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Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
DRAINAGE

I N addition to losses aggregating
over a billion dollars which the
- United States has had to suffer in
the last ten years on account of the
fad of American heiresses for the pur-
chase of expensive foreign noble
noodles this country is drained annual
ly of $275,00o,000, which sum repre-
sents the savings of immigrants which
are sent to Europe to support Euro
pean families, to bring other immi-
grants to the United States to pay
rope. OF the total the largest amount,
$S5, 100000, is sent to italy $75,000,-
900 to Austria, $25,OOOOO to the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
S25, 100000 to Russia, s5,000,000 to China,
and s., ,0OO, 900 to Japan.
This economic condition is steadily
growing worse owing to the gross care
lessness of our immigration system and
the unpatriotic conduct of eastern
steel makers, miners and general man
ufacturers who hire their help from
southern Europe. And when this eco
HOIlllC cOHulllOn is COIlSlueIeu, TIE dS-
siduous devotion bestowed upon ad-
justing tariff schedules in order
Americans who compete against for
eign labor that is costing the nation
annually s275 0O0, 900 in sheer drain,
without any equivalent, may be fur
ther taxed and super-taxed, looks more
like monumental idiocy than lofty pa
triotism.
The tariff tinkers and reactionaries
and the little grafters and the big
grafters and the various interests that
cry what we want we want-the coun-
try be blessed"-all fail to see the Unit
ed States, in the words of Cleveland,
is confronted by condition and not
by theory.
While social factors were shaping
themselves in such fashion that ere
long the main question must be
tackled bravely and solved intelli
gently, the tariff thinkers peeved and
stewed over an adroit plan of replen-
ishing the Golfers of the trusts, pro-
tecting the interests and keeping the
G. o. P. in campaign funds. When
Lilliputian men are set in array against
Brobdngnagian circumstances, the
outlook is not promising for the Ameri-
can people.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
IT'S UP TO CONGRESS TO PASS
POSTAL BILL, SAYS G. o. P. MAN

LOS ANGELES, April 26-[Editor
Herald: 1t is intmated the postal
savings bank bill may not be passed at
this session of congress. This measure
was a plank in that supposedly strong
structure-the Republican platform of
1908. Further the great majority Of
the American people demand its adop-
tion. Now, should the regulars-the
machine end of the Republican party
disown and defeat this vital plank, the
issue which gave to that party the
large independent vote and the cleo
tion of Taft-then the individual mem
bers thereof should be consigned to
political oblivion.
No party. especially the leaders of a
great party, can ignore public opinion
under a democratic republic, whether
it be banking, high tariff or any issue
vital to the perpetuation of the great
principles of a free government, and
long survive. Administrations may
change, the political complexion of
congress may and undoubtedly will
change, but there will be little change
of ideas among the rank and file re-
specting human rights and constitu-
tional government
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN,.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
LOS ANGELES WAY

T OS ANGELES total building valu-
ations for April amount to $780,
~ 577. By approximately $1,000,00O
the previous high record for a month,
that of June, 1906 is broken. The new
total exceeds by $2,34O 62O the aggregate
for the corresponding period of last
year.
The total for the year to date, $S.371,-
1913. exceeds by $4.566,O3S the amount
for first four months of last year.
Total number of permits is $50, an in
crease of POS as compared with April
last year.
The magnificent building record for
April is rivaled by the financial rec
ord. Total clearings for April amount
ed to $74,O41, 104, the biggest total for
any month in the history of Los An
geles.
To civic pride, enterprise and good
citizenship are attributable the splen-
did progress and prosperity which
mark the ever-forward movement of
the commercial, maritime and home
metropolis of the far west. Success
attends the Los Angeles way"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02

