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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-21

l. The present exchange would
be given one more chance to come
forward and agree with the city to
write a new contract that would be
equitable and fair to both parties.
2. If the company still refused
to treat with the city, we would
have the city begin hostilities in
earnest. Not only declare them
trespassers on the city streets, BUT
TREAT THEM AS SUCH. The
police should be instructed to pre-
vent them from stringing another
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-21
The Telephone Question.

Willmar, Minn., April 81, 1909.
Mr.. V. E. Lawson,
Editor Willmar Tribune.
Dear SIR
The telephone question is up for
settlement. How would you settle
it if authorized to do so?
Yours truly,
John johnson.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-21
] oniC or Stimulant ?

There is immense difference between tonic and
stimulant Up one day. way back the next; that's
stmuant Steady progress day by day toward perfect
health; that's tonic. Ayers Sarsaparila is tonic,
strong tonic. The only Sarsapara entirely free from
He knows. Ask him DO as he Says C7yer Co. LoweH Mas,
Constipation the skhedhe Hounes Indigestion,
debility
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
GOOD GOVERNMENT

In GREATER LOS ANGELES good
government must be aimed at by
4 ALL citizens. We advise our read
ers to take an active, personal interest
In the affairs and politics of Greater
Los Angeles from the very beginning.
Don't let municipal affairs get away
from you" Keep up with the process
sion. Everything that is proposed or
that is done is of as much Importance
to you as to. any other citizen, and
therefore should interest you as keenly
as it does anyone else.
Some questions of great moment are
looming up, and must be considered
seriously by EVERYBODY. The su-
pervlsors have caused much trouble,
The pranks of a Solid Three have
aroused the resentment of the people.
Mr.. Tus Eldridge has lodged the issue
by refraining from answering the
questions submitted by The Herald
with regard to the relations of the su-
rervIsors to the public and the per-
formance of their duty.
Obviously, the question of the con-
solidation of city and county govern
ments into an efficient. harmonious
working organization that will produce
the best results for Greater Los Ange-
les is one of the problems that must be
solved, and in the successful solution
thereof will probably lie the solution
(and dissolution) of Solid Threes on the
board of supervisors.
Citizens should--and doubtless will
see to it that the future government OF
this metropolitan center shall be safe
guarded so that the record breaking
progress which is bound to come with
the Improvement of the harbor of
Greater Los Angeles and the compile
tion Of the Panama canal may be ac-
compished altogether with credit and
absolutely without scandal, in the Los
Angeles way"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
NAMES CASES OF BUSINESS
ABILITY ON PART OF WOMEN

Los ANGELES. Aug. 21.-[Editor
Herald: A reputable Justice of our
town is said to have made the startling
statement that in his "forty-seVen
years of practice" he had not found
one woman in ten thousand with busi-
ness IDEAS"
If the standard of the justice as to
business ideas is that of the modern
business practice, we may claim this
statement rather to her credit than
otherwise, since she is claimed to be
the true conServer of morals In the
home and social life.
If, on the contrary, his statement
covers the knowledge and practice of
true relations in business and executive
ability, then he has read his history to
little purpose and is blind to the facts
of the present.
II he makes objection that the wo-
men who have been eminent as queens
and rulers in the past and present have
had the aid of able counselors and ad-
visers-the ability to make a wise selec-
tion of such Is a true test of wisdom
and business acumen, and are not the
men in similar positions, aided and up
held by their advisers and counselors
No achievement of modern times, in
the broad field of human welfare, have
surpassed those Of Elizabeth Fry,
Florence Nightingale, Dorothy Dix,
Frances Willard, Clara Barton and our
suffrage leaders.
AS instances which fall directly under
his definition of business ideas and sue
cess, albeit women, We may recall to
our justice the names of Mrs. Hetty
Green and Mrs. Russell Sage, and re-
mind him that he may find successful
business women in our own town, and,
on many lines besides that Of teacher,
than which none requires more native
ability and special training, their
marked success, proving the superiority
of character and sympathy, over de-
pendence upon brute force, military
drill and ordinary routine discipline.
The mastery Of schools by women of
tact and motherly instinct, after having
been given UP by the male officials, is
of common occurrence, and their sue
cess has been such that she is now in
position as superintendent of schools
in many counties of our own state and
as state superintendent in several
others. The election by unanimous
vote of Mrs. Young to the superin-
tendency of the Chicago schools is q
late striking example.
Are not these marvellous achieve
ments in a line in which women have
had but recent training, but from which
she has been withheld by law, custom
and stringent public opinion in the past,
and most damaging of all in political
ways has been classed with idiots, in
sane and criminals, bearing the taunts
of children and the illiterate, of being
"only woman" and not worthy of
citizenship?
1t is rather amusing to those who
have watched the events Of the last
century, largely In the development
Of woman, that our brothers in pulpit,
on press and bench, should be attack
ing the doctrine Of evolution. Might
they not as we'll attack the facts of
ora vitation? G. M. S.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
COST OF LIVING

