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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
SAYS WOMAN IN POLITICS
SHOULD LEAVEN THE LOAF

Los ANGELES. Aug. 11-[Editor
Herald: Observer seems to feel as
much wrath about the "hen politi-
clans" of Colorado as Ex-Governor
Buchtel manifested in his recent in
temperate utterances on the woman
suffrage question. I voted early and
often in Colorado for four years, and
was not aware women had undertaken
to reform society with their ballot.
The corruption existing in Colorado
politics, the same as elsewhere, is an
expression of the original sin in man.
kind that no civil influence can uproot.
Each one must do that painful work
for himself, from the heart; then cor
ruption will be self-destructiVe. The
only drawback have found to Califor-
MIA Is that women are not full citizens
here-yet.
When consolidation with everything
Los Angeles needs for its future great
ness is accomplished, then the ques-
ton of enfranchisement of three
fourths of the population may get the
right of way.
Women have not succeeded in re-
forming men Of the drink habit, nor
OF the desire to maintain redlight dis
tricts, through church or temperance
society methods; yet the leaven that
is kept rising by the pure minded who
seek. the good of their fellow men is
TIE iuIuSHCe jIldl social or
der and government Should such eff
forts cease because results appear to
be meager?
H A. Buchtel failed as governor be-
cause he catered to the baser class OF
Denver politicians, which turned
against him the woman voters who
elected him. Hence his bitterness OH
the suffrage question. He and his wife
were my schoolnates, and l have re-
ceived full information as to the situa-
ton from Colorado women now visit
ing in the city, who have always voted
Rnd were amused by BuchtePs classi-
fication of woman voters as degraded
1t may be that BuchtePs chances OF
becoming a bishop In his denomination
were frosted by his unreasoning re-
marks, as reasonless as he credits
women with being. How could he un-
derstand the intellectual qualities of
women as we'll as he claims to do ex-
cept through possessing the same rea-
sonless elements in his mental make
up?
I have not known of any of the dis
cord in families over politics that OBJ
server so feelingly portrays, but have
known of It with serious consequences
over religious beliefs.
NV experience as one of them was
that 'Iong-haired hen politicians" con-
sidered the character of candidates for
office as above the claims of party, and
voted for the best men on all of the
tickets which meant a lot of scratch
ing. For myself I enjoyed placing
crosses for character and ability rather
than voting a straight ticket carrying
riff-raff politicians. In fact, the last
blanket sheet 1 voted bore twenty
crosses placed for men whom knew to
be of worthy character.
I think the unfortunate redlight
women have as much right to vote as
the men who make and keep them de-
graded and introduce no more corrup-
tion into politics than the same class of
degraded men.
Perhaps Observer has had lapse of
memory as to the atmosphere generat-
ed by the last recall election in Los
Angeles. MECCA.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
THE MAYOR

MTAYOR ALEXANDER has been
wi complimented by being asked to
-AA become a candidate for re-elec-
tion, and has announced he is willing to
rum, saying he believes he may be Of
some service to the city of Los An
geles and knows that if the people see
fit to re-elect him he will have the sup
port of the large body of our honest and
patriotic citizens in is efforts to do
the right thing. He gives assurance
his sole aim will be to do what is
right.
The mayor in his letter of announce
ment points out the completion of the
aqueduet and the installation of power
plants along the line and the distribu-
tion of power and li-ht to the inhabit-
ants of this city BY THE MUNICH
PALITY, as contemplated and prac-
tically made mandatory in the charter,
will make the administration of public
affairs during the next few years Of
most vital importano>
The harbor history of Los Angeles
will also be epochal. AS the mayor
says. the great harbor which has come
to US through consolidation with San
Pedro and Wilmington must be devel-
oped; and in building it for the free
commerce of the world and preserving
1t to the people, many difficulties will
be encountered. Yes 1t is certain Los
Angeles will need the services of a
mayor of grit and + oGrity, and Mayor
Alexander has shown himself to be that
kind of mayor.
His administration will be remem-
bered not only as the Greater Los An
geles administration, but as an eff
cient, clean, honest, honorable, busi-
ness-like administration; distinguished
for fidelity to duty, for consist
ent Americanism, and for economy,
retrenchment anC reform. Mayor Alex
ander called to office under unusual
and trying circumstances, when he was
subjected to scrl tinv and comment by
many unfriendly critics. who were on
the lookout for flaws and did not want
to see anything else, has acquitted him
self during the trying ordeal in a most
creditable manner, and has made a
record of which any citizen might be
proud. one which has won the admira-
ton of all his friends and we'll wishers,
and all the good citizens of Los An
geles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
OBJECTS TO INTRODUCTION
OF PAY-AS-YoU-ENT CARS

