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Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07
THE GREEN ONE RED

N RDINARY crimes against the clas-
sizes are forgivable. But it is
= hard to find 'palliation for an Of
fense so atrocious as the assassination
Of Shakespeare. Our Republican morn
ing contemporary, in an editorial arti-
Gle under the highly appropriate head
line Murder Most Foul" makes the
following statements: 'Herod shed the
blood of the innocents. Lady Macbeth
shrieked Out, damned spot!' and
sighed The incarnadine seas shall not
wash clean this little hand.'"
With the accusation preferred against
Herod we have no quarrel. It is his
torically correct But we will not al
low to pass unchallenged the assertion
that Lady Macbeth talked like a jenny
ass. With all her faults, that strenu-
Gus woman had an excellent command
of language. Her diction, as reported
by Shakespeare, was more than usually
good, and we are certain that even
when talking in her sleep she would
not have made herself ridiculous by
saying "The incarnadined Chat is, the
red dyed) seas shall not wash clean
this little hand" What she really said
according to her renowned reporter)
was:
VIII all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will
rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
We hope Shakespeare will not impute
to Los Angeles the sins Of our
Republican contemporary, fiustered by
the success of the charter amendments,
the recall and other reforms. We apol-
ogize to Shakespeare's ghost for the
verbal confusion of our friend, and as
sure the venerable shade Of Shake
there are extenuating circumstances.
"Rest, rest, perturbed spirit
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07
THE MAYORALTY

u A. STANTON, speaker Of the as
sembly, says the charter amend
ments adopted at the recent. cleo
tion in Los Angeles VIII undoubtedly
be approved by the legislature, and
the people Of Los Angeles need give
themselves no concern on that account"
This means that the progress of the
city will not be embarrassed or him
dered by the professional politicians;
and that the machine knows when it
has had enough"
With the assurance that the charter
amendments will become effective and
with all worry on that score off their
now concentrate their attention on the
matter which vitality and Immediately
affects the interests of the city.
The success Of the recall petition
must be followed by the success Of the
recall election. With candidate for
mayor who will represent the business
life and social interests Of Los Angeles,
voters must bend every energy to the
task Of electing mayor who will rep
resent all that is best in this best of
cities. There will be no question as
to the success of the peoples candi-
date for mayor. There are hundreds
of good citizens from whom the choice
may be made of a candidate who is
absolutely certain to defeat Harper
From the first the canvass and the
campaign will be conducted with en-
thusiasm and with zeal. The cause is
righteous, and should evoke the hearth
est and most earnest and willing sup
port which any cause has ever called
forth. Let the friends of good govern
ment, cleanness, decency and morality
in Los Angeles make up their minds
that they are bound to win, and in that
spirit fight the good fight.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07
JEFFERSoN's PREDICTIONS ARE
SAID TO HAVE COME TO PASS

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5.-[Editor
Heraldl: w. HI. Steele in this morning
Herald states what he believes, and,
confessingly, says: IF 1 know any
thing, it is very little" That his be-
liefS are not founded on knowledge is
readily perceived in his assumption
that the founders of our government
give us the very best that could have
been given at the time. That they give
US the worst they could will not be
questioned by anyone who knows the
history Of the formation of the con-
stitution.
1t was framed by a body Of English
aristocrats; the very first step taken
was one of deception. The convention
was called not to frame a new con-
stitution, but to revise and amend the
articles of confederation.
Madison, known as the father of the
constitution, had, with Morris, Hamil-
ton and others, formed a plot to estab-
lish a government of special privileges
for the governing class. Their discus
sions were held with closed doors;
their arguments were long and Wordy,
but the meaning could not be mistaken
This convention continued in session
four months. It's proceedings were
strictly secret. For this secrecy and
given to the world. Not before the
death of Madison were the records of
the proceedings made public.
Hamilton argued for q monarchy like
England. Morris said: mot liberty;
property is the main object of society,"
Butler with others, said: Property is
the only just measure of representa-
ton" Madison argued for a house Of
lords, not to be elected by the people.
The constitution was forced on the
people by the same method that Harri-
man and Rockefeller get their desires
fulfilled in our aristocratic congress
and house of lords.
The defenders of the rights of the
people characterized the constitution
as "A league with DEATH" "A compact
with hell" "a palladium of oppres-
sion,'' ''The grave of liberty" "a des-
potism equal to the one they had just
shaken off, 1t has proved to be all
of this-and more.
AS little eye-opener for this year
reports show our present administra-
ton has created $4,000 new offices,
mostly for servants to the governing
class. All that the great Democrat,
Jefferson, prophesied has come to pass,
and the end is not yet. J. w. L.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

