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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-11-10
LAND LOTTERY REFORM.

The United States recently had two
large tracts of land which it proposed
practically to give to actual settlers.
The land belonged to the people as
whole.s 1t belonged as much to the
people Of Florida and Vermont as to
the people of Iowa or South Dakota.
We can imagine what the drawing Ut
such an allotment might have meant
to many men struggling for living
ia the over crowded cities of the east.
The drawing was so managed however.
that none of these people who really
needed the land, to which they had an
equal right, had any opportunity Of
obtaining it. The working man of
the eastern states. the small farmer
who might want better chance in
the great west, could not spare the
hundred dollars necessary to be paid
some railroad company for mere
chance. Thus it happened that South
Dakota secured about 26 per cent of
the land. North Dakota, is per cent,
Minnesota about 20 per cent, Iowa and
Illinois about IL per cent and the rest
scattering through the northwestern
states of the Mississippi valley. The
single city of Aberdeen drew about
four or five per cent Of the prizes.
OF course these per centages are not
accurate. but we have had enough
curiosity to- find the percentages in
different sets of 100 taken at ram
dom through the list. On three
counts Of consecutive hundreds South
DAKOTA had %, 26 and %. or an aver
age Of 2st
Il must be born in mind moreover
that South Dakota has but small
per cent Of the inhabitants Of the
United States. In other words, less
than one per cent of the people drew
twenty-six per cent Of the claims.
Again it must be remembered that
the people Of the central west need
these claims less than any other peo-
ple.i. Most of those who drew allot.
ments were already farmers, tilline
the soil of the great west. The draw
ing therefore brings no new blood t.
the west. relieves no congestion o
population, brings but little help t.
y the poor of the Nation who nigh
through this land drawing have hat
the door Of opportunity opened t
them.
The whole method of procedure j
90 absurd. A man bets his RAILROAD
fare against b. ind luck on a ten t
one shot. After paying his tribut
TO the railroad. he, stranger, goe
before notary who does not know
him from the man in the moon. an
swears to statement sof facts O
which the notary has no means 9
knowing the truth. After the thre
minute farce is over the strange r pay
the balance of his. tribute to hotel
and railroads and goes back to hi
home.
The Review il trying to stop th
habit of finding fault without havin
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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-11-10

some remedy to offer and SO in this
case we would suggest reforms which
we believe would be practical and
which would give every one an oppor-
tunity.
Let US agree on some facts:
Fret, these lands belong, not to the
people Of their vicinity, but to the
whole people.
Second. it is good public policy
that these lands should go to the
capable but needy ones.
Third, the desire is, not to make
money out of these lands. but to give
homes to bona fide settlers.
If these three premises are granted
". believe q much better method Of
drawing can be devised.
First The requirements should be
not only that the citizen b ad not exer-
cised his homestead rights previously
and that he does not own 100 acres Of
land, but there should be q further
Limitation. namely that he should not
be possessed of property of any kind
to exceed five thousand dollars.
Second AS the object is actual
4 settlement the communication rights
should be taken away.
Third-The registration should take
place not before some strange notary.
but before some designated officer in
each locality who would have some
means Of knowing whether the appli-
cant was telling the truth or not.
Fourth-If these methods were pur-
sued SO that the long expensive and
tiresome journey were eliminated, the
applicants could we'll afford to pay 9
small registration fee which, woul6
cover all the expense of handling ever
Lit there were five million applicants.
Further if the Communication. feature
4 was cut out and the relinquishmen,
fake abolished. by requiring that due
notice be published SO that anyone
might have opportunity to obtain al
abandoned claim, by paying the ap
raised value of the improvement
thereon, the number Of applicant
would be reduced SO that the matte
could be easily handled.
: The public lands still to be throw
> open to the people will be few. tn
: opportunity to provide homes for tn
i submerged tenth" will soon be over
1t is therefore ell the more importan
that some system more nearly ap
. preaching. fairness be adopted ~ an
4 that the land lottery business be. free
o from the suspicion that it is q, rail
q road graft.
In spite of the fact that it smack
. of paternalism, we would even hav
4 the government go so far as to loa
4 deserving settlers sufficient funds
f make start, taking mortgage o
e the land as security But 9
3 Rudyard says, that is anothe
Is story.
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This evening Miss Margaret Nc
Henry will entertain our football team
and their ladies' with an oyster sup
per. This is in keeping promise
to this effect if the boys won the
Odebolt game. Miss Margaret is an
accomplished hostess and We know
the boys will have delightful even
ing.
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-08
HEARTLESSNESS

