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Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
ON A DOGS INTELLIGENCE

Dear dog. that seems to stand and gravely
brood
Upon the broad veranda of our home,
With soulful eyes that gaze into the
gloam,
With speaking tail that registers thy mood,
Men say thou hast ratiocination-
Methinks there is clever imitation.
Men say again thy kindred have no souls,
And sin is but an attribute of man;
Say, is it chance alone that bids thee,
then,
Choose only garden spots for digging holes ?
Why dost thou flch some fragment Of the
cooking
At times when no one seemeth to be
looking?
Was there an early Adam of thy race,
And brindled Eve, the mother Of thy
house,
Who shared some purloined chicken with
her spouse,
Thus causing all thy tribe to fall from
If fleas dwelt in the garden of that Adam
Perhaps thy sinless parents never had 'em.
This morn thou cam st a-slinking through
the door,
Avoiding eyes, and some dark corner
sought,
And though no accusation filled our
Thy tail, apologetic. thumped the floor
Who claims thou hast no conscience
argues vainly,
For have seen its symptoms very plainly.
What leads thee to forsake thy board and
bed
On days that are devoted to thy bath?
For. if it is not reason, vet it hath
Appearance of desire to plan aheadi
The sage who claims thy brain and soul
be wien
Would do quite well to swap thy head for
hisn.
-Harper's Weekly.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
COLLEGE BOYS APPEAL FOR
WORK; JAPANESE PREFERRED

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16.-[Editor
Herald1: True scene-We seven college
ooys, VINO are trying to work our wav
through college, would like Mr.. l.. TO
get job Of picking oranges to help
pay our way.
Mr. Ii see you are good. clean
strong young men, but L employ only
Japanese, so 1 can't employ Won. r
nave no doubt but what you could do
the work just as well, but [ make il a
rule only to employ "Japs'' or Chinese.
Boys-In case of war L suppose Won
expect the ''Japs" to protect your fine
nome and orchard from the Japanese.
soldiers. We need the work very badly
we Will be compelled to quit college
unless we can get employment, and we
are told wherever we call, in effect
no white boy need apply
Probable scene-War. japanese. army
on ground ready to destroy Mr. L. s
house and orchard. Mr.. L. discovers
among them as leaders his late en-
ployes. The American soldiers march
up. Mr.. l.. appeals to them for pro-
lection to his home and property. The
leader of the seven college boys replies:
Perhaps you do not recognize us. but
we seven here are the same college
boys who vainly sought work on your
ranch, but you employed these Japanese
In preference. Now you appeal to us
for protection for yourself, family and
property. Let the Japanese protect
you" JUSTICE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
The State Press
Portrait Paintinn

The sunlight and the chemicals catch
the expression of a moment, the flash
of an instant in the life story which
runs through many years. There is no
power in the camera to search the past
or foreknow the future. But a great
portrait painter is both historian and
prOphet.-San Jose Herald.
-
Distributed
1t is contended that Edgar Allan Poe
was born in three separate cities. BY
and by Poe may equal Christopher Co
lumbus' record and find himself buried
in five or siX.-Riverside Enterprise.
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Singing Insult
Under the heading Worse Than a
Hearst Sheet the Chino Champion re-
Gently paid its respects to a certain
fiabbergasted San Bernardino morning
paper.-San Bernardino Index.
$
Shampain?
You are asked to spell it ''skyology''
hereafter. When that is clearly fixed
in your mind you will be ready for
ology."-Redlands Review.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
THE MAYORALTY

