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

IN Wo MEMBERS of the state board
of railroad commissioners have
Il actually appeared before COM
mittee of the California senate and told
something of what they do, and fail to
do. OF course the latter branch of the
subject is boundless in it's possibilities.
1t is not so much that the commission
ers have done practically nothing for
a generation in office, though the only
one of those who had the ability to
make a presentable appearance freely
and frankly acknowledged that to be
the fact. The thing which astonished
the senate and the people of the state
was that there should be any appear
ance and talk of themselves by these
commissioners. Such a thing as that
had not been heard of in the official
life of the oldest member of the legtsla-
ture. 1t was subversive of the policy
of shrinking modesty and vow OF
silence pursued and kept for years. The
next thing which was brought out, and
accumulated, was that the charges fire.
quently made that these commissioners
have done nothing of value since the
days of the famous Jim" Rea board
was confirmed by the testimony of the
two commissioners, Loveland and lr-
win.
Loveland frankly stated that the
condition of the constitution and the
lack of statutory enactment as we'll as
the failure of legislatures to provide
funds to work with had effeetually
tied the hands of the board. Irwin and
he confessed that they had not beaten
down any doors trying to get to legis-
lators to beg for or demand needful
things. The board has been able to
make the railroads do what the rail-
roads volunteered to do, and nothing
more Not even has there been COM
pulsory filing of tariff sheet, not one
in all the life of the commission. Love-
land has been in office one year last
month. Irwin has been in office six
years last month.
In all that time. up to year ago,
two rates. out of all the tens of thou
sands of rates made and charged ry
the railroad companies in California,
have been legally established" only
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
CAPTAIN FRIES

WI HEN consolidation is an old
wv story, when, Greater Los An
W geles is as familiar a title as
Greater New York, the name of Capt.
A. A. Fries will be remembered as that
of the PRACTICAL genius of San
Pedro harbor. Many people can speak
in terms of vague appreciation regard
ing the harbor. 1t is comparatively
easy to describe it adjectivally. But
Mr.. Fries never makes a public ad-
dress on the subject without putting
his audience in possession of easily re-
membered and quotable facts and fig
ures. In one of his latest addresses
Cant. Fries incidentally referred to a
circumstance which has caused con-
siderable wondering comment. The
CAPTAIN said he failed to understand
the unfriendly policy of Long Beach
on the consolidation question: and
showed how the development of the
inner harbor made possible a harbor
for Long Beach and increased prop
erty valuations.
In summing up the benefits that will
come to Los Angeles with consolidation
Capt. Fries showed the absolute cer-
tainty of a realization of the prediction
that Los Angeles will be one of the
greatest commercial cities of the Unit
ed States.
1t was only natural, he said, that
government should be interested in the
adequate fertilization of San Pedro, in
view of the government improvements,
which included construction of the
breakwater deepening of the channel
and dredging of the turning basin. The
harbor will be protected against any
or ALL hostile fleets by Notifications,
and an aggressive system Of defense
consisting of twelve-inch disappearing
guns, big mortars, submarine mines
and torpedoes.
As long as the ships of all nations
continue to visit San Pedro, and we
believe that is equivalent to saying as
long as the world spins on its axis, the
name of Capt. A. A. Fries will be re-
melnhered with gratitude and appre-
citation by the ever-incceasing and ever
prospecting population of Greater Los
Angeles.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
MINISTER TREATS RELIGION
AS APART FROM THEOLOGY

