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The oasis., 1910-06-18
WHAT IS NEEDED.

Last week HE OASIS preeented Sn article with regard to the Ari- iona Industrial School at Benson, pointing out the method that has been inaugurated and pushed per- sistently to belittle the location and pave the way for it's removal from Benson and relocation at some alleged more favorable point.
 THE OASIS is pleased to see that this week the Cochise County Press has taken up the question and has given to anothe: wandering cores pondent of the Bisbee Review, who had visited the institution and damned it with curious mixture of misrepresentation and faint praise, dressing down that Is as richly deserved as it has been ad- ministered deftly.
 Purposely THE OASIS refrained fin it's article of last week from as extended comment as the subject demanded, emitting a disquisition that would have been appropriate upon a method that shoul! be adopted-or more correctly, he in- sLrument that should be employed to apply the method suggested for making the School self sustain ing in part and of more real and practical value to those sent to the Institution. There is no question about the fertility of the soil at the Industrial School site at Benson the susceptibility to profitable pro- auction, and the availability of ar Abundant water supdly. But with all those favorable factors the plan proposed would not succeed with out intelligent, practical direction To make effective such plan there should be employed at the school { good, capable, efficient gardner man of experience, possessed like wise with a liking for boys, and { real desire 10 train them in way of usefulness. Such a man woulC be of great benefit to the instilu ton: he would bring under culIi vation and make productive th
The oasis., 1910-06-18

values in the city would be at least $l00,000.
 But a greater menace than this is the inadequate supply for pro. lection against fire and to safe guard the city against probable disastrous confagraiion, an imme. diate connection will be made with the Old Dominion mine.-Globe Belt.
The oasis., 1910-06-18

MRs. GROVER CLEVELAND is quoted as having asserted that after attending to her duties to her children she would have no time to vote. Mrs. Cleveland must be one of those patriots who believe in voting early and often.
The oasis., 1910-06-18

A BATH tub trust is the most recent octopus" spawned, creating thereby a corner on cleanliness. Godliness seems to have been cor nered several generations. At least very few seem to be possessed thereof.
The oasis., 1910-06-18

LoRIMER, the junior United States senator from illinois, who is accused oi having bought his way to his place in "the seats of the mighty" is charged nowhere with having bought republican legisla- tors to vote for him.
The oasis., 1910-06-18

TIE statehood bill passed the Senate Thursday afternoon. The bill differs from the Hamilton bill passed by the House. It is hoped
The oasis., 1910-06-18

sincerely that the difference can be fixed, and that the measure will not fail through disagreement.
The oasis., 1910-06-18
tDirosiai sorts.

THE strenuous one has returned. Now there will be something doing every day in the United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26
RAILROAD AND BOOZE

Editor Herald: Bell, Johnson and
company are making much noise about
the Southern Pacific getting $500, 900
from the people of California last year,
but forget to tell us that the liquor
traffic squeezed S13O, ,253,OOO from the
same people during the same period.
1t cannot be said that the sum taken
by the Southern Pacific was respon-
sible for the sending Of one single man
home to his family staggering drunk
and without the price Of a pound of
meat or loaf of bread in his pocket.
The saloon keepers sent thousands of
them home in this condition last year.
How many men were sent to prison
last year because of the Southern Pa
cific steal? Thousands of them were
sent there because they were drunk,
and their wives and children left to
shift for themselves as best they could.
How much longer are we to be de-
ceived and blinded by these political
sharpers? How much longer are we
going to let a dime look bigger than a
dollar because it is being held up for
us to look at by the two old parties ?
They don't say anything against the
birds that need their feathers plucked
far worse than the Southern Pacific
needs it.
w. S. BURROUGHS.
Ontario Col
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26
sLANDERING MIR. BELL

