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Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
PILOTAGE

LII who are interested in the pro-
IA gram of success and prosperity
- for Los Angeles and Southern
California will favor the defeat of as
sembly bill No. 42S, relating to port
that bill contains a very palpable joker.
This bill should have been drawn up
in such a manner that steamers would
he encouraged to call at our harbor.
Conditions must be made as attractive
as possible. But, by JOKER the bill
which reduces the pilotage fee from S.
per foot draught for vessels under 500
tons and for those above that figure
10 cents for each ton of gross regis
tered tonnage, to SO per foot draught
for boats under 500 tons and cents
additional for each ton gross register
for vessels above 500 tons, the rates are
COMPULSORY.
Instead of being a pilot fee, they are
TOLL. Instead of being in the ma
ture of a payment for services rem
dered, they are in the nature of a
tax. In section 9 of assembly bill No.
42S appears the following joker: The
rates above given are COMPULSORY,
and MUST be paid by EVERY VESSEL
SPOKEN, inward or outward bound,
except vessels under enrolment and Ii
censed and engaged in the coasting
trade between the port of San Pedro
and other United States ports, and YES
sells engaged in the whaling or fishing
trades, which shall be exempt from all
pilotage, unless a pilot be actually en-
ployed. When an inbound vessel is
not sighted until inside the bar, the
fee is cut in half
Steamship companies will not be able
by keeping their own pilots to escape
the necessity of paying the fees.
Under the present system captains
have pilots licenses, and may them
selves bring in their boats. Moreover,
if necessary, the companies would
cheerfully keep salaried pilots at San
Pedro. But under the proposed law
the two official pilots appointed by the
state will enjoy a monopoly; and it is
estimated steamers to and from the
orient which are now allowed to go
in and out of San Pedro harbor at an
expense of about from $50 to SIS on
every trip will have to pay $500 for the
privilege.
The appearance of this joker at this
juncture. when efforts are being made
to persuade several of the greatest
steamship companies in the United
States to make San Pedro a regular
port of call, is extremely annoying,
exasperating and vexatious.
1t is simply maddening to think the
honest efforts of conscientious, far-see-
ing, painstaking, loyal and patriotic
citizens Of Los Angeles and Southern
California to improve this section OF
the United States in every respect, to
make it one of the foremost, one Of the
most fiourishing and one of the best
parts of the country over which Old
Glory floats, are menaced at every
turn by the contemplate work OF
parasitical political pilferers forever
ION THE MAKE" and forever dis
playing the proverbial wisdom Of the
celebrated, greedy dunderhead who
killed the goose that laid the golden
eggs.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
STEAMSHIP LINE

r. M c l. A G H L A Ms Panama
WI steamship bill should awaken
the boosters. Every commercial
organization and every individual in
terested in the prosperity of this splen-
did section Of the United Staes, richer
in promise than any others, in a great
many respects already excelling all the
others, should do everything possible
to bring about the success of the meas
ure proposing that the Panama rail-
road company, now owned by the gov
ernment, establish a line Of steamers
touching at SAN PEDRO and all other
important ports on the Pacific coast of
the United States, Mexico and Central
America.
The success of this measure will save
Los Angeles and Southern California
Is estimated the saving to the people
Of the Pacific coast in one year alone
would be at least $4,000, 900, an amount
equal to the total sum which under
the provisions of the bill will be ap-
propriated for the establishment Of the
steamship line.
The people OF Los Angeles should do
all in their power to make the measure
proposed successful. It's success will
be one Of the factors in the develop
ment of Southern California, which is
fast making Los Angeles the most i'm
portant city in the far west and San
Pedro the greatest, as it is the finest
and safest, seaport on the Pacific coast
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
FEELS FULL CONFIDENCE AS
TO ELECTION OF ALEXANDER

