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Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
INDUSTRIES

nj EW industries are constantly being
added to Los Angeles. Almost
= every variety of useful and pro-
ductlve occupation under the sun is
now represented here. The latest ar
rival is marble company, which will
establish the largest marble mill on the
coast and equip it with the most mod
ern machinery, some of which is not
duplicated east of st. Louis. Almost
everything that can be made by the
skill and ingenuity of mankind is now
made in Los Angeles. AS soon as an
industry is established it begins to
grow in way that sometimes aston
ishes it's founders.
Little factories expand into huge fac
tories; little stores into big stores; a
concern with small salary list soon
has big salary list. There is a con-
stant demand for skilled and expert
enced workers in every variety of ac-
tivity. The competent man can always
command a good wage The city is
prosperous and in this prosperity every
citizen shares.
There is always room for more indus
tries in Los Angeles, and the enter
prise which recognizes the fact that
the needs Of the. city accompany it's
growth and that it stands to reason
more people means more opportunity
for service and reward, reaps the re-
ward of service. With a clean, healthy,
well-governed city, enjoying a CONNER
cial outlet to the sea through it's own
fortified and safe harbor Of San Pedro,
the citizen may well sit happily under
his own vine and fig tree in the gloam-
ing after attending to his own lucrative
business by day and say, Verify. the
lines of dwellers in Los Angeles are
fallen in pleasant Places
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

some freckled, blue eyed Gretchen, then
they become intolerable
Along with the kaiser's indulgence OF
mis- whimsical tastes (Which he called
patriotic3 there arose in Germany two
kinds of opposition, the first that of
the moderate reformers, who wished to
abridge the privileges of royalty and put
it on limited and quiet basis, like the
ornamental kingship of Britain; the Sec
ond that of the Outspoken Socialists,
who found in the kaisers militarism
and extravaganza and in the consequent
oppression of the people plenty of ex-
cuse and opportunity for the active
propaganda which has made Socialism
powerful in the German empire. AS a
matter of fact, William has been one
Of the most useful men of modern
times.
Although he has made trouble and
caused Inconvenience, yet he has taught
the great German people to look to
themselves and not to royalties and no.
hilities for measures of peace, retrench-
ment and reform. In the reign. Of Will
liam Minor, the grand German people
has been awakened to self-conscious-
ness, and the present financial embar-
rassment will tend to check the spirit
of militarism and encourage that of
peaceful progress.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
SOME PERTINENT INQUIRIES
FOR STREET CAR COMPANIES

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2O.-[Editor
Eerald]: Now that the voters at the
recent charter amendment election
again defeated the franchise extension
plan and favored the direct primary
wonder how much longer the people
OF certain sections of this city are to
be punished by the street car compan-
les, who refuse to build new lines or to
make extensions of old ones because
the people will not vote the way they
(the street car company want them
to? Why cannot councilmen (now in
dependent of the machine for nomina-
Il 1S), who are simply the representa-
t1Ves of the people in municipal af-
fairs, say to these public service cor
poratiOns that unless they deal fairly
by the people of all sections they can
not expect fair treatment from the
council? Why should councilmen Gun
der conditions existing since Tuesday,
February 2, 1909), permit any public
service corporation deliberately to re-
tard the growth and development of
any section of this city in an attempt
to punish the people for their refusal
to grant them a thirty -fiVe-year fran
chise? And why should the street car
people be permitted to deprive any Sec
tiOn of the needed convenience of street
car transportation facilities because
Iu0y ctI Z OISSIuIlIleu DIT Iue dcIlOIS OIL
the voters of the city? 1t is now up to
the council to put stop to the prac-
tice of requiring bonuses from people
who are as much entitled to adequate
street car transportation facilities as
they are to any other public utility
Let our councilmen, under the new con-
dition of affairs, say to all public util-
ity corporations that they must give
the people square deal' if they ex-
pect like treatment from the peoples
representatives. SOUTHWEST.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

