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Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
CLOUDS OF SUPERSTITION
MUST BE DRIVEN AWAY

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13.-[Editor
Herald]: No man can have individual
independence so long as SenSuality is
the spring Of our existence. When men
and women are created for love alone
of the unborn child, then will break
the dawn of enlightenment on the
world, and the world will know for the
first time in all the centuries of which
we have any knowledge, true divinity,
which will be as near individual free
dom as"it is possible to know.
When the world is the unit-and by
the world I mean all creatures that
feel, all the creatures of the earth and
air that add to the beauty Of life must
be included in this great cry for JUS
tice, Justice though the heavens fall,''
when humanity is the unit and not the
narrow boundaries of walls raised by
the hands of men and built each for
himself, as the unit is now, will Justice
be done Not until the dark clouds Of
superstition have been driven away can
we hope for the hearts of men to open
to the great light of truth and Justice
We hear the cry from church and
state we must become mothers. But
do the church and state do anything
to help the mother and her unborn
child? Do the church and state pro-
vide for the future of the mother and
her child? No. the church and state
are OIliy IulHhluS OF themselves. How
they can get the biggest congregation
or the men to man the ships. That is
their reason of interest. Not the child;
not the mother; not even God. How
can you expectt justice to come from
such soil, my dear Victor H. TeIford?
We women are marching, but our
march is the march of peace and purity
and protection to all creatures. We
heed not the hooting Of the vultures.
MAGGIE TULL.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
CARNEGIE ON TRUSTS

IKE many another good and great
IL man, Andrew Carnegie has lived
to see his most positive and his
most dourly expressed views on pet
subjects rudely contradicted by the
evolutionary events Of time. When he
wrote his famous magazine article on
Trusts = which was first published in
the North American Review in Allan
Thorndike Rice's time, under the head
ing, ''The' Bugaboo Of Trusts" the
steel master was firmly convinced that
the trust was an ephemeral phenome-
non of American business life and not
a permanent part of it. Well do we
recall the rhymed lines with which he
ended his prophecy concerning the
short-livedness of the un-American
trust in the free United States. He said
that ere long the ek-trusts would be
resolved into their original competitive
elements, and would be saying:
If I was so soon to be done for
1 wonder what I was begun for.
And now, after many years, the laird
of Skibo and patron of Pittsburg
acknowledges the seriousness and
power of the trusts. In an interview
he is reported to have said: I'm the
production Of NEARLY ALL articles
Of general consumption we no longer
have the benefit of that competition
which formerly regulated prices, and
upon which all nations have hitherto
depended to insure reasonable prices
for the consumer. Some of our most
important industries today are only
nominally competitive, and in reality
are monopolies so far as an understand
ing exists as1to prices that will prevail
These virtual monopolies must be con-
trolled in some way or another. A
supreme industrial court will have to
be created, and eventually will have to
pass upon prices, disguise this as we
may"
Mr.. Carnegie evidently realizes that
in his earlier view of the trust uues-
ton he was carried away by what a
Scottish friend once termed Andrews s
Internal optimism"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
SAYS WOMAN INITIATES, BUT
DOES NOT ORIGINATE THINGS

LONG BEACH, Feb. 13.-fEditor
herald: Mr.. POllard's remarks are
hot disturbing, except perhaps his dis
reputable excursion into verse From
the ettects of which it is to be hoped
ne may recover. - -.
The leader and guide in mans
progress down the ages has been hu-
man reason, and man has been the
only one family which has been en-
ooWed with this mental attribute, ex
ceptions expected.
That he has made sad mistakes is
true enough.
Woman's entrance into the arena. of
poHtlcs, intellectually and business as
full partner with man praetfcaIJv
will make her ''just like man" Proof
OF this is all about US. The experi-
1nent has been tried. Crowding in at
one door, she is filling the world with
clubs" Organizing, passing resolu-
tlons and like a lot of sophomores.
making vastly more of the pompous
machinery Of these concerns than of
the causes" they are supposed to help.
Men are finding out that the worlds
work IS done by individual men and
women. The sisters are Just stepping.
III our tracks. Woman has not an i'm
pulse of initiative in her mentality.
She originates nothing.
Again, under the spur of this new
d1spensation, woman is steadily and
portentously ceasing to be the mother
of the race. She is getting her rights
at the expense of her sacred obliga-
tions. | am not wise enough to say
that this objection to motherhood will
end in inability as the game goes on,
a ground taken by some learned biolo-
glsts. But this we-~ know, that our
upper class society women avoid
maternity Our cultured and business
women are too busy for babies. And
that future population is being left to
country drudgery and town squalor
ers and babies-God bless them!-
need no enCOmiums SENFX.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
OIL TARIFF JUGGLE

