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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
Getting After Dead Beats
CPittsburg Times)


by united action the butchers would
insure themselves against losses. 1t
seems to be a practicable plan, and no
one could urge any serious objection
except the dead beat, whose path
would be made thorny. There might
be some hesitation on the score that
butcher who objected to losing a
customer would have power to with
hold discharge, but If the book is
simply in the nature of a receipt in
full such a difficulty would easily be
met.
1t is a plan worth while trying, not
only by the butchers, but by other
business men. Accurate statistics as
to the losses sustained through GUS
toners who do not pay, If such statis-
tice could be compiled, would astonish
everybody. perhaps the dealers them
selves. The class who beat the land
lord out of the rent must also be
reckoDed with-if it were not for these
rents could be lowered appreciably.
1t must not be forgotten that all move-
ments to check such dishonesty are in
the interest # the consumer The
dealer at present recoups himself by
making the honest customer pay more.
1t is time something were done to
put the dead beats out of business.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
POINDEXTER'S WARNING
T N his closing speech at Seattle on
Friday night in his contest for the

Z N his closing speech at Seattle on
Friday night in his contest for the
Il nomination for United States SEN
ator from the state, of Washington
Representative Miles Poindexter, who
wants to succeed Samuel H. Piles, a
faithful friend of the interests, called
attention to a reason for the retire
ment of that gentleman. He said:
Within the next six years the
Panama canal will be completed,
and when 1t is completed the great
vital commercial issue with the
state of Washington is going to be
whether the charges through that
canal are made in your interests
and in the interests of the state,
or whether they are to be fixed for
the benefit of the transcontinental
roads,
This is a matter that no state on the
Pacific slope should overlook in the
consideration of men it will send to
Washington between now and 1915.
The transcontinental railroads were
long able to defeat the building of the
great waterway, and 1t was only with
the aid of Theodore Roosevelt's dy-
manic energy that their influence was
beaten down and the work was started.
The completion of the canal VIII not
necessarily mean complete victory for
prediction is made by some writer-one
of them is Admiral Evans, who has
become regular contributor for the
Hearst papers-that the canal will
never pay" What is the reason for
this belief? Is it that the forces Of the
railroad combination in congress will
be able so to hamper the canal man
agement that it can't make the enter
prise pay2 If they control congress 1t
will be within their power to do It,
There is a lot of fight left in the ''in-
terests." What has been gained thus
far in the battle for popular control of
the government is only in the skir-
mishes. What the Pacific coast states,
TO which the canal may be tremen-
dous agency for good or an equally
tremendous disappointment, should do
is to heed the hint thrown out by Poin-
dexter and send to Washington strong
men who will see that railroad in
huence will not prevent the great
waterway from being all that ii can
be i'm the way of water competition be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
STATE CONSERVATION

THE adoption by the resolutions
committee of the conservation
II congress at ST. Paul, AZ to 3, OF
a declaration in favor of national con-
troll Of water power sites without doubt
represents the overwhelming sentiment
of the country at least as to that
phase of conservation. The state con-
servationists, of whom Governor Hay
of Washington and Judge Short of
California were the chief spokesmen,
made a valiant and noisy statement
of the arguments for taking the care
of the public domain not yet stolen
or given away out of the hands of the
federal departments, but they were
silenced by overwhelming numbers
against them.
James j. Hill on Wednesday made
as good statement for the states
Fighters as had been or could be made.
With his genius for pungent and epi-
srammatic sentences he put the case
the least objectiOnably for those who
look at the subject of conservation
with the eye of private interest. But
what he said will he indorsed by every
Morgan and every Guggenheim, by the
Amalgamated Copper company, by the
corporations that have fought Judge
Lindsay in Denver, by the Southern
Pacific company in California and by
Secretary Ballinger.
The substance of their most plaus-
| ible argument is that these gifts of
nature are wantonly wasted if locked
up by the federal bureau All the cor
! porations say amen to this. They
stand a better show, they think, to get
what they want from state officers and
! legislatures than from the Washing
ton government. ,3ut their argument
is fallacious because there is no like
lihood of the federal government with
holding our resources from proper de-
velopment The interests for which
Mr.. Hill spoke were tersely answered
to good effect by Henry Wallace of
Des Moines:
If our government is to continue
as it has been for some years past
"a government by great corpora
tions for the benefit of great cor
porations, it matters little whether
our resources are managed by con-
gress or by the several states.
In either case they will be stolen
and used to oppress our children
and our childrens children. But If
in time to come it is really to be
government for the people, then
the representatives Of the people in
congress are the proper persons to
prescribe the method by which our
resources are to be conserved and
utilized in the future
To say that this cannot be done
as the nations Of Europe do it, as
Canada does 1t and as Australia
does it, is to say that republican
institutions are failures. Even to
doubt that it can be done is in
fidelity to democracy or govern
ment by the people as distinct from
an oligarchy or plutocracy or gov
ernment by great combinations Of
capital.
A fact that has been carefully con-
ceaIed by the so-called western"
group of conservationists-they were
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

