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Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
SAYS WE DO NOT SINCERELY
DESIRE BETTER CONDITIONS

Los ANGELES, June 11.-TEditor
Herald: If ii is in order | wish to thank
the writer of the editorial on child labor
in this mornings Herald, and also MIR.
Lewis for the letter that prompted the
editorial. And yet 1 wish to criticize.
We have a tremendous problem. it is
true, and it is an economic one. Never
theless is 1t not obvious that the prob
lem itself. like everything else, must
have a cause, and that this must be
discovered and removed?
How comes it that America has an
economic system that ruthlessly slaugh-
ters human life? Simply because
America, as a nation, holds life cheap.
If you urge that we have taken this
system from the past | reply: why do
not we who profess to be so intelligent
and civilized discard that system and
adopt a better?'' And the answer IS
still the same. We do not feel suf-
ficiently interested to make the needed
effort and our lack of interest is due
to the fact that we do not really value
human life.
/ am greatly attracted by the work of
the Prison Reform league, because
see in our treatment of the criminal the
most fragrant example of our disregard
for human life. 1t is therefore through
the criminal that, as it seems to me,
the most powerful attack on brute force
barbarism must be made.
The child and the convict are both
helpless, but the convict is the more
helpless of the two. In fact there is no
living thing so helpless as the prisoner
or the discharged convict without a
dollar to his name. We may palliate
the injuries done to the child by saying
that they are inherent in our economic
system which we are unable as yet TO
change But we cannot so excuse our
treatment of the prisoner. There we
act deliberately. There is not dog in
the country that we mistreat as we mis-
treat those caught in the dragnet of
our criminal law, administered by the
most depraved element of our popula-
tion-the political hirelings.
We know what these hirelings are
and how they will act toward those
absolutely at their mercy; but we do
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

turn to prison. Your correspondent
quotes from a San Francisco paper
which says that the prison board ac-
cused Moore of misrepresenting facts
in stating that it costs over $50 to OBJ
tain a parole as the directors Will
equip a man at the states cost in de-
serving cases. Your correspondent
then remarks that the Prison Reform
league and [ myself have published re-
peatedly statements in consonance
with the assertion made by Moore. He
naturally asks who is right.
Under date of February s, 1909, The
Herald reported me as saying: Under
our present state law and the above
rules q and previously quoted verbatim
the rules requiring a deposit of S25,
etc.) it costs the prisoner from $50 to
$50 to be paroled and returned to the
place of conviction, regardless of the
expense of securing employment AS
nearly nine-tenths of those eligible for
parole are penniless, the glaring in
equality of the law is at once apparent.
l talked with many deserving prison
ers in San Quentin who never applied
for pardon because they felt blocked
on account of their poverty My parole
bill cuts out the money demands on
the helpless prisoner and aims to ex-
tend helping hand to the deserving
man as he leaves the prison."
This quotation from me is strictly
correct. / stand by it, and the Prison
Reform league and Wess Moore are
entirely correct in so representing the
matter to the public.
My own measure-assembly bill No.
6S9-referred to above, which sought to
remedy this injustice. was smothered
in the senate, and the prison board
rules from which l quoted still stand
as governing the situation. No law
has been passed changing them.
Do they say that 1.-The directors will
equip a man at the states cost in de-
serving cases?"N How many such cases
have they passed on as deserving r.
| should be astonished if they could
show a single one. But to my knowl-
edge over and over again when con-
victs have applied for parole and
pleaded poverty the board mas rubbed
its hands softly and remarked that the
regulations still are in force, no steps
having been taken by the legislature
to change them.
While it is true that at the last ses-
sion of our legislature some members
of the board favored the paroling of
recidivists and the appropriation of
$4,000 by the state for the employment
of probation officers whose duty it is
to find work for paroled prisoners, yet
| the fact remains that the same men
| opposed my bill which eliminated all
money demands in order that the pa
rolled man might leave the prison, so
| far as money demands are concerned,
on the same footing with the one who
is discharged at the expiration of his
term. G. j. GRIFFITH.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
RECALLS THAT NAZARENE
WAS NOT A WINE Bl55ER