recall of Mayor Harper were of the
same character as he and his associ-
ates.
What he did. say was that every
liquor dealer who conducted his busi-
ness in violation of law, every gam
bier, every bawdy house keeper and
every law-breaker in the city would be
found in the ranks of Mayor Harper's
supporters, and in saying that he only
told the truth as the truth is known
of all men who are at all acquainted
with present conditions in this city.
In denouncing the present movement
to recall Mayor Harper the Times
says:
"Slime is spread all over the fair
name of this city, the best in all re-
spects of it's class on which the sun
shall shine today"
Does the Times really mean by this
that in all other cities in the country
their mayors police commissioners and
chiefs of police have deliberately al
lied themselves by a mutuality of busi-
ness interests with the most vicious
elements in the city's life?
Isn't it a fact that the men who
have spread slime all over their city
are the men whom the decent citizens
are now attempting to eliminate from
it's official life? And, by the way,
WHO SPREADS MOST SLIME OVER
THE FAIR NAME OF THE CITY
the honest newspapers and citizens who
call attention to the existence of evil
conditions such as above recited in
order that they may be eliminated, OR
THE PUBLIC JOURNAL WHICH
INSISTS THAT CONDITIONS AS
BAD AS THESE HAVE ALWAYS
EXISTED IN ITS CITY?
The truth about the business is our
Republican contemporary, through its
hatred of the recall, has got itself
in the attitude of supporting wretch
edly bad cause-a cause which can
only be supported by distortions, sup
pressions or misapprehensions of facts.
The sooner it gets out Of the position
which it has unfortunately drifted into
the sooner it will re-establish itself in
the confidence and respect of the COM
munity in which, for many years, it
was the champion of law and order and
decency.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
THE LOS ANGELES WAY

CONSOLIDATION will be success
I full, because Los Angeles is sure it
is right in wanting consolidation.
and will go ahead and get it. That is
the Los Angeles way. Los Angeles is
city of homes, a city of business
prosperity, a city of educational cul-
ture and refinement. Race track gam
bling menaced the homes, interfered
with educational culture, and brought
an atmosphere that was not one of re-
finement. Los Angeles determined that
race track gambling must go. 1T
WENT. That's the Los Angeles way.
Los Angeles wishes to bring about
consolidation which will be for the ben
eft of the people. Square deal consol-
idation undoubtedly will be accom-
plished. That's the Los Angeles way.
And Los Angeles, for the sake of the
reputation of the city, will expel from
position and power all vice protecting
or vice encouraging influences. Mayor
Harper must and shall be cast out of
office and a good man named George
Alexander will take his place. That is
the Los Angeles way.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
DUTY OF VOTERS

TN HE duty of voters is to vote for
George Alexander for Mayor of
n Los Angeles:
1. Because he is an honest man, and
we wish the city's governmental policy
to be one of strict honesty A dishon-
est policy within the next few critical
years of the history of Los Angeles
would lead to an unprecedented in
crease in the tax rate. Rents would
have to so up. The expense of living
would be increased greatly. The growth
of the population would be checked
In short, a dishonest municipal policy
would give Los Angeles a setback
Vote for HONEST George Alexander
2, Because he is an experienced man.
and it is desirable the administration Of
this city's affairs should be devoid of
amateurishness or experimentation,
which are always costly to commune
ties. Vote for EXPERIENCED George
Alexander.
9. Because he is a good man, and
the city's life should have the influence
of a Mayor of high moral character
If the Mayor of a city protects vice,
the vicious regard themselves as privi-
legged. Vice elbows virtue in the public
streets, and ere long, if virtue have no
champion, will crowd it out Los An
geles must not be given over to vice.
Vote for MORAL George Alexander.
4. Because he is a sagacious man,
and great sagacity is needed in order
to conduct the business of the city in
the near future, when it will be beset
by perils of graft and many allied
perils. Vote for SAGACIOUS George
Alexander.
5. Because he is a man of CHARAC-
TER. Much f1rmness is needed in deal
ing with conditions created by business
developments incidental to the progress
of Los Angeles. A man of known char
acter is already armed, and if the pow
ers that graft and prey realize he is
unapproachable, they are not likely to
make the attempt to approach him.
Vote for George Alexander, a man of
CHARACTER.
6. Because he is the right man for
this emergency. It would need a man
of experience, of great knowledge of
local affairs, and of complete and ac-
curate appreciation of every phase of
the situation to take office at short
notice and conclude in a worthy man
ner a period of government which had
been begun in an unworthy manner.
A man is needed who will never allow
his predecessors precedent to embar-
rass him and will not depend on his
predecessors conclusions. Mr.. Alexan-
der is qualified to take up the 'busi-
ness of being Mayor" with complete,
quick, comprehensive and accurate ap-
probation of details
For these and many other reasons.
any one Of them a good and sufficient
reason, it is the DUTY OF VOTERS
TO VOTE FOR GEORGE ALExAN-
DIR FOR MAYOR OF LOS AN
GELES. Please note, we do not say it
lis the duty of Democrats or "the
duty of Republicans" or 'the duty of
Socialists but
THE DUTY OF VOTERS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
DEFENDS WHITE BOYS
AGAINST RANcHER's ATTACK

