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Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
MORE NEWSPAPER FAKING

NT e trust that@ any of our read
w ers who happened to see last
Sundays Examiner noticed the
fact that that paper carried several
columns of eiairvoyant and fortune
teller takers as well as several other
columns of certain taking medical spe-
cialist advertisements which other pa
pers in the city refuse.
We merely call attention to this fact,
that the reading public of the city of
Los Angeles may thoroughly under
stand the devotion which the Exam
iner is showing to the public welfare
in the fight which it is waging in its
columns against prize fighting AFTER
PRIZE FIGHTING HAS ALREADY
MET ITS END IN THIS COUNTRY,
and that as a result of the sickening
publicity which the Hearst papers gave
it and its most vicious features.
Now that Mr.. Hearst sees that no
more money can be made by promoting
this vicious so-called sport, he is try
ing to get a little credit out of the
fact that the public has repudiated it.
Verify, Hearst journalism is another
synonym for taking.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02

Editor Herald: P. A. j., writing about
Socialism, states Socialism as a
moral force is external, works from
without, not from within; seeks reform
from legislation rather than from ed
ucation," etc. One of the greatest
principles of Socialists is education.
They believe it the height of folly to
have a vote for Socialism simply be-
cause great grandfather, grandfather
and father had voted the ticket. So
ciali3ts insist on having an educated
reason whv you vote. Socialists be-
lieve in doing away with the profit sys-
TEN, which Is the capitalist system.
Where there is no profit there will be
no warfare and but little if any self
ishness or injustice. When each re-
ceives the full product of his or her
abor it viii do away with the neces-
sity of nine-tenths of the present cap
italistic laws and almost entirely elm
mate the present great bulk of legisla-
tiOn now necessary to keep the people
under the lash of capitalistic master
ship.
Socialism ill do away with the pres
ent dividing up system. When the rich
master or .on-produeer Is prevented
from making the producer divide up
what he produces there will be little
if any combative spirit. While So
cialists do not expect to have their
ideals of government established by
the shouts of the mob the waving of
the flag or the singing of the Mar
seillaise," as stated by P. A. j., they
know there can be advancement only
by the greatest effort and sacrifice.
o. w. HOBSON.
Los Angeles, July IL.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
Taking Cannon's Measure
New York World)


Those who had not already reached
conclusions as TO Joseph G. Cannon
have had an opportunity to take his
measure while he has been on the de-
fensive in Kansas. BY these perform
ances he must have removed what lit
tie doubt may have remained of his
essential unfitness for leadership.
1t is not mere egotism that has led
the speaker to refer to himself and his
party as one. In a large measure he
has been the party. He ruled the
house with IA. rod of iron. He bullied
opposition. His veto has been as i'm
portant as the presidents. His favor
has often been more important than
the presidents.
Successfully challenged for the first
time by men of his own political faith,
he shows himself as coarse in adVer-
sity as he was arrogant in power. For
independent thought in his party he
has nothing but sneers; for progress,
nothing but ridicule; for equality and
justice, nothing but contempt. If there
is oppression in the most extreme
measure of tariff taxation ever known,
it is enough to say that the Republican
who protests is not Republican. If
there is crookedness and corruption in
the rubber schedule or the wool sched-
ule or the cotton schedule, why does
not the Republican who objects go over
to the Democrats, with whom he be-
longs?
This is the man who in 1906 was in
dorsed by Mr.. Roosevelt as deserving
the support of "all good citizens" and
whose organization in the house there
was urgent need" of sustaining. This
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
IN BIRMINGHAM