Los ANGELES. June 11.-lE Editor
Herald: Mr.. Taber thinks that many
patriarchs 'got drunk" but even so,
had there been found one perfect the
mission of Christ would have been su-
perfluous. He is our only example, and
he was not wine bibber" nor be-
side himself
Probably Noah did. not know that
new wine was Intoxicating, since men
of the twentieth century profess their
ignorance in The Herald, nor that Ter
mentation takes place which is scarce
ly perceptible to the imbiber. AT Pen
tecost, because of their unusual be-
havior. men were declared to be full Of
new wine. The Nazarites even re-
iected grapes and mothers in the an
ticipated birth of gifted children were
forbidden wine or strong drink or any
thing that came of the vine.
If Lincoln had whisky in his grocery
he saw the evil of it and refused TO
drink wine at national functions and
two DAYS before his assassination said
1.-THE next live issue before the pubic
Is nrohibition." Prohibition would
have saved many innocent lives and
lynchings. Grants victories were not
due to drunkenness, nor did Lincoln
think so.
Educating people to believe that
temperance in alcohol means success
and that overeating is as disastrous
to a, community as the use of alcohol
is nonsensical. Temperance in poison
is a delusion.
Probably Anna Poltera was murdered
by an alcoholic fiend as little Emily
Foote of Connecticut was thus muir
dered and her body found under a
grape vine. She was killed by her
Uncle I,eander Foote, after he had
been on ''spree" He killed her moth
er. also. who dying, could only moan:
"Oh what will they do with LeanderY
If Moses allowed alcohol it was be-
cause of "hardness of heart" as ne
allowed divorce.
The Bible teaches a purity which
could, never emanate from besotted
Mrs MARSHALL FLANSBURG.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

not care Frightful stories come to us,
both from regular penitentiaries and
from convict camps; but we are not in
terested
AS long as this moral callousness con-
tinues, as long as our mental attitude
is "To hell With them,' so long will 1t
be a waste of breath to talk about
changing the system of abolishing child
labor or any other crying evil.
It is our habit to lay the blame for
social conditions ON the plutocrats.
How characteristics Why, their creed
of dollars before men is the very one
we ourselves, with our blindness to the
beauty and possibilities and incompar-
able value of human life, really hug to
what we are pleased to call our hearts.
WILLIAM c. OWEN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
MAKES FINAL STATEMENT
RELATIVE TO SPIRITUALISM

LOS ANGELES, June 11.-[Editor
Herald: In my last answer to P. A.
Jensen challenged some of his state
ments and asked for the proof. After
a delay long enough for people to for
get he comes back with new batch Of
assertions and considerable abuse
which tells the story that he has no
proof, or even arguments, to offer
He says of me, 1But instead of Civ
ing us some reason, based on the evil
dence of the case, for his wild and
erratic statements etc. Now every
one (but a. spiritualist) knows that 1t
is the affirmative side that must fur
nish the proof and not the negative
side. He has asserted have denied.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

and not John Corrigan, as stated is
the legal adviser and representative of
the above association.
Mr.. Baker, who is an attorney of
many years standing, has on all oc-
casions represented this association be-
fore our city council and board of pub
lie works, has advised and instructed
our committee having this matter in
charge, and we consequently feel that
this correction is due Mr.. Baker, and
respectfully request that you give the
same publicity through the columns of
your most valuable paper
Respectfully, N. L. BLABON.
President Sixth Ward Central I'M
proVement association.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
cRlTIclsEs STUPID PERSONS
WHO LAUGH AT TRAGEDY

LOS ANGELES, June Ill Editor
Herald: It is a great mystery to me
why people to whom the theater Is sim
ply a place of amusement waste their
good money on such play as SALIVA
ton Nell" This half-baked element
was painfully in evidence FRIDAY night
In that intensely pathetic part where
the ex-convict awlxwardly holds and at
tennis to fondle the son he had never
before seen, and perhaps the only child
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
URGES PREPARATION FOR
LIFE INSTEAD OF DEATH

PASADENA. June 6.-[Editor Her
old1. AZ we sow we reap; as we seek
We And This applies to both doing
good and evil. Without faith all prog
Tess of the races would cease. Through
fsitb and continuous effort all results
are obtained. TO get peace, prepare for
peace: to get war, prepare for war Il
am preparing for peace.
For aaas Ara ha-va haan nrenarinH Tor
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
GRIFFITH REITERATEs THAT
1T COSTS TO GET PAROLES

LOS ANGELES, June 12.-[Editor
Herald: note in your Letter Box this
morning a communication signed I, x.
q. and dealing with the case of j.
Wess Moore, a San Quentin convict
out on parole and threatened with re-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
sPERRY BAKER COUNSEL FOR
SIXTH WARD ASSOCIATION

los ANGELES, June 7.-[Editor
Herald: Relative to your article pub
Iished on the 4th inst. on the council
proceediIigs and on behalf of the Sixth
Ward Central Improvement associa-
tion the instigator of the vigorous
against the garbage-fed
hogs of Vernon, ! wish to state that
snerry Baker. an attorney of this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

he had ever held in his arms, these
people recognized something at which
they might laugh-and did so. Perhaps
at this moment Mr.. Blinn felt his
magnificent art failure. At any rate
1 did not envy him his feelings.
JOHN C. HILL.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
A Difficult Stunt

what makes your wife act so aueerly
here of late?"
some one told her that worry made peo~
pie thin and she is trying to worry and
don't know how"
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The Value Of a Remedy is Proven
By It's Cures.
Elkwood, Ala, Dec. IA, 1905

