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Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08

to the hands of the interstate commerce
commission. 1t is to be hoped that it
will exercise that control for the bene
fit of the public. Nobody does business
with any one of the units of this ex-
press monopoly and comes away from
the counter without a feeling that he
has had his pocket picked.
There are few businesses in the
country that earn such enormous divi-
dends on such comparatively small
capital invested. Last year the Wells
Fargo earned 5S.3 per cent on a capi-
tai stock full of water and wind. BY
cutting a melon of $16,0O0OOO (Which
means that they divided that much
new stock among their shareholders
without the addition of a single dollar
of new investmenD they really got a
dividend of 600 per cent.
There are two ways to get relief
from this extortion. One is by govern
ment regulation of rates. The other,
and more promising, way is the estab-
lishment of a parcels post for small
packages, such as EXISTS in Germany,
England and other countries. That will
come when the express companies in
fiuence in congress is Wrested away
from them.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08
America Welcomes Roosevelt Home
(san Francisco Call.

cisco Callg
tention was obvious and the friendly
spirit manifest.
What does the future hold for Roose-
velt? There are those who like to
conjure up the specter of Caesarism
and a one-man power ruling the des-
tinies of this nation. To those we say
that they have not understood or ap-
preciated the honest patriotism of the
man. He must remain, from the
abounding force of his personality, the
most commanding and impressive fig
ure in American life and politics, but
his role will be that of counsellor the
guide, philosopher and friend of the
people.
What course he will pursue in rela-
tion to pending controversies that agi-
tate the commonwealth we do not
know. That he will give advice, and
freely, is certain, and that advice will
be heeded.
Somebody wrote on the day that
Roosevelt retired to private station
that, although no longer president and
officially no greater than the humblest
citizen, he would still continue to be
the most interesting personality in
American life, and the object of as
much public attention as at any pc
riod while he held the reins of power.
That forecast is in the way of full
fillment. All America waits for
Roosevelt to speak.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08
PRAISES THE STAND AGAINST
PlCTURlNG FIGHT BRUTALITY

Editor Herald: 1t is pleasing to note
the outburst of opposition throughout
the country against the indiscriminate
display of bestial brutality, for what
ever may be said in pugilism's favor,
there can be no question regarding its
baneful effects upon the tender minds
of our children.
The parents of this city owe The
Herald a debt of gratitude for its at
titude an this question.
There are a few people who seem to
think that those who oppose these
displays are lacking in courage, are
effeminate and towards. Nothing can
be further from the truth.
1t is a wave of righteous Indignation
by men and women who are lovers
of their country, who would keep it
clean and who are lovers of healthy
sports and games that make for true
manhood.
The writer of this loves a game of
bowling as well as any man, and if a
slight feeling of chagrin is sensed at
the losing of a game it is swallowed up
in the love of the game for its own
sake.
Now Mr. Editor I hope you will
continue TO uphold the chief of po-
lice in his determination to prevent
these Objectionable features from get
ting a foothold here, for the childrens s
sakes. And l am at a loss to account
for the silence of your evening con-
temporary, the Express, on this ques-
tion. j. X.
Los Angeles, July 7.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08
MUD SINGING

