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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-13
PROTECTION OF VICE

nY THE minutes OF the grand jury
X which investigated the protec-
~ ton of vice in Los Angeles, the
position taken by the advocates of
decency and good government is justt-
facts related with completeness OF de-
tail and Enthusiastically in the rec
ords of the grand jury, no newspaper
worthy of the name could conscien-
tiously have refrained from calling the
attention of the public to a disgraceful
condition of affairs which existed IL
this city with the knowledge and un-
der the auspices of Messrs. Kern,
Broadhead, A. c. Harper and Sam
Schenck. A report of the proceedings
of the grand jury, published in The
Herald, will prove conclusively that
The Herald was doing its duty to the
citizens of Los Angeles when 1t asked
"Is vice protected in Los Angeles?" and
then proceeded In a most remarkable
series of articles to put readers in pos
session of facts which showed YES"
was the only possible answer to the
question.
Nothing more extraordinary in the
history of municipalities has ever been
developed than the story of official dis
grace and the abuse of the confidence
of the citizens of Los Angeles by I'M
trustworthy officials revealed by the
witnesses who testified before the
grand jury. Every claim made by The
Herald ana Its contemporary, Los An
geles Express, a newspaper Jealous in
the service of the public and ever
watchful of the best interests of Los
Angeles was substantiated. Deplorable
indeed was the plight to which our city
was being reduced by official treachery
and wrongdoing when The Herald and
the Express interviewed. and with
abundant testimony secured in man
ner indicated to the grand jury by our
distinguished fellow citizen. Edwin I.
Earl, called the attention of the pub
lie to the wretched facts in the case.
Mr. Earl.s connection with the ex-
posture of official graft in Los Angeles
has been that of a conscientious citi-
zen, who realized the honor of Los
Angeles was at stake. and quick and
fearless action was necessary IL the
city was to be rescued from Che inf1u-
ences which were imperiling its best
interests. Indeed, the preservation Of
the honor of the city has been the an
mating motive of all who have been
concerned in bringing about the pub
licity which has produced change for
the better in our government and may
lead to other results even more far
reaching. In order to keep the fair
name of Los Angeles from being foully
besmlrched, in order to save the repu-
tation of our splendid city, 1t was abb
solutely necessary to present to the
citizens Of Los Angeles the facts the
publication of which has led to train
of events of which the end is not yet.
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WEST AND EAST

T ROM Buffalo, N. Y, comes the re-
h markable news that the Frost
- King has silenced Niagara. The
great fall and the mighty cataract are
icebound In the memory Of living
man only once before has the grip of
cold on Niagara been so keen as to con-
geal the mightiest rush of water in
the world. While the east is suffering
from one of the hardest frosts on rec
ord and is estimating at a million dol
lars the damage done by flooding re-
sulting from ice dams at Niagara alone,
Los Angeles is enjoying an Eastertide
marked by ideal weather. 1t is warm
but not too warm.
The only ice visible is that used for
domestic purposes, which is manufac'
tured by the ingenuity of man and
does not come from natures great out
door workshop. In our land of flowers,
where the mocking bird makes melody
in the moonlight and sunshine floods
the world during all the daylight hours
it is hard to realize conditions away
back east" in Northern New York and
on the Canadian border.
In fact, people who have not eX-
perienced the conditions which are Gre
ating a new worlds wonder at Mag
ara cannot realize them. No descrip-
ton can convey an adequate idea of
Niagara, and Niagara icebound is be-
yond the power Of any words to por-
tray.
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OVERCROWDING