Los ANGELES, Feb. 19.-TEditor
Heraldl: Because 1 advocated giving
Mhlte boys an equal opportunity with
Jap ana Chinese labor on ranches
Rancher accuses me OF not DISPLAYING
true American grit" | fail to see the
appropriateness of the word grit. When
Rancher considers that the white bows
In case of war, must be depended upon
tc protect him, his family and his
ranch, and that if this reserved protec-
tlon were withdrawn his ranch would
lose its value, does he display true
american gratitude, the thoughtfulness
OF others rights, spirit and patriotism
In giving preference to Jap labor? /
neither make nor did make an appeal
to race prejudice But is Rancher en-
tlrely free in this respect, when he calls
college boys 'long-haired, poor white
trash," only seeking an education to
escape labor, Ito live by their wits"
and contrasts them invidiousIy with
our little brown friends" whom he
calls Christian" and ''respectable'?
Did Washington and Garfield Con the
tow path and Roosevelt and others
seek an education only to escape hard
labor?
Does not refusing white boys labor
produce the white foaters,' for which
ne has such supreme contempt?
He asks: why are not the Irish
pulled off the police force?" Does he
not know that the Irish, at least in the
second generation, make our best citi-
zens and bravest soldiers?
He falsely asserts: Higher educa-
tIon teaches that the fusion of the races
OF the world is the salvation of man
kind. Will Rancher kindly tell us
where he received his "higher educa-
ton? Where such doctrine is taught?
Did he seek higher education to Give
by his wits and escape hard work.? 1t
must be apparent to all that Rancher
IS not entirely unselfsh, nor remarka-
ply patriotic, nor commercially CRATE
full when he refuses to give white bows
labor, and ungraciously adds insult to
injury TTrCTTCu7
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
DESCRIBES WHAT THE WOMAN
SUFFRAGE CAUSE MUST FACE

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19.-[Editcr
Herald: / made an argument, in which
l thoroughly believe, to the effect that
the ballot is merely a device for regis
tering the victory of the majority, and
that, in it's very essence, it has nothing
to do with inaugurating reign of JUS
tice. 1t is obvious that it is just as
capable of being welded for wrong as
for right. All depends on the wielders.
Does Marion Martin meet this argu-
ment? Not at all. What she says is
this: HE asks if the ballot means JUS
tice. No, Mr.. T. K. G. 1t only means
an infinitesimal item of Justice" / had
said there was not the slightest atom
of justice in the ballot, and had given
arguments and illustrations. Both are
funked. The correspondent dare not
face the real ISSUE
The real issue is just that Intelli-
gent people will not put into the hands
of others an instrument that may be
used for brutal tyranny. They call for
guarantees that it will not be used to
take away liberties.
1t used to be thought that some had
the right to rule over others. That
IDEA, so far as the king, the noble and
the priest are concerned, is pretty we'll
on its death bed. The masses, however
still believe they themselves are enti
tied to what they deny to the king, etc.
But there are vast numbers of peo-
pie nowadays who have carried the ar
gument to it's logical conclusion. and
aver most stoutly that none is justified,
with the ballot or by any other means,
in taking away the rights of others.
1 am of opinion that these are the
most intelligent, the most logical and
the most clear-sighted people we have
and that their intelligence ultimately
will carry the day.
This is the lion in the path of the
woman suffrage movement, and as
long as the women clamor for restrict
i've, tyrannical, blue-law legislation
that lion will hold the gate.
II Z @
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
ASKS If UNCLE SAM DEPENDS
ON ENGLAND FOR FIGHTERS