IT P to the present the campaign
for the governorship of Califor-
- MIA on the Republican side has
been animated but clean. Now, how
ever, one mud battery has been un-
limbered and things are getting per-
sonal. To the Sacramento Bee, which
is a supporter of Hiram Johnson, one
w. H. Fraser signing himself as sec
retary of the Nat Ellery organization,
sends a letter, of which the following
is a paragraph:
Under the Clark administration
there was an organization in Sacra-
mento which at present is known
not only to the people of Sacra-
mento but also to the people of
the state of California as the Con-
centratiOn Camp (and still better
known as the Bull Pen), which is
one of the worst places a city
could have and place where many
of our families and children have
to pass daily.
Gambling was going on under
the Clark administration, as well
as under administrations before
them, and as corporation counsel
for Sacramento Hiram w. John
son was consulted i'm regard to
these matters by eX-MaVor Clark.
but no move was made to close the
vile resorts.
These are serious statements, but
not so serious that the Bee does not
at once meet them with irrefutabla
proof. 1t shows that Hiram Johnson
left Sacramento to reside in San Fran
cisco in 1902. and the Bull Pen was not
opened until January, 1908. johnson
was never in any way connected with
or consulted about the prosecution
And as for gambling in Sacramento it
was suppressed during the Clark ad-
ministration, and Hiram Johnson, as
corporation counsel was the very man
who applied the big stick that put it
out of business.
So that the mud spattcrs back on
the man behind the gun. Instead OF
Icing an effective weapon against the
man it was aimed at it proves most
effective argument against the man
who sent it. Whoever may be the ncXt
governor, it ought not to be one who
so discredits himself as to retail reck-
less personalities about rival VINO
has treated others in the race with
entire courtesy.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08
Instances of Official Oversight

ADsNeTS)
poverty stricken folk as they pleased,
and were able to, on October 81 next!
This curious instance of oversight
reminds one that when peace was pro-
claimed after the late Boer war the
Plymouth folk were so enthusiastically
engaging themselves in celebrating the
occasion that they forgot to send word
about the notable event to the light
house keepers at the Eddystone! And
for eleven days those quiet men,
guarding the lonely lighthouse, won
dered what all the display of rockets,
colored lights, etc, they saw night after
night might mean.
Even more extraordinary was an
oversight of the foreign office many
years ago. The inhabitants of one of
the Palmeston islands, in the Pacific,
under our rule, were dependent for
much of their food-apart from what
their own island produced-on the
shipping supplies arranged for them
by our foreign office in Whitehall. But
for nine months not a ship came to
the islands, and as the extreme heat
was killing the cocoanut trees and
every other eatable fruit, the plight of
the islanders was desperate The peo-
pie were without food, and the actual
owner of the islands died from want;
whilst most of the residents were per-
ishing, and many had actually died,
when at last a vessel named The EN-
pire CHANGED to call, and thus enabled
them to get some food. Then it was
discovered that the Whitehall rulers
had entirely forgotten to arrange for
the usual supplies during that year.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08
POLITICAL STRAWS

n YSTER BAY is the chief center OF
observation for those who are
" looking for straws to see which
way the political wind is blowing
Up to date it must be said that If
Colonel Roosevelt is leaning any way
in the fight between the reactionary
and progressive wings of his party it Is
emphatically toward the latter. The
latest visitor, Mr. Pointdexter. whom
the colonel openly praised after his
call, is one of the most radical of the
insurgent group.
Senator La Toilette, Senator Bur
kett. Representative Murdock, Repre-
sentative Madison, Clifford Pinchot and
former Secretary Garfield are some of
the rebels who have come away from
Sagamore Hill with faces too wide not
to be very significant, but reticent con
cerning their interviews, doubtless by
arrangement They could refuse To
talk much, but they could not dis
semble their real feelings. 1t must be
said that If the former president Is
with Aldrich, Cannon, Ballinger and
other leaders Mr.. Taft has preferred
to lean upon, he is taking queer
way of showing it.
However, a report has gone outflow
authentic cannot be said-that Colonel
Roosevelt is seeking a way whereby
he NAV indorse the Taft administration
in his first political speech when he
breaks his present silence. There is
no doubt of his personal liking for
Taft and he must feel a sort of respon-
sibility for his legatee in the White
House. He may do as is predicted
If so. it will be generally credited tc
that personal feeling and, strong as is
his influence with the masses, he viii
not be able to change the general dis
trust of Mr.. Taft as an amiable mar
in the control of strong minds that fine
it profitable to interests they represent
to exercise power in Washington.
There will be great interest in the
speech Roosevelt is to make in the
district of Congressman Murdock OF
Kansas at an early day but if 1t pats
both sides on the back it will be dis
appointing and unConvincing. The in
surgent movement has not only grown
too big for any man but for any party
to stem, and the likelihood is that the
former president, with his usual keen
ness, will see the fact before he comes
from under cover.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08

