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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
The War of the Tongs

in Harper's Weekly
SOW the seeds that were to bear bullets
in a quick harvest.
The war between the On Leongs and
the Hip Sings came to an end in a rare
opera bouffe tableau which was en-
acted in the chambers of Judge War
rem w. Foster of the supreme court.
Judge Foster, who had sat in the Grim
inal branch over several of the cases
arising from the bloody struggle in
Chinatown, persuaded the various
white lawyers retained by the fighting
tongs to herd the respective head men
of their client organizations before
him one day and he read them a lee
ture on the advantages of peace and
the stern vengefulness of American
law once violated Then with due
pomp and solemnity the judge pro-
duced elaborate articles of peace, duly
engrossed and sealed, and ordered the
plenipotentiaries of the On Leongs and
Hip Sings to sign them. Very gravely
the names were AFFIXED those of Tom
Lee and Jim Gum, his lieutenant; Mock
wicked secessionists. A very formal
joint banquet of the tongs in honor of
Judge Foster and the members of the
district attorneys staff followed and
clinched the peace proceedings. Since
that time, though assassinations have
occasionally disturbed the peace of
Chinatown, at each Chinese New Year
celebration Judge Foster and represent
tatives of the district attorney have
been invited to listen, over the planked
dried duck and the rice wine on fes-
tai board, to solemn assurances of the
permanency of that peace.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
AFTER HIS SCALP

~ PEAKING at Milwaukee in behalf
of Senator Robert M. La Fol-
~ lette's candidacy for reelection,
Senator Dolliver doubtless told the bald
truth when he said the interests are so
determined to retire this pioneer of the
insurgents that corrupt influences are
flowing in at this moment Mammon
is making a desperate stand, and the
most desperate might be expected in
the home of the first and most fearless
of the insurgents.
La Follette's honesty was put to the
test in the senate on May I. 1909, when
the tariff schedule on lead ore was un-
der discussion, He arose in his seat
and said:
I am placed in position where [
shall withhold my vote upon this
amendment, and for this reason: Some
years ago when l was not in official
life I acquired an interest in land in
Wisconsin which was believed to be
and which has proven to be in part
lead-bearing property. Some develop
ment has taken place upon it and one
portion of it is at this time producing
lead ore in small quantities and zinc
as covering both those products. If
maintaining duties or increasing du-
ties affects the price Of those products,
[ cannot consistently and conscienti-
ously vote upon this question as a
member of this body, and therefore
upon this roll-call I shall, for the rea-
son stated, withhold my vote.
La Toilette had examples of another
kind ne might have followed. Aldrich
was protecting his rubber trust, Gug-
genheim his smelter trust, stephenson
his lumber trust, Du Ront his powder
trust, Elkins his coal interests. La Fol-
lette had old-fashioned notions about
public trust that make his absence
from the senate desirable to the other
kind. HenCe, having an abundance of
money, their "corrupting influences are
flowing into" Wisconsin, as Dolliver
bears testimony.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
HERO WORSHIP

Editor Herald: Apropos of tele-
grapic news that has recently domln-
ated all else, there is too much of hero
worship. lie degrades men and does
not elevate the object. We need no
kings. no princes, no royal blood and
no aristocracy; but so long as men are
hero worshipers we are not better off
than if we had these evils. Our Caesars
are too numerous and too obstreperous,
and men crawl to kiss the hens of
their garments.
Whenever any man becomes so great
that he cannot be spared, it Will be well
if we take Jefferson's advice and spare
him at once. There are good men,
strong men and men who can fill any
and every position as well as II is filed
by the man who occupies it. THE King
is dead-long live the king"-the new
king, who tomorrow will be fattered
and made to believe that the sun rises
because he commands 1t to rise.
Here worship is vile, ignoble, con-
temptible. unmanly and wholly degrad-
ing. 1t is unworthy of manhood.
c. c. MELLEN.
Los Angeles, Sept. 4.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
ROOSEVELT AS GUARDIAN


