Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-04
FORMER MUSHET SUPPORTER
MAKES ADDRESS
MADISON MARINE MAKES STRONG
PLEA FOR DEcENCY
Ranks of Reactionaries Trimmed by
Bolt to the Alexander Camp OF
Men Formerly with
Opposition
lcontin,ed from Pnge Nlnel

Unable We cannot refrain from making
the comparisons as we saw them, ahd
we trust that we are unbiased III oui
opinions, as we are in the tacls VIC
are giving without comment at all.
"The Times and allies have dubbed
Los Angeles AN Uncle Aleck town
during our absence, we presume, De-
cause it is in a measure enforcing the
laws indorsed by it's mayor, whose
name If attempts to hold up to scorn
bv so doing We dub San Francisco a
IS P.-W. o. town. because In 1t THESE
two elements, despite all the uneh-
viahle notoriety they have given the
tnvgn are still the dominant forces
commercially and politically, as evil
denced by the overwhelming majority
thev polled in the election held while
we were there. 60 -.
"San Francisco is controlled, body
and soul. by the machine, and always
has been since we have known heI'
and that she Is wide open no one heeus
TO be told And that she Is as lmmoral
as hell is ever pictured to be, no one
who has ever spent month IN her
and kent his eyes and ears open denies.
This town shows what town VIII
come TO If these elements are kept IN
mower politically, and there Is no more
shining light of what it becomes Wheh
the two elements and the saloon ele
ment combine which they have done Ill
San Francisco. -
"There are no blue laws there On,
MOI No need of distributing such cards
as are being thrown out from Greene
wald's cigar store and other places"
now in Los Angeles captioned vote
Against the Blue Laws and advising
all to vote against the suppression OF
gambling. Every form of gamollns Z
is running wide open. and the we
cursing and swearing from the crowds
that fill to overlooking these places on
every block of the city, ought TO M
the heart of his satanic majesty with
ioy. Every corner. even in all the res
idence districts, contains from one 10
four saloons. or a so-called family
grocery and liquor store and in all the
Citv IL is almost impossible to send
vour daughter or wife Tor eltheF
groceries or meat without going INTO
n saloon for them. Everywhere one
finds the bleared-eyed drunkard ana
disheartened gambler. In all Oahldhu
and san Francisco there are not as
many Methodists as in Dr. Locke
church. or as many CongregatonallstS
as I'm DR.. Days church, or Baptists as
in DR.. Burdette's auditorium. br.
Locl<e's young peoples meeting, or
prayer meeting. has more persons at
iendant than any Sunday service we
saw in two months i'm either san frah-
CISCO Oakland or Alameda.
Everywhere openly on the streets
i'm the banks, among the clerks, from
policemen on their beats we heard the
yilest profanity. No proprietor or moor
walker seemed to rebuke it. The side
walks we're recking with tobacco SPIT,
the streets were filthy, the roads nor
rible. and if there was in either city
"A single house that had been repalnted
in five years we failed to see IL in our
travels. We took every car line, from
ono end to the other, looking the two
cities over, and nowhere in these cities
are there any streets-no, not even a
single square of either cottages or fine
residences such as We see everywhere
In Los Angeles. There Is a small section
of Oakland much advertised in Whlcl
there are a few houses, but they are IN
the midst of fields with no connecting
sidewalks or improved streets as III Los
Angeles.
I'VE called upon our old acquaint-
ances and many others In fact we
went the entire length of Market street
and talked to most Of the merchants,
bankers and Wholesale men, ever alert
for signs of their political and com
mercial ideas We found every man
dstrustful of every other, commercially
and politically. and found merchants
everywhere who blamed the graft pros
ecutors for the city's present notoriety,
not because graft did not exist, but
because the graft prosecution (Which
was in reality only a bitter personal
quarrel between two persons after her
street car system) called the attention
of the outside world to the real situ-
alton. And we found merchant after
merchant who boldly stated that he
would rather have the Ruef regime
than the present because he could then
buy any privilege he wanted with less
hindranCe. And so, three weeks be-
fore election, we were informed that
these merchants. the street railroad
Southern Pacific had combined to elect
Mccarthy. His election was no sur
prise to us, and showed to the outside
world what a Southern Pacific-wide
open town is, and why in all San Fran
cisco it is impossible to get jury
that viii convict a CRATER, even if he
himsEiI would admit his guilt before
the jury Our banker friends tell us
there is no unanimity of action finan
cially, that all values are unstable, that
their clients are all dissatisfied with
their business, and that there is no
boosting spirit in their city as we
have here.
EVERY street, including Market
street in it's very busiest spot, has lot
=
and fully two-thirds of the burned area
is still vacant and unimproved, while
the inhabitants are cuttil.- each others
throats at every opportunity, instead
of combining in the sensible Los An
geles way and rebuilding. Laboring
mems combinations are at swords
points with each other in enforcing
silly regulations, and no man with
capital starts a building expecting to
complete 1t without being held up all
along the line. Crimes of all kinds go
unpublished and unchecked, and if you
would see for yourself what the streets
of San Francisco are filled with, go
down to Los Angeles street evenings
and you will see some of them.
Despite all assertions and the fact
that her buildings are supposed to be
all new, she has no street like Broad
way or Spring, hardly any depart
ment stores like Hamburgers, the
Broadway or others, no groceries like
Newberry, Jevne Cohn, Anderson &
Chanslor, no markets like Main Street,
Werden's, Morgan's, Young's or New
Market, no dry goods like Coulter's,
Boston and other and no stores like
Christophers or Ducommon, Harper &
Reynolds or Guyots.
"She has more natural advantages
two to one, than Los Angeles and a
better country to draw from. And yet
ten years ago when we lived there she