DORMER Senator Chester l. Long Oh
X Kansas has made the statement
4 the tariff does not aHect tne
cost Of living at all. If an increase IN
the tariff means an increase in the cost
Of living then the tariff is doomed but
II does not mean that. 1t means an
ultimate decrease in prices, as matter
of fact"
Senator Longs prophecy OF an uitl-
mate decrease in prices is made rhetor-
icaIlv. not argumentatively Surely ne
did not waste much gray matter Whlie
compounding the phrase, THE tarifl
does not increase the cost of living al
all " otherwise he would not have add
cd. TT means an ultimate decrease IN
prices" In the name of all that Is
reasonable, how can there be an ulti-
mate decrease in prices without some
decrease in the cost of living?
And what is the meaning OF the ad-
iective Ultimate? According to popu-
lar notions the ultimate of all time
will be the Day of Judgment; but
when that arrives people will have lost
all interest in the price of living.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
GOLDEN RULE

~ A ND as ye would that men should
n do to you, do ye also to them
N likewise" If America or any
other country were living under the
Golden Rule it would be impossible 10
avoid reaching the conclusion that
men like to be gouged short weighted,
'put out of business" starved, over
reached and otherwise taken adyant-
age of. If what some people are doing
unto other people were a sure indica-
tion of the manner in which some peo-
pie desired and preferred to be treated
by other people, one would believe hu-
man nature was never happier than
when undergoing the delicate operation
known as exploitation. The people Of
California, Of course, are free from the
bad habit of using other people. Here
the poorest man as well as the richest
can enjoy the finest climate in the
world. Nobody can "get a corner on
climate" In California the supply IS
always equal to the demand, and the
price is never raised The mere act Of
living in California is delightful. Here
one realizes that nearly everything on
earth is a superhuty. Here 1.-The sim
pie life" may be enjoyed.
Under the Edenic conditions that pre-
vail in Southern California the OBJ
servance Of the Golden Rule should be
universal. Whatever may be condi-
tions of exploitation IN other climes,
California should live up to it's prece-
dent of recognizing and rewarding
merit and never refusing the laborer
the worth Of his hire, even when he
isn't in a union although, of course.
the union principle is entirely praise
worthy.
The chief merit of unionism is it
enforces the Golden Rule, and there
fore is Christianity's best and most
practical adjunct. 1t compels society
to recognize the fact the laborer is
WORTHY Of his hire and of a wage
that will bear some proportion to his
expenditure of talent and life on the
work in which he is engaged. And it
conpels men to do unto others, in the
matter Of remuneration, what they
would have others do unto them.
TJnionism is applied Christianity; and
where It does not exist is not the
Golden Rule more often disregarded
than observed?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22

who will tell him that the old time les
son about man Giving to forget" Is
set IN wrong. The individual man may
have a bad memory, but nature keeps
tab lust the same The wise person, l
should say does not forget anything,
hut "when found" makes a note Of It,,
as our good old friend Captain Cutie
said
Mary and her gallant admirer-who,
when he marries and crawls into OBJ
livion of his past" would never think
Of permitting his wife to visit her-are
away behind the times. Out in Iowa a
few months ago women who have
vote about some of the city affairs
were expostulating about the herding
together and fining of fallen" women
while their masculine friends were en-
tirely at liberty. Associations of Iowa
men as we'll as women were lately pre-
senting to the attention of the legisla-
ture measures which might improve the
memories of some men, All that sort
of unjust discrimination against one
culprit while the other goes scot free
IS coming to an end one of these fine
davs. and don't forget that this is so.
What did Mary mean by urging us to
"keep women pure? You can't change
human nature, you know; and II you
cannot coerce men, you can't women
either. Women will attend to their
own morals. Either they will decide
for themselves that the present code is
correct, and will hold to 1t because it
appeals to them; or they will put 1t
aside, and do no forgetting" about
the matter, so I trust.
In the meantime I rather guess the
"ramparts" will stand a while against
such assaults as the self-confessed sin
ners have thus far made.
LAURA GRADGRIND.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
MERCHANT MARINE

