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Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
WHAT WE CLASSIFY AS SIN 10
MERELY FORM OF EVOLUTION

LOS ANGELES, March 24.-[Editor
Herald: letter In the Box last Sun
day was signed by "R. N" 1t says:
1.-THE Bible teaches that with sin came
death into the world"
In Genesis we read that the Creator.
before he created man, created the
vegetable and animal Kingdoms. Daily
plants, trees and animals die because
life leaves them, through cause.
The laws of God are unalterable
through their perfection. They act now
as they acted for cons.
When life, spirit. leaves matter, body.
death enters and reduces 1t to its
origin.
Death existed on this world before
man came.
Life, spirit, is the principal; death Its
shadow or follower.
why should "R. N" cling to the old
Mosaic story of the creation of the
world, the paradise history, while re-
searches say that they are old
Egyptian fables. known these thou
sands of years before Moses was born?
Sin does not exist. What man calls
sin is want of education, of evolution.
The act committed by savage when
done by a white man would be ciassi-
fed as a sin. while the savage sees In
1t proof of manhood.
Why Is mankind never referred to
that beautiful and sublime saying OF
st. Paul: when I was child spoke
as a child, I understood Is child,
thought as a child; but when became
a man / put away childish things"
To be born, to die and to be reborn;
that is the law. EVOLUTIONIST.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
HOW ABOUT THOSE KIDNAPPED
BY SALOONS AND CIGARETTES?

LOS ANGELES, March 24.-[Editor
Herald: Kidnapped children! Now
that the little boy who was kidnapped
is safe in the home of his parents, how
about the 100000 boys and 10000 girls
who are kidnapped in the United States
every year by the open saloon and py
the deadly cigarette makers and sell
ers who pave the way and furnish the
raw material for our saloons? 1t is
very vexed and bad condition today
that our children are turned into loaf
ers and drunkards just as surely every
day as the sun rises and sets.
1t is simply appalling. When will
the American people wake up to the
fact that our charitable institutions
would not be needed in a few years II
we should stop making paupers and
imbeciles? The cigarette-smoking boy
of today will be your county charge
in a few years, or maybe your con-
Wet. / hope every person who has the
welfare of the rising generation at
heart will do all he can to rid the
state and country from the deadly
cigarette and the open saloon.
What can we do as individuals along
this line? Why, discourage the use of
tobacco and liquors in every way pos
sible. The children are not to be
blamed, as long as the parents, teach
ers and older ones set the bad example.
I hope the reader will think we'll OF
these things and lend helping hand
to get rid of the lawless, wholesale
kidnapers of our children.
G. L. ROBERTSON.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
WASTE OF POWER

THOR the sake of economy, Andrew
II Carnegie is advocating strenuous
- ly a plan by which the American
and British fleets will be used recip-
rocally in the Atlantic and the Pacific
for purposes of protection and patrol.
He characterizes as tremendous blum
der the creation by the British of the
new type,of vessel known as the Dread
naught, pointing out it will increase to
an unbearable degree the naval burdens
of the world. AS soon as the first
Dreadnaught was launched every 9TH
err battleship in the world became obso-
lete, and the nations Immediately
plunged into an eXtravagant program
of Dreadnaught building.
Mr.. Carnegie calls attention to the
fact that former President Roosevelt
exerted all his influence to secure a
limit to the size of battleships, but it
was of no avail and in order to COM
plicate matters William the War Lord
of Germany took it into his head he
must make Germany the foremost ma
val power.
Fighting Bob Evans says this is
impossible; but it is by no means i'm
possible that a great deal OF disturb
ance may be caused in the financial
world if the kaiser should persist in
making the attempt. 1t looks as II
much of human labor, energy, skill and
time, as we'll as material that might be
used for constructive and productive
purposes were about to be applied to
productive or destructive purposes.
1t is the most illogical way of spend
ing money and wasting human talent
and energy that the devil ever devised,
but "in for a penny, in for pound"
and unless our president, with the CO.
operation of the premier of the other
power most affected, which is Britain.
should call an international conference
with a view of limiting naval arma-
ments the civilized world may yet pay
dearly for it's reckless dissipation of
energy and genius and its waste of
money and power
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
DOES NOT ASK FOR BELIEFS,
BUT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE

