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Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
SCORES DISTRICT ATTORNEYS
ACTIONS IN HoRNING CASE

Editor Herald 1t is to be hoped the
public will get perfectly clear grasp
of the Horning case, for the issues it
involves are most important to all of
us. In particular 1 hope it will under
stand the position taken by the dis
trict attorneys Office as explained by
Deputy North in his letter published
in this mornings Herald.
Mr.. Norths letter begins thus: "This
office is simply attempting to do its
duty in this matter and right an il
legal wrong" The alleged "illegal'
wrong is that q superior court judge
has made ruling of which the dis
trict attorneys Office does not ap
prove. Sas1s
Does Mr.. North understand that he
is an officer of the court, bound to obey
it's rulings until they have, after full
trial, been set aside by a higher court?
publicly branding the ruling of a su-
perior court as illegal" he himself is
guilty of contempt of court?
Our law is distinguished from that
of barbarous countries simply by this
that when a man is accused of crime
h is entitled to have his accuser state
when, where, against whom and in
WIldL manner lie Is SdlQ To nave COIIl-
mitted the offense, in order that he
may know exactly what charge he has
to meet. 1t was because the district
attorneys office had not stated the
means by which Horning committed
the alleged crime for which he had
spent tWenty-one months in Folsom
that Judge Hughes decided he must
be set free.
That ruling did not please the dis
trict attorney that he had Horning re-
arrested on the serious charge of mur-
der, although he knew the charge
would not hold. Then Mr.. North comes
out with a letter in which he speaks
of the numerous burglaries and rob-
berries with which he (Horning) might
be charged" Here again Mr.. North
does the very thing Judge Hughes de-
clareu illegal; that is to say, he makes
vague charges against the accused
without saying when, where or against
whom or by what means these alleged
crimes were committed.
Every step taken is in direct con-
tradiction of the usage of civilized
countries, which decided long ago that
it was only fair to the accused that
he should know exactly what accusa-
tion he had to face.
The district at orney's Office has put
itself in the position of a Russian
court trying political offenders, and
that is a most serious thing for the
credit of an American city.
LAWYER.
Los Angeles, July 30.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
Col. Watterson on Journalism
(Llterary Dlgest)

tone and style honored rather in the
breach than in the observance. Too
many ill-trained, uneducated lads have
graduated out of the city EDITORS room
by sheer force of audacity and enter
prise into the more important posts.
Too often the counting room takes no
supervision of the editorial room be-
yond the immediate selling value of
the paper the latter turns out. Things
upstairs are left at loose ends. There
are examples of opportunities lost
throught absentee landlordism.
"These conditions, however, are eph-
emeral. They will yield before the pro-
gressive requirements of a process of
popular evolution which is steadily
lifting the masses out of the slough of
degeneracy and ignorance. The dime
novel has not the vogue it once had.
Neither has the party organ. Readers
will not rest forever content under the
impositions of fake or colored news; of
misleading headlines of false alarums
and slovenly writing. Already they
begin to discriminate, and more and
more clearly they will learn to discrim-
mate, between the meretricious and the
true.
'The competition in sensationalism,
to which we owe the yellow press, as it
is called, will become a competition in
cleanliness and accuracy. The counting
room, which is next to the people and
carries the purse, will see that decency
pays, that good sense and good faith
are good investments, and 1t will look
closer to the personal character and the
moral product of the editorial room, re-
quring better equipment and more ele-
waited standards. There will never
again be a Greeley, or a Raymond, or
Dana, playing the role of star and
personally exploited by everything ap-
pearing in journals which seemed to
exist mainly to glorify them. Each
was in his way man of superior at
tainments. Each thought himself an
unsefish servant of the public. Yet
each had his limtations-his ambitions
and prejudices, his likes and dislikes,
intensified and amplified by the habit
of personalism often unconscious. And,
this personal element eliminated, why
may not the impersonal head of the
coming newspaper-proud of his pro-
fession, and satisfied with the results
of its ministration-render yet bet
ter account to God and the people in
unselfish devotion to the common in
terest?"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
SELLING BONDS

