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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-09

Sohud IoCHe, II. II. Bradford, II. Ia.
Hughes.
Literature: Rev. M. Rowena Morse,
Miss Lena Haskins, VIM. Aldrich
Music: Mrs. j. M. Furlong, e. Diver,
George Hassall Jr.
Publicity: Lee Mitchell, Edward F.
Carter.
Veterinary: Dr. O. w. Rowe.
Auditing: Mrs. H. o. Whitney, Mrs
H. C. Hodge
The Membership
The membership of the society is
not complete yet There are about
one hundred names now on the list
and the membership committee ex-
poets to get several hundred more
within the next few days. The fee is
81 per year and If the society becomes
affiliated with the national organiza-
ton, each member will be also mem
Der of the national society. At the
meeting held at the opera house quite
a number signed for membership and
others have been secured since and
a large number secured by Mrs Rood
during her stay in the city.
The lists of members are scattered
and the complete and correct list is
not available at present. The follow
ing membership list, comprising but
few names, was filed at the meet.
ing last evening:
! George E. Rix, Rev. Geo. c. Will
liams, E. E. Hawkes., E. S. Baker, c.
r. Joy, l.. A. Hamill, Burt Wilkinson,
J. b. We'll, d. l.. Hughes, Ira w. Wills
H. G. Brown, E. M. Majors, Sam
Younker, Dr. g. Walter Barr, DIR.
S. w. Moorhead, A. e. Matless, W. J.
Roberts, T. F. McGrath, Theo. A.
Craig, D. A. Collier, B B. Hobbs, T. j
Hickey, DR.. F. B. Dorsey, j. Cal Hag-
ny, Jno A. Dunlap, Harry Bradford
I H. E. Alton, Ralph B. Smith, Chas
Forman DR.. " w. Holmes, George
Hassall. Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. George S. Tucker, Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Diver. Mr.. and Mrs. ]
r. Elder Mr.. and Mrs. G. Collingwood
Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Heller.
/ Misses M Rowena Morse, Marion
Becker, Beth Miller, Gonna Roche
Helen Bradford.
Mrs. Sarah Gramm, Mrs. A. SellDer
Mrs. M. L. Gillfrey, Mrs. Carroll Ste
vens.
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-09

How to cure constipation, sick head
ache, sour stomach, torpid liver. indi-
gestionP and dyspepsia: Go to- your
druggist and get a 50-cent or 81 bot
lie of DIR. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-09

II there is anything about
your ailment that you don't
understand, or II you want
any medical advice, write
to the doctor, and he will
answer you fully. There is
no charge for this service.
The address is DR.. w. B.
Caldwell, sos Caldwell bldg.
Monticello, Ill.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-09
Best Stomach
Remedy Free

1t is an old saying that if the stom-
ach is sound the whole body is safe,
because so much depends upon the
proper working of the stomach. Many
persons find themselves with a dis
order of the stomach which pro-
duces dyspepsia or peculiar state of
bilousness.
II you suffer from both stomach trouble
very serious disease. From Just such con-
ditions come appendicitis, rheumatism,
skin diseases and similar disorders, be-
cause the waste matter that should have
been. dispelled from the system through
the bowels has found its way into the
blood and vitiated it, What is needed at
this point is not simply violent cathartic
tablet or salt, which usually does more
aarm than good, but a gentle laxative
tonic like DR.. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin,
which people have been using for these
ailments for nearly a quarter of CEN
tury. 1t cured j. c. Lanham, of War
rensburg, Mo- of stomach trouble of long
standing, also William Voll of 9o3 Ellis
trouble for fifteen years
However, if you have stomach trouble
ence what DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin
to the doctor and free trial bottle will
be sent you. You are urged to send for
the free bottle, as the results from it win
be the best recommendation OF DR.. Cald-
over two million people did last year-go
to your druggist and buy a regular bottle
at so cents or 81. according to the size
you prefer. We could mention hundreds
and hundreds of families who are never
without it.. You can never tell when some
member of the family viii need laxa-
tive and then no time should be lost
taking DIR. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28
WONDERS AT PECULIAR BRAND
OF "PURE CHRISTIANITY"