TNIRST-CLASS mechanics are leav-
ing England for the United
n States. spokesman for one
westward-bound party of them said;
1--WE are all good workmen and as a
rule should get along best in our ma
tive country but there is no work fol-
us there, and we have to come to
America to become citizens. We can
not support our families in England"
The economical conditions produced by
overcrowding in South Britain present
one of the most serious of all modern
problems. The population of England
is not only much greater but much
denser than that of any other part OF
the United Kingdom. In the London
area alone there are more human
beings than in either Scotland or Ire
land. The same may be said of the
Black Countrywide district of which
Birmingham is the capital. Indeed, if
one metropolitan area were created
from the region in which are Birming-
ham, Wolverhampton, Willenhall,
Darlaston, Rugeley, Cosely, Bilston
and a score or more of cities, there
would be a population rivaling that of
London.
In England there are no agricultural
opportunities. There is no chance
whatever for "ranchman' or small in
dependent farmer" Nearly all the
farmed land is rented from landlords
The population is fairly driven into
manufacturing industries and the
mills MUST keep busy or there will be
trouble. And markets must be found
for the products of the mills or there
will be trouble. No country in the
world is so abjectly (shall we sayD
dependent on industrialism.
When to conditions thus produced
are added those resulting from an out
worn system of landholding, a hand
down from baronialism, the ghost of
which still haunts England, it will be
seen continued increase of population
must bring about an economic crisis by
comparison with which all such crises
IN the previous history of civilization
will be triling. The United States
should not repeat but should profit by
and avoid the Industrial and social
plumbers of England.
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GREATER LOS ANGELES

HASTERN newspapers are interest
III ed In Greater Los Angeles. East
- ern merchants see in consolida-
ton an Improvement which win in-
crease the value of the Panama canal
route and at the same time add to the
Importance of Southern California. II
is expected many new lines OF steam
ships will take advantage of san
Pedro harbor development. Long be-
fore the completion of the canal the
harbor will be one of the busiest in
the west and one of the best known in
the United states.
1t is far better both for San Pedro
and for Los Angeles that San PEDRO
should be known as "the seaport of
Los Angeles" than that 1t should con-
tinue to be known as "a seaport some
miles from Los Angeles" Los Angeles
as a seaport city will enter on new
phase of its career. Industrialism will
receive a great impetus. Capital will
be invested in many enterprises which
will contribute to the prosperity of
Greater Los Angeles and Southern
California.
No city in the country will be in a
more commanding position than Great
err Los Angeles. 1t will be easily &C
cessible both by land and by sea from
every quarter of the world. Its trade
will extend into both hemispheres. Its
shipping will be bi-oceanic. Along
with the opportunities it will offer to
men eager to do their life's work in
the most efficient and most productive
way it will give a climate which tends
to increase efficiency and to prolong
life.
The marvellous growth and progress
of Los Angeles are due in large meas
ure to the climate. 1t is not a Tan
guorous and facilitating" but Wig
orous and stimulating climate. If
man is a worker he will be more ca
pable and accomplish more In Los
Angeles than in cities where the
weather is a constant cause of worry
and care, of annoyance and even of
danger Eliminate weather worry and
life is already emancipated. 1t is all
very we'll for our eastern friends to
hug the fond delusion that frost and
snow, sleet and chill are necessary to
the best human effort. The history of
Los Angeles proves the contrary.
There is not a brisker or more active
city on the face of the earth than ours
indeed, we may well ask where is
there one that is as brisk, as active,
as enterprising, as progressive, as sue
cessful?
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JEFFERSON DAY

m ODAY the nation celebrates the
birth of the writer of the Decla-
II ration of Independence, Thomas
Jefferson, whose genius furnished in
SEPARATION to that great radical, pro-
gressive movement, the American rev.
olution. The celebration of the ami
versary of the birth of Jefferson, like
that of the birth of Lincoln, has be-
come almost entirely nonpartisan. and
Jefferson's birthday, like Lincoln's 8,
offers an opportunity to thoughtful
men to call to mind the real signifi-
canoe of the lives of those great Amer
leans. Lincoln" means the destruc-
ton of an odious form of privilege, the
overthrow of a cherished national insti-
tuition, the assertion of the honesty of
the Jeffersonian declaration, ALL men
are created equal. Jefferson" means
the first statement of the fundamental
principles upon which rest the liberties
of this nation, the self-evident truths,
not only of the equality of men In the
cradle, and in the sight of heaven, at
all times, but of the endowment of the
human race by the Creator with GER
tain UNBELIEVABLE RIGHTS, among
which are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. How brave-sounding
and how electric with meaning is the
phrase, UNBELIEVABLE RIGHTS.
Think of it.
In the United States no human being
has any right to conduct business of
any kind in a manner that will inter-
fere, directly or indirectly, with the
rights of his fellow citizens, which
rights include subsistence, without
which there can be no life; freedom of
action, without which there can be no
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
which is a wild and hooking impossi-
bility when the citizen is deprived of
an opportunity of earning his living
and supporting and educating his
family
ITO SECURE THESE RIGHTS"
wrote Thomas Jefferson, governments
are instituted among men: deriving
their just powers from the consent of
the governed"
Jefferson never heard the expression,
"a square DEAL" but he was a square
deal American, just the same.
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DESCRIBES CONDITIONS
IN PREHISTORIC AGES