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19-[Editor
Herald: Is it really true that the
United States depends on British sub
jects to man their ships and to streng-
then their army? While reading one of
the most reliable eastern papers 1 came
across the following article:
''In certain seaports Of Great Britain
man can get his passage paid to
America, and no questions asked on
the understanding he will carry a rifle
under the Stars and Stripes as soon
as he has crossed the Atlantic.
Needless to say, this is all nonsense,
and the existing fallacy on the sub
ject must be relic of the days of
the civil war, when such things were
parts of Great Britain.
But it is nevertheless, a fact that
a large number of British subjects are
at the present time serving in the
American army and navy, and it is also
true that man does not experience
any great difficulty in joining ii he
can manage to scrape up enough to
pay his passage out. Military service
does not appeal to the native-born
American, and an immigrant who de-
sireS to join the army of Uncle Sam is
transformed into a naturalized Ameri-
can with amazing celebrity"
This country has come to a fine state
of affairs when 1t can't depend on its
own citizens to fill it's wants.
Is that a sign of patriotism? If we
should look up the latest reports of
the army and navy, you will find that
nearly. one-third Of the sailors in our
navy were formerly British subjects,
and about two-thirds of the army are
composed of the subjects Of Great
Britain.
If one cares to look it up he will
see for himself. The question is: Does
America depend on England to fight
her battles?
HARRY MATTATALL.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Snow-Graft

1t is somewhat difficult for residents
of Southern California to realize the
condition which confronts the city Of
New York and which forms the basis
of one of the biggest grating opera
tions that has been unearthed in long
time. 1t has been discovered that the
city has been paying large sums OF
money for the removal of snow from
the streets, much Of which has never
been touched by the men who were
paid for hauling it away.-Pomona
Progress.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

AS if Salome We're not bad enough
a play has been founded on the hor-
rible subject of the leprosy of Naaman
the Syrian. Good gracious, are there
not enough attractive subjects in the
Bible for aspiring playwrights? There
are plenty of sacred dramatic stories
which have not the peculiar features
of sanguinary Salome or the unpIeas-
ant Naaman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
The State Press
Worse Than Useless

If the simplffred spelling board would
take the trouble to agree on some gen
eral way to spell all words, calling
British and colonial authorities into
consultation at the same time, it would
really accomplish something; but moth
ing can be hoped for it as long as its
bulletins are made the vehicles for pro-
mitigating the private and often illogi-
cal fancies of the controlling clique in
the bOard.-Fresno Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-NO performance.
MASONIC performance.
BELASCO-"A Stranger in New York.
NIAJESTIC-"Marrying Mary"
BURBANK-"A Temperance Town"
ORPHEUM-VaudeVilIe.
G1SAND-"A Chinese Honeymoon"
Los ANGELES-VaudeVilIe
FISCHER'S-"OthelIO for Day"
UNIcUE-"The Prince and the Baron.".
WALKER-VaudeviIIe.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

The steel trust cut prices in order to
produce building boom which it says
will benefit everybody but the small
independent steel producers, whom the
trust by this crushing blow is deter
mined to put out of business.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

In answer to Anxious Citizen" we
would say we do not think there is a.
word of truth in the rumor that the
mayor thinks he should be made vice
president of the United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Co=operation

Throughout California there is great
need for the cultivation of that spirit
of cooperation which has already
made many sections and cities of the
United States famous for their mate
rial develOpment.-Colto Chronicle.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

Alfonso, king of Spain, is making
arrangements to take a voyage in an
airship. There is still some enterprise
in the old country which equipped the
expedition that discovered America.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

We must have a mayor who will be
mayor of Los Angeles in the Los An
geles way. We must elect George AL
exander. And we will. That's the Los
Angeles way.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Antiquities

Speaker Cannon's story, reported
this morning, of the man awakened
in the night by the feminine cry,
There are robbers in the house." only
to reply, You are mistaken, they are
all in the senate" is of about the same
age and much to the same point as the
joke now repeated in one of the local
theaters that congressman have be-
come so sensitive that in answering
the roll call they now say, mot
guilty.'-Boston Transcript.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Serendde OF the DOLefM 7roubadour, "A. c."
To His Lady LOUe, the Pro-zice Press