cratic ticket voted in that district
would count for him. This elected
Eldrdge by small majority. Had he
run without the Democratic indorse-
ment he could not possibly have been
elected. Scarcely was Eldridge well
into his seat as supervisor when he ap-
pointed the said Martin c. Marsh as q
highway commissioner. Setting aside
the bargain-and-sale features of this
abominable transaction, the appoint
ment was inherently unwise. Marsh is
a good fellow" and popular with his
circle of business and political ac-
duaintances. He was a contractor on
city work chiefly, and in politics he
usually played the machine end. He
had neither the training nor the expert
knowledge nor the sentiment of respon-
sibillty to the public that should go
with such an undertaking.
Another appointment made at the
outset was of a business man who is
connected with a number of Southern
Pacific enterprises. When an uproar
was raised at this selection 1t was with
drawn--or at least the appointee re-
signed. But the Marsh appointment
held. and continued through all changes
of administration.
The board of supervisors recognized
the public disapproval of Marsh, and
were afraid the bonds would be de-
feated. Iney therefore, naue u pTopOSl-
ton to the commercial and civic bodies
of the county that all important acts
of the highway commission or the
board oil supervisors relative to high
way matters should be submitted to an
advisory committee selected by these
bodies On this basis the bonds were
carried.
BY this time three more supervisors
were to be elected, Again the monkey
business of free and untrammeled citi-
zens meeting in convention, and Walter
Parker naming their candidates. The
Lincoln Roosevelt movement against
railway control of the Republican party
gained strength enough to name one of
the three, r. w. Pridham, who has
proved a true and valuable servant of
the public-but the machine named the
other two, Nellis and McCabe. These
two, with Tus Eldridge, made major
ity, and the pledge to the commercial
and civic bodies was instantly cast to
the winds. A brazen attempt was made
to dispose of the bonds at private sale
at direct loss to the county of $150,OOo.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
JOHN T. POPE DEFENDS ACT
IN QUESTIONING ALVA ADAMS

LOS ANGELES, May 1.-[Editor
club last Saturday, caused by an
earnest question l asked the speaker,
was entirely unnecessary Knowing
the political history of Colorado, as all
Good Government men present knew, l
did not understand how it was possible
for Mr.. Adams to do what he did at
the crisis for better government in
the state of Colorado. Judge Lindsey,
after making the noble fight for the
good of the Juvenile court, had every
prospect of receiving the Endorsement
of the Democratic party as well as
which membe of both parties would
have supported, and which would have
assured his election.
Knowing all of this / could not see
how Mr.. Adams, with the aVowed Good
Government principles which he pro
fesses and so ably expounded, could
be induced to become an ally of the
corporate forces at that particular
time, when political events plainly in
dicated, and the election proved, that
they only desired his candidacy to in
Rev. Henry Buchtel.
1 anticipated Mr.. Adams would say
that, like many other public good men,
he had been deceived by his party, but
was still working for the good govern
ment of the community, whether a
municipality or a state.
1 surely meant no disrespect to either
the speaker, president of the club or
any of its members. Experience has
shown that the advancement of good
government has been retarded more
by the special" interests securing
good public men as allies than
by any other cause, and L have yet to
learn that merely asking a public
question is violation of propriety.
believe that a knowledge of the acts
of our public officials is greater than
forms of propriety. If more questions,
personal and pointed, were asked pub
lie men, whether as to past actions or
future intentions. it would be better
for the whole country. Most respect
fully, JNO. T. POPE.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
Advisory Committee Report Shows
Court House Needs an Overhauling
(Paclfic Outlook.)


mHE explosion from the advisory
good roads committee was not un-
n expected. This body of respon-
slble citizens selected by the leading
commercial and civic bodies of the
county reports to the taxpayers on the
utter failure of the work of the nigh
way commission. At the end of one
and three-uuarters years from the Yot-
ing of the bonds of SS,5O0,O00, only two
and quarters miles of road have
been completed, and that is already go
ing to pieces. The eighty-one miles
that are now contracted for, or are
under way, will cost on the average
over $1,000 a mile more than the original
plan allowed, which will inevitably
cause reduction, IL this expense is
maintained in the total mileage covered
from 300 TO $50. This means, of course,
that portions of the proposed system
must be abandoned.
Gross Incompetence and neglect of
duty are charged against the highway
commission, and its resignation Is de-
manded.
Four years ago this coming summer,
Walter Parker of the Southern Pacific
bureau was holding one of his political
conventions down at Venice. This one
was labeled Republican, and choice
county attended and cheered them
selves hoarse every time an orator re-
ferred to our grand old party, the
partc of Lincoln and Grant and
Mckinley and Roosevelt, the party that
from where the pines of Maine dip
their leafy foliage into the waters of
the Atlantic" etc, etc. But the peer
less leader" was not wasting his time
listening TO oratory, He was busy in
an te-room--especially reserved for
his use-selecting impartial judges for
us and supervisors and other county
officers. One of the supervisors down
on the Parker program was tried and
true machine worker, Tus Eldridge.
The nomination came easy enough, but
the campaign opened up badly with
popular independent in the field. There
was also a popular Democrat, Martin
c. Marsh, who stood to win some votes.
Thereupon political crime was COM
mitted Marsh withdrew and the
Democratic committee made up of
Southern Pacific creatures, actually in
dorset the Republican candidate, Ed
ridge, so that every straight Demo-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
GOOD ROADS

