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Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08
AIR-SAILING

N interesting story of a balloon
II ascension was printed in yester-
"A. days Herald. When newspaper
correspondents can accompany a sky
touring party and feel they are rea-
sonably safe-as safe as on the average
railway train-and when they can re-
turn to earth and write of their eX-
periences in a minutely matter of fact
and interesting way, it is plain the day
of aerial navigation is nearer than
most people think it is.
A vast majority of citizens now
alive will live to see the day when
balloon or airship trips between Vari-
Gus points will become as common as
any other form of excursion. News
paper correspondents who make as
tensions and write of their experiences
will do much toward popularizing
aerial navigation. 1t is one thing to
interview the daring aeronaut." That
has been done over and over again.
1t is another to take the voyage along
with him, as our Mr.. Harrison did, and
to share ais experiences and his perils.
Up in a balloon as well as on mother
earth the newspaper writer represents
the people; and when newspaper cor
respondents begin to make ascensions
and to familiarize the public mind
with the lair voyage idea it is plain
the time is at hand when the strong
lunged announcer will stand at the
airship depot, calling the name of the
destination and crying, Last balloon
for the north A-a-all aboard"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08
GRAFT AND CRAFT

r N THE story of graft which Is being
published in The Herald the re-
n lations of the Southern Pacific po-
litical machine to certain extraordinary
and outrageous conditions are plainly
established. The liquor dealers of this
city have been used by the unscrupu-
lous managers of that machine as pro-
ducers of revenue for the machines
war chest, to be used in its political
contests. 1t Is not to be imagined for
a minute that the liquor dealers of this
city were hand in glove with the ma
chine bosses. On the contrary. they
were painfully aware of the extortion-
ate nature of the political influences
that squeezed them on various pre-
texts. That a licensed industry, which
has to pay for the privilege of doing
business, should have had to give trib-
ute money to political collectors, prac-
tically under threat or fear of revoca-
ton of license, offers the strongest pos
sible argument not only against tolera-
tion of a machine the distinguishing
feature of which is crafty rapacity, but
against the encouragement of form
of business which Immediately awak-
ems the predatory ambitions of the I'M
scrupulous.
A trade which has to pay for the
privilege of being tolerated in a com
munity is always at disadvantage.
1t furnishes an easy mark for politi-
clans of the baser sort, like the hungry
parasites of the Southern Pacific politi+
cal machine. If the liquor business
wants to be tolerated in Los Angeles 1t
must put itself on the basis of a law
abiding business, and thus remove itself
from the reach of the political grafters
That the attorney for the Royal Arch
should have been made collector of the
port of San Pedro furnishes to a story
of graft and craft climax that would
be absurd if it were not for the fact
that the case is so grave as to preclude
any suggestion of absurdity. 1t is a
serious matter that man of this de-
scription should have been adroitly
placed in a situation of Importance
and responsibility. 1t is an insult to
Americanism, a travesty on free gov
eminent.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08
TELEPHONE RATES

TIME HERALD will not undertake.
to express any opinion as to the
II reasonableness of the telephone
rates as provided for in the ordinance
recently passed by the city council
over the mayors veto.
The members of the council should
selves as to the correctness of the
rates embodied in the ordinance.
1t is a question as to whether the
members of the city council, with all
the other matters demanding their at
tention, have the time to carefully go
into the matter of rates charged by
public service corporations, and The
Herald is inclined to think that the
best solution of this question will be
arrived at by appointing a committee
to thoroughly study and digest the
question of rates charged by public
service corporations as basis of legis-
1ation upon it by the council.
One thing, however, is certain. and
that is that the Home Telephone COM
pany is entitled to charge as high rates
for the service rendered as its rival,
the Pacific Telephone company, is en-
titled to charge. Indeed, if there is any
discrimination to be made, and The
Herald is inclined to think there is, 1t
should be in favor of the Home.
The Pacific Telephone company. I'M
der the terms of it's franchise, con-
tributes nothing to the city, while the
Home Telephone company, besides hav-
ing in operation in the city probably
more telephones than its rival operates,
has for the current year paid into the
city treasury the sum of $15,22271 I'M
der that provision of its franchise
which requires it to pay the city 2 per
cent of it's earnings.
The city also enjoys the right, under
the Home franchise, to use the top
crossarms on all pole lines and $50
pairs of wires and downtown cables
for it's fire and police systems. in addi-
ton to 80 free phones. The cost saved
the city by the use of the poles and
cables of the Home company repre-
sents many thousands of dollars; in
fact, were the city compelled to erect
poles and provide its own cables for
carrying it's police and fire alarm sys-
TENS, the expenditure would be tens of
thousands of dollars in place of thou
sands.
1t is a fact which must be humil-
Eating to every voter in the city that
while some OF our city councilmen re-
fused 10 consider the lowering of the
rates of the Pacific company so as 10
equalize what has heretofore been a
crying injustice in the rates accorded
the two companies, these same council
men hesitated about raising the Home
company rates in order to give it an
even break with its rival.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08
TO ENCOURAGE MILITARlSM
is BUT TO TEACH DIABoLISM