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25.-[Editor
Herald: The possibility of defeat in
the approaching mayoralty election be-
ing the portion of those who have un-
dertaken to rebuke lawlessness, official
high-mindedness and contempt of pub
lie opinion, as expressed in the atti-
tude of the present incumbent, is not
to be conceived.
The public conscience is awakened
and recognizes the necessity for, and
desirability of, a higher conception Of
ethics in the discharge. of civic duties
and in business relations in every field
Of endeavor.
The old saying that might is right
is giving place to the knowledge that
right is might"
Selfishness is the impelling and COM
pelling force that is at the basis of Of
fetal malfeasance exhibited through
graft and is thus shown to be the root
of all evil.
Self-control of a high order, superin-
duced by knowledge Of the exigencies
Of the situation, is required, and if
exercised by the people of Los Angeles
it will be heralded abroad as an eX
ample of what can be accomplished as
a consequence of being awakened to a
sense Of righteousness. In this instance
Los Angeles can be depended on to do
her duty.
The facts presented by your esteemed
journal exposing the rotteness existing
in our city cannot revert to our dam
age. In the months to come our citi-
zens will remember and feel grateful
for the good work done and public
service rendered by The Herald in the
cause Of civic righteousness. This, to-
gether with the adoption of the charter
amendments, is bearing good fruit.
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
MONOPOLY THE SCOURGE,
NOT JAPANESE WORKERS

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23.-[Editor
Herald: 1 think Victor H. TeIford's s
letter in Tuesdays Herald a most tell
ing and useful contribution. Indeed,
I would not hesitate to call it one of
the most truthful, trenchant and time
ly utterances that has appeared in the
Letter Box for months past.
The value of such a letter is the
greater owing to the absurdly easy way
in which the average citizen is coz
ened and fooled by the predatory "in-
terests'' and their reptile press. watch
those 'treacherous' Japs," they cry, as
they themselves rife our pockets. And
it works-fools that we are.
Another good letter, bearing some
what Of an analogy, though on a Slight
ly different subject, is that in today's
issue signed ga Newfoundlander. -
Such home thrusts at flummery and
fiapdoodle are all to the good. Long
live the Letter Box. VAL STONE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
STOCK COMPANY PLAYERS
DESERVE GREATEST PRAISE

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24.-TEditor
HERALD: Here's my hand, Mr.. Broad
hurst, shake! for your reply to Mr..
Locke's attack upon the stage. The
reverend gentleman, unintentionally,
no doubt, has stirred up hornets
nest about the ears of the theatergo-
ers.
We're a little touchy on that point,
for we are all very partial to our
stock company players here, who have
endeared themselves to the hearts Of
the people because of their true worth,
as we'll as for their intelligence and
ability to satisfy our sssousement needs.
Problem plays aloe: are not por-
trayed on the stage. Many Of the plays
presented on our stage have pointed
as grand and purifying a moral as
many Of the sermons have done.
A DRAMA ADMIRER
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
To Attack Source of Graft
Is Only Way to Effect Cure

n nITTSBURG follows San Francisco
in a housekeeping, and each, no
doubt, will profit by the unpleas-
ant experience of having to attack their
city governments with mop-pails and
Soap.
But very likely each will miss the
full fruits of it's efforts. American
cities have not yet learned that the
housecleaning process ought not to be
merely sporadic, or that it is not suffi-
cient to turn the rascals out. Honest
men must be put in and honest methods
must be adopted. And in this connec-
tion the remark of President Roosevelt
in instructing the bank examiners what
to do when they got to Pittsburg is
important. The president said: "Try
to get the bribe-givers as we'll as the
bribe- takers. The bribe-taker couldn't
exist without the other.'' Little or no
attention is paid to the bribe-giver. He
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
SChz0er'i1 Threatens Uncle
Sam with Dire Vengeance

this assumption is current in the So
ciety which Mr.. Schwerin adorns,
but most of us will ask for further
proof and more convincing evidence
than Mr.. Schwerin's word.
Indeed, the shipping and producing
public Of the Pacific coast will we.-
come Mr.. SchWerin's declaration Of
war on Uncle Sam. 1t raises a definite
issue on the point how far the over
land railroads have hitherto been able
to control the administration of the
Panama railroad We can readily un-
derstand that underground influences
applied on minor officials have in the
paSt been useful in suppressing the
use of the Panama route as a means Of
competition, but work Of that sort is
only effective on the back stairs. 1t
will not bear the light of publicity or
Withstand an appeal to the really re-
sponsible people in control. 1t seems
as If Mr.. Schwerin had made a grave
tactical blunder by coming out in the
light of day. He would be safer on the
back stairs
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

even continues to attend church and to
sail in society. The victim of his greed
for more profits, the weak, puny office
holder, may wear stripes, but the bribe-
g1ver keeps his halo, says the San Ber-
nardino Index.
This is not only unfair, but it is the
worst policy. The way to stop graft
is to attack it at it's source. The source
Of city graft is not with the aldermen,
but with the interests that demand
special favors at the hands of the pub
lie. Unquestionably, the suggestion
often comes from the official, but the
motive is nearly always supplied by
the interest. 1t wants something which
it ought not to have, and which the
alderman knows it ought not to have
What more natural than that he should
expect the corporations to pay some
thlng for it, especially as he has to do
an unpopular thing in order to please
the interest?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
EGGS-AND EGGS"