TNI HE advisory committees charges
against the highway commission
are that delays in roadbuilding
after S1,O5o,0o0 road bonds were sold
cost the county 100000 in interest paid
on the bonds; that the bonds were
voted July 80, 1908, and s1,O5O,OOO were
sold the following October, yet after
two years the only completed highway
is two and one-half miles on El Monte
ing; that the Prospect avenue road,
built by the commission by day labor,
was botched because of imperfect su-
pervision; that although the statement
was made at the bond election ade-
quate rock supplies could be obtained,
none had been secured, and even now
there is a lack of rock supply, and the
highway commission is not prepared to
build roads economically.
The advisory committee finds the lack
of rock supply is causing the commits
sion to bring rock from distant points,
and 10000 tons have been purchased.
which will cost $4,000 more than If it
had been purchased at the county
quarry at San Dimas, which has been
leased to private parties; that the
failure to provide a rock supply has
resulted in excessive bids and loss to
contractors; that the mismanagement
on only three pieces of road work-the
Pomona, Whittier and Washington
street roads-has cost the county $5S,263
more than the amount similar work is
being done for in Pasadena; that sixty
five miles of easiest work will cost
1881, 900, and this does not include the
San Fernando road, the Newhall tun-
mel and other heavy roads. To build
242 miles, including the extra hard por-
tions, there will be left s2,619,Oo0. At
the present rate, the bond issue will
lack 100000 of completing the good
roads project.
1t is evident the highway commission
has been unable to fulfill the expecta-
tions of citizens who voted the bond
issue,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
OUR BUSY HARBOR

" ARBOR reports are, as usual, en-
couraging. Business at the har-
IA Dor is being increased steadily.
Last week an unusually large amount
of lumber and freight was discharged.
In one day nine vessels of the lumber
fleet brought more than 100000 feet of
lunber. Miscellaneous cargoes were
we'll represented, and captains say they
have no difficulty in obtaining return
cargoes from Los Angeles dealers.
Los Angeles harbor is destined to be
one of the greatest on the Pacific shore.
The faith of citizens who looked for
ward to the day when the metropolitan
necessities of Los Angeles would de-
mand a fine harbor is justified by re-
suits. Everything points to the COM
mercial supremacy of Greater Los An
geles in the far west, and in gaining
this commercial supremacy the harbor
will be a factor of ever increasing i'm
portance.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
Proposal to Choose Outsider for
Speaker Is Not Meeting Support
New York Tribune.
to choose an outside

PROPOSAL to choose an outsider as
speaker of the house of represen-
l. tatives, contining his functions to
the parliamentary guidance of that
body's deliberations, is not likely to at
tract serious support. 1t is too much in
conflict with American traditions and
practice. Even If the speaker Is to be
shorn of his political powers and re-
constituted as mere interpreter of the
house rules, 1t is not likely that the
office will be bestowed on a non-mem-
ber Since the first house of repre-
sentatives was organized the speaker
ship has been prize eagerly sought
after. In the beginning the dignity at
taching to the post was its chief attrac-
ton, for the political authority exer-
cised by the presiding officer was small.
The earlier speakers were really mod
orators, much like the speaker of the
British house of commons. Henry Clay,
between 1911 and 1925, enlarged the
functions of the office. He showed how
it could be used as an instrumentality
of party leadership. AS speaker he
shaped legislation and developed party
policy. But after Clay left the house
of representatives leadership in ma
tional affairs passed largely to the ex-
ecutive and the senate. From the date
of his departure to the period of Schuy-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02

