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Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
GAYNOR'S LETTER

n NE sentence in Mayor Gaynor's S
vivid description of his sensa-
" tions when Gallagher, infamed
by Hearst editorials, crept up behind
the mayor and shot him, ought not to
be lost upon communities like Los An
geles that are asked to foster and
prosper that kind of journalism. 1t is
this:
IF DECENT PEOPLE WOULD
REFUSE TO LOOK AT SUCH NEWS
PAPERS, THE THING WOULD
RIGHT ITSELF AT ONCE"
Readers of the Examiner here and
in San Francisco we'll remember the
attacks telegraphed to them from the
Hearst headquarters in New York last
spring. They were sometimes as eX-
tensive in scope as a PEACEFUL, and
as vitriolic as could have been pos
sible had Mayor Gaynor been the
worst scoundrel in the country instead
of one of the best executives Amer
lea has produced in a century-a fact
admitted by friend and foe alike, ex-
cept Hearst.
But bad as they were here, they
were worse in New York-worse than
the historic attacks which described
the lamented Mckinley as "a living
breathing crime in breeches,' and
finally led to his assassination by
Czolgosz, a Hearst reader and disciple.
1t was so apparent