ti4OndOI
The fact that the words land of the
British dominion beyond the seas"
were omitted from the printed copy
of King Georges proclamation is, by
no means, the only remarkable in
stance of official oversight. In fact
only few days later King Edward
was described. on the breastplate of
his coffin, as having departed this life
in the ninth, instead of the tenth, year
of his reign.
The dominion of Canada is just now
very much exercised and amused at a
strange mistake made by it's govern
ment, relating to the money-test i'm
posed on migrants-eXcept agricul-
tural folk and domestic servants-go-
ing to Canada.
The order in council, as passed and
circulated in England, states that "any
immigrant arriving between March 1
and October 80 inclusive shall, as a
condition of being allowed to enter the
dominion, have at the time of arriving
money to the amount of at least &5,
OF his or her own, in addition to such
sum of money as will purchase a ticket
or transport for such immigrant to his
or her destination in Canada" Then a
later paragraph goes on to say that,
from November l to the last day of
February following, the sum shall be
G10 etc.
Thus it will be noticed that nothing
whatever is said about October 81, SO
that the law, as now laid down and
passed, would not prevent any steam
ship company or immigration agency
from landing as many undesirables or
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08

QLppincott
AS one drives hOmeWard from the
opera, up the Champs Elysees, one
meets an intermittent procession OF
two wheeled carts drawn by strong
healthy horses walking at slow pace
and without direction. for the driver
has fallen asleep on his high-piled load
of getables-sometimes mass OF
snowy onions, sometimes a wall of
orange carrots, sometimes a sort bank
of green lettuce leaves. These wagons
arrive toward , o'clock at the Halles,
where their contents are unloaded anu
sold off at auction to the market
women. on the sidewalk from until
s o'clock there is a retail sale carried
on of the green goods" which on the
stroke of must all have vanished from
sight.
The Paris Halles, or central markets,
cover a surface of $4,000 yards, One
hundred million pounds of meat are
sold there in year. 44O0O,OOO pounds
of chicken, and a number equally APP
palling of bushels Of potatoes and
vegetables, of pounds of fish and but
ter, Of dozens of eggs Aside from the
people who come to buy at the Halles
Centrales, and the vast number or
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08


The colonel is once more at home
among his own people, and such is the
force of his tremendous personality
that he is even more the object of
popular attention, affection and re-
spect than when he held the most i'm
portant office known to the civilized
world. He has seen many nations and
far countries and by them all he was
welcomed and feted. He was made the
center of interest among all the peo-
pies because he is recognized as the
best living and active embodiment of
the American idea.
OF course, he said things that made
people talk. That is Roosevelt. He Is
a nightly plain spoken man, but his
sincerity and good will are so mani
fest that none may take offense save
those who by meticulous criticism of a
big man may hope to gain a brief at
tention Envy loves a shining marx.
Among those who laboriously seek
to elevate themselves by climbing on
Roosevelts shoulders and sticking pins
in him is w. r. Hearst, who is feed
ing his ridiculous vanity by abusing
the colonel because his language was
not attuned to the slender pink tea
diplomacy Roosevelt did not rule his
speech by the canons of court etiquette
but spoke his mind freely. Nobody
took offense, because the honest in
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08
TOO HOPEFUL