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13.-[Edltor
Herald; If the new kind of street
cars where one pays on entering, to be
given a trial in Los Angeles in the
near future, will keep the gangways
clear and cars from overcrowding they
would remedy two great evils. How
ever these evils will not be renedied
by that innovation. Instead it would
mean going back to stopping at the
farther side of crossing to take on
passengers.
With the uncertainty of the motor
man stopping the car exactly so the
rear steps are at the crosswalk 1t would
mean stepping In the mud where
streets are not paved. Then, too, 1t
might bring back that stopping at
double length beyond crossing in the
business district. That has ruffled
many a man and induced him to say
things otherwise seldom thought. And
to think of the delay fumbling with
the money while your hands may be
occupied. with bundles and possibly
you have only a goldpiece to offer the
conductor while others want to get in
while the way Is blocked. No, Los An
geles' citizens will not stand for a
backward change in car service.
IT RTJTH
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
RIDICULOUS PROPOSITION

NE DO not wish to see the good
w people of Los Angeles stultifed
in order to further the aims of
ticians, therefore we are opposed to
the proposition to hold political party
conventions. The people have shown
by an overwhelming Tia jority vote they
want the primary law and favor the
direct primary principle. Then why
should there be a Republican conven-
ton? Cui bono? What's the good of
it? We know the boss system Will die
hard and realize the agonies of the
S. P. machine as its power is being torn
from It are indescribable. But there is no
reason why the people who have worked
for and won political independence
should make my concessions, especially
such a ridiculous, absurd, extraordi-
nary, grotesque, stupid, paradoxical
concession as convention holding would
be. Do the bosses cherish the delusion
the people would consent to be coached
by machine conventions or to take or
ders from the discredited professional
politicians as to the names to be voted
for at the primaries?
Is even the most sordid political slave
debauched or crazy enough to think
the people would vote at the primaries
for men selected by the machine? That
the people would reduce to an absurd
ity their political independence by al
lowing the same old aggregation OF
talent" in packed convention assem-
bled. to trot out the same old battered
S. P. puppets, with the demand the
people should select them for candi-
dates at the primary elections?' Direct
primaries make party nominating con-
yentions unnecessary and ridiculous.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
CHINESE EXCLUSION

II ESULTS of legislation forbiddine
X the importation of opium and OF
1U anti-gambling legislation show
exclusion of Chinese habits from the
United States will be a most effective
way of excluding the Chinese. Indeed,
there are evidences the Chinese exclu-
sion act would have been unnecessary
il the anti-opium law and laws forbid
ding gambling had been made general
throughout the United States and had
been enforced strictly. The Chinese
cannot exist without his habits. This
is hardly to be wondered at when we
remember his racial tastes were formed
about the time Moses and the Hebrews
were wandering in the wilderness
Chinese civilization is, Of its kind, per-
feet in every detail. and that Is why
China can never become Americanized;
although. mortifying to relate, the
habits of our younger race are not yet
settled, and American civilization could
easily become Chinesed, at least in re-
spect of gambling and opium smoking
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
FILES BRIEF FOR LABoRERS
WHO ARE EXPOSED AT WORK

