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Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
The Test of Endurance

utes which are Indispensable pre-
requisites for the preservation ana per-
petuity of the government or the peo-
pie.
The magnitude of this peril is meas,
ured by the magnitude of the polltleel
power and corruption inherent III tne
criminal combinations of corporate
wealth which have accomplished ana
now hold in iron hands the absolute
control of the American senate, the
congress and the cebinet-a peril pe-
fore whose grim torrent OF rum tne
Hebrew commonwealth, the Roman
commonwealth and the commonwealth
of England went down in the run
blaze of their meridian splendor ana
commercial glory.
If this mighty commonwealth is 10
escape the perils that have proved
fatal to all other popular governments
it is because it will find its dellVerer
in the heroic character of Lincoln
Jefferson or a Roosevelt, as chief mag
istrate whose moral convictions, whose
forttude of soul, whose love of JUS
tice and whose patriotism compose the
mighty bulwark of the executive de-
partment of the government or tne
United states and sweeps away the
degrade ton of a vacillating realty TO
a political machine which takes refuge
behind the colossal fraud which pro-
inal oligarchy to he the political prin-
ciples of the ruling organization in
control of the government of the people
at Washington.
l predict that the will of highest
dispensation will give this nation a
chief magistrate whose oath of office
and #liosa rugged manhood viii prove
a terror to the moral and political
counterfeiters-a terror to the male
factors whose corrupt political con-
quest of the government is denounced
by the people who demand immediate
restoration of the government to its
constitutional enforcement through the
instrumentalities of the laws of SOW
ereign people who more and more dis
cover that neither age nor wealth is
the test of the endurance Of their gov
ernment. but that equal and exact
justice to all offenders of the sovereign
authority are results which the gov
ernment of the people must achieve at
whatever cost il 1t is to grow hale and
hearty with the growth of centuries.
Respectfully 7. J. THORP.
Member of the executive committee.
Good Government organization, Los
Angeles county, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15

That money, particularly paper
money, may serve to transmit infec-
tious disease is obvious, says the New
York Press. 1t differs little physically
from ordinary paper or rags, and 1t
acts as carrier Of germs like any
similarly peripatetIc and popular com
modify. If 1t gathers bacteria from the
hands of one man these are faithfully
carried to it's next owner, This has
been demonstrated experimentally by
DR.. Park of our local health board.
Mr.. Hilditch of New Haven has
shown that bank notes are covered
with germs of all sorts Those eX-
amined by him carried few, if any,
disease germs, and these were not viru-
lent Manifesty this lnnocuousness
was a mere accident. If the Hilditch
bills had had chance to collect viru-
lent micro organisms they would have
carried these about just as they dld
the harmless ones In other words, II
harmless bacteria can live for several
days or weeks upon circulating bank
notes 1T is highly probable that disease
producing forms can do so; and as 1t
is certain that such dangerous forms
(the tubercle bacillus, the diphtheritic
organism and many others) are con-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
ALL OVER

WE should say that the Edison
w company, by reducing its rate
for light in Pasadena to cents
per kilOwatt hour to compete with the
municipal plant, had relieved the Los
Angeles public of the bothersome
necessity of studying up llilowatts, am
peres, and so forth, in order to decide
whether a 7-cent rate here would hit
the corporation an unfair blow below
the belt. It may be unfeeling to sug-
gest it, but supposing Mayor Alexander
had proclaimed himself in favor of a
Accent rate here, or somebody had agi-
tated for an initiative petition for that
price!
Once again, why will corporations
withhold from the public in their deal
ings with the public that candor ex-
pected to exist between all parties to
bargains in which there is mutual in
terest? The things they sometimes do
not puzzle but irritate the people whose
good Will it is always worth something
to have.
Electrically speaking, we should opine
that the fixing of the rate for current
in Los Angeles is all over but the
formalities, such as the counting of the
ballots and the signing of the papers.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15

