereby the kingdom of heaven
can be established on earth.
When our critics become familiar
with what Christian Science really
teaches, they will rejoice with us
that Mrs. Eddy has given to the world
a practical, demonstrable understand
ing of Christianity which is fast estab-
fishing the brotherhood of man on
permanent basis. w. E. BROWN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
CONSOLIDATION

n PREPARATIONS have been made
for the introduction Of a Los An
Il geles consolidation bill in the state
senate and lower house. Senator Saw
age is said to be working against the
proposed measure, but he is not sue
ceeding in making an impression. The
prevalent feeling is the lawmakers
cannot afford to defeat the bill.
Shipping interests wish to have San
Pedro developed on large scale. They
wish abundant accommodations and
harbor conveniences of all kinds, and
they believe the help of Los Angeles
will be necessary for a successful de-
velopment Of the harbor. San Pedro is
the seaport Of Los Angeles, and as the
seaport of Los Angeles it will be known
all over the world. Therefore Los An
geles should be in a position to guard
its own seaport from being interfered
with by corporation interests. San
Pedro harbor will add greatly to the
efficiency Of Los Angeles (if we may
phrase it in that manner). With San
Pedro harbor, Los Angeles will be able
to open and engage in a great mari
time trade, which but for the harbor
might be hard to reach. And consoli-
dation will undoubtedly be for the BEN
eft of San Pedro as well as Of Los
Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

without reference to whether Mr.. Har-
rirnan did or did not improperly profit
by transactions as to which he refused
to testify. Personally, he says that he
is quite willing to answer the questions,
but that Justice to his corporations
compels him to refuse.
And that is where Mr.. Hartman is
Numerically opposed to a vital public
policy, which must in the end prevail
that policy being the adoption and en-
forcement Of the doctrine that no pub
lie service corporation can have any
secret whatever from its partner, the
public. Happily. the decision does not
seem to have turned on constitutional
question, but on the wording of the in
terstate commerce law. If SO, it is a
matter easily remedied, and the remedy
should be prompt. There are those who
object to what they call Corporation
batting" They ought to know that the
best protection against batting that
is possible to corporations is complete
publicity in respect to all transactions
in which the public expresses interest,
and most particularly in all financial
transactions. If they act in the open
they are not likely to do anything
wrong. And when all mankind sees
and knows that their action is entirely
proper there can be no batting which
will do them any harm.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
Mr.. Hartman Is AntagOniStic
to q Vital Public POLICY

I IS a misfortune to the country
that a majority of the supreme
court has held that the interstate
commerce commission cannot compel
replies to questions leading to the dis
closure of the details Of the manipula-
ton of railroad securities. 1t is a mat
ter as to which the public is entitled
to prompt and complete information,
for no quasi-public corporation can
have any secret which the public is
bound to respect. The public is virtu-
ally a. partner in all public services.
More than that, it is now conceded that
1t is the controlling partner, with al
most absolute power of regulation, and
to say that it is not entitled to what
ever information will enable public
authorities to exercise their power
wisely is monstrous, says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle. Such information as
Mr.. Hartman refused to give is essen
tial or may be essential to the fixing of
a rate and it is always essential to
proper understanding of the value Of
securities in which one may wish to in
vest. 1t is almost Of prime consequence
that ownership in public utilities be
very widely distributed among the peo-
pie, and that cannot be until absolute
publicity in respect to all financial
transactions is enforced. All this is
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
HARPER'S SHAMELESSNESS

