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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
POPULATION

DY FAR the most important nationa
X question of the day is that of the
~ declining birth rate, to which Los
Angeles Herald which obtained its in
formation from accurate sources, has
early to say unless there is a change
for the better, nationally we are un-
DONE" because the population of the
United States is being increased stead
lily. The gutter ships of civilization are
steadily dumping on our devoted shores
the stunted Czech, the underfed Hun
and the poor-spirited Slavonian whose
progeny may be the heirs of the Declar-
alton of Independence and the sword
of Bunker Hill
But it is not too early to say that un-
less steps are taken to prevent fur
Their shrinkage of the birth rate, RA-
CIALLY we are undone. Theodore
Roosevelt said, in striking phraseology
that cannot be improved on, the race is
committing suicide.
| If America is to remain great and
glorious. the
Land where our fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims pride,
citizens must awaken to RACE CON
SERIOUSNESS. The greatest protection
that can be given the American people
is protection of the American home,
and, even at the expense Of an appar-
ent check in population, the nation
may yet have to suspend all immigra-
49,, q, ov.dar IN raa di11st acorouic
conditions and save the old stock.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
MERITS SUCCESS

OUR weekly contemporary, The Pa
cific Outlook, is to be congratu-
~ lated upon having secured Mr..
C. d. Willard as editorial contributor.
With Mr.. willard as it's editorial writ
er, this weekly should become a very
positive force for the cause of good
government and civic decency in our
city particularly and in the country
generally.
No man is better equipped with
knowledge gained by years of study
and experience which will enable him
to treat intelligently and forcefully the
various phases Of our municipal affairs
as they develop than is Mr.. Willard.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
MARRYING MONTH

TUNE is marrying month, and many
new couples are beginning welded
- life in our lovely California sun
shine. Let us wish that during all their
days they may be blessed with matri-
monial climate like the climate of Cali
fornia-always serene, always snil-
ing, always happy. All brides are
happy, but California brides are the
happiest of the happy. California sun
shine and happiness make life ideal. AS
the office poet remarks:
1.-THE brides of June. The brides OF
June. The month is all a honeymoon.
And when the nuptial knot is tied we
wish each California bride a wealth of
health and plenty, wealth and friends
galore and BARNS a score and lots Of
love to last through life. Luck to each
California wife! North or south or
east OF west-our California brides are
BEST
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
QUOTES OTHER MINISTERS
FOR BENEFIT OF MR.. LOCKE

LOS ANGELES.l June 7.-LEditor
Herald: l note the report of the Sun
day sermon of DR.. Charles Edward
Locke of this city in your issue of to-
day. Reverend Locke seems, like very
many more of his brother ministers
seems to think, that the laboring mans
troubles are easily solved by bundle
of good advice and an admonition to
be good-not comprehending the magni-
tude of the struggle-that great strug-
gle to adjust himself to a revolution In
the means of production and dlStr1Du-
ton of the necessaries and luxuries OF
life, brought on by the introduction OF
machinery and the immense comoina-
lions of capital
The great marvel to me is that the
workingman is patiently seeking way
out of the difficulty, meantime paying
heavy toll to the eXploiters of his labor
power. The moment he awakes and
organizes and becomes conscious OF his
power he will have a reckoning with
his taskmasters.
1 quote from Rev. w. S. Rainsford
st. Georges Episcopal church, New
York: 1--WE are confronted by two
forces-property rights and human
rights. Today property rights and
human rights have met upon the high
way and are combating for the mas
terry. Do you recognize the gravity
of the situation? Do you recognize that
new issue is upon us, the solution of
which will take great men-men
prompted by the noblest impulses and
whose actions must be guided by un-
erring wisdom?"
The following is from we'll known
minister Rev. r. Heber Newton: THE
era of competition is ended. The era
of combination has opened. All bust
ness is concentrating. In this massing
of capital there is coming to be an
absolute domination over the wage
worker over the interests of the peo-
pie at large; over the life of the state
itself. Yet this movement is natural
and necessary. 1t is in the line with
economic progress. The real question
concerning it is: Can these new orders
grow a soul within tia spirit capable
of mastering these monster powers and
using them, not for self-agrandizement,
but for human service? If it cannot,
there is a revolution ahead, worse than
any the world has hitherto known. If
it can, there opens an era of bound
less beneficent progress. This is a
question of religion. 1t is the old need
of an ever fresh faith and hope and
love-" HARVEY A. GIBSON.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
LITTLE PRIMROSE"