O INCE there are eggs-and eggs
every housewife will indorse the
~ bill now before the legislature, re-
quiring that all cold storage eggs be so
marked. If the legislature in it's wis
dom should decide to permit cold stor-
age eggs to remain anonymous, the
Poultry Breeders association of South
ern California by way of defending egg
merchants and customers and preserv-
ing unsullied the reputation of the Cali
fornia hen, will decide to stamp all
home-laid eggs with the trade mark of
the association. In that event, all un-
marked eggs, unless they are laid by
Biddy in the back yard under the su-
pervision of the housewife, will be OBJ
jects Of suspicion. When it comes to a
question as to their age and condition,
the burden of proof will be on them.
Eggs are coming into Los Angeles at
the rate Of $1,000 worth day, and the
association has begun campaign to
supply the local market with new laid
eggs, ''made in California We hope
our fellow citizens will see the ad-
vantage OF patronizing the home laid
egg industry. At present many car
loads Of eggs are sent here from Kan
sas. They are held in cold storage for
six months, and then dumped on The
Los Angeles markets. If the local egg
industry could be properly stimulated
and put on a sound commercial basis,
many worthy people could easily add
to their incomes by practicing ovicul-
ture; or, by going in for it on a large
commercial scale, could make an ex-
cellent living.
Patronize home industries. The home
hen lays eggs which are far superior
to the effete eggs Of Kansas fowls.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
Far and Wide
Panama Canal

No one suggested that the work at
Panama should be stopped because the
early estimates of cost are being
doubled and tripled while we wait. If
the canal should cost billion dollars
it would doubtless be built, for who
would advocate the abandonment of
a feasible project into which so great
sum of money had already been invest
ed? This view evidently underlay
all the discussion in the senate
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
Conservative Nation

With Persia and Turkey adopting
constitutions and parliaments with com
paratively little bloodshed and disturb
ance, and Sweden and Finland enfran-
chising women as calmly as they would
pass a bill to restrict the hours of labor
in mines, we must ask if the United
States is not soon to become the great
conservative of the world instead of
the most radical in its political inno-
vations.-New York Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-"AH Baba and the Forty
Thieves"
NEASON-"Girls"
BELASCO-"A Texas Steer"
MAJESTIC-"Marrying Mary"
BURBANK-"A Temperance Town.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
GRANDPA Chinese Honeymoon"
Los Notwithstanding
FTsCHER'S-"OtheIlo for a Day"
UNIQUE-'SThe Substitute"
WALKER-VaudeVille.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
Good WALKING

"Well, I'm for the good roads bills
every one of them,'' said a member Of
the house of representatives.
"Why?" asked a constituent.
well" he replied, I'm for anything
that will make walking better since the
passes are abolished. kansas City
Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

Pink socks to right Of him,
Pink socks to left of him,
Marched by the hundred.
Stunned by the great review,
Well Mayor Harper knew
That he had blundered.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

We have fought, and fought, and
fought for a free harbor at San Pedro:
and now appears the man with the eye
on the main chance, with his proposal
for pilotage fees that will make a
bowling farce of San Pedro's invitation
to the shipping of the world. .
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

Rockefeller's big fine may be reduced
to mere trifle-only three quarters of
a million dollars. Even when the fine
is thus brought within the pocket-reach
of any ordinary millionaire will the
Jawn Dee corporation pay it?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

Ohio, Illinois and Tennessee have
supplied Los Angeles county with its
new superior court judges. Three good
states have given US three good men.
Fortunate is California, that can get
''the cream Of the men Of the country
to do its work.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
Cowboy Chauffeurs

A lot of romance of the plains will be
knocked out when the cowboy turns
chauffeur The reckless skill of the
horse breaker, the mad gallop across
the plains, the daring art of cutting
out, the fierce race with the maddened
herd, the picturesque costume-all these
will be pushed aside when the auto
rules the ranch. It is merely another
inevitable example Of the passing of
outworn customs. = Cleveland Plain
Dealer
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
@. {. ..