M OTHING foXier has ever been de-
vised than the tariff legislation
under which the Standard Oil
company enjoys its oppressive, burden
some and Notwithstanding monop-
oily. The oil trust in the United States
is the result of an elastic, retaliatory
tariff. Exactly what measure of pro-
lection was given the oil monopoly has
puzzled many people, who have found
it difficult to reconcile the facts of
Rockefellerism with the allegation that
oil is on the free list, and that if
Standard Oil magnates control the oil
produced in America it is because they
also either control or can compete with
and undersell the oil produced in other
countries and shipped to the United
States.
The fact is, however, Standard Oil is
playing against the world with loaded
dice. No matter what the throw,
Standard Oil wins. Or, if we must in
dulge in gambling metaphors (Which,
however, are surely apposite), the case
is like that of man who plays pitch
116dOS,
I win. Tails, you lose" The duty that
is levied on American oil by any for
eign country is the amount of the duty
levied by the United States on oil i'm
ported from that country in competi-
tion with the Standard Oil monopoly.
This strictly see-saw, quid pro ouo,
Roland for Oliver, retaliatory duty
Furnishes foreign powers which dare to
impose a customs tax on Standard oil
shipped to their ports to be sold in
competition with their home products,
and at the same time makes it difficult
for foreign oil producers to compete
in American markets with American
producers. A duty of 40 per cent levied
in Russia against foreign oil means
a duty of 40 per cent levied in
this country against Russian oil; and
if Russia should be compelled to put oil
on the free list, John D. and his myr-
midons would romp in through the
open door, underseIl the oils of Russia
in their own fields, and when the prop
critics were almost beggared by the
drain on their vitality caused by hav-
ing to meet the constant undertaking
Of Standard, would sell to the Stand
ard Oil monopoly at the Standard S
own terms.
In no feature Of our national activi-
ties is the benevolent operation of tariff
protection better illustrated than in the
subtle method by which Uncle SANS
favorite industry, Standard Oil, not
sisted by Uncle Sam in its plans for
absorbing the oil industry of the world.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

VINO brings to it an ailing body, shat
tered nerves and wasted energies. So
much outdoor life is the portion of our
Girls now, so much is understood OF
the duty of health, as we'll asC-the
science, that it is an exceptional oc-
currence when a bride is deficient in
that wholesome vitality which she
needs as capital to draw upon in future
days, says the Woman's Home Com
panion.
In one Of st. PauPs epistles he ad-
Vlses women who are uninstructed NOT
to speak in meeting, but to ask their
husbands at home. No doubt in his
day and in oriental lands this counsel
was essential and Indispensable to or
der and peace. The American woman
mas, as a rule as much information as
her husband on subjects not connected
with the technique of his profession
and it is very likely that when he
needs information he will ask her. To
keep herself bright, cheerful and inter-
est1ng is an obligation she so well un-
derstands that few women are better
able than she to hold their own in
conversation F
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
Fit Preparation Should Be
Made for Matrimonial Life

A S never before, our women are
A learning that fit preparation
should be made for marriage
physically. mentally and spiritually.
Milton's famous line, He for God only.
she for God in him." finds small re-
sponse IN the breast Of the modern
woman When she marries it is that
she may stand by her husbands side
his equal and comrade. Tennyson's S
prophetic instinct never found more
complete revelation than in "The Prin-
cess especially in the noble consum-
nation of that splendid poem. The
temptation to quote is strong, but
space forbids yielding
When an American woman marries
she does not anticipate drifting into a.
position of mere subservience and tinnid
Gocility. She will neither be servant
nor plaything in her husbands sight.
The oriental ideal withers in the sun
light Of western lands. If she be a true
woman she marries that she may !. H.
her husband all along the line. She
knows better than she once did that
no woman is prepared for marriage
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