| III HE HERALD must confess to a
feeling of very great disappoint-
Il ment at some of the tactics that
are apparently being adopted by the
Republican state central committee in
conducting the gubernatorial cam
paign. We particularly refer to the
statement issued upon the authority of
the committee that a large fund, de-
nominated a corruption fund has been
collected in San Francisco for use in
Mr. Bells campaign.
If The Herald believed for moment
that Mr. Bell was in any way bidding
for the support of the discredited
Southern Pacific political machine in
this state, or that he would in the least
countenance the collection Of a fund
for improper use in his campaign. or
the use of such fund when collected. The
Herald would not hesitate to abandon
its advocacy of Mr.. Bell and take up
the cause of his opponent. The Herald,
however, has been unable to find the
that has been given out concerning this
fund by authority of the Republican
state central committee. The Herald
is, and at all times under its present
management has been, an uncompro-
missing opponent Of the Southern Pa
cifc political machine. 1t believes that
the matter of first and greatest i'm
portance in the politics of the state of
California is to utterly wreck and de-
stroy that machine. The Herald began
the process of wrecking that machine
by taking the lead in having the ma
chine mayor of Los Angeles, Arthur
Harper, recalled. And by the way, the
recall of Mayor Harper and the break
ing up of the machine in this
city government of which he
was the mead, was the first body
blow that the Southern Pacific
machine ever received in the state of
California. That blow seriously af-
fected its power, and has been followed
by one machine reverse after another
until it has been practically destroyed
in the state. This work was largely
made possible on account of the splen-
did fight which Mr. Bell waged against
the Southern Pacific machine when a
candidate for governor four years ago.
In fact, Mr.. Bells candidacy four
years ago furnished the first instance
within a quarter of a century where a
candidate for the highest office in the
gift of the people of this state dared
come out and make his fight upon the
issue OF the destruction of the Southern
Pacific machine. Mr.. Bell has since
that time continued to make that the
great issue of his political career. He
is making it the issue now as he did
four years ago, and we believe that any
statement to the effect that Mr.. Bell
is bidding for the support of that ma
chine, or that it or its friends have
Joined in collecting a fund for the use
of Mr.. Bells candidacy, whether for
purposes Of corruption or otherwise, is
entirely unfounded and should not de-
ceive anyone.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26


Piscatology tells us that the octo-
pus, when attacked, emits black fluid
and thus obseures itself from obser-
walton. 1t is so with the financial oc-
topus-Speelal Privilege. When 1t is
attacked. or when any of its preroga-
tives of might are threatened by an
unrestful public, 1t sets its hired men
to work polluting the waters of truth
in order that the real issue may be
obscured and thus permit it to hide It's
unlawful booty.
The suggested effort to restore the
obviously illegal oil land holdings Of
the Southern Pacific in the San Joa-
quin valley is a case In point If tine
plans of the administration are, car
ried out, or rather, if rumors bear
fruit an effort will be made to re-
gain these lands for the public, and
thus rectify a great public wrong. III
the Southern sPacifc were the only
holder of such lands the matter would
be simple: but, unfortunately for the
public, some portion of the original
holdings have been transferred by sale
or lease to individuals under the
supposed right contained in pat
ents from the government. In
many of these instances improve
ments have been made and it may be
accepted as fact that every holuer
will become an antagonist of the gov
ernment and the suggested recovery, If
the waters can be clouded sufficiently
to hide the real question at issue and
inculcate in his mind even an inchoate
idea that his own interests will suffer.
The Southern Pacific has taken its
cue without delay. and we are now
being treated to the first instalments
of inspired warnings to the general
public, pointing out the chaotic condi-
tlons that will arise If Especial priv
lege," in shape of the phianthropic
Southern Pacific, be molested in its
possession of public lands worth un-
told millions. In the first place, it is
doubtful If the Taft administration
possesses sufficient backbone to carry
out it's plan, and, in the second place,
there is little question that if it has,
no molestation of innocent purchasers
will be attempted There is every pre-
cedent for such course, and the South
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26
PRECEPT AND PRACTICE