QUARTZ, March 23.-rEditor Her
add: l have studied the testimonies to
which J. L. Smith of Long Beach re-
ferred me- and must ask him to please
read again CELSIUS True Discourse,
as quoted in Origen.
CELSIUS does not admit Christ's mira
cles except as being the same as any
Egyptian juggler of that day could
perform. He admits that 1t was pub
licly known that Jesus was crucified.
but that he rose again from the dead
was not known. CELSIUS says the story
of the resurrection is self-contradictory,
and 1t is seen that he had accurate
knowledge of the religious creeds and
practices of both Jews and Christians.
You will find, II you read good
translation of Josephus, that he says,
"Those who had first attached them
selves to him did not cease their at
tachment; for they said he appeared
again to them alive after three days.
AS for your last testimony / will say
that, of course, the early Christians be-
lieved In the resurrection. But that
doesn't prove anything. The early
Mormons believed Joseph Smith to be
a prophet of God: but that isn't proof.
1 didn't ask for what people believed.
I ask for historical facts.
What proof have you that the state
ment in the Bible is correct? That the
earth opened and trembled when Jesus
rose from the dead? No scientist mem
tions a seismic disturbance In that CEN
fury. A STUDENT.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
VOTE

TN its frantic endeavor to prevent the
election of George Alexander as
4 mayor of Los Angeles, our morn
ing Republican contemporary is ex-
tending to the citizens Of Los Angeles
the unpatriotic, disloyal, un-American
advice to stay away from the polls. It
is endeavoring to interfere between
voters of this city and the exercise of
the franchise. While 1t is not attempt
ing to intimidate voters, it is attempt
ing to dissuade them from voting, to
persuade them by suggestion they
should not go to the polls, and 1t is
evidently hoping the Socialist candi-
date will succeed, for it says there
are indications of stampede of the
Alexander forces to Wheeler. who
may be elected after all"
If there should be any attempted
stampede, the people of Los Angeles
know full we'll where to place the re-
sponsibility for the attempt. The citi-
gems do not need an interpreter in or
der to get the true meaning of the ex-
traordinary editorial article which was
printed in the columns of our contem-
porary yesterday morning. That ar
ticle, in spite of a guilty disclaimer
which deceived no one, obviously was
written for the express purpose of
keeping some voters away from the
polls and influencing others to vote for
the Socialist candidate.
A vote for Wheeler under the circum-
stances would be spite vote. and we
do not believe the lot of spite mayor
of Los Angeles would be happy one.
The good sense of the citizens OF Los
Angeles will keep them from accepting
as an instruction or a hint the state
ment of our contemporary, "Thou-
sands of voters will keep away from
the polls" Note the phraseology. The
Republican morning organ does not say
"stay away from the polls" but keep"
away from the potassium them!
We think the sense of duty which is
q distinguishing feature of the charac-
ter of the people Of Los Angeles, the
sense of duty which caused them to
sign the recall petition and bring about
the dislodgment from office or an I'M
worthy mayor will lead them to GO TO
THE POLLS AND VOTE FOR
GEORGE ALEXANDER. We urge
our readers to vote, and to vote early,
in order that, having done their duty,
they may have an opportunity of help
ing their neighbors and friends to do
theirs. Having VOTED FOR GEORGE
ALEXANDER, the good citizen should
make of himself a committee of one to
go about among his friends and neigh
bors and help bring out the big vote
which will assure the ELECTION OF
GEORGE ALEXANDER BY AN
OVERWHELMING MAJORITY, and
will give to Los Angeles GOOD Gov
EMINENT.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
COST OF MILITARISM

