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The Washington herald., 1910-06-22
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Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
GRAFT EVERYWHERE

TVERYWHERE one turns it seems
II as if one meets with some mani
IL festation of the sickening story
of graft. Sometimes it seems as if
every mans hand is against his fellow
man, in the last analysis, and that the
thirst for the dollar is eating out the
vitals Of the country by destroying in
dividual honor and patriotism.
Take the case of this Oklahoma graft,
which stretches out it's Shiny tentacles
in so many ways. that it is hard to
keep track of the revelations. Indians
cheated both by exploiters from with
out and within the tribes, government
cheated by the lawyers it employs to
look after the Indian wards, bribes
offered anybody who would help to pull
off the rich plunder, affirmations, de-
malls. charges, counter-Charges, all
proving a nasty and far-reaching plot
to steal and cheat, if they have not
vet fixed the persons who deserve the
most blame.
One can feel something of sympathy
for old Diogenes, who lived in tub
to escape the contamination of the
world, and found an honest man the
hardest thing in life to discover. Per-
haps one of the most disturbing phases
of the Oklahoma case is the revelation
how the spirit of graft is killing
patriotism and love of country.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
Redondo Reac
WAR VETERAN COMPLAINS
ABOUT GOVERNMENT POLICY

Editor Herald: The Republican party
promised to carry out Roosevelt's Ioli-
cies. Taft when making speeches in
the campaign promised, and Roosevelt
said he would guarantee that Taft
would carry them out.
Now what were the policies? take
his address to the conference of gov
ernors as the most explicit of anything
| have seen.
In substance they were: No more
private or corporate ownership to the
wealth resources in the control of the
states or nation, the same to be leased
in the future. the main object being to
check the monopoly on similar re-
sources already privately owned; then
an order appeared In the newspapers
from Mr.. Pinchot that no more private
ownership would be allowed to any of
the wealth resources on the forest re-
serves.
I understand from the forestry office
in Los Angeles that this order has been
revoked, and without any notice to me.
l put q proposition through Senator
Flint to Mr.. Pinchot about two years
ago, stating that 1 had equities on
claims OF timber and water which
would be an ideal proposition for sue
cess to both the government and the
people OF Banning and Beaumont, and
with something to spare.
What about the corporation now
working on said resources? And by
what right can 1t work against the
promises by all the powers that be
against the carrying out Of Rooseyelt's
policies? s. N. BLACK.
soldiers Home, Aug. 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
SAYS YOSEMITE VISITORS
ARE HELD UP AT HOTEL

Editor Herald: Ten thousand persons
held UP every year going and coming
from Yosemite and compelled to sur
render from 50 to Sc and from three to
twenty hours valuable time. The rop-
bers' castle is located at El Portal,
Cal, but the chief genius who devised
the very effective method by which we
are made to stand and deliver resides
somewhere in the councils of the s. T..
railroad. How Is 1t done?
The actual time travelling from Yose-
mite TO Los Angeles, allowing for
slow train and many stops, is twenty
hours and fifty minutes. BY devices OF
the highwaymen 1t Is made forty-two
hours, or about seventeen hours more
than necessary. Let us go over the
ground.
Suppose we must leave the paradise
of the Sierras and inquire at the stage
office what time we can be conveyed to
the railroad station, The answer Is
2 y. IN. But you will sax the train Tor
Los Angeles leaves Merced at APO p. m.
Can't leave the valley In the morning
so as to connect with that tram NO,
there is no stage till 2 p. m. What can
I do then? oh, you must stay over
night at El Portal.
You reach El Portal about 4:30 p. m,
No train is going out till 7;25 next
morning. No place to stay but Railroad
hotel--& a day. There you are, and
you can't dodge II.
Persons going north are not so badly
off, for sleeping cars take them on
board in the evening about o'clock
and arrive in San Francisco next
morning.
The stage drivers never ask II you
want to go to a hotel. They take you
there, and dump you out, bag and
baggage.
There Is this to say, however, that an
opportunity to clean up after a dusty
ride and have good dinner is of value,
but when we start for home we want to
go and don't like to be set down against
our will at the rate of 81 day. There
can be no question but that it is de-
liherate plan to throw every traveller
into that hotel. +. II. COREY.
Alhambra, Aug 8.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
PROTESTS AGAINST SHORT
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Editor Herald: Your editorial on
"The Art of Skinning" lays bare the
gangrenous condition of our CONNER
cial system. Like every other evil, the
burden lies heavier on the poor and
needy. Not even a yardstick or scales
will avail Them any, and even an hon
est retailer under the present system
lnot always buy or sell what he
pleases, and does not in all cases di-
rect either the weight or measure of
his merchandise.
Can these conditions be healed? Is
there a national standard of weights
and measures? If there be, oughts not
every one be compelled to adopt them
and live up to them, under penalty
l repeat, can these conditions be
healed? / say emphatically, No. Pal
iatives in the form of statutes seldom
enforced may give slight relief, but
nothing short of cauterizin& will bring
about a condition of equity and righ-
teousness, and there are many today
who groan under these burders, yet
strong in their faith. that the fire is
already kindled that will burn up
these unjust conditions.
y. r. B.
Los Angeles, Aug. 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
The Farmer and His Automobile
(Wall Sire ct Journal)