4 Ii the legal formalities have been
~ complied with, all the precautions
duly observed, and the recall pc
tition has been declared valid. 1t was
presented to the council, and that body
set March 25 as the recall election day.
The way is now cleared for the NOM
ination and the successful campaign Of
George Alexander, who, chosen to rep
resent the interests Of the people of
Los Angeles, will defeat Mayor Harper,
recalled because of unfaithfulness in
the discharge of his public duties.
When George Alexander is elected
mayor he will enforce the laws, will
do all he can for the wage Garner and
will be strictly non-partisan. He will
administer the affairs Of the city Of
Los Angeles for the citizens and not
for the machine. Mr.. Alexander will
bring to his task honesty, honor, con-
scientiousness, ability and thorough
knowledge Of public affairs He knows
Los Angeles. Tonight his name will be
placed before a meeting of his repre-
sentative fellow citizens. Then will
follow his nomination by petition, and
we believe the recall campaign viii
reach its logical and inevitable conclu-
sion in his election.
The program for the city is practically
all mapped for some time to come.
The mayor will need to see that this
program, which will make Los Angeles
the greatest city on the Pacific coast,
is carried out. Good roads, good streets,
good schools and enough of them,
aqueduct construction for owens river
water, consolidation and San Pc
dro harbor-that Is In brief the pro-
gram for Greater Los Angeles, and
magnificent and inspiring indeed are its
principal features.
The mayor, who by exercising good
judgment and scrupulous honesty and
decency and wisdom in his appoint
ments and his official recommendations
and decisions, does all he can to facili-
tate the successful accomplishment of
this program, will be historically re-
membered as the mayor who helped
make greater Los Angeles possible by
giving wise, .judicious, honest and
confidence inspiring administration
while the preliminaries and prepard-
tions were being attended to. The most
deplorable circumstance connected with
the failure of poor Mr.. Harper is his
glaringly obvious inability to see and
seize OPPORTUNITY for greatness.
Master Of human destiny am l." but
not for "grafters," who in great ma
jcrity Of instances fail in the accom-
plishment of their covetous purposes.
and, like the cur on the bridge, drop the
bone for the shadow. The new mayor
of Los Angeles will have the confidence
and the support of "a reassured COM
munity.
We believe most of the business men
of this city are breathing more freely
than they were. There is no longer
any muttered-behind-th the-hand talk of
the possibilities of loot; of what might
happen before the great public under
takings now planned are completed.
There is CONFIDENCE. Everyone
KNOWS that the reign of Harperdom
is over. Honesty is again the only policy.
Public office is insisting it is a public
trust, and citizens will emphasize this
dictum by putting in public office as
mayor George Alexander, a man who,
both publicly and privately, may be
TRUSTED.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
ITS POTENTIALITIES

HERE is small room for doubt as
to the outcome of the recall cleo
n tion to be held in this city within
the next two months, and the official
who has disgraced the fair name of
the city from one ocean to another
will be relegated to a position where
he can do no further harm.
The election of Arthur c. Harper to
the mayoralty was brought about as
q result of one of the most utterly des-
picable tricks ever resorted to by a
coterie of machine politicians aided by
a newspaper which turned traitor to
the cause of the people at the eleventh
hour. The responsibility for Harper
as mayor, therefore, falls upon the
Southern Pacific bosses of Los Angeles
and their newspaper servant. 1t is now
up to the people to become responsible
for the election of mayor whose ad-
ministration will reflect as great a de-
gree of credit upon the city as the ad-
m1niStratiOn now about to be terminal
ed has reflected discredit.
1t is not probable that many citizens
of Los Angeles realize the intense in
terest which is being exhibited in all
parts of the United States over our
recall election. 1t is not strange that
the situation here should have such
widespread and profound interest, for
nothing like it has ever before occurred
in the history of the United States-no,
not even in the history of the world.
1t is logically to be expected that the
man chosen to succeed the deposed
and disgraced executive will occupy an
extraordinarily conspicuous position be-
fore the public eye, for he will be an
anomaly 1t is well understood that
such an organization as the Municipal
league and those associated with it in
this most extraordinary political under
| taking would not propose to place be-
fore the people for this chief office
within the gift Of the city any except
the best available man in the city
What high compliment it is, there
fore, to be even So much as thought of
! or considered for one moment as man
qualified thus to honor and be hon
ored by a city of 100000 peoplel
In spite of the fact that many of the
leading public men of California have
! had their eyes upon recent crises in
state affairs, as evidenced by the situa-
ton in Sacramento, we must not over
| look the faet-and it is a fact-that
| Los Angeles has shared prominence, at
| least equally with Sacramento, as a
point of great political interest
| 1t may be that the man elected to
| succeed Harper will be besought to
| accept the next Republican nomination
| for the governOrship of this state.
Hardly had the name of w. D. Steph-
ems been mentioned before men in 9th
er parts of the state. keenly alive to
| the possibilities arising out of the Los
! Angeles situation, predicted that Mr.
| Stephens nomination for the governor
! ship in the event of his acceptance and
election would be inevitable
| We direct attention to these facts
not for the purpose of booming any
particular person as a gubernatoria1
possibility but to show that the recall
| is already recognized as an instrument
| of tremendous potentialities. 1t does
not require a man of the keenest and
most far-reaching discernment to see
the point.-Pacif1c Outlook.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
AN ORGY"

