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Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
SAYS FRIDAY MORNING CLUB
PLAN AMOUNTS TO NOTHING

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2.-[Editor
Herald: I find it difficult to get words
in which to express the scorn with
which 1 have read the letter you pub
lish this morning signed Educate" be-
ing an alleged answer to Margaret
Mowbray's criticism of the Friday
Morning scholarship scheme. And
Educate and the Friday Morning
club profess to think that they are
going to the root of things! They do
not think; that is the trouble.
Their entire position is that the poor
are poor because they are not educated.
Well, 1 am a typewriter and stenog-
rapher, and 1 have had most
thorough and expensive education in
every way.
Really skilled typewriters can be
bought in this market wholesale any
time for $40 a week. So it it with other
highly skilled lines. Technical educa-
ton has been multiplied indefinitely,
with the result that more and more is
expected of the employe who gives more
and more skilled service to enrich the
employer.
If education along technical lines
could abolish poverty there would be
no such thing as want today, for in
every division of industry the worker
has today an expertness and knowledge
such as was never dreamed of a gener-
alton ago. The men you call unskilled
today, who drop behind in the pro-
cession, would have been regarded as
experts a generation ago.
The trouble is that we are living
under system Of slavery to monopoly,
and you are never going to abolish
slavery by making the slave more use
full to his master. All that does is tc
enrich the master further.
Just as the machine has become more
and more productive, with the result
that the increased profits have all gone
into the pockets of the machine monOp-
olist, so has the human machine, with
all the Improvement in technical educa-
ton that has marked the last genera
tion, become more and more prOduc-
tive to it's employers advantage.
OF course the Friday Morning club
cannot face a stalwart truth such as
that, but a working girl like myself
understands it thoroughly.
WORKING GIRL.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
PLEDGED TO RECALL

M AYOR HARPER'S views on the
N recall question were expressed by
AA him long ago. Perhaps he has
forgotten what he said on the subject.
We refresh his recollection by remind
ing him of his speech of acceptance.
The Democratic platform on which he
was elected contained an unqualified
declaration in favor Of the recall, and
Mayor Harper said he would stick by
it. He is pledged to the recall 1t is
astonishing he should now be found
making any objection to a measure OF
reform which he advocated. Probably
an old New England proverb may be
applied to the situation. 'It all de-
pends on whose OK is gored." Mayor
Harper's attitude toward the recall de-
pends on the identity Of the person
against whom it is to be invoked.
Doubtless if the question Of recalling
any public servant other than Mayor
Harper who had proved unfaithful to
his trust had come up, the mayor would
have remained true to the convictions
expressed by him at an earlier stage
"a AlAS SoAOOAS oI4NS llhC a SOO0 NAlAHCll5
would have indorsed heartily the Amer
icanism represented in the recall, which
Is an additional safeguard Of the lib
critics Of the people, the value of which
has been made plain to us by various
exhibitions of official incompetency
and defiance of public opinion. Since
Mayor Harper has invited Distrust and
Ia. IL
opinion on the subject of the recall
has become modified. Circumstances
alter cases.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
HOLDS INFERENCE is THAT
PEOPLE WILL NOT TRIUMPH

POMONA, Jan. 29.-[Editor Herald:
In replying to my letter It. ]. Pollard
says he has as good claim to the gift
of prophecy as the ancients, whom he
says I swear by. I do not "Swear by
any person or thing. And his claim to
the gift reminds me of one who, with
much pomposity, said: Il can call
spirits from the mighty deep" For
which his companion replied: so can l..
But will they Gomez"
Anyone can prophesy; but will his
predictions come to pass? And Will
say further that Paul made many pre-
dictions which have been fulfilled, and
that constitutes him prophet, whether
he be called so in the Bible or not.
T. J. Pollard says because the people
have been fighting for 1000 years "a
continue until they have accomplished
what they are fighting for, namely,
freedom" AS they have hitherto been
beaten it seems to me to be fairer in
ference that they will continue to lose.
Whether they are. getting nearer their
goal or not is simply a matter of
opinion. I don't think they are.
I am as keenly alive to present evils
as T. J. Pollard, and have as little sym
pathy with much of the broadcloth
aristocracy. The Bible decries class
distinction strongly. "Be not ye called
rabbi said Jesus, "for one is your
master, even Christ, and all ye are
brethren" (Mat 23:8). Peter has fore
told the very conditions which T. J.
Pollard SCOTS at. He says: There
shall be false teachers among you. /.
And through covetousness shall they,
with feigned words, make merchandise
of you.'' Pet. 2:1, 81.
Everything is wrong, and the cure is
not in the ballot, but in the rule Of a
king, who will Judge thy people with
righteousness and thy poor with judg-
ment." Ps. 72:2).
JAMES T. IRWIN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
RECALL MAYOR HARPER