LOS ANGELES, July 26.-[Editor
Herald: How much better The Her
AIDS LetterBox would be if it were
cpen only to pure-minded Christian
men and women" Thus eXclaims q
recent writer, who proceeds to prove
how pure-minded and Christian she is
by advocating capital punishment, and
condemning all who are either trying
tC remedy the evil conditions that exist
in our penitentiaries, or to remove some
of the great causes of crime that mako
so many prisons necessary.
Now / wish to deny several of the
statements made in this letter. In the
first place, I have never. defended the
raising and using of tobacco. In the
second place, I have never written any
'anarchistic" letters. But perhaps she
considers my appeal for the abolition of
child slavery was anarchistic and lack
ing in christian" virtue! In the third
place, l maintain that capital punish
ment is unchristian. Thou shalt not
kill" and if it is wrong for me to kill
Jones, it is equally wrong for the state
to kill me in order to get even. / con-
slider capital punishment as nothing
more than legalized murder, and a relic
of barbarism, the perpetuation of which
must have a, tendency to brutalize tho
nation and render crime still more
common. AS for the assertion that
prison officials must of necessity be
"great strong, good men because they
hold political positions"-but what IS
the use? To have an argument with a
person who holds such ideas is surely a
waste of energy. 1t Is surely fortunate
for The Herald's many readers that
the Letter Box Is not closed TO all VINO
fail to exhibit this writer's peculiar
" w w. SCOTT LEWIS.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28
PROSPERITY.

w ILMINGTON and San Pedro IN
wv union with Los Angeles will
w come into an inheritance of
greater prosperity than they have ever
before enjoyed, and the general effect
of consolidation on Los Angeles as well
as on the other cities will be inspiring.
Southern California will share the pros
perity which will come with cOnsolida-
ton
1t will be hard work for the anti
consolidationists to persuade the en-
lightened citizens OF " Imington, san
Pedro and Los Angeles to vote down
prosperity. 1t will be hard work to
persuade intelligent citizens to refuse
to create conditions which will make
good times better times. Hard Work?'
It will be impossible! The opposition
to consolidation is wasting time, money
energy on plans and preparations
which cannot stop the great consolida-
ton movement. Corporations servants
and agents and pee-wee publishers
should not jeopardize beyond repair
their reputation for common sense.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28
MAYORS MESSAGE.

MAYOR ALEXANDER'S message
wi is as remarkable for sagacity as
A'A for brevity. 1t is business like
and to the point and will add to the
favorable impression the mayor has
created by his clear-headed grasp of
the duties of his Office and his evident
desire to administer affairs conscien-
tiously, for the greatest good Of the
greatest number
His recommendations are founded on
the fact the next few years in the his
tory of Los Angeles will be epoch MAX
ing therefore it is of the utmost i'm
portance that every incidental detail of
business connected with the citys well
fare should be attended to scrupuously.
The mayor strikes popular chords when
he calls attention to the necessity for a
new charter one that viii fulfill every
need of a great metropolis; suggests a
utilities commission, and asks for more
policemen, in order that the law may
he enforced The mayors message, in
short, calls for the metropolitanization
of Los Angeles, and reflects the city s
progress and the necessities created by
that progress.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28
NOT ENOUGH TO BE "GooD;"
HHE GOOD FOR SOMETHING