LOS ANGELES, April 4.-[Editor
Herald: All political obligations now
possessed by men have been gradually
forced upon them unsolicited by their
mothers in prehistoric days men were
ever warlike and eager for the chase,
leaving their women and children days
and weeks. Staying and manning each
other in battle almost to defamation.
They fought for the best hunting
grounds and most pleasant districts
convenient to pure water, feed and fuel.
The women brought up the rear taking
quick possession and looking to all the
advantages of location in detail.
They had their judges and laws much
like some in force today. Many and
fierce were their disputes over land
lines land other property. The men re-
turning from afar, always tired and
overburdened with trophies of chase
and war, lay in camp resting, tending
their wounds, mending their bows,
preening themselves, Dragging. strut
ting about" here and there along the
running brooks in little knots of mutual
admiration clubs. They viewed the
petty turmoil of their women with
complacenoy out of the tail of their
eye from some nearby messy eminence,
with never a care. The yearly bearing
mother ruled, her word was law. Man
ever obeyed her, whether he would or
no. She knew the mysteries OF the
smelling pot and forge, was doctor,
lawyer, architect.
The forward. idling, gadabout, bab-
bling female was put in leash and
made to toe the mark. Those were the
days when man was lord. He pursued
the friendly shade around the cliffs
and rocks in summer and the sun like
wise in winter, consuming great guam
titles of mothers home brew, which
was as pure and free as tn eair. With
arched chest and double arched instep
he strobe along, eying the footprints
of his rival with critical gaze, thereby
noting any signs of waning courage.
Those were the days when man was
swift as the wind, leading the grey
hound in the chase; the days when the
present Marathon record was halved
and quartered, especially on the home
trip with broken bow.
u. p. MARSWAY.
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SAYS EARTH WAS ONCE
BURNING MASS OF ATOMS