The grand jury which has been in
vestigating the conduct of city affairs
in Los Angeles for the past four
months evidently intended to make it's
report roar as gently as any sucking
dove in describing the many derelic-
tlons of Mayor Harper and his police
commission. But in mentioning one
of the visits of the mayor and the
chief of police to a house in the red
light district the jury solemnly de-
clared that the occasion was "more
like an orgy than an Inspection To
be sure six dissenting jurors were not
pleased with the term ''orgy," and
they gave out for publication a more
detailed description of the scene on the
memorable night when the city Off
GERS and some friends INDUCED in high
jinks with the Alameda street women.
The mayor threatens the six dissenters
with prosecution for criminal libel for
their lurid language in setting forth
the high jinks, but to the ordinary
citizen there does not seem to be
enough difference between the lam
guage Of the mayors friends (the
jury) and that of his enemies (the dis
senters) to constitute a distinctive
margin Of divergence. The jury said
it was an orgy, a drunken froIfc, ac-
cording to Webster, while the dissen-
ters merely added details, but in no
wise made the description of the Jury
more opprobrious. When the mayor
Of a great city with his chief of police
visits a bawdy house after night, and
when no milder word than "orgy'' can
be found by their friends to describe
the events which transpired during
such visit, and which were participated
in by such officers, there is not much
sense in splitting hairs over the in
significant detail of just how the
shameful scene was pulled off. The
mayor should resign and take his
former chief Of police with him into
political and social obscurity.-Monro-
via News
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
CONSOLIDATION

N SPITE of Mayor Harper and cor
poration hirelings and tools, the
n assembly passed the Leeds consoli-
dation measure by vote of AZ ayes to
noes. Beyond reasonable doubt, the
Mccartney measure will be passed by
the senate and the fight for Greater
Los Angeles won.
Consolidation, with control of San
Pedro harbor, will make Los Angeles
the greatest Independent municipality
on the western coast, with absolutely
unbounded opportunities for expansion,
for increased usefulness, for growth
and for greatness.
By egregious, outrageous and never
to be forgotten interference, that preci-
Gus pair, Harper and Dockweiler, tried
to embarrass consolidation plans The
old saw tells us Its an i'll wind that
blows nobody good" so we may say
tits an i'll Harper that can attempt to
put an important public project out of
tune without having his effort react for
the benefit of the public" That seems
to be what happened. AS a conse-
quence of the mischievous meddlesome-
ness of Harper, the Los. Angeles dele
cation was reused to hearty effort in
behalf of consolidation.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
COMPARES WAR UNFAVORABLY
WITH "cHIVALRoUs" DUELING

