Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

themselves. Some of them are owned
| by multimillionaires.
POISONED NEWSPAPERS
"I feel that the way to complete free
dom is going to be made difficult for
us until such time as every citizen re-
CARDS poisoned newspaper precisely
as he regards poisoned can of milk.
When all men learn to regard the poi
soning of the mind as a more serious
affair than the poisoning of the stom-
ach, fighting for the right with any
hope of success is going to be made
difficult When each one can see a
skull and crossbones on his newspaper,
Just as he can on the label of carbolic
acid or cyanide of potassium, then our
kind of fighting will be rendered easy.
"In addition to the big lies that were
made so potent in discrediting the pros
ecution, the old cry of hurting business
was used with great effect, and 1 fear
it always will be used, because that
counts with nearly every one in this
great struggle for existence. 1t has dis
credited in some degree every move
ment for reform as far back as history
goes. Solon, the great Greek, encoun-
tered it when he undertook to make
laws that gave a little more equality
became unpopular. He hurt business.
"Camillus, the Roman consul, was
sent by Rome to conquer neighbor-
ing city that had been withstanding
long siege. He induced the people
peacefully to yield to him, and he
promised them If they would become
Roman citizens he would see that their
property was not taken from them. The
higher ups in Rome wanted to loot
the city and were so angry at Cam1llus
for having prevented it that he was
finally exiled from Rome and died of
broken heart. He hurt business.
HURTING BUSINESS
"Christ scourged the money changers
in the temple, and was crucified. He
hurt business.
"Savonarola many centuries later,
followed in the precepts of Christ in the
city of Florence and scourged the mon
ey changers. He was burned at the
stake. He hurt business.
civilian the Silent. a favorite of
Charles V, took up the peoples cause
and created the Dutch republic. He
was assassinated and the family of
the assassin was ennobled by the king
of Spain. William hurt business.
"Oliver Cromwell gave England her
first great name as a world power. He
stopped graft, but after his death Lon
and they brought back to the throne
Schmitz and Ruef and p. H. Mccarthy,
another stuart, Charles III, and then
they tore poor divers bones out of
the grave and kicked them about Lon
don. He had hurt business.
after Wendell Phillips had been
fighting the anti-slaverys fight for thirty
years it took forty policemen to save
him from being killed by the merchants
of Boston. He was fighting for hu-
man freedom, physical freedom. He
hurt business.
roosevelt is now fighting for mental
freedom, for political freedom, for man
above the dollar, and all of the hired
press that maligned Heney and Spreck-
els and the rest of the men that fought
the fight in San Francisco are now at
tacking Roosevelt. He hurts business.
'But you men of Los Angeles have
learned that stopping stealing does not
hurt business. 1t helps it, You above
all men in America know that, and
have demonstrated it. We of San
Francisco are learning it, and are going
to know 1t in time. just as you know
II now"