Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
JUSTICE LEAGUE
TO Be FORMED
MAYOR TAYLOR OF BAY CITY
TO AID ANGELEN0S
Reform Executive of San Francisco to
Speak Saturday Night in Los Ans
ueIes of Work of His
Organization

There is a movement on foot to Or
gonize a league of Justice in Los An
geles. and to this end Mayor buWdtuu u u
Robeson Taylor, the reform mayor
of San Francisco, will come to Los An
geles and will deliver an ADDRESS a'
Simpson auditorium Saturday nlgnl.
The movement has assumed national
nronortions and has the Endorsement of
reformers far and near. san frahclsco
has the first league, and the women
have become interested and nave
formed an auxiliary.
At a meeting held yesterday, when
was intended by Mayor Alexander, Jo-
seph e. Koephi, president of the Mu-
nicipal league; Secretary HENDERSON Oh
the City club, Secretary Allen OF the
good government organization, Secre-
tary Egerton of the Municipal league
and about twenty-five leading citizens,
it was arranged to call mass meeting
and to invite Mayor Taylor OF san
Francisco to address 1t.
Frank G. Finlayson was elected
chairman of the committee and an IN
vitation to Mayor Taylor was wired. He
replied he would fill the engagement
made for him. Mr., Finlayson Will be
chairman of the meeting Saturday
night, to which both men and women
are invited.
"The purpose of the meeting is TO
bring to the attention of the people
of Los Angeles the new national move
ment called the League of Justice,
said Professor George H. Boke, profess
sor of law at the University of Cali
fornia, who will be the other speaker
Saturday night. Professor Boke said
of the movement:
Work of League of Justice
"The League of Justice at it's for
nation began to fight the criminal ele-
ments of San Francisco which We're
trying to defeat the work of the prose-
cution of grafters. 1t is purely a citi-
zenship movement, and began by three
groups of citizens coming together and
forming a committee of fifty. known as
the committee of justice, to protest
against conditions then existing. 1t
was organized just after the second
failure of the Ruef trial and the dyna-
hitting of Gallagher. woman's branch
was organized and thousands of women
joined it. They attended the trials to
offset the effect of the thugs whose
numerous presence in court was intend
ed to create a wrong atmosphere. The
women held meetings and interested
large numbers in the movement to
support civic decency and the officers
of the law.
1.-THE mems organization grew in
numbers. One thousand men pledged
themselves to pay 81 per month to pay
the expenses of the campaign and
10000 persons wore the blue circle but
ton of the league of justice. Many
members of the league had to keep
their membership secret on account of
the punishment that would be dealt
out to them if the membership was
revealed.
1sThe league established a newspaper.
the Liberator. which is issued weekly,
exploiting the cause of good citizen
ship and supporting the officers of the
law. The fundamental pledge of the
league is to maintain an equal admin
istration of the law and to carry on a
campaign against the evil forces in the
community that were trying to defeat
justice.
"As a result of the movement the
two universities became interested and
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