LONG BEACH, March 2.-[Editor
Herald: In glancing through the Pub
lie Letter Box this morning | have
been panied to observe that my pseu-
donymous fellowtownsman with the
appellation Senex comes to grief be-
tween the Scylla and Charybdis of re-
ligion and theology. In avoiding the
one and steering clear of the other he
falls into unseen rapids midway be-
tween. He says, Religion is the re-
lation that man bears to God and is
the science of mans spiritual nature.
Theology is the theory and practice of
priestcraft."
His terms are mixed. Religion is
the life of God in the soul of man.
Theology Is mans rationalizing about
that life. Dogma is theology made
authoritative by an ecclesiastical man
date. Religion is vital, divinely
constituted power. Theology is what
we think about that power and the
intellectual deductions we draw re-
garding it, Dogma is theology sane
toned by certain weight of opinion.
The catalogue of crimes which Senex
laws at the door of theology belongs
properly to dogma, or better, to &C.
clesiasticism, which is churchism for
the sake OF the loaveS and fishes. So
called religious wars have been unholy
attempts to coerce dogma or church
oTicialism upon men who had differing
and individual theologies
If Senex has any theories at all about
God and his relations to man. these
theories constitute his theology. The
study of physics is to natural forces
what theology is to religion. Why rail
against theology, then? Wherever re-
ligion exists there must be theology
also. hope that Senex, who, pre-
sume. is a layman, will pardon. these
Comments anent a subject in which
the writer, a minister, may be sup
posed to speak with some knowledge,
il not authority.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
INAUGURATION

n N THE eve of presidential inaugu-
ration the country prepares to
~ welcome the coming, speed the
parting chief executive. Theodore
Roosevelt can never go into retirement.
He could not have led a retired life even
if he had never become president. He is
one of the worlds men of destiny. He
was public" from his youth up, and a
public character he will remain until the
end of his days On his return from
his African trip he will become an
editorial and historical writer; and in
this stage of his career he will realize
his ambition.
We hope the people of the United
States look with considerable respect on
1.-The writing business" 1t has given
them the most popular president they
ever had, as we'll as the president who
will succeed him. After this it won't do
to say writer's are not practical" In
many cases-although we admit not in
all-the foundation for that charge lies
in the fact that writing is an absorbing
business, and few men engaged in il
have time or opportunity to look after
their business affairs. They are al
ways more or less-generally more
rather than less-at the mercy of 9TH
ers. We hope President Roosevelt and
President-elect Taft will change all
that. We should like to see a National
Public Writer'S association formed,
with Col Roosevelt as its first presi-
dent. We believe he would serve, and
there would be a square deal for the
unrecognized professional men who
make everybody's fortune and every
body's reputation but their own.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE RESTS
ON BASIC CHRISTIAN TRUTH

Los ANGELES, March 1.--[Editor
Herald: "A Young Man. who as
sumes to criticise the 'sacredness" of
Sunday, seems to have overlooked one
Of the first principles of the Christian
religion.
The fundamental reason for the OBJ
servance of Sunday as a sacred day is
that Sunday every early in the morn
ing on the first day of the week." as
the scriptures tell us) Is the day on
which our blessed Lord rose from the
dead. The fact of his resurrection,
which can be historically proven, is
one of the. foundation stones of the
Christian religion, without which the
whole structure would fall fiat.
The custom Of observing Sunday as
q day of worship did not originate in
321 A. D., but began Immediately after
our Lords resurrection. His followers
made that the sacred day instead of the
seventh day of the week, which, Nun-
der the Jewish dispensation, had been
observed as "the Sabbath"
A LAYMAN
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
VICTORY AHEAD

N GOD organization and hard work
Dr. will mark the citizens nonpar-
VI tisan campaign for the election of
George Alexander as mayor of Los An
geles. S. c. Graham, a Republican, is
chairman of the campaign committee,
and enlisted in the fight is a solid body
of the citizens who on ordinary matters
of politics may have had and may have
their differences of opinion, but on one
subject are united. They are resolved
Los Angeles shall be freed from all
danger of graft and from all machine
interference. The machine of course is
supporting Mayor Harper. Is he not a
man after Walter Parkers own heart ?
Why should the machine leaders wish
to have anything to do with Honest
George Alexander, a man who repre-
sents everything which is inimical to
boss rule, machine government and
practical" or graft, politics?
The election of Harper is favored
and desired by the Republican Parker
machine. Every machine man win
vote for him, every machine influence
is supporting him. Thus Los Angeles
again must fight a battle on the old
familiar lines. Citizens must rebuke
the machine by electing George Alex
ander We have ..aG enough of a
mayor who attempted to "compro-
mise" consolidation We want square
and fair, true, tried, trusted and trust
worthy citizen to take up the work of
the mayors office at this important
time, when honesty, prudence, sagacity
and a knowledge of business affairs
are absolutely necessary to the welfare
of the city of Los Angeles. These quail
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
MuDr1oNGERs