PASADENA, April 6.-[Editor Her
add: All things came into existence
through change of conditions. Force
caused all change. Change comes
through motion. Heat causes all mo-
tion.t The sun is the great heat gener-
ator of the world.
All things visible are in motion, per-
petual motion; ever changing from
solids to particles and vice versa. These
changes are known as growth, decom-
position and reproduction.
Atoms are but unseen substance of
transformed visible objects that fill
all space commonly termed air, or
ether. These atoms convey heat, light,
cold, electricity, sound and, perhaps
thought.
older students asserted there were
but 20, 000,0 900 suns, but recently Prof.
Branard and other scientists have
shown 500, 100000 suns by photos of the
milky way. and space being infinite,
they could Show as many more with
stronger instruments.
Heat is the direct causation of all
formation-the mother of all things.
The intense heat emanating from UNI
accountable suns starts the alternating,
pulsating breath of motion, bringing
all atoms, PARTICLES or germs of life,
into harmonious groups of their kind,
where they grow en- masse and form
visible whole. The infinite bodies be-
ing in different stages of formation, set
up the natural law, or force of repul-
sion. This is how our, celestial spheres
escape collision.
Sun, moon, stars, earth and all other
planets are but conglomeration of
harmonious atoms or globules, and
they are peopled or not peopled, &C.
cording to the condition in which they
exist. Our sun is but a burning mass
of small bodies; SO once was the earth,
we know by its internal fire of today.
The earth is but an outgoing sun. The
sun but an incoming earth.
History but repeats in all lines. Now
as unseen things collect to form a
whole, they must also seperate to form
the invisible. AS collected globules of
moisture form water, so evaporated
water forms globules of moisture.
d TTTNA
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come tax by the highest court.
He likewise assumes that the cause
of the vast proportion of the deficit I'M
der the Mckinley law was due to the
falling off of imports after the election
of Mr.. Cleveland, in anticipation OF the
low rates to be had under the forth
coming tariff revision, but he adds that
even then there would have been no
deficit had sugar not been placed on
the free list under that law.
Tho country might we'll have. pre-
pared itself for the sort of tarim law
that Mr.. Cleveland would not honor
with his signature, from the course
which events took at the Democratic
national convention OF 1892. The con-
sentative wing of the party dominated
the committee on resolutions, which
brought in as mild a demand for tariff
revision as one could wish to see. But
the convention would have none of it,
By a vote of 564 to 342 1t turned down
the proposed plank and went after pro-
lection and the Mckinley law hammer
and tongs. 1t was the most radical
tariff declaration ever made by any re-
sponsible party.
election of Mr. Cleveland constitute
the most remarkable series of transact
tions in the history OF American tariff
legislation. Possessed of q large ma
jority in the house, and comfortable
margin in the senate, the Democrats
were forced to make such remarkable
series of concessions to members Of
their own party that the Wilson tariff
law emerged from the legislative mill
loaded down with protection.
There is a story of a dealer in herring
who was asked whether he was for
protection or free trade. He came out
unqualifiedly for free trade on every
thing but herring. There were enough
Gratis of the Fifty-third congress to
prevent the passage of any consistent
low tariff measure.
The low tariff press of the country
grew insistent for immediate action
after Cleveland was inaugurated. One
paper longed for the day when the
American laborer could sleep under q
wool blanket once more instead of one
of shoddy. Tariff reform started out
bravely. At the extra session called to
consider currency matters the ways
and means committee was framed up
and a consistent low tariff man-Crisp
of Georgia-was made speaker. Will
liam L. Wilson, a low tariff man of
the Cleveland school. was made chair
man of ways and means.
The committee gave a month for
hearings. They had treasury officials
to assist in the preparation of the bin.
For this they were roundly criticised
by the Republicans, but they succeed
ed in pulling the records on their
critics and therein showing where they
had done the selfsame thing and de-
Tended It, for which they were now
criticising the Democrats.
On December 10 the bill was report
ed to the house. 1t covered 40 pages,
printed in the usual bill style and type.
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tilu gave a pSHae
to domestic sugar.
The two items re-
suited in a loss to
the right side of
the treasury bal
ance of over $780,
000,0 a year. The
Wilson law set up
an income tax pro-
vision which was
turned down by the
supreme court, and
that resulted in a
deficit under the
operation of the
Wilson tariff. 1t Is
stated by STAN
wood, most impA-
tial and thorough
of all the tariff his
torians, but who
confesses to pro-
t e C 20 n leanings,
that the Wilson
tariff would have
produced a surplus
after the first year
but for the over
turning of the in
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BISHOP coNATYs THEoLoelc
REAsoNINes ARE QUESTIONED

