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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-29
RECALL is TALlSMAN
OF VAST POTENTIALLY

LOS ANGELES. Jan. N.-L Editor
Herald: More power to The Herald's
elbow in it's efforts for clean city
government! Apart from any consld-
erations personal to our present mayor
who is perhaps, not so much worse
than the general run of politicians
among whom we choose our mayors
it behooves every earnest, consclen-
tious citizen to see that there is no
slackness or half-heartedness about
our handling of the recall in the pres
ent. as in all similar cases. In the
recall Los Angeles has talisman that,
if rightly appreciated and handled,
could not only work wonders In eX-
orcising the monster Of local civic
graft. but in doing so could-nay, let
US SAY. IT SHALL AND MUST-be an
instruction and an inspiration to every
graft-ridden city in the country. Alas!
that this should mean nearly every
one!
Having made up our minds to the
necessity for action, let US push the re-
call without hesitancy or dflatoriness,
and look with confidence to the re-
suits, not locally alone, but throughout
the land.
Now, all together, boost the recall!
No laggards! And good luck to The
Herald! CITIZEN.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-29
INMATE OF SOLDIERS HOME
MAKES TIMELY SUGGESTION

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25.-CEditor
Herald: Having been a subscriber 10
your valuable paper the past eight
months or more, have been surprised
at your not having sent a solicitor to
the Soldiers Home in the endeavor to
increase your subscription list among
our 1000 or more aged men, nearly all
of them being large readers.
I beg leave to suggest to you another
way by which you may do so, and it is
way that has not been tried by
others. Our managers publish yearly
their quarterly proceedings in pamphlet
form in connection with the report of
the United States war departments in
spector of these homes. They are is
sued to applicants through a congress-
man or senator only. / also suggest
that you ask for the report of the year
1907. as we'll as that for 1908, ending
June 80.
These reports are denied US. 1t will
be to US a very great treat to know
how much is set aside for our sub
sistence and what has become of all the
other tens of thousands reported as
having been spent for our mainte-
nance. / feel quite sure that if you
publish from time to time extracts
from these interesting documents it
will prove to be a means of increas-
ing your circulation, as I know it will
furnish interesting and instructive
matter to all of us who are members
of this home and SaWtelle. e. w.
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LAND LOOT

h EDERAL control of grazing lands
and equitable railroad rates and
regulations We're the principal is
sues before the convention of the Live
Stock association, and in threshing
them out the cowboys" performed a
big national public service. If the
urban people Of the United States could
become sufficiently interested in the
rural life of this great nation to realize
how ruthlessly and heartlessly and au-
dactously the power Of predatory wealth
has swindled the smaller grazers and
ranchers out of rights and privileges
which the government of the United
States intended for them and not for
the trusts, and if city jewellers could
realize the audacity with which the
privileges which in the country regions
are the exact equivalents Of franchises
in the city areas have been STOLEN,
and if they could still further realize
the close relationship between this land
loot and the gouge rates by which
railroads attempt to hold up western
industries, they would NOT sit calmly
and counsel peace. moderation and
tranquility.
Thieves have managed to possess
themselves of acreages which were in
tended for honest men; and the same
lawless spirit is exhibited in the at
tempt of the railroads to deprive of the
just rewards and profits of their toll
and skill the smaller producers who,
robbed of the larger land opportuni-
ties by the crafty land grabbers who
hoaxed and swindled the government
manfully addressed themselves to the
task of doing the best they COULD
with the land and the means at their
disposal. The delegates to the stock
raisers convention received with thun-
ders of applause the suggestion that in
the bill for federal control should be
inserted a clause preventing any as
signment of a land lease granted by
the government. 1t was pointed out
that if this provision was not made it
would be in the power of large concerns
to send their agents into the field, AS
THEY HAVE DONE BEFORE, secure
leases of immense tracts, AS THEY
HAVE DONE BEFORE, and COM
pletely eliminate the small cattle rails
ers from the ranges, AS THEY HAVE
DONE BEFORE. To anyone who
thinks of the wholesale nature of some
of the land thefts in the United States,
the use of the rope as an aid to com
mon honesty among certain predaceous,
voracious grab-alls would seem to need
no apology.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-29
PUBLIC MORALITY