~ REATER Los ANGELES, as a
VT seaport city, should take a keen
VI interest in the vital Importance
of increasing the American merchant
marine, especially on the Pacific. where
even the British, in spite of their de-
sire to control the lions share of the
worlds shipping and commerce, are
saying with obvioza sincerity they
would much rather see the Stars and
Stripes the predominant flag than the
emblem of Japan. The Merchant Ma
rine league of the United States in
pamphlet quotes a British marine of
ficer, who said
How long is America going to allow
herself to be placed second on the list
by an Asiatic power? ] cannot and
will not believe the American people
will be content to play second fiddle to
Asiatics much longer. What is the
American navy for, as it stands today?
To protect the coasts and commerce?
Surely no foreign power would be crazy
enough to try to land troops on Amer
lean soil at the present time. The
only damage a foreign power could do
TO America would be to lombard a few
unimportant places, the most impor-
tant, take it, being we'll fortified, and
with guns that will carry as far as any
naval guns.
THE navy cannot be used TO protect
Americas commerce, because that is
all carried by foreign ships flying their
own flags What is 1t to be used f-r.
then7 Nothing of Importance With
out an American merchant marine. the
American navy is just an expensive
toy"
He adds: II should like to point out
that America has the material for
building ships; has the commerce to
make the ships pay; has some of the
finest material in the world for man
ming purposes, and also possesses the
necessary scientific marine knowledge.
What is wanted yet? Simply more
publicspirited, patriotic men, who un-
derstand the true meaning of the word
patriotism. Where is the boasted
American patriotism one hears so much
about? Does 1t consist only of waving
the Slar Spdngleu banner upon lHe
least provocation? Is there nothing
behind It but the singing of My Coun-
try, 'Tis of Thee?' Is 1t Of the Salvation
Army order-all bands, big drums and
hideous noises, or has it a deeper mean
ing?"
Probably without being aware of his
attitude, this Briton In reality is plead
ing for a restoration of the first prin-
ciples of Americanism; a keen, living
consciousness of this great nations
meaning and destiny, which is to pro-
vide the greatest good for the greatest
number of a considerable proportion of
the worlds population, and NOT,
MOST DECIDEDLY NOT, to use the
greatest number for the purpose of
providing fortunes for a select few.
Let us assist in the restoration of
Americanism by building up the mer-
chant marine, so that the principal
deep sea flag seen in San Pedro, the
seaport of Greater Los Angeles, will be
the Star Spangled Banneri
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
CORPORATIONS AVARICE

| N ITIZENS of Hollywood Colegrove,
East Hollywood, South Hollywood
~ and the entire Cahuenga valley,
who pay tribute to the Union Holly
wood Water company, are holding
nightly meetings for the purpose Of
! devising means whereby the people can
| prevent that corporation from con-
tumeliously fouting an authoritative
decision which should govern the rate.
The protestants say the company is
expecting and attempting to extort
from them an exorbitant rate. The
company's books do not disclose ex-
cessive earnings. on the contrary, the
books enable the company to put on a
poor mouth and to say. I'VE are not
making money and will throw open
our books to anyone who doubts this
assertion"
By constantly extending It's pipes into
new tracts the company incurs expenses
for which it makes the people pay
The residents on piped tracts pay
for the piping of new tracts. This
may be called involuntary hydraulic
philanthropy or paying the piper"
/ The residents of Hollywood claim
they long have desired to make an I'M
provement in the surface of Prospect
avenue, a thoroughfare than which
there is none more beautiful In the
United States. But underneath this
surface runs the "stovepipe" water line
of the company, making impracticaole
the desired Improvement.
The minimum rate the Hollywood
Water company arbitrarily and against
the lawful and law supported decision
of the supervisors has placed on the
people is $1.75, and complaint is made
the quality is not up to the mark Ihe
water. like the quality Of mercy, Is
not strained. It is poor and is full OF
mud. The company has adopted toward
the public an attitude commonly known
as the Vanderbiltian, in compliment to
the great railroad man and hnahcler
who originated the famous saying-out
of the fullness of his heart his mouth
spoke-"The public be id"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
IMPERIAL PARADOX