LOS ANGELES, July 24.-[Editor
Herald: The letter signed Mary
Magdalene in Saturdays issue protests
against equal rights of the sexes along
the lines of morality.
That writer would unblushlngly give
rights to men which she would with
hold to women. Such rights are not
exercised by man and could not be eX-
ercised by him without wronging some
poor woman. Analyze the position: A
man and woman, both equally guilty Of
an immoral act; we stone the woman
and clear the man. We condemn the
woman to social ostracism, forbid her
association with her fellow beings on
equal terms-almost on any terms
and condemn her to a life of tribula-
ton, while the man passing free is en-
couraged to continue his career and
lead other women to like fates.
More than this, such judgments on
the part of society has condemned
women and forced them into lives of
ignominy, from which there is no es-
cape, and through which they are
themselves destroyed and the remain
der of society injured. In fact this Is
the memorable result of two standards
of morals.
Yes but this Mary Magdalene says II
is necessary that we may not drag
woman down to the level of man.
(The average man is blissfully uncon-
scious of this low level) But writers
like the one In question would go far
to keep woman virtuous; part OF
womanhood Is meant, of course, for
what would become of the special
rights of man if all women were SO
properly cherished? Now, in all fair
ness, is it a virtue in a part of woman
kind to permit the shame and degrade
ton Of their sisters for fault which
they condone in men? 1t is not, and
they cannot wash their hands of the
guilt by prating of their own purity
The real virtue is that which guards
every other woman's right to be Yir-
tuous.
1t is not enough that a woman be
good" she should be good for some
thing" And in the light of any true
ethical standard no woman is good for
much who does not hold up a high
standard for both women and men. OF
course a large measure of charity and
sympathy is needed, but if difference
in judgment there be it should by all
means be in favor of the woman. Re
member, nature Furnishes her severely
perhaps enough.
In conclusion l have very grave
doubts that the letter in question was
ever written by a woman. 1t certain
ly was not written by Mary Magda-
lene. The Magdalenes know. They have
had the facts forced on them deeply
and bitterly that the invidious judg-
ment by which society blames them
and clears men is one of the most pO-
tent forces in condemning them to
their frightful fates. A. II. ID.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28
GREATER LOS ANGELES

NE UGH greater than any corpora
1N tion's interests possibly can be
ALA are the interests of the people IN
San Pedro harbor. Yet sby the Jug
glery which corporationism would fam
make a permanent feature of harbor
city life, the city has been deriving a
revenue altogether disproportionate to
the governments expenditures and to
the revenue of the corporations.
Against the corporations expenditure
of $751;, 900 for wharves and improve
government has expended some $4,-
100000. But the citys revenue from
the harbor is only S4120, while the cor
porations have derived a revenue of
5000, 900, of which $4S5,O0O is net. OF
the $4120 revenue which comes to the
people of San Pedro, $4,000 is paid to
a San Pedro newspaper, the anti-con-
solfdation News, which is fighting and
squealing against consolidation like a
wharf rat in a pit The city's profit
from the harbor is-$SO0! The anti-con-
solidation corporations hirelings and
mercenaries would not be human If
they were to follow any other course
than the one they are pursuing. We
would think the millennium was at
hand if we heard any business to which
ar anti-consolidation attitude means
subsistence had had a spasm Of con-
scientiousness and had changed front
The same remark applies to the liquor
interest The saloon men and wharf
rat newspaper men would be advocat-
ing their own suppression if they were
to advocate consolidation. We should
never forget that TO certain elements
in the vicinity Of the harbor Greater
Los Angeles means less graft. We can
not expect to gather grapes of thorns
figs of thistles, or Greater Los Angeles
sentiments from the upas growth
@ labeled Graft and Booze.
The opposition to consolidation is
condemned by the occupations or the
servile condition of the leading oppo-
nents. Responsibility, good citizenship
Independent government and prosper
itv are all in the ranks Of the forces
that will put Greater Los Angeles or
the map and make it the maritime
metropolis of the west
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28
WANTS WORLD GOOD ENOUGH
FOR EVERYBODY TO LIVE IN

PASADENA, July 26.-[Editor Her
add: Under present conditions the
world is good enough for any one to
die in, but what we want Is world
good enough for all to live in. For 1873
years we have been doing business on
the half-shell plan-that is, leaving the
women out. The preamble of our con-
stitution begins with 1--WE, the people, ,
etc. If women are really people and
the lawmakers of the world ever real
lie the fact, then women will be al
lowed to vote But they are not wait
ing mans aid, and it is only matter
of time when they will gain equal sur
frage.
We owe what liberty we have 10
woman; this woman was Joan of Arc.
Foreigners come, remain here a -ew
years, are naturalized and vote for
measures of which they know but lit
tie. But our women, who are educat-
ed, who teach our children, who prac-
tice law and medicine through the
country and know the needs and ma
tional conditions as we'll as men, are
not allowed this privilege.
An eastern man said that women
would not know how to carry on con-
gressional duties. No; Joan of Arc
never had led an army either, but
when the time came she made old Eng
land howl and freed France.
Some soothsayers say that women
will not care to vote when they are
granted rights. Probably not, for by
the time they accomplish results the
powers of the world will make conces-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28
COWARDLY VIOLENCE.