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16.-[Editor
Herald]: In your bright, brief edi-
torial this morning, entitled Pocket
book Peace" you say, ''War is nothing
less than dueling on a large scale" ="
You do injustice to the duelist. He is
Ihigh-minded, chivalrous, magnanimous;
international war is savage, tricky and
mean.
First, in ordinary dueling there is a
distinct formal challenge. Not so in
war.
Secondly, in dueling, seconds" are
chosen on each side to see all is in due
form and, if practicable, to bring about
reconciliation on terms honorable to
both. Just the opposite in war.
Thirdly, the challenged party is al
ways allowed to select the weapons,
which must invariably be the same for
both. But in war each cunningly
strives with all its might to get the
most effective machines Of death and
destruction.
Fourthly, duelists are scrupulously
placed in the field on plane of perfect
equality. If there is necessarily an adj
vantage of ground, they draw lots for
it. But warning nation grabs every
superior position.
Filthy, in dueling there shall be no
trick, no deception, no stratagem. But
III war II dlE Is 1Ouly ct11Ol AOuA 10 IAN
and the combatant is proud of sue
cesses gained by fraud.
Sixthly, in dueling the seconds" are
on the alert to seize the opportunity,
when either fighter bleeds, to urge
enough has been done to satisfy honor,
and to effect an amicable termination
of the quarrel before either is mortally
wounded.
Seventhly, in dueling there is never
an intention to slay more than one,
and he may deserve whatever harm be-
falls him; but in war, death and misery
are always inflicted on many, and these
are often entirely innocent.
Eighthly, in dueling there is never
any attempt to get possession of an
antagonists property. Greed is not a
factor. But in war seizure of the
enemy's money, goods or territory is
regarded as praiseworthy, and indeed
is often the very object for which war
is waged.
BY comparison, fighting nations are
reptiles; duelists are gentlemen.
HOMER B. SPRAGUE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

OS ANGELES chamber of com
4 merce is one of the most flourish
ing and one of the best known or
ganizations of it's kind in the United
States. Indeed, there is hardly a nook
Or corner of civilization that has not
heard from or of Los Angeles chamber
Of commerce at some time or other.
Intimately associated with the
growth and development of the city,
the chamber has constantly been allied
with all that is best in progressive
citizenship. It's membership represents
the life, thought, energy, activity and
capital that have combined to make
Los Angeles great, and that are now
united in the effort to make it Greater.
There is not citizen who is not un-
der obligation to the chamber of COM
merce. What it has done for Los An
geles cannot be indicated in a brief ed
itorial, much less related in detail. But
we believe most of our citizens are
aware of the part the chamber of COM
merce has taken in developing Los
Angeles, in encouraging home indus
tries and home people, in fostering en-
terprises, in dispUting and generally
defeating offensive legislation. So great
is the membership of the chamber of
commerce that it may be said to rep
resent every phase and phrase of life
in Los Angeles. Rejecting as it does
the actual life of the city, it is a con-
slant exponent and champion of the
legitimate ambitions of the city.
The citizens Of Los Angeles will look
to the chamber of commerce to stand
firm and true for what is best and for
what is right in the consolidation fight.
The community looks to this great or
ganization for effective support when
ever a crisis arises in which the inter
ests of the people of Los Angeles are
menaced by the guileful Vaccinations
of the corporation enemies Of Los An
geleS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
AMERICANISM