n EITHER the private murder of
y Lieutenant Colonel Wyllie nor the
l. public murder of Or. Lalcaca will
help the cause of Britain in India or
of India in Britain. The long enslave-
ment Of a confederation of countries
as huge as populous and Qn their own
Way) AS civilized as the states of the
indian Empire by a country as petty,
as remote, as small in population as
England or even as the entire United
Kingdom, is without parallel in history,
and if presented badly to the critic
of the future for explanation or COM
ment probably viii he dismissed by
him as unworthy Of cledence.
Let us bring the Indian paradox home
by suggesting an equivalent incOn-
gruity in the western hemisphere; it
is exactly as if the Philippine islands
had managed to overawe and to hold
in tribute-paying subiection the North
American continent-the United States,
Canada and Mexico. The idea" is alb
surd, and yet the absurdity exists as a
time honored commonplace of the east
ern hemisphere.
The loss Of the Indian Empire would
have the immediate effect Of trans
forming the other countries Of the Brit
ish Empire into a monarch-less fed
Grafton. with an army and navy and
central policy" in common, but with
their own laws and customs.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
HEROISM

"O O THE stories of modern heroism
must be added that of Peter Ban
"A jeuer, the Austrian miner and
leaser at Rawhide who sent an EN-
ploye down the shaft to muck out
According to the Associated Press
report, when the man neared the bot
tom he came into the powder smoke
from the last round Of holes and was
overcome. Banjeuer climbed down
lifted him into the bucket anu signaled
to the surface to hoist him out AS the
bucket rose BanjeIer started to climb
the ladder, and when thirty feet from
the bottom he was oyerpowered by the
fumes and toppled backward. When
he was hoisted out it was found he had
fractured his skull and broken a leg.
This man is as true and as great a
hero as any OF whom there Is record.
He risked his life in order to save the
life OF an employe, and sustained seri-
Gus injuries that one of his servants
might be snatched from the jaws of
death. Noble men do noble deeds in all
countries under the sun, and no ma
tional flag has a monopoly Of bravery.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
BELIEVES RAMPARTs WILL
RESIST CONFESSED SINNERS

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21.-[Editor
Herald1: And now comes real Mr.
MagdaIene into the pleasing contro-
versy relative to "fallen" men and
women, and gives Mary q pointer by
failing to subscribe himself miserable
sinner-probably voting that there are
plenty Of other people ready to apply
epithets. Says that Mary Is eminently
correct: she having assured us that
it is vain to try to punish men who
don't conform to the accepted standard
of morality: that they will go on in
their own way anyhow; that we ought
TO concentrate our efforts on stamping
on the feminine stragglers from the
fold. to the end take it, that the re-
mainder may be terrorized into staying
where they belong. That's a comfort
able doctrine for the male offender,
sure enough, so we won't be too as
founded to hear the man Of the
world" assuring the woman whom he
and his kind have always consigned to
the underworld that all who don't fall
in with this idea are ignorant, don't
know. don't want to know" ct cetera.
He will find tolerably we'll informed
men among the followers, of Esculapius
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
BULLYING

OEVEN cadets, expelled from the
United States Military academy
~ for hazing, covered their retreat
into private life by a statement so
brinful Of unconscious humor we re-
produce it:
"On the night of June 13 large num-
ber of cadets had LITTLE CELi-
BRATION. There was no thought OF
hazing anyone. We encountered a
cadet sentry. We did not know 1t was
sutton Ga brother of the unfortunate
Lieut.. Sutton) or even that 1t was a
plete. He ran after some of the men
and tackled them. There was
FRIENDLY skirmish and the sentry
was HURT. AS we understand it. there
must be a deliberate or malicious intent
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22