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12.-TEditor
Herald1: The killing and wounding of
workingmen through the carelessness
of contractors engaged in the work Of
excavating should call forth protest
from every right-minded person. 1t Is
becoming an every day occurrence to
read of some poor laborer buried be-
meath a crumbling wall or caving bank.
The catastrophe on Third street might
have been avoided If proper measures
had been taken to shore up the wall.
No such measures were taken, the soil
underneath being sand, the wall had to
give away.
This naturally makes one ask, "Is 1t,
after all, more a matter of dollars
rather than lives?" 1t seems to me
that something ought to be done for
the protection of these men who by
circumstances are compelled to seek
such hazardous and poorly paid en-
ployment. Laws should be passed re-
ouiring proper snoring and inspection
by competent men. BY so doing the
wanton killing of these poor laborers
will be stopped.
In the meantime careless contrac-
tors and foremen should be prosecuted
and the blame put where 1t belongs.
In the name of humanity, let US raise
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
MOUNTAIN WATER POWER
SHOULD BE FOR THE PEOPLE

PASADENA, Aug. 17.-[Editor Her
add: In the recent -Ballinger
row the often repeated question arose.
What have we left? Our timber is all
gobbled up, coal mines also. even into
the remotest fields of Alaska, and our
water power has gone the same way.
And not satisfied with that, companies
are now going into the forest reserves,
with the aid of government officials,
and reclaiming sections where there are
water falls, and that is not the worst
of it, they are like many public utility
corporations watered all the traffic will
bear.
In one case in Southern California the
gentleman that drew rough sketch of
the mountains and located the falls
which took three days time, received
$50, 900 in bonds, and others were SINH
larly paid, and the beauty of 1t is the
consumer must pay a light or power
rate that will pay interest on the nc
titious bonded Indebtedness besides the
rightful expenses. History is repeating
itself. In an early day the white men
would buy large tracts of land from the
bad Indians for little bad whisky and
a few pieces of silver, and now the bad
Indians are buying back valuable
tracts in the forest reserves OF our OF
ficials for another trifling considera-
ton, and not only are the rates eX-
orbitant, but often the lights are or
poor quality. At one time when the
street lamps were of a turkey red color
DR.. r. ]. Burdette said that he had to
hunt the street lights with lantern
and the people of Pasadena saw the
Joke. The city had a mayor that was
a typical Missourian and OF course ne
wanted the lighting company to snow
him how much light the city was get
ting. and if the city was getting all IL
was paying for, and the lighting com
pany never could show him, and the
result is Pasadena now has mumclpal
lighting plant of her own, generating
with steam electricity at cents per
kilowatt against 1914 cents per kilo-
watt nv water, with the old company,
except in cases where they give nat
ate som etimes as low as $l,Z5 per
month. the meter taken out ana no
questions asked as to amount used' put
these fiat rates are only given Tor
wear ait a time and 1t is hoped by the
company that the city by these tactics
can he driven out of business IN a
wears time, and what will the rate be
then? And In some cases where people
have gone over to the municipal plant
the old company's agent would come
along and hint that there might pe
change in administrative affalrs ana
that YOU had better hurry back to the
old company while you could and one
could hardly help saying: What pity
1t is that the mountain waters OF Can-
fornie were not reserved for the light
inc of her cities? 1.-THE past has taught
it's lesson. the present has its duty
the future has it's hope"
'Put none but Americans on guard
for anv paid hireling or tool of the
corporations or "the system" has no
business in public Office. There Is
little water power left. Let us save II
for the people. CONSfEClO0'
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

he who works, or he who by power of
ownership does not work, have what
the worker produces? If the owner
employs 1000 men at 81 a day and
takes a clean profit, over and above
all expenses. of $4,000 day, such profit
cannot, be honest. The owner should
get only what his work is worth; and
often it is worth nothing.
c. f. is right when he says that it
will put things as they are now upside
down, as Socialism Is the opposite of
capitalism. We are really now stand
ing on our heads.
/ have noticed that C. F. is an indi-
rect believer of the Bible. That is to
say, he believes the Bible says one
thing, but means something else; and
that will keep US guessing. So far he
has not said anything about our money
banks, whose very foundation Is usury.
Moses forbids usury. Also why cap
was only giving us a riddle to guess at.
Will c. F. explain? Also why cap
itaIistic profits-that is to say, profits
made by the losings of others-should
be permitted, Bible or no Bible, as his
Bible is only a book of riddles? Q.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
WINTER COMING
w LILLE WINTER, for many years
W. dramatic critic of the New York
' Tr.iH n live in

