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Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18
SHERMAN AND GORE

4 WITNESS tells the Oklahoma
II committee that Vice President
"A Sherman was opposed to the out
rageous graft in the form of 10 per
cent fees it was proposed to take from
the Indians. How much opposed? Not
enough, it seems, to expose the shame
less exploitation of the wards of the
nation, and Sherman was very familiar
with the situation, for he was, by grace
Of Cannon for long years. chairman of
the committee on Indian affairs in the
house.
Why did Sherman remain silent.
even after a blind senator revealed the
fact that he had been offered a bride?
Until he can answer this simple ques-
ton many people win be forced to be-
lieve the vice president not wholly in
nocent of some collision in the Okla
homa graft.
Contrast the action of the Oklahoma
senator with the inaction of Sherman.
Gore has felt the sting of poverty in
it's bitterest forms. Even now he has
nothing but his salary. The person
who, he says, offered him $4,000 to
change his position on the Indian leg
islation was a personal friend of long
standing. This man knew Gore had
often suffered from sheer want. But
Gore was not for sale!
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18
Uncle Jethro's Answers
CIV. D. Nesbit, in the 9elineator)

he pelineator)
and half-pouting. I think she stood
and looked at me that way for sew
eral minutes, clutching my arm.
thanked her for the compliment, and
she sighed and said we might as well
hurry along home. Since then she has
declined four invitations to the theater
from me. Is she treating me right?
SOL. EMNASS.
No, she is not treating you right.
She should have taken steps to pre-
vent your remaining at large.
1 am in quandary. A grass widow
with three children has asked me to
take Sunday dinner with her and her
family, and maiden lady of some AZ
years has told me that she feels an
unaccountable faith in me and wants
me to consider myself free to drop in
at any time and discuss literature and
art with her. She telephOned me this
evening that she wants my advice
about some investments. What shall
do? ]. B. s.
Select any railway folder, find what
train will get you out at once, and
take that train. a
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18
An Experiment with Monkeys

ter. the monkeys showed as natural
an inclination for the cold open air as
their healthy brothers did for the hot
drafts inside the monkey house. Pres
emily there appeared upon their emac-
lated bodies q faint sprouting OF halr,
which grew thicker as the weather be-
came more severe. Gradually the slug
gish creatures started into life; instead
of budding in corners, they began TO
climb and jump about their cages. Be-
fore the winter was over all of them
had thick brown, furry coats; their
muscles had grown large and strong;
they ate eagerly and manifested an in
creased desire for the favorite simian
misunderstanding. They became the
most popular curiosities of the zoo.
Nothing in years had delighted Wis
itors so much as what had now be-
come an everyday sight: one OF these
tropical animals in zero weather seated
upon a snowbank, bontentedly eating a
banana. But the twenty monkeys that,
early in the winter, had entered the
steam heated monkey house in splen-
did physical condition, had not Jared
so we'll. BY spring not a single one
was alive-all had died OF tubercu-
losis."
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18
PENS ANSWER TO CRITICISM
OF LETTER ON SOCIALISM

Editor Herald: Now that William c.
owen has criticised me and my letter
ask him to read that letter once
more and he will find that | did not
denv that Socialism means govern
roent ownership. Socialism does mean
government ownership of the big ma
chinerv and such land as is to be used
IN carry on cooperative production.
Pu+ If does not mean that a bunch or
oaicers or capitalists shall own or con-
+rol the cooperation, as such would
not he Socialism, but state Socialism
7 ask Mr.. owen in what wiz the
majority rule render the minority
helnless and explain how no-rule CO.
operation can satisfy all.
A no-rule society may run smooth
when il is composed of only few, pnt
take q whole nation of co-operatoTs
and YOU have a chaos where everyone
Is lost.
AS a corporation must have rule
to follow, the rule must hrst ne &c
cided on
The majority will win and will rem
dor tbe minority helpless agains' that
nile ant what of it? No need of
Going into despair because everyone
Else ala not think the same as I.
Private affairs should not be decided
an nv outsiders and will not where 1t
does not interfere with the outsiders.
NJ ono should have the privilege of
hocdmina a nuisance. But it will be
no one else's business what one cats
ar drinks, though there are those in
the party now who would prohibit in
tovicants. Nor will it be the busl-
ness OF the majority where you eat, or
the color of your clothing or OF your
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