never heard of as such before Clifford
Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt awoke
the conscience and business sense of
the nation to the spollation and waste
going on-is that the states have very
little machinery for conserving the
public wealth. And with what result?
AS former Governor Pardee said at St.
Paul, 80 per cent of California's water
power, developed or otherwise, has
been gobbled up, and to a large degree
the same is true of other states.
The people who have neither the time
nor opportunity to go into a technical,
detailed study of this question confess
that they cannot fairly decide it on its
merits, but they are well settled in the
conviction that they are wiser to take
the advice of Clifford Pinchot than OF
Governor Hay, who is the product OF
a corporation-ruled machine; of Roose-
welt rather than James j. Hill, who has
accumulated a vast fortune by stock
manipulation, land grants and exploi-
tation of virgin resources, and thinks
only with the mind of the capitalist.
To those unable to grasp the tech
nicalities of the conservation discus
sion there appears to be sound wisdom
in a suggestion offered with regard to
Alaska by Jacob H. Schiff, the New
York banker. on his return from trip
taken to see what that territory Of
fered in the way of business oppor-
tunities. He said;
To me it appears that Alaskan
resources, especially coal and tim
ber should be developed under the
control of a United States commits
sion something like the interstate
commerce commlssion-a commits
sion which shall determine how
fast coal may be taken out or tim
Der cut what royalties shall be paid
to the government, and perhaps
even what percentage of profits
shall be allowed to promoters and
corporations who desire to work
these resources.
If this suggestion does not yield
enough consideration to the states
where public domain is located within
their borders, it might be feasible tC
combine in a commission representa-
tives of both federal and state gov
ernments What an overwhelming
number of Americans want is rea
| conservation. The western idea," Sc
called, has been brought forward too
late to shake their determination tt
place the duty in the hands of a strong
| central government as most likely tC
do justice with the broadest spirit.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
THE NEW NArIoNALIsM

Editor Herald: / entirely agree with
Mr.. Owens that the new national
ISM recently advocated by Colonel
Roosevelt is very reminiscent of the
theories of Edward Bellamy, of'which
Mr.. Owens and others were such ear
nest advocates in the nationalist clubs
some years ago. Certainly Colonel
Roosevelt's reference to wrong So
cial system of which the predatory
rich take advantage. his demand that
natural resources must be conserved
for the benefit of the whole people
al. | not handed over for exploitation
to single individuals or corporations,
and his explanation that the realiza-
tion of "a square deal' implies that
the present rules of the competitive
game must be changed, that he is OPP
posed to the monopolization of large
tracts of land by individuals and that
he favors increase of inheritance taxes
and some plan by which incompetent
or corrupt men can be removed from
public office, suggest the demands"
of the old nationalist political plat
forms. All of which proves that Mr..
Roosevelt is as progressive" as pres
ent economic conditions force him to
be-
That progress is in the direction of
collectivism and away from anar-
chism and. individualism is a lesson
that Colonel Roosevelt is learning in
common with every other statesman
of brains and ability. Political democ-
racy is impossible under system of
Industrial anarchy. To raise the stand
ard of intelligence you must improve
the standard of living. To do this we
must raise wages and reduce the hours
Of labor by eliminating waste and ex-
oIoitafion through the collective con-
troll of industry on a cooperative
basis. This will be forced upon us by
the impossibility of efficient public
control of industry under private
ownership. w. H. STUART.
Los Angeles, Sept. 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12