LONG BEACH. April 8. Editor Her
adj: Somebody in yesterdays Herald
complains of my criticisms on Roose-
velt's spirit of fight. 1 repeat: War is
the crime of nations. To inculcate in
the minds of the young, or to encour-
age in the life of the grown men love
of militarism; to teach anything re-
garding war but that it is monstrous,
inhuman wickedness, under all and
any circumstances, is to teach diabo!-
ism.
That there have been wars wherein
one side was fighting on the right side
ands one on the wrong is true. But
even these conflicts could have been
settled peacefully. Our civil war"
seemed to be an exception, but it was
not. Here is it's history in line: Two
thieves stole a horse. They quarreled
over the plumber, and the horse got
away. The questions of patriotism, of
bravery, of self-sacrifce, do not come
into the question. These are common
in all wars.
If kings and priests had not troubled
earth with their presence, there never
would have been a war. The people
never go to war. They never did.
There are conflicts enough of mind
against matter; of human genius and
IHuSClS over luc lllCil lO4NCS VI hdbui .,
of human intellect over the dull sog-
giness of ignorance, to keep the race
in healthy activity all the days of its
life.
The people want no battleships, no
armies, no strutting brigadiers In
private life we make men arbitrate
their disputes. To kill over a quarrel
is murder, and we teach more murder
by numbering the murderer. But that
is an infernaiism that fingers in our
civilization.
War is impolitic. 1t is criminally
wastefui. England made fertile the
waste veldts of Boerland in Africa with
her slaughtering soldiers, till now her
frantic WarlordS are finding out that
she is short of men.
AS a killer of the pick of men war
has no rival. Roosevelt has some fine
traits Of character. So has John Sulli-
van. But this war spirit is an instinct
of brutality. 1 ask pardon of the brute
for the illustration. Brutes never make
war en- masse. Only man does that.
The great Nazarene taught that peace
was the natural condition, and the I'M
varying duty of the race of men. He
allowed no exceptions, and he never
taught a doctrine that was not practi-
cable under any and all circumstances.
/ quote from his manhood, which was
great and good, may be perfect. His
divinity was invented for him by an
cient and modern paganism. His hui
manity is noble, symmetrical, possible
to us all, and the only safe example to
follow. SENEX.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08

tariff question the issue, and won on
a high tariff platform. The same issue
was believed to be the one that gave
the vote of Pennsylvania to Lincoln,
and IL that be true 1t was the issue
that gave Lincoln to the Union.
In the presidential election of 1856
there was not much said about the
tariff. The Walker tariff had worked
so we'll. at least to outward appear
ances. that the whole country seemed
to acauiesce in it. But the following
year found the strong boxes or the
government overlooking with money to
such a degree that 1t became necessary
to reduce the revenues. A bill provid-
ing the lowest tariff in the history or
the country was then introduced. 1t
was not long in reaching the point or
consideration. There was much par
liamentary maneuvering in the house
and senate. The latter body dominat-
ed the situation and secured the pas
sage, in practical entirety, of the meas
ure introduced by Senator X. M. L.
Hunter of Virginia.
one of the most remarkable things
about the tariff of 1857 was that many
industries which were dominated by a
thoroughgoing protection spirit did all
they could, and actually spent much
money to make the bill as nearly free
trade measure as possible. 1t was
shown that a single wooden mill spent
SS7. 900 in its campaign for free trade.
These manufacturers knew full well
that there was no chance of protection
for their products. Their next best
course was to secure free raw material
and their energies were spent in that
direction.
1t was not long after this until the
panic of 1857 came on. All protection
lists attribute 1t to the low tariff. All
do historians
take middle ground and find causes not
dissimilar to the panic of 1907. Be that
as it may, the following year saw such
deficits in the revenues that Justin S.
Morrill, hit off the situation by saying
that the government was obligated to
go to bed without it's supper" every
time imports fell short of million dol
lars week at the port of New York.
However, the low water mark of
treasury receipts was reached just
about the time the measure went into
effect, and from that time on there was
steady rally back to normal condi-
lions.
When the second session of the
Thirty-sixth congress met the senate
put 1856 amendments onto the Morrill,
bill, 1855 of which were accepted by the
house, and the measure went into eff
feet in April, 1861. After this came a
succession of tariff acts for raising
funds for the prosecution of the war
One was passed in August, 1861, and
carried with it an income tax, as well
as direct tax of $4,000, 900. Another,
placing a new rate of duty on tea,
sugar and coffee, was passed during
the following December In 1852 the
tariff was raised even higher, and only
ninety-nine articles were left on the
free list. In 1864 still further increases
were made, and the free list curtained
even below the ninety and nine ar
ticles. In those days the statesman
who could suggest new subjects for
taxation was regarded as patriot
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08
BELIEVES WOMANLY WOMEN
ALWAYS ATTRACT MANLY MEN