m HE Western Federation of Miners
is not to blame because Albert
r Ryan is a federation man. We
deprecate all attempts to emphasize the
fact this homicidal coward is an Of
fetal or agent of the federation. That
proves nothing against the federation.
He is also an American citizen. From
time to time some American citizen is
hanged by the neck until he is dead
Sometimes an American citizen is sen;
to states prison, and occasionally we
find one on the rock pile. That is not
a reflection on American citizenship
and cannot reasonably or logically be
used as an argument against it. The
very idea that it could be used in a
way derogatory to citizenship of our
great republic is absurd. Then why
use the federation membership of a
reckless fool armed with revolver as
an argument against the federation or
as a reflection upon it? Ryan's connec-
ton with the Federation of Miners had
vivialities and excitements of Elks
week caused him to go on a furious
spree which ended in a murderous
frenzy. 1t would be more sensible to
blame Elks' week.
And yet why blame anything or any
body but the man Ryan, and society
which permitted him to get bowling
drunk, arm himself with a murderous
weapon and run amok? Society per-
mits people to buy poisonous liquor by
the gallon and to purchase deadly
weapons by the gross. Murder by
poison and murder by violence are both
for sale in open market. Any man with
latent criminal instincts can buy crime
developers in Los Angeles or any great
city-booze at one street corner and
guns, pistols, daggers and poisons al
the next.
Considering one thing with another
it is a wonder society is as orderly as
it is. If Los Angeles and California
and other great cities and great states
would make il more difficult for one
human being to kill others, murder
would not be as common as it is. 1t is
much easier to kill a man with a
weapon than to punch him up" in q
fist fight There is a premium or
cowardice. Dutch courage is for sale
in the grog shops, and the weapons Of
the coward, the sneak, the crawling
loathsome assassin are for sale in the
gun shops.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28
THE sQUANDERERs.

n UR worthy councilmen cavalierly
ordered the mayors charges
" against the tax collector filed.
This lordly manner of disposing OF
matter of intense interest and import
ance of course did not dispose of it.
The citizens of Los Angeles will not
accept the action of the council as a
conclusive verdict on the case of the
tax collectors department. Charges
made by the mayor against the tax
collectors office were substantiated at
a hearing before the city council. 1t
has been shown the tax collectors office
was conducted in way contrary to the
ordinances prescribing the manner in
which it should be conducted, that
licenses remained unsolicited and en-
ployes of the tax collector actually OPP
posed the efforts of the police depart
ment to enforce the ordinances.
Although the council cannot plead
ignorance of conditions, inasmuch as 1t
has full knowledge of them, and al
though repeated charges of irregulari-
ties have been made, the council sup
plemented a policy of three years pro-
lection TO the tax collectors office with
the sequel of accepting a compromise
ordinance, which does not accomplish
the results it pretends to accomplish
cannot produce an improvement in con-
ditions and is obviously an attempt to
shield the office complained of from the
consequences of the causes of COM
plant.
From the councilmen's point of view
it may be all right to squander the
peoples money on salaries paid for use
less positions occupied by taXophagists
But the >councilmen should not forget
there is a day of reckoning coming,
when they will be asked to give an ac-
counting and the good people of Los
Angeles can breathe a sigh of relief
when they think the squanderers are
not perpetual. office holders, and that
they may be replaced by faithful and
lust public stewards, devoted to the
public interests, scrupulously careful
Of the public welfare and as jealousy
provident and economical in the hand
ling and distribution of the public s
money as if it were their own. The
mayors action with view to a reform
of the tax collectors office was made
in good faith, and in that spirit of con-
scientious regard for public interests
and the public welfare which charac-
terizes Mayor Alexanders official policy
and conduct. The city council has not
whitewashed the tax collectors depart
ment. 1t has merely added new COM
plication to a situation already so COM
pick the friends of good government
will take a hand in Strengthening it out.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28
COMMON SENSE.