II ORD ROSEBERY'S oratorical abil-
ity seems to have surprised some
~ of our friends. AS q matter of
fact, if Primrose of Dalmeny had not
been handicapped by his distracting
title, his distracting wealth, and his
distracting devotion to the turf, his
energy and ability, concentrated on lit
erature and politics, would have made
him the legitimate successor of his
friend and political patron and master,
William Ewart Gladstone.
He has been true to his ambitions and
has realized all of them. The credible
and apparently we'll authenticated
story goes that when he was at school
his teacher asked him and his class
mates to state their ambitions. When
it was the turn of little Primrose" to
confess. he said modestly: When 1 am
a man l will win the Derby, marry the
richest woman in the world and become
prime minister"
There was a roar of laughter But
little Primrose was as good as his brag.
He carried out his program.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
REBEcCA SPRING

TIME most remarkable woman in the
world is a citizen of Los Angeles.
Il Yesterday she celebrated her nine
ty-eighth birthday, and to dear old
Rebecca Spring, the matriarch of the
United States, The Herald sent hearty
greetings and wishes for many happy
returns of the day. Mrs. Spring is
best known because of her heroism in
carrying first aid to injured John
Brown" when. wounded and in prison,
but with spirit undaunted, he awaited
the inevitable consequences of his raid.
Prejudice was infiamed to an extent
of which we "moderns" have no ade-
quate conception. That important sec
ton of organized society to which it
is now customary to refer as capital
ism" was frenzied with rage because
a sacred institution" was menaced by
"bigots, Quakers and fanatics" John
Brown, whose zeal, by all excepting adj
vanced thinkers and primitive Amer
leans" was regarded as fanaticism, with
the aid of a few kindred spirits had
tried to strike a blow which would
precipitate the inevitable crisis and
cause the CONFUSION and upheaval of
public opinion which the radical reform
ers of the day saw would be necessary
ere the nation could be brought to its
senses and induced to take a CONSIST
EMIT position with regard to the first
principles of Americanism, one of
which is;
1--WE hold these truths to be self-evi-
dent. that ALL men are created
EQUAL, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights,
that among these are life. LIBERTY
and the pursuit of happiness"
If it were not for other un-Ameri-
can inconsistencies not less anomalous
and remarkable than slavery which are
tolerated and even encouraged at this
late day OF our national history, we
would find it utterly impossible to
reconcile the practice of the wealthiest
and most powerful capitalists of their
time, the cotton lords and tobacco
planters, with the plain. unequivocal
statements of the Declaration of indie
pendence.
But in the light of social develop
ments of the last decade it is easy to
see how and why for years the great
slave holding aristocracy fiourished
with the support of the government and
the consent of the nation, and why,
when our Mrs. Rebecca Spring, with
dauntless, glorious and never to be for
cotton courage. for which heaven has
blessed her with length of days and
with honor, PIONEERED America back
to the old ways and the old truths, she
was mobbed, execrated, threatened but,
like one with charmed life, achieved
her noble mission and escaped I'M
harmed alike from mob menace and
conservative" disapproval.
God bless John Browns ministering
angel, our Rebecca Spring of Los An
gelesl For many a weary day has the
body of the fiery old Boanerges and
martyr lain "moldering in the grave
but his soul goes marching on, and as
long as the soul Of John Brown OF
Harper's Ferry goes marching down
the ages, the name and fame of Rebecca
Spring OF Los Angeles will be remem-
bered and honored.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
ASKS DIR. LOCKE ABOUT THE
AWFUL ExTRAVAGANcE OF MEN

SOLDIERS HOME, June 7.-[Editor
Herald: DR.. Charles Edward Locke in
his sermon Sunday evening, in his
effort to show that the workingman'
poverty comes from strong drink, cited
a brother clergyman who said that he
saw in the streets of Chicago process
sion of workingmen $4,000 strong carry
ing a banner on which was inscribed
these words: "Our Children Cry for
Bread" and they marched to a picnic
where they drank 1400 kegs of beer!
No doubt DR.. Locke's fashionable audi
ence was properly shocked at this evil
dence of debauchery and sinful waste
of money. A key of beer holds eight
gallons, consequently they drank but
little over half gallon each. One dol
lar keg would be a liberal estimate as
to the cost This would make the ex-
pense to each shade under cents.
No wonder that poverty is rampant
among the Industrial classes when a
workingman will recklessly dissipate 8
cents at a picnic. R. M. F.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
DENIES WOMAN RESPONSIBLE .
FOR CHILD LABOR PROBLEM