TN THE mayoralty campaign the
Harperites are intrenched in
II ditch behind a mud heap, and are
using part of their intrenchment for
ammunition. This is bad policy, for II
win leave them exposed; but they DO
not realize that. Successful arguments
in favor of the reelection of Harper
cannot be moulded out of mud. MUD
is poor argument.
That a cartoonist on syndicate
paper should have had the audacity 10
label the honest figure of George Alex
ander "hypocrite" is only equaled py
the astounding fact that another pro-
vice newspaper found 1t worth whlle 10
republish this slanderous cartoon. The
name is the last that should be ap-
plied to George Alexander, even by
the boldest of the pro-vicious papers,
for common sense might have told the
yilifiers of the veteran soldier of the
republic that the people of this city
are too fond of fair play to stand by
quietly and allow one of the most hon
ored and most honorable of the gem
tlemen who have taken part in the
public affairs of this city to be vi
tuperated.
Mr.. Alexander is well known by his
fellow citizens. If ever there was
man who honestly merited the adjective
honest" it was honest George Alex
ander 1t was first applied to him long
ago, and, unlike the mud which has
been flung at him by the gutterfighters,
it has stuck. BY people with such
dwarfed mentality they cannot under
stand honesty, it is looked on with
suspicion. When a man is open and
above board, says what he means,
means what he says, and does his duty
faithfully to God and to man, the in
tellectual pigmy sneaks out of his hid
ing hole to boot. He does not dare to
use the shorter and uglier word-he
knows his skin would be tanned-so
he takes the longer and uglier word
"Hypocrite," he cries.
Exasperating as this petty malevo-
lence is, it loses its force because of
the thickheadedness of the genial
gentlemen who are cropping to the ell
bows in the mud heap. If they knew
what the word meant, they would not
use it in the vain endeavor to excite
prejudice against the peoples candi-
date for mayor, Honest George Alex
ander" who will win in spite of all
the little mudmongers, between here
and the lost slough.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
ASSERTS THAT WOMAN TODAY
BELONGS TO PRIVILEGED SEX

LOS ANGELES, March 2.-[Editor
Herald: Vera Fidelia, whose religious
sentiments previously expressed with
forceful logic 1 greatly admired, is
sadly out when she descends to the
clamerous yociferations of the suf-
fragettes.
She says: "Hurrah for broad mind
ed, progressive men, who are willing
to help take women out of bondage"
1t is not true that women have been
in bondage, except where slavery ex-
listed: and then men shared the same
fate. In society in general 1t is the
other way about. Women are the
privileged sex and men are willing TO
be their humble servants.
1t is the married women who rule
and they are the majority among wo-
men. Says the good wife to her hus-
band: John, do that" And he does IT
and is proud of it. And so we can go
as far back as Mother Eve, who gave
Adam to eat, and he ate.
Fools rush in where angels fear to
tread" is here exemplifed, and the
good wives know well enough that by
trying to act independently of their
husbands they would lose their power
and privileges by acting contrary to the
law of God as manifested in nature.
All laws are made not merely by
man as a class and for man, but
chiefly for the protection of the home,
where woman rules supreme. Man
contentedly tolls that he may provide
for his wife and children. Yea, man
made laws provide that when hus-
band does not so provide the Wife may
disown him and get a divorce.
Was man selfish in enacting such a
law? / claim, in fairness to this sub
iect, that women entering the field of
politics should have regard to the ma
jority of their sex and not merely in
stance exceptions to the rule and ig-
more the wives and mothers, who out
class them both in numbers and inn
portance. c. Il.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
METHODIST EPIscoPALlANs
HAVE NO USE FOR THEATER