Elkwood, Ala, Dec. IA, 1908.
DR.. Kilmer & Co., BinghamtOn, \. Y.
Drar Sirs-I have derived such grea
benefit from the use of your remedy,
Root, that l believe it to b.
most important for the public to know
its worth. For the past ten yares L
have been the most miserable of men.
Did not know what the trouble va !,
but had to urinate very frequently both
day and night; was all puffed up gen
orally. Could not sleep more thpn an
couple of hours at time, was greatly
distressed after eating meal and was
about worn out. l had tried nearly
everything / could see advertised and
hear of, without helping me TO any
great extent, until finally in October
last at Ripan, Wis, purchased a one
dollar bottle of Swamp-Root and COM
menced taking it according to dIrec-
lions and l followed that with another
bottle and experienced such great relief
and benefit from same that l purchas-
ed five dollars worth at Huntsville,
Ala, and continued its use and am
now taking it, but in smaller doses and
twice day in place of four times day
and believe. by the time the present
supply is used up L will be entirely
well. l am feeling better now than for
ten years past. Can eat and sleep first
class, in fact 1 am feeling so good that
L cannot resist telling you about it.
Yoa are at liberty to publish this testi-
monial should you wish.
Very respectfully,
Thos. Stallard, U. s. A., Retired,
Box :, r. K. No. 2, Elkwood, Ala.
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hams Vegetable Compound is the most
successful remedy for all kinds OF
female troubles, and I feel that l can
never praise itenough." -MRs. LIZZIE
HOLLAND, Noah, Ky.
The Changeof Life is themostcritlcal
period of a woman's existence, and
neglect of health at this time invites
disease and pain.
neutrality-suspicious.
that there is no other remedy known to
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Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
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For 80 years it has been curing
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If you would like special advice
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season. This will bring each crop on
at Il season when the expense of heat
ing during a part of the time will be
slight. Plants for the first crop should
be started as early as August. If two
or more houses are available a second
sowing should be made in about three
weeks to give Il succession. For the
second crop seed should be sOWn dur
ing the latter part of October.
The plants are treated in every way
as for outdoor culture till handled the
last time. For fruiting some prefer
benches, with about six inches of sell,
but in the experience of others the best
results have been obtained from the
use of boxes eighteen inches square
and twelve inches deep. In the bot
tom Of the boxes is placed layer of
charcoal, broken pots or clinkers from
the furnace, after which soil, consist
ing of three parts good garden loan
and one part well rotted stable ma
nure, is filed in to within two OF
hold four plants, and the check caused
by the partial confinement of the roots
seems to be of value in fastening ma
turity. If the solid bed is used in
stead of the boxes the plants are set
about sixteen inches apart each way,
thus occupying little more than one
and one-half square feet of floor space
for each plant.
Best returns usually follow where
the plants are trained to single stem,
as shown in the illustration Flax
cords about the size Of wool Irvine
are fastened to the corners Of the
boxes or to wires placed parallel to
each row for that purpose and attach
ed above to wires running lengthwise
Of the building on the rafters CT sash
bars. The plants are secured loosely
to this support by means of short
pieces of rafiia. All side shoots should
be pinched out as soon as they ap-
pear, and when the plants are about
five feet high or when four clusters of
fruit have set the terminal buds
should be pinched off. The vitality
If the plant will then be expended in
the development of fruit If the plants
are not headed back other fruit clus-
ters will form, but these scattering
later clusters will unduly prolong the
fruiting season without giving suffi-
cient financial return to warrant de.
laying the removal of the old plants
AS the fruit sets the clusters should
be supported by means Of small cord
or piece Of raffia passing around the
main stem above a leaf, thus forming
sling. At this time, too, it Is well
to stir the surface Of the soil and
work in quantity of well rotted ma
nure or to give frequent applications
of liquid manure.
The temperature of the house should
be as nearly uniform as possible
about 60 degrees at night and 10 de-
gress in dark weather, but 80 degrees
Or even higher on bright, sunny days
ALI cold drafts and sudden changes
of temperature should be rigidly
avoided
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in a Strange Land.

Two beiated disciples of Hacehus
staggered arm in arm up Walnus street
about 8 O'clock the other morning. The
street was dark except for a single
ground glass globe that blazed in front
of an apartment house. One of the
inebriates, spying this lone light, OBJ
served:
"Oh, look at zhe moonsh!"
The other seriously contradicted him
saying:
"That amt no moonsh; Fash sum-"
This started an argument, which
lasted for several minutes, as to wheth-
er the globe was the moon or the sun.
Finally they decided to leave it to the
first passerby, who happened to be an
other "happy" gentleman. They stop
ped him and, pointing to the globe,
asked:
"Settle an argument, oldipal. Is that
the moon or the sun ?"
The third party stared knowingly at
the globe for several minutes before he
shook his head and replied:
"Gentlemen, I really couldn't tell
you. I'm a stranger in this town. -
Philadelphia Record.
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The Test that Tells.