WASHINGTON May S1.-[Editor
Herald1 An editorial entitled Moral
Training in your issue of May % sug
gests an important theme in econom-
les, yet here again we find the brttnt
of blame cast on feminine shoulders.
That this child labor question is an
evil which should receive the attention
of every sane individual no one will
deny, but are women responsible for
the conditions which necessitate child
labor?
What shall the abandoned wife do
il she cannot earn sufficient for the
maintenance of those unprovided for
without the assistance of her older
children?
Is there single Instance where any
effort has been made to legislate along
lines to provide methods of relief for
women so situated? Child labor is a
curse to any nation, but no more SO
than that married women, mothers,
should be compelled to carry more than
the burdens of maternity, and that
many of them do cannot be denied.
Are we justified in assuming that the
children of INDECENT parentage are
more inclined to crime than those of
wealthy parents? The child labor
question cannot be solved until we
have done something with the divorce
problem.
When it comes to the point where
boys in our graded schools who con-
template studying law are planning
their clientele among the girls of their
respective classes in the matter Of OBJ
tanning divorce in later years there is
something radically wrong in our fam
lily life, and if we have any regard for
truth we must admit that man Is
largely to blame.
Women do not make laws, yet they
L. III ~. h "a -
men, 1t is the women who are advo-
eating mot more babies, but better
babies" and In spite of race suicide
cranks they are on the right track. NO
man or woman has a right to be par
ent of more children than he or she
can properly care for, and when this
is fully understood one cause of divorce
IA, ~ ra,,aovad ANXIOUS.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
PEACE-TRUST

II ABROAD building on a large
X scale in China is assured by the
~ German British French loan of
$27, 100000 for the construction of the
Canton Hankow and the Hankow-Sze
Chuen railroads. The opening up of
China will be helped by the construc-
ton of the projected roads. But some
thing more important than railroad
building is helped by the financial triple
alliance between the three great Euro
pean powers. Partners in a big deal
win not indulge in any controversy
that will give the other contracting
parties a chance to "call it off, and
the German British French loan to
China is a much more reassuring sign
of the peace of the world than is
Dreadnaught building!
When various firms, or various in
dividuals, have highly important in
terests in common which would be
jeopardized if the various firms or in
dividuals had falling out there is es-
tablished a practical cause for the
preservation of peace. In view OF
many indications of the probability OF
a peace pact which will be forced upon
political civilization by commercial
civilization, the military preparations
of political civilization seem to be ex-
traordinary and decidedly anachronis-
tic. Some day the commercial ano
financial interests of the world will
unite in a trust that will be really
good. 1t will not be possible to leve
any adverse criticism against THE
GREAT PEACE-TRUST.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
CONDITIONS THAT PRODUCED
THE PoLTERA HORROR

LOS ANGELES, June 5.--[Editor
Herald: have so often had to differ
from T. X. G.. on matters discussed in
the Herald Letter Box that 1t is with
peculiar. pleasure / write to indorse his
admirable letter going to the root OF
the Poltera and all such crimes.
A society that so uses vast number
of its units that they are perforce sex
starved and become as consequence
sex maniacs, must expect to be re-
VOTED at more or less frequent inter
walls by crimes of the kind that has
stirred us all so deeply during the last
few days.
Not in hysterical rawlings for revenge,
but in the study and recognition Of the
conditions that produce these crimes
lies the only reasonable hope for the
stamping out Of this hideous thing
from our midst VAL STONE.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
SEES DISCRIMINATION IN
TREATMENT OF LIBRARIANS

LOS ANGELES, june S.-[Editor
Herald: Until few years ago we had
a woman librarian for the Los Angeles
public library. During that time there
was no trouble in the library and no
one had any fault to find with the SER
vice. Then it was decided that the pc
sition was too important for woman,
and required the superior judgment of
a man. The man also required double
the salary the woman librarian had re-
ceived. Ever since the change was
made the library service has been poor.
If Miss Jones was better librarian,
why did she receive only about half the
salary paid to the present librarian?
Perhaps when women have the ballot
they will not be Disseminated against
for no other reason than they are
women. A YOUNG GIRL.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
AT THE THEATERs

AUDTTORIUN-Mrs. Fiske in salvation
Nell"
MASoN--John Drew in Jack Straw"
BURBANK-"Secret Service"
BELAsCO-"Shore Acres"
MAJESTIC-Kolb and Dill in Lonesome
Town"
GRAND--Murray and Mack I'm Harvard.
ORPHEUM--Vaudeville.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
LOS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
UNIQUE-Musical comedy.
EMPIRE-vaudeviile.
FTSCHER'S-NTusicaI comedy.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09

Mayor Alexanders message with re-
gard to economies and common sense
in the purchase of engine house sites
saddened the city council, the members
of which apologized for the shiftless and
unbusinesslike methods which were at
once exposed and rebuked by the may
or's action. Mayor Alexander is 'all
business and already he has proved
himself to be from every point of view
a most valuable public official.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09

E. H. Hartman is now in Paris. We
confess our faith in Mr.. Hartman is
beginning to be shaken. Alas, can it
be possible that another idol hath clay
feet? His lack of enthusiasm with
regard to the early construction of a
new depot in Los Angeles is obvious.
Surely, surely it cannot be possible M.
Hartman was talking through the top
of his chapeau?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
The State Press
Sheer Cussedness