HJ HEN the city of Los Angeles was
w facing its aqueduct crisis and 1T
was a matter of uncertainty
how the financial tangle it was in
would be unraveled The Herald said
that it was wholly unnecessary that the
city should be dependent upon brokers;
that the old notion that municipal
bonds could be disposed of only through
bond houses, with a large rake-off to
them, was financial superstition born
and fostered by the money power of
Wall street.
What The Herald said is confirmed
by the experience of the city of Phila-
delphia, which recently found it diff
cult to place S5,OOOOOO of bonds at
per cent through the usual channels.
1t was then proposed to put them "on
the counter" at home-to sell them
direct to the people. This was tried,
and to the surprise of the authorities
the issue was quickly oversubscribed.
The public proved to be greedy for thel
securities, in spite of the fact that
Philadelphia is not particularly we'll
managed.
There is a lesson in this for other
cities that is not likely to be lost, and
bond dealers are apt to lose much of
fruitful source of income by the greed
they have shown of late. In France it
is an old custom for bond issues to be
disposed of direct to the final holders,
and in this fact lies an explanation of
proverbial thrift of the French masses.
The bonds are issued in small denomin-
ations so that the humblest investor
can buy, whereas in this country the
usual block is $1,000.
The French practice has had Won
derful effect in fostering thrift among
the people. But, it may be said, this
would not do in the western country
where q. higher rate of interest can be
obtained for money. This reasoning
will be found fallacious probably for
the reason that most small investors
have saved with difficulty and prefer
an absolute safe security at say per
cent than a doubtful one at Z. The
popularity of our federal government
bonds all over the country is due
mainly to this fact.
The Wall street bond market is con-
tinually gutted with water-logged rail-
road and other securities. A vast num-
ber of people will not trust that source.
1t is among this element, in every city,
that good municipal bonds at low in
terest will find a ready sale. The eX-
perience of Philadelphia is we'll worth
remembering.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

salt and the rich mans spice; on the
brass nails of the coffin and the rib
bons of the bride; at bed or board,
couchant or levant we must pay. The
schoolboy whips his taxed top, the
beardless youth manages his taxed
horse with a taxed bride on a taxed
road, and the dying Englishman, pour
ing his medicine which has paid per
cent into spoon that has paid 10
per cent, filings himself back upon
his chintz bed which has paid 22 per
cent and expires in the arms of an
apothecary who has paid license of
hundred pounds for the privilege of
putting him to death. His whole prop
erty is then Immediately taxed from
to 10 per cent. Besides the probate,
large fees are demanded for burying
him in the chancel; his virtues are
handed down to posterity on taxed
marble, and he is then gathered to his
fathers-to be taxed no more. In ad-
dition to all this. the habit of deal
ing with large sums will make the gov
ernment avaricious and profuse, and
the system itself will infallibly gen.
crate the base vermin of spies and in
formers and still more pestilent race
of political tools and retainerS of the
meanest and most odious description
while the prodigious patronage which
the collecting of this splendid revenue
will throw into the hands of govern
ment will invest it with so vast an in
fluence and hold out such means OF
temptations to corruption as all the
virtue and public spirit, even of re.
publicans, will be unable to resist"
The prophecy of 1920 is abundantly
fulfilled in 1910 under a government
whose expenditures are $3,OO0,OOO
day.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

In the foreign quarter of Shanghai
there is a slave refuge which is doing
good work and which will have to
move into commodious quarters before
long. Concerning this institution the
North China Daily News says: ut Is
ten years since the institution was
started, then in a small house in Sinza
road; it's present home, a Chinese
building at the corner of Avenue and
Ferry roads, was built in 1906 and it is
a proof of the extent to which the
work of the refuge has grown that,
whereas the total number of those
who have passed through its hands
since the beginning, is 1872, the num-
ber of it's present inmates is sixty
four. The ages of the children vary
between Q and II years, and the cost
of their maintenance is about SO Mex
ican) a month. Two foreign ladies are
in charge of the refuge and the chill
dren are taught to read, to write and
do arithmetic, to cook and sew, to
grow their own cabbages and so forth.
They are also instructed in nom
sectarian form of Christianity. When
old enough they are, as rule, mar
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
Slavery in China