One E. T. Fairchild, who has been
making a census of the school attend
ance in the state of Kansas, commits
himself to the opinion that the decrease
in the birth rate of that state is re-
suit of an increase in the use of the
automobile. AS it would be impossible
to arrive at such a conclusion by mere
human reason, we suppose that Mr.
Fairchild gets his results by sheer
genius, even as Shakespeare and the
federal attorney general. The only
possible alternative is that his prefer
naturel sagacity runs in the family,
like wooden legs.
Probably Mr.. Fairchild would not
have stimulated any comment in these
columns, but that he represents class
which as developed in a most aston
ishing way in the past few years. We
seem to have grown past the time
when a man was content to do i'm
portant but not impressive work in
thoroughly efficient manner without
trying to intrude his own personality
into it. There are altogether too many
state and federal reports full Of FAKE
sociology, offering just such sweeping
and inconsequential deductions as the
one quoted.
We are inclined to think that the
farmer in Kansas and elsewhere is
suffering from too much automobile.
He IS not merely afflicted in that way,
but there are certain complaints fol-
lowing in it's train which, like the
smell Of the gasoline, are pervasive ana
distasteful. When the farmer gets an
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
DECLARES MODERN TREND
is TOWARD COOPERATION

Editor Herald: Mr.. Jensen, as
usual, sets up and proceeds to de-
molsh a number OF his own errors,
falsely assuming that they are So
cialist theories.
There are two political forces at
work in this country, not one. One Is
struggling for autocracy and privilege
and the other for democracy. The So
oialist knows that democracy will
triumph and that the world-old strug-
gle will cease with the extinction of
privilege.
In the Industrial field the tendency
is not toward individualism, but toward
Capitalization and cooperation. Look
at the orange growers, Texas truck
growers, Georgia peach growers, all
compelled by changing conditions to
surrender individual rights to an as
sociaton and thereby securing larg-
er returns. Look at the oil producers,
railroads, factories, mines, smelters,
all combining. Cooperation is the domi-
nant note in industry today.
Mr.. Jens-n admits democracy Is
coming, that will mean rule by the
workers; and does he think when they
rule they will submit to be preyed
upon by the profit mongers?
And does Mr.. owen think the land
will not be reduced when the state as
we now have 1t Is superseded by the
industrial commonwealth? Only
through industrial freedom can the
workers, the only ones entitled to con-
sideration, have any individuality.
Abundant wealth will be privately pos
sessed and enjoyed by all, as 1t is now
by few.
Our detractors would make it ap-
pear that Socialism means comnlun-
ism In wealth instead of cooperation
in producing 1t. Socialists are not
bunch of advanced souls, caring lit
tie for worldly possessions" but
wide awake lot of wealth makers who
want all that is coming to them.
W. T. RUBELL
Redondo Beach, Aug. Q.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
QUESTIONS JENsEN's
VIEWS ON SOCIALISM