as compared to today, it was nothing.
says the Fresno Republican,
Now the anti-gambIing sentiment, in
stead of being merely active, is over
Whelming. Instead Of being ne az
the interesting issues of a session. it
has become the central one. The com
mittee on public morals, instead "
being a joke to the initiated and !
matter of Indifference to all others,
has become the cynosure Of public at
tention. Instead of being one among
the bills to trade with, the race track
bill has become the one thing that
must be settled before anything else
can be even begun. And all the legis-
lators in the state will be ranked as
decent or indecent according as they
vote on this bill. In the assembly, all
of whose members were elected this
year. the anti-gambling sentiment is in
overwhelming control. In the senate,
half of whose members are hoIdovers
from former moral generation Of two
years ago, the change is not yet so
complete, but there is an almost unan-
imous sentiment in favor Of some sort
of a restrictive bill, and the present
poll indicates a definite majority for
the Hughes bill, which is the only one
representing the genuine opposition to
the gambling crime factories.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07
Interest Is Revivirlg i'm the
old School of Novels

ing Post. ''Our Mutual Friend" has a
better plot and mystery than most con-
temporary detective stories; more dra-
matte action than the great mass Of
cowboy, railway accident, and sea fic-'
ton; more humor-that goes without
saying-than any living author, with
one possible exception, can now supply;
more political satire than our novels Of
uplift about honest district attorneys
and dishonest congressman; more truth
about the slums than our ordinary
novel of low life. When you balance
accounts, it is Dickens that will turn
out the lower-priCed fare.
The longing for the leisure and am
plitude of a bygone age manifests it,
self even in growing attempts at imi-
tatiOn. William De Morgan, who has
had the courage to write like Thack-
cray, now has his own imitators in
turn. We shall, in all probability, have
our -Dickensians soon, our neo-
Jane Austens, perhaps our neo-Field-
ings and Cervanteses. Some bold
young spirit may even leap the ocean
and the channel and dare to write
thirty pages Of description like Balzac.
For while we shall grow serious and
SlaCken uD
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07
Anti Gambling MODemenf
Attracts Public Attention

u ETROSPECT is the best ground Of
n, prophecy. And on that basis the
prospects of political reform in
California are decidedly good If as
much progress is made in the next two
years on the railroad machine ques-
ton as has been made in the last two
years on the hore race gamblin-, ques-
ton the next legislature will be over
whelmingly anti-machine in both
houses. and the next governor will be
a stranger to the organization What
that means to the people of California
is almost beyond estimate.
Two years ago the effort to stop the
race track gambling came to a head.
Considerable public interest was
aroused, there was a hot fight in the
assembly, complicated by trading on
local bills and in the senate Frank
Leavitt, the political representative Of
the gambling interests, had the time
of his life holding things down. He
even had to be decent on a number Of
other moral and political questions in
order to stem the tide of decency
against his own particular protected
vice. That was two years ago, and
was already a long step forward. But,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07
Recall Echoes
Recall in Los Angeles