A LTHOUGH our republic is nom
IN military country 1t is at present
Ia saddled with naval and military
expenditure of prodigious proportions.
We would like our readers to apply
some thought to the official figures we
are about to quote. We wish them to
try to realize exactly the meaning of
the expenditure OF the United States
for military purposes. What does 1t
mean in terms of real value? What
does it mean in terms of human toll
for the uplifting OF our race? What
does it mean in relation to the true
progress and the general prosperity of
the nation and of every family in the
nation and of every member OF every
family in the nation, which holds
these truths to be self evident, that
ALL men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with cer>
tain unalienable rights, that among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness?"
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1910, pensions, army and navy, will use
up $4OO 100000 Of the peoples money.
In allowing pensions for comparatively
brief terms of service and in refusing,
on alleged economical grounds, to fol-
low the example of the United King
dom and establish old age pensions,
are we not "straining out gnat and
swallowing a camel?"
We believe in pensioning soldiers,
nf xuh hqVa
earned pensions. Believing In the
abolition of restitution (Which is a
disgrace to any nation) and in the
substitution of old age pensions for
poorhouses and potter's fields, we
would be guilty of inconsistency If we
questioned the propriety OF granting
old age or retiring pensions to gallant
soldiers and sailors
But the allegation is made, and is not
denied, that the expenditures for PEN
sions is in large part demoralizing, in
a very large part fraudulent; that al
though the War of the Rebellion was
ended forty years ago there are still
more than a million names of pension
ers on the rolls from that source alone.
Is this reasonable or right? And is it
giving a square deal to persons really
deserving pensions, many of whom
have held back and are holding back
from applying because they do not
wish to be classed among the grab
bers?"
In addition to pensions what are our
military burdens? The army appro-
priation bill provides for an expendi-
ture Of $1OS, 100000 for the next fiscal
year. The navy bill appropriates $780,
Ooo, 900. The total, $240,OO0,oOO. is within
a few millions of rivaling the tota!
military and naval expenditures of the
German empire, the land of William
the war lord, for the year ended March
81, 1908.
Strange, indeed, that the cost of mil
itarism in peaceful commercial coun-
try should be almost as great as the
cost of mllitarism in an avowedly war
like land
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
CONSOLIDATION

n REPRESENTATIVE and patriotic
II citizens have been chosen for
Az the consolidation committee of
fifteen, and the outlook for Greater
Los Angeles is all the brighter be-
cause of the character of the men who
will take charge of the work which
must precede the consummation which
all good citizens devoutly wish.
On the committee of fifteen are
Mayor William D. Stephens, one OF
the best and truest friends Los An
geles has had in it's history; Stoddard
Jess, vice president of the First Ma
tional bank, a citizen who is well
known and highly esteemed in business
and banking circles; Homer Hamlin,
city engineer of Los Angeles; F. w.
Braun, the we'll known wholesale drug
gist; ]. A. Anderson, a prominent at
torney; Leslie R. Hewitt, city attorney
of Los Angeles; Frank Simpson of the
Simpson Produce company; Joseph
Scott, a well known attorney; M. H.
Newmark of the wholesale house of
Newmark & Co.; ]. M. Schneider, presi-
dent of the Merchants and Manufac-
turers' association; A. P. Fleming. at
torney, we'll known by reason of his
good work as secretary of Los An
geles harbor commission; M. P. Sny-
der, banker, formerly mayor of Los
Angeles; H. Jevne of the Jevne gro
Gerry firm; o. e. Parish, a well known
real estate dealer, and F. ]. Hart,
prominent merchant.
Los Angeles is fortunate above most
cities in being able to count on the
devoted, disinterested public services
of citizens whenever such services
are needed. In every crisis. in every
emergency, in every movement Of mo-
mentous Importance, like that for con-
solidation and the establishment of Los
Angeles as a great metropolitan city
with a superb seaport, there are al
ways volunteers willing to labor for
the public benefit, willing to toll for
the purpose of bringing about condi-
tions which will assure the greatest
good to the greatest number of the
population. The cause of Greater Los
Angeles is in good hands and assured
ly will prosper
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
BELIEVES CHAIN PRAYER
INVENTION OF DEVIL

LOS ANGELES. March 25.-[Editor
Herald]: 1 note in the Letter Box a
letter signed r. n. / know nothing OF
the "chain prayer nuisance" which Is
probably a scheme of Satan; he Is very
cunning. But observe that r. N. does
not apply the personal pronoun to him,
but with the person reprovtng the chain
prayers the devil Is 'evil-mindedness.
1t is quite probable, I think, that the
chain prayer is an invention of the
devil; but the parenthetical explana-
ton Is not less so.
The old book tells us our first parents
were created pure. whence did they
get their evil-mindedness? Does r. N.
know better than Christ? II in John
S:44 Christ does not speak of the devil
as a person, then language has no sig
nificance except to mislead. The pas
sage referred to is one of many. Why
do men try to improve upon the Biblef
One reason, / think, Is that the devil
is a cunning person; and IL he Is too
wicked to have Joy, / think 1T may be
possible he has devilish glee In making
believe he Is -mindedness.
Which is the worst enemy of the
scriptures? The man who processes to
accept and mutilates them? Or the
man who rejects them? The scriptures
teach that the devil is a person. We
small creatures have accepted his sug-
gestion that we know better. Had we
not better admit our ignorance and
look again? ANOTHER N. X.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
THINKS APPLICATION MADE
BY DR.. LOCKE RIDICULOUS