n RESIDENT TAFT has made a
considerable ado in his messages
Il and addresses about the need of
economy in government expenditures.
A commission went through the de-
partments at Washington and the net
results seem to be that some poor de-
partment clerks were Topped off the
pay roll in their old age, causing much
suffering in individual cases and eff
fecting a saving, as compared with
the more than a billion dollars of gov
ernment expenditures, that was pitt
fully trivial.
There was one exception to the rule.
In the government printing office a
creditable saving was made, but this
was due to improved methods used by
the new government printer and the
installation of labor saving machinery,
the first of which were put in during
the close of the Roosevelt administra-
tion.
Notwithstanding his public urging in
this direction, the private acts of Mr.
Taft have been in strange contrast.
He set a pace for himself when he
swung around the circle on his speech
making tour exceeded his apprOpria-
tion for railroad expenses by many
thousand dollars, and asked congress
to make up the deficit. The row over
the matter in congress is well remem-
bered.
Then Mr.. Taft went on his summer
vacation, leaving behind his scruples
about economy. Besides his rest at
Beverly, he enjoyed a long cruise up
the New England coast in a govern
ment vessel manned, stocked and de-
voted solely to his individual use. 1t
costs something to keep a modern ma
val vessel in commission. Figuring
the expense of operation and the sal
aries of officers and crew, for which
the government for the time being
gets no return, the outlay amounts to
a fortune.
Now the president proposes to take
a ioy ride to Panama in November on
one war vessel, conveyed by another.
The trip appears to be totally unnec-
essary. An efficient board of engi-
neers is on the job at Panama, the
progress Of work is reported as be-
yond expectations, and the war de-
partment at Washington is charged
with the duty of seeing that things
move along properly.
The cost of Mr.. Taft's proposed joy
ride, it is said, will exceed 100000.
In view Of the expenditure, it seems
rather absurd and heartless for the
president to effect his economies in
driblets by discharging aged clerks
in Washington who need employment
to support themselves during their
few remaining years.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26

The immigration CT consumptives to
the arid and semi-arid southwest is a
serious problem, asserts a physician in
a letter to the state board of health.
He suggests that the legislature be
asked to consider the establishing or
tuberculosis farms on accessible re
claimed portions of the desert and that
private capital be encouraged to erect
other sanitoria which will draw con-
sumptives away from hotels, boarding
houses and private residences.
The observer of the tuberculosis sit
uation in Southern California, who
signs himself o. L. Bronson, M. d.
writes in part as follows: California
has unlimited areas where there is
aridity and winter sunshine with altl-
tude ranging from below sea level to
an elevation Of several thousand feet.
These portions are irrigable and fertile
but are unproductlve wastes for want
of settlers. Why, then, in the name
of humanity and common sense, should
consumptlves be forced to crowd into
hotels and lodging houses of towns
and cities with no diversion but to
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26
To Capitalize Our Sunshine

walk the streets and cough, with
homesickness and restaurant cooking
aiding the ravages CT disease, imperil
ing public safety and their own lives
for want of suitable places to go to?
Why could not California pioneer a
project which would enable a con-
sumptive to get the use of a canvas
house and plot of land at cost rent,
and medical attendance. If desired, at
nominal cost? At such a place the
patient could have the companionship
of his family. he could occupy himself
when convalescent with the care of a
dozen hens or a bed of onions; his at
tendant or his children could produce
milk, eggs and vegetables for the
table. Limit the admission, II you
choose, to patients who have long re-
sided in the state, but lay a foundation
that can be built upon. Make the
place a model that will encourage pri-
vate parties to establish sanitorla for
the reception of the tuberculous. Some
state has got to work out this problem
for the arid and semi-arid southwest,
Why not California in the characters
tic broad gauge California way?"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26

Mrs. Edward II. Hartman has now
been in complete control of her late
husbands estate a year, and it may
therefore not be untimely to ask how
a woman, thought to be but slightly
familiar with business concerns, has
acquitted herself of new and manifold
duties during that time.
She has managed a street railway
and lighting plant and a hotel in
Georgia, a gold mine in South Dakota,
an iron mine. a dairy farm, bank and
a-road-building company In New York,
a blast furnace in Pennsylvania, and
lesser enterprises elsewhere; in ad-
dition to which she has attended coun-
sells in Wall street, directed an army
Of men at Tower Hill and performed
the duties of a mother to her five chill
dren.
1t is not to be supposed that she has
attended to these duties without the
best and ablest assistance. Some Of
the lieutenants who served her late
husband have been retained in her en-
ploy, and much of the work for which
she is finally responsible goes forward,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26
Same Old Tactics
d.os Angeles Mining REVIEW