LIVERY self-respecting automobile
H owner is indignant over the con-
- duct of the speeding chauffeur
who ran down and injured a newsboy
was forced by an angry crowd to take
the hurt boy into the machine, but in
stead of carrying him to hospital
gave him % cents and dumped him on
the sidewalk.
Automobile owners owe it to them
selves as we'll as to the public to put
an end to the maniacally careless
speeding which has been the subject of
comment in these columns and which
has given rise to radical propositions
for drastic methods Of dealing with
offenders. We appeal to all owners OF
automobiles to make it unnecessary
for the authorities to subject speed
cranks" or irresponsible drivers to de-
grading punishments. If we may judge
by the nature of some of the accidents
reported from time to time, some
chauffeurs are either unaware of the
one-crushing, death dealing power of
the huge engines they are supposed to
control, or are most inhumanely, most
irresponsibly and most abominably
careless.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-08
CONSIDERS NUMEROUS PLAYS
MUCH SUPERIOR TO SERMONS

LOS ANGELES, March 5.-[Editor
Herald: wish to saw something in
defense of the stage as against what
is being hurled at 1t by the clergy. 1
will not refer to any personal remarks
for or against it. I admit there are
plays enacted in some second-class
theater that are not what they should
be. So there are men and women also.
Is it necessary to condemn all mankind
for the moral acts of persons? Now l
will mention few plays as examples.
Take such as 1.-THE Stranger" Hazel
Kirke." Pearl of Savoy" "Old Home-
stead" 1.-TWO Orphans" "Uncle Toms
Cabin" and a host of others I might
name.
Their sentiment and moral are high;
their acts hold the mirror up to nature,
which appeals to all the finer feelings
in the human heart. The acts cause
the tears to we'll forth in sympathy and
sobs at the reality of the scenes en-
acted. Where shall we find such in
any sermon?
The clergy of today preach about the
same thing they did fifty years since.
1t seems old, dry and warmed over.
never heard in any church a sermon
that gave me the inspiration and high
moral feelings that any one of these
dramas would cause. One who has
been there.
WALTER GAY, Station s.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-08
PROSPERITY

A N interesting side light on the BUSH
IN ness relations of Southern Califor-
IA MIA to the rest of the United
States was provided by Manuel Lopez,
a New York merchant, an interview
with whom was published in The
Herald. He said if it had not been for
Pacific coast trade during the financial
depression many Eastern establish
ments would have come to grief. Dur
ing the entire period of financial
trouble The Herald took pleasure in
telling it's readers the truth about the
situation, which was that the interests
of California were not and could not
be affected by manipulations of the
money market nor by made-to-ord
panics in the East, and that an Eastern
business depression would not be at all
likely to reach or affect Los Angeles.
Why? Because Southern California
is independent, wealthy, self-sup-
porting, prosperous. It's very remote
ness from the great financial centers
has helped toward the making of it, "
and 1t has itself become a financial
center. In it's own sphere of influence
and range of contributory territory
Los Angeles is as distinctly metropoll-
tan as is New York. 1t has had TO
work out it's own business salvation,
and it's citizens have overcome OBJ
stacles that would have daunted all but
the stoutest hearted. Its record of
achievement has been crowned by a
most brilliant series of accomplish
ments. The Owens river project, the
improvement of San Pedro harbor and
consolidation are all part and parcel of
the same vast metropolitan plan which
is quickly and surely making Los An
geles the principal city of the West.
With it's harbor of San Pedro, its
position in the commercial and mercan-
tile and manufacturing world will be
immeasurably improved. When con-
solidation becomes effective by the will
of the people, when it is at last correct
to say Greater Los Angeles (San Pedro
harbor)" business conditions, already
good, will become even better, and the
completion of the Panama canal will
find a great fleet of vessels using the
harbor and eager to take advantage of
the canal route.
According to Mr.. Lopez, business con-
ditions are better in California than in
the east. AS a matter of fact, Califor-
MIA is more self-reliant and better fitted
for self-support than is any state in
the east. Here conditions are far more
favorable for rapid growth and progress
than they are in any other part of the
country, and if Southern California,
amid all her prosperity, will steadfastly
illustrate the principles of Americanism
she will easily become the leader of
the land.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-08
TALMAGE ALSO IN HIS DAY
THUNDERED AGAINST STAGE