There is a very large, somewhat un-
wieldy and usually meritorious citizen
in the United States that does not as
a rule have enough attention, and
when he does il is generally not of
the right sort. He has thousands or
mouths and eyes and hands; some
times he makes a good living and
sometimes he does not; he has mil
lions of children and regiments OF
uncles and aunts and they none of
them cost less than they did q few
years ago; his wants are pretty SIM
pie, his nature not unkindly and his
Intentions undoubtedly good. But he
has two faults: he is careless and he
is averse to using very fair INTEL
ligence that he possesses. He does not
wish to be disturbed in his taVorlte
athletic sport of going to the office,
though he wastes a good deal of time
when he gets there; he Is an honest
man with strong dislike of unpleas-
ant facts. He is a good-natured man,
but sometimes is indignant for half an
hour, and if very indignant indeed mas
been known to remain so even TO an
hours rounded fulness. Though he mas
not any strong taste for .statecratt, ne
nevertheless by an Ingenious system
of abstention has framed a theory or
government wherein the voting is done
for the major part by hands other
than his own, though at times he has
been known to show a little dissatis-
faction with the result. He is fond or
going to the Office" and as we nave
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18
STATE SOCIALISM AND
SOCIALISM QUITE DIFFERENT

Editor Herald: Mr.. owen quotes
from the platform of the Socialist par
ty as follows: Socialism means that
all things upon which the people in
common depend shall by the people IN
common be owned and administered.
Then he has the hardihood to declare:
Il say, we say, that means govern
ment (state) ownership and admins
istered and it cannot mean anything
else" And he goes on to take advan-
tage of John Spargo's purely tenta-
tive and explanatory use of the WORD
"goVernment"-used in condescenSlon
to the mental needs of an ignorant
questioner-to bolster up his false po-
sition With the man who at this
time Of day attempts to confound so
cialism" with state Socialism," 1 fear
there Is but one alternative-either he
doesn't know or he is acting ingenu-
ously. Spargo and others have made
it abundantly plain that it is only
government" that is owned by the
people-in other words, that is the
people, that is contemplated by So
cialists. In fact it will not be gov
eminent" really Chat supposes two rae
tors-the governing and the governed);
il will be an organization by the
whole people for the administration of
things Notice how the anarchist al
WAYS avoids the word "public" owner
ship. preferring the ambiguity of gov
ernment' ownership for his purpose OF
discrediting Socialism.
The ownership by government
whether city or nationaD of. few
utilities like gas, water, railways, etc,
while the Industries" are still in prl-
vate hands, is often only sort OF
"close pasture" for a clique of poll
ticians and seekers of snug and highly
maid office Like our Los Angeles wa
ter department, now growing so bloat-
ed with wealth through extortions
from the poor Charging them three
or four prices on a minimum" meter
rate) that it is about to house itself
in a marble palace at fabulous outlay
Of public money. This department en-
nIovs all the old private graft meth
DDS. such as charging you for water
whether YOU use it or not, 80 long as
II is on" and if during absence to
avoid paying for what you don't use)
Won have it turned off, they charge
Won 81 to turn it on again. Have you
either way. This is a specimen. OF
some kind of government ownership
1T is not Socialism, and I am sorry
to see Mr.. owen or anyone seeking TO
revive this crusade of confusion. Luck
ily even public Ignorance can hardly
any longer be abused to this extent
We (Socialists) certainly do deny
that ownership "by the people ana
ownership by government Gas at
present understood) are in any way
st,nonvn0us VAL STONE.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18
WOULD FIND SYSTEM TO
HALT FORGING OF CHECKS

