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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
TRUST TYRANNY

N ROBABLY because many worthy
citizens are chary of encouraging
Il what they call the pernicious habit
of tobacco smoking, the operations of
the mammoth trust which controls the
manufacture and sale of the Indian
weed do not receive as much newspa-
per or public attention as those of
trusts which deal in recognized necessi-
ties of life. Yet since tobacco repre-
sents a huge industry, and means bread
and butter to hundreds of thousands of
citizens of the United States, we may
be excused for putting aside the ethical
question involved in the use of tobacco
and glance for a moment at the eco
nomical This illustrate in a marked
degree and with tremendous emphasis
the opportunity which the trust sys-
tenn gives to tyrants not only to make
whatsoever profit they will out of the
public, but to interfere with the pur-
suit of happiness of many of their fell
low citizens by depriving them of an
opportunity to make a living. Every
citizen of the United States is entitled
to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness. and we question whether any
citizen, however wealthy, powerful or
clever, has the right to put any other
citizen out of business. We do not
believe he has that right. When the
holdup man has a right to strip his
fellow citizen whom he meets on the
dark street, when the highwayman has
a right to demand the purse of the way
farer, then will any citizen, under any
business guise or preteXt whatever,
have, before God and the first princi-
pies of the Republic, the RIGHT to
loot another of his capital of his oppor-
tunity, of his business, of his living
And yet it is done every day unre-
buked.
In order to show how seriously the
tobacco trust infringes on the rights,
liberties and livings of many people
who never use tobacco and could not
tell the difference between a Havana
ard wisp of hay let us quote the
figure representing the net capitaliza-
tion of the trust 1t is over 1916, 900, 00O
or course this figure is utterly mean
ingless to any mind. Students do not
believe the machinery of any human
brain can intelligently grasp and under
stand 100000; and the extraordinary
sum of 316,OO0,O00 is as multitudinously
vague as the starry heavens.
But here is another way to look at it,
This huge amount of capital really rep
yesents vast number of human beings,
and the energies of many bodies and
many brains. The human owners of an
overwhelmingly large majority of these
bodies and brains are practically en-
shaved to the few tobacco lords who
reign over this great American indus
try; but, by a detestable and deceitful
euphemism, which we should try to
overcome, are called a trust" instead
of a tyranny.
The tobacco tyranny and the beef
tyranny are so much worse than the
King George tyranny which preceded
the Revolution that good Americans
who go to heaven within the next few
years will make it their first business,
unless these latter-day tyranny condi-
tions are amended, to seek out the
owners of the Boston tea and apologize
for the urgent precipitation with which
this nation, which is now swallowing a
camel, strained out a gnat
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
CHURCH AND THEATER ARE
COMPARED BY WRITER

Los ANGELES, Feb. 27.-[Editor
Herald: The thunderings of the
ologian against the evils of the theater
are the hyperbole of asininlty in an
ocean of misdirected energy now preva-
lent among our professional moralists.
Imagine, if you please, a world, we'll
even a city with no temples of knowI-
edge, entertainment, sociability. but
churches. Thanks to the enlightenment
OF the times such thing hardly can
exist even in the imagination. True
enough, there are some bad plays, but
think of the bad preachers and worse
sermons.
If you are contented to draw your
mental fertilizer from good sermons or
even those net so good. all right; get
it there; but please discourage your
sermonizers from attacking the theaters
discriminately-the place where so
large a proportion of humanity culti-
Yates it's thoughts and molds its ideals
the up-to-date place where modern
ideas are fostered and cultivated and
not the moldy, medieval theology of
forgotten age. w. G.. HENRY.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
MAKE 1T MUST