The master butchers of America IN
convention at Chicago, are considering
a plan that may have some effect IN
reducing the price of meat to the con-
sumer. It is neither more nor less
than a system that would practically
mt an end to the dead beats who VIC
tin1ize tradesmen. If butchers, grocers
and other retail dealers could ellnl-
nate the losses they suffer from those
who move away and forget to pay
their bills, they might easily reduce
prices 5 or 10 per cent. Under the pres
ent system, or lack of system, COM
petition and the impossibility or trac-
ing filters makes it possible for many
fa miles to live without paying thelr
way.. while the honest ones must make
IN the deficiency by increased prices
Thus a premium is put upon dls-
honesty, and a penalty imposed upon
financial responsibility.
The plan being discussed at Chlca-
go is that of the discharge book Every
member of the association Will reruse
credit to any customer who cannot
show a discharge from his last put-
cher. proving that he has paid IN fuil.
No one could secure credit unless ms
previous bill had been PAID ana SO
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
GREAT, INDEED

"I would like to ask you one more
question" said the youth.
"Iet it come" rejoined the home
grown philosopher. o,,
"When," queried the youth, would
you say that a man has achleVeq
greatness?" .,
"When he deserves his own opinion
of himself" answered the h. g. p
Chicago News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
rHE s1XTH SENSE

Tn q primary school examination
over which I once had the pleasure to
preside one of the questions was with
raeard TO the five senses. One of the
bright pupils handled the subject thus nos
'The ave senses are: Sneezing, SOD
hing, crying, coughing, yawning. BY
the sixth sense is meant an extra one
which some folks have. Thls is snor-
e."-Woman's Home Companion
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
Merely in Jest
prAsoN TO BELIEVE

oYas. I b'leaves in prayer. does,
said the old colored man as ne rested
during his window cleaning Jop.
,.nead does. once when l hadn't any
meat for a long time I begin prayin
far some hut no meat come. Every
day / KEEP prayin' fer some kin NV
meat. ,.,, 81 r,o,,
No chicken. Cooa
"Den / 'membered what the Good
Rook saws bout faith without works
SO den / prayed, % Lord, do sen me
to a chickeni' an de very mex uaS
we had de incest potple for olnilan'
Ladies' Home Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

The American bankers who are COM
ing to Los Angeles next month will
see something besides the fastest grow
ing city in the world. They will see a
lot of banking institutions that haven't
a superior in a community of the size
in the country.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

Politicians are wondering whether
if Gaynor is nominated for governor of
New York, the Hearst papers will re-
sumo their vicious personal attacks on
the man who has triumphed over the
bullet of Gallagher.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

The main difference between the two
minority reports at Minneapolis seems
to be that one says Ballinger ought to
go and the other says he ought to
get out.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

It is generally regarded as a mark
of distinction to have a military escort,
but the people of Columbus would per-
haps rather see the trolley strike
settled and ride without the protection
of state troops.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENTS intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name and address OF the writer. The Herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents
but assumes no responsibility for their views.
must not exceed goo words
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

With Clifford Pinchot present at the
coming mining congress in Los An
geles, the western governors who in
tend to come and boost for state con-
servation will have to trot out their
best artillery.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

Portland, Me-, has raised monu-
ment to Tom Reed, the first czar of
congress. If the vision of the la
mented Tom reaches back across the
styx he must not only appreciate this
memorial but also enjoy incidents that
have been going on around his former
throne of late.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

The official handbook Of the Repuh-
lican campaign committee says that
during the half century of Republi-
canlsm our population has increased
threefold." The inference seems to
be that without it our population
would have stood still in the last fifty
wears.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

