Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-07
PREDICTS RISE
OF NEW PARTIES
BARTLETT SEES ISSUE IN
PATERNALISM
SPEAKER TELLS CITY CLUB OF
GROWING CONTENTION
Delegate to Conference Called by
Roosevelt for Discussion of Prob
lem of Dependent Children
Makes Report

Either new political parties are tC
arise or the two largest parties will
| forget their differences of tariff and
currency and adopt new platforms, the
one declaring for federal control anc
the other for states rights, was the
conclusion drawn by Rev. Dana w
Bartlett in his talk before the City
club yesterday.
Rev. Mr.. Bartlett's subject was "Thc
New Political Alignment" and this
alignment, he said, would be for the
states or for the nation. His persona
preference is for national control This
| he designated as the highest ideal
while states rights doctrine, he said
was based on mercenary motives.
| The congress called by Roosevelt fol
inquiry into the matter of dependent
| children was the last tangible evidence
of the growing paternalism of the ma
| tional government, said Mr.. Bartlett
But this paternalism has been growing
all the while. Giving public land fol
homesteading was the beginning of this
growing paternalism," said Rev. Mr.
| Bartlett. Then came the forest re-
| serves, then the plans for the conserve
| ton of the country's natural resources
and now we have an international con-
gress for conservation of resources
planned for The Hague.
To Own Panama Railroad
From the building of the Panama
canal has come the proposition for the
nation to own and operate the Panama
railroad and line of steamships. The
government Is also engaged in the dis
| tribution of population. AS the for
eign emigrants come to Ellis island they
are no longer allowed to shift for them
seles with the result of making New
York more congested than ever. They
IN
the purely American population the
government is also doing much good
with its thirty-one reclamation projects.
In these projects homes are furnished
the people and government experts are
constantly present to teach them the
highest development of the soil.
This all makes for the greatest good
OF the greatest number. This is what
national control means. The states
rights doctrine is based on mercenary
motives 1t is the Individual against
the world. We have had two striking
instances of the greatest good to the
greatest number in Los Angeles. Ono
is our Owens river enterprise. We
took the water from the ranches in the
Owens valley, where 1t was serving
but few, to bring it to Los Angeles,
where it will serve many. The same
is true of the San Pedro harbor. That
we believe should be for the benefit of
all the people and not a few corpora
tons.
1.-THE thought of this new political
alignment that some day will divide
this country was suggested to me by
observations in eastern cities, from
where have just returned after two
months tour of inspection. Every
where I find the city and state and
the nation are taking up the work
that has been carried on by the settle
ments. There are 1856 cities that have
municipal Fairgrounds. These play
grounds are increasing so fast that
there is an element of danger in them.
Need Trained Men
"The danger is that there are not
enough men and women trained to the
work to fill the positions created by
the establishment of these recreation
oenters AS result political hench
men are being appointed to these places
who are in no wise fitted to occupy
them. All through the east find they
are opening the schools for recreation
and education for adults"
On his trip east Rev. Mr. Bartlett
visited New York, Boston, Washington,
Cleveland. Chicago, st. Louis and other
cities. He was in st. Louis when the
saloons were closed three days in sue
cession. This was brought about by
the fact that Democratic primaries
were held on Friday, Republican pri-
maries on Saturday, and they are regu-
larly compelled to close on Sunday.
He declared that these three days the
lid was kept on very tight and as a
result it was estimated $225,000 was
saved to ST. Louis.
julius A. Brown spoke on the
washington Conference for the Care
of Dependent Children, and Its Les
sons" He was participant in the
Washington conference for this pur-
pose called by President Roosevelt last
January.
Report on Conference
Mr.. Browns paper was a report of
the conference and the resolutions
adopted by that body. He gave per-
sonal "reminiscences of President Roose-
velt He showed how little was really
known about the dependent children of
the United States by declaring it was
not even known how many there are.
Statistics show there are $4,000 such
children in the various institutions of
the nation, but no attempt has been
made to find out how many have been
placed in homes and other places not
official in character. This will be reme-
died by a census of these children to
be made soon.
CALIFORNIA; methods of caring for de-
children are not nearly as good
as those of some eastern states, notably
Michigan, declared Mr.. Brown. There
are 1000 such children drawing support
from the state at cost of 100000
every year, while Michigan has but
200 such children in institutions, all
others having been placed in homes.
The cost to Michigan is less than one
tenth the cost to California.
Secretary Henderson read to the club
letters from several members of the
state legislature in which they prom
Used to use their influence to have the
Legislature indorse the movement for
a federal line of steamers on the Pa
cific coast.