A MOTHER bugaboo has been dis
IN covered by the opponents of the
recall OF Mayor Harper. So far
they have not been successful in their
efforts to throw scare into" the
good citizens of Los Angeles Hints of
dire catastrophe which would follow
the success Of the recall have not
caused any of the signers to repent,
and have not prevented ever increasing
numbers of responsible citizens from
indorsing the petition. But let us look
for a moment at the latest bugaboo.
We are told success of the recall will
make government uncertain and inse-
cure"
Now if our friends would complete
their assertion by pointing out exactly
why good government is uncertain and
insecure government, we should be
under great obligation to them. With
out further and Illuminating explana-
ton they seem to have committed
themselves to a paradox. If good gov
ernment is uncertain and insecure gov
ernment, then how would the anti
recallers characterize the government
OF the United States, which is noted
throughout the world for being both
certain and secure? Are we to
infer that the more uncertain govern
ment is, and the more insecure it is.
the better it is for the nation or COM
munity?
We do not believe anyone interested
in the success of the recall movement
will be scared into any adverse mental
attitude by the bugaboo of uncertainty
and insecurity of government" That
kind of talk does not illustrate and
does not represent Americanism. 1t is
Tory talk. When. the old New England
squires were first viewing with alarm
the efforts of the "'hot headed south
erner," George washington, and the
wild West INDIAN Alexander Hamil-
ton, to bring about a governmental
change which would be for the good of
the people, the old fogeys said Wash
ington, Hamilton and, Paul Jones were
making government uncertain and in
secure. But after the disturbers had
recalled King George and cleaned out
the Tory grafters the prophets of evil
hid their diminished heads and kept
real still'' for the rest of their lives.
National history is about to be repeated
locally in Los Angeles. Mayor Harper
will be recalled. w. D. Stephens, a
candidate whose character abounds in
excellences, will take the field, and
doubtless will succeed "a. c." as mayor
of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
ARGUMENTS AGAINST EQUAL
SUFFRAGE BRANDED ABSURD

ICoLE15ARWATER, Jan. 29.-EEditor
;HeraldI: While reading the article
ouIrage Tor Women Denied hv Law
MAKERS In this mornings Herald I
could not repress a feeling OF disap-
poIntnent' but that Is not nearly SO
lltehse as my dfsguest at the shallow
ness or some Of the arguments adj
Nanced by the opposition.
WI; Perlne says he is opposed to hav-
ing the wives, sisters and daughters
rupplng elbows with depraved women
ana dope fiends, and further saws:
we are all interested in preserving
the purity and sweetness of rnothers
wives and sisters"
Mr.. johnson Of Contra, Costa smoke of
lhe tailure Of woman suffrage in Colo
Tauo, but there is no statement a. To
now and why it is a failure.
L was In Colorado last November and
saw women go with husbands, brothers
@ ana sweethearts to poll their votes.
Ihere can be little rubbing elbows -
as everyone knows each goes into tba
booth alone and quietly marks her ball
Iot' the whole transaction being devoid
OF sensation or excitement The worn-
an has had the privilege of voting for
those who, she thinks, will help make
laws to better the environment of her
sons and daughters. whom she Is try
ing to rear for good citizenship.
Never have I seen women treated
with greater courtesy than in the town
where I happened to be a visitor at
election time. Among the voters were
Whlte-haired women, prominent in
church and social work; women who
mad sent into the world the finest speci-
mems of manhod and womanhood. and
were helping to better the environment
Of other mothers children.
I was told that among the, probably,
500 woman voters there were two uues-
tlonable characters. I was assured by
men prominent in local affairs that
woman suffrage is not failure in
Colorado.
A woman may be subjected to all
KINDS of annoyances while standing in
line waiting to pay her taxes, but is
she excused from taxpaying on that
account?
Consistency is a jewel little affected
by the average lawmaker.
MRS. c.. B. THOMAS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
MILK