inlnE REVIEW
ern Pacific railroad o,lcials know it
better than anyone.
But the orders have gone forth and
the first to take the field with cum
uingly worded warning is, of course,
Judge Frank Short of Fresno, among
the best equipped in his line in the
state; who is generally regarded as a
good fellow; who is attorney for some
of the most important spawn of spec
ial privilege" and who travels from
one end of the country to the other
earning q retainer of $4,000 as the
legal representative of the water power
and other great financial interests Of
the state. Mr. Sort adds nothing to
the question but mud; yet 1t is en-
tirely possible that even. he may stir
up sufficient of that commodity to be-
fog the issue and befuddle the man
who is vitally interested in the lands
in question
These is plenty of time before any
one roo1 become excited. In the first
place, the threats Of the administers
tion must be made good, and then a
long rigmarole of legal Vaporings must
be listened to. If the case be properly
handled there is little question Of the
result but it is more likely that, under
present conditions, 1t will finally be
announced that the work of restoration
is legally barred and steps will then
be taken to confirm the Southern Pa
ciac and further clamp the right of
might.
The Mining Review has no faith in
the Taft administration or its protes
tations of solicitude for the people; but
if the suggested steps should be taken
there is no question that plan can
be devised by which innocent pur-
chasers from the railroad company
will be fully protected. Meanwhile
they should refuse to be led astray by
plausible or charming attorneys who
earn their retainers at the expensa of
the liberty of the general public. The
grant under which the Southern Pa
ci1c obtained patents is explicit; 1t
says that all mineral, other than coal
or iron. shall be reserved for the peo-
Pile. It will be the fault of the peo-
pie themselves if they permit a high
handed theft of what is rightfully
theirs.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26
SINGLE TAX ILLUSTRATED

Editor Herald: A writer to The
Herald last week wanted to know what
was meant in the Socialist platform
by "a progressive and graduated tax
alton of the unearned increment on
land values" and if such a measure
would be of value to a working man.
Land without population has no value
at all. If Enquirer" owned the lot
which the most valuable building IN
Los Angeles stands upon, it would be-
come Valueless if the 31S,000 people
now living here could be Immediately
removed, say, one hundred miles away.
The value would follow the population.
If this is true, it follows that all OF
the value that is attached to land is
a social product, and by right belongs
to the community that produced 1t.
Socialists believe that every one is
entitled to the full product of his
labor, either individually or collective
ly. What is meant, then, by pro
gressive and graduated tax" would be
to gradually increase the tax on the
unearned increment until the indtVtd-
ual who is holding it for speculative
purposes would either have to fish or
cut bait-use the land or give it up to
some one who would. Had this sys-
tenn been introduced in lbs Angeles
fifty years ago the area Of the city
would be scarcely one-half of what
it is now, and millions of dollars would
have been saved in streets, water and
gas mains, electric poles and wires,
and many other things. You, Mr..
Workingman might get home to your
family before your children went to
bed If this system of taxation We're
adopted there would be no need Of
any other tax on anything, If this
system was adopted Mr.. Workingman,
you would not need to buy land to es-
tablish a home; you could use any un-
occupied land by paying the land tax
Whether that would be of any benefit
to workingman, l leave to him.
f. H. GILL.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26
MR.. cAsPARYs COMPLAINT