MT EW YEAR resolutions are indica-
Y tive at least Of the frame. of mind
inwhich the resolution makers face
the future, but New Year deeds give
better clew to what may be expected.
Citizens will realize it is difficult to be
cheerful over the outlook for the official
conduct of the mayor of Los Angeles
when they learn how that worthy gen
tleman evidently made a New Year
deliberate method of illustrating his
frame of mind on the subject.
On Wednesday evening the mayor Of
Los Angeles, in company with Tom
Mack, a saloon keeper, and other boon
companions made trip to Venice.
While there, Mayor Harper had a
memorable conversation with President
Eakins Of the Ocean Park board of
trustees, who recently merited and at
tracted favorable comment by his laud-
able action in putting a stop to an in
decent ball. Mr.. Eakins has been
making an effort to have an ordinance
adopted ending the practice of all
night liquor selling at Venice. He
wishes to exercise some restraint on
the saloons, and thereby enhance the
good reputation Of Venice. This appa-
rently is not in harmony with the pol
icy Of the mayor Of Los Angeles, who
asked Mr.. Eakins to meet him at the
Ship cafe, and, at the. meeting which
followed this request, tried to persuade
Mr.. Eakins to desist from attempting
to close the nocturnal grogshops. Mr..
Eakins' ideas as to official propriety
and the responsibilities Of his office do
not coincide with those of the mayor Of
Los Angeles. In fact, there is wide
divergence. Mr.. Eakins says while he
has known Mayor Harper for many
years, and likes him personally, he
cannot allow Harper to influence him
in manner contrary to his conscfen-
tious conviction as to his duty, and
will not permit the mayor of Los An
geles to persuade or influence him to
keeping Venice decent and respectable
as long as he is in Office.
All law abiding people will commend
Mr.. Eakins for his manly stand against
the influences which the mayor of Los
Angees brought to bear on him, and
will support him in the contention that
his official position imposes on him
the duty Of protecting the people
against vice, and not of protecting vice
against the people. Citizens of Los
Angeles, mortified and Inundated by
the shameful shamelessness of a mayor
who becomes a champion of vice and
tool and go-between for vicious in
terests, will not submit quietly to the
disgrace which their mayor has brought
upon them by his fragrant and abject
subserviency to his patrons Of the
Royal Arch.
Respect for decency and conscious
ness Of the responsibilities of clean
American citizenship permit of only
one answer to the question, would it
be we'll for the community and would it
be we'll for Los Angeles if vice were
protected in Venice and if Venice were
made wide open town?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
-AU0s PHILANTHROPY WORK
OF LEADING SOCIETY WOMEN

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5-rEdi+ou
Herald1: The society matrons NJ
years ago, widened their sphere of
activity by becoming patronesses If
charitable institutions, are not vet sat
isfied.
The altruistic spirit is abroad in the
land (some blame the Socialists 70,
thls) and the financially independent
women are no longer satisfied Hvitb he
ing mere hgureheads but want a hand
IN the actual management of the az
fairs Of life. al
women have been aptly described as
the worlds drudges, but women are
tlred OF being drudges for the outcasts
OF a debased civilization.
The intelligent part Of won,anlxind
mas discovered that the injustice per-
petrated against humanity by the moral
ana physical derelicts is unnecessary
and useless.
women are no longer willing to spend
thelr energies in applying balm to the
bruises of the worlds Wronged. thew
demand that the supply shall stop, that
the morally and mentally decrepit
shall no longer be allowed to curse fine
world with the creation Of their kind.
The brotherhood of man has been
proclaimed for centuries, but in these
latter years has arisen a sisterhood of
women, and the society woman, who,
by years of management of social func-
lions has fitted herself for the super
vision of more important matters, is
bringing to bear on our vexing social
problems the wisdom which is hers by
virtue of her experience.
No one knows better than she that
the sex-slaving of women is the root
of all evil, but, nothing daunted by the
herculean task, she seeks the power
by which she may tighten the burdens
of her less fortunate sister-burdens
from which wealthy women, being
financially Independent, have never
suffered.
There are two ways Of increasing
happiness-by removing the misery
which is and by preventing the con-
ditions which produce misery.
Just as men have bettered the con-
dition and righted the wrongs of their
fellowmen by the ballot, which is the
badge and superscription Of free men,
so women seek that power not only
that they themselves may be free wo-
men but that they may right the
wrongs and better the conditions Of the
other members of the sisterhocd of
women. ELIZABETH QUIGLEY.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
REGARDS PIERPONT MoRGAN's
SAYING AS NO LONGER TRUE