LOS ANGELES, April 5.-[Editor
Herald: Marion Martin, in the fer
vor of zeal for her cause, has allowed
her feelings to run away with her eyes,
for she failed to notice that the letter
she criticises, in today's Letter Box,
was signed &C. H" by a woman, and
not by &C. f." man.
In my letter dated March the edi7
tors headline ran thus: "She Takes
Issue With Marion Martin on Woman's
Privilege" This caused me some mer-
riment for any careful reader of the
Letter Box must have known by the
context that it was an error to call
me a she.
There are manly women and woman
ly men, both of whom are liable to mis-
take the sphere for which they were
intended.
[ agree with &C. H." in this, that if
the creator had intended men and
women to be equal in everything he
would not have made them different
The womanly woman will attract the
opposite sex and the manly woman
will repel it.
! consider myself a manly man and
if | were a young man looking for a
wife l would seek the society of just
such women as &C. H. who has cho-
sen the better part G. r.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08

1t is high time the shippers of Cali
fornia got down to business by uniting
in an urgent demand for the estab-
Iishment of a federal steamship line.
After a while patience ceases to be a
virtue, and there is neirLer merit nor
martyrdom in allowing needless or
selfish tyrants to trample on you.
Nothing in the way of relief can be
expected from Hartman. lie is the
same old Hartman. Then why allow
him to blarney a big state and it's
great and growing industries?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08

matter, ana eX-
presses it fully in
his Twenty Years
in Congress" He
points out that the
national excitement
over Obi e ed 1 n 6
Kansas" was much
stronger in 1856
than in 1860, and
that in spite of this
fact the country
went Democratic in
1856 and Republic
can in 1860. To
Pennsylvania he
gives the credit of
having turned the
scales. 1t was then
said OF Pennsylva-
MIA as it has later
been said of New
York, that as 1t
goes in a national
election, so goes
the Union. In the
gubernatorial cleo
ton of 1860 Curtin,
afterward war gov
arnor made the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08

A bill has been introduced which
makes it a misdemeanor for federal
officer to be a delegate to a political
convention. If it should become law
and if the states should adopt similar
legislation with regard to local office
holders a new word will have to be in
vented, for the political change will be
more than a mere revolution"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08
AT THE THEATERS

MASON--Lilian Russell in "Wildhre."
BELASCO-"The Dollar Mark"
BURBANK-"Tn Gay New York"
MAJESTIC-'Friends."
GRAND OPERA HOUsE-"The sultan OF
Sulu."
ORPHEUM-Vaudeville.
Los ANGELES-Vaudeville
FTSCHER'S--"Poppyl land"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
UNIQUE-"The Generals Dilemma"
WALKER-Vaudeville.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08

The chairman of the municipal art
commission is almost ready to an
nounce plans for another great public
park, which will extend along the
Arroyo Seco from Los Angeles to
Pasadena. Truly, this is the city of
magnificently beautiful parks. in this
as in every other respect it is the fin
est in the world.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08