The extra session of the Legislature
was a short one, but it can't be ig-
nored by the historians, for it isn't
often a body of the kind provides for
the expenditure of $1O,0OO,OOo in less
than a week.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

Several cases are reported of persons
of advanced age succumbing to the
strange malady, infantile paralysis.
Second childhood, it seems, is not a
mere phrase.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

Now is the time that the managers
of the tail-end baseball teams announce
with much positiveness that they will
win the pennant next season.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
THE AMATEUR

stern Parent--Learning to dance,
eh? Well, four hours every evening
is too long for you to be on your rect
young man. SOFT
Son-But, pa, am only on my reet
two hours.
YOU make that out?
Son-why, the rest of the time l
am on my partners feet.-Chicago
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

With her population of nearly five
millions, New York is being hailed as
greater than all foreign cities but one.
But with more Jews than Palestine,
more Germans than Bremen, more
Irish than Dublin and more Italians
than Rome, New York is something Of
a foreign city.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

One of the most obvious political
things is that the people of Michigan
do not regard Julius Caesar Burrows
as the noblest Roman of them all.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

We are not hearing so much nova
days as we were a year or so ago of
the presidents yard-wide smile that
won't come off.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

Some of the manbrds Cor menbirds)
realize occasionally that they are more
men then birds; as in the case of Ham
ilton in Sacramento, for example.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

St. Paul put on airs in a way that
was very offensive to Minneapolis be-
cause it was in the limelight with
conservation confab but it cannot hope
TO escape the odium of having its base
ball team far behind that of its twin
city in the American association race.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
Far and Wide

That investigation at Muskogee has
developed - fact that gentlemen
have not answered questions with
that degree of exactness which should
characterize the words of men of un-
impeachable Veracity when interro-
gated upon matters of such impress
sive observation-disclosures Post.
Tennessee's voters, it appears, do
not pardon what they regard as the
mistakes of Governor Patterson so
readily as the governor pardons what
he considers the mistakes of his
friends.-New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
Oklahoma City shows a gain of $40
per cent in population in ten years, or
so per cent a year. Just think where
Oklahoma City would be If she had
got started one hundred years ago
Atlanta Journal.
About the hardest thing in this world
for a church member to do is to give
as much to foreign missions as he
thinks somebody else ought to.-Dallas
News.
Still, it must be conceded that TAX
ing land from the Indians is one of
the oldest of American Institutions
New York Evening Mail.
CDR. Crippen Reads Bible, Gets
Lawyer" announces the New York
World. Playing both sides, appar-
ently.-Houston Post.
So long as we have Mr.. Roosevelt
and the state of Oklahoma with US the
country will not suffer from ennui.--
Wall Street Journal.
A negro poet has been made jan
itor at Harvard, which makes him
the most successful poet we know
Detroit Journal.
He seems to be the colonel of the
political situation in almost every
state.-Charleston News and Courier.
Well, anyway, the Kansas insur-
gents did not carry Danville, Ill.,
Brooklyn Standard Union.
Political fences should not be too
high for the people to have a look
over.-Atlanta Constitution.
For more than one reason DR.. Cook
has decided not to revisit the pole
Boston Transcript.
1t seems now to be run-patter in
stead of d-patter.-Atlanta Con-
stitution.
insurgency is a condition and not
theory-Deseret News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
NO CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT

Customer-I ordered gallon OF irish
whisky last week, and / find that
what you sent me was made in New
Dealer-WelI, don't see where you
have any kick coming. Isn't New
York Irish enough to suit youF-Chl-
cago News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
THE PRESENT STYLE

Mary had a little skirt
Tied tightly in a bow,
And everywhere that Mary went
She simply couldn't go.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

Oklahoma City shows a gain of $40
per cent in population in ten years, or
so per cent year. Just think where
Oklahoma City would be If she had
got started one hundred years ago
Atlanta Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

About the hardest thing in this world
for church member to do is to give
ais much to foreign missions as he
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