President Roosevelt has said that the
American national sin is grating. He
might have added with equal truth and
force that grating lies at the roots
of and feeds all other political sins
that curse the American people. Tam
many in New York, Quay in Pennsyl-
vania, Ruef in California and Rookie
feller and Standard Oil all over the
land have made the American business
and political worlds an offense to man
kind.
Now comes Los Angeles, with all the
blessings of nature, to prove that
"Only man is vile" The Los Angeles
Herald, after a campaign of weeks, has
laid have, in all it's fostering unclean-
ness, the interlocking machinery OF
deviltry that has manipulated the pub
lie interests for private gain in that
city, and worked its nefarious designs
in the garb of respectabillty.
A. G. Harper of the firm of Harper
& Reynolds has been in the spotlight
of the Los Angeles business world for
many years, honored and respected, but
it is with his actions as mayor of the
city that the present arraignment has
to do. The contrast in the work Of the
dual man is so great that the whole
business world Of the nation is watch
ing the outcome.
The hue and cry bounding Harper
has a valid reason behind it in the
shape of $23,00000O, and every taxpayer
in the county is a rightful party to the
cause which seeks to save that princely
sum from the clutches of the grafters.
The really pleasing phase of the
whole campaign lies in the fact that
for once in the history of boodler hunt
ing the man behind the gun, Judge 7.
E. Gibbon of The Herald, does not live
in a glass house, but stands four
square to all the world as a right
eously indignant citizen, who cannot
be bought or driven from his purpose of
defending the peoples interests.
All the editorial charivari perform
ances for which the friends of the ac-
cuSed are noted on similar occasions
cannot this time hide the vital fact that
twenty-three millions of dollars voted
by the people for public improvements
are not safe while some of Harper's S
appointees control their expenditure
Ed Kern voted for the river bed fran
chise against the peoples interests and
Harper knew it. Ed Kern may vote
again against the peoples interests in
the aqueduct construction and the peo-
pie have good reason to fear it.
Recall Harper and you break the
spinal column of grating in Los An
geles as with an ak.
The advocates Of the recall all over
the land will rejoice that this signal
effort in it's behalf is surrounded with
so many powerful and antagonistic
influences, for success under obtaining
conditions must be regarded as an un-
answerable argument that the peoples
only safety from grafters lies in the
recall and that they demand it's incOr-
poration in the new charter.-Brawley
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07
THE MOSQUITO

n E. GEORGE ADAMS of McGiIl
university says the mosquito has
had more to do with the worlds
history than most people think. DR..
Adams believes the mosquito is the
champion disease spreader of the uni-
verse. According to this eminent an
thority it was the mosquito-and not
gratt-Whlch caused the French tn fail
in their project to build the Panama
canal. The mosquito was also respon-
sible for the decay of Greece and the
fall of Rome. 1t filled the old Greeks
and Romans with malaria, which pre-
vented them from competing with the
husky barbarians who were the an
cestors Of the predominant races of to-
day.
DR.. Adams accuses the modern mos
quito of being as powerful for mischief
as was the mosquito that bIed the
effete descendant of Julius Caesar.
and caused him to degenerate into the
banana man. We don't think DR.. Ad-
ans goes far enough. He gives the
world a new, an illuminating and an
inspiring thought. Doubtless it was
the mosquito which caused the flood.
The mosquito was also responsible for
the late unpleasantness in the Garden
of Eden. The word translated "ser-
pent' in the orthodox version of the
old Testament should be mosquito" +"
Adopting the idea of the learned. Nc
Gill man, please read: Now the mos
quito was more subtil than any other
beast of the field" We believe the
subtility of the mosquito persists even
unto this day. When anything goes
wrong, don't waste your time in idle
fuming and fretting. Go right to the
source of the evil. Blame it on the
mosquito. He's strong.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

ON the ground of economy it is cas-
lily comprehensive why the elder
writer's should come back into
favor regularly and often. 1t might be
possible to show that the unfavorable
financial conditions with which Eng
land, like ourselves and the rest of the
world, has been contending, are partly
responsible for the deviation of public
taste from the modern to the classic
writer's, or to those writers of the pres
ent time who write with the weight, the
leisure and the fullness Of the Victor
ians. Publishers unblushingly call upon
us to pay $1.50 for a novel that will
help us while away half an hour on
rainy day, or for just the story that
goes with a hammock under the trees
and a good cigar, or the book that will
make the tedious business trip from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg a holiday
jaunt Even though the original vol
umes of Our Mutual Friend or Van
ity Fair or "Middlemarch' cost five
times the fixed price of the present-day
novel, see how there can be no COM
parison between the actual amount OF
protein, fat, carbohydrates supplied by
one of Dickens volumes and one of our
modern tales, says the New York Even
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