mt OST heartily we agree with the
U statement that "the best serv-
III ice that could be done this coun-
try would be the republication in
handy volume form of the writings
of Washington, Jefferson, Madison,
Franklin and Lincoln, in order to re-
call the mind of the people to the fun
damental principles of our form of
government" One of the fundamental
principles of our government is a rec
ognition of the fact that "aIl men are
created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalien-
able rights, that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. -
The republic rests under constant OBJ
legation to recognize the equal rights
of its citizens to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. Any legislation
that tends to promote happiness among
the people is good, sound American
legislation. A happy country is a
contented country, and contentment
and righteousness constitute the high
est good that may be aimed at by any
country. We would like to see a re-
vival Of Anericanism. We would like
to see it taught in schools and COL
leges. We would like to see every
American so thoroughly indoctrinated
with the principles of the founders Of
this Republic that when asked why he
was an American he could answer.
Because I believe the great truth
handed down to US by the founders of
this Republic, that my neighbor has
as much right to be happy and to en-
joy the good things of this life as I
have, and because it is my duty as a
loyal American to do all in my power
to promote the happiness and prosper
ity of my neighbor."
Mutual helpfulness is obligatory
upon the citizens Of the United States.
This is NOT land which believes in
the motto, every man for himself ana
the devil take the hindmost." If there
are signs that selfshness is interfering
with the first principles of American
ism and that consequently men are
deprived Of the means Of earning a
livelihood and children are kept out of
school, it is only because we have re-
laxed the eternal VIGILANCE which
is the price of liberty.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
KINGS SPEECH

nRITISH perpetuation of a system
n of royalty frequently lands the
~ law makers of the United King
dom in ridiculous paradoxes. Could
anything be more ludicrously absurd
and incongruous than that portion of
King Edwards speech from the throne
in which that (very) limited monarch
points out the necessity for the intro
duction Of representative institutions in
Persia?
A king protesting against the "divine
right of kings and urging that power
should be given to the people would
offer an example little short of phe-
nomenal if everybody did not know the
kings speech" is in reality a message
to the British people from the ruling
ministry that represents the parlia-
mentary majority. To plain minded
folk, however, this explanation will
only make the tangle seem more COM
plicated than ever. And in sooth the
situation is without rhyme or reason.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
THE PRO-VICE PRESS

ANY friends of good morals and
H good government in Los Angeles
regard the attitude of the pro-
vice press as one of the most deplor-
able features of the present situation.
To the establishment of many of their
readers in Los Angeles, and doubtless
to the amazement of people outside of
Los Angeles, some newspapers have
taken the curious attitude of either
defending the officials accused of con-
niving at immortality and 'indulging in
practices associated with bad govern
ment, or of refusing to censure them.
For instance, they echo the platitude,
Mayor Harper is good enough for us, .
and the ground on which they echo il
is the most illogical and absurd ever
taken by the protagonists of a dis
graced and losing cause.
They say: Los Angeles is no worse
than it has been at former times Gan
assertion which may be questioned).
and one of them goes on to state it's
position in language which we do not
quote, but which Is to this effect: eve
told you Mayor Harper was too bad
for US, and advised you against elect
ing him mayor. Now you have found
out Mayor Harper, and are disgusted
with him. 1t serves you right. He is
good enough for us. The city is bet
ter than the average city of its size.
Therefore we oppose all efforts to
bring about reforms. We think you
ought to let bad enough alone, and we
will support the man who was too bad
for US because we told you he was too
bad for US, and you would not believe
u.s."
This, we believe, is a correct para
phrase of editorials published recently
in the Republican morning paper. Do
they represent good citizenship? Is
there in them any evidence of virile
and fearless Americanism? Do they
contain good advice?
To the questions asked there is only
one answer possible, only one that is
consistent with good citizenship and
with Americanism. The course of the
pro-vice newspapers is illogical, un-
uiSIIllICO' anu SQuINOCdi, anu certainly
cannot be accepted or indorsed by the
majority of their readers The six
MEN who signed their names to the
minority grand jury report, containing
all the facts laid before the investiga-
tors, should have the thanks, commen-
dation, respect and esteem of every
citizen of Los Angeles who is not al
lied or "hand in glove witf9hose evils
which exist in this city, or those which
are threatened in the disbursement OF
millions Of dollars Of public money
The dignified tone Of those who are en-
gagged in the work for the publication
and the good name of fair Los An
geles is in strange contrast to the vul-
gar, frivolous, stupid, peevish, cheap
nasty and mocking methods of the
pro-vice papers.