Senator Foraker is reported to have
declined to participate in Senator Dicks
plan for the paciflcation of Ohio poll
tics. From which it is not difficult to
guess that Dicks pacification plan in
cludes the reelection Of Dick rather
than that of Foraker.-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

Loves Young Dream sent a pair of
lovers a-tramping all the way from
Santa Barbara to Los Angeles. When
they arrived in Los Angeles there was
a rude awakening. Alas! 'Tis often
thus with Loves Young Dream.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

1t is amusing to watch the mad
antics and grotesque gyrations of the
persons who are endeavoring to assail
George Alexander's reputation. Seekers
for flaws in Mr.. Alexanders record will
have hard, hard time Of it. They
have set out to accomplish an impos-
sible task. Mr.. Alexander will be the
next mayor of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

Grove Johnson's change Of venue bill
has been revived. This infamous at
tempt to trick justice should be re-
buked so promptly and so decidedly
that never again will an effort be made
to thwart the law or cheat justice by
legislative enactment.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
I R. sCHwERIN of the Pacific

M R. SCHWERIN of the Pacific
wi Mail Steamship company threat
ems to visit his displeasure on
Uncle Sam. He will boycott the gov
ernment railroad across the isthmus of
Panama if concessions in the way Of
freight rates are made to Pacific coast
shippers by that route. He will divert
to the Tehuantepec road the lucrative
trade that now goes via Panama. Ap-
parently he believes that he can in
timidate the government of the United
States and make it an appanage and
obedient instrument of the overland
railroad trust. Some people might call
him merely impudent. Others will WON
der whether he really has the power to
which he pretends, says the San Fran
cisco Call.
Mr.. Schwerin's extraordinary threat
proceeds and can only be made effect
i've on the assumption that the big rail-
roads are in fact the government Of
the United States or have at least re-
duced that institution to a condition of
subserviency. 1t may very we'll be that
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

When ship owners learn they won't
be allowed to navigate their own ves-
sells into San Pedro harbor they will be
tempted seriously to devise some meth
cd Of carrying around their own fogs
with them in order that there may be
some excuse for piIotage.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

Consolidation. Greater Los Angeles.
Metropolis of the west. All who op-
pose this program are enemies of the
public and traitors to Los Angeles and
to Southern California.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

Mr.. Harper is too expensive luxury
for Los Angeles. We cannot afford to
retain in office a man whose admins
tration might cost Los Angeles large
slice of her aqueduct money.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
SUGGESTS BUILDING LIBRARY
IN PREFERENCE TO A CHURCH

SOUTH PASADENA, Feb. 25.-IEdi-
tor Herald: A philanthropist has
offered $4,000 for a church in AIham-
bra. That neat suburb has churches
aplenty-someone should rather build
library there Above the door Of
every reading room might be written
"Qui legit regit" che who reads,
rules'O. Let all read from the "ample
page rich with the spoils of time" who
wont be revived by obsolete Journalism.
wv
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

Strident voice: Hee haw. Hee haw.
Hee haw.
Sacramento correspondent Hello!
There's one of the anti-consolidation
crowd delivering another speech.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
Health Bulletin

The son-in-law Of John d. Rocl1efel-
Ter was attacked by a man afflicted
with dementia hallucinatoria persecu-
toria. Otherwise he was telling very
Well.-East Liverpool (O.) Review.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

British suffragettes who were mailed
into the house of commons hold the
worlds record for ingenuity in cam
paigning. Now it's up to their Amer
lean sisters and sympathizers to give
Columbia the leadership by inventing
some new form of devilment with
which to poster the tyrant man and
compel him to allow women to rule
him in public as well as in the home.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
The State Press
LeuisIatrix Lafferty

Mrs. A. A. Lafferty, the only woman
member of the Colorado legislature,
has already introduced two bills. the
e1ght-hour day bill and the bill for the
physical examination of public school
children and the care of detectives.
The appointing of a master of discip-
line in towns where there is no juvenile
court is another Of the lady's bills.
She is chairman of the educational
committee and a member Of the COM
mittee on criminal Jurisprudence, state
institutions, enrolment, Denver city
affairs and county lines.-San Jose
Mercury.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
The Public Letter Box

