Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-16
JUSTICE LEAGUE
ORGANIZER BACK
PROF. B0KE RETURNS FROM
EASTERN TOUR
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION is
GIVEN MOVEMENT
Man Who Founded New Organization
Reports Wide Interest In This Step
Toward Civic Purity and
Reform

Prof George Fl. Bol1e of the Univer-
! sity of California, organizer or the san
Fra ncisco League of Justice and editor
| of the leagues organ, The LlDerator,
| has Just written a letter to the local
League of Justice in which he tells OF
his tour Of the eastern cities just COM
! pleted.
| Professor Boke went east some weeks
ago for the purpose of visiting the large
| cities, speaking before the leading civic
organizations on the work of the
| League of Justice, and presenting to
| them a plan for national movement
along the same lines. Everywhere
Professor Boke found the leaders OF
| civic reform anxious to promote the
plan, and he received assurances of aid
| from every quarter visited
Lincoln Steffens, whom he visited in
| New York, and Senator LaFollette,
whom he saw in Washington, were both
very favorably impressed with the idea
of a national League of Justice. Louis
E. Brandeis, the famous Boston lawyer,
was also greatly impressed by the plan.
Professor Boke believes he has laid
the foundation for the establishment in
many cities of the east leagues similar
to those now being established in cities
throughout the west.
While in New York Professor Boke
visited the editors of several leading
dailies which had been publishing arti-
cles critical of the San Francisco graft
prosecution. He found that some agents
of the defense had been attempting to
poison eastern public sentiment against
the work of Heney and Spreckels. He
at once went to work to set the matter
straight and give the editors the true
status Of cffairs.
AS a result, a number of the New
York papers have come out lately with
La, ,rrf1 aV.tfo crixv it1Sr
counts of the graft prosecution and set
ting Heney and his assistants in their
true light The New York Evening
Post has been particularly fair in cor
recting misconceptions on the status of
the graft prosecution by its recent arti-
cles from which the following are a few
extracts:
"Heney, according to Professor Boke,
has not received one cent of remuner-
alton from Spreckels or any one else
since the graft inquiry was begun, al
though his enemies have done their
best to spread the conviction that he
was really a tool in the employ of
Spreckels. A man who does not live in
San Francisco told me he was so inn
pressed with the fight Heney was maxi
ing that he sent him his personal check
for $1,000 Heney returned it with
thanks.
"Why, when Heney gave up his po-
sition as special federal prosecutor, he
abandoned a salary of more than $685.
900 a year He can make between $25, 900
and $40, 900 a year, whenever he wants
to, in ordinary law practice. At the
rate of $4,000 year it is not difficult
to figure out how much Heney has lost
since he retired from the federal serv-
ice. In the graft prosecutions his as
sistants all received from $4,000 to
$25,0O0 each.
"In view of these figures, the stories
that Heney is after the district attor-
neyship of San Francisco are more than
preposterous. He Is far too big a man
for the place. The salary of the office
is beggarly $4,000 a year. Heney told
me himself that he could not consider
accepting the position, although since
then he has promised certain of the re-
form leaders that, if they cannot find a
suitable candidate he will stand for
them. But that is the last thing he
wants to do
During the absence Of Professor Boke
in the east the Los Angeles League of
Justice has been formed, and he writes
the following regarding the organiza-
ton: "It rs a great satisfaction to me
that the league is organized with such
splendid men on the executive commit
tee there in Los Angeles I am more
than convinced that we have the most
fundamental idea in our League of
Justice, and that it will bring the leaven
which will work It's own way in the
future"