Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24

stock and he sold stock. Why, one of
the members of the police commission
was a salesman Of the stock. Whom
did they sell it to?
Men Who Bought Stock
"Well, here is a list furnished us by
| The Herald. Which, by the way, we
ought to keep on file. cloud cheers.(
And l will say right here and now
that if ever any man has done to his
community civic duty which deserves
to- be remembered, the gentleman,
whose name I shall not mention.
shall not mention his name because he
is very modest man, this gentleman;
but if ever any man has performed a
great and memorable duty to the public
i'm this crisis, it is that man..
Now, look here, my friends, I don't
need to read you the names of these
men that have been ascertained ac-
curately by The Herald. They are
saloon keepers. They are keepers of
worse than saloons. There are plenty
of pretty good men keeping saloons.
have known a lot of them, and some
in this town that are decent men in
their way. 1t Is not exactly your way,
perhaps, nor my way, but in their way
they are honorable and upright men,
and do what they think is the square
thing, whether it be the good or the
best thing or not.
Now, I am not blaming these men
particularly-that is, the saloon men
but I intend to ask you, my friends.
suppose there are business men in
this crowd? I believe the morning
Times says we are mostly long-haired
hypocrites Qaughter), and one thing
and another. But I beg pardon for re-
ferring to that. There are business
men here, l know.
II want to ask you business men If
you were organizing a corporation you
would send out your agents to sell
stock, that is, If you were getting up a
real corporations corporation which
was a corporation, that meant business,
and was got up for busfness-would
you send out your agents to sell stock
to Goings and to Chowder House Jim
and a whole helPs mint of just such
stuff as that?
Would you be willing to sell the
stock of your corporation to such men
and meet them by and by around the
round table of your executive board,
carrying on the business Of your corpo-
ration? There is not any of you that
would not Just as soon think of stick
ing his hand in the fire. OF course you
would not do it. 1 need not ask the
question.
Not the Worst
Neither would the mayor have done
it if it was a real corporation that was
affected. But that was not the worst.
Let us suppose it was a real corpora
ton do not know but what it was
They may be making tons and tons of
sugar, and they may be taking out all
sorts of oil, fuse1 oil, and all kinds of
oil Qaughter) for anything I know.
But why were these men appealed to
to buy this stock? My friend Judge
Works the other evening characterized
1t as being an invitation on the part of
the seller of the stock to the other
party to bribe him or bribe the mayor;
that it was asking to be bribed, in 9TH
er words and that the men who bought
the stock were bribing. There is hard
lv anv element of that kind in it.
eft was simply BLACKMA1L, old
fashioned BLACKMAIL. (Great cheer
ing).
"You have got your deadfall down
here. You have got the place down
here where the vices that lurk in dark
ness find their resorts. There are places
here where children still in short
dresses are inveigled and made drunken
and debauched, where the little girls
with plated hair hanging down their
hacks have entered, where their feet
took hold on hell.
"'Buy this stock How long do you
suppose Goings would have hesitated
upon an invitation of that sort to buy
stock?
''But what is the meaning of it? If
he had sent his police next day and
taken out all he found violating the
law there it would have been bad
enough.
"But we are told newspaper re-