N EvERTING to recent paragraph
* in this column anent Mr.. An
~ drew Carnegie's lament that ne
is prevented from living the life of
honest poverty, it may be surmised
from a newspaper report of the cir
cumstances in which he is at present
travelling in America that he IS pear
ing his hard lot with remarkable for
titude. A New York telegram states
that Mr.. Carnegie, VINO mas peeii
spending part of the winter in Cali
fornia and is returning to New York,
is travelling on one of the most luxur-
ions trains ever seen in America. The
Carnegie party includes Mrs. Russel
sage, Mr.. and Mrs. Slocum, Mr.. Ed
win Gould, and several other enormous
" wealthy people. The train Is known
as the "Billionaires' Special. SIX prl-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
LITERARY COMPETITION

4 GLANCE at a book sales list will
Il reveal the fact Burns, Dickens.
"A Scott, Shakespeare and many
other old favorites are competing with
the writer's of the day. Truly, a sue
cessful author deserves all the credit
he gets, and more. In what other
trade, profession or occupation is the
contemporaneous producer thrown into
a grinding competition with all the
producers of all the ages?
To certain extent the modern artist
and musician compete with the dead.
but the competition is not nearly as
keen, as persistent and insistent as
the literary competition.
The only consolation younger writer's
may derive from the constant compe
tition of men of yesterday is the public
believes when a mans dead it MUST
buy his works, and the literary taste
thus formed may induce the reader to
natroniZe the modern industry of writ
ing and give the modern author a
"shoW."
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02

ler Colfax and James G. Blaine the
speakership remained a post of distinc-
tlon, but 1t was filed by no man either
disposed to magnify or capable of mag
nifying it's political Importance.
Colfax and Blaine readopted Clays
ideas and methods and as speakers be-
came recognized party leaders. They
made themselves guardians of party
interests in the house and asserted
their right to approve in advance meas"
ures brought forward by the majority.
Their example was followed by Kerr,
Randall, Carlisle and Crisp on the
Democratic side and by Keifer Reed,
Henderson and Cannon on the Repub-
lican.
In the last fifty years certainly the
speakership has been one of the fore
most places in the republic. Under the
old presidential succession law its in
cumbent was the inheritor third re-
moved from the presidency. Frequently
only two lives stood between the speak
er and the White House. The success
sion law of 1886 took the president pro
tempore of the senate and the speaker
of the house out of the presidential line.
But the Reed revision of rules in 1890
so expanded the political responsible
tiles of the speaker as to compensate
fully for the elimination of the presi-
dental reVersion.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
President Forgets Washington When
He Advocates Republican Solidarity
Oakland Enquirer.


machine which has long and corruptly
controlled the Republican party in Call
ifornia. That machine has never hesi-
tated to bolt the party nominees when
those nominees did not suit 1t. Tho
machine breaches party loyalty. but
never hesitates to be a party traitor
when its interests demand that 1t
should The honest members of the
Republican party of this state would
be foolish-worse than foolish-if they
followed the precepts of the Tribune
and the party machine and voted the
Republican ticket straight no matter
who was on it or how he got there. 1t
was such foolishness on the part of
the people that elected the bribe-taking
Wilson a railroad commissioner.
The Tribune AYERS that many Repub-
licans will bolt the ticket if Hiram
Johnson is not nominated for governor.
The machine. following its usual tao
tics will surely bolt the ticket If john
son is nomina ted and Curry is not.
Knowing this, would the honest Repub-
licans of this state be justifiedNin vot-
ing the ticket straight, no matter who
is nominated? Let them learn political
wisdom from the Tribune's machine
and defeat the latter at any cost.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02

N RESIDENT TAFT, forgetting the
warnings of Washington, preach
L es party solidarity and looks
with displeasure at those Republl-
cans who refuse to follow the leader
ship of the Cannons and the Aldriches
His attorney general, unrebuked by his
chief. denounces as traitors those rep
resentatives of the people who follow
the instructions of their constituents
rather than the commands of the party
leaders. Those who preach loudest or
party loyalty in the halls of congress
use the party to pass tariff bills in the
interest of the trusts and to prevent
legislation in the interest of the people.
He is false to himself, false to his pos
terity, false to his country, false TO
the God he worships who places party
above country and party fealty above
his duty to his fellow citizens. Parties
should be for the benefit of the people,
not for the benefit of an aristocracy
of wealth. When party deserts the
people the people should desert 1T. The
thinking, patriotic members of party,
falling to reform it, should not hesi-
tate to vote against it when their con-
sciences dictate that they should.
The Tribune represents the political
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
State Press Echoes
CLEANLINESS