Editor Herald: F. Caspary in Sat
urdays Letter Box takes pleasure in
roasting the Santa Fe and it's presi-
dent Mr.. Ripley, because a farmer
named III Weber shipped four horses,
a wagon and a few household goods,
not worth shipping, probably $4,000
pounds, from Tulia, Texas, less than
1000 miles away, to Los Angeles, and
was charged the minimum carload
weight of 10000 pounds at 81 a hun
dred, or 5000, by the Santa Fe for the
service. Having raised no crop for
the last three years, the poor CD man
could not dispose of his horses, etc,
in Texas, so had to bring the stuff
along"
Ignorance is bliss. so your CORE
spondent should be excused for his
misleading statements. For instance,
Tulia is exactly 1882 miles from Los
Angeles. Freight rates are not made
by Mr.. Ripley, nor by the Santa Fe,
as your correspondent suggests, but by
the Transcontinental Freight bureau.
The Santa Fe is but one of no less
than 435 carriers that are parties to
the one tariff under which Mr.. Weber's
freight moved, and this tariff was ac-
cepted and approved by the interstate
commerce commission.
Mr.. Caspary thinks the present
transcontinental Charges are entirely
too high, that it's blood money ex-
torted from a poor victim who cannot
help himself because of no competi-
ton" Mr. Caspary is wrong again,
because the freight charges would be
the same to Mr.. Rockefeller as to
Mr.. Weber. A mans wealth makes no
difference. Rich and poor are treated
exactly alike. Freight on most COM
modities is not too high. For instance,
q case of mems suits usually contains
thirty winter or forty summer suits,
and weighs 200 pounds. The freight
charges from New York or Boston to
Los Angeles is Sc, or Is or 20 cents a
suit, yet we pay from SIS to $50 suit
retail, because the freight rate is so
high" Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it?
The Santa Fe is not "extorting blood
money from anyone. 1t is not the
railroads fault If Mr.. Weber ordered a
car and then put but 10000 pounds in
it, The charge is made for the use of
the car, and 10000 pounds would have
been handled at the same charge
IF Mr.. Caspary still has any doubts
about the reasonableness of freight
rates 1 shall be glad to do all I can
to help him see the injustice to the
railroads, our best friends, were the
present rates lowered. 1 NO.
Inglewood, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26
One Woman's Work
(St. Louis Times)

rs IlneS)
undoubtedly, as If It were automatic
ally done.
But the fact remains that all these
enterprises have flourished just as they
did during the lifetime of Mr.. Harri-
man-even the enterprise of caring for
her children, to which she might have
devoted her entire time in former
years
Another enterprise which has even
surpassed its former record is that of,
the Hartman philanthropies. From
the removal of a debt of over 100000
on a boys club in San Francisco to
countless smaller benefactions, this
woman has been constantly alert and
busy.
All this may be cited not so much to
prove that a woman has executive
ability when the time comes for her to
demonstrate it, but to ask the ques
tion-is it not highly probable, in the
light of what has happened during the
past year, that it was not really Ed
ward H. Hartman who amassed so
large a fortune, but, instead, the firm
of Hartman & Co., the company be-
ing this amazingly good and clever
woman?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26
Sawtelle, Cal.
CASE OE The WIDOW

Editor Herald: Reading the article,
Assessment Drives Widow from Her
Home," in your issue of Sunday, Oc-
tober %, prompts me to make protest
against such injustice-one that has
been in vogue a long time. One ele-
ment of society is working to elevate
the poor. Why should another-thiS
time our city goVernment-be in the
business of making people poor or pau
perizing them?
We abhor the advantage unprinci-
pied persons take Of their fellow men
and detest the system whereby mo-
nopolies are allowed to Wrongfully
draw from the people their means.
Then how should we look upon any
civil laws that take ones property
without recompense?
We all believe in improvements and
fully understand that small or large
homes should not stand in the way of
putting them through.
In matters pertaining to putting
through streets, l suggest that all
property affected thereby be appraised
at a fair valuation for the time and
place before work begins. After the
improvements are in and assessments
due then if certain property owners
are unable to meet such assessments
after a reasonable time, the govern
ment Getty or any other) pay to them
the amount Of appraisement and take
over deed to the property. 1t can then
sell the property at this amount plus
assessment. If improvements improve
values, no buyer has a right to get
hold of such properties at less than
appraisement value plus cost of i'm
provements. 1t is wholly wrong to al
low money sharks or others to buy up
liens practically forced upon property
as such liens must be.
A government has no right to take
one's property directly or indirectly
and give no redress. Where should we
look for protection but from govern
ment?
Is it not possible for those behind
our "good government" to remedy leg
islation so as to do justice to all?
ONE OF YOUR READERS.
T,os Angeles Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26
BETTER THE PRESENT ILLS

Editor Herald: There is no divine
law set forth prohibiting "Auld Lang
Syne" to marry. But if it is not a
case of two souls with but a single
thought, two hearts that beat as one"
she had better bear the ills she has
than to fly others she wots not Of
If she is a lady of means life Of
active service for the good of others
will cure loneliness, and there are
many ways to do good that any Chris
tian man or woman may find to do if
they desire. Keep busy in the vine
yard. FRIEND.
Los Angeles, Cal.