TN BUENOS AYRES milk is the pop
ular beverage, with the result
Il that the population consists of d
remarkably fine class of prosperous
and happy citizens. There are nearly
three hundred shops which cater to
the trade of customers who call for
a drink of milk. The milk drinking
habit has added greatly to the pros
perity Of Buenos Ayres, which is said
to be absolutely and literally without
drunkenness and misery" Statistics
prove that in the United States the
habit of milk drinking is declining,
while that of liquor drinking is on the
increase except where laws prohibit
or curb it.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03

It is noteworthy that in recent years
few newspaper writer's have deserted
the journalistic for the novel manu-
featuring field. Incidents of real life,
crowding thick and fast in kaleido-
scopic variety, make the imaginative
resources of any professional writer by
comparison cheap and scanty. Truth
is not only stranger than fiction, but,
when it is as we'll told as it is in
columns of newspapers like the New
York Sun, the New York Press and Los
Angeles Herald, is more readable and
entertaining.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03

According to a contemporary, "Keir
Hardie, leader Of the Labor party in
the house of commons, is one of the
greatest voices for labor and Social
ism that England has produced This
statement is correct in every particu-
lar excepting one. England did not
produce Keir Hardie. He is a west of
Scotland man, and at one time was
editor of the Cumnock News in Ayr
shire, the land of Burns. Hardie, of
course, is free from race or national
prejudice. At the same time he would
not feel f1attered if he knew the Amer
lean papers were calling him English.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03

Senator Perkins says until the pub
lication Of the Bristow letter and the
matter was made the basis of a motion
at Sacramento he never heard of any
project of a government steamship line
between California and Panama. OBJ
viously Senator Perkins would find it to
his advantage to cultivate the ac-
quaintanceship of a few Of the bright
newspaper correspondents at Washing
ton. 1t would be we'll worth his while
to join the gay Gridironers, and get
himself posted as to what is going on
in the world, and especially in that por-
ton Of it called California.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
WOULD HOLD PARENTS LIABLE
FOR THEIR CHlLDREN'S SINS

SAWTELLE, Jan. 3O.-[Editor Her
add: I notice that the legislature ef
Colorado will pass a bill holding par
ents responsible for the conduct Of
children. If the Legislature of Califor-
mia would pass an act of that kind in
this state one-half of the crime would
be prevented.
In SaWtelle hundreds of parents en-
courage their children in stealing, and
some of them punish them if they don't
steal everything they can get hold of.
The Soldiers home is one of their
principal places for stealing. They
think they have just as good a right
to steal from Uncle Sam as any one
else.
obliged to fence the home in order to
keep thieving soldiers in the home and
thieving civilians out.
c.. w. PRATT.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
NAvY'S PROGRESS

~ IBRALTAR ROCK must be shaken
tT to its base Never in it's pheno-
" menal history Of war and peace
has anything happened to match the
fact that one Of the captains Of the
visiting American fleet is to be court
martialed because while on shore leave
his legs showed symptoms of being
wabbly and unseaworthy, British booze
having undermined them.
Shades Of Rodney, Drake, Nelson,
Jones and Farragut! If excessive in
dulgence in shore leave Cor the con-
comitants Of shore leave) had been a
punishable offense in your time you
would have been kept busy court-mar-
tialing and would not have had a
chance to fight. Still, it cannot be de-
MED the Gibraltar court-martial is a
striking sign of improvement and re-
form.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-"LittI Red Riding Hood
MASON-"Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbags
Patch"
BELASCO-"The Girl of the Golden West
MAJESTIC-"The House of Bondage"
BURBANK-''The Spoilers"
ORPHEUM-VaudeviIIe.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-"Tar and Tartar
Los ANGELES-VaudevilIe.
FISCHER'S-"The King of Patagonia"
EMPIRE-VaudevilIe
UNIQUE-"Paquita Down to Date"
WALKER-Vaudeville.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
He's Sending Them

President Roosevelt, addressing
Methodist. gathering in Washington,
mentioned that it was the last public
speech he would deliver as president.
However, there is nothing in this an
nouncement to prevent him from send
ing messages to congress from time to
time as circumstances may seem to re-
quire during the next forty days
Kansas City Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03

A four-mile belt in which liquor
sellers will not be permitted to do bust
ness will be maintained while aqueduct
construction is in progress. The super
visors are to be congratulated on their
consideration for the public and the
aqueduct workers. There is no reason
why water should be brought to Los
Angeles over q whisky route
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
Far and Wide
AbruzzaI Rumor

