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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
RACE TRACK GAMBLING

I" ITH a square deal, effective anti
wv race track gambling legislation
w of a kind in keeping with the
views of the law-abiding and RESPONSE
BILE and self-respecting citizens Of Cali
fornia would be enacted beyond doubt.
Public sentiment demands an anti-race
track gambling bill, and makeshift
bill must represent the opinion of the
community, which is that the time has
come when gambling must be elimi-
mated as far as possible from the life
Of California, and the United States
st learn that officially, at least,
gambling is disapproved in this state.
1t is outrageous that irregularities
banished from other states should be
allowed to linger in community with
such well-founded pretensions to ethi-
cal advancement and moral enlighten-
ment as ours.
There can be no doubt that liberation
Of the gambling evil gives the rest Of
the country and the world a wrong
conception Of this state. Internationally,
we are aiming to be the foremost in the
Union. We show our willingness to
spend money in order that square
deal and a good education may be as
sured to every boy and girl born in
California as well as to all who come
here while yet of school age.
Our educational program is one of
exalted patriotism and good citizenship.
Contrast it with that peculiar easiness,
or remissness, or over good-nature,
which would permit the influences
that debauch youth and permit GRIM
inals and good-for-nothings to have
free access to the young people trained
in our schools. We have no right to
allow the innocent to be led into temp
tation. Many of them are strong
enough to resist it. The records Of the
courts show only too plainly others are
not strong enough.
The. nation is waiting with keen in
terest to see whether California will
adopt or reject anti-gambling legisla-
ton. While we at home know the at
tempt to defeat this reform does NOT
represent the true sentiment of the en-
lightened citizenship of California, and
while we know the defeat of the meas
ure or it's emasculation would be the
result of influences which all good citi:
zens deplore, and against which their
faces are constantly set, the rest of the
country and the world would not take
the trouble to analyze the situation,
and California would be accredited with
the defeat of reform legislation pro-
posed in the interest of good citizen
ship and of the protection Of the home
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
IS VICE PROTECTED?

6n UBLICITY such as The Herald
is giving affairs in Los Angeles
will do more good than any
other agency in clearing the city of
vice." says the Rev. Robert j. Bur-
dette. 1.-THE Herald is making strong
case from day to day.. and am heart
lily in sympathy with the splendid
work.
From the ministers Of Los Angeles
as well as from citizens who are not
directly charged with the care of pub
lie morals-as are the esteemed menu
bers of the clergy-have come many
enthusiastic expressions of approval of
The Herald's policy in meeting a grave
public condition by following "a good
old method. approved by proverb. and
taking the bull by the horns" The
only manner in which to conduct an
investigation which will answer the
question rs vice protected in Los An
geles?" is to obtain the evidence which
will enable the reader to form his own
conclusions correctly, and to answer
the question with ''yes'' or s'no.''
Now, in view of the evidence collected
by The Herald, what is the readers
answer to the question? He has read
of direct business association between
the officials responsible for the moral
as well as the political well-being OF
the city. If he thinks the evidence pre-
sented justifies the belief that the asso-
citation indicated exists, and that it has
menaced good order and morality in
Los Angeles, as similar association
less than a, conspiracy against public
morality has menaced good order else
where, then, when he hears or reads
the question rs vice protected in Los
Angeles? % is his answer Yes or. No ?'l
Will he say: 1.-The mere thought of vice
being protected in Los Angeles is ri6ic-
Elous and absurd. want to hear no
more talk of that kind" Or will he
say: Much as I regret, as a citizen Of
Los Angeles, to have to make this adj
mission am compelled to say in reply
to your question is vice protected IN
Los Angeles, that it looks like it.
Now, which would be the more likely
reply to our question? The Herald at
considerable cost has conducted a
thorough and painstaking investigation.
The results of this investigation, pre-
scented to the public from day to day,
are NOT yellow journalism. They are
NOT sensationalism. They are EVI-
DENCE. And they are evidence Of
WHAT? 'Is vice protected in Los An
honest, intelligent, unprecedented and
patriotic reader and citizen to answer
NO or YES?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
DECLARES HE KNOWS, BUT is
UNABLE TO EXPLAIN HOW

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10.-[Editor
Herald: In this mornings paper "A
Young Girl" asks this ancient question:
"How do I know I am breaking a
real law when I do it?'
To this question 1 give the follow
ing answer: We do not always know
at the time; for example, months and
sometimes years pass before we know
that we have been violating real law
But we do know few things. When
Euclid discovered, in real law, a few
mathematical laws, he knew they
We're But how he knew I cannot tell.
We all know that two plus two makes
four, still it is beyond the power of
any one of us to explain to another
how we know.
Here is a quotation which is on this
line of thought: 81 believe the best
that I can think, being fully persuaded
that if it is not the truth it is because
the truth transcends my present power
Of thought A YOUNG MAN.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
SALARIES