LOS ANGELES, March 2s.-[Editor
Herald: or the various odd specimens
Of clerical logic. or It's reverse. that
have come to my attention within the
past few months that afforded by DIR.
Locke last Sunday seems to me the
most extraordinary. He selected as his
text 1.-THE Sabbath was made for man
and not man for the Sabbath" From
this he proceeded to deduce an argu-
ment that 1t was the duty of Christians
to work for compulsory Sabbath law
AN institution to which man should
be subject.
All are familiar with the history of
this text. Christ was walking through
wheat field and he plucked the ears.
Certain Of his followers. slaves to the
letter OF the law, demonstrated, and
Christ replied as quoted.
A large number of thinkers have
written on this matter. and pointed out
that the Christ who said my service Is
perfect freedom" on this particular
occasion drove home the lesson that
men were meant to be the masters and
not the slaves of institutions, to own
them and not be owned by them. He
made light of the Sabbath law.
II the text had been used as an argu-
ment for the recall DIR. Locke might
have argued from 1t with great force
that we should own our public servants
and not be owned by them, but the APP
plication made seems to me the height
OF absurdity.
1 trust that other correspondents may
be at the trouble of pointing out that
the workingman, the department em-
ploye and others cited by DR.. Locke
are appropriated in Scotland, for ex-
ample--where the Sabbath is most rig
orously observed-with just as much
cruelty as elsewhere, and that the rea-
son for that exploitation Is to be found
in the helpless economic condition to
which they have been reduced by bar
barous and monopolistic institutions
which. at present, we allow 70 govern
our lives and own us. ECONOMIST.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
CHINA

NHINA is IN course of TRANSFORMED
ton, according to d. Willard Lyon,
~ who is an authority on a subject
which is of great Importance to the
United States, and especially to the
Pacific coast. Mr.. Lyon is anxious that
Americans should understand it is not
civilization that is needed to make the
Chinese good neighbors," but such a
change in the present civilization of
China that new methods Of thought will
be adopted. China has always had
education a-plenty, but it has been
Chinese education; and the Chinese
have been as much averse to having
Americanism and the principles of free
dom and equality taught in their
schools as we would be to having the
principles of Socialism taught in ours.
To the Chinese scholar the American is
a disturber, q, radical and a dangerous
person.
Persistent work by white teachers,
however, is changing all this and sub
stituting for old-fashioned Chinese
ways of thinking new methods. Mr..
Lyon says the Chinese are not only in
a receptive mood for Christianity, but
are preparing to take their place among
Christian and civilized nations. AS
Christianity, the religion of the Prince
of Peace, always has the effect of max
ing a nation aggressive and even belli-
cose, the Christianization of China may
cause a great change in the current of
world history.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
SAYS RECALL Is WisEsT
MEASURE EVER ENACTED

LONG BEACH, March 22-tEditor
Heraidl There is an adage older than
any Adam that reads, tits dangerous
to entrust anybody with more power
than just enough to handle his own
hands and feetss Hence the fact that
mankind have eternally been lighting
tyrants. / mean that word tyranfs In
its modern and evil sense. Human
progress consists in the various steps
the people have taken in coming to
their own. Every time the commons
get new grip upon their servants IN
power" a fresh hold that enables the
people to exert easier control oyer
these public servants, Is an advance
toward the Anal sovereignty Of tho real
master.
It's q strange condition that in this
country, where the voice of the people
is--in theory--the voice of the law
that we have to spend so much time
In killing our public rascals and more
In making them understand that 1t Is
not only our inclination, but our IN
disputable right, to make way WIN
them whenever we think the time mas
come.
Power got its initiative long time
ago. One of the first things 1t taught
itself was that 1t held It's grip on what
ever it had by divine right. Kings
czars, emperors, immaums, suitans,
priests, bishops and several thousands
more all have claimed their grip on
human threats and human properly
and human liberties was gift OF the
Almighty. 1t took several centuries OF
time and unknown quantities or nlooo
and tears to cure even small modl-
cum of our race of this monstrous
humbuggery. 1t fingers yet. executing
its diabolism upon peoples who ought
to know better than to endure 1t Tor
day, and, worse than all, 1t shows Its
hydra head even here in free America
The right of the people to make laws
and execute them according to their
sovereign will is disputed. as II q
faint of this divine right poison still
fingered in the office holding blood.
city, in It's wisdom, put a rope
about its officialdom, with the purpose
of jerking the public wrongdoer of
his perch without having to walt for
him to die a natural death. 1t Is
known as 1.-The recall" and no wiser OF
juster measure ever was enacted into
law, but the satanic press fights 1t al
IL 1t was a usurpation, q poaching
upon somebody's preserves.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
WOMAN FINALLY WILL GAIN
COURAGE AND DARE TO VOTE