" LILLE WINTER, for many years
W. dramatic critic of the New York
" Tribune, may come to live in
California. Mr.. Winter, In spite OF the
lachrymose tendencies which caused
the Philistines TO put the adjective
Weeping" before his name, earned a
national reputation for the keen insight
of his critical work. People who know
Hart Lyman, editor of the Tribune,
cannot help feeling sorrowfully amused
at his naive announcement of the office
Tow which caused Mr.. Winter to quit
the Tribune in a huff. Hart gives us
this painstaking explanation of the un-
pleasantness
Mr.. Winter has resigned entirely of
his own accord, and much to my re-
gret, and I have no reason to expect
that he will reconsider his decision. 1
thought it right to publish a small part
Of the large amount of matter he wrote
for the Sunday Tribune of August 8.
Mr. Winter did not agree with me, and
his resignation followed"
Mr.. Lyman evidently wanted to put
a macintosh over the dramatic page
of the Trib, and Willie wouldn't let
him. Hinc lilac lacrimae.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
WRITES OBJECTION TO
"UsELESs" ORDINANCES

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12-[Editor
Herald: After reading the letter OF M.
IT. Collins, I wish to voice disapproval
of compelling all vehicles to have lamps.
Such a thing is silly. 1t will work a
great hardship and expense on the poor
people. There are being too many USE
less ordinances passed. Another thing
that should not be done that is now
being agitated by those that 1t does not
effect is the doing away with watering
troughs for horses. The horses will
suffer a great deal more from want Of
water than disease. The people should
do everything in their power to prevent
such laws. w. p. WILSON.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
MATRONS NEEDED

w A. GATES, secretary of the
w California board of charities,
W in his address before the
American Prison association, criticised
the treatment of female prisoners in
several of the county jails of Califor-
mia, and recommended the enactment
OF a law compelling the appointment
of a matron in every county jail. Com
mon decency would seem to make the
enactment of such a law imperative,
A county Jail system without matrons
tends to brutalize and degrade female
prisoners, and, as The Herald has in
sisted in previous articles on the sub
ject Of prison reform, the modern pur-
pose of the segregation of criminal is
not revenge, but amendment.
LET US REMIND OUR READERS
OF a SOMEWHAT PECULIAR FACT
WITH REGARD TO THE ENTIRE
PENAL SYSTEM OF MODERN CIV
ILIZATION. IT ASSUMES THAT
MEN, AND MEN ONLY, HAVE A
RIGHT TO PUNISH WOMEN FOR
OFFENSES AGAINST A SOCIETY
COMPOSED OF AS MANY WOMEN
AS MEN!
We confess we sometimes sympa-
thize with the suffragettes, even when
they are boisterous. Men make the
laws, and men punish women for
breaking the laws men make. We cam
not understand how any reasonable
being can fail to see that women have
good grounds for their contention they
are in an enslaved condition. The
treatment of female prisoners is only
one instance of mans inhumanity TO
the subject sex.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
DEFINITION OF NOUN
"PRoFIT" Is IMPORTANT

POMONA, Aug. 10.--[Editor Herald;
I would like to ask c. f. to explain
what he means by profit when he says,
not working for profit can do any
not working for profit can do any
good, since that would be outside prac'
tical politics and would put all things
upside down" The word profit does
not always mean the result of real
useful efforts. 1t is not honest when II
takes where someone else loses all-or
part of the results-of his work. 1T is
Just this profit the fight is over Shall
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

proach, you who know that Christ was
a carpenter?
AS for the agitation against child
labor, it is not at all about those who
have attained sufficient age and
strength to do their share of the
worlds work, but against those others
who are taken from school and home
at an age when mind and body are un-
formed. You rail at us for agltatlng
against child labor, you, who say
there is no excuse for ignorance with
so many schools and churches" Is
there, then, no excuse for these little
children and for these little children
grown up? ADELINE GRACE,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
AT THE THEATERs

AUDITORIUM-Dark.
BELASCO-"A Royal Family"
BURBANK-"Jaek Straw"
GRAND-"The DEVILS Mine"
MASON-"The Climax"
ORPHEUM-EaudeVille.
Los ANGELES-Vaudeville.
UNIQUE-VaudevlIle and musical comedy
FISCHERS-Burlesque.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