Editor Herald: This man Roose-
welt is terrific force. l fear he will
compel The Herald Letter Box to dis
cuss Socialism once more. For what
is the New Nationalism" but our old
friend Bellamy brought up to date,
weakened in some respects and
strengthened in others? Bellamy, it is
true, proposed the naturalization of
everything, the industrial army being
the universal producer and distributor.
Roosevelt does not go so far as yet,
but the essential point is that Bellamy
grounded his proposals on Matthew
Arnold's dictum, LOOK to the state,
a dictum quoted with approval by
Gronlund in his "Co-operative Com
monwealth."
Now listen to Roosevelt, who says,
'The New Nationalism regards the
executive power as the steward of pub
lie welfare" There you have the
whole philosophy in a nutshell-the
state the guardian, the people the
minor wards. But there are those who
think the people came to their majority
long ago and should manage their
own affairs instead of being managed.
Hence the irrepressible conflict.
Perhaps l may be allowed to add
that I passed last evening with a well
known Socialist writer who was eX-
planning to me that the party's policy
was being broadened to embrace or
ganized labor, which has stood aloof.
asked what the effect of this new
element would be, and he answered,
without a moments hesitation: "The
party will become much more an
archistic The very hostility it dis
,,Ia VIC +oHov tONva rd RnOSpVplt shows
that it will move farther and farther
away from his state position"
That is what I wish and shope. 1
should hate to have Teddy as my
guardian. w. Z. u
Los Angeles, September 2.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
Successful Strike Arbitration
(September Delinestor'

Delineator)
the decision was rendered upon the tes-
timony OF workingmen's wives.
The main interest in this trial is
centered, not around labor bulletins,
nor statistics, nor in the evidence of
the men to the hazards and fatiguing
hours of their trade, but in the testi-
mony of the wives and mothers of the
switchmen themselves. These wit
nesses offered first-hand proof of the
unprecedented and overwhelming Tn
crease. in the cost of all the necessities
of life, and the effect of this increase
on the workingman's home. The ulti-
mate consumer had never before
spoken. Probably for the first time
in a great labor case the wives OF
workingmen, the women behind the
purse, were summoned into court to
tell of the privations and tragedies
wrought in the home by scanty wages,
of the exhausting hours of woman's
labor, to prove to the commissioners
the actual cost of living in human val
ues OF flesh and blood.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

(September
The general industrial unrest, due to
steadily rising prices, has been settled
more successfully this year by rail-
way workers than by any other class
of laborers. All over the United
States boards of federal commissioners,
provided for under the Erdman act,
have been arbitrating strikes ana
threatened strikes, and they nave
recommended, for over 10000 brake
men, engineers and firemen, an imme-
diate increase in wages because OF
the rapid rise in the cost of living.
OF all these railway cases settled by
arbitration the one which has the most
human and economic interest is that or
the brotherhood of Switchmen' IN
January of this year 5000 men, work
ing for thirteen great railways which
have switching yards in Chicago, de,
manded, among other concessions,
raise in wages of five cents an hour.
This demand was submitted to the iii,
nois state board of arbitration, and
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
THAT DYNAMITE STORY

Editor Herald: I admire the stand
you take in that trouble at the Alex
andria Hotel annex.
The trouble that they have is dis
grace and not a very good 'ad' for
the city and the dynamite found there
needs a very thorough investigation by
the grand jury.
1t is strange that a detective should
have found it there and left it for
some one to call and get, and the man
that came and got it knew where it
was Will any sane man weigh that
evidence and see what he thinks of it?
Whoever the guilty parties are, union
or non-union, men lower or men high
er UP let justice be done. That dyna-
mite story does not look right,
CITIZEN.
Los Angeles Sent 4.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
HAD A DANDY TIME

Come TO Gran-ma's a week ago;
Jest bin havin' a pile O. fun
Went a-swimmin' an got my toe
Butt by a turkel then done
somethin' my Gran'pa sed wuz bad.
"Skinned tn cat" in a apple tree
Limb broke off an you bet they had
Lots o. trouble revlvin' me!
Cot chased out o. the pasture lot
BY a sheep an l almost flew;
Found a humble bees nest an got
Them stirred up, an they stung me, too
Bees amt goin to make me dance
Enny more, cause I learnt some sense! =
KIT a snake an tore my pants
Climbin' over a bobwlre fence;
Went a-dshin' an lost my hat
Trled to hnd It, but 'tain't no use
Caught a slithery OF mud cat'
Almost, once. but he busted loose;
Fell in tn well an stayed down there
Half an hour an couldn't climb
ont cause tn rocks wuz slick-Don't care!
Geel I'm havin' dandy timel
Charles c. Jones,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
Merely in Jest
HER OPENING

