Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24

porter could go in with perfect i'm
punity and take a point of view there
where q little girl was seen to come in
and sit down by table. Two whiskies
were given her in rapid succession,
and then she was carried aloft by a
male companion.
"Of course that might have happened
once, and it might just have happened
the newspaper reporter was there on
just that one occasion when it hap
pened. But do you believe that? And
when that thing was published, have
you heard of any raid being made or OF
any stop being put to that sort of
thing? OF that other place over here
called the Manhattan hotel.
There has not been any raid except
ing one on Eddie Morris place. Eddie
at once APPEALED to "A. c. you know.
Call up A. c., and he'll turn us all
loose!'
Nov, my friends, this, you say, is
the moral aspect of it. Yes; and I
want to say to you the government of
a fair city like Los Angeles has more
than one aspect, that it has a moral
aspect. (Cheers.) And the largest as
pect, after all, is it's moral aspect. We
have an able and conscientious Judge
sitting up in the court house devoting
his life and his heart and his soul to
the effort to save the erring boys and
girls in the parental court he has es-
tablished there, and this, if he achieves
honor till the last hour of his days.
(Cheers.)
but, cui bono? What good, when
there is upon every corner and between
corners scoundrels lurking lying in
wait to capture and inveigle into these
dens of infamy and iniquity these same
untaught, helpless and erring children
that T1I6oa VVi1bI1Y- iS TRYING tn save I'm
at the court house?
Duty as Citizens
1--WE have got to work with both
hands. 1t is all right to take care of
your economics. 1t is all right to guard
these twenty-odd millions of dollars
that we have voted to bring the water
down here, my friends, and nobody
will help you any more zealously than
1 will. 1t is all right to count the
three or four millions Of dollars that
pass through the same hands outside
of that fund.
''There are other economic purposes
in this recall movement. 1t is more
than right; it is our sworn duty as
citizens to follow out to it's end our
announced purpose. And let us not
forget for one hour in the twenty-four
that we are sworn to do it.
But let me tell you that it is just as
imperative, just as obligatory upon us
to SAVE THE CHILDREN Of this
town from the ruination and the temp
tation of the practices which have been
carried on here by the permission Of
the constabulary and the executive of
this city as it is to care for economics.
cloud and prolonged cheering, renewed
again and again.)
NOW. my friends, do you believe
that if Mayor Harper is removed from
his office we cannot get man in
this town who has no stock in the
same corporations with those people
who are carrying on this mischief and
conducting these hell-holes in this
city? That we cannot at least put
some limit upon this fragrant VIOLA
ton of the law?
Honest Mayor Will Act
"Do you have any doubt, my fellow
citizens, that if we got into that office
of mayor an upright; square, honest,
able, conscientious man, that these
emissaries of vice will soon hide. their
heads and that those persons who have
been carrying on gambling dens and
the bawdy houses and the other
wretched resorts will at last have some
little respect for the decencies of the
great mass of the people of this city
and that if they don't that we will at
least have the pleasure-and the ex-
pense-of lodging them in our county
iails and warehouses, and perhaps in
the penitentiary? (Cheers.)
II know this thing can be done, and
you know it.
IT am in the sere and yellow leaf.
laid off my militant clothes fifteen