Tennessee's voters, it appears, do
not pardon what they regard as the
mistakes of Governor Patterson so
readily as the governor pardons what
he considers the mistakes of his
friends.-New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles. r. Gates. advertising man
ager
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

Still, it must be conceded that taxi
ing land from the Indians is one of
the oldest of American institutions
New York Evening Mail.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN

Population of Los Angeles 327,6s5
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12
The Aeroplane in War

General Homer Lea in Harpor's weekly)
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

CDR. Crippen Reads Bible, Gets
Lawyer" announces the New York
World. Playing both sides, appar-
entIy.-Houston Post
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

So long as we have Mr.. Roosevelt
and the state of Oklahoma with US the
will not suffer from ennui.-
Wall Street Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

1t seems now to be run-patter in
stead of a d-patter.-Atlanta Con-
stitution.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-12

A negro poet has been made jan
itor at Harvard, which makes him
the most successful poet we know
Detroit Journal.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-12-13
"S0NGS FROM HAWAII"

A delightful little book OF verse,
Songs From Hawaii" has just been
issued by Miss Anna NJ. Paris. Miss
Paris is kamaaina and the poems
are full OF the spirit of Hawaii
Where the sunshine only gladdens,
Where the rain falls but to bless,
Where the breezes, ocean laden.
Greet you with fond caress."
The book will be particularly ac-
ceptable as a gift to friends who
have visited these lovely Islands, as
each poem has something in 1t that
win bring ba X pleasant memories Of
some time or place. Miss Paris
knows all OF the Islands and loves
them as only kamaalna can, and
the poems are full OF the sentiment
and charm OF the tropics.
The book Is daintily bound in
cream paper, with n sketch of the
graceful cocoa palm on the front
t. over. making In all most dainty
and acceptable booklet.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-12-13
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

Entered for Record Dec. 10, 1910.
J Flon 1890 a. IN. to 4 .. m.
Mary A Evans and hsb 10 Gull
hermina de Freitas ct al -. ID
Marshall II Webb to Won Hamm-
Young Co Ltd ......,......C NJ
d Nagatani to Won llamm Young
Co Ltd ................. G NJ
Entered for Record Dec. IL, 1910.
From 8 a. m. 10 1890 a. m.
Kanoelehua Brown and hsb to
William II Beers, tr ..,.... ID
Cabrinha & Co to Jose Il Fer
reira ,..,......,... ID
Jose G Serrao and VT to Jose +
Ferreira .. ....,........, ID
w O Aiken and VT to Antoine II
Perreira ., .....,,.,..., ID
Hoapili Hao to Hattie Maule ct ell ID
Kalalike and VT to Abigaila Ka-
llllkane .........,.... ID
James Nakapaahu ct al to Ku-
kama Apao and hsb ...,,.. Rel
J ii Nahlmf (k) to Malaea Iopa ID
Joseph II Kaimana and VT OF ali
to Hhwi Mil g. Plantn Co Ltd ID
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-12-13
Cable News
BILLTO FAVOR
NATIONAL GUARD.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. IA
hill Of far-reaching interest, affecting
in great measure the effectiveness
of the national guard in every state
and Territory IN the United States.
was introduced I'm the Senate today
by Senator Boies -penrose Of Pennsyl-
vanla. providing for the payment to
all members of the national guard
who attend at least forty eight drills
a year a sum equal to twenty five per
cent. of the pay OF soldier I'm the
regular army.
Should this bill pass-and the SEN
timent among all CLASSES of the legjs.
lators at the national CAPITAL seems
in favor of the blll-lt will mean,
according to the advocates of the bill,
added efficiency In the national
guard. more interest BY the enlisted
guardsmen and an Increased enroll.
ment.
There are at present about 100. 900
men and officers on the rosters of the
various States and Territories, more
than double the strength OF the reg
ular army, upon viii n nearly $780,
100000 is expended annually, and Il
Is estimated that while the proposed
Legislation will mean the expenditures
of large sum yearly the benefit to
follow in case the country calls for
trained soldiers will be incalcuIablo.
Within fha Tnrritnr,. 80 tT,,u.it Al, :.