The counting of the Widow Healy oy
Terence Corcoran was tedious AFFAIR
to every one in Magraw place, most Oh
all TO the widow herself, who tried va
rious expedients to assist her timid ad-
mrer. ..o,. y,
"Pm thinking 1 might go for soJer'
Terrence announced one n1ght' WneIl
his fancy had been stirred by news
naner account of q military pageant.
t'I,m not so old but 1 could do 1t.
was wanst in a school regiment"
you go for a sojer!'' cried the
Widow Healy in mingled scorn and
alarm. "A man that calls on lone
widow for two years and more, widout
pluck enough to spake his MIND hasn
the makings of a drummer boy IN
him youths Companion.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
A KEYNOTE DISCORD

T n his letter to Congressman McKin-
ley sounding the campaign key
u note, Mr.. Taft insists that the tar
iff was revised downward. He still be-
lieves it is the best tariff law ever
passed. Let us see. The platform on
which Mr.. Taft was elected, and which
he ardently supported in prediction
speeches, promised to revise the tariff
on a basis of the difference in the cost
of production at home and abroad"
The following table, compiled by
Prof. Josiah H. Shinn from the special
census reports for manufactures, 1907,
shows in a striking manner the failure
to revise the tariff on such basis:
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

again, Mr.. Taft points to the Aldrich
law with approval as a great success
as a revenue producer, whereas this is
disputed by a very good authority. The
law is failing to produce sufficient rev.
enue to meet the expenses of the gov
ernment. During the first twenty-three
days of August the expenditures ex-
eeeded the receipts by $5,277, ,170O8. This
is according to the statements issued by
the United States treasurer at the close
of business on the evening of Aug. 20.
In other words, the declaration that
the new tariff law is producing sufTi-
cient revenue to run the government is
entirely unfounded.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
A WARMING

Editor Herald: No person allowed to
use the sidewalk in front Of the Alex
andria hotel building while they are
raising steel near the front; and not
alone at that building but any
other building Of the same kind,
for no one knows when some
thing will happen, liable to kill or
cripple a lot of people. The city would
be liable for damage for not taking
precautions after what has happened.
Los Angeles Sept. 4. L. 1.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

The salaries of opera singers is much
lower than last year. 1t is a pleasure
to hear that the price of something is
coming down. Colonel Roosevelt is the
only editor we know that can travel
and make forty speeches a day and
get his early copy up on time.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

Prof. William James (deceased)
promises to send messages back from
the spirit world. 1t is to be desired
that he will say something better than
the gibberish William Shakespeare and
Napoleon Bonaparte usually hand over
through the mediums
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

j. Pierpont Morg,n has paid $25, 900
for an antique pitcher, says an ex-
change. This beats by many thou
sands the highest price ever paid by
Manager Chance Of the Cubs for a
modern pitcher.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

The St Paul Pioneer-Press is au-
thority for the fact" that Los Angeles
is building a $3O,OOO,OOO union railway
station. Some of these days when
work is slack we are going out to look
up this building.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

"Kid" Mccoy and Jack" Johnson
are going to have a 100-mile automo-
mile race. 1t is hard to repress an
uncharitable thought in speculating on
the outcome. Both could be spared.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
DANGEROUS

"Parlor matches" remarked the
thoughtful thinker, "cause good many
fires ,.
yes" rejoined the casual observer,
"and a lot more divorces.'-Chlcaso
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

For his last magazine article Colonel
Roosevelt got 81 a word. No COM
mittee of arrangements along the
present route has had the hardihood
to offer that rate for his speeches.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

More than S14,0OOOOO in new build
ings in Los Angeles in eight months
that is one good nipeful for our pre-
tended rivals along the Pacific coast,
We've more when that's smoked up.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

The marine hospital service plans a
rats. 1t might to advantage include the
hirsute rodents that help to malform
woman's crowning glory.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

Henry Gassaway Davis, 81, had a
fall the other day that got him into
the prints Alton B. Parker, by crit
icising Roosevelt, also let's the world
ing
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

Escondido is to celebrate grape day
next Friday. AS motto for the day
how would the historic remark of the
Civil War general do: "a little more
grape, Captain Bragg"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
THE JANIToR PROTESTS