The lifting magnet has now been
employed for several years in and
about iron works and manufacturing
establishments in connections with
cranes and hosting machinery because
of the convenient manner in which 1t
enables masses of iron, such as rails
pig iron, etc, to be picked up and re-
leased at the will Of the operator VINO
controls the crane.
Recently a new application OF TINS
method has been made, says Casters.
A few months ago barge, when was
laden with 1900 tons of wire nails In
kegs, besides steel barrel hoops, sta
pies and barbed wire, had been towed
from Pittsburg to New Orleans. and
while endeaVorng to make landing
at the latter city the barge broke
loose from the tug which was handling
it and sank in fifty-five feet of water.
The work of salving the valuable
cargo was Immediately begun by ex-
pert divers, and a portion of the ma
terial was recovered. 1t was round
that the barge had broken in two ana
that a part of it had been carried out
about 150 feet from shore and lay at
a depth of about 100 feet at point
where the swiftness of the current rem
dered work with ordinary diving appa-
ratus impracticable.
Although the lifting magnet had not
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
OSCARS UNWISDOM

7" E FEAR that our own Oscar
w LaWler. who contributed a
" carefully prepared invective TO
President Taft's waste basket, is hope
lessly "in bad" politically. If he is
being championed by Representative
Dalzell, the chairman of the house
committee appointed to investigate the
allegations of Mexican persecution of
refugees in America, he is hopelessly
done for. Dalzell is Joe Cannon's alter
ego. For a decade he has sneezed
whenever Cannon took snuff He has
been for years the chief henchman for
the house tyrant.
If Oscar has hitched up to that bunch
we can't send him to the senate, as
somebody over our shoulder suggested.
We might have found excuses for his
course in the CLAWS case, but if he
has been violating the constitution by
prosecuting political refugees, and is
now being shielded by Dalzell, as
seems to be the case from the way
in which the investigation" is being
conducted by that worthy, even our
powerful voice is too feeble to be of
avail to save him from the wreck.
At the hearing of the committee yes
terday John Murray of Los Angeles
testified that as secretary of the Po-
litical Refugees Defense league he
was in San Antonio last year during
Taft's meeting with Diaz, and was
arrested on a charge of violating the
neutrality laws. thrown into Jail and
kept there forty-eight hours; then re-
leased without trial by order of the
United States district attorney. He
also related many instances of MeXf-
can refugees arrested and kept in Jail
for weeks, often for months, on all
kinds of trumped up charges and fin
ally released. John Kenneth Turner,
author of "Barbarous Mexico" pro-
duced evidence that detectives had been
seen tampering with mail in the Los
Angeles postoffice.
Thereupon Chairman Dalzell of the
committee announced that the hearing
would be concluded today, which is
taken to mean that Lawler will not be
asked to explain his acts as United
States district attorney at Los Angeles.
Is Dalzell using some of the whitewash
left over from the Ballinger investiga-
ton?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
POINTS OUT INCONSISTENT
PASSAGES FOUND IN BIBLE

Editor Herald; AS r. n. critics.
ing Mr.. Rhodes says: "There are no
Inconsistencies in the Bible readings
when rightly interpreted" etc, would
ask how many meanings plain, posi-
tive statement can have. The first five
books of the Bible are ascribed to
Moses as the writer of them, but the
books themselves show that he was
not.
| would like to show up one or two
Inconsistencies" (the Bible is full of
them for r. n. to ponder over No
doubt a little matter such as the sun,
moon and stars not being made till
the fourth day (Bible statemenD, when
it is the sun that makes the difference
between night and day, but perhaps
r. n. don't see any inconsistency in
such things, How are we to interpret
the conflicting stories told in Genesis
of the creating of Adam and Eve, and
the beasts and fowls. According to
chapter /, verse 81, God made all the
beasts and all the cattle and every
creeping thing the sixth day, and also
that same sixth day, after making the
beasts and cattle and so on, he created
Adam and Eve, verse 81 80 God
created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him. male and
female created he them" The state
ments are positive. Chapter 3 verse
7, tells US that God made man of the
dust of the ground. Then we are told
that God planted garden eastward
in Eden, and put the man he had
formed in that garden, to take care of
it, giving the man permission to eat
of the fruit of every tree. except of
the tree Of the knowledge of good and
evil, and telling the man that the day
he did eat of that tree he should surely
die. Now in the eighteenth verse, God
was struck with the idea that it
wasn't good that man should be alone,
therefore he (God) would make a help
meet for the man. And so God took
some more ground and out of it
formed every beast of the field and
every fowl of the air and brought them
to Adam to see what he would call
them. And Adam named them and of
every clean fowl and offered burnt Of
fering on the altar. Huh. There are
great many people (we doubt they
are Missourians) who would like to be
Shown" q. n. T.
Los Angeles, June g.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15