I'VE ARE astonished to find that
wv some of the opponents of re-
form in Los Angeles are saying
it were folly to hold an election for
mayor since the mayoralty term will
expire in a year. People who are rea-
soning in this vein are merely saying,
LET bad enough alone, for twill sure
ly come to an end by and by"
Such pleaders are lacking in the
moral sense and have consequently a
peculiar moral standard. The citizens
of Los Angeles believe in the salutary
moral effect of the recall of an I'M
faithful public official, and that is
why they are in favor of the recall of
Mayor Harper. They mean to show
the world that they will always stand
ready to repudiate, disown and dis
avow corruption, craft and graft and
refuse to tolerate or to traffic with
vice. When the assertion is made
there is no case on which to found a
recall, the gentlemen of the OPPOSE
ton are either showing that of
the ways of the world they are
ignorant to the point of simplicity or
are showing an alarming lack of moral
tone.
If the citizens of Los Angeles were
to defeat the recall petition they would
indorse the smoke graft, the oil graft,
the sugar graft and every other graft
which has been exposed.
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PROOF MIND is LOST
AFTER FIVE SENSES ARE GONE

GLENDORA, Jan. 25.-[Editor Her
add: In reply to Mr.. Jones' challenge,
ask him to prove that mind is lost
after the five senses are gone.
Although man could not express him
self in a material manner, still no one
can say that his mind was a blank or
lost. AS mind is God, how can mind
be lost?
Mr.. Jones states that the five senses
constitute mind. Well, if that is so,
the loss of the eyes would destroy a.
portion of mind. Can portion of God
be destroyed?
Any hypothesis which supposes life to
be in matter is an educated belief. How
can man, rejecting God, be dependent
on material means for knowing, hear
ing, seeing?
Who dares to say that the senses of
man can be at one time the medium
for SHINING against God, at another the
medium for obeying God? An affirm
ative reply would contradict the Scrip
ture, for the same fountain sendeth not
forth sweet water and bitter.
The belief that matter and mind are
one-that matter is awake, and asleep.
sometimes presentingIno appearance of
mind-this belief ends in another be-
lief, that man dies.
Although Mr.. Brown cannot give a
case where the five senses were entire
ly lost, still Mr.. Jones can't prove that
the mind is gone after the losing of
the senses Whether mind would be in
a. material condition, or spiritual, who
can say unless we judge from spir-
itual basis? w. L. B.
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CAMEL-SWALLOWERS?

p" ERE'S a how-d'ye-do! CIV. B.
Sink, arrested several days ago,
- was released because of the lack
of sufficient evidence against him. .
He had been in the company of two
bad men. He had claimed to be con-
nected with the secret service, but the
claim was without foundation. He had
followed the races in Europe, and he
knew the crowned heads Of the world
by sight. But even that did not con-
stitute an offense which justified his
detention or Imprisonment.
We do not know the crowned heads
of the world by sight, but we know
some of them by reputation, and we
don't think they are entitled to much
respect. Neither can we believe they
earn their salaries. AT the same time
we don't think a man should be cap
tured by our police merely because he
has seen the crowned heads of Eu-
rope at the race tracks. There are
forms Of vice much more deserving Of
official attention which have somehow
escaped notice in Los Angeles. Our city
is being closely watched by all the
other, cities of the country, and when
we arrest man because he knows the
crowned heads of Europe by sight and
allow disorderly gambling games to
flourish, our friends and critics will be
apt to say the Los Angeles folk strain
out gnats and swallow camels.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-29
SUSPECTS YOUNG MAN is
OTHER THAN HE INDICATES