State Senator Thompson has intro
duced a measure providing for the
segregation by boards of education of
school children DEEMED Objectionable
on social or racial ground Now what
in the world does this mean? Is it an
attempt to revive the japanese buga-
boo after it has been laid by Presi-
dent Roosevelt? And by what will the
segregation be determined? Which will
be the racial sheep and which the
goats? What is to be done with the
segregated? And who is to "have the
nerve" to say this or that child is
Objectionable"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
NATURAL RESOURCES

N ICHARD OLSEN RICHARDS, in
n, an address made by him at the
White House conference on the
conservation of natural resources, said
there was nothing as important for the
United States today as the care and
improvement of our best resources,
the people, by education. "To those who
constantly advocate law as a remedy
for all things he remarked, "Iet me
say that law is but temporary, while
EDUCATION IS A PERMANENT AN
TID0TE FOR EVERYTHING. The
public school system is the key. Let
US earnestly strive to study to i'm
prove and establish uniform prac-
tical standard of primary education
and teach INDUSTRY as essential to
health, happiness and honorable exist
ence. and practice our leaders maxim,
the square deal, the synonymous ex-
preston of the Golden Rule, and we
shall in short time be able to elm
mate crippled men and conserve all
natural resources for the happiest ex-
istence of every man."
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
THE MAYORALTY

I IIFTEEN honored, honorable, we'll
II known, representative citizens of
Los Angeles are now charged
with a duty as grave and important
as has ever fallen to the lot Of any
body of citizens. They are William D.
stephens, H. T. Lee, H. w. Frank, J.
M. Elliott, r. H. Norton, G. M. Giffan,
W. r. Burke, Parley NJ. Johnson, Paul
r. Mabury, Nathan Newby, M. f..
Betkouski, A M. Dunn, S. c.. Graham,
John Topham and Harry Calender.
They will select the man who will con-
sent to represent the people in the
mayoralty fght-the candidate who
will make the winning race for the
mayoralty against A. c. Harper, who
has been called on to submit to the
electorate his official record in order
that the people may pass judgment
upon it.
The name of the man chosen by the
committee will be presented on
Wednesday evening to a mass meet
ing of citizens. It is certain the citi-
zen selected will be approved by the
mass meeting, and with this ratifca-
tion candidate will be provided to
represent and champion the best cause
ever submitted to the people. 1t is the
cause of Right versus the Might of
corporationism and graft The finan-
cial interests of Los Angeles are inn
periled by a gang" the headquarters
of which are at the city hall. The
chief member of this. gang is support
ed by the pro-vice papers and by va
rious calamity howlers, mahdists, fad
dists, false-alarms and dancing der
wishes who pretend to see in the COM
ing victory of decent citizenship a
menace to what they are pleased to
term business interests.
Los Angeles cannot afford even to
think of placing the stamp of approval
on pro-vice administration at city
hall. Mayor Harper and his record
must be buried out of sight in an
avalanche of votes representing the
sentiment Of the people of this COM
munity with regard to that cleanli-
ness which is next to Goodness.
Social purity is worth voting for.
The good name of our city is worth
fighting for. It does not matter from
what point Of view this question is re-
garded, the same conclusion will be
reached. The election of a good man
for mayor and the defeat of Mayor
Harper will benefit the city materially
and spiritually, morally and financial
ly. Mayor Harper, recalled, must he
voted out of Office, and with his per-
manent removal from municipal poll
tics a menace to the good name, the
fair fame and the prosperity of this
city will have been removed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
BUSINESS

business reports are most encour-
n aging. The work Of the citizens
who are determined that the af-
fairs of this city shall be administered
honestly and economically is already
producing gratifying results. Real es-
tate dealers report that inquiries by
prospective purchasers who wish to
own property and live in Los Angeles
were more numerous last week than
they had been for months.
One real estate man said: "The- num-
ber of people in our offices, even on
rainy days, reminded US Of old times. -
WE'LL 1t is accounted for easily
The experiences of many cities, as well
as experience of men, have shown that
apart altogether from moral or ethical
consideration, 1T PAYS TO BE DE-
CENT. We venture to say that from
the very first announcement that the
government of Los Angeles was to be
taken out of the hands of the pres
ent mayor and placed in the hands OF
a more responsible public servant who
would be thoroughly trustworthy, con-
fidence in the financial futuFe of Los
Angeles was increased, and there was
an immediate Improvement in business
This Improvement will be continued
and the demonstration of the fact that
pro-vice policies are detrimental to a
city's business as well as moral in
terests has deprived the pro-vice press
of it's only imitation of an argument
Los Angeles needs an honest and busi-
nesslike mayor and a business mans
administration.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
INSULTING