TT IS THE duty of Senators Per-
kins and Flint to do their level
Il best to make the Pacific federal
steamship bill law. AS congress ex-
pires officially at noon next Thursday,
it may not be possible to bring the
measure safely through both houses.
But the McLachlan bill can be intro
duced at the special session, and by
that time there should be such strong
public sentiment in favor OF this i'm
portant legislation it should be forced
through triumphantly. Flint has charge
of the bill introduced in the senate.
When congress reconvenes the federal
steamship line legislation should come
UP Immediately, marked MUST"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
cRITIcIsEs OPINION THAT
SUNDAY is A SACRED DAY

LOS ANGELES. Feb. 2S.--TEditor
Herald: Christianity is one of the
best religions on earth, yet in Its jour-
ney across the centuries it has gath
cred under its wing a few things that
are foreign to 1t, one of which is the
teaching that Sunday is sacred.
The custom of worshiping Sunday is
taken from the sun worshipers of pa
gan Rome. 1t was first made a day OF
worship by the Christian world in the
year 321 A. d. by the foolish emperor,
Constantine.
The reason he made it law is be-
cause he, Constantine, represented the
union of church and state, and in his
ambitious notions for the church he
adopted the pagan's day of worship
SUMS day, which is the day we call
Sunday, so that there would not be so
much difficulty in converting the
heathens to Constantine's Christianity.
If there is any other fundamental
reason for the "sacredness" of Sunday
it would be received with pleasure.
My own belief is that all days are
sacred and the date that am Off duty
is the day that worship on.
A YOUNG MAN.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
NEW MEXICAN GANG

GAIN must a familiar fact be re-
"a corded. There will be no state
"a hood legislation for New Mexico
and Arizona at the present session or
congress" News of this kind has
ceased to excite us. 1t has no more
effect on us than the thirty ninth con-
secutive issue of the Ark Times had
on Noah when he read at the head of
the editorial page weather indica-
lions, rain" Some kind of news makes
the reader blase. He tires of it. But
the usual monotony attendant on the
damnable iteration of New Mexico
Arizona legislation Gf we may speak
of such a thing when there isn't any
was relieved by some spicy testimony
presented in statements prepared by
Senators Nelson and Beveridge, who
charge there is a gang in control of
political affairs in New Mexico and
that members of said gang are habit
ually guilty of corruption and of jury
bribing.
If the statements are true then New
Mexico is in the condition frequently
described as anarchy" Riotous con-
fusion has usurped the place of gov
eminent It will be a happy day for
the United States when a political or
politico- railroad gang, organized for
the purposes of loot and plumber, is
recognized as a conspiracy. A gang
that exists for the purpose of taking
advantage of conditions and plumber
ing the public may call itself politi-
cal organization, but it is an "organi-
zation" of the type similar to one Of
which a man named Guy Fawkes was
the boss" long ago.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
UNANswERABLE TRUTH


tGO My by the consolidation of San
Pedro with Los Angeles can
the great harbor now being
constructed here by the government be
developed and operated to the public
interest and free from corporation con-
troll" This is the opinion of a ma
jority of San Pedro voters, stated in a
telegram sent to Savage. 1t is a clever
telegram, because it contains succinct
expression of the unanswerable truth.
Legislators and citizens may argue
back and forth, machine men may
piffle-paffle, but the sum of the whole
matter is Corporation control or
freedom"
There is no doubt the people Of Los
their minds the day of corporation con-
troll in Greater Los Angeles is over. No
longer will Southern California be
Operated; no longer will this or that
city. and especially, no longer will San
Pedro, with it's splendid harbor pros
poets, be worked for the enrichment of
a corporation which is already fat on
California loot. If the corporation is
willing TO do its fair share of the work
of California and take its fair share of
reward for the work. not only will no
objection be made, but the services Of
the corporation to the community will
be welcomed, appreciated and ac-
knowledged.
But no corporation will be allowed
to work" California and hog whatever
reward or benefit may come to Cali
fornia in the natural order of business
development. All opposition to con-
soiidation is suspicious. No matter
what excuse may be alleged by the
Observation-Disclosures. their efforts look
like attempts to secure and maintain
a corporation hold on the states mer-
camille development, in which harbor
construction and maintenance will play
most important part. California for
the Californians, and not for the cor
porations, is the modern motto of our
citizens. If corporations wish to work
for California they shall be rewarded.
But attempts to work California will
be sharply rebuked.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
INCONSISTENCY OF MAN is
MUCH RIDlcULED BY WOMAN