Fair Lady, while the stars are peeping,
Behold me, faithful vigil keeping;
(Tra-la-la-la, tra-la-la-loo).
sing a song of Interpretation;
I sing of Recall election.
Pray look upon me with affection.
(Tra-la-la-la, tra-la-la-loo).
Fair Lady, from my foes defend me-
Politically, they would end me.
(Tra-la-ia-la, tra-ia-la-loo).
Thou, sweetheart mine, canst help me foil 'er
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Awkward Question

The navy department tells us that
the cost of coal for the battleships was
over $16,000,000 for two years. Is not
that the amount for which an expert
estimated that the plague of tubercu-
losis could be abolished from the city
Of New York?-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

Los Angeles will soon be protected
from the gangs assaults on the Owens
river funds. George Alexander will be
Oh guard. Work for him and vote for
him.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Rough on Oakland

An Oakland man claims to have in
vented an automatic thinker" ANY
kind Of a thinker would be useful to the
average Oakland citizen about election
time.-Oakland Enquirer.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
EIounderinn

The Los Angeles Times is getting
some pretty hard jolts from the people
of that city of late. 1t has lost out in
the two last elections, one for more
schools and the other for more civic
decency, and it will lose out in the re-
call election too, if signs stand for any
thing. The once powerful paper, which
stood for the best in everything and
which was able to win without effort,
is certainly f1oundering now and still
it continues to stay on the wrong side.
Ventura Free Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Label 1t

Benzoate of soda may be quite harm
less-Dr. Wiley may be wrong, as the
governments consulting chemists say
but people who prefer it as a health
tonic ought at least to have a chance
to know what they are getting.-New
York World.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Bravery and Obedience

Everybody did as he was told" The
women, children and men gave three
cheers for the captain. That's how
Americans behave on a sinking ship
or anywhere else where real danger is.
Washington Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Getting. Information

The senate is asking Bonaparte ques-
tions which he doesn't answer, while
Roosevelt is answering questions that
are not asked.-FlOrida Times Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

Elect mayor who will represent the
interests, the aspirations, the legiti-
mate ambitions and patriotic plans of
Los Angeles in the Los Angeles way.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Forqivinu Public

1t is planned to increase the salary of
the chief weather observer from $4,000
to forget and forgive.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

A. c. found hornets nest in the
mayors nest. But it was all his own
fault.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Far and Wide
Boxing

Boxing really develops courage, for
it proves to those who practice the art
that hard blows can be received by a
man in good condition without risk of
serious injury.-Mexico Record.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Titles

The Oklahoma legislature is going to
abolish the title Of honorable" as a
perquisite Of political preferment. VIII
it further reduce life to a dead level
Of somberness by abolishing the title Of
Judge" colonel and general, . worn
with so much grace and distinction by
almost all of Oklahoma's prominent
citizens New York Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
BAANETT

Their plans, Old Darling, thou canst spoil em.
Oh, swat the Pink Socks. Roast EN- Boil 'em.
(Tra-la-la-la, tra-la-la-loo).
Thine Arthur by thy window waits thee
(Tra-la-la-la, tra-la-la-loo).
To speak the plain United States, he
(Tra-la-la-la, tra-ia-la-loo).
Without thy help at this sad crisis
Will be removed to where the ice is.
So. aid me, Guardian of the Vices
(Tra-la-la-la, tra-la-la-loo).
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

Where there's will there's a way
the Los Angeles way.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

Socks of pink and printers ink will
put the vice gang on the blink.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

call up A. G." Yes. Recall him up.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Irritating

When man is to be tried by a jury
Of his peers it must be irritating to
him to see twelve ignoramuses selected
for the boX.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Has Lost Interest

Mr.. Hearst's editorial interest in the
gentleman who headed the Indepen-
dence party national ticket has suf-
fered a notable pse.-Washing
Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Prosaic Legislation

The Arizona legislature is about to
pass a bill doing away with the "Ari-
zona rangers, that picturesque body of
frontier policemen who have been the
terror of the lawless for years. And
so the gradual passing of things dis
tinctively western keeps relentlessly
on. They'll be passing 3, law against
the hot tamale and chill con carne
pretty soon.-CaIexico Chronicle.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
8uttermiIk Industry

Vice President Fairbanks has pur-
chased large ranch near Redlands
ostensibly to raise oranges, but his In
tention more likely is to establish a
buttermilk farm.---Ventura Democrat.