n NE of our hopeful local cOntem-
poraries feicitates the Los An
" geles shipper on the prospect of
relief from express extortion because
the American Express company has ar
ranged to enter the local field on Sep
tember l, the inference being that this
is going to bring abobut a healthy
competition in this field. 1t must be
strangely ignorant of the situation, or
it would not thus beguile itself or its
readers.
There is no stronger community Of
interest in the country than that of
the four leading express companies
and no better compact than they main
tain to eliminate competition. For
many years the Adams and American
Jointly controlled the United States
company. Last year the United States
stock held by the Adams American
was sold to e. II, Hartman, whose
railroad interests controlled the Wells
Fargo. In return the Hartman in
terest parted with big block of Wells
Fargo stock to the American company.
The Southern, one of the smaller COM
panies, owns $111,SOO of Adams stock
and $118, 500 Of American.
The railroad routes are apportioned
out among the various members of this
combination, with exclusive contracts,
and thus they are enabled not to poach
on each others preserves. This lack Of
competition is one of the best argu-
ments for government control The
new railroad law gives this control in
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08
Something About Paris Markets

Magazine)
hotels and institutions which provide
themselves with food at this source,
there are twenty-nine smaller markets
held in the different quarters OF Paris
every day, which have no other supply
than the Halles. The reason for
serving themselves thus through an
intermediary instead of applying di-
rectly to the suburban trucksters and
the coastwise fishermen is that there
by are avoided the complications in
Volved by the laws of hygiene, which
are very strict in Paris. Every par
ticle of food admitted to the counters
of the Danes des Halles must first
have been inspected and judged fit for
the human palate by commission
which holds its seances between mid
night and in the morning, performing
test experiments upon hungry guinea
pigs! The effects no doubt prove fatal
rather often upon these poor "tasters,"
for there are 100000 pounds of meat
seized every year and destroyed with
uuick-lime, while an equal amount of
sea fish is cast to destruction, together
with $4,000 pounds of frG~h-water fish,
thousands of Holsters, and, last as al
ways in the procession, 100000 snails!
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08
STOP THE PRIZE FIGHTS


" E HOPE the city council will act
w upon the mayors suggestion
and prohibit prize fights, or,
as they are called in the language of
the sporting fraternity, boxing exhib-
itions," being carried on in this city.
If anything were needed to show the
tendency of this sort of exhibition to
attract to a city in which it is given
characters of the most undesirable
kind, it would be furnished by the press
reports of the character of Il large
majority Of the people who flocked to
Reno to see a citizen of California,
who should have been more worthily
engaged, being pounded into insensi-
bility by a negro pugilist.
The truth is that the pugiistic game
as carried on at the present time by
the sporting fraternity has the same
effect in attracting undesirables as had
the racing game as carried on in this
state by Tom Williams and his kind
until it was prohibited by law.
1t is a great pity that the legitimate
sport of racing, conducted for the pur-
pose of improving the breed of horses
as it was many years ago in this
country, should have been taken hold
of by a lot of disreputables and used
simply and solely for the purpose of
tilching money from the pockets of
people who could not afford to lose it,
Just as roulette, faro or any other
gambling game is used.
It is also a pity that the art of box
ing, not only harmless, but a helpful
exercise, has been taken hold of by
the same class of people who have
spoiled the racing game-men who pro-
mote exhibitions purely for the purpose
of making money, and who do not care
how dirty the money is so long as they
make it. If any one will attend one of
these exhibitions he will undoubtedly
find a few respectable men there, but
the large majority of people whom they
attract are people whose presence in
anv community is a menace to it. They
are not producers of value in any sense
Of the word, and they are burden
both upon the material and moral re-
sources of any community of which
they become members.
The sooner the city of Los Angeles
can rid itself of the professional fight
ing game, with all it's attending evils
the better it will be for both the moral
and material we'll being of the city
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08
"Outlook" Condemns Ballinger