Miss Florence Kelly, general secretary
Of the National Consumers league, yes
terday told the City club the methods
Of bargain hunters are disgraceful.
Good! But a woman with a family to
provide for and a small purse to draw
on will and must continue to be bar
gain hunter, even although thereby she
aids and abets the sweaters who over
work and underpay her fellow women
in other cities. That's the worst Of the
present general economic system: Its
poor victims are continually gouging
each other in self defense.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
How Long Will the People Feed Him?

to constitute hazing. There was no
such intent on our part. We were sum-
moned before the court, and each was
obliged to convict himself by his own
testimony. That seems a little hard
Please state, however, that WE HAVE
THE HIGHEST RESPECT AND AD-
MIRATION FOR THE COMMAN-
DANT OF CADETS AND FOR THE
COURT"
Your honor" says the convicted
prisoner, IT should not have gone on
the witness stand and although I did
something that was wrong I did not
intend to do it,"
Perhaps 1t will help to produce
among the young men of the nation
new views on the subject of hazing If
an older word is substituted. The
word "hazing" obscures the character
of the offense-makes 1t hazy, so to
speak. 1t used to be called BULLYING.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
REGRETS WOMAN'S LACK
OF BUSINESS ABILITY

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21.-[Editor
Herald: Judge. Somebody says not
one woman In 10000 knows anything
about business. He Is way off as to the
proportion, but I suppose he is used
to making exaggerated statements
how. why don't women understand
business? Is it mental incapacity or
lack of training? If the latter, whose
fault is it but that of parents and
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22

Portsmouth, Va, is offering a silver
medal for every child born therein
This may sound comical, but it has a
serious aspect, for Portsmouth, Va, is
an ultra American city, and depends
on American blood, and not on impi-
grafton, for its prosperity.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22

teachers? Women do know much more
about some things than men do, but in
this age it Is surely very necessary
that both boys and girls should be
posted in the usages and essentials of
business and law, especially technicali-
ties, which comprise nearly all there is
OF law nowadays-in California at
least. Don't you think so? W. B. C.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22

Last weeks report of the chief inspec-
t. of buildings shows valuation almost
double that of structures for which per-
mits were issued during the correspond
ing period of last year. The prosperity
of the building industry is sure sign
of the prosperity Of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22

President Faunce Of Brown Univer-
sity says the mother tongue is being
murdered in the United States. Humph!
Next time the professor has a vacation
with plenty of pocket money he should
HE him to the rural and cockney dis
tricts of Merrie England and ear Heng-
lish as she is hassassinyted on 'er
n nNtiVa 1path
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
The Reason Why

'"Why do people hurry to track
when train is in sight?" asks the Bakers
field Californian. Which reminds us Of the
old and perplexng question, why does a
hen cross the road? ?" The answer is the
same-Visalia Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENTS Intended
for publication nusI be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. The iier-
HlG gives the widest latitude to correspond
ents, but assumes no responsibility for thelI
views.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22

People Of Hollywood and Colegrove
have the sympathy of all their fellow
citizens in their opposition to the in
junction against the water rates sought
by the Union Hollywood Water COM
pany The company's opposition to
legal rates is an unmistakable indica-
ton of the selfish policy which has
made the water hog unpopular in Hol-
Ivwood
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-Dark.
BELASCO-"A Royal Family"
BURBANK-"Jack Straw"
GRAND-"The DEVILS Mine"
MASON-"The Climax"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Los ANGELES-Vaudeville.
UNIQUE-Vaudevlle and musical comedy
FISCHER'S-Burlesque
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
RilIboards

In Washington billboards are to be re-
strained by police censorship of all posters.
Tho General Federation of Women's Clubs
including representatives of millions of puF-
chasing women, has declared against tn
abuses of outdoor advertising-santa Clara
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22

A neighbor remarks: IAN admirable
instrument, possessing the highest his
torical interest-this constitution Of
ours, but singularly at variance with
the system of government that is actu-
ally in operation" Oh, for return to
the first principles of Americanism!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22

A plunge may be added to the usefu
attractions of Carmelita gardens, Pas
adena Then perhaps Los Angeles will
begin to think seriously of establishing
public baths and plunges on the Boston
plan. Soon there will be plenty oi
water. Every possible advantage
should be taken Of the new supply.