DR.. James A. B. Scherer, speaking
before the City club, voiced the senti-
ments of an overwhelming majority of
his fellow citizens when he said war
between Japan and the United States
would be a crime against civilization.
No misunderstanding should be allowed
to weaken the traditional friendship of
the American and japanese nations.
When Japan is the subject of conver-
sation, peace talk and not war talk
should be INDUCED in. 1t cannot be
denied that America is responsible for
modern Japan; and with all her cock
iness." which no doubt is sometimes
irritating. the island nation is the ward
of American civilization.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

Mrs. w. I. Thomas, superintendent OF
the Juvenile Protective league, declares
economy is not practiced in human
lives. What goes into the rubbish hear
in the factories are fingers, spines
chests and eyes. If we improve our
industrial and educational systems
she tells us, such a thing as a delin-
Quent child WILL NOT BE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-No performance.
AIASON-Dark.
BELAsCO-"The Girl of the Golden West"
MAJESTIC-"Babes in TOyIand."
BURBANK-"Faust."
Observation-Disclosures.
GRAND-'The Girl from Paris"
Los ANGELES-VaudeviIle.
TSCHER'S-VaudevilIe.
EMPIRE-YaudevilIe.
UNIQUE-"The Land of Tar and Tartar 81
WALKER-VaudevilIe.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

Can any condition be worse than that
described by Judge Stephens when he
says: 1.-The best men have not been
permitted to hold Office. The evil ele-
ment generally gets what it wants. .
We must change all that Recall Mayor
Harper, and let the official life of Los
Angeles start from a new and honor
able point of departure.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07
"Turn the RascaIs OUT

The Los Angeles Herald is still doing
its duty fearlessly by ferreting out vice
in the protected districts" The Her
aid at an expense of only $40 secured
information that the chief of police
of Los Angeles failed to obtain with a
force Of detectives costing $35O0 a
month.
The Herald is working for a clean
city government, while the police de-
partment of the City of Fallen Angels
appears to be stricken with two fatal
maladies, inefficiency and pure GUS
sedness. The Herald is in this fight to
win and it's efforts will be ably second
ed by every organization as well as
Individual in the city having at heart
the good name of Los Angeles and her
emancipation from misrule.
"Turn the rascals out!"-San Bernar-
dino Free Press.
II call you" said Mayor Harper
when a Los Angeles newspaper started
what was termed a bluff at exposing
protected vice" Now comes the an
swer: 81 recall you, mayor San
Diego Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07
International Peace

The nations can have perpetual peace
if they will, and without the cost of
eternally preparing for war. They can
arrange for it by binding international
agreements, and that would be the COM
mon sense way to proceed and the emil
nently practical way.-Victoria (B. Co
ColoniSt.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENTS intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. The Her
aid gives the widest latitude to correspond
ents, but assumes responsibility for their
views. Letters must not exceed 800 words
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

Betting men should realize their oc-
cupation's gone in California and
should not do anything rash. We ex-
tend to them advice borrowed from a
well-known Scotch song, "You, bettor,
bide a Wee,''
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

Boosters are wanted for the consol-
idation bill, according to Assemblyman
Leeds. All right, the boosters will be
or hand. A committee of representa-
tive citizens will go to Sacramento to-
morrow to take part in the fight for
consolidation
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

The Society for the Prevention of
Vice will have an easier time of it
when its efforts are not constantly
thwarted by those of the official Soci-
ETY. for the Protection of Vice.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

The Pink Sock club has a large and
f1ourishing membership, composed of a
big majority Of the most responsible
citizens of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

He laughs best who laughs last, and
the heartiest laugher is the man who
was laughed at by the enemy because,
said the enemy, he wore pink socks.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

When the new mayor of Los Angeles
takes Office, the government of this
city will turn over new leaf. The
next page will be CLEAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

"He's good enough for u.s." We
would like to see Gus" before we could
take much stock in the sentiment.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

Pink socks are warranted to wash
and to wear. They are the best quality.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07

The pink socks socked it to the vel
low papers and saffron politicians.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07
Cause for Rejoicing