ESLIE R. HEWITT, city attorney,
is anxious to see salary reform in
Los Angeles. He says various
officials are underpaid, but that this is
an especially noteworthy circumstance
in the case Of the city treasurer, who,
as emolument of his responsible office,
receives 5000 a month Mr.. Hewitt
says this is hardly a respectable sal
ury for an ordinary bank clerk" Yet
surely the city attorney is aware that,
as salaries go in Los Angeles, it is a
high and not a low rate Of remunera-
ton. Everything in this world is rela-
tive and proportionate to everything
else, and while the city treasurer's
salary might be regarded as low in
New York, yet in proportion to the
average run of salaries in Los Angeles,
it is very far from being low. The peo-
pie Of California may be extravagant
in some respects, but we have never
heard the charge of extravaganza in
salaries preferred against them. On the
other hand, any salaried person in this
salubrious settlement must always take
into account the extraordinary advan-
tages conferred upon human being by
the mere act of residence here. When
Mr.. Hewitt asserts that salaries are too
low, he should think of the numerous
benefits, other than monetary, enjoyed
by the resident citizens of Los Angeles.
We think Mr.. Hewitt should go slow.
If he should succeed in reforming off,
cial salaries, there is no saying where
the feverish craze for compensation
might end, or to what lengths it might
go before running it's frenzied financial
course.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
YELLOW Papers Teach Youth
Art Of Being MenddCiOuS

T HE youth of the country has
already been given too many les
sons in mendacity by some of our
newspapers. You have seen, for in
lance, the pro-graft papers of Califor-
MIA attack, traduce, lampoon, vilify
and lie about Spreckels, Langdon,
Heney, Burns, Judge Dunno and Judge
Lawlor. You have seen other papers,
for equally mendacious reasons, attack
and lie about President Roosevelt.
Those papers which have persistently
attacked and lied about the graft
prosecution are, of course, doing so
because they were paid to do it. Those
which have persistently attacked and
lied about the president have done so
because, in one way or another, they
were paid to do it, says the Oakland
Enquirer. The pro-graft papers, our
California kangaroos, are trying, for
pay, to break down the graft prosecu-
ton to save, if possible, bribe-g ivers
from punishment for their crimes; to
preserve, if possible. the vocation of
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
CLAIMS MORMON RELIGION is
TRUE FAITH, EASY OF PROOF

LOMPOC, Jan. S.-[Editor Herald:
The letter column seems to be very in
teresting because of the free discus
sion of recent subjects. We hear con-
siderable concerning Christian Science,
which, it is said, many persons do not
understand. I can prove man is a god
to a certain extent by my latest dis
covery in science, and also prove that
the Mormon religion Is true, although
I am not believer in that faith. There
is nothing better than pure knowledge
and being able to learn the things that
are new and which seem almost inn
possible to mankind.
G.. B. CAMPBELL
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

What has become of the gentleman
who viii soon be vice president Of the
United States? We hear a great deal
about the sayings and the doings of
the principal executive-to-be, but the
the madding crowd. 1t is a blessing
we don't compel our chief magistrate
and his assistant to wear robes of Of
fice.' The cartoonists would have a
joyous time in idealizing the big chief
and the cheerful little substitute, the
sunny and silent one.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

1t is proposed to put Billy Postum
on the market as a successor to Teddy
Bear. If Mr.. Taft has a sense of
humor he won't appreciate this attempt
to commercialize his taste for south
ern game. He is popular president
elect, but like the proverbiaI young
bear that long antedated the first
Teddy bear, call his troubles are be-
fore him." and he does not wish to
give his critics a chance to say, per-
haps, some day he is playing 'possum.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

hearing he told the commissioner, the
reporters, the chance listeners, that
ne was very, very grateful for some
thing-for oil, for health, for saving
habits, for liver and kidneys, for
shrewd partners, for pipe lines. To
him every day is thanksgiving day.
Always grateful and always humble
-unctuously grateful, unctuously
meek. The oil of meekness and graft
tude drips from Mr.. Rockefeller's lips,
exudes from his skin, shines in his
face, lubricates his smile; the odor Of
it permeates the atmosphere Of his
environment. He is the personifca-
tion-the living, moving embodiment
OF the beatitude Blessed are the
meek; for they shall inherit the earth. ,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