renheims In a trip to investigate OPP
portunities for exploiting the nliiins
regions of Alaska indicates that MS
opinion of what is delicate ana nttlng
in a public official is not IN accoru
with the standards to which a puphc
official should hold himself. The rea-
son he gave for eXonerating an en-
gineer of the reclamation service for
accepting a retainer from a railway
with which, as a representative OF the
government, this engineer was deallnS
affords another illustration of Secre-
tary Ballinger's standards of pubic
official conduct. These SPECIFIC Illus
trations are in accord with his par
ticipation in his own eXoneration ana
with his resistance to the search for
facts in the case. His attitude as thus
illustrated helps to explain the gen.
eral tone of the interior department.
officials as shown in ,Ie testimony :
specifically with regard to the his
tory of the Cunningham claims the
facts show that Mr.. Rallinger was III
advised to act as attorney Tor the
agent of the claimants; that having
acted as attorney it was unfortunate
that he was prevailed upon to accept
the office of secretary of the interior;
that having found ii not inconsistent
to have served the claimants after
serving the government, and having
accepted the office of secretary OF the
interior, 1t was wrong for him to re-
fuse to defend the interests of the gov
ernment against what he regarded as
invalidated claims; that having con-
cuded that he could not protect the
interests of the government it was in
cumbent upon him &c resign; and that
after remaining in office though in
capacitated from protecting this prop
erty from Illegal claims he is not in
a position to hold the confidence of
the owners of the prcperty-the people
of the United States. The ver-
dict of history will be that he did not
understand either the spirit and pur-
poses of the people of his time or the
duties and functions of his great
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08
ON THE DOWN. HILL PATH

When Mr.. NeWrich was asked, on his
return to Peoria, what he thought OF
Italy, he hesitated for several seconds.
Il want to speak fair about every
country rye been in on my travels he
said, slowly, "and there are points
about some parts of that Eyetalian
country that I'd like to see copied right
here in Peoria.
I'm referring" said Mr.. NeWrich'
letting his slow and heavy gaze rest on
one member of the audience after an
other, Ito the natural beauties OF the
country, you understand. When you
come to buildings, the whole of italy,
particularly Rome, has seen her best
days in my opinion, and seen 'em a
good while ago, what's more. YOUTH s
Companion.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08

The following exceedingly conserv-
ative estimate of the Ballinger case
which appeared in the columns of the
outlook is interesting, and when the
fact is considered that Mr.. Roosevelt
is one of the editors of that publlea-
ton the condemnation of Mr.. Balm
ger contained in 1t may be accepted
as significant;
ION the stand before the committee
Mr.. Ballinger has been evasive in his
answers and has shown the greatest
feeling, not over any danger to public
property, but over what he calls an
attack on his reputation. He has re-
peatedly attempted to explain letters
he has signed by ascribing the prep
aration of them to subordinates and
to explain actions by saying that
though they were taken by subor-
dinates in accord with his strongly
expressed wish they We're not done
under his orders. He has repeatedly
denounced his subordinates. the direc-
tor and chief engineer of the reclama-
tion service. and he has made state
ments which, as they would be or
dinarily understood, do not accord
with the facts. His counsel apparent
ly with his consent, has held the con-
servation policy of the last admins
tration up to ridicule Mr.
CLAWS should not be condemned. He
has rendered important service. Be
lieving, as he did, that the public in
terest was in danger he could not have
pursued any other course than that of
appealing to the president .
THE evidence, however, is clear that
the ethical standards which Mr.. Bal
linger has adopted are not those which
the American people in these days
have a right to expect in their public
servants. The law honesty which Mr..
Ballinger believes he observed in rep
resenting coal claimants is not the
proper measure for a public servants s
conduct. The fact that as secretary of
the interior he recommended an en-
gineer to accompany a member of the
firm that is associated with the Gug-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08
THE RETURN OF FERGUSON

A night clerk in a hotel sat doing at
his desk at about 1 a. M, when a man
in evening clothes came in as If labo-
riously trying to walk a crack, and
said:
I'm Ferguson; key to room A."
The guest disappeared in the direc-
tion of his room, one flight up. In a
few minutes a man in his shirtsleeves,
with a flattened silk hat on the side
of his head, and with one shoe on a
foot and the other in his hand, came in
and said:
I'm Fershon; key to for-for."
MIR. Ferguson just took his key and
went up"
Mr.. Fershon just fell out window
m left key inside. Kindly lemme have
mother. Everybody Magazine.