TOO much attention should not be
placed in the claims made now
Il and then by some opponent Of
the municipal ownership of public
utilities that it has failed to produce
the good results expected of it, be-
cause in isolated cases where this can
be truthfully maintained there are
local and special causes for the failure,
and they do not by any means prove
a general truth.
Almost simultaneously with the pub
lication by a local contemporary Of
the alleged fact that municipal own
ership has been unsuccessful in Viz
emma comes a report from United
States Consul Albert Hallstead in Eng
land to our state department that the
profits on gas, street railway and cleo
trio supply departments of the English
city Of Birmingham for the year ended
March 81, 1910, aggregated $562,S45, an
i. ,rease of $23,242 over the previous
municipal year
Of these profits the gas department
contributed $352,7S7. an increase of
S5O27 over 19OS-9, and $54, ,403 over 1907-S,
The street railway department contrib
uted $160,1SO, an increase of $4,000
over 19O8-9, and despite the fact that
by shortening the hours of motormen,
conductors and other employees the
wage cost wa increased by about $685.
932. The electric supply department
contributed $49,SS2, an increase of $11S2
over 19O8-9.
! These net profits re allotted for the
reduction of taNation, and the profit is
only regarded as net after sufficient
sums have been set aside for depreci-
alton, reserve and repayment of capital
! borrowed. The gas department, in ad-
| dition to it's contribution of $352,7S7 for
| the relief of taxation, contributed $19,
| 466 to the city and $54,641 to the public
! lighting in the city, making it's total
of actual profit above all expenses for
supplies, wages, maintenance, depre-
citation, etc, s425,S89.
| The price of gas has been steadily
reduced since 1875 from IA IA cents 10
| AZ cents in 1910.
That ought to hold the opponents of
municipal ownership for a while.
| There are a few cases, like that of
tie Philadelphia gas works, that were
purposely mismanaged by a gang of
| political tricksters that sought an ex-
cuse to turn them over to private cap
ital, of apparent failure, but in all such
cases it may be safely said machine
politics has been at the bottom Of it,
In Glasgow, in Toronto and in the
cities Of Germany, as we'll as in Amer
lean cities that have installed honest
administrations, the history of NUM-
cipal ownc ship has been entirely in
it's favor.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
Direct Primary Extravaganza
(Pacine outlook

One objection that is urged agaisnt
the direct primary is that 1t necessarily
puts candidates to great expense. This
idea is usually advanced by the cor
poration machine, which is naturally
concerned over the expenses to which
its candidates are put because it has
to foot the bill
Senator Flint, 1t will be remembered,
said in his interview declining to be a
candidate that it would cost about
100000 to put up a campaign under
the direct primary.
Such statements seem less mystic
rious and incredible since we have seen
something of the Anderson campaign.
Anderson is a moderately well-to-do
person who works for the state as
bank examiner at $1,000 n year. His
campaign, however. seems to be run
ming itself on a millionaire basis.
Take the one item of Autographs
alone. Reports from all over the state
are to the effect that every available
billboard and dead wall in the cities,
and every fence and projection of rock
along the country roads Is decorated
with them, singly, if there is room for
only one, but multiplied over and over,
If there Is space, until they look like
sheets of gigantic postage stamps.
Does this cost money? The litho-
graph is shaded in colors and is the
finest specimen of the printers art.
Billboard space is costly.s We do not
believe that $4,000 would cover the
expense of this lavish display.
The organization expense is largely
carried by the regulars who have con-
troll of the party machinery and the
funds, when any exist. AS for election
day cost, if it is proportionate to the
lithograph splurge. it will be an Ara"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
MORE "EQUALIzING"

n EALLY, the envy of the San Fran
X. ciscans is becoming serious. 1t
AZ has struck in so seriously that
when it breaks out it exposes how bad
the malady is. A new occasion for
gloating IS the 1910 assessment record
in Southern California, which, so far as
it has been turned in. supports the atti-
tude of the state board of equalization
last year when they made their memoir
able charge on the southland.
The board is in high glee over Ven
tura county, where the assessment,
boosted 100 per cent by the equalizers
to $22, ,1SS, ,72O, has been still. further ad-
vanced this year by the county assessor
to $22, ,794,671. The lima bean has come
into its own
San Bernardino, raised last year
80 1-S per cent to $82,7SS,795 has come
back this year with an assessment of
it's own to $50, ,79O. The county ad-
juster has gone over the equalizers by
S4,22S,935.
Fresno has overstopped the board 20
per cent increase to $57.67S,526 by lifting
the figure to $50, 129, 1896. Kern county
has met the 20 per cent raise. Kings
county has outstripped the equalizers
with a total of 11,519,7O4. Santa Clara
with $71,OS7,235 and Stanislaus with $21,-
1884, ,0O5 have done likewise.
In Los Angeles realty and improve
ments have been elevated from S344,-
500, ,7O5 to $431, $50, $50, a jump of some
$S7, 100000 The total for 1910 reaches
S512 O97 ,139, against $421, ,671, $50 for last
year, a clear increase of more than
$91, 100000 The sum is still below the
boards estimate of $5S5, ,4S2, S94.
Commenting on this, the San Fran
cisco Chronicle says: THE Hotels
Alexandria, Lankershim, Angelus, Van
Nuys, Hayward, King Edward, Hollen-
beck and Nadeau-eight-cou 'em,
eight!-have been moved up to total
just over 81, 900 900. They are a shade
over the st, Francis standing alone
but still beneath the Fairmont."
In their joy over this showing the
board of equalization, as voiced by the
Chronicle, promises more doing this
year-another little excursion into the
southland. Not content with raising
Los Angeles county TO the highest
figure in the west-some five millions
higher than Cook county. ILL.,, including
Chicago-the board threatens that
realty values have been tabulated and
| there will be no chance for dispute"
| Well, it is in relative valuations that
| Los Angeles, which can't speak for the
others, has an interest and it is not eer.
tain that there won't be any dispute
| The hotel figures cited do not prove any
| general case, and if the board is BEN
on putting Southern California values
on a plane that has no true relation tC
that of the Southern Pacific's pet city
| some way may be found to show the
| visitors the ability of this region Il
kick effectively as we'll as to boost, fol
which it has become nationally famous
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02