PASADENA, March 2.-LEditor Her
add: Victor Hugo said: 1.-THE actor is
the high priest of his pulpit, who sows
seeds of thought" A sermon might not
have budged Hamlets uncle. but the
play did.
The church's business more than any
other, wants to crush competition. An
institution never great, always mar
row from time immemorial, 1t has re-
sorted to persecution.
It's no use to answer abuse. In this
analytical age every proposition must
rest on merit. The only way is to APP
peal to the intelligence of people
through broad and liberal education.
The Y. M. c. A. for one--the social
club OF the churches-is all right in its
way The sum is that the NJ e. church.
which DR.. Locke represents, Is positive
ly opposed to and has no use at all for
the theater. w.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
IF WRITER is A MAN, SHOULD
FEEL ASHAMED OF HIS SEX

Los ANGELES, March 2.-[Editor
Herald: If Economist is a man |
should think he would be ashamed to
acknowledge that his sex demanded
the whole/a.e slaughter of souls and
the sacrifice of the virAee of his neigh
bors' daughters, just because he was
unable to marry.
If belonged to a sex which demand
ed the white slave trade" and kent it
up by patronizing it / would be
ashamed to tell it-afso would not talk
about superior intelligence" and claim
that the male sex alone is fit to be
intrusted with the government.
He seems to think that men who are
unmarried have a right to the souls of
some of the female citizens What a
noble animal a man must bel
JUSTICE.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03

ifications are found in the character of
George Alexander, a man NO cannot
be bought, influenced or bulldozed, a
man under whose vigilant eye tn great
Owens river fund would be safe from
predatory attacks. Mr.. Alexander is
needed in the mayors office. The peo-
pie must send him there. We believe
they will. Reader, do your part. Vote
for George Alexander for mayor of
Los Angeles. and for that honesty
which is the best foundational policy
on which all the policies for the city's
progress and the public good may rest
securely.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
ECHOES OF OTHER DAYS

Tread with mien that's proud,
Likewise present a brave array
Before the curbstone crowd;
And when they're moved to yell 'hoorayvs
It's good and plenty loud.
But memory still fondly turns
To other days than these,
And for those old-time marchcrs yearns
To other victories
All felt were intimate concerns
OF each one, If you please.
Those oil cloth capes, those gaudy caps,
And lights that trailed afar
OF greasy torches--ah those chaps
Were something over par;
Though, when they passed, the street per-
haps
smeled like motor car
indianapolis News.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03

DR.. William Long has survived the
presidential attack, and shows no signs
of a scar in the place where Mr.. Roose-
velt's accusation that he was the orig
inal nature faker hit him. Now he says
North American wolves are harmless.
Animals, he declares, are far less saw
age than men. They don't struggle
with one another for food. There is no
survival of the fittest among them. An
animal, unlike man, when he has a
corner on food does not exact the last
dollar of tribute. He shares it unself-
ishly with his fellow creatures. Com
ments by T. R. will be eagerly awaited.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
AT THE THEATERS

BELASCO-"The Three of Us"
MAJESTIC-"Who's Your Friend?"
BURBANK-"Peter Pan"
AUDITORIUM-"Bab in the Wood"
GRAND--"El Captain"
Observation-Disclosures
Los ANGELEs-Vaudevill
FISCHER'S-"H. M. S. Pinafore."
UNIQUE-"Wanted- Indian"
WALKER-VaudeVill
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
NeW York Takes an Interest
i'm the MayOraIty Election

has been chosen by committee OF cit
liens. and whose election the Los An
geles Herald regards as assured. In
the petition for the mayors recall. it
is said that he has shown himself gem
orally incompetent, failed to enforce the
laws, and appointed unfit men to office,
particularly on the police commission.
The grand jury has also filed report
accusing Mayor Harper of alliance with
and profit from vice in his city. 1t is
two to one.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
Far and Wide
Taft's New Burden