Editor Herald: Our nation has not
yet reached the supreme test OF
whether the government of the peo-
pie by the people can endure. we
have not yet been put to the test OF All
the consequences of blinfly deallhs
with the criminal combinations of cor
porate wealth which seeks an uncon-
troled and unregulated mastery of the
great economic Industrial interests or
the nation regardless of the unmistak-
able disaster to the rights and inter-
ests of the people--a disaster oonsum-
mated through a gigantic system OF
occult evasions, violations and infrae-
tions of the law.
We have not yet been put to the
test of all the consequences for that
blindness of the executive authority
which sees not how fragrant are the
criminal invasions and violations of
the federal statutes enacted for the
protection of the rights of the people
In their contests with the skillful
agents and political emissaries of
predatory wealth.
The day is coming, however, when
this government must meet the logical
consequences of its failure to hold cor
porate and private property in abso-
lutte subOrdination to the sovereign
authority of this nation.
There is one force in Gods universe
without which this government Will
fail to meet successfully the complex
dangers as perilOus as the hidden
rocks in the mariners highway-that
one force more than anything. else this
nation must acquire before we are
equipped to successfully combat the
nerils surrounding the perpetnity of
this government--tnat force Is an ac-
tive, militant moral courage-a moral
courage that gives a potent and eff
cient sanctity to the presidents oath
of office and holds him responsible to
our people for the faithful admins
tration of the laws. as expressed in
the federal statutes, against the gross
and powerful offenders of the soVer-
eign authority.
We have reached a pivotal period in
the history of the government of the
people in which it has to be determined
whether the feudal forces of medieval
civilization--rieh in the spoliation of
the people-shall usurp the exercise of
sovereign authority and reign supreme
in the interests of corporate wealth,
or whether the government of the peo-
pie, by the people shall continue to
rule and administer the criminal stat
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
AVIATION'S MARVELS

~ HARLES X. HAMILTON S sensa-
tional flight from New York to
" Philadelphia and return in an
aa1 oplane and Walter BroOkins' feat
in soaring 43S4 feet in the air at Indi-
anaro'is on the same day. breaking
the worlds record made by Louis Paul
han at Los Angeles last winter sug-
gest at once the revision of many pre-
dictions concerning the heavierthan-
air ship.
First, the prophecy that the devices
would never be of practical use in a
commercial way, but would be chiefly
If not wholly a sporting proposition;
second, that its use in warfare was
highly doubtful, because safeguards
against it could be devised faster than
any progress it could make with its
motor limitations. Some very shrewd
leaders in the art of war have taken
this stand and have not hesitated to
so on record as not fearing the aero
planes.
Hamilton's triumphant achievement
shows that the device is not only pos
d
lis use in ways that readily suggest
themselves as messengers for various
purposes between cities, etc, may be
close at hand. The marvellous progress
made in two short years in the sc ence
of aviation compels belief that an
other like period will bring about
things until recently felt to be in
conceivable.
This same Hamilton, it is reported,
has proposed to the war department
that at the coming army maneuvers
at Chickamauga he will make fights
and drop explosives on targets as a
demonstration of the effectiveness of
aeroplanes. If the thing can be raised
to an altitude of 1884 feet, as was done
by Brookins, the lay observer may be
pardoned for Venturing to disagree
with the warriors who profess no anx-
iety. Bombs of nitroglycerin can be
dropped from a mile in the air, but
there is nothing known to man that
can with any degree of certainty ap-
prehend a swiftly moving aeroplane at
that height
And if such warfare is possible, what
nation will want TO invest vast sums
in land fortifica tions and Dreadnaughts
that might be reduced to scrap in
luckless day? Greatest of all the prom
ised distinctions of the aeroplane may
be its role as the worlds peacemaker.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
ANCIENTS HELD ONLY FIRST
BORN POSSESSED SOULS