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6-rEditor
HERALD: Your article regarding So
clahsm as stated by Captain w. e. F.
french, retired, is certainly good news
Whlle such conditions are known nv
many to prevail, others simply give il
credence as Socialist claim. Not onIv
IS this true of the army but of the
navy also, as was proved bv MANY who
conVersed with the boys in blue d11rine.
Ihe fleet visit last summer. This is
onIy a natural result, for who com
pose the rank and file of the army and
navy out the StalWart sons of the COM
mon mon people, the majority of whom to-
Udy 90 not view their uniform as
iIidfk OF pride and respect, as was once
1 tlI0 case out rather as mere sign thew
nave a job that keeps them in
L0Od ana Clothes. While they are. and
always will be, ready to fight a COM
mon foe, they know that of late wears
tuelr occupation has been degraded nv
the commands given to shoot their
prothers who dared to ask for enough
to eat. OOSil
). P. Morgan is credited with savine,
IN 1884, half the American people coufd
pe hlred Tor $13 a month to shoot the
oIner haH. That was too true then
put that day is fast passing. for
Whlle starvation and degradation show
their horrid head on every hand tha
signs We're never more hopeful. The
DARKEST hour is just before day.
social warrior, faint not fear not.
Ihough the foe press quickly round:
Care not if the battle RACES:
soon the Yictors trump will sound
10! the clouds of darkness breaking:
Eoes are waring faint and few.
liberated souls are cheering
Workingmen will have their dua
trust IN truth; it will sustain thee.
Fighting in this sacred cause.
tyranny shall fall before thee:
Thou shalt triumph DER thy foes
T. J. POLLARD
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
DEEMS THAYER TRAGEDY DUE
TO CURSE OF PATERNALISM

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1T seems to
me that no one can fail to indOrse the
editorial in your paper this morning on
the recent Thayer shooting and the in
crease of juvenile crime throughout
the United States. For this particu-
lar tragedy is not an isolated event,
but one of a constantly recurring series
that constitutes a most alarming con-
dition.
You say rightly that more discipline
is needed, but 1t seems, to me at least,
that it is necessary to understand that
there are two kinds of control, one i'm
posed by the individual on himself,
and the other, always most feeble and
unsatisfactory, that which is imposed
from without.
What was it that all the actors in
this, as in other tragedies of it's kind,
were really guilty Of? Absolute want
Of self-control. And I make bold to
say that the almost universal feature
of this country, and by far it's most
serious symptom, is the absence of
self-control. The passionate lynchings,
the passionate assassinations, the pas
sionate manner in which men and
women take their own lives when con-
fronted by the first touch of adversely,
these, one and all, testify to one COM
mon fault. absence of the capacity Of
self-government.
How can it be otherwise? For a gen.
Grafton past we have been multiplying
indefinitely the machinery for govern
ing men, until now there is hardly a
department Of life in which the ordi-
nary citizen does not expect some off,
cial to do for him what nature demands
he should do for himself.
Has a man bad habits Of any kind.
we no longer say to him that he must
control himself or suffer the conse-
quences. On the contrary we say:
Here is something that may endanger
this man and we will remove the temp
tation from his path"
This nation is today saturated from
top to toe with the spirit of paternal-
ism, and under hat, as the history Of
all nations shows conclusively, the
capacity for self-control withers and
finally disappears. The backbone goes
and with it the capacity of the nation
to be other than crawling thing, fit
only to take orders and doomed to
speedy extinction.
JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRAT.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

Instead of dog pound, Los Angeles
has an animal shelter, and the adj
vance in civilization and humanity
does not end with the phrase, for the
shelter aims to be shelter in fact as
well as in name. The policy Of the HUI
name Animal league is to find home
for dog, if possible, if 1t is not claimed
within a certain time. In this way the
organization saves the expense and
trouble Of destroying the animals and
the dog becomes a source Of revenue to
the city, because the new owner agrees
to pay the license. Altogether the
change is a vast improvement over an
old barbaric system the bare recollec-
ton of which is distressing.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
We Should offer Good old
Constitutional Guarantees

CALIFORNIA must be up and doing
I if she is to get her share of de-
" sirable immigrants in the next few
years, for a rival claimant to the atten-
ton of prospective settlers has ap-
peared. Mexico wants more people and
is flooding Europe with circulars and
pamphlets, while inducements are be-
ing made to agents in England and on
the continent to defect the stream of
people seeking new homes from the
lines to America to those to President
Diaz's nation.
And Mexico is a formidable rival to
California. In that country can be
found every kind of climate and soil.
The government makes liberal induce
ments to heads of families and treats
them we'll. They are not shut off from
the great forests if they settle near
them, and they are not treated like
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

strangers. In fact, they are made more
of than the natives of the land, for the
government realizes that in its own
people it has not the best material to
create a permanent prosperity. 1t
wants Caucasians, preferably from the
north of Europe, but it will take them
from Industrious Italy and Greece, if 1t
can get them.
What can we offer as against the
free land and exemption for several
years from taxation held up before the
desirable immigrant by Mexico? 1t is
our business to find out. We have
schools, free libraries, Anglo-Saxon
ideals of liberty of thought and action,
cultured communities and social life
of a kind that Mexico is incapable of
conceiving, and it behooves us to study
the classes to whom these will espe-
cially appeal. Then go after them with
all orr might
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
IS VICE PROTECTED?