LOS ANGELES. March 25.-[Editor
Herald: Just because few women
In Colorado allow such men as "0b-
server" to bully them into staying
at home on election day, Is no reason
thew will continue to be bullied. They
will gradually become Drawer and cease
to be afraid of men. I know a great
many young girls, chums of mine, who
privately tell me that they are very
much in favor of woman suffrage, but
afraid to say so. because they are
afraid of men.
But all this will die out, just as the
opposition to women in business has
died out. When the old fogies like
"Observer'' have passed away. and the
young generation like Young Man"
step in to take their places, women
will no longer be afraid to call their
souls their own. Happily such men
belonging to the going instead of the
coming age. A YOUNG GlRL.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
ASKS If AUTHORITIES ARE
UNABLE TO STOP SOCIAL EVIL

LOS ANGELES, March 25.--[Editor
Herald: Some appalling statements
have been made to me by some of the
city officials, who declare there is not
a rooming house In this city that does
not contain more or less women OF i'll
repute, and that IL the redlight district
is closed 1t will not be safe for de-
cent woman to appear on the streets
il is impossible to close these places.
Do the city authorities wish the word
to 90 east that Los Angeles Ia wide
open city, and that the authorities are
powerless to close 1t? Or will the good
people of the city register their votes
today for man who, IL elected, will see
to it that this condition cannot exist?
j. II. WILLEVER, Tourist.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26

Good citizens, vote early. The ma
chine is determined to make a laugh
ing stock of Los Angeles and to heap
confusion upon patriotic citizens by
maneuvering into Office the Socialist
candidate. This is not Socialist city,
and the machine plus-Socialism is a
monstrosity. Do not give the machine
a chance to assail the reputation of
Los Angeles. Go to the polls early,
end vote for George Alexander.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
AT THE THEATERs

MASON OPERA HoUsE-Richard Carrie,
March rs, 26 and 81.
BELASCO-'"The Dollar Mark"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
MAJESTIC" =, Burgomaster."
GRAND OPERA H0UsE-"Tales Of Hon-
man."
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
LOS ANGELES-Vaudeville
FISCHERS-"The Pawnbroker."
Notwithstanding.
UNIQUE-"The Astronomer"
WALKER-Yaudeville.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
The State Press
Aoki

Aoki, the Japanese cook who was en-
gagged to marry the daughter of Arch
deacon Emory OF San Francisco. has
gotten into trouble by giving to the
newspapers some of the girls love let
tiers. The prospective mother-in-law
takes exception to such publicity. The
Jap is not the first man to get into
trouble through letter writing, al
though generally it is the letters fell
low writes instead of those he receives
which bring about the complications
Redlands Review.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26

What is the animating motive of
the machine-men and the friends of
the former Mayor of Los Angeles?
REVENGE. Their endeavorg to elect
the Socialist candidate Is the result
of spite. We must not give them a
chance of imperiling the interests of
Los Angeles in order that they may
crafty one of the meanest of emo
tinnS
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26

No. That booming noise is not thun-
der. 1t is the reverberation of the
laughter of the gods on high Olympus,
as they gaze on that weird and Won
derful Los Angeles political hybrid,
the machine cum Socialism.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
Praise and cenaure

This week will end the California
legislative session and while 1t enacted
some needful and fairly meritorious
measures the loud professions of re
trenchment and reform INDUCED in in
the earlier weeks vanished very gem
orally in hot air as the session adj
vanced. 1t quits with better repu-
tation for official integrity, however,
than many of its predecessors, and
that is something to it's credit.-Ven-
tura Democrat.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26

In Los Angeles, the sun shines on the
Just and the unjust. But we would
prefer to see the just in office. 1t
would be better for the reputation of
the city. Vote for George Alexander.