What is it about a sign on pole,
Don't Tie Here that attracts man
with a horse and buggy? We Won
dered about this this morning as we
passed seven rigs, the horses tied to
as many consecutive iron poles, each
adorned with the magic words above
quoted, along a business block on Court
street.-Visalia Times.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
Good Business

The bonds for $4,000 recently voted
for a new high school building at I'm
perial have been sold at a premium of
S5575 This certainty indicates that the
credit of the desert town is strong in
financial circles. 1t is claimed that this
is the highest premium yet paid on
school bond issue in California.TRiver-
side Press.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09

Four feet high, four feet wide, eight
feet long-that's the size of cord of
wood by terms of an ordinance passed
yesterday by the city council in accord
ance with a recommendation from
Mayor Alexander. A cord is a cord
nothing more, nothing less. And now
all chords will be in harmony.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
Far and Wide
Rest

Don't think 1t waste of time to rest
a little while now and then. Lie fiat on
the bed, or even on the floor; stretch
out at full length, let go of everything
and shut the eyes and rest. Most of us
keep keyed up too tight; it wears us
out more than the work we do.--Farm
Journal.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09

New York policemen have been saw
ing money by buying cheap uniforms
limitations of the regulation uniform
and papier mache clubs. Evidently
some of the thrifty New York cops
mistake themselves for opera bouffe
performers.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
MartIans FIabberaasted

If Mr.. Carnegie should accede to the
scientists suggestion to spend 100000
900 in sending a message to Mars; and
the Laird of Skibo, in a spasm of thrift
should send it collect what joke. it
would be on the Martians.-Portland
Telegram.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09

Important matters regarding the reg
ulation of the liquor traffic will be dis
cussed by the city council, which Will
meet today as a committee of the whole.
There are many vexed questions con-
nected with this traffic, and undoubt-
eddy this will be strenuous day at
CITY hall
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09

A father who was fined yesterday be-
cause his son was allowed to violate
the curfew law will have hereafter a
keen sense of parental responsibility
The new method of enforcing the cur
few law possesses the admirable quail
ity of common sense.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09

Australia will build a Dreadnaught
for the British navy. The big island
colony in the Pacific is lonesome, and
realizes that while the Isolation" of
Britain may be magnificent" there is
no adjectival consolation for the isola-
ton of Australia. Nothing would please
the Australians better than to have a
powerful American fleet patrol the
pacific
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09

DR.. Julia Sears advises mothers to
play on the piano for their children
when the little ones are naughty. and
not to punish them. However, in some
cases probably the substitute for chas-
tisement might be termed cruel and
unusual punishment.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
Stomach Trouble

Arises a. scientist to inform us that
IMAM could get along very we'll with
out stomach" If wheat continues to
ascend, a lot of us win want to.-Cleve-
land Leader.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
Flock Is Increased

A New York broker, who was adj
mitted to the stock exchange forty
years ago. says that memberships then
were worth $4,000. The last sale of a
seat was at $81, 900. There are a great
many more lambs now than there were
forty years ago.-Boston Globe.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
Excitement in Needles

The Ladies' Aid society will give an
ice cream and strawberry sherbet so
cial on the parsonage lawn, Tuesday
evening, May rs, from 7:30 until IL.
Everybody is cordially invited to at
tend Come and have good time
The Needles Eye.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
Conditions Good

California conditions are bound to be
not merely good, but booming. Be-
sides the general development of our
established industries, outside capital
in enormous quantities is headed this
way.-Fresno Republican.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
Cause for Thanks

Look for the silver lining. We ought
to be pretty thankful that Mr.. Aldrich
has not decided to turn his senate into
a stock company and merge it with the
Rhode Island Manufacturers associa-
tion.-Richmond Times-D Dispatch.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
They Catch EN-

Pittsburg and San Francisco have no
monopoly of boodlers and grafters. The
difference is that Frisco and Pittsburg
have a way of catching them at it,
Kansas City Star.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
Not Uncommon

There is some satisfaction in the
knowledge that the Wright brothers are
making coolies of money, but 1t is not
gratifying to the national pride to re-
fleet that they had to go abroad to OBJ
tain substantial recognition.-Chic
Tribune. 81
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
fAdmonition

Counterfeit money is coming this way
from New York. Be careful not to drop
spurious 500 bills in the collection basket
on Sunday.-Atlanta Constitution.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
Stockton's Proqress

Stockton is now entitled to admission
to municipalities of first rank. She
has a councilman convicted of graft
ing.-San Bernardino Sun.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
Some ldeaIists Left

1t is fortunate for literature that
there are some writer's who have high
er ideals of success than having their
books rank among 1.-The six best SELL
ers." Oakland Enquirer.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
The Public Letter Box

INTENDED for publication must
respons for their views.