Editor Herald: I wonder where P.
A. Jensen gets the Socialism he crit
icises. He wants us to think 1t Is the
MARKHAM, but 1t isn't. Socialism will
bring democracy. 1t is no extreme.
But the Socialism P A. Jensen crit
icises is taught nowhere. p. A. Jensen
saws a democracy is where we may
acquire, horde, compete, outdo and
be on top, to rule, domineer, sway to
be a center of attraction instead of
being attracted to a center" Well,
how will Socialism hinder us from go
ing through such performances? Please
tell me, Mr.. Jensen.
Socialism will make 1t possible for
a laborer to acquire. But now he must
beg for Job that returns less than
living wage. He may horde, but 1t
takes a fool to do it. He may COM
pete, but not to take others products
without giving an equivalent. He may
outdo but honestly, and be on top.
He may rule with the peoples con-
sent, when they find his ruling wise.
may sway and be a center of at
traction. Now, Mr.. Jensen, where did
You learn of Socialism? Is 1t not from
such books as Pictures of the Flu
ture," by Eugene Richter, member of
the imperial german parliament?
CHAS. U. WHITE. ,
Pomona. Aug. 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
TOO MANY SUCH

T HERE have been too many SEN
sational crimes in Los Angeles of
Il late that have not been followed
by police results. The other day bur
glars entered a store on North Main
street and got away with several thou
sand dollars in plunder in broad day
light A day or so later a jewelry store
on Broadway was the victim, with a
loss of about a thousand dollars. This
week a resident of Oakland was robbed
on a trolley car near Main and Temple
street of a wallet containing money
and Jewels to the value Of over $500.
In the latter case the loser forfeited
some sympathy by having displayed
his Yaluables, but it is to be hoped that
things are not getting so bad in this
city that residents or visitors must
conceal all possessions worth taking.
Last week a purse-snatcher met a
Tartar in a plucky young woman on
Eighth street, near the business center,
who drove him off. Much as we regret
to make a record of these things, it is
time they were mentioned for some
good effect.
They do not reflect credit on the
police department, for they show that
professional crooks are operating here
without much fear of apprehension. 1t
is about time that the department
made a vigorous effort to retrieve it.
self by catching some Of these thieves
and Furnishing them for the deterrent
effect. Los Angeles cannot afford to
get a reputation as an unsafe town to
live or do business in.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
Hypocrite and Mountebank

n San Francisco CalD
instituted by Mr.. Hearst. quote a
sample:
This league as the readers of the
Examiner are aware, has been organ
lied for the suppression Of prize fights
in the United States and for the pre-
vention of the nickelodeon exhibition
of the moving pictures that were taken
of the fight at Reno.
b "All sections of the United States
are reached by the organization, and
good citizens everywhere are joining
in the movement to put an end to
pugilism, the sporting disgrace of
America"
All this, like Mr.. Hearst's sentiments
for editorial page publication on the
subject of gambling, is admirable so
far as 1t goes, but If prize fight pic
lures are wicked we do not forget that
the issue of the Examiner on July 5
was about half filled with big pictures
of the trouble at Reno. After Mr..
Hearst has got away with the price of
his fight pictures he is quite willing to
stop other exhibitions of the same sort.
Now, if we read the following sec
tions from the penal code of California
some doubt may arise whether 1t was
not a league of law breakers that he
ought to initiate:
section 3ZZ, alulng lOtterleS. EVERY
person who aids or assists, either by
printing, writing, advertising, publish
ing or otherwise in setting up, manag-
ing or drawing any lottery or in selling
or disposing of any ticket, chance or
share therein, is guilty of a misde-
meanor.
Section 1923. Lottery offices. Adver-
tising lottery Offices. Every person
who opens, sets up or keeps by him
self or by any other person any Of
flee or other place for the sale of or
for registering the number of any
ticket in any lottery, or who by print
ing, writing or otherwise advertises or
publishes the setting up, opening or
using of any such office, is guilty of a
misdemeanor."
What a cheap and sordid hypocrite
and mountebank he is, raising his eyes
to heaven in protest over the wicked
ness of his neighbors to the accom-
paniment of a pious snuffle, while at
the same moment his hand is out be-
hind his back to gather in the wages
of sin.
In another issue of the Examiner,
apropos of prize fighting and pictures.
Mr.. Hearst inquiries:
"How would you like to have your
children witness a bull fight or the
moving picture of one?"
The question is as much to the point
as the famous query of abolition times:
"Do you want your daughter to
marry nigger?"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
LIGHT ON LIGHTING