TO C0RREsPONDENTs intended for
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
InfantiIe Speed Mania

A Chicago judge has decided that a
baby carriage must have lighted lamps
if it is pushed on public highways after
dark. This will reduce the terrible
mortality caused by overspeeding the
baby riages.-Redlands Review.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
Bills

There are now $1,000 bliss before
congress. Fortunately they will not all
pass.-Humboldt Standard.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
1t Was

A young man in Porterville found
fruit jar full of some black looking
stun and thought perhaps it was pow
der. So he went out in the back yard
where trash pile was burning, with
a number of persons standing around.
and threw in the jar. That is one of
the surest ways of telling whether or
not powder is powder.-Visalia Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
Progressive PoIaritis

Progressive FoIarItIS
A Norwegian explorer will try to
drift to the north pole in a stanch ship
and Peary will make another tramp
for 1t next summer. If both fail the
aeroplane men ought to be ready for a
polar flight two years hence.-Pomona
Progress.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26
Author S

Andrew Carnegie says he writes for
the love of the thing, while John D.
Rockefeller AYERS that he is impelled
to infiict his "reminiscences on the pub
lie from strong sense of duty. What
do the rest Of us write for? Please do
not answer all at once.-Fresno Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-26

Escondido has announced its ambi-
ton for a state technical school. Santa
Barbara has similar ambitions; and
meantime the state is maintaining a
school of this description at San Luis
Oblspo that has only a small attend
ance.-San Luis Obispo Tribune.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-25
LADY URSULA COLUMBIA THEATER BILL:
MANY NEW FEATURES At RESORTS
This Week At the Parks Next Week
Next Week

Hurbert Henry Davies charming
three-act comedy, Cousin Kate" in
which Ethel Barrymore achieved one of
her most pronounced successes, Is an
nouacod as the attraction 10 follow The
Adventure of Lady Ursula" at the Co
lumbia Theater for the week beginning
Monday, August >.
II is a beautiful comedy On fact, Julia
Dean s idea of what a sprightly comedy
should be, and that charming lttle
woman is delighted that at last Nam
ayers Metzerott and Berger are ablc TO
announce the play for production. Miss
Dean is by no means a stranger to the
part of Cousin Kate having played il
last summer in the stock company at
Hartford, where press and public alike
praised her work IN the highest terms,
and the house was crowded for the
entire week While Cousin Kate is the
star pert her running mate IL equally
as good. and Orme Caldura is certain
ts score heavily in the play, in which
he has also previously attained sue
cess
Nothing will be sighted in the forth
coming production, and Il is the belief
of the management that il Will prove
one of the most popular offerings of
the season.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-25
ABORN OPERA co.
LEAVES CAPITAL
Chorus and Principals viii Scat
ter for Individual En-
gagenents.

The entire Acorn Opera Company,
principals and chorus. LETT Washington
TINS morning at O'Clock over the BaIti-
more and Ohio railroad for New York.
Here are the plans OF the principals
who appeared in The Bohemian Girl
at the National last week:
Miss Blanche Morrison, the prima don
ia. VIII go 10 Newark to sing Maid
Marian in Robin Hood" this week,
later joining her husband. Howard
Chambers, Tor a Broadway production.
Afiss Bradford viii go Immediately to
New York 10 begin rehearsals for THE
Chocolate Girl" a musical adaptation
OF George Bernard Shaw's Arms and
the Man. which Richard Mansfield
first produced in this country.
Phil BransOu. The comedian, WiTf-join
Nine. FRITZ SChen'S company next sea
son 10 appear as the broken-dowu tenor
in THE PriTna Donna q role in which
he appeared last season at the ColUmbia
Theater here.
John r. Phillips, the tenor viii alter
nate with Joseph Sheellau next season
IN the leading roles OF the latter's grand
opera company.
Miss Marjorie Ramey viii be g mem
Der Of De Wolf Hopper's company uext
season, while Miss LENA Duer remains
in Washington for & few weeks prior Il
Joining the cast of a Broken Idol
which opens at the Herald Square
fheater, New York, following the rur
OF The Beauty Spot" Forrest HUI
viii also be In the cast of a Broker
IDOL %