Interest in The Herald's Alaska-Yu-
kon-Pacif1c exposition contest is. keen.
friends, the school teachers, who are
not only their friends, but the friends
of the community. These faithful SER
wants of the public deserve the holiday
excursion planned for them. Nothing
is too good for them. If you work for
YOUR teacher, perhaps you may have
the pleasure of seeing her name among
those Of the Fortunate Twelve.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

the Schmitzes and the Ruefs; to keep,
If possible, the politics and the public
officials of this state in the hands of
and under the control of those who
conspired and are conspiring against
the people and who hire the Ruefs and
the Schmitzes to aid them in their
conspiracy. Spreckels, Langdon,
Heney, Burns, Dunno and I4aWlor are
bitterly hated by those whose nefarious
practices they have broken up and
whose crimes they have been endeavor-
ing to punish. President Roosevelt is
also bitterly hated by the men whose
crimes he is endeavoring to punish.
And, therefore, while the California
kangaroo press is attacking and lying
about the graft-prosecutors and the
graft prosecutions, the kangaroo press
of other states, where the local male
factors are not in jeopardy, and, there
fore, need no defenders, is following
the directions Of ''the interests and
attacking and lying about President
Roosevelt
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
AT THE THEATERs

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
MASON-"The Lion and the Mouse"
MAJESTIC-t'The Sunny Side of Broadway
BURBANK-"SpOrting Life"
ORPHEUM-VaudeViIle.
GRAND--'1t Happened in NOrdland."
Los ANGELES-VaudevilIe.
PEOPLE'S-"The Holy City, =,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
FISCHER'S-t'TwO German Angels"
UNIQUE-"The Gibson Girl"
MISUNDERSTANDING
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
The State Press
New York Initiates Us

The state Of New York has approp-
rated $50,000,OOO for improvement of
roads. Over 300 miles of perfect road
were made in 1907 and $40 miles during
the present year. For many years the
state has urged the fight for good
roads, but the victory has been won,
the undertaking well begun. That the
investment will prove profitable none
can doubt.-Oxnard Courier.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

There is great deal of delicious
naivete in the confession Of Harriman's
stenographer that in five years work
in his office she never has done a
single dishonest business act. Now
if only her pure and gentle spirit could
have obsessed the old man!
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

Supervisor NeIlis istan oliver Crom-
well. With one stroke OF the pen he
destroyed Pete Wilson's carefully con-
structed and painfully built political
machine of road foremen in the Fourth
supervisorial district. The work of
eight years was undone by the Nellis
pen-stroke, for in a case like this the
pen is mightier than the pull.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
THE HELIcoPTER

We think a lot
OF Edison
For the great things
That he has done,
But when he says
He's a machine
To make the brothers
Wright turn green
With envy, we
Want to be shown;
This doesn't sound
Quite right, we own,
But Thomas will
Remember he
Said he'd a storage
Battery
So handy and
So good and cheap
That it would rock
The babies to sleep,
Run autos in
Whole day-long flights,
And furnish houses
Lights o. nights;
He's not made good
With it, not yet,
And if he don't
Watch out he'll get
Himself the horse laugh
without doubt:
Go fetch your
Helicopter out,
Then. if it don't
Wright's deeds surpass,
You're in Nicola
Tesla's class.
Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
How Iona?

Even in New Orleans they are fight
ing to enforce the laws against race
track gambling. In Japan they have
abolished it. In England and France
they never had it, in the fashion we
cultivate here. Racing there is a sport.
Here it is a steal. And the only place
left where the steal is tolerated is
California. How long?-Fresno Repub-
lican.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

Pasadena announces with pride that
a party of one hundred Boston tour
lists have arrived. For some days now
the genial and cultured Pasadenans
will talk Bostonese and study the cult
nary habits of the billed bean.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

Tillman in his reply to the president
used some ultra-strenuous language.
Here is some Of it: whether 1 ever
get hold of any OF the land or not does
not matter, if Hartman and others Of
that ilk are made to disgorge the large
holdings which they have stolen and
are attempting to hold" Poor, dear
Mr.. Hartman. Maligned again.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
1t Is Constitutional

If free speech, oral or written, is
not the constitutional right of every
American citizen, the sooner it is made
so the better for the future welfare
Of the country. But the right of free
speech does not necessarily mean that
a man is licensed to SANDER and berate
those who do not happen to agree with
him in all things.-Berkeley Reporter.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

New York policemen arrested a
burglar while he was attending public
worship in church. 1t was DIR. Park
bursts church, and the men in blue,
plOated
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
Rose to Il

Mr. Observation-Disclosures is that aw-
fully homely man over there in the
corner, Mrs. Hobson?
Mrs. Hobson-That is Mr.. Hobson.
Mr. J.-Ah, how true it is that the
homeliest men always marry the pref
fist wives-Puck
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

ness world to learn that in spite of the
poor mouth they have been putting on.
the general average prosperity of the
railroads has been good.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
What Think Your

Bacon-I see the Salvation Army has
a factory in Europe where musical in
struments are made for its members.
Egbert-Could they not be held liable
for harboring a nuisance ?-Yonkers
Statesman.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

Survey work for good roads will be
begun this week. The public will watch
with keen interest every step. taken in
connection with the improvements for
which the bond issue was voted.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
Are They Blessed?

