Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-22
LOS ANGELES

1t is a city of children. It is a
= city of young folks. 1t is a city
of education. The natural atmosphere
of Los Angeles is the best in the world.
The air is health-giving, fe-giving. 1t
is pure essence Of sunshine So the
natural atmosphere of Los Angeles is
suited exactly to the boys and girls
who are growing up here. They grow
faster in Los Angeles than anywhere
else. Eastern city children look like
shrimps alongside of the robust, sturdy,
strong, healthy lads and lassies of Los
Angeles.
The natural atmosphere of Los Ange-
world. But there is another kind of
atmosphere which affects both young
and old people more powerfully than
even the natural atmosphere. It is the
moral atmosphere. If the moral at
mosphere of a city is clear, brac-
ing, healthy, it is a good thing for
all dwellers in that city, for the inf1u-
ences of clear and perfect moral at
mosphere will affect everybody for the
better. We do not want people who
come to live in Los Angeles merely to
feel better. We want them to BE
better. There is nothing extravagant
in this wish. This beautiful city, with
its clear natural atmosphere, which has
an inspiring, strengthening, vivifying
influence upon everyone who comes
m cLn h of
mosphere which would have an inspir-
ing, elevating influence upon everyone
who comes here to live.
When the atmosphere of Los Angeles
is not interfered with that is the inf1u-
ence it exercises. No one can live a
good clean life in Los Angeles without
responding to it's culture, refinement,
enlightenment and without receiving
spiritual benefit. That is one reason
why Los Angeles is famous. 1t has the
highest culture of any city of its size
in the world. Many cultured people
live here, and they attract other cul-
tured people. Like seeks like"
People who come here without hav-
ing had the experiences which result
in the subtly distinctive quality called
culture, acquire culture in spite Of
themselves, unless they are interfered
with. 1t is of this interference in the
normal life of this city we complain,
and complain bitterly and justly. Every
citizen who came here to find refine
ment, culture, morality, a clear atmos-
nh nh tool o1Aa a.,
spiritually, has been outrageously
dealt with by the traitors to Los
Angeles who by protecting vice have
sought to introduce poisonous and de-
grading influences into the moral and
spiritual atmosphere of this city.
If an eastern manufacturer came
here, established an old fashioned
smoke making factory in the heart of
the city, and began to befoul the air
with thick, oily, f1aky smoke, what a
strenuous protest there would be! If
a smelter started operations within the
city there would be a shout of indig-
nation. The cry would be, ''The smell
ter must be taken out of the city. 1t
will kill every tree and shrub and
flower, and every blade of grass. Moth
ing that God made can live where man
makes a smelter."
Now the moral atmosphere Of Los
Angeles, the purity of which is surely
as important as the purity Of the ply
steal atmosphere, has been polluted by
vice factories, and the mayor of this
city, and other city officials, have per-
mitted these vice factories to do busi-
ness-have, indeed, encouraged them,
and have allowed them to poison the
moral atmosphere and menace the
spiritual health of all the young peo-
pie and children of this community.
Mayor Harper, under whose auspices
the moral atmosphere was polluted,
asks the citizens of Los Angeles by re-
electing him to office to express graft
tude for the nuisance for which he was
responsible, and to give him an op-
portunity to inf1ict on them even
greater nuisances. The moral atmos-
phere was reeky with the rank fumes
Of the Harper administration. The
people of this city have suffered
enough from a vice-laden atmosphere.
They want a clean, pure, sweet, moral
atmosphere, which will be as clear and
as health-giving as the clear, pure air
which makes life physically worth liv-
ing in Los Angeles. We must purify
the air by electing to the office of
mayor of this city George Alexander,
and we must elect him by such a big
majority that the world will under
stand we want the moral atmosphere
to be as pure and healthful as the ply
sical atmosphere Of lovely Los Angeles.
RUSSIA'S DEGENERACY