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22.-[Editor
Herald1 In today's issue of your val
liable paper young Man" deplores the
fact "that American girls marry lords
1t is funny, when they could just as
easily get a Thaw, Corey, Hartje,
Vanderbilt or some Of the other ''sprigs
of nobility we have on this side; and,
besides, the divorce courts grind out
DEGREES so easily here that there's no
difficulty at getting rid of an insult
able partner.
young Man" says "the American
girl is the most beautiful and intelli-
gent in the world Well, that's all
right, but fancy when he gets little
older and travels more he'll find they
all say the same thing and probably
with some little basis of fact.
And, after ALL some of these lords
that are so maligned are men of great
attachments and high character-Lord
Kelvin, Lord Salisbury, Lord Rosebery.
Lord Dalmeny and scores of others;
and further we in America have plen-
ty of lords, too, nominally, at least
John Dee" Andrew" "Pierpont'
''Tom'' (of Boston,, Hartman (and he
does), and so on ad infinitum
No, Young Man. there's lots of
things you don't understand. and proE.-
ably, like the rest Of US, never will, but
you'll improve as you grow older. sure!
| have suspicion, though, that this
young man" is a girl.
A WEE BIT OLDER MAN. y
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"RUcKEYE" SEES OCCASION TO
ROAS. CITY OF LOS ANGELES


LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26-[Editor
Herald: 1 was persuaded to visit Los
Angeles by the representations made
in the east by those in charge of the
exhibit at Atlantic City, N. j., last
summer. They described it as the "City
Beautiful and in every way a place
little nearer heaven than any other on
the globe, and from a commercial
standpoint a place where hard earned
money could be invested with a surety
of a speedy return of larger dividends
than Jay Gould, Rockefeller, or even
Hartman ever declared for them
selves in the same period.
L have been here for about two weeks
looking the town over, like an Irishman
who on leaving the ship at Castle
Garden, New York, began at once look
ing for Gold street, and as he has since
become an honored member of the city
council of that metropolis we must
believe he found all that had been
promised him before leaving the "ould
sod," but in my case scarcely a night
or even day has passed that the heavy
villain has not played his part in hold
ing up visitors and citizens alike
showing no respect for the stranger IN
vited to come here and invest within
your gates, even to the point OF rel1eV-
ing him or her of life if objections are
raised. SO, while my intentions were
to sojourn among you for several
months, I must say that with your
strange absence of police control of this
murderous element, must shorten my
visit and return to a country where life
is safe in time of peace, and my part
ing advice to the citizenship OF Los An
geles is to again assert the manhood or
40 and rid yourselves, as the pioneers
did, of this pernicious element-if nee
essary at the end of the rope. Your
salvation seems to me to be necessarily
in your own hands. Hoping you, by
your actions, will make it possible for
me and others to return among you
with the surety of finding the atmoS-
phere cleared 1 will say adieu.
RIICKEYE.
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SAYS WE SHOULD TRY SOCIAL
SYSTEM OUTLINED IN BIBLE

POMONA, Jan. 26.-[Editor Herald:
w. H. Steel says: Some Of your
correspondents have truthfulIy stated
that 1t is our system of government
that is producing unfavorable condi-
lions, but they offer no practical rem
edy. Let US not forget that no i'm
perfect man or set of men can lay the
foundation of a perfect government;
and, if perfect one was laid for them
they could not perpetuate it, Why
should we ask for a more sperfect gov.
eminent than the people can follow
up to? We should first try one Like
that laid down for us in the Bible. Or,
If w. I'll. Steel has a better plan, let
us hear from him.
The prophets and Jesus proposed one
in which there would be no one to
lord it over them, j. e. the people,
Moses says: Thou shalt not give thy
brother thy money upon usury, nor
lend him thy victuals for increase.
Ezekiel (18:10-13) places the taking Of
interest and profit among the vilest
Of acts and as deserving death. See
also chapter %.
Jesus drove the merchants from the
temple because they broke the law by
buying and selling at a profit. Moses
had provided for a place in the temple
courts where those who lived at dis
tance could buy what they needed for
sacrifices and offerings
w. H. Steel says J. T. Irwin is the
only one who has limited at the cor
rect remedy. I have not seen his rem
edy, but have seen his prophecy con-
corning the coming of the Lord.
The Socialists propose a. remedy that
is worth noticing. They propose to
take away the profit system, and, as
the Bible also is against the profit sys-
tenn, how can w. H. Steel say that it
is not practical?
CHARLES U. WHITE.
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LAWLESSNESS