1t is said that the duke of the Abruzzi
has decided to resign from the navy
and to renounce all honors that he may
be free to marry Miss Katherine Elk
ins-but the king has refused to accept
the resignation. This may force the
duke to do something desperate, al
though it is not believed he will actual
ly go to work.-Seattle Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
Wall Street sneers

who thought of marching on Washing
ton to protest against the freight rate
uplift, which will take $4,000, 900 to $780,
100000 from their pockets, haven't even
started. Possibly the stony-hearted Mr..
Hartman wouldn't give them free
ransportation.-Wall Street Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03

Bank clearings for Los Angeles are show
ing the largest totals on record. That
doesn't look like business disturbance
caused by recall proceedings" Let the
peevers peeve in the same old, old peevish
way. Los Angeles, clean and self-respecting,
will go marching on.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
Federal Exnenditures

Senator Hale of Maine deserves a
credit mark for sounding note of
alarm over the increase of federal ex-
penditure And when he refers to the
military and naval establishments Of
the nation he unquestionab1y locates
the chief responsibility for this situa-
tion.-Springfield Republican.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03

Hordes of hoboes visit Los Angeles
each winter, says Captain Flammer.
We don't doubt it, but again there is
suggested the oft-asked question, What
makes hoboes? Who or what is re-
sponsible for them? When does a man
begin to be hobo? And why?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03

We must have Good Government in Los
Angeles. The business interests of Los An
geles demand it. We cannot have Good
Government without good officials. Do men
gather grapes of thOrns, or figs of thistles !?
Recall Mayor Harper.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
Washinqtonians

Only six members Of the present leg
islature are native sons of the Ever
green State. The fact indicates the
rapidity with which the state is being
populated by eastern people as well as
the youthfulness Of the state.-Tacoma
Ledger.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
Passinu Stranoe

According to the testimony of James
r. Keene, his son-in-law has cost him
$4,000,0O0. and the funny part of it is
that his son-in-law is an American
Omaha Bee
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03

A real business man for mayor of
Los Angeles! Think of the benefit that
would be brought to Los Angeles by the
election Of Mr.. Stephens.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03

RECALL MAYOR HARPER AND RE
CALL HONOR, HONESTY AND ABILITY
TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE AT
FAIRS OF Los ANGELES.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
Lincoln chestnuts

AS you read the many alleged new
Lincoln stories that will soon be told
you'll wonder where you heard them
before.-Toledo Blade.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
The Public Letter Box

intended
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-22
WILL bU|lO AN OIL MILL
MEETING HELD AT WHITAkFRS,
WHERE 1T WILL BE LOCAT-
ED-ROCKY Mt. RIFLES.

Especial to News and Observer
Rocky Mount, June 17.-At Whita-
ke-s yesterday there was organized,
and the stock subscribed for an oil
mill Of twenty ton daily capacity. The
promotion Of the stock company,
which will be capitalized at twenty
five thousand dollars, was by Mr..
Archibald Melgrom, who was instru-
mental in securing an oil mill for
Zebulon and Jackson. h stock TO
make the venture an assured fact,
was subscribed at the meeting yesteT-
day afternoon and the board of direct
ors elected are casting around for a
suitable location for the mill. This
plant will speak well for the progress
and, hustle of our nea neighbOr 10
the north.
Or. L. C. Covington, who has held
the position Of second lieutenant. Of
the Rocky Mount Rifles, was elected
while. his vacancy was filled by the
election Of Mr., A. Clint Smith. The
company is in &. prosperous condition.
Arrangements are now being perfect
ed and drills held preparatory 10 60
ing into camp at Morehead City On
Thursday, July 8. This is one Of the
youngest companies in the State, but
there is no fear that they will not
make a showing most creditable.
The remains of Mr.. J. S. Sykes were
routed through this city this morning
from Marion. s. c., to Spring Hope,
where they are to be inferred this af-
ternoon. Mr.. Sykes was formerly in
the lumber business at. Spring Hope,
but for the past several months has
been at work at Marion. The deCeas-
ed was thirty-nine years old.
Work was begun yesterday on III
erection OF q new residence for NT.
r. A. Fell.
In order to increase the comfOrt q
the patrons on the Norfolk and "
mlngton passenger trains through this
city which are Nos. IS and 40, the
atlantic Coast Line has i~naugurat"d
a parlor a service on these trains
effective today.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-22