m HE offer made by the Edison COM
pany to light the streets of Pas
Il adena, which was turned down by
the council of that city, notwithstand-
ing proffered saving on the pres
of the councils desire to support the
municipal plant, is interesting to the
people of this town. The substance of
the offer is as follows:
For installation of street lighting
as of record as being installed July I,
1910, including all arc lamps. tung-
stem lamps, carbon filament lamps and
service to ornamental clusters, on the
same schedule of lighting as is now
being furnished to the city of Pasa-
dena, of an equal or better quality, and
for which service the cost to the tax
payers would be S37,17S a year, in ac-
cordance with the estimate of the mu-
nicipal lighting department, we will
make a complete installation and sup
ply the proper service at an annual
cost of $25, ,OOO."
But this is not all. The Edison com
pdlly OlLeIS, III case OIL a INS-ycdi tOll-
tract, to discount the above price 10
per cent, making a saving of about
$4,000 in five years for the city, and
in addition guarantees to install arc
street lights that will give 80 per cent
additional illumination.
Now, it is needless to say that the
lighting companies of this region are
not in business for the mere pleas
use of scattering seeds of kindness.
The presumption is very strong that
if the Edison company can get this
contract, which it appears very much
to want, it will not lose money For
mer offers to Pasadena were termed
war easures," but it would take a
pretty complete demonstration of fig
ures to convince the average man that
in this case the company is willing
to tie itself up for five years to bad
bargain.
If this is an inside view into costs
of electric current and service, how
much hope is there for the local COM
panies, one of which is the same as
makes the Pasadena offer, to show
the supreme court that the Los An
geles council has been confiscating its
property in reducing the domestic rate
for light from to cents, after max
ing due allowance for inflated capital
ization and valuation?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12

edward F. Cahill
A man was arrested in this city last
week for circulating spurious lottery
tickets. 1t is not very clear that selling
counterfeit lottery ticket is public
offense. Certainly the man who buys
an. alleged security of that sort could
not recover the price from the ven
der-but let that pass.
The point lies in the fact that the
police do not bother the men who ped
die the tickets put out by the people
who operate alleged lotteries in this
city. OF course, it is no secret that
there are no genuine lotteries in opera
alton here, and the men who advertise
drawings are simply running a skin
game. On those rare occasions when
they have fallen out with the police
and have had their places raided in
consequence their impudent plea in
court has been that they do not hold
any drawings and that the whole af-
fair is a pretense.
At present they are at peace with the
police and are doubtless In a position
to make it hot for anybody who med
dies with their sure-thing game by
selling counterfeit tickets.
While | am on the subject or lot
teries. l beg leave to quote the follow
ing fine sentiments from an editorial
in the Examiner of July 20:
Gambling Is the effort to get some
thing for nothing. 1t is vicious, dan
gerous habit, because it makes real
effort seem contemplate, not worth
while.
Gambling is vicious, dangerous, de-
structive of character and ambition,
just because 1t cannot possibly produce
anything.
"a man who risks his life to save a
friend may lose his life and not save
the friend. But he is no gambler, since
there was a possibility of his act pro-
ducing a good result.
Fortunately, human beings are
gradually coming to realize that
the vices-and in a few years you will
not see any public gambling in this
country-not even in Wall street"
This is very creditable, but if you
will turn back to page 10. column Z,
of the same issue you will find Mr..
Hearst advertising the alleged list of
prizes for the drawing of a lottery COM
pany doing business in this city. Pos
sibly Mr.. Hearst might plead that a
"sure-thing" game is not gambling. He
can have it that way if he prefers.
In the same issue of the Examiner
and in every other for a couple of
weeks you will read extensive notices
of national league of law makers
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
WOMAN DECLARES AGAINST
TWO HUNDRED WORD LIMIT