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2S.-lEditor
Herald: The Inconsistency OF some
men is astonishing. One of them says:
mo man is good enough to rule over
another man." or words TO that erect.
Yet he believes men should rule women
not even allowing women voice IN
ruling themselves.
Women have never gone so far as 10
demand a monopoly of power, as men
have. She only asks for her little share
in governing herself, and some men
(who say nobody shall rule over them)
insist woman must not have even her
little say, but that she must be ruled
bv man. because he is more intelii-
gent" He said so himself.
Your correspondent. who is so afraid
women will interfere with his beer and
cigars if allowed a voice in the govern
ment, should remember no one ever mas
suggested that men be dlsIrancnlsea
and politics be turned over to women
exclusively, though if this should be
done 1t would be no more unjust than
turning the government over 10 men
exclusively. as has been done up TO
date =,
Some men want to keep women IN
their power for purposes of their own.
You will notice that the same men VINO
uphold vice always oppose freedom Tor
women. Keep women in dependent
and helpless position and they VIII De
more and more driven to sell them
selves. The decent men are as mucn
i'm favor of restrictive" measures as
are women. Anyone who is silly enough
to take offense at being called little
one" does not show much sign of the
gray matter" they boast so much OF.
Eurrah for broadminded. progressive
men, who are willing to help take
women out of bondage.
VERA FIDELIA.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
PLATO in EGYPT

Plato in Egypt, so the legend goes;
And with the words the picture rises
clear
The scorchipg, boundless sands IL, dsep-
browed
strayed from fair Greece in search OF One
who knows
Paused he not here. where Abou simbel
shows
In tranquil majesty. without peer
A strange stone smile. benignant, calm,
austere.
soulless and satisfied. past joys or woesg
Did he. the wide-souled. who could deeply
pry
Into the Cause. could sift the False and
True
Did Plato ponder here the riddle why
Man frets and seeks? Had Abou found
the clue?
Did Plato. too, depart hence with sign,
While stii the stone lips smiled as II they
knew?
--E. Boyle o'Reilly. in Putnam'A
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01

In Chicago the problem of dealing
with the holdup man has been solved.
Chicago sprawls over vast territory,
and in suburban streets metropolitan
equivalents of road agents piled busy
trade. They baffled the police, as they
have baffled them in various other
cities. Finally law was passed which
made life imprisonment the penalty
for highway robbery committed with
the aid of deadly weapons. Under the
law several men have been secluded
from society and the holdup industry
is languishing.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01

One of the magazines publishes a
story which in lurid detail tells how a
Socialist plotted against a great f1nan-
cier. Now the Socialists may be mis-
guided or fanatical or radical, but they
are certainly not the kind of people who
concoct plots against millionaires. They
are not in the plotting business. If
fair plays a jewel the Socialists are
certainly not getting that kind of jew
elry at the hands of ignorant, malicious
and libelous magazineers.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
AT THE THEATERS

BELASCO-"The Three Of Us"
MAJESTC-'NVho's Your Friend?"
BURBANK-"Peter Pan"
AUDITORIUM--"Bab in the Wood"
GRAND-"El Captain"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Los ANGELES-Vaudevil
FTSCHER'S-"R. NJ. S. PinafOre."
UNIQUE-"wanted- Indian"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
The State Press
Wide Open Mayor

San Bernardino has been receiving
some hearty congratulations on the
passage of an ordinance by the city
council forbidding prize fighting, but 1t
seems that the congratulations were
somewhat previous, as the mayor has
vetoed the ordinance. Mayor Hanford
has been a strong advocate of the wide
open" policy for the city, but his term
of office will soon expire and perhaps
then a mayor will be elected who will
sign the anti-prize fight ordinance
Riverside Press.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
Doubtful