A CORRESPONDENT who sends us
n his name and address, and for
whose good faith we can vouch,
says he thinks vice is better protected
in Los Angeles than the public. He
goes on to explain his assertion by re-
marking: Several times during the
past year you have published editorials
condemning the practice of carrying
weapons, and it is very easy to make
out good case on that side. Other
things and general conditions being
equal, your statements and conclusions
would be inGisputable. But there is
another side which demands attention.
The cold facts are that in Los Angeles
today no man can walk five blocks
away from the we'll lighted and
thronged business center, after night
fall, without being in imminent danger
of being held up or knocked down and
robbed of everything of value. Stores
have been entered and customers and
proprietors alike robbed, and every
night or so for while a safe was blown
open, and the police frankly, confess
their inability to protect the taxpaying
citizens.
yet, while they do not disarm the
thugs, every one of whom is armed, as
you and the police we'll know, you urge
us not to try to protect ourselves or
our women and children; and if a
citizen should dare to put a gun in his
pocket as a precaution, he is at once
spotted, arrested and fined, by some
sapient justice, ten dollars. What a
wonderfully sensible procedure! In Los
Angeles our government neither pro-
tects US nor allows US to protect our
selves"
We sympathize with our friend, and
hope he will remain in Los Angeles
long enough to find that the people are
not responsible for conditions produced
by official mismanagement. 1t must
be admitted that official protection of
vice is accompanied invariably by a
disposition on the part of the lawless
to take advantage of the irregular con-
ditions prevailing. When there is a
suspicion abroad that there has been
official wrongdoing, private wrongdoing
is undoubtedly encouraged, and that
is one of the worst features of any
municipal maladministration. 1t leads
to contempt of the law, and to an in
crease of lawlessness. When Los An
geles is cleaned un it will be a safer
as we'll as a better city.
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FOR PUBLIC SAFETY

TN the proposed amendment of sec
ton "a of article of the city
Il charter is an important provision
for public safety which, in a fashion
that might perhaps be criticised as
being somewhat eccentric unless it were
reasonably certain the entire amend
ment would be adopted, is grouped
with provisions for the planting and
care of trees in streets, the removal of
weeds and rubbish from private prop
erty, the removal Of distractions from
sidewalks, the connecting of property
with water mains and other conduits
In streets, the establishment of bouIe-
wards and the licensing and impound-
ing and caring for dogs. Important
provisions which are in the same char
ter amendment with dog licensing and
tree planting have to do with the
safety of the people of Los Angeles
who use the streets by the ordinary or
Adamic method of DECENTRALIZATION. In
plain American, they are for the pro-
lection Of walking citizens, who have
had good reason to believe their lives are
oadIngered frequently by present con-
ditions and are indeed imperiled some
times to such a degree that tales Of ad-
venture by flood and field fail to be
awe inspiring. Even hardened life in
s-lrance gents have been heard to say
polar explorer would be better
risk" than a citizen of Los Angeles
who would have the temerity TO
contend for the use of the streets
with cars, automobiles, auto bicycles,
--agons, drays, auto wagons, auto drays
and mogul steam locomotives. The
tremendous traffic on the streets of Los
Angeles is healthy sign Of prosperity,
but only member of the undertakers'
trust would quarrel with the proposed
charter provision which gives reason
able assurance Of life and the pursuit
Of happiness on the streets of Los An
geles to the man who travels afoot.
Charter amendment No. % proposes
That section "a Sf article of the char
ter be amended to read as follows:
THE city council shall, by ordinance,
regulate the speed of railroad trains.
engines or cars, street or other railroad
ears, automobiles and other vehicles in
the city, and require persons, firms or
railroad corporations operating street
or other railroads to station flagmen,
place gates or construct bridges, via
ducts, tunnels or subways at railroad
crossings, as the council may deem
proper
GOOD!
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SAYS DR.. HUMANITAs ADMITS.
UNWiTTINGLY, METAPHYSICS