How will Judge Taft bear his new
burden? His nature is hopeful and
buoyant. He likes company and at
tracts persons of his own temperament.
His duties in the Philippines were new
and very trying, but he discharged
them apparently with ease-certainly
with great success. And in the war de-
partment he showed the same ready
grasp of questions, and carried his load
without STOPPING Washington Post.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
Two Saved. ANYHOW

America has not always been careful
to preserve the homes of her statesmen
and presidents, but it is gratifying to
know that those of the two greatest,
Washington and Lincoln, are now safe,
and both illustrate as nothing else can
the possibilities of American institu-
tions-NeW York World.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03

Members of the Ebell club have been
in Boston is taken to be sign of the
ultimate achievement in mental aes-
thetic ealisthenics. In Los Angeles,
however, it is merely an incident; "all
in the days work."
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
Frats

The trouble with the frat societies is
that they have been gradually develop
ing a spirit of nsubordination-a re-
fusal to submit to discipline--and un-
fortunately some of them have made
themselves obnoxious in other discred-
liable ways. In some universities and
colleges and high schools the secret
society fraternities have already been
suppressed by those in authority.-Oak-
land Tribune.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03

Arrangements are being made for an
Arbor day celebration for the benefit of
the school children of our patriotic
and enterprising city. They will do
their tree Planting with appropriate
speeches and ceremonies.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03

Chinese in New York have confessed
there is a big conspiracy for smuggling
Chinese into the United States. There
must be white Caucasian connivance at
some point. Where's the graft? And
who is getting it? Oh, this loathsome
and despicable graft business!
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
Anuels in California

Lillian Bell says there are 1.-TWO kinds
of women in the world So there are.
The bewitchingly beautiful and angelic
battercake- Tapping and patching
kind that inhabit Houston, and the an
gular, extravagant, henpecking kind
that reside beyond the boundaries of
Texas.--Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03

BY the success of the McLachlan bill
providing for a federal steamship line
on the Pacific the robber transportation
monopoly will get what Wee MacGree-
gor said he gave his antagonist: "Ane
on the neb twice"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03

Standard Oil company is again on
trial on the charge of accepting re-
bates from the Alton railroad. Jawn D.
is preparing a special chapter Of rem
iniscences. 1t will be entitled Trials
and Tribulations.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
Self Sacrifice

The new secretary of war will give
up a salary of $35, 900 year to enter the
cabinet. There are many professional
patriots who will find it difficult to UNI
derstand how anyone may be able to
enthusiastically serve his country I'M
der such conditions.-Chicago Record
Herald
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
Atchoo!

sneeze on Sunday morning fasting,
You'll enjoy your truelove TO everlasting
4 In the highlands of Scotland 1T is be-
lieved that a newborn child is under
the thrall of the fairies until it sneezes.
London Chronicle.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
The State Press
Words and Blows

From words those obstreperous
statesmen who infest Sacramento have
now come to blows. Because State
Senator Leroy A. Wright of this city
intimated pretty strongly that he
thought there was graft in the Islais
basin project he was tapped on the
jaw by Mr.. McRae, as was also a news
paper man who had the temerity to ask
a senator for his reason for doing
something. All of which will not help
the Islais project in any wise.-San
Diego Tribune.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
a DAVIS Work

"You are very late this morning, Mr.. link "
Eyes, sir. 1 was unavoidaby detained"
What was the trouble?"
''My little girl, who had just tumbled out of
bed and wished to dress herself, asked me to
turn her union suit right side out. Houston
Post.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03
Hush

Twas the day after Christmas and all through
the house
Not creature was stirring, not even mouse.
For Willie had stuffed himself so full Of bird
The doctor declared he must not be disturbed.
Puck
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-03

THE railroads are discharging all men with
gray hair"
Most of the married men will be safe"
How so?"
1.-The majority of them are bald Houston
Post.