TT is quite general conviction
among men who know the inside
Il history OF events of 1860 that the
election of Abraham Lincoln as presl-
dent was due to the tariff and not the
result of. slavery agitation IL SUN
he TINE the civil War was more d.
rectly due to the tariff than to slavery.
lanes G. Blaine took this view OF the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08

A Chinese merchant in the United
States must not become bankrupt and
change his occupation. The Chan
Leung Hue decision establishes the
precedent that a Chinese merchant
who "goes broke" and becomes a la
horer must be deported.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08

Price of -four is long, and house
wives complain loaves are short
What's the matter? Has the flour
trust cornered the visible supply of the
raw material for the staff of life?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08
A Safe Bet

II Don Cipriano Castro
Does dare go back to Caracas.
There's no doubt that for moment
Dust will hide mighty fracas.
But when all the dust has settled
Venezuelall be a-spraddle
And all dazed. but Cipriano
VIII be lolling in the saddle.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08

Railroads are announcing reform
No longer will walters be allowed to
bawl, breakfast is now ready in the
dining carl" Instead, they will go
quietly from enger to passenger
and break the news gently.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08

Our morning astrological Republican
contemporary yesterday gave this adj
vice. Buy that which thou hast long
desired" Yes; but supposing thou hadst
not the price?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENTS Intended
for publication list be accompnnied by the
name and address of the writer. The iIer-
mid gives the widest latitude to correspond
ents, but assumes no responsibility for their
views. Letters must not exceed 800 words.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08

An expert predicts unless the output
of diamonds is controlled the once pre-
cious gems will soon be as cheap as
quartz crystals.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08

Tomorrow Tariff Laws.
XII.-Morrison's Horizontal Bill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
LIKE OLD. STARS
Baseball Public Does not Take
Kindly to All New
Players.
ESPECIALLY IF THEY LOSE
Case of Peoria a Striking Example
Patronage So Poor Life of Game
is Threatened.

Peorias disgust with baseball this
season may be taken to emphasize
two facts: 1t is a suicidal policy for
a management to go to extremes on
salaries, and it is unwise to make Il
clean sweep of team from one sea.
son to another.
In Peoria's case the former mistake
forced the second one upon the club
With team last season drawing
was found impossible to keep the mem
bers under the reasonable limits
adopted this year and the aggregation
Manager Donnelly presented for 1909
was practically a. new one.
Last seasons team was an aggrega,
ton of star individual performers,
who naturally attracted large aper-
sonal following among the supporters
of the game in the Still city. This
year there was no particular interest
in the team as individuals and when
a poor start was made the attendanc.
fell off 10 such a point that the life of
baseball in the city is threatened.
Old Players Help Here.
On the other hand, Decatur, Bloom.
ingtOn and Dubuque, neither of which
has made a particularly brilliant get
away, the attendance is kept up
through interest in the personnel OF
the teams. In Rock Island. while a
winning team counts, there is no
doubt that the old players help to swell
the patronage. Keeping the old stars
over from one wear 10 another has
been made possible through avoiding
reckless individual salary expenditure
Thus Rock Island, in common with the
others named. was able TO retain most
of last years players and yet remain
close to the $1,000 limit, and when
this week the figure was increased 10
S1.750 this city, at least. was left i'm a
very comfortable position and with
what The Argus firmly believes is the
strongest team in the league, barring
none
Manager Donnelly is given a chance
to see how pet theory of his would
probably work out He has all along
contended that the players left over
after the sales of the season should all
revert to the league and that the clubs
should draw by lot for pitchers, catch
| ers. first basemen. etc, contendiny
that this would insure close and inter
esting races every year. With due
regard to Manager DonnelIys long ex-
perience and baseball ability, it is be.
lieved this seasons experience has
shown that such a plan would never
work out.
| Teams Not stock Farms.
| Baseball teams in the minor leagues
should not be regarded as stock farms
Exclusively for the development 81
players for faster company. While
Everybody likes to see the men advance
it should be for the sake of the play
ers themselves, not solely for the sake
of the coin that they may bring and i,
is believed that the experience of the
league this season tends strongly tC
bear out this statement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
A Grand Family Medicine.