Editor Herald: 1t is distressing to
learn how many persons are going
wrong through forging checks. Cannot
a system be found that will make it
difficult to secure blank checks save by
those who are legally entitled to them?
Let only those who have deposits in
banks be able to secure blank checks
under proper restrictions and penal
ties, making it unlawful to give away
or sell blank checks to any one with
out due safeguards. If man asks
for a blank let it be given under such
conditions that the issuing of forged
paper shall be reduced to a minimum.
Almost every newspaper contains num-
bers of cases of check forgery too
many men and women are going down
the criminal road because ii is so easy
to step into a bank and pick up blank
check. Will not our wise men, our
bankers and merchants devise some
method to reduce the number of Grim
inals who go wrong because the way
of beginning is so easy? M. NJ Il.
TropicO, Aug. Is.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

are, in fine, impossible.
San Francisco appears to be the only
port at which they are granted free
admission to the United states or to
any country on this continent. In Sc
attic the immigration authorities have
eliminated most of this immigration
on the legal ground that the Hindus
are mostly polygamists-a reason that
may serve as a temporary barrier to
the flood. In Canada there Is prac-
tically no such thing as Asiatic immi-
grafton, because of the law requiring
that these immigrants shall have in
their possession $500 apiece.
1t is imperative that the United
States shall erect some effective legis-
lative barrier against this immigration.
The labor conditions of the coast must
not be left subject to the caprice Of
officials, most of whom are subject to
powerful political influences exercised
by the corporations which make a
profit from this trade. Congress will
be asked at the coming session to deal
with this subject as a whole and in
radical way. The prevailing condi-
lions have risen to the Importance OF
a menace to American institutions.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18
GONE MAD
kkNTHY, this is very midsummer
w madness" The quotation is
from Shakespeare but it could

kkNTHY, this is very midsummer
w madness" The quotation is
from Shakespeare but it could
not have been more appropriate if it
had been written August 16, 1910, in
the city of New York, concerning the
attitude of the Republican regulars"
toward former President Roosevelt 1t
simply passes understanding how
bosses so shrewd in some respects as
Barnes, Woodruff and Wadsworth can
think that in preferring James S. Sher-
man to Theodore Roosevelt for tempo
rary chairman of their state conven-
ton they are playing anything resem-
bling winning card.
All these leaders are of the "old
synonym for reactionaries, friends Of
oligarchy rule. Involved in the fight
is their unyielding opposition to Gov.
Hughes direct primary bill, which
Roosevelt favors.
Only two theories are plausible in
this matter. 1t is we'll known that an
ger can become in rare instances so in
tense as to blind its victim temporar
lily. Perhaps these machine leaders,
rendered mad by Hughes long attack
on their power, have been made in
capable of seeing what is happening
throughout the country and what kind
of doom awaits those who oppose the
march of democracy.
The other theory is the antithesis of
this. Perhaps they do see the doom
and have become so reckless that they
intend to scuttle the ship and carry
it down with themselves.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

In McClure's Magazine for August,
Burton j. IIendrick in his article,
"Oxygenizing City" tells of the
fresh-air treatment that DIR. William
A. Evans tried on the monkeys in the
Lincoln park zoo, Chicago:
"'Take your twenty healthy mon
keys inside, as usual, this winter he
told Cy De Vry, but keep the five sick
ones outside. 1t will be interesting to
see what will happen
But they can't stand it; the cold
air will kill Them protested the keeper
eff it does you won't lose muchTor
the monkeys either, for, at best, they
can only live a few weeks
"As the winter came on these hVe
sick tropical animals were kept in
place where they were constantly ex-
posed to it's chilling drafts. They be-
came perforce fresh-air cranks. A
matched shelter was provided, into
which they could retreat when the
weather became too ICY, but no. arti-
fetal heat was supplied. Strangely
enough, except at night. when they
slept under it, the invalids seemed TO
care little for this shelter.
with the gradual approach OF win
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18
A We'll Known Citizen
(christlan Science Monltor)

said this exercise is his favorlte, but
when tired of this or seeking a change
he at once arouses and invigorates
himself by locking the stable door af-
ter the horse is gone. This he does
with SO much emphasis and vigor that
sometimes 1t makes an echo that Is
said to sound like laugh, but travel
ers are not agreed on this point
He is a kindly man with very firm
belief that when a policeman or a car
conductor or a janitor or a trades
man does not do what he is paid for
doing, he errs not from malice pre-
pense, but from the joy of living that
Is above trifles and spurns the slav-
ish fear of duty He does not follow
such a rule himself, but as we have
intimated, he is not as close at logic
as he could be If he chose. This lack
of logic induces in him what we are
sorry to admit Is q sort of selfish
ness that persuades him that If he
shuffles off duty 1t will not fall
twice as hard upon the shoulders of
somebody else that has enough al
ready. Consequently, he is very averse
TO pointing out n breach of right, not
because he approves of such thing
in any way, but because to complain
would be to commit what in the United
States takes the place of high treason
in less enlightened countries. But he
is very happy as yet and though his
bed and books and bread and board
are overcharged with others profits, 1t
is because they belong to that patient
person, the General Public.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18
Hindu Immigration Must Stop
(san Francisco CalD