That Baker of Baltimore, the inves-
tigator of freight, railroad and steam
ship conditions on the coast, should
have ignored Los Angeles in his report
is the most extraordinary joke that has
been perpetrated on the public since
Hamlet" was produced with the part
of Hamlet omitted.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

The coroner is the las lingering sur
vival of the royal rule of America. The
very word coroner, or "crowner," is a
hideous absurdity in republic. Com
mon sense rebels at thought of this
Georgian survival in the newest part Of
the new world" in A. D. 1909.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

Two night schools for teaching the
principles of citizenship to foreigners
will be opened in Los Angeles. We are
compelled to believe the foreigners will
be taught more than many American
children are taught. How many pub
lie schools have classes in American
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

w A. Bates, secretary of the Cali
fornia board of charities, is heartily in
favor of prison reform. He says coun-
tv iails especially should be made In
struments of good instead of evil. A
penal institution which creates wicked
ness and manufactures crooks certainly
seems to be out of place in our social
economy.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

Plans for systematizing charity work
in Los Angeles have been adopted
Waste will be eliminated by a new
arrangement, and the sphere of char
liable usefulness will be enlarged.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

The supervisors have appointed Ell
dridge's friend, Mr.. DeCamp, right of
way man for the highway commission,
at 5000 per month. Mr.. ] idham said
the members Of the commission could
and should do the work In charge of
the right of way man. But the Solid
Three had the right of way, and rode
down the opposition.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

Billy Loeb is enraged because a New
York trades union paper attacked him.
Mr.. Loeb, as he sighs for the good old
days, realizes uneasy /. the head
that is attached to a public official
who Is a strictly political appointee.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

Gas is being talked Of as a motive
power on men O. war. This will sug-
gest a new sphere of usefulness for
some eloquent congressman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

Mrs. Florence Kelly of New York
vice president of the National suf-
frage association, is on her way to Los
Angeles. Now will we be good?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

Aeroplane races will be held regu-
larly at New York. So the droll flying
contest story has been outdone in real
life. "Meenister," says the dying
Scotch reprobate of the yarn to the
aged preacher when you die will you
have wings?" II hope So" And
when I die, I'm to have wings?" why
yes" Good. I'll fly you a mile for
five enineas"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

The west needs and must have a
federal steamship line, and Greater
Los Angeles must be one Of the prin-
cipal ports of call.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

our voices in behalf Of these men who
excavate cellars, etc. (for they them
selves dare not protest, because they
would lose their jobs), and get justice
and proper protection for these that
literally help build the foundation of
industry. GEORGONES.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
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publication
the
ents but assumes respons
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

TomorrOw-Ameriea in the Philippines
XIX-The New Tariff Law.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

ANILA.-The peace, pros
perlty and preservation of
the Philippines today de-
pends upon the army of
the United States. 1t is.
useless to deny that Amer
loan ru1a In the PhilipDines
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18

On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates. advertising man
ager.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-02-24

tive taxpayer. who foots the bills. 1t
Is showing n disposition TO wander In
whore angels would probably be a bit
cautions about going and upon one Of
these proposed expeditions into
strange territory the Phoenix Repub-
.lican warns the lawmakers as fol-
lows.
we do not want TO say a word that
viii impede the passage Of the wom-
an suffrage bill, but II IL no more
than right hat the members of the
legislature should remember, as We
have before mentioned, that there Is
a difference between the suffraglst
the %suffraeettc,
ours are suffragists. It's proper
that the members should be made
acquainted with this fact in order
that their favorable action IN the
bin should not be inspired by
groundless terrorism. by dread OF an
outbreak In the galleries if the noes
should numerically exceed the ayes.
THE members OF the legislature are
men. but courage has its
limitations.
"on the other hand. now that the
legislature has been officially in
formed that Arizona suffragists are
not s~uffragottes. It does not want 10
get gay and foolhardy in this matter,
and treat tho bill lightly, fol suffra-
gcttcs may dcvclopc from the meek
est and most long suffering of suf-
fragists.
Tho ladies have been trificd with
In this matter by a good many Arl-
zona legislatures. Patience often
under n long strain. gives way to.
pocvishncss, and p%cevishness 70 de-
stroying rage"