IT is the custom at certain pubic
school down in Maine for the teachers
to write on the blackboard any IN
structions they desire the Janltor 10
receive. ,.. ,,,
The other morning the janitor saw
written: Find the greatest common
divisor." 4Lo+
"Hullo!" he exclaimed. rs that
burned thing lost again ?"-Lippln-
colts.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
EASILY PEEVED

Nicholas Longworth frowned when
he was mentioned for governor of
Ohio. Some people get provoked at
Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

Governor Patterson of Tennessee
says he will not retire under fire. For
using this expression, which is copy
righted by R. A. Ballinger, he is liable
to prosecution.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
DIPLOMATIC
yife +"

mo, I can never be your wife.
What? Am 1 never to pc knoWIi
az The husband of the beautiful Mrs,
She succumbed- d-Lippincott's.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
No RITSH AT HOME

MY boys back from college" 49,.
"How does he take holt on the
"I hain't seen him make no cane
rush for the woodpile yet."-kansas
City Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

President Taft recently visited Dub
lin, n. H. for the first time. 1t is not,
however, his first trip over the ''rocky
road" in the last year.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

From the list of speeches planned for
the conservation congress we infer that
the last thing that will be considered
is the conservation of speech.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

1t must have been a big relief to
Prof. Harry Thurston Peck to have
attention diverted from his to F. Aug
ustus Heinze's love letters.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
A SLIGHT DRAWBACK

An enthusiastic Bailey man wants
to know what objection there is to
Bailey as Democratic candidate for
president. None at all, excepting the
probable lack of a sufficient number
of votes to elect him.-Richmond
es-Democrat.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

California wants that Panama ex-
position because it would be the great
est advertisement of the states at
fractions we have ever had.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

BuIl-dodging is TO be an elevating
snort in connection with the Mexican
centennial celebration. To show how
much progress in civilization 100 years
have brought, we suppose.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

The aeroplane will be more of a
success when it is so developed that
the driver can take a machinist up
with him.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

Irish potatoes, which cost so cents
to raise, are selling in New York for
$1.sO a bushel Two hundred per cent
profit is putting the brogue on too
thickly.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

CERTAINLY; THIS is A REAL
SENS.-TION
Doubtless the suspension of Man
ager Hugh Jennings of the Detroit
baseball team by President Ban
Johnson of the American league will
cause more of a stir in the country
than the dismissal of a cabinet off,
Ger would.-New York Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
AN UNUSUAL HARDSHIP

1t must seem little hard for Mr..
Peary to be obliged to step up and
pay the market price for ice.-Wash-
lngton Star
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
EVERY PLACE BUT SYCAMORE
HILL

If one Jersey squire can keep
whole town supplied with frogs by his
one red waistcoat, how many cities
could depend with absolute certainty
for sustenance If Timothy woodruff
were to oblige?-New York Telegraph,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
PUBLIC LETTER BOX


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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
Far and Wide
A MYSTERY EXPLAINED

A MYSTERY EXPLAINED
A woman recognized an old, long
missing sweetheart by his voice as he
called out the names of stations in
the Hudson tube. Fear of such things
probably accounts for most conduo-
tors apparently Disgusting their ma
tural Voices.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

One of the former big ones who
needn't be expected to come back is
the deposed whang of Korea.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

How in the world did we ever let
ourselves get so excited over the
Jeff-Johnson fight and the late cam
paign?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
INHERITED IDEA

Century-old habit made robbing the
Indians look almost like the exercise
of a constitutional right Washington
Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06

On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles r. Gates. advertising man
ager.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-31
Johnson \. SANDS
QUOTES HOLY WRIT
But His Reply to Building In
spector Beck. Summons
Is Vague.

Johnson II. Sands, lawyer. Sunday
school teacher and formerly an opera
tor in real estate in Richmond. where
he once lived. has replied to Building
Inspector Beck, who some weeks ago
condemned three buildings owned by
Mr.. Sands-407 and 400 Market Space
and zoos East Franklin Street. Mr..
Sands takes excerpts from the Holy
Writ to reply to the profane and world
ly inspector, but they do not seem ex-
actly to bear on tho subject Of tot
tering houses. Biblical quotations Will
hardly prove OF much avail in the Po-
lice Court. Justice CrutchfieId would
prefer having Mr.. Sands in person to
answer direct questions.
So the law will be followed. as, in
spite OF the things spiritual, worldly
business must be attended to. After
due process Of law the property owned
by Mr. Sands. who now resides in
Washington, and which has been con-
demned by Building Inspector Beck,
will be RACED, as menace to the life
and limb of the passerby.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-31
Tothe Victims
of Morphine

