Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-23
PROMINENT MEN
WILL ESPOUSE
De LARA CAUSE
JUDGE JOHN D. WORKS WILL BE
ONE OF SPEAKERS
FELLOWSHIP LEADER WILL ACT
AS CHAIRMAN
Former City Prosecutor Thomas Lee
Woolwine Also May Speak at Simp-
son Auditorium Mass Meeting
This Evening

Judge John D. Works will be one of
the principal speakers at the mass
meeting to be held tonight in simpson
auditorium, when a protest Will be mace
against the arrest and threatened de-
portation of L. Gutierrez de Lara, tne
Mexican Liberal and patriot now IN the
county Jail on a charge of being an
alien and an anarchist Judge Works
will discuss the legal phases of the De
Lara case and will give his ideas OF
ARRESTS on Suspicion: Their Illegal
ity." Former City Prosecutor Thomas
Lee Woolwine has been asked to ad-
dress the meeting, and has tentatively
consented to do so if he can find the
3 time, other engagements claiming some
of his evening. His familiarity WITH
modern police methods makes him pc
culiarly fitted to talk on this subject.
The meeting will be under the aus
pices of the De Lara Defense league,
and Reynold E. Blight will preside as
chairman. Mr.. Blight is well known
as minister of the Los Angeles Fellow
ship.
Hundreds of the best citizens of Los
Angeles and scores from outlying dis
tricts yesterday Joined the defense
league. according to statements of the
oficers of that organization, and the
mass meeting tonight promises TO be
large one.
OF the seventy-five ministers in and
around Los Angeles to whom letters
were sent yesterday, asking their pres
ence at the meeting, nearly one-half
have signified their intention of attend
ing the meeting and several of them
have announced that they will make
the imprisonment of the author-educat-
or-attorney the subject of their sermon
tomorrow. Members of the local min
istrv seem to feel that a repetition of
T1a- e hnt111 I1n hn
upon this community to its disgrace.
John Kenneth Turner, author OF
''Barbarous Mexico" which is running
in serial form in the American Maya
zine, will tell at the meeting tonight
something of his experiences in the
southern country and will dwell upon
the horrors of chattel slavery in the
hemp country of Yucatan. Among
other speakers will be Frank I. Wheat,
Louis Guernsey, Stanley B. Wilson and
Job Hartman.
RldqeWay and Hazen Invited
An invitation has been extended to
immigration Inspector A. G.. Ridgway
and to Secret Service Operative George
w Hazen to attend the meeting.
Chief of Police Dishman has been
asked to send squad of officers to the
meeting to prevent any attempts at
violence and to arrest any person who
seeks to speak without permission
from the chairman.
Madam Caroline M. Severance,
mother of woman's clubs in Amer
ica," has issued an appeal to all club
women in the United States, asking
them to raise their voices in protest
against De Lara's deportation.
Practical Endorsement of the plans
of the Defense league was given yes
terday afternoon, when an officer of
the league went before the Political
1oiT hn
Lara case to those present at the
meeting held in the parlors of the
Hayward hotel The women present
were a unit in expressing their belief
in the cause and agreed to attend the
meeting tonight in body.
Rev. D. M. 'Gandier, assistant super
intendent of the State Anti Saloon
league, sent the following communca
ton to the De Lara Defense league
yesterday:
Friend of countrymen
AS many citizens are anxious for
Information concerning L. Gutierrez
de Lara, now under arrest on the
charge of being an anarchist, L
wish to publicly state that 1 have
had opportunity to know something
of this man and his interest in his
countrymen.
More than year ago he called
at the Anti-Saloon league office
and sought our counsel about how
to protect MeXicanS from gamblers
and saloon sharks at the Arcadia
race tracks. On several occasions
since then he has conferred with
the undersigned about the best way
of advancing the interests of Mex
leans in this country. On all
these occasions he manifested
genuine and unselfish interest in
ais countrymen, and in our talk
about conditions in Mexico he re-
vealed a clear insight into exist
ing political conditions there, the
difficulties to be encountered in
any movement to better them and
.he necessity for a long process of
education If success was to be at
tanned. His plans, so far as re-
vealed, gave not the slightest sug-
gestion of anarchy or even of a
revolution. His hopes were set on
a rising of the people that would
bring about a peaceable change for
the better, unless the existing
powers refused to abide by major
ity rule and forced fight by try
ing to override the will of the peo-
pie as expressed at the ballot box.
From what saw of the man, I
cannot believe he Is an anarchist.
A Socialist he may be, but that is
no crime, and I sincerely hope his
deportation will be prevented, un-
less the strongest evidence is forth
coming that he is an anarchist,
plotting for the overthrow by i'm
proper means of rightfully estab-
shed government.
I write this not as an official of