Los ANGELES, Jan. 21.-rEditor
Heraldl DR.. Humanitas Quotes an
pfoSingiy that "a metaphysfcian is
one who explains something that he
KNOWS nothing about" This fits ex-
actly MS case, for he, physician or
scientist, probably Haeckelist. what
goes ne know about metaphysics? He
never studied that science and if is> nor
maps beyond his matter of fact train
lis' ana his inclination to go into the
causes OF things insead of DEALING. with
eHects merely. Yet he admits that
human intelligence is beyond or above
natural intelligence, for he saws.
mat intelligence is found throughout
nature in this elementary sense is no
proof that nature is inteIligao+ i, +ho
SENSE tnaC we are, nor does it prove
lltstl nature has any definite plan"
NOW mere is his admission that nature
makes no plans which is physics. but
IN that he admits higher intelligence.
ne admits metaphysics.
NOW the existence of this higher in
eelli8ence IS capable of proof except to
such as shut their mental ewes and
ieLuse 10 De convinced. 1t is called
nsht but different in kind from the
material sunlight. Such light was inn
piIed by Shakespeare when he wrote:
Ihere is no darkness but Ignorance
Again In the term, 1.-THE dark ages
when the cults of Greece and Rome had
dled out and Christianity was in its
getting established Again in John
10: And the light shineth in dark
ness, and darkness comprehended it
not" Again John 3:19: And THAT
ilght IS come into the world and men
loved darkness rather than light
NOW TINS light is not visible to the ma
terlal eye, which is the reason that
scientists not being able to analyze it,
deny it altogether.
NOW whether material scientists deny
the hlgher light or not, the fact remains
that light came with Christ into the
world, has transformed part and is
destined to leaven the whole, and that
all that physical science has achieved
mas been made possible by the intelIi-
gence and mental liberty that Christ's
teachings have wrought, G. r.
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"All aboard for Puget sound ports
might have been the cry at San Pedro
yesterday. From our splendid harbor
sailed the steamship Queen on the first
voyage of the Pacific Coast Steamship
company from Los Angeles to Seattle,
Victoria and other Puget sound ports
The Pacific Coast Steamship company
will be famous in history as the pioneer
in the service which will help the de-
velopment of the western seaboard the
greatest and busiest harbor of which
will be that of San Pedro.
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The State Press
HAPPINESS Ahead

The legislature is disposed to be exacting
in dealing with manufacturers of furniture
for hotels and boarding houses, requiring
them to state just what enters into the
cushions, mattresses, etc, which they turn
out Now, if the measure is followed up
with another requiring the hotel or board
ing house keeper to keep the guest posted
at all times regarding the contents of the
beds, everybody ought to be happy.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
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Greed, greed, greed!'' exclairns John
Muir, naturalist. Citizens want to en-
croach more and more on government
reservations every year, and if all the
parks were gobbled up, with only one
giant tree remaining, you would find a
lawyer and lumberman at the base
of the tree, arguing it would be far
better to cut it down for f1rewood than
save it for the people of these United
States. Creed the curse of America.
Greed, greed, greed!" People who do
not care to hear7or see the plain, blunt
truth are advised not to read this para
graph.
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Miss Anne Morgan has joined the
ranks of the active reformers. She is
leading a crusade against insanitary CT
gar and cigarette factories, which en-
ploy more than twenty thousand girls.
Miss Morgan is the daughter of J. Pier
pont Morgan, and civilization should
rejoice that she is not merely a bud
or "debutante." Let US hope she will
inquire into the conditions which make
it necessary for 10000 girls to work in
tobacco factories.
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AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-"Cind
MASON-"A Stubborn Cinderella"
BELASCO-"The Girl of the Golden West
Observation-Disclosures repertoire.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
ORPHEUM-Road show vaudeville.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-'The Wizard Of
the Nile
Los ANGELES-VaudevilIe.
EISCHER'S-''The Heiress."
TMPIRE-VaudevilIe.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
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Forgotten Literature

Some surprise is expressed by a Swiss
Journal at the discovery in the library of
Zurich of book that had been forgotten
for five centuries. The only occasion for
amazement is that volume so long over
looked should ever have been recalled. Some
of our modern best sellers are forgotten
within a year and will stay so forever,
without any particular loss to the public
Long Beach Telegram.