While a resident of one of the central
states we learned among other good
things about San Jose that it had an
anti-spitting ordinance, and woe unto
the man that spat on the sidewalk.
Several years later we became a resi-
dent of this model little Garden City"
but found that we had been misin-
formed in this regard. Having read of
the cleanliness of the city and finding
the opposite condition, its dirtiness was
much more marked.-Campbell inter-
urban Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
Cruel Scottish Newspaper Sends
Thistle Bouquet to Andrew Carnegie
(Ayr Advertiser)

vate cars are reserved entirely for
Mr. Carnegie and his friends, and the
remainder of the train is made up OF
a sleeping car for the servants, re-
frigerating car, a car for automobiles
and others for ordinary baggage. With
an insuppressible hankering after the
simple life and fare of the country
peasant, such surroundings must be
very trying to Mr.. Carnegie, but the
manner of his enduring his trial, pre-
sumably for the sake of his friends,
deserves an award from the hero fund
with which his name is associated.
The sons of the poor, to whom Mr..
Carnegie recently extended his con-
gratulations. and the sons of the rich,
on whom at the same time he be-
slowed his heartfelt sympathy, must
be feeling greatly for him, both in their
own particular way.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
A DoLEFUL WHINE

Santa Clara valley is far and away
ahead of Southern California in any
thing that counts toward a desirable
place to live, and yet the fact remains
that to one settler in this valley the
southerners are getting 100. And why?
Simply and solely because they are
not afraid to spend money in the eff
fort-Santa Clare Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
wHAr HE Is IN

Visitor-so your boy is in college, is
he, Mr.. Corntossle?
Farmer-I can't say exactly He's IN
thor hall nine. an, in ther rowin' crew,
am in ther iimmayzeeum, an in ther
dommytory but whether he's ever IN
ther college is more'n 1 kin find out by
his letters.-Harper's Bazaar.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
EXPERT ADVICE

"Did you have the soil of your back
yard alalyzed by the agricultural de-
partment?"
"Yes; they said it consisted largely of
glass, tin and putty, with traces Of
builders lime; and suggested that 1t
might do to raise a mortgage on
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
LOS GATos ROSES

Pacific Grove schools have celebrated
Rose day, but Los Gatos will reserve
it's celebration for Rose carnival. Let
everything be of the best for that oc-
casion. If some of our sweet peas are
not in prime we will have the roses,
and our flowers are always the hest.
grown without irrigation. Los Gatos
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02

my machines on the dump" says
Taggart OF Indiana. Let us hope this
is the beginning of the end of political
machines in the United States. With
machines and machine methods there
can be no fair play in politics.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-Dark.
BELASCO-"The Price"
BURBANK-"Brewster's Millions"
EMPIRE-MuscaI extravaganza.
GRAND-"Robin Hood"
Los NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
MAJESTIC-Kolb and Dill.
MASON-"The Regeneration of Aunt Mary"
OLYMPIC-Musical farce.
ORPHEUM-Vaudeville.
PRINCESS-Musical farce.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
A FORGOTTEN ART

New Customer see you have Van
Falutin for a customer. Are you aware
that his ancestors came across on the
Mayhower? 49,.
Tailor-so? It's too bad he doesn't try
TO emulate their noble deed
what do you mean?'
"I made him two suits, and he hasn't
come across YeL"-Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
REAL GENTLEMEN

The Western Pennsylvania peniten-
tiary is getting so full of real gen.
tlemen" that plain navy blue suits are
to replace the striped uniforms. Just
a. concession to sensitive nerves.-Nash-
VILE TenneSsean.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02

Greater Los Angeles is too big to be
counted in the time originally allotted.
Continuation of census taking until
midnight will give the popu-
lation of Los Angeles a square deal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
CHANGE TO MAKE MONEY

If Harry Whitney brings back Cooks
Eskimos there will be still another
chance for somebody to make money
out of the north poe.-Salinas Index.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02

Goodby, weather maps Printed
cards will be substituted. Everybody
will be able to read the cards Not
everybody was able to read the maps.
Any change that will popularize
knowledge is a change for the better.