OS ANGELES HERALD invites
the careful attention of it's readers
Il to the articles containing the sim
pie truth simply stated which. it is now
publishing under the heading, us Vice
Protected in Los Angeles?" When
these articles are completed and the
whole shameless story is told of the
way in which the good people of Los
Angeles have had their confidence
abused by public officials who have
betrayed their trust The Herald will
have some editorial comment to make
on the matter.
In the meantime the public will
doubtless follow with keen interest the
accurate and undeniable statements
which are appearing in the columns of
this paper.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

Secretary Newberry is urging the
government to build more battleships.
Besides the battleships, the secretary
says the navy should be provided with
four new scout cruisers, ten destroy
ers, four submarines, three golfers,
one repair ship, one ammunition ship
and two mine-laying ships. The naval
program is worthy of especial attention
at time the world is said to be in a
condition Of profound peace. There
must be a real or imaginary necessity
for this great new naval force. The
pairing for emergencies.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
AT THE THEATERs

BELASCO-"The Heir to the Hoorah."
MASON-Lambardi opera company
HAMBURGER'S MAJESTIC-"Sis Hop
kins"
BURBANK-"Nancy s. Co."
ORPHEUM-VaudeviIle.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-"Tt Happened in
NOrdland."
Los ANGELES-Vaudeville
PEOPLE'S-''We Are King"
FISCHER'S-''The PagOda-"
EMPIRE-VaudeviIle.
UNIQUE-"The TOreador."
MISUNDERSTANDING.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

averaging about so per cent on steel
products? The tariff does NOT pro-
tect American labor. The statement
that it does is repeated with great fire.
quency during campaign times and |
tariff controversies, but what Shakes |
peare would call it's "damnable itera-
ton" makes it not less q Tariff Lie.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

Librarian Lummis denies the city
auditors charge that the public library
tc paying too great a proportion of it's
income in salaries. He says anyone
who knows anything about libraries
knows Los Angeles has better library
service in proportion than any other
city in the country. Good
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
Where HettN Ralks

Uncle Andy" Carnegie has an
nounced that he is two years older
than he thought he was With all
her blunt frankness we cannot i'm
agine Mrs. Hetty Green making any
such statement concerning herself
San Luis Obispo Breeze.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
The State Press
Laws DELAYS

AS a result of the flaws delays asI
developed in the prosecution of the
graft cases in San Francisco, an agita-
ton has been commenced for such re-
form in the criminal laws Of the state
as may make impossible another such
spectacle as has been presented during
the past two years.-Riverside Enter
priSe
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

]. Pierpont Morgan is lending money
to Bolivia. No American millionaire
has ever yet bought a foreign country,
but if we lived in Bolivia we would
hate to think of Morgan's mortgage
Perhaps Morgan will organize Bolivia
and run it on a dividend-paying basis.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

Los Angeles county begins the new
year with a cash balance of almost
100000. Therefore, many citizens who
are not millionaires may at any rate
boast they live in a multimillionaire
county.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08

By their hard and efficient work for
the success of the school bond issue
the high school boys showed a better
appreciation of Americanism and the
responsibilities of citizenship than did
the men who devoted their energies to
opposing educational progress in Los
Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
Los Angeles Enterprise

The Los Angeles aqueduct which has
several construction camps in this val
ley, is giving work to hundreds Of
men, some of whom have made their
homes in our midst.-Antelope Valley
Gazette,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
aft a Democrat

There are the best Of grounds for be-
lieving that Mr.. Taft, president-elect
of the United States, is true Demo-
crat at heart.-Humboldt Standard
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
Value of Vigilance

The ball team with a first baseman
who reaches for everything, even if he
makes an error now and then, is
stronger than the nine with a crack
man on the initial bag who isn't watch
ing the game-San Diego Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-08
His Narrow Escape

The Pennsylvania man who has not
spoken a word since he was Tilted.
thirty years ago, probably was stricken
dumb by the shock when he realized
what narrow escape he had.-Rands-
burg Miner