am physician of a large practice
in Virginia until disabled through the
use OF morphine. took so to 10 grains
of morphine and 40 to 45 grains OF co,
caine daily. in addition to alcohol. Ny
body was covered with the punctures
of the hypodermic needle as we'll as
my arms and lower limbs. AT one time
spent ten days without food or mo-
ment's sleep. and In desperation was
debating suicide as preferable to eth.
er my deplorable state or insanity.
/ was urged to come to Richmond.
came and was treated. On the fourth
day Of my treatment the awful "crav-
ing" was eftectually destroyed: my
pains began to subside: my suffering
abated: my appetite returned: my COM
plexion cleared up: began to sleep.
and for the first time in years began
to feel natural. The chains that bound
me a captive were snapped asunder.
and>I am free. wish every physician
thus afflicted and all others to know
that they can be saved from their de-
plorable condition. If any poor suf-
ferer from morphine wishes to be
cured. and will write me. will gladly
furnish him or her all the informa-
tion he or she needs.
MEDICUS.
Box Is. Station B.
Richmond. Va.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-31
OPENING POSTPONED

z
business MEMS Club to Occupy New
Qunrters August %.
Owing to an unavoidable delay in the
completion OF the plaster work. the
business Mems Club will not occupy
the new quarters on the top floor OF
the American National Bank Building
Tomorrow. August /, as had been ex
pected. The opening has been post
poned until August %.
The new home of the business men
Will be one of the finest in the coun-
try. The floor space will be three
times greater than the club now en-
joys. which will make possible mum
Der of additional, features. There will
be a large lounging room. which will
be. fitted up most elegantly The din
ing room will seat more than a hun
dred people, and will be located be-
low the kitchen. SO that there will be
no odors or heat. An express eleva-
tor car will be installed to run from
the ground floor to the club room
without stops.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-31
Arrests Last Night.

Ben Roberts, colored. was arrested
last night on charge of stealing a
watch from Joe Robertson.
r. B. Fuller, white, was arrested on
charge of being disorderly on street
car.
George Boyd and Joseph Aytes. COLI
ored boys, were arrested on a charge of
stealing a quantity of stove iron and
CRATES from T. j, Todd, lead pipe from
n. w. Bowe and lead pipe from Golsan
s. Nash.
Charles Brasselman. white. was ar
rested on charge of cruelty treating
horse.
Joe Patterson, white. was arrested on
suspicion Of having committed felony.
A. Mayo, white, was arrested on a
charge of assaulting w. A. Butter
worth.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-31
PR ICE GOES Up
ON GIN R|CKEYS
New Tariff on Foreign Wines
Takes Effect August
Seventh.

Customs collections for the port Of
Richmond for the month of july were
sao.97S.49, showing an increase Of about
$4,000 over the same month last year.
In July Of 1909 the collections were
slS.94a.59
Lovers Of gin rickeys" may have to
pay more for their drinks after August
q as the import duty on Holland gin
VIII have been increased from s1.75 to
$3.50 per gallon. Customs officials yes
terday announced that the new tariff
becomes effective from that date, On
Spanish and Portuguese wines. the
duty has been increased from 50 cents;
to 60 cents per gallon Large quaint
ties Of foreign wines nave been received
here by local dealers during the past
few weeks In order to avoid the higher
Import duty.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-31
BEARS TWO VARIETIES

Unique Peach Tree Grown From wild
Twig by N1osby Street Man.
G. r. Frlzzell. of 604h Mosby Street,
has in his yard unique specimen OF
peach tree which has borne this year
freestone peaches on one side ard
clingstones on the other, although
there is no evidence that there has
ever been any grating. His son, Rich
ard F'rizzell, found the tree, then a
mere switch, growing wild on road
side near town, some years ago. and
brought 1t home and replanted 1t. This
is the first time It has borne fruit and
to the surprise of all the neighbors, 1t
has two distinct varieties, ripening at
the same time. The tree is regarded as
quite curiosity. and many people have
called to see 1t and sample It's fruit.