This, when sifted down, proved 10 be
the small company Of men and wo-
men who have since arrived from
England to organize a Salvation Ar
my movement in Korea.
Koreans Must Stay at Home.
Notwithstanding this feeling many
Koreans would now like to go to
America, and they bitterly resent the
provisions Of the Japanese which pre-
vent their leaving the country. They
are not allowed to sail for the United
States from any Of the Korean ports,
and if they should go to China. they
would be kept from sailing to America
via Shanghai. Some of the peopls
wan to go just because they cannot
One such came to one of our mission
aries the other day mo asked him to
arrange some way for him to get out
Of the country. He said: 1T is the
strangest thing hat I never wanted
to visit America before, but now that
] cannot so, l am crazy to go"
believe this policy is a mistake on
the part Of the Japanese. They
should allow the Koreans to go
where they please and tell them that
they will aid them in getting away.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-22
THE EMP YOUNG LEAGUE
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER

and they are merely guerrillas. At
first they were largely composed OF
patriots who had sworn to die for their
country. They are now made up OF
the dissatisfied of all sorts. Many OF
them are ex-sOldiers Of the Korean
army, which was d~isbanded by the
japanese at the time when they de-
posed the old emperor and put his
son in his place. They have no mon
ey. and live on the villages. This fact
puts the ~peace-loving Korean between
h devil and deep sea. When a
band Of rebels comes to him and de-
mands money or food he replies that
he dare not give it, for the japanese
soldiers will shoot him as soon as
they learn he has helped the insur-
gents. Thereupon the rebels reply:
We'll, if you don't give us what we
want we will kill you right now. If
o give up, you have at any rate the
chance of living a day or to longer.
Otherwise you will die" The rebels
mean what they say, and the villagers
know it. They give, M in many
cases are actually slaughtered by the
japanese soldiers for giving. Indeed. |
am told that many of the sO-called
insurgents whose deaths are reported
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-22

in the newspapers are members of VIII
lagos who have thus fOrcibly been
made to harbor insurgents.
The Soldiers and the Christians.
The soldiers are instructed to put
down the insurgents, and they have
trouble in finding out who the insur-
gents are. The native Christians are
generally neutral, but the soldiers sus-
pect them. Not long ago they sur
rounded a church far, off in the in
terror. where three hundred people
were wOrshipping. The officer in
structed the pastor to go on with his
deNOtlonS, but as soon as church was
over he cOrralled the members as they
came out and asked their names. AS
he did so he looked over g list of he
suspect in the neighborhood and
checked the names off. At the close
he let them all go. He said these
people are all Christians and must
not be mOlested.
Another church was less mercifully
treated. the soldiers stopping the con-
gregation n tearing up the hymn
books. What pro@vocation they had i
do not know.
From a large army like this, scat
tered in small bands over the coun-
try, away from their officers, there
are bound to be outrages now and
then One small officer, for instance,
upon being told not to tie his horse
IL Xix L II L DcCduSe II "OuIO
eat the trees cursed the sexton and
cut him over the head with his sword.
This was reported by the missionaries
and the man was degraded.
| have met foreigners who have
claimed that they were badly treated
by soldiers by whom they were stop
ped When travelling over the coun-
try. One such case was that Of Mr..
A. r. Weigall, an Australian mining
engineer, who had his wife with him.
The soldiers ~insulted the latter and
Weigall narrowly escaped being shot
The treatment of Mrs. Weigall was
~barbarOus. The Japanese excuse this.
however, by saying that Weigall re-
fused to give information about him.
self to h soldiers. When they asked
him TO- old he was he said, Zone
hundred and ten," and he claimed hat
his name was King Edward the Sixth
and that he lived in Buckingham pal
ace. Similar answers given to a COM
pany of our troops in the PHILIPPINES
Would not lead to good treatment. al
though none of them would ommit
the barbarity and indecencies per-
formed by this Japanese squad.
Koreans Against Koreans.
1t is also claimed that a great deal
of the fighting is a matter of private
warfare between the Koreans. There
are no end of feuds among these peo-
ME. and the average native will do
anNthlng TO firing about the death Of
those against whom he has a per-
Sonal. grrdge. The Japanese do not
understand the Korean language and
-hey have to rely upon the natives as
sAitS ana interpreters. Such mon