ried to well recommended Christian
husbands-this is easily managed-or
are put to some post in schools or hos
pitfalls. AS may be imagined, few chill
dren can go direct to the refuge with
out some previous weeks or even
months in hospital. Ill treatment and
scanty nourishment have reduced the
majority to extreme delicacy.
"Of the tragedies with which the
refuge has to cope the following re-
cent case will serve as a good ilustra-
ton: A little girl about 8 years old
had been brought by kindly neighbors
to a hospital on the outskirts of the
settlement; she was terribly cut about
the head and body and was practically
in dying condition. When she be-
came better her owners claimed her,
threatening to kill her when she should
return.
"She was taken to the refuge, the
superintendent of which was obliged
to communicate with the police, in
view of the owners behavior. Finally
the child was taken before the mixed
court, by which she was formally
handed over to the refuge, where, we
are glad to learn, she is doing we'll"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
A WRONG IMPRESSION

7 INADVERTENTLY, the error be-
ing due to the substitution Of
Il one name for another, The
Herald stated in an editorial yes
terday that "Mr, stephens had
gained no popular confidence" when
1t intended to say that Mr. Nc
Lachlan had not gained the conf
dence of the people. In discussing
the candidacy Of Prof Lorin Handley
for congress, it was the intention TO
compare him only to Mr. McLach-
Ian, the incumbent, and not 10 w.
D. stephens, the LincOln-ROoseVelt
league candidate. The Herald fire.
auently has had occasion to commend
Mr. stephens for his excellent service
to the public and it believes that if
Mr.. stephens and Prof. Handley are
nominated at the primaries the voters
will have two good men, of whom
they may choose one as their represen-
tative in congress.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
WORTH CULTIVATING

4 N EMINENT Brazilian visitor in
n Los Angeles the other day said
before his departure that the
president of that country, General Her.
mes da Fonseca, purposed to visit this
city during his coming tour of the
United States. Governor Gillett, it is
said, has invited the statesman to en-
joy the hospitality of California.
II will be we'll worth while for Cali
fornia to take advantage of the op-
portunity to make a good impression
upon General Fonseca and cultivate
his favor. Brazil is now a country of
20,00O,00O population, enjoying great
prosperity and a future market of large
promise. Last year she sold to us
products and bought of us about $1S,-
100000 worth of our goods. This bal
ance of trade in the wrong direction is
not creditable to us, for it is our own
fault We have allowed the British
and Germans to get the greatest share
our merchant marine.
The opening of the Panama canal
will not only bring a great new market
near our doors for California fruits,
grains, oils and manufactured articles,
but will put within our easy reach raw
materials that can be brought by ship
to the future mills and factories Of
Los Angeles. Iron ore, wood and other
necessities of industrial life abound in
Brazil in vast quantities. Overland
freight rates are so high, with like
lihood of going higher, that eastern
supplies are impracticable by railroad.
By ship they could be brought from
Fonseca's country for a tithe Of the
railroad rates.
No man can measure the industrial
possibilities of California when the
canal does away with our present par
tial isolation. Brazil will be nearer by
ship than many parts of our own coun-
try. Every dollar spent in cultivating
the interest and friendship of that
great country is likely to bring a
thousandfold return.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
PLAIN ENOUGH
MIR. ROOSEVELT returned from
N Africa and announced that he
AtA would take no stand in politics

MIR. ROOSEVELT returned from
N Africa and announced that he
AiA would take no stand in politics
for two months.
Clifford Pinchot and Marshall Slim
son called on him, and when they came
to California they confirmed this state
ment.
Pinchot made some speeches for
Johnson and Kent. and on the stump
and in interviews expressly stated that
he spoke only for himself in aiding his
friends
Philip Stanton's brother called on
Roosevelt in New York, and expressed
the fear that the eX-president was go
ing to mix in" California politics and
hurt his brothers chances.
Mr.. Roosevelt telegraphed Stanton
here that he has not indorsed either
Johnson or Stanton, and doesn't pur-
pose to do so.
There is nothing about this series Of
events that ought to puzzle anybody,
or to get excited over. The former
president is only avowing anew the de-
termination expressed on his return.
Between the lines he says he knows
nothing about the situation in Califor-
MIA at first hand. He is keeping out,
Just as / have refused to take part in
all similar contests"
If anybody can extract any comfort
out Of that declaration either for John
son or stanton he doesn't understand
the English language.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