Editor Herald: Val Stone seems to
think that 200 words are not enough to
enable one to present case, meet an
argument or sum up evidence. The
writer thinks the same. And, like Mr..
Stone, she has found also that the rule
is elastic, and that some letters may
far exceed the word limit while her
letter in meeting the argument is usu-
ally pointless by the time the blue pen
ell is through with it, if 1t appears at
all.
Mr.. Stone will please note that he has
fellow sufferers.
MARIAN MARTIN.
Los Angeles, Aug. 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12

automobile he is like the lady with the
new hat, who requires a new rig-out
from top to toe on the theory that the
hat "kills" everything she has on.
Apart from its deadly influence upon
the supply of babies in Kansas, the au-
tomoble is important, not because it
is an automobile, but because it is a
seductive and delightful toy which ap-
peals more particularly to people who
have not learned the habit of self-de-
NAL. We seem to be congenitally an
extravagant and wasteful people. In
the period of prosperity which set in
with the flotation of industrial COM
binations in the past ten years, we
have seen many fortunes made, almost
overnight. We ought to have started
to save money at the time of the panic
of 1907 Each of us is still more ex-
travagant than the other, in spite of
all warnings. Who are we that we
should tell our neighbor that he is
keeping an automobile on bicycle in
Gomez.
Suppose we offer a cold, disagreeable
fact, more Immediately important than
Mr.. Fairchild's deductions on the pop
ulation of Kansas. A single automo
bile company, and that by no means
the greatest, appeared in the New York
money market with 100000 of farm
mortgages and farmers notes. 1t
sought to rediscount and was emphati-
cally turned down. If anybody wants
to buy an automobile just now he can
get 20 per cent off the list price for
cash, and choose his own machine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
DECLARES LETTER BOX
BEST FEATURE OF HERALD

Editor Herald: According to the re-
quest of Val Stone desire to say that
l do not consider the 200-word limita-
ton on Letter Box communications a
wise one. It is impossible to elucidate
a topic of Importance with such limita-
tions Because the Letter Box gives
the laity an opportunity to express its
views on all questions of reform.
social, moral. political and religious, 1t
is therefore the most available means
of getting the current thought, of the
greatest number of persons, and thus
transcends the efforts of an editorial
staff in this direction because 1t Is
more democratic.
l believe the Letter Box is the best
feature of The Herald. 1t is educa-
tional and should be enlarged, rather
than curtailed. o. 7. McCORD.
Ocean Park, Aug. g.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
State Politics

Mr.. Anderson is q negative candidate. Even
at best he stands for nothing besides him.
self, so far as we can discern from his. ut
terances, which are very rev. Going from
town to town, pump handling a few bankers
and capitalists, looking wise and saying as
little os possible seems to be the campaign
plan of Herrin's favorite candldate.--Humboldt
Times.
When Oregon passes a reform law she sees
that 1t is strictly enforced. Such being the
case, is 1t any wonder that Boss" Herrin
of California. who once lived in Oregon.
draws a fine distinction between Demo-
cratic government and representative govern
ment and denounces the former a national
peril ?-San Francisco Bulletin.
Rhode Islands population is not as great
as that of Baltimore. Boston or st. Louis.
II everybody will walt patiently until Los
Angeles can put another city directory to
press the population of Rhode Island will
look painfully like two dimes and two
nickels in comparlson.-PasadenaS Star.
Our California legislature is always plenti-
fully supplied with lawyers and other men in
the regular employ of corporations, and 1t Is
notorious that such members render vastly
more service to the corporations than to their
constituents and the state. It is high time
for a change.-Sacramento Bee.
We believe that johnson cannot be elected
even If he is nominated. The push is too
numerous for him, and he can expect but
little support from the Democrats, who
have first class man OF their own 1t looks
like Gov. Bell to us.-Fresno Mirror.
Mr.. Stanton has a mixed record. He has
done some creditab1e things In other re-
spects his legislative record has not been
satisfactory. He is too erratic and change
able to be safe man in the governors
ohice.-Pasadena News.
man named Johnson wants to be elected
governor of California. VIII Governor Gn1
lett object to this contest, also?-Savannah
Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12

The immortal Billy Patterson, con-
cerning whom a famous question re-
mains unanswered, may fade away into
the forgotten past before the popular
query: "Who cashed in for David Pat
terson' 2"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12

We don't recall if there was an ap-
preparation by the last congress for the
completion of the Mars canals, but if
there was the Hon James McLachlan
was the man who secured it.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12

While Los Angeles ranks In popula-
tion behind a dozen or more American
cities she continues to rank among the
first six or seven for building permits
If she keeps the rank in the latter re-
spect she will move up to a like posi-
tion as to numbers.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12

Did you ever know friend of any
city administration until the good gov
ernment administration being so vigi-
liant in looking oQt for the public well
fare as to revoke grants to corporations
for violation of conditions?