We are wiling to concede that there
may be a reason for an advance in
freight rates, but if there is, it can only
be established to our complete ,satis-
faction after a thoroughly competent
and disinterested court of inquiry has
carefully reviewed the problem and all
the clements that enter into it.-Bak-
ersfield Echo.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01

Mr.. Root has said, several clever
things in his time, but none cleverer
or truer or more significant than that
the secretary of war of a big civilized
nation like the United States should be
the secretary of peace.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
Far and Wide
Phenomenal Fair

David Francis request that the federal
government relinqush its claim to money
which managers of the late St. Louis fair
wish to devote to a statue of jefferson calls
attention to the singular fact that one
'worId's fair closed with something be-
sides liabilities Let the Jefferson statue be
erected. 1t would be doubly monumental
Boston Record.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01

A Japanese merchant named George
Shima is the potato king of San Fran
CISCO He controls more potato acre
age than any other man in the world.
If the ridiculous war scare were not
over some of our friends would be
straining their brains in the endeavor
to assign Mr.. Shimas potato patches
TO a proper position of sinister sig
nificance in international diplomacy.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
San Francisco Beaten

According to the United States COM
missioner of education Los Angeles
school children number 42,151 to san
Francisco's 40,746. 1t is now up TO the
papers of the Bay City to admit they
are outstripped in the race for popu-
acknowledgement Messenger.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
lnauuuration Music

Hail to the Chief" must be played
but once at the inaugural, the band
masters are studying hard to find mu-
sic appropriate to the occasion. Carve
Dat Possum" ought to have place on
the program.-Santa Rosa Press DEM
ocrat
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01

We do not envy the men who will
make themselves famous" by attempt
ing to place obstacles in the way of
the Greater Los Angeles program.
Consolidation is public necessity.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
Murder Made Easy

The complete success of the final expert
ments on Maxms noiseless gun will meet
in certain circles with unqualihed approval
A thug equipped with a weapon that will
kill at long range without disclosing MS
identity, has every reason to regard the In
ventor as a friend.-Boston Traveller.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01

President Taft's brother Charles has
bought Millet's fine painting, sheep
Shearing" 1t is believed he will pre-
sent it to the board room Of New York
stock exchange.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
NV M ARMAND

These Lincoln day celebrations viii go
far toward cementing the fuilest uhner,
standing between the sections. Maryland
stood in the trying position of border
state in the internecine strife and bore
much of the brunt of that conflict 1t was
readiest to aid in healing the nation's
wounds.-Baltimore American.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01

Bungalows the only build.
Come hither from your eastern frost
Ye who the coin can pungle, oh,
A California bungalow.
(This rhyme is protected by U. S
patent. Reg. 41144.)
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
Marines on Deck

At present indications point to a restora-
ton of the marine corps to the ships ana
in fact to its ancient position with refer
ence to the service generally'-New York
Sun
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
ALWAYS on the Job

As golf player MIR. Rockefeller seems
to be excellent company. His investigation
training has not gotten him into the habit
of forgetting the rules in critical plays
Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
Hot Springs Story

Arkansas is no place for Tom Will
liams of Emeryville fame. At Hot
Springs in that state the other day a
storm lifted Baptist church and de-
posted it at the gate of the local race
track.-Vallejo Evening News.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01

A Masonic trowel is being taken on
a trip around the world. We hope it
is enjoying itself and that it will pub
lish a book narrating it's adventures.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
An Invitation

BY the time Roosevelt gets tired of kill
ing lions he can probably have some sport
by coming to Ohio and chasing blind tigers
Cleveland leader.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
Good Use for Name

The name of the governor of Califor-
MIA has never seemed so much a moral
force as when it appeared upon the
anti-racetrack bill which he signed last
week.-Huntingto Beach News.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
DEGRADATION