Some conception of the great debt
modern medicine owes to experiment
tation on animals may be gained from
Dr. Frederick l.. Wachenheim's arti-
Gle in the current Atlantic. That the
arteries contain blood and not air,
Galen proved by cutting them in living
animals, and that the blood circu-
lates was demonstrated by Harvey
through experiments on dogs. From
these elementary physiological facts
upward to an understanding of the
more complex processes of the human
system, the functions of digestion, the
physiology of respiration, the pathol-
ogy of the brain and nerves, the prog
ress of medicine has been in propor-
ton to its reliance on the dumb aid OF
the horse, cow, dog, ape, frog and
guinea pig. To this humble co-opera-
tion is due the present knowledge of
bacteria, antitoxins and serums, the
treatment of tuberculosis, diphtheria,
tetanus, hydrophobia and cerebro-
spinal meningitis.
In this debt the mouse promises to
have a large share by providing the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

progress of society is based upon the
mental and moral status of the people
in the aggregate of that society. The
reforms that can be had in GER
tain society or nation are wholly de-
pendent upon the interior advancement
of the individuals composing that So
ciety or nation and not upon legislative
enactments which are an outcome or
that interior advancement.
Human beings are just entering the
outskirts of civilization and they are
as yet little more than tanned savages.
The enormous progress made during
the last century is almost wholly social
and intellectual, and not moral. Kind
liness, charity brotherly feelings,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
SAYS SOCIALISTS LITTLE
FITTED FOR GOLDEN AGE

Editor Herald: Mr.. Rubel's letter
would have been more satisfactory had
he pointed out more fully the "egregious
errors" he says my letter on Socialism
contained. Instead he used the allotted
space to give an enumeration of the idle
and vain promises Socialism makes.
At Socialist meetings one is too often
treated to flapdoodle oratory, and the
writings of Socialists are rarely free
from it. Sane and sound views are
generally too tame for the average
Socialist. His pronunciamento may be
read in the following sentence; The
revolution is at hand; prepare your
selves for the coming conflict.
My contention penned in a previous
letter is that all true and permanent
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

equity and justice must exist among
mankind before the Socialistic deca-
logue can be incorporated in society.
Socialists themselves seem least fitted
to ascend to that moral attitude, for
they are constantly quarrelng among
themselves over their hair-splitting
definitions of Socialism and over how
the new commonwealth shall be run.
1t is also customary with them to de-
nounce everything under the sun which
is not included in their Socialistic
definition. The epithets of oppro-
brium are constantly on their lips while
they are waiting to usher in the
golden age" p. A. JENSEN.
Los Angeles, July 20.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
Studying Mice for a Cancer Cure
New York World)


medical profession with a better un-
derstanding of the nature of cancer In
connection with DIR. Wachenheim' ar
ticle a parliamentary paper on animal
experiments in England is of interest
as showing how the energies of medi-
cal science are now bent to find in
mice the cause and cure of the battling
disease. OF the S6,277 medical expert
ments on animals in England and
Scotland in 1909, more than one-half,
or 45,1S2, were performed in the
course of cancer Investigations, and of
these the bulk were inoculations of
mice. Other experiments had to do
with the preparation and testing of
anti-toXic serums and vaccines, the
study of diseases of the lower animals,
archaeological tests, etc.
But the important thing is the devo-
tion of medical skill and attention to
the mouse with a view to discovering
in it the final key to medical prob
lem to which it has already furnished
a clew The tiny rodent If it yields
the secret, will have deserved the graf
itude of mankind.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
Merely in Jest
THE BURDEN OF WEALTH