missioner that it was impossible to
comply with his demands, which, If in
sisted upon, would result in the divert
ment of all shipments of potatoes to
other markets, where barrels are not
so closely inspected.
OF course, the innocent parties in the
whole unfortunate affair are those New
Workers and their visitors who think
that no meal is complete without the
potato served in some style. Unless
the dealers can be induced to sell the
turbulent tubers in bulk, bags or paper
sacks, those innocent will surely suffer.
1t isn't probable that the rest of the
country is going to revise it's barrel
measurements at this late day just to
please the New Workers. Having
found out how easy" the dealers of
that provincial town are, the growers
will probably insist upon shorter and
thinner barrels instead of longer and
fatter ones, and New Workers will
either have to accept them or else go
without potatoes, either OF which pros
pect is a terrible one for innocent and
unsophisticated New York.
Visitors to that burgh will not fare
so badly, perhaps, because the cafes
probably have their cellars full of the
stock shapes" such as French frys.
chips, etc, and will be able to supply
the demand indefinitely, since no one
eats them anyhow after the first taste.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
FLAWS YELLOW JOURNALS
SUDDEN sPAsM OF P1ETY

Editor Herald: l heartily indorse
your comment on the moral spasm of
ou- old friend, w. R. Hearst, who is at
present trying to throw a few fits
about the brutality, degrading infiu-
ence, etc, of prize fighting. l am no
enthusiast on the subject of pugilism,
never have attended a fight but once
and then l went to sleep before the
knockout and have never bet 81 on a
fight, but 1 cannot fail to see the in
lsistent side mot to say humorous)
of sensational Willie's refined, moral
rhapsody 1 am leds to wonder if he
bet on the wrong man. If so, l should
admire his attitude more If he would
take his medicine like a little man.
For instance, il he would be as game
a. the gambler who, when he had lost
his diamond stud and other articles Of
jewelry, said with a cynic bearing:
"Oh, well, no one wears diamonds but
gamblers and rakes, anyway"
In 1902, when the report went out
that Jeffries had purchased the fight
from Fitzsimmons at San Francisco,
the San Francisco Examiner published
a glarng article lamenting the selling
of what had hitherto promised to be
such a greet fight His weep works
llleH WCi heu oNelIliilS lOI want " plIZc
fighting, but now-presto! change!
Amt it funny what a difference just
a few years make? Alas, poor Willie!
1t seems he can't get nominated for
president, nor elected governor nor
mayor, can't run Mayor Gaynor nor
PIX (, candidate for the Democrats of
California to run + governor. Well
may the ghost of his former greatness
content himself by Haunting his vul-
gar wealth in Europe, holding inter
views with himself to be published by
his hired editors in this country.
READER.
c.n,4n Aun LII. %
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02