1T gives me pleasure to speak a
good word for Electric Bitters,' -
writes Frank Conlan of No. 436
Houston street, New York. Its a
grand family medicine for dyspepsia
and liver complications; while for
lame back and weak kidneys it can
not be too highly recommended
Electric Bitters regulate the digestive
functions, purify the blood, and i'm
part renewed yigor and vitality to the
weak and debilitated of both sexes.
Sold under guarantee at all drug
Igists. SO cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
SOxANDCENTRALS TO MEET
Old Rivals to Play on Watch Tower
Diamond Sunday Afternoon.

The White Sox and Centrals meet
Sunday afternoon at the Watch Tower
in what promises to be one of the
hardest fought amateur contests for
years. These teams are evenly match
ed and much rivalry exists between
them, the Sox having defeated the
Centrals in the only game they have
lost this year and by a very close
score. Both teams are confident cf
victory because of the showing they
have been making of late. They will
line up as follows:
Centrals-Bulger, C; Larson. p; OH
weller, lib; O'Neil, 2b; Juhl, IS; Baum
bach, 3b; Rosenfield, If; Collins, CT;
Means, rf
White Sox-Sage, C; Stapleton, r;
Knapp, 1b; MacManus, 2b; Long, SIS;
Bakersfield, 3b; Andrews, If; Miller
lcf; Wahlheim, rf
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
THREE-EYE LTAGUE.


Peoria-Rock Island. postponed: rain.
Decatur, 2; Davenport. g.
Bloomington, s; Dubuque, o.
Springfield-Cedar Rapids, postponed;
rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Chicago, 4; Philadelphia, 3 Q2 in
nings.)
Pittsburg. 81 Boston, s.
Cincinnati, 6; Brooklyn. 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Philadelphia, 6; Chicago, 9.
New York, Z; St Louis. 5.
Boston, 3: Detroit, 5.
Washington Cleveland, rain.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Indianapolis, 5; Kansas City, o.
Louisville, O; Minneapolis. 2.
Columbus, 2; St Paul, O.
Toledo, 2; Milwaukee, 90 innings
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Sioux City, 8; Lincoln, Is.
Pueblo, 1; Wichita A.
Des Moines, 70; Omaha. 9.
Denver, 10; Topeka, 5.
CENTRAL ASSOCIATION.
kewanee, A Ottumwa, 8.
Burlington. 0; Waterloo. Z.
Hannibal, 1; Keokuk, 9
Jacksonville, 5; Quincy. 2.
CENTRAL LEAGUE.
South Bend, /; Dayton, 0.
Grand Rapids, 1; Fort Wayne. 0.
Terre Haute, / Evansville, (callet
in fourth; rain.)
Wheeling-Zanesville, postponed; rain
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
Elderly People
Helped Free

The last years OF life are the sweet
est, and yet the most difficult to pro-
long. 1t is then that the greatest care
is exercised in maintaining bodily
health. But the chief care should al
ways be with regard to the food you
eat and whether you are digesting it
properly. You should not allow your
self to become constipated.
No doubt you have tried salts and
catharuc pills, .purgative tablets. etc, and
have come to the conclusion that they are
violent in action and do but temporary
good. Listen, then, to the voice of ex-
perlence with regard to a wonderful and
mild laxative, DIR. CaldwelPs Syrup Pep
sin. 1t is not new, only we are trying
to find new friends for it.
A. A. Felts, of Johnston City, ILL.,, suf-
Tered from stomach trouble for six years
and found his cure in DR.. Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin. His wife uses it too with
success We could name hundreds OF
otnerS. Some heard of it first through
neighbors or friends; others through the
doctors offer to send any sufferer from
stomach, liver or bowel complaint free
sample bottle for trial, without charge
II you VIII send your name and address
your home. If it proves itself as he
claims then continue the treatment by
buyingi a 50-cent or 81 bottle of your
druggist, as all of them sell it. Old people.
ike children, should look for purity, and
IT is well to mention that the purity OF
this remedy Is Vouched for with the u. S.
government. Also. though a free bottle
is sent to prove its merits, results are
always guaranteed from the regular
bottles bought of druggists, who will re-
fund your money if it does not satisfy
you. Send at least for the free test bottle
tedaV
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
NEW AUTO KICKS OWNER
W. f. johnson Carrying His Right
Arm i'm a Sling.

w E. Johnson, designer ut the Rock
Island Plew works, who resides in the
Payne flats. is Carrying his right
arm in a sling. from which fact his
friends are correctly inferring that he
has new auto. The break is a ser
ious one. both bones having been frac
tured in "cranking up