The present rate of Importation OF
Hindu la6orers runs about 300 a month
and is increasing. If not checked the
influx will exceed 5000 year, ana
these figures are moderate If we con-
slider the virtually unlimited coolie pop
ulation from which the supplies are
drawn and the pernicious activity OF
the steamship companies engaged IN
this profitable trade.
These Hindus are by far the most op-
iectionable class of Asiatic Immigrants
arriving In this country. They are I'M
fitted by constitution to withstand the
rigors and variations of the American
climate and as laborers they are dis
tressingly inferior In fact, 1t is mere,
Iv a question of time when they shall
become a public charge. Indeed, II is
a form of cruelty to bring them mere
because they are wholly UNITED 10
withstand the struggle for existence
on this continent.
The Hindus, moreover, constitute
race problem of even more difficult ana
dangerous character than do the other
Asiatics. Their caste prejudlces pre-
cIude any sort of assimilation with the
spirit of American institutions. They
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18
THE LETTER BOX

IN HE HERALD feels compelled to
ansounce that with this issue
n the discussions on socialism and
on theological questions that have
been running in the Letter Box,
with both interest and edifcation,
must be brought to close.
The subjects are so big that their
many phases lend opportunities for
interminable controversy, and that, it
must be plain to all would be as I'M
pleasant from the readers standpoint
as impracticable from the editors.
Controversialists become so earnest
that they do not often take this view.
On general topics The Herald invites
letters from its readers and feels that
the number who avail themselves of
the Letter Box are all too few. This
ought to be one of the most intensely
interesting features of every newspa-
per, and it is such in most English
dailies. The Englishman is forever
writing to his newspapers about abuses
small and great. From the crossing
sweeper to the railroad president all
fear the influence on public sentiment
of these expressions Of opinion.
The American walks down town
growing at public officials and pub
lie service corporations, but it all ends
in thin air and nothing is done. The
newspapers are left alone to bring pres
sure on these agencies, which come to
think that the newspapers represent
merely single men or small groups of
men. Let the public stand by the
newspapers in their effort for better
work in public and corporate capacity,
Why feel a morbid constituencies
about seeing your name in print? Why
not give the public the advantage Of
some Of these good suggestions you
scatter around in the ineffectivencss Of
the small conversational circle? Re
member that a published letter has
of times more influence than
opinions privately spoken.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18
CLAIMS AVERAGE PERSON
AGAINST socIALIsTIc IDEA

Editor Herald: Mr.. Rubell is already
dissatisfied with our discussion on So
cialism and wants to quit unless the
issue can be narrowed down to def
mite points. He thinks l am continu-
ally lodging him in argument and lik-
ems me to a gopher that always hobs
out of the wrong hole. But is this
really the case? have advanced valid
arguments in all my letters against
Socialism, yet he has either left them
unnoticed or toyed with them like a
half-grown baby. Let me repeat some
of the arguments that have appeared
and add a few more to the list.
Most people have not got the sense
of justice sufficiently developed to
willingly grant equal opportunity to
ALL that Socialism may get the float
ing vote from the working people, but
property owners will never vote for it;
that the average person, even if So
cialism were practicable, would not
care to live in a communistic society;
that democracy, to which we are in
evitably Fastening, will give us all the
liberty md equality that we can APP
preciate~ during this century; that even
if the state could take over all indus
tries it could not successfully conduct
them: that under state ownership we
should have the problem of the classes
and the masses in an aggravated
form: that the state will never have
money enough to pay private individ-
uals and corporations for their prop
erty and that it will not be allowed to
steal this property while there is a
supreme court and a standing army
in the country to protect individual
rights. Socialists think such objec-
tions are erroneous and the emana-,
lions from pervert minds. But then
Socialists who are shouting themselves
hoarse over the new commonwealth
have not the normal vision. Time and
disappointment are their safe cure, and
not argument. 2. A. JENSEN.
Los Angeles, Aug. II.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