If the legislators go to Sacramento
this session thoroughly imbued with
the idea that they are the servants Of
the honest mass of the people instead
of a few constituencies place-hunters,
the good citizenship of the state will
rise up and call such legislators
blessed.-Pasadena Star.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
PEOPLES Eidht

This is a fight of the people against
organized vice. The people are re-
solved to win, and they are going to do
so, too. The twin centers of fouIness
at Emeryville and Arcadia must close.
Sacramento Union.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

Local Elks are already making prep
arations for the grand lodge reunion in
July. 1t is certain there will be a
grand and glorious time.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

Two Filipino editors have been tried
for libel. The rate at which civiliza-
ton is progressing in the islands is
truly marvellous.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
Our Schmitz

Our Schmitz, although freed by cob
webby decisions of the courts of ap-
peal from the well-merited punish
ment for portion Of his many crimes,
is, nevertheless, a convicted feIon in
the eyes of all honest men.-Oakland
Enquirer.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
Less and Less

If science continues at the present
rate it will be only a matter of time
until the horseless sleigh will make
its appearance in the northern states,
then the girls will have to content
themselves with the kissless sleigh
ride.-San Diego Tribune.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
Hot STUFF

Customer-Got any hot peppersauce,
waiter?
Waiter-No, sab; but kin heat some
fer yer, sally onkers Statesman.
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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

Queer, isn't it, that highly protected
vice always enjoys free trade. Is there
a. vicious paradox in Los Angeles?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
The Chaperon
Improving the Suffrage

North Carolina is breaking the way
for fitness for suffrage as a condition
of suffrage. That is the next refrain
in. American politics.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
Two Shakes

Have money and the world
Will shake you by the hand.
Have none and the world
Will-shake you! Understand?
Mexican Herald.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12

'Is vice protected in Los Angeles p"
No? or YES? Please don't all speak
at once.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
Ja1Vn d. Rockefeller Is as
Tumble as Old ULriQh HeeD

Y" HEN John D. Rockefeller greeted
wv his friends after Thanksgiving
service he took occasion to re-
mark that he was always thankful for
the many blessings bestowed upon
him. Always thankful''-that is the
phrase expressing the habitIal atti-
tude Of the richest man on earth 1t
runs like a stream of oil through his
testimony, his writings, his discourse,
says the New York World.
Touching the hazardous risks of
Standard Oil, when Mr.. Kellogg asked
Mr.. Rockefeller if the production Of
oil instead of decreasing had not
greatly increased, the oil king meekly
replied, Yes, we are very, very CRATE
full for that" Every day during his
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
Far and Wide
Frozen East

The thermometer registered 20 de-
grees below zero at Lake Placid
Wednesday morning, and at Lake Clear
and Ausable Forks also. Upper Cha
teaugay Lake reported 10 degrees be-
low zero. Some of the small brooks to
which. farmers have been forced on ac-
count of the drouth to go for water
have been frozen almost solid, and
many farmers are in desperate straits
for water.-New York Sun.
No Scars, No Fear
The successful man has always the
temptation to pose as a superior per-
son, and to pass judgment from his
protected position. 1t is easy to be
critical when ensconced in the coming
tower. Nowhere is this attitude of
mind more conspicuous than in the
average mans idea of honesty.-West-
minister Review
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
No Scars, No Fear
Not Qualified

There is no disposition on the part OF
anyone to try to elect to membership
in the Ananias club the dozen Califor-
mans who say that Abe Ruef is guilty.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
8
The Chaperon
The chaperon returns to her place,
with it's few displeasfres and its many
penalties. Society has discovered that
it cannot do without her.-Queen (Lon-
dom.
The people's recorder. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1893-1925, 1909-09-11

We are preparing for a great
crowd, Lord help US to be ready
for them. We have had great
meetings at all of my churches, 10
added at Holy Spring, one hun
dred at Mt. Zion. 16 at Bethany,
here. 81, at New Hope, so the
Lord has blessed us nightly
this year. | am proud Of the
old Baptist church, she is NOV
ing on slowly but surely and
holding every inch of her terri
tory, and possessing more and
more every year. Move on and
upward old church, and possess
the city, which is this world for
Christ, then will come the well
come voice Of the great Captain
OF our Salvation, and the great
head Of tile church, say come ye
blessed Of my Father inherit
the Kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation OF the
world. God. bless, the OLD Bap-
tist church and keep her head
above the wave until He, Christ.
shall come. Amen.
Yours for humanity,
j. IL. Marshall,
Mccormick, S. c.,
The people's recorder. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1893-1925, 1909-09-11
Might On Bald Mountaln,

On a lonely night Alex. Ben
ton of Fort Edward, N. Y,
climbed Bald Mountain to the
home of a neiGhbor, tortured by
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