WHITTIER, March 5-EEditor Her-
adj: To read the criticisms poured
out in the press against DIR. Locke's
opinion of the theater, one would
think he was the first great man who
held or expressed such notions. His
views have been those of orthodox
ministers in all ages and countries.
In 1870 the great Or. T. Dewitt
Talmage preached a series of sermons.
Sports That KILL" OF the theater he
said: II oppose it, first, because Of
Its deleterious effects upon the retain
ers and employees of the stage: second.
because of it's adjuncts of evil, haunts
of drunkenness and impurity; third, be-
cause of the character of the majority
of the people who regularly attend;
fourth, because 1t has been the ac-
knowledged avenue to the destruction
of great multitudes; fifth. because 1t
is the polluter of public taste; sixth.
because it gives a distorted view of
life; seventh, because 1t is responsible
for much of the unhealth OF this coun..
try; eighth, because 1t is the enemy
of the domestic life"
Space will not permit my giving the
arguments or the citation of facts
which he produced, or the opinions of
actors which cited in support of his
position. In my next / may briefly
give few of them.
AS some one else is writing under
the nom de plume of Justice" will
change my name to 81
SAVONAROI.A.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-08
CALLS LockE's ATTENTION
TO PLAY ON LAND QUESTION

LOS ANGELES, March 6.-lEditor
Herald: In connection with the at
tack that DR.. Locke has made on tne
stage. 1 beg to submit the following
extract from the st. Louis Mlrror'
weekly we'll known for the ability OF
its dramatic reviews:
cat the first night of William ..
Hurlbut's play 1.-THE Writing on the
WALL" a very prominent business mar
and bank director with his party ,eil
the Century after the first act. rms
local Napoleon of finance thus prob
ably meant to express his Indignation
over the fact emphasized in this play
that the old order changeth.' yes
indeed. the old order-or is it not rather
Observation-Disclosures Ten. even, hve'
years ago a social problem play IKE
this would have been Impossible on
the American stage. 1t is slgnlncant
that it is an English actress VINO mas
the moral courage to bring II out.
"The author touches the sorest spot
in our social body. The land question,
riches accumulated by rookery land
lordism, is exemplified in the case OF
Trinity church, the largest owner OF
unsanitary tenement houses in New
York City, is the topic of the play, the
ethical value of which consists in the
accumulation of the vital principle that
we all are our brothers keepers.
I ask If Dr. Locke had ever dared
to attack the worst, most indefensible
and destructive form of gambling
known to man-that which consists OF
denying the brotherhood of man by
making a corner of Gods earth? l
challenge him to do this from his pull
pit, since he has started out as a social
reformer, and 1 prophesy that he will
not dare to turn the light on the con-
duct of his rich supporters in this
particularly nefarious form OF
gambling. REALlSI.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-08
AMERICAN PLAYS

N GORGE 3 r o A d H u r S T, the
tT dramatist about whose big roy
VI alties" there has been altogether
too much talk, because the plays the
thing" and not the number of pennies
per line, blanes the metropolitan man
ayers for lack of the practical patriot
ism that is expressed by the use Of
plays made in the United States" He
il reported to have said in an inter-
view: "At the present time the big
managers are not bearing the brunt of
responsibility as they should. These
all-powerful ones, who should be the
champions of the American, are not
his champions, and American talent
is fostered by the Sunderland inf
nitely pluckier-houses. Frohman, for
instance, plays safe by taking only
pieces which have been tried in the fire
of insular or continental criticism and
public patronage. Frohman is afraid
of his own judgment. The native
product he leaves for others. He gets
American money by British, French
and German vehicles. Seldom, indeed,
does he use an American play" Mr..
Broadhurst's just and true criticism
might be applied to many more
branches of the writing industry. Il
is becoming more and more evident
every year that the doctrine of pro
lection to American industries" does
not extend to the writing industry,
which is one of the greatest, most i'm
portant and, for those engaged in using
it, one of the most lucrative in the
United States. Between Mr.. Broad
bursts charge that managers are al
ways willing to dodge or discourage
the native industry of play writing
and conditions which may be found in
many other branches of human produc-
tivity there is an intimate connection.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-08
CHILD LABOR