Editor Herald: The ancient slave
holders declared that the work people
had no souls. They looked upon them
as mere machines. At one time the
first born were the only free persons
and the others We're slaves. (See An
cient Lowly," by G. Osborne Ward) We
read in Genesis of the sons OF God,
which 1 would say refers to these first
born. In course of time these first
born united into confederacies and into
nations. The Bible says that the first
born belonged to God whether it be
your son or firstborn of your stock.
When the prophet said though your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be as
white as snow, means though you
trespassed against me and are there
fore subject to become slaves. 1 will
forgive you. The free were descend
ants from him who sat on the big
white throne. that is, the eternal snow
on the high mount.
All the ancient kings were supposed
to descend from God. Even today,
prince must marry within his own
rank or be cast off.
Jesus came to save the poor, the la
borer and the slave, as they, not be-
ing of the highborn, had no souls, ar
had lost these souls. He said he was
not sent to the rich (highborn) as they
needed no doctor.
CHAS. U. WHITE.
Pomona June 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
STAR CHAMBER METHODS

TT is to he hoped that the idea of
star chamber government is not
4 going to receive continued encour-
agement from the highways inVestiga-
tion committee. Investigations held
behind closed doors unquestionably do
not have the full confidence of tho
public What is it sought to conceal?
whom is it sought to shield? are the
inevitable and natural questions in the
public mind. They may be without
real justification, but they will be
asked.
An investigation held to inquire into
the possible misdceds of others is the
last thing that should be held in secret.
1t is conceivable that at times the ends
of Justice would be frustrated by pub
licity, though it is doubtful if such oc-
casions often occur. On the other hand,
unless there are peculiar and remark
able circumstances, which are frankly
stated. the public is suspicious of
secrecy. Fancy the Ballinger inquiry
held by the congressional committee be-
hind closed doors
For the sake of the public confidence
that is inevitably forfeited by sub rosa
methods, we should think the investi-
gators of any public matter would want
to work in the open. And this disre-
CARDS the larger question Of the right Of
the public to know what is being done
I'm its name.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
MERIT IN THE SCHOOLS

r OOKED at from either of two
standpoints there is reason for
~ congratulation on the appoint
ment of John II. Francis to the super
intendency of the Los Angeles schools.
One cause, Of course, lies in the fact
that so good a successor of DR.. Moore
was at hand and so promptly secured; 4;
another that his promotion, along with
the advancement of others of the teach
ing staff, shows that only merit, good
service and the best interests of the
city are considered by the board of
education in it's selections.
More than in any other branch of
municipal activity the schools ought to
be managed on a high plane, free from
all political influence and devoid of
faVoritism of every kind. The changes
just brought about in the local school
department afford a gratifying proof
that it is managed i'm this way. Every
ambitious worker for the welfare of
the educational system is also given
proof that no sinister things stand in
his way If he proves that he merits
advancement; and that makes for a
better service from the bottom up.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
Some of the Dangers in Paper Money

stantly brought into contact with cur
rency, it is a fair assumption that they
are transmitted by it, and that part
of the annual death roll due to infec-
tious disease may be credited to the
thing the love of which is the root of
all evil.
Mr. Hilditch was inclined to think
the disease danger from money small,
and judged by the immunity of paying
and receiving tellers and other persons
whose chief occupation is handling
somebody eses money. 1t plays no
very large part in the annual NOR
tality statistics. And yet there can be
no question that currency is a possible
source of infection. AS we pointed out
when Mr.. "Clean Money Morrison"
tried to start new scare over the sub
ject in the Popular Science Monthly
however, the person of ordinary intel
ligence and caution will not bring bank
notes into contact with cuts or abra-
sions on his hands and will wash his
hands before rubbing his eyes; neither
will he put money of any variety into
his mouth. In the light of present
knowledge these SIMPLE precautions
against money-born disease seem all
that are required.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
Machine Routed in Iowa Voting
(san Francisco Cali)