Those who banked upon this country's power
OF business recuperaton a year ago have moth
ing to regret Syracuse Post-Standard
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-05
Notice of Bids

Notice is hereby given that
bids will be received at the city
clerks Office on or before 8
o'clock p. M, Aug. 9. 1909. for
the construction of cement curb
ing AUDITING Blocks II and II,
AUDITING West Bayfield, street,
said curbing to be eighteen inch
es in depth, six inches thick at
top and ten inches at base. The
top six inches to. be composed
of two parts sand and one part
cement and the bottom twelve
inches to be composed of one
part cement and three parts
gravel. The bottom twelve
inches to taper from ten inches
at base to six inches at top and
the top six inches to be built six
inches thick, as per drawing on
file in my Office. The commit
tee reserves the right to reject
any and all bids. Dated July
20, 1909.
H. P. Axelberg, City Clerk.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-05

AN exchange very aptlv remarks.
Local patriotism consists in build.
ing up community materially. So
cially, Intellectually and morally.
To talk Of patriotism, whether local
or national, even with the tongue OF
an angel, is nothing but rant unless
it is accompanied by practical action
along the lines indicated, 1t is re.
corded of the old Jews that when
they returned to Jerusalem and saw
the havoc wrought by their enemies
every man did his share IN rebuild
ing the city The same spirit work
ing in any city today is the best
evidence of local patriotism anv one
can give.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-05
GOING TIE LIMIT.
The Souvenir She Carried Off From
Week End Party.

] ne souvenir SnS CaFFtSo VII Ffo"' q
Week End Party.
Among the habits which have grown
apace among Americans or recent
years has been that Of souvenir hunt
ing. Souvenir spoons, knives. forks,
plates, photographs. postal cards and
what not have been Il perfect passion
with the multitude. The thing seemed
to have been carried Il little too far
when somebody 1T reception to the
Chinese ambassador some years ago
tried to snip off piece of that emf
nent humOrist's pigtail with a pair OF
pocket scissors, but even that was sur
passed by a certain Chicago woman OF
great personal attractiveness, who
seems to have reached the ultimate.
A stranger, speaking of her to an
other woman and not being familiar
with certain facts in the family his
tory of the lady to whom she was
talking, observed that she had heard
that the Chicago woman was con-
firmed souvenir hunter. mot really a
kleptomaniac, you know" she said.
ooh, no; not at allv' was the reply.
"She is just the ultra of souvenir
hunting. 1 happen to know too. You
see, some years ago she paid week
end visit at our country place, and
when it was over
''You missed your silverwarew
mo, indeed" was the answer; my
husbandr'-John Kendrick Bangs in
Lippincott's.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-05
San5y's Sausages.

At a Scotch banquet In New York
one of the guests told the following
story:
'Theer was a poor young mon who
lived in Glasgie, an his landlady liked
to mither him, and livery MORN and
livery night she wad gil him freit eggs.
He got tired of eggs, and so he asst a
fren' wheer he warked what else he
might ha' to eat. I alays eat sau-
saSAe,' said the frien'. When the poor
vol 9 mon passed a meat shop on his
way home thot night he bought him a
poon Of sausages an gied them to his
landlady. Cook them for me in the
morrn,' said he. AN how wull cook
the thingsY asked the landlady. Like
We wad feesh,' said he. But the next
norm theer was his fret eggs anst
more. 'Wheer ARE ma sausages? said
he to his landlady. 'Weel,' said she,
we tauld me to cook 'em like I wad
feesh, an when I had finisht cleanin'
the things theer was naught left"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-05
A Heroic ACCOMPLISHMENT.

A prominent politician was appoint
ed to the position of naval officer at an
eastern city during the Cleveland ad-
ministration. While In the city he
made host Of friends, and all Of his
waking hours when he was not en-
gagged in official duties were spent with
these gentlemen attending various in
teresting and costly entertainments.
At the expiration of his term Of Office
he returned home, and his good moth
er, who was an old fashioned German
woman, said to him curiously:
"John, what did you save during the
four years you were in office"
Mother" he said, with smile light
ing up his countenance, IT accomplish
ed wonders-I saved my life"