| TN WO points of view, presented and
represented by Messrs. Pridham
Il and Eldridge, command the en-
tire supervisorial situation. Mr.. Ed
ridges attitude is embodied in his re-
solution: Il move that there be nc
more meetings between this board and
the Advisory committee" Mr.. Prld-
ham, on the other hand, says: Let
us face this matter like HONORABLE
MEN. We are here representing the
people. They expect us to spend this
money HONESTLY AND JUDICI-
OUSLY."
I'VE did agree to advise and confer
with the advisory committee, and the
more we can advise with it the better
will be the expenditure. Had the
supervisors not agreed to advise with
the committee we should have had a
majority against us at the Good Roads
Bonds election. We will not stultify
ourselves by advising with the COM
mittee; and If the members fail to
agree with us, WE SHALL AT LEAST
HAVE SHOWN GOOD FAITH. If
we make promises we should live up to
them"
This of course is the right view to
take, and why it should be possible
for any honest, decent man to take any
other view would provide matter for
analytical study for psychologists. We
do not know a scientific name for the
mental abnormality indicated by the
remarkable inconsistency between sup
ervisorial promise and performance
But it is a lapsus of some kind. That
much is evident.
Neglecting, however, the scientific
aspect of the case, let us seek plain
everyday business analogy. If a big
firm, engaged in business of moment
Gus importance, should engage super
intendents to take charge of the de-
velopment of a certain branch of the
business on policies predetermined by
the firm, and if the superintendent
should refuse to carry out said policies
and substitute their own policies
which would rebound to their self-in-
terest rather than to the interest OF
the firm, would not the firm promptly
accuse the faithless superintendent OF
| breach of trust, and would it not dis
charge them before they had any
further opportunity of conducting
themselves in a manner contrary to
the firms policies, detrimental to the
firms interests, and calculated even to
arouse suspicious that the faithless sup
| erintendents might be receiving sub
sides from interests which by corrupt
ing its servants might exploit the firm
and derive profit and benefit from the
| exploitation?
No responsible firm would tolerate
the official conduct of superintendent
who sturdily refused to carry out the
firms policies, or to advise with the
consulting lawyers retained by the
firm.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28
ASKS WHAT RELIGION
WILL PURIFY THE PURE

LOS ANGELES, July 24.-[Editor
Herald: AS a novice in history we
feel that whatever else may be at fault,
our own party, sect and country are
and have ever been infallible. We will
not have gone far till our minds are
disabused.
We will experience a moral shock to
find that the cherished Is no longer
true. Beyond this, our minds begin to
clear and our agitated nature reels no
further alarm,
The evolution of humanity seems to
be the only process which has been re-
sisted by universal nature, not by the
blind laws of nature, but by the artl-
fetal restraints of everything that
thinks.
Instead of advocating abrogation and
humiliation, was merely pointing out
what was true of the past and now e.
f. can in any way hold me responsible
am unable to say.
Morality is the quality of being moral,
or practice of moral duties, or just
plain virtue. The reverse of morality
is immortality. If morality Is the art
Of being pure, how can religion purify
that which is already pure?
If ii is possible, what religion is best?
The Hebrews divided their sacred books
into three parts, the law, the prophets
and the scriptures which one of these
could possibly purify virtue?
1t seems that Jesus opposed these
laws He recognized only the religion
of the heart, while the old religion con-
sisted almost exclusively in observ-
ances
Disputes broke out, especially respect
ing a number of external practices in
troduced by tradition, which neither
Jesus nor his disciples observed.
In his last pilgrimage to Jerusalem
we find his conversations which, for
merly so full of charm, now became a
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28

sions so fast that their vote will not
be necessary. A large number OF Tor
eigners come here because the law
makes our dollar worth more than
their own. The Huns and Slavs work
In our mines, help each other, save a
large share of their earnings and re-
turn to the old country, where our dol
lar is worth about $3.50 in their money.
When we, If ever establish universal
standard of coinage free trade ditto,
cut stock gambling through thu Liver
pool and Wall street route, which Is
controlled by the blooming Henglish
CAPITAL. the foreigner will remain at
home and our Americans of wealth
will build castles here instead OF
abroad. u. X. LUNA
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times know the people "mean bust
ness" The members of the house of
lords soon will have an opportunity to
take a long vacation from legislating.
The hereditary peers are to be con-
graduated on this prospect. 1t will
give them chance to recuperate from
the mental fatigue with which they
are afflicted.