TT is hard to understand why proba-
ton officers report with reference
4 to child labor: There is strong
tendency in this country to sacrifice the
child that the parent may reap profit"
There may be parents (but there are
not many who are degraded enough to
wish to live on the earnings of their
children. But it is equally true there
must be employers who are willing to
hire child labor and there must be
some motive which induces these en-
ployers to hire child labor. We think it
is a motive similar to that which in
duced some misguided citizens in the
earlier days to hire Chinese labor in
preference to white. Employers are
tempted to engage boys and girls be-
cause they can and will perform any
ordinary kind of work as well as men
and women, for half the wages paid TO
women and a great deal less than half
the wages paid to men.
There is something absurd in the Of
ficially suggested picture of a cruel
parent hauling a reluctant boy to an
unwilling employer and compelling the
employer to hire him. There will be an
end of child labor in this and every
other state in the Union just as soon
as every employer posts up this notice
in his factory, MILL warehouse, store or
office:
mo CHILD LABOR EMPLOYED
HERE"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-08
HERE WE ARE AGAIN"
II" ERE we are again!" Hearst
claims he was the first man to
- suggest a coast line of steam

II" ERE we are again!" Hearst
claims he was the first man to
- suggest a coast line of steam
ships in connection with the Panama
canal. He says if his advice had been
listened to there would be no neces-
sity for the McLachlan BILL" and the
people of the Pacific coast would have
been saved millions of dollars in eX-
cessive freight rates. This modest
claim on behalf of Mr. Hearst is made
III his newspapers. So should the Pan
anna Enthusiastically become an ac-
complished fact, we may expect to see
the yellow journals telling everybody
that all the credit of the plan for
thwarting railroad rate gouges and
conspiracies belongs to him. Needless
to say, he is also claiming credit for
consolidation. In the case of Mayor
Harper, he is naturally allied with the
pro-vice press for the protection and
retention of Harper. We are willing to
allow Hearst credit for his fight for
Harper. Everybody knows the Hearst
papers thrive best in wide open cities,
NH6LC llCS may NchAAy eNNNNi SANNAAtNAASS
to which that description may also be
applied. When a city is yellow, bust
ness for the yellow papers is brisk.
When a city is white, business for the
yellow papers is black. Not only will
Mr. Hearst be permitted to enjoy a
share in the credit which belongs to the
united yellow press, but he admittedly
is also entitled to credit for yellow jour-
nalism itself. The story goes that when
he was in consultation with his lieuten-
ants as to the best means of establish
ing a new species of journalism some
body remarked sententiously, "Con-
science makes towards of us all"
Jaw, cut it out!" said the founder of
saffron sensationalism. This advice
was acted on, and is sufficient ex-
PLANTATION of yellow journalism.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-08
WHITE SLAVES AND PRISON
INMATES PARALLEL CASES

LOS ANGELES, March 6-TEditor
Herald: In your much appreciated
Letter Box this morning is letter
from A. H. D. giving a few plain, un-
vanished facts concerning our white
Slaves or sisters.
The next letter, from Victor H. Tel
ford, speaks of the degradation of the
inmates of San Quentin and similar
hells. In their helplessness how
strangely alike are the two institutions;
and the few stray persons that do get
free, how strangely alike again they
are in theih helplessness to escape the
lynx eyes of hired whips watching to
drag them back.
1t is almost grewsome to relate that
each one of these was shut away, one by
one, by a man and kept there gagged
by mans moral cowardice. For 1t cam
not be want of thought in these days
of loud spoken misery.
Judge Wilbur is saving both boys and
girls, one by one, without fear, anent
the law, by practical means. Now.
men, can't you see the time is passed
for old, ossifed laws? They don't fit
the present man and woman, each one
of whom wants square, equal Justice.
Wake up, men; use common sense.
ELIZA REETz.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-08

YER two months ago Paul Gear
hart, a 13-year-old boy, disap-
peared from his home in Jersey
City and no trace of him has been
found His despairing mother wrote a
letter to President Roosevelt the other
day begging him to assist her in her
search. The president sent this letter
to Governor Fort of New Jersey, with
a personal note in which he said: Il
am. greatly touched by the inclosed let
ter. Would it not be possible to have
the police take an active interest In
the matter? Anything like the loss OF
a child naturally appeals to father or
mother. hardly know what to do ex-
cept to write you"
This is a characteristic Roosevelt
sentiment and characteristic Roose-
welt deed 1t is only another express
sion OF the big human. side of him
which made his popularity and pre-
serves it.
It is not lese-majesty to say that
there are other men quite as brilliant
as Mr.. Roosevelt; his equals In states
manship. In love of country; physically
as strong, mentally as sound; as firm
defenders of good morals at the fire.