surgents hoped for nothing more than
turns show that the hoped for margin
became, in fact a majority of more
than 3100 for Prouty.
AS pointed out by The Call a few
days ago. the investiture of the Iowa
gubernatorial contest with national
meaning was unfair to both Governor
Carroll and his opponent. Garst Car
roll did everything he could to offset
the work of the machine politicians
who hoped to make him the agency of
their paper Vindication. He insisted
through the press and from the stump
that his candidacy was in no wise
based upon national questions, and that
he stood upon his record as governor
and that alone. Carroll's record was
not subject to attack. 1t was admit
ted that he had been an excellent gov
ernor, but thanks to the injection OF
regularity" into his campaign, he
narrowly escaped defeat. Two years
ago Carroll beat Garst by more than
$4,000 votes. With five counties miss
ing his 1910 majority over the same
candidate has dwindled to 706 votes,
and no one pretends to believe that
the missing counties will double that
slender margin.
In six out of eleven districts the
regulars dared not present candidates
for congressional nomination. In the
second district Dawson, formerly the
late Senator Allison's confidential man,
refused to attempt to succeed himself.
The progressves beat Hull. They
nominated their candidates in eight out
of eleven districts. The regulars nomi-
mated two incumbents and a third cam
didate in Democratic district. They
very nearly accomplished the defeat
of Governor Carroll by clubbing him
regular" against his wish.
All this may look like machine
victory to some of the California ma
chine politicians. To the great major
ity of the American people 1t looks
like machine rout and panic.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15


California machine candidates who
find comfort in the results of the Re-
publican primary fight in Iowa are
leaning upon an extremely slender reed.
Extraordinary powers of imagination
must be brought into play to make the
Iowa returns spell either victory for
the reactionaries or reputation for the
Roosevelt policies.
Every insurgent incumbent was re-
nominated by the Iowa Republicans.
Hull, chairman of the committee on
military affairs and one of the recog
nized leaders of the reactionaries, went
down to overwhelming defeat. Thanks
to the efforts of the professional poll
ticians who attempted to invest the
gubernatorial contest with national
bearing, Governor CarrolPs majority
of $4,000 over Garst two years ago was
reduced to something like 1000. Ken
nedy and Smith, the two regular con-
gressmen renominated, pulled through
by narrow margins.
The decisive defeat of Congressman
Hull in the Seventh Iowa district is as
significant as was the reclamation OF
one of the Pennsylvania districts by
the insurgents. Hull has been a mem
Der of congress for twenty years. His
continuous service and his affiliations
with Speaker Cannon, congressman
DalZellt HaAn1 anu the lhlsieslS thcS
represent have made him a power in
the lower house. His district includes
Iowa's largest city. The fact that his
was a city district gave him an ad-
vantage enjoyed by no other reaction
airy in Iowa. The fact that he was
chairman of the committee on military
affairs and, as such, had been able to
fish large slices out of the pork barrel
for his home town, gave him another
and peculiar hold upon the vote of Des
Moines.
The insurgents, headed by Senators
Cummins and Dolliyer, and actually
led by Cummins made the defeat of
Hull the immediate object of their
fight. The most sanguine of the in
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
Merely in Jest
A 50-YEAR-OLD JOKE.

"Who made you?" inquired lady
teacher of a lubberly boy who had
lately Joined the class.
II don't know" said he.
Don't you? You ought to be
ashamed of yourself, a boy of IA
years. There's little Dickey Filton, he
is only 3; he can tell, l dare say. Come
here, Dickey. Who made you?'
"Dod" lisped the infant prodigy
There" said the teacher triumph
antly. Il knew he would remember"
We'll, he oughter." replied the stu
pid boy; "taint but a little while ago
since he was made. Reprinted in
JUDGE.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
Huge Magnets Replacing Divers

hitherto been used for submarine oper-
ations it was determined to make the
trial of the apparatus for this novel
undertaking. The experiment was
crowned with success and great part
of the sunken quantity of iron and
steel has been raised to the surface
by this novel method.
The magnet is lowered into the
water until it reaches the material,
when the electric current is turned on;
the masses of steel are attracted and
held so securely that they can be hoist
ed to the surface and delivered to the
dock without the aid of any human
Intervention other than the control OF
the current by the operator.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
Pomona, June 10,
BLACK DRESSES OF
GRADUATES MARRIED SERVICE

Editor Herald: 1t seems a pity that
the otherwise beautiful and impressive
service held at the First Methodist
church on Childrens day should have
been marred by the graduates being
dressed in black, a symbol of darkness
and death. How much more appro-
pirate had they been garbed III white
emblematical of purity. light and life.
TO my wife, whose sense of fitness is
acute, it seemed as a black cloud pass
ing over the face of the sun.
Los Angeles. June 1S. j.. R.K.