is the man who, with the possible ex-
ception of Senator Aldrich and Secre-
tary Ballinger, has received more
praise from President Taft than any
other Republican now in office. This
is the man who now boasts in Kansas
that he made n standpatter of Mr..
Roosevelt and saved that gentleman's
administration from the turmoil of
tariff fight.
Speaker Cannon in power was an i'm
pressive despot even to those who felt
the wrongs that he inflicted. Speaker
Cannon in ruins is garrulous and vim
dictiye, addicted to raillery and content
with innuendo. He has no argument
to offer, no facts to advance. Charged
with many offenses against the people
and in the interest of plutocracy and
privilege, 1t is sufficient for his pur-
pose to say that those who accuse him
are no better than they should be
that they received some of the plunder.
Those who like audacity and are at
tracted by bad eminence will still find
something in Mr.. Cannon to admire.
Those who know his methods and
where they have led will see in his
present plight a deserved retribution.
The unhappy Cannon of Kansas is the
same man, however, who was set over
us seven years ago, who has been hon
ored by congresses and presidents and
conventions, and who now in his de-
cline perceives not so much the wreck
of an individual egotist as the destruc-
tion of a party
Is .Republicanism to accept the issue
as he makes it--or is it to move for
ward, leaving him behind, exposed and
condemned?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02

tSCflDner 5
The greatest triumph of baseball is
not that it engages the professors, but
that it consoHdates the people. a
young Englishman recently arrived
finds the pervading interest in base
ball, reaching as it does down to the
lowermost stratum of the population,
the most extraordinary thing in this
country. Cricket as nationaL sport
in his Nlands rarely gets beyond the
yeomanry. The curates and the guests
of the manor house may play the viii
layers, but the factory hands have no
more interest in cricket than they have
in polo or golf, and as for the sub
merged tenth, it hardly knows that
the game exists.
On the other hand, in this country
from ocean to ocean the scene repeats
ITSELF crowds in cities stand cheering
and groaning before bulletin boards,
factory hands have an inning or two
at the noon hour with the boss and
clerks standing by; on Saturday after
Moons the farmers boys play in lonely
fields, with mother and the girls in
buggies and spring wagons looking
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
Baseball a Consolidator of People
CScribner's Magazine)

Magazine)
! on. Inland Empire plays the Pacific
coast and at Spokane the air is rent
with cheers while Seattle laments, just
as Chicago shouts when the Cubs de-
feat the Giants, while New York gloo-
mily turns on its heel and goes it's
several ways.
Now for the blue book. Baseball fol-
lows the flag. In the Philippines it
seems that baseball is not an insig-
ficant factor in our educational
scheme, for it goes into the govern
nent reports among nature studies
and manual training. I'VE first got hold
of the Jolo boys through baseball"
writes one teacher of the young un-
tanned Moros. Il have always found
baseball a good way to interest the
children in the Schools" writes an
other A division superintendent in
forms the Philippine commission that
baseball is doing more than anything
else to enlist the sympathies of the
inhabitants. Among the boys it en-
genders a spirit of perseverance, de-
termination, of struggling against diff
ficulty and opposition"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02

bian Nights wonder.
OF course It costs money to try to
force on the people candidates they
do not wish. Unlimited sums may be
spent, and the result utter failure.
The Johnson campaign thus far has
consisted simply of his travelling about
the state meeting voters and speaking
In halls where the local Lincoln -Roose-
welt organization provided a place.
The league has no funds except what
its individual members may choose to
put up in small sums from patriotic
motives. 1t is n fact that every one
who has worked in reform politics
knows we'll enough that campaign
money comes very hard. The Times
has on several occasions published
yarn to the effect that a fund of $780,
900 has been raised to elect Johnson.
The L.-R. leaders feel a bit hurt that
the figure was not put at a million, for
ii is easily worth that to the people of
the state. Scarcely 1 per cent of that
sum has been spent so far, but perhaps
the committee is saving 1t up to use
on election day. buying Johnson votes
In the University clubs and Good Gov
ernment associations throughout the
state.
There Is no evidence of the use of
any great amount OF money in the
Curry campaign, and the Stanton af-
fair seems to be on a reasonable basis.
The Southern Pacific candidate, An
derson, is the only one that has a bar
rel and is proud of it, Much good
may it do him.
No wonder therefore, that the ma
chine feared the direct primary might
prove expensive The Southern Pacific
prescience on that point is quite re-
markable.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02

clos Angeles
The Mining Review confesses, with
extreme regret, that it is quite unable
to follow the reasoning of Senator Jo-
seph L. BristOw in a recent attack on
the struggling industries" of this
country. Admitted that "a duty not
measuring the difference in the cost OF
smelling at home and abroad, as prom
ised in the Republican PLATFORM has
been enacted and that the scale is from
$3.50 to Sc higher than the entire cost
of lead smelling in this country, we
fail to understand why Senator BIS
tow has not realized that the smelling
trust of the Guggenheims is a "strug-
Cling industry" within the general
definition of the term.
Surely Mr.. Bristow knows That TINS
trust has struggled to position in the
United States senate; surely he knows
that it is struggling to secure posses
sion of everything in Alaska; surely
he knows that it is struggling, by
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
Struggling Industries
nos Angeles Mining Review