Y IMPOSSIBLE buffoonery plus impos-
slble language make up the mix
= ture with which a pro-vice Repub-
hcan contemporary is endeavoring 10
ridicule and insult the Hebrews, who
have given America many of its best
statesmen and financiers and gave to
Great Britain a famous prime min
lister.
1t i'll becomes any member of the
mixed race that uses the American or
English language to speak disparag-
ingly of the pure race to members Of
which we owe the foundation of our
civilization.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
ASSERTS MEN SHOULD GIVE TO
NEW WOMAN COMRADESHIP

LOS ANGELES, Feb. S.-[Editor
Herald: Considerable has been said
in the Letter Box about the new woman.
All men should give her the salute
of comradeship The following verses
should be written on all the doors OF
all the sons Of men:
Il speak the password primeval.
give the sign of democracy.
by God! 1 will accept nothing which
all others cannot have their counter
part of, on the same terms"
Here is another line we'll worth con-
sidering:
"Of equality-as if it harm'd me
giving others the same chances and
rights as myself-as if it were not
indispensabl to my own rights that
others possess the same
YOUNG MAN
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
DECLARES THREE MEN MAKE
PRICES FOR FOOD IN CITY

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14.-[Editor
Herald: Three men meet daily and
fix the prices at which food may be
sold in this city. Have you ever ques-
toned their authority? Do you know
how much wealth they have accumu-
lated? How is it that the producer
cannot afford to market his produce,
vet the consumer of moderate means is
compelled to deny himself because he
cannot afford to pay the prices?
People of Los Angeles, if you must
have a ring to fix the prices for you
1 move that you enlarge it somewhat.
EMMA G. SCHAFER.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

The national eonYehtion of the Amer
lean Pharmaceutical association will be
held in Los Angeles. The druggists
will find the air of this city stocked
with a more valuable remedy than all
that are in the pharmacopoeia-a YER
liable panacea-good health-giving
California ozone.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
Japanese Lowe Story

Toxic dispatch says: Count Tanaka
minister of the imperial household, has sub
mltted to the demands of the press and the
nobility and agreed to break off his engage
ment to marry Ko Kobayashi, because she is
a plebeian" The dispatch says that the old
count appears to be heartbroken, but bows to
the conventions Of his country And this is
another example Of the much-vaunted equality
and democracy of Japan.-Oakland Enquirer
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

Perhaps there will be a scarcity of
the> banana '"manana." The banana
trust and other organized benevolences
threaten Los Angeles with a decreased
supply of this gay and festive fruit
in order that the price may be in
creased.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
Potato Growers Hannv

It's an i'll wind" etc Floods in Sacra-
mento valley have spoiled the prospect for a
potato crop in that part of the state, and as a
result the only potatoes the northerners will
get will be shipped from this city or the east,
and as San Diego county's spuds are above the
eastern potatoes in quality there is no doubt
that the potato growers Of this county will
get fancy price for their product this sea-
son.-San Diego Tribune
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-"AH Baba and the Fort,
Uhieves."
MASON-|Master Power"
BELASCO-"A Stranger in New York"
NIAJESTIC-"Rip Van Winkle.h'
BURBANK-"Faust."
Observation-Disclosures.
GRAND-"The Ameer"
Los Notwithstanding
FISCHER'S-"The MikadO"
EETPIRE-VaudeviiIe.
UNIQUE-"The Prince and the Baron"
WALkER-VaudeVilIe.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

Watch the yellow morning paper.
When the reform movement reaches a
point where the Examiner sees the in
terests Of the Southern Pacific are men
aced it will stop wabbling and come out
squarely in favor of Harper, the ma
chimes choice and candidate for mayor.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
Education