Dothan, Ala, Jan. %, 1909.
DR.. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Gentlemen-About one year ago two
of my children suffered badly from
weak kidneys and diabetes; their urine
was very bad and they would have Sc
we're spells of dizziness, and were all
run down in hOalth. l was just about
discouraged. l tried several remedies
and finally doctor, but they did not
seem to improve. l knew of friend
who was taking Swamp-Root for kid
ney trouble vito good results, and l de-
cided to get some for the children. l
noticed there was some improvement
after they had taken two large bottles,
and continued to give it to them until
they had taken half dozen bottles
and were well on the road to recovery.
| think Swamp-Root has done more
for my children than any other medi-
cine l have tried and L recommend it
to one having children who suffered as
mine did. r. w. Linsenby,
City Clerk, Dothan, Ala.
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Near Death IN Big Pond.

1t was thrilling experience to Mrs.
Ida Soper to face death. ''For years a
severe lung trouble gave me intense
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times nearly caused my death. All
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A Contractor.

Donalsonville, Ga. Jan. 20, 1909.
DR.. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Gentlemen-About four years ago L
suffered from kidney trouble and rhe
umatism in my hips. The pain across
my back became so severve that l could
hardly straighten up and could not
walk without dragging my feet. |
would urinate frequently and would
have to rise two or three times during
the night, causing me to suffer from
loss of sleep. And with the pain l was
all run down and began to lose flesh.
1 saw Swamp-Root apvertised and
bought one bottle to try it. After TAX
ing it 1 felt better and could sleep all
right at night. L continued to take t
until 1 had taken four large bottles. |
was entirely free from any pain in the
back and began to gain weight. l al
ways recommend Swamp-Root to my
friends as think the cure in my case
remarkable. Yours very trouly,
M. Fl. dickson, Donalsonville, Ga.
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Mail Carriers Experience.

Bluntville, Tenn.
l have been rural letter carrier for
over five years. Soma two years ago L
was taken with severe pains in my
back. l used medicine from my fami-
ly physician for several months with
out any benefit. A friend, Mr.. ). u.
Nelson, advised me to try your Swamp
Root, but had no faith in it. l con-
tinued to grow worse and at last decid-
ed to try this remedy and bought of
Long Bros. fifty cent bottle which
gave me great relief. 1 then bought a
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truthfully say have completely curer
me. Had it not been for Swamp-Root
1 would have been compelled to quit
the rural free delivery service.
1 advise all mail carriers who get
pains in their back that Swamp-Root
will cure them. was so bad that very
often my wife would have to help me
to arise. M. b. HendrickSon,
Rural Letter Carrier, Route 2.
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AClergyman.
New Roads, La, Jan, %,

New Roads, La, Jan. %, 1909.
DR.. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, n. Y.
Dear Sirs-I write today to the pub
lie that your Swamp-Root cured me of
kidney trouble. L was almost past 60
ing; having spasmodic spells with my
kiddeys that were breaking down my
constitution. The best medical gid was
employed and they pronounced my
trouble as alkali in the kidneys, but
were unable to do me any permanent
good. 1 took four bottles of Swamp
Root and becameia well man. This was
six yearS.ago and have no trace of the
trouble. Yours for suffering men,
Rev. J. r. Taylor,
Pastor Baptist church, New Roads, La
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Results 1t has Proved.
A Prominent Mason.

Jackson, Tenn.
According to my experience, do not
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Swamp-Root for kidney affection.
Twice it relieved me when was COM
pletely helpless.
The last time L was travelling in Tex
as. when my kidneys become affected,
and for ten days | suffered eXcruciat-
ing pains, accompanied with severe
chills. Several years previous, having
been relieved of similar attack, ma
turally sought relief as before from
Swamp-Root.
After using four of the large size bot
ties, was completely restored and
went on my way rejoicing and praising
Swamp-Root. This was three years
ago L have had no indication of a return
of the affiiction.
J. G.. Smith, Jr., SO Mason,
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L arm ona
Garden
TOMATOES IN WINTER.

The Best Way to Keep Them Safely
In Winter.
The most important conditions for
forcing tomatoes are: A warm, light
house-One having a two-thirds span
facing the south being preferable
strong bottom heat, rich soil, careful
training, uniform temperature, care in
watering and pollinating and, as be-
fore suggested, good judgment and
constant watchfulnesS on the part Of
the grower. Bottom heat is not absO
lutely essential to success, but the crop
natures more quickly if given this
condition.
To make the best use Of the house
two crops should be grown during the