Battling Nelson wants to be Chi
cago councilman. Nearly all pugilists
take the downward path.-Whittier
News.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
The Public Letter Box

for publication accompanied
f note
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
,ionified sIeddlnu

In Boston. where 1t is their boast
Things are correctly said,
oh, tell us, do the children coast
Upon a Robert sled?
Louisville Herald.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01
sad

Warm weather like cold weather sets
All sorts of trouble dom;
We hear the eastern peach crops safe,
But the Ice crops a ruin.
Houston Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-16

Representative William S. Bennett
of New York, is rapidly learning just
where he stands with his constituents.
For the purpose of acquiring that
knowledge Mr.. Bennett recently had
printed a letter which he sent to the
10000 citizens in his district. The
letter says:
The Sixty-first congress, to which
| have been elected, as your represen-
tative from the Seventeenth congrs.
sional district, has begun it's first ses-
sion. You doubtless will be interest
ed in measures which come before
congress, and l shall always be glad
to hear from you concerning them.
If there is any way in which, as your
representative, 1 can be of service
to you please consider me at your
command at any time
The letter brought forth hundreds
of responses, asking the representa-.
tive to do all sorts of impossible
things in the way Of national legis-
lation. There was one letter, how.
ever, which was safe and sane. The
writer used the same sheet of paper
as that on which Mr.. Bennett commu-
nicated with him, and down in the
corner he wrote:
Come home. Bring all the other
NJ. C's with you
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-16
Medicine Man Made Good.

In the August Wide World Maya
zine, c. H. E. Askwith of Ottawa.
tells an amusing story of ''rain-ma-
king The prosperity of the Yukon
is, as every one knows, closely bound
up with an abundant rainfall, and in
order to insure this the services of
a ''rain-making expert" were enlist
ed by the government and commit
tee of mine owners. He failed, where
upon Silas, hereditary chief of the
Moosehide Indians, staked his repu-
tation that his tribal medicineman
could do more wonders than all the
paleface's science. Nature, through a
remarkable coincidence, came to his
assistance-with the unlooked-for re
suits that the Yukon got all the rain
1t wanted, and that the entire tribe
Of Moosehf1es went back to the faith
Of their savage forefathers The
facts are strictly as | relate them
writes the author. Il was at that time
editor of the Yukon Daily World, and
took small part in the affair."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-16
DIVORCES RARE IN CANADA
Surprising Difference Between Stats
tics of United States and Her
Neighbor on the North.

There is surprising difference be-
tween the divorce statistics of the
United States and those of Canada.
While in this country divorces are
granted by the thousand. on the other
side of the boundary the number rare
ly reaches even two figures annually.
Since 1867 there has been a grand
total Of 1876 divorces granted in Can
ada.
The figures are given in detail in
the st. John Globe as follows:
In 1S67-6S one was granted; in SO,
one; 10, II and 49,! none; '73, one
rs, one; '76, one; II, four; rs, three;
70, one; "a, one; IS, five; SO, one;
ST, five; IS, two; SO, four; 80. two:
'92, four; '93, seven; "a, six; '95,
three; '96, one; '97, one; '9S, three
SO, four; 1900, five; '01, two; 90, two;
'03, seven; '04. six
In 1905 nine were granted: in 1906,
fourteen; 1907, five; 1908, eight. while
the last season eclipsed all records
with a total of 16.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-10-16
Calls for COURAGE,

mo matter how watermelon may
be cut up or served in fancy style, it
never tastes better than when placed
before one in the good. old-fashioned
southern Slice" said man in the
Waldorf-Astoria the other night. 81
would have it oftener, but no one
feels more conspicuous than the man
who calls for it and has his waiter
approach in state with the huge, scar
let slice. 1t seems as if every one in
the room turned to stare 1t takes
nerve to eat watermelon. AS for can
teloupe and ice cream as a dessert.
they are all right if little apricot
brandy is put into the melon before
the ice cream. That blends the flavor
delightfully."-"