Last year. there were, in round numbers
100000 pupils in the schools of the United
States. Somewhere near 20 per cent of our
total population in our educational insti-
tutions. One of the most striking features of
the time, from educational standpoint is
the development of the high school, and the
thoroughness and scope Of its work-Pasadena
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
Far and Wide
SIeuths of Paris

The police force of Paris is being equip
ped with eye glasses having a small adjust
able mirror,~tO enable officers to watch sus-
picious characters without appearing to do
so. AS the mirror is concave the police
sees what is going on behind his back.
The new spectacles are the invention of
Commandant Soule.--Municipal Journal
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

At a dinner to be given tomorrow
evening the. Young Mems Christian as
sociation will meet and greet 300 new
members. This splendid organization
is fiourishing and it deserves to -four
ish. May it become more and more a
power and an influence for good in this
great and growing community.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

Pink Socks will win in a walk. Los
Angeles cannot afford to indorse the
Harper administration. Both on busi-
ness and on moral grounds the re-
called mayor must be retired
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

President Roosevelt is much pleased
with the action Of the California legis-
lature in killing the anti-Japanese bill
Well may he be pleased. 1t was not
only marked exhibition of common
sense, which should inspire him with
the utmost confidence in the people of
the Pacific coast, but it was practically
in the nature of personal compliment
to the president.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
Wife Hunter

man who claims to have travelled thou
sands of miles in search of a wife has tus
reached San Bernardino When he reaches
Huntington Beach his quest will doubtless
end. Huntington Beach News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
Demaqoquss

Small caliber statesmen in Sacramento who
count on rising through appeals to prejudice
are likely to sail the political sky as Darius
Green sailed-downward with a bump The
moral sense of the community rarely fails tc
right itsels in due time and when it does
those who cater to prejudice will reap the
natural reward of demagogues-contempt- -
Stockton Independent
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

All the signers of the Declaration of
Independence wore pink stockings.
They would have worn pink socks, but
socks had not yet been invented.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
Zanzibar Grievance

Now wall has gone up from Zanzibar The
prohibition wave sweeping the earth has
caused slump in the Glove and spice market
and as Zanzibar furnishes most Of the cloves
Of the world the Zanzbarians are kicking"
-Nentura Free Fress.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

Arthur Let's says: Frankly, gentle
men, I want no credit for this victory
over race track gambling" Frankly,
Mr.. Let's, we don't see how you can
avoid it.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

AS st. Valentines day could not be
observed yesterday, we have no doubt
the saint of signing lovers and spoony
couples will receive attention today.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
Good Mixer

As a mixer and compounder Of words Senator
Anthony of San Francisco is entitled to the
legislative palm. His resolution in 'vindica-
glomerate mass Of verbosity, made up Of ir-
relevant premises and illogical conclusions.
Sacramento Bee.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
May Yet Die Poor

Apdrew Carnegie announces a gift of $780, 600
with which to begin the moral redemption of
Pittsburg. He has at last tackled job which
will enable him to die poor if he remains on it.
Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

Mayor Harper did not like that grand
jury minority valentine. He thought
it was entirely too personal"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
The Public Letter Box

acnr.r,s,
cSspond-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
News papers Busy

There seems real reason why President
elect Taft should hurry back from Panama
The eastern press will be able to get his cabinet
building done before March 4.-Renver Repub-
lican.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

The pink socks are not ashamed OF
their footwear.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
The Constitution
Won't Be Nominated

The question is not Does the constitution fol-
low the flag? But, Does the constitution even
stay at home with the fiag?-Detroit News
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
contrlbutory Negligence

Were you thoughtful enough to hold out a
few dollars for the after Christmas bargains +?
Chicago News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

1t is pretty safe to predict that no chauffeur
will ever hold important elective office in
this country.-Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

Exit Mayor Harper. Enter Mayor
Goodcitizen.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
Soon

The cruel war in Washington will soon be
over.-Syracuse Post-Standard,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15

AS to this very latest yelp,
/ make the claim
That chatterboxers little help
The boxing game.
Kansas City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
InscIuble
Aftermath

The labor question. will never be solved as
long as it is necessary for anybody to labor
Chicago Record-Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-15
VenuefuI

Just show us that man who prayed fl
1ain!-Santa Monica Outlook.