One spring, for some reason, old Ell
was going round town with race OF
dissatisfaction, and when questioned
he poured forth his voluble tale of woe
thus: "Marse Geo'ge, he come to me
last fall an he say, ELI, dis gwine ter
be a hard winter, so yo' be keerful, an,
save yo' wages fas' an tight An l
b'lieve Marse Geo'ge, yas, sab, b'heye
him, an 1 save an save, an when de
winter come it amt got no hardship,
an dere was l wild all dat money 9es
frown on nah hands!"-Everybod
Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
TOO LITERAL

ooh, May! Jim and Bill fought duel
over mel"
How romantic! What happened?"
"It was terrible! l came into the
room and those foolish boys were
pointing big pistols at each other!"
"Pistols? Heavens Were they load
ed?"
mot a bit. They were both sober"
cleveland Leader.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
PERsIFLAGE AT MRS. HASH
LEIGH'S

Lets see," observed the smart
boarder, seating himself at table, now
is it the proverb runs"-
you refer to the saying that one
mans meat is another's mans hash,"
put in one.
"Or," said another, Don't cry over
SKINNED milk"
"Or, possibly" said a third, I'm but
ter there is strength"
NO" returned the smart boarder,
"the particular proverb 1 had in mind
is None but the brave can face the
fare. '"-Boston Transcript
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

A minor league pitcher has been sold
to a major league club for $4,000, the
record price, Now let some Mexican
muckraker write a series of articles
on "Barbarous America" where base
ball players are sold into slavery.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

An Oklahoma exchange notes the re-
cent presence in California Of Gaylord
!(sic) Pinchot. Yes, and he has been
roasting the dickens out of Uncle
James Cannon and boosting for Silas
Johnson.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

About the time the Los Angeles res
ident is reaching out in the night for
that extra blanket, his relatives back
east are riding around in trolley cars
gasping for breath because bedrooms
are insufferable.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

Only the standpatters are to receive
aid from the Republican congressional
committee. Well, the insurgents are
not as likely to need the money as the
other fellows.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

"Who do you think viii be the Dem
ocratic candidate" Uncle Joe Cannon
was asked in st. Louis. 81 am not
thinking" said the speaker. 81 don't
know, and, what is more, | don't care
a damn" And it puzzles old Joe tc
learn that the public is caring several
damns about things lately.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

The linen dustcr used TO be the dis
tinguishing mark of the "rube." Now
it is worn by the prosperous city man
who drives an auto. AS in many other
fashions, a great deal depends on the
NieW-pOInt.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

Mayor Gaynor of New York is help
ing to restore good old forms of Eng
lish speech. We are glad to see he
addresses the board of aldermen as
"sirs" instead of gentlemen"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

The expense bill Of L. II. CLAWS for
going to Beverly to see Mr.. Taft about
Ballinger has been refused. 1t would
be interesting if somebody would look
up the matter of the mileage Of the
secretary when he went there to hyp-
uotize the president
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

A local theatrical manager has been
arrested for displaying billboard
scenes of robbery and murder. If that
kind of shows were ruled off the stage
there would be no use for the paper on
the billboards.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

Alienists will doubtless be able to
prove DIR. Crippen insane. He has been
cultivating beard in the heated term,
for one thing.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENCE 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 viewA
stters must not succeed 200 words
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

Mr.. Taft is pleased because treasury
receipts are larger. Probably feels less
uncertain about an appropriation for
some more long railroad junkets next
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

England has a railroad strike. We
didn't know such things happened
under government ownership" says
an exchange. The only fault with this
sally is that England doesn't own the
railroads.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

Political note from the paper of 1922:
"Hon. James Smith, one of the can
didates for governor, dropped into
town today in his aeroplane to look
after his fences"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
A POSSIBLE NEW MERGER

John ID. Rockefeller says that soon
all the Christian churches will be
united Has he got a religious merger
up his sleeve?-St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

When aviation becomes more gen
eral monoplane cops will have to be
provided to police the air. Get your
applications in early.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

A noted eastern physician says the
number of doctors is too large and
should be reduced. Crippen and Cook
have done their part Of the work.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
INSIDE INFARMATION?

When the governor of Nevada says
ut was a glorious spectacle, and a good
thing for the state" we are inclined to
think he must have picked the winner
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01

1t is to be hoped that Teddy, Jr., and
bride made the most of their honey
moon joy, 4.r now they've got to live
in San Francisco,