CIV. d. Nesbit, in
My wife wants a 5000 oriental rug
for the parlor and l want S25 40
nestle. We are quite on the outs
about it. How can we compromise
DISTRACTED HUSBAND.
Compromise on the 5000 Oriental
Was strolling home from cara
party the other evening with a young
lady. She is 90 years old, weighs 1
should say, about 120 pounds, mas deep
blue eyes and this crispy, waVy, plond
hair. Her cheeks have that pecuilar
pink in them, and her
Inns are red as roses. There lsfa ulin-
ple in her cheek when she smlles.
When we reached a dark place IN tne
street she chung to my arm ana SAD
she was afraid. She stopped ana
looked no into my eyes and said she
thought ] was brave, that was her
ideal of a hero. assured her there
was no danger whatever but she SAD
that might be so, yet 1t was just as
noble of me to be willing to protect
her She said there wasn't any reward
too great for me, and then just looked
IN at me, with her lips half-smiling
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18
SEEKS INFORMATION ABOUT
PRINCIPLES IN POLITICS

Editor Herald What is Democracy,
Republicanism and Socialism? Are
they not the "isms'' Of political inter
ests that have the same ambition
namely, a government of the people,
for the people made by the people?
WHY do political parties exist? Why
are special pledges required of the
candidate? Is not II hindrance to a
good character to be curtailed to sup
port a party ism? If the laws are
made by the people is it not sufficient
to have our offices filled by. those who
viii enforce such laws? Is it not a
fact that partyism is destructive to a
government by the people?
AN INQUIRER.
Los Angeles, August Is.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

hair or how much you eat or when.
Nor where you shall sleep, or where
you shall worship or who you shall
worship, or how
Herbert Spencer was wise as a phil
osopher, but when he undertoo.l to
criticise Socialism he either did not
understand, or did he wilfully misrep-
resent? CHARLES u. WHITE.
Pomona, Cal, Aug. IT,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

1t is a rather interesting question
whether the minority that were last
week calling the majority party rem
egades still consider themselves the
regulars, in view of the election re-
turns.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

John D. Rockefeller got only 81, 600, 900
as dividends for the last quarter from
the Standard. But as John has been
thrifty and invested in a few other
enterprises we need not worry for fear
he will feel the pinch of hardship in
his old age.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

If it is true, as a dispatch from New
York says, that lightning will turn
milk blue, there are daily electrical
storms around some of the Los An
geles sources of supply that the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

Now a New Yorker says he heard a
drunken policeman say Gaynor was
going to be killed. As the mans name
is Perlmutter it is suspected he may
be a member Of the noted firm of Pot
ash & Perlmutter.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

Uncle Joe Cannon and Ballinger
seem to be working on a schedule.
Their announcements that they won't
resign come on alternate days. so as
not to conflict with each other, ap-
parently.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

The slang phrase, Hes a good In
dian" might be aptly applied to SEN
ator Gore b. the real Oklahoma red
men, to whom a good many million
dollars will be saved by his revela-
ton.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

We believe we read that Taft had
sent Murray Crane west to look things
over. 1t is to be hoped for the sake
Of accuracy and truth that he will not
report until he looks California over
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

While thirteen of the fifty principal
cities of the country dropped off in
postal receipts for July, Los Angeles
took in $1O6,433 an increase Of close
to 10 per cent over July, 1909. Some
thing doing in this village all the time,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

The direct primary surely had the
machine managers buffaloed. 1t was a
new thing to them, and their loss to
know how to meet the changed condi-
lions was amusing to all who had seen
their slick and effective work under the
old order.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

If any of the defeated candidates
want to talk it over they will prob
ably find a most sympathetic listener
in James J. Jeffries.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-18

It may be due to our imagination.
but we seem to see a rather melancholy
expression in most of the faces Of can
didates on the billboards since Tues
daV