Mining Review
"gentlemens agreements" and other
wise, to corral the copper market OF
the world, and surely he knows that
it Is struggling to dominate the very
government itself. The smelter trust
is certainly a struggling industry" if
there ever was one, and it is cruel in
human, ineXcusable of Senator Bristow
to lay one little obstruction in the path
of an infant babbling along the road
of puerile endeavor to the goal of adult
realization. With proper encourage
ment the time may come, in due course
of events, whom this infant industry
may have struggled t. nlace as dicta-
tor or sovereign of the United States
crown of gold, scepter of copper and
throne of lead. Surely Senator Bristow
has no wish to steal candy from this
babbling babe of industry. We are
surprised at him and suggest that he
sit down and let the struggling indus
tries" be.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02

Railroad employees in New York
passed resolutions asking that the
roads be permitted to raise freight
rates so they can raise wages. Every
body seems willing TO pass it along to
the other fellow if he can get some
thing out of it.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02

Farmers supplying New York with
milk say they get one-fourth Of the
cent raise just tackled on by the milk
trust, yet the trust blamed the raise
to the scarcity of milk. The consumer
is paying 9 cents to the trust and the
trust is paying "a cents to the farmer.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
PROOF AT HAND

Magistrate-Who is the prisoner?
Policeman-He says he's a foreign
nobleman, your honor.
Magistrate-Did you search him?
Policeman-Yes, and all 1 found was
a pawn ticket and cents.
Magistrate-Then he evidently told
the truth.-Chicago Daily News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02

During Mr.. Taft's stay in Maine pick
pockets are said to have been numer-
Gus. The president may not have
noticed them, for he has grown used Ia
seeing the tariff gentry do the trick al
Washington, and It has become a COM
monplace sight
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02

In five successive days there have
been eight suicides in Portland, Ore.
Sometimes one is apt to think harshly
of the suicide, but sometimes there are
extenuating circumstances
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
Los Angeles, July 81
ACTRESS CECILIA LoFTUS,
ENGLISH WOMAN BY BIRTH

Editor Herald: In your journal of
the 2Sth inst. is a neat picture of Cecilia
LOTUS, mimic and mocklngbird, whom
you style an american actress and
the divorced wife of the author of "If
I Were King" Justin huntley McCar-
thy. But it may surprise you to learn
that she is an Englishwoman, pure and
simple, and that at present she is the
wife of an English medical man.
j. SCHMIDT.
Cinco, Cal, July 20.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02

Col Roosevelt was brave enough to
shoot lions in Africa and shake up the
European governments, but he SHES at
mixing it up with the participants in
the Republican party's tong war.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02

The Wright brothers have on deposit
in their bank 22O certified checks of
$500 each. with orders for that many
aeroplanes, most Of them from anna
teurs. soon the undertaIlers will set UP
the merry song Of prosperity.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
MAGIC

Teacher-What is a person called
who steals?
No answer.
Teacher-Now, Tommy, suppose 1
were to put my hand in your pocket
and take out a penny, what would you
call me?
Tommy (fully conscious of a scarcity
of coin)-Please, sir, you would be a
conjure.-Tit-B Bits
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
Merely in Jest
IDENTIFIED

Jack London has an affection for
children, and he once made the ac-
quaintance of twin sisters of 6.
Good morning. my dear" he said
one morning, meeting one of them on
the street, "and which of the twins are
you?"
The little one looked up into his
face and said very gravely:
Pm the one what's out walkin'. -
Success Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02

Local tradesmen report as good
business in the last three months as in
the winter. This is one of the cities of
which it can't be said summer good
seasons and summer not.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02

President Taft says everybody needs
a two months vacation, and this Is
likely to be the most popular of the
administration policies, even with those
who can't put it into practice.