Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19


| be worse than ours, for everything
will be controlled by the few by then,
but revolution and bloodshed Will be
given them to use as remedy.
I'VE have been guilty of this laxity
for $50 years. and some day We'll wake
up. Even the gold claims at Nome
were grabbed up by Greeks ana
+ Swedes and foreigners in general, and
some day we'll find that those men.
! controlling the wealth of the nation,
/ will be our masters.
THE lemon growers of this section
! awakened recently TO find who was
the real boss Did the tariff passed
/ by a boss-ruled representation of the
/ people do them any good? Decidedly
not 1t only helped shut out little
foreign competition so that the home
growers would have more to ship over
the lines of their Bosses the railroads.
MANY times recently I was asked,
after being defeated by Fickert in san
Francisco, Did your work of the past
two years pay?' and yet l am firmly
convinced that these same men who
put that query would willingly leave
business. families, everything 10 fight
for their country if a foreign invasion
threatened. And yet they haven't
awakened to the menace right at
home and cannot become 'reformers'
because it hurts their business. I say
that Americans are not staycrs on
moral questions Their ideals are
being shattered one by one. Raise the
standard of these ideals and give the
/ coming generations a chance.
/ Monopolies as Traitors
california belongs to the Southern
Pacific. Not long, you say. Well, /
say not long, too. Monopolies are
traitors to the people, and sooner or
/ later you win be willing to go out as
reformers and drop your business to
repel the force that has already in
| vaded. Unless you do, all that we
/ gained in the Revolutionary and civil
wars will be lost.
/ Shall we go home tonight and admit
/ to ourselves, We'll, l guess Heney is
/ right and then forget all about it? l
want you to make UP your minds to
exact a pledge from your representa-
tives in the state legislature that the
initiative, the referendum, the recall
and the direct primary be inserted into
! the state constitution. If you'll do
that I'll agree TO do the rest. Do that
/ and you can run along and attend to
| your business, for any time there is
necessity I'll get up the petitions that
will do the work. Then you can pass
/ your own laws. And if I'm not here,
/ Los Angeles holds plenty of others
who will do it as we'll Your recent
election shows that.
j Los Angeles is no better than San
+ Francisco-that is, there are just as
many voters in the north ready for
i civic righteousness as there are here,
/ but they haven't the facilities. In their
/ city charter there is no initiative, no
referendum, no recall, and those who
live for the 'ght do not know their
strength. TWO years ago San Fran
cisco was ready for all these measures,
but there was no one to initiate
movement i'm their behalf Here in
your own town you have all these
things ana took way from the machine
. its power.
AS to Water Rights
"Calfornia is one state in the Union
where water power is equal to all the
energy that can be supplied by all the
+ coal mines east of the Mississippi, but
is il being conserved so that its use
can be applied to the people? 1 say
no. The last legislature elected is un-
l. der machine rule, and until it is
changed to conform to the wishes of
the people the monopolies will continue
to grab that which equals the energy
/ of millions of men-the water power
| which is also horsepower and man.
power. Water power here is mex
+ haustible, and so long as the few con-
trol it so long will they control what
will equal the energy of all the rest
of their fellow citizens together,
Get i'm and complete the work
started in Los Angeles and conserve
to our children that which is rightfully
theirs. Pledge your representatives, to
the initiative the referendum and the
recall and appoint your senators to
the capitol in Washington as you your
self dictate. Have them placed in
power under direct primary.
THE river bed franchise episode here
shows you what can be done through
out the state and then throughout the
country. Have the initiative and the
referendum and the recall working and
the people can conserve for themselves
those national resources which are
rightfully theirs DO away with the
representative government Of the pres
ont i'm which the machine and the
railroad alone is represented, and have
one of your own-one you know Will
vote right every time. Quit voting for
two state senator's, one appointed by
Walter Parker and the other by W. F.
Hcrrin. Have a real direct primary
and put yout own choice in Washing
ton"
At the close of his talk Ar Heney
was again the subject of a round Of
cheers that shook the building. He
concluded his remarks by saying that
he was called to Oregon to complete
the task of prosecuting the land grab
bers and that I'VE must hurry up or
some people might forget that indict-
monts were still in force"
Mr.. Heney stated that at any time
Los Angeles and California was really
in need Of him he would come back
provided business Of fighting graft did
not dotain him elsewhere. "Gat out
ana work for the measures which now
rule your city, making them cover the
entire state, and then you can talk Of
national conservation Of resources