LOS ANGELES, April 5.--[Editor
Herald: Many thanks for your Mon
day mornings review of our respective
Sunday preachings. My reading OF the
diverse portions which appear In this
mornings issue reminds me much OK
what the ancient Poet Dryden de-
clared when dealing with religious
subjects:
BY education most have been misled,
SO they believe because they were SO bred
The priest continues what the nurse began
And thus the child imposes on the man.
AS Bishop Conaty speaks of sin. and
his way out of it--being frank enough
to base his reasonings on sundry por-
lions of the New Testament may pc
permitted somewhat to question MS
theologic reasonings anent the alleged
mission of Peter, seeing that he omits
any mention of the passage wherein
we read that Christ unmistakingly de-
nounced Peter as Satan:
"And Peter took him (Jesus) and be-
gan to rebuke him. But he (JesuD,
turning about and seeing his disciples.
rebuked Peter. and saith (to Peter),
Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou
mindest not the things of God, but the
things Of men st. Mark $3.50, 80.
Rev. Robert Burdettes discourse on
the terrible evils from the demon ex-
citing liquor traffic was vivid enough
to furnish food for serious reflection.
But why do religious preachers forget
that 1.-THE heart of man is deceitful
above all things and desperately
wicked" and that being so, why harp
so much upon the results which Tor
centuries has reigned tfiumphantly,
and will do so until the end of time?
Surely we should now fully realize
that nothing will avail but a new
creature in Christ Jesus" J, Mob.
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SAYS REASON FOR NOT
TAKING LIFE IS MORAL

POMONA, Cal, April Al Editor Her.
add; Mrs. A. C, is right when she says
that we should not take life for life,
or kill. But the reason should not be
because of commandment in the
Bible against killing, but on purely
moral grounds. This moral ground we
have not In the Bible. Moses, "the
meekest man upon the face OF the
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AT THE THEATERS

MASON OPERA HoUsE-Nazimova in
Repertoire.
BELASCO@"The Dollar Mark"
BURBANK-"In Gay New York"
MAJESTIC-'The Matchmaker"
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-"The Tourists
OKPHEUM--Vaudeville.
Los ANGELES-Vaudeville.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
UNIQUE-"Ryan's Party"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
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Niles Pease, president Of the city
council, says money is spent freely for
everything connected with the public
library except books. We begin to sus-
pect the gentleman charged with the
expenditure of the library funds must
he a humorist
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Nick Oswald told reporters that dur
ing his months absence from the scene
of his business activities he had three
square meals every day, lived on the
fat of the land and never was in a
train. When fugitive has plenty of
money he may have an uncommonly
good time. oswald talked as if he had
haan on vacation
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man" and tells us the kind of woman
he would seek for wife. File, &C. e."
the Letter Box is not matrimonial
agency. and IL 1t were the term manly
man" is too ambiguous properly to de-
fine masculinity. In these days OF
graft, greed and gall one needs a
clearer cut definition correctly to
classify the species. Try again. &C. F.
MARION MARTIN.
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Railroads report a constant increase
of business between Los Angeles and
the east. All kinds of goods are being
shipped in tremendous volume. Los
Angeles is one of the most important
commercial centers of North America.
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Army Chaplain Francis p. Joyce has
denounced army morals in fashion
that will either make him or break him.
Some of his language was strikingly
epigrammatic. He said: present con-
Gitions take OFF the tariff in hell'upon a
soldiers soul" Mr.. Roosevelt won't
love Mr.. Joyce when he hears the latter
has said there is Sheolic free trade of
the nature indicated.
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TT IS an interesting fact that the
two greatest deficit-produoing tar
4 III laws the United States has eyer
had followed one upon the heels or the
other. Men will ever differ as to the
direct cause OF the failure OF botn
measures to produce the necessary rev.
enue, but the remote cause was a mis-
calculation in the framing of both. Ihe
Mckinley bill put sugar on the free list
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In the Letter Box you probably have vlo-
lated some rule. III you have failed to give
your name and address with each letter,
have written ON both sides Of the paper,
exceeded the 3OO-word limit, or grown per-
sonai or abusive, you will not find your iet-
ter among those printed In these columns,
Senex; Please send correct address.
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Los Angeles has earned fame for her
good citizenship. She has established
high standard. Now she must live
I'D to it. And we believe she will.
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There is a congressman named Pou.
No, he does not hail from China, but
from North Carolina.
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The Public Letter Box

publication be accompanied By
. 'l bp assumes no
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-13

1t must jar somebody to think the
$1,000 reward won't be paid.
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unapprecIatIve

I'm an inartietic sort
know, just g dub,
For to me the bonnet this
.xear looks like . tub,
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tariff Laws.
XVII-The wilson German Law.