Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-12
CAN REGISTER
MONTH LONGER
CITIZENS URGED TO FILL THE
PROPER BLANKS
GOOD GOVERNMENT IN HANDS OF
PEOPLE THEMSELVES
"Failure to Qualify Allows Inference
Of Lack of Civic PRIDE" De-
cIares Prof. L. A.
Handley

Handley
A scant month remains in which to
register or record transfers of resi-
denees by voters who wish to vote in
the coming municipal elections. In
Los Angeles thousands of families
change their residences in the fall, es-
pecially after spending some time at
the beaches, but the head of the house
frequently forgets that, in taking a
different house for the winter, he must
register in order to vote.
Good government organization work
ers are beginning to look up voters in
their respective precincts who are op-
posed to machine rule to see If they are
properly registered. A general 1nYes-
figation has disclosed a large number
of good government supporters who are
not qualified voters, and efforts Will
be made TO secure the registration of
all of them.
ssThe important thing now IS to at
tend to registration" said Professor
L. A. Handley yesterday There Is
surprising number of good citizens VINO
are not qualified as voters, and they
should remember that only a few weeks
remain in which to register. This is
the first duty of the man who wants
to see good government.
Failure to qualify as a voter of the
city allows the inference of lack of
pride in the city's welfare and progress.
Our civic pride ought to be great
enough in Los Angeles to make 1t no
light matter for man to neglect his
citizenship. A man who does not care
enough for the best interests of his
city to see that he is registered and
possessed of the right to vote ought.
almost to be considered a traitor"
Registration Clerk Browns office is
in room ''A' in the basement of the
court house on the east side. The best
who are qualified but who have not
registered this year must do so in order
to vote at the primary election as we'll
as at the municipal election in De-
cember. A voter who was registered
this year, but who has changed his
residence since then, must procure a
transfer from the registration clerk.
Democracy and Political Morality"
was the subject of the address of C.
p. Huey of Upland, the speaker before
the Jefferson club at yesterdays noon
luncheon. "The republicanism of JEFF
ferson in 1909 is the democracy of
1909. pure, undefiled, indestructible,
declared Mr.. Huey. "The trend of
modern political thought has less re-
gard for platitudes and experimental
tion than for opposite and practical
things. Hence it is not my purpose
to make an intellectual excursion into
the former, but confine myself briefly
TO an examination of the latter-in
short, to apply good. sound principles
of common honesty to conditions as
they confront us today; to affirm
THAT it is immoral to take from the |
individual his own property and give |
il to the many
"That it is equally immoral to take
from the many their property and give |
1T to the few.
These affirmations are automatic as |
a matter of pure morals. They are
certainly postulates in the domain of
political morals. Let us endeavor to |
make these postulates clear in their
application to present conditions. All |
just governments derive their powers
from the consent of the governed.
Jefferson's Democracy Alive
at should be borne in mind that the
term republican form of government
was such as was understood by the
patriots of '76--the men who imbibed |
their patriotism from the living waters
that gushed forth from the great rock
of public confidence, touched by the /
pen of our own immortal Thomas JEFF
ferson. The republicanism of Jeffer-
son in 1909 is the democracy of 1909
pure undefled, indestructible. The
wisdom Of the times of jefferson has
been transmitted to this generation
and has become, as indeed it has ever
remained, democracy's political ark of |
the covenant. Our enemies may deride |
us and arrogantly point the finger of /
scorn, yet the time cannot be far dis
tant when the people of this day shall /
arise in their might and shatter the |
Idols cn
away from their own ark of political |
salvation.
1.-THE events Of the past twelve |
months are too recent to justify a re-
cital of the conditions that resulted |
again in returning to power the party |
OF pelf and perfdy. No semblance of |
moral restraints has been observed by |
the victors; the same lust for power,
the same brutal disregard for the |
rights of the plain people, the same |
contempt for the minority in their /
own party-Cummings the courageous |
Iowan who did not dare betray the |
wishes of his own people, even under /
the party lash, for he recognized that |
he was a servant OF these people; La |
Toilette, too, who had thrice success
fully defied the partisan proeurers of |
his own state of Wisconsin, and finally, |
Beveridge of Indiana, the scholarly |
and fearless young giant of his party !
tiAC liAtiiSAlO part u pdTllSdIS. III |
is sincerely hoped that this splendid |
galaxy Of Republican statesmen shall |
soon receive the need that patriotic |
service to their country deserves.
Protection Idea Wrong
I'm my judgment-and 1 am giving |
expression to my personal views only
believe the principle of protection, |
save for government needs only, is not |
only politically but morally and inher- |
emily wrong. l go farther and sol |
emniy declare that no true Jeffersonian |
Democrat can honestly and consistent
ly support in the halls of congress or
elsewhere any measure, even though |
framed to protect his own states in |
dustries. State lines in such an emer- |
gency should be obliterated, for the |
principles of honesty are universal and |
cannot be circumscribed by geographic |
cal boundaries. When we once recog- |
nize this sterling truth and cease to |
trim our political sails to catch the |
selfish breezes, then the genius of Dem
ocratic liberty viii emerge from the
clouds of dependency and gloom which
so long have enshrouded her face, into
the bright light of political emancipa-
tion.
ut was against good political morals
when the Republican party changed a
war Of liberation into a war of subju-
cation It was against good political
morals when the Republican party
chose to hold an islands inhabitants
under a system of baronial suzerainty
after II had in a bloody contest against
its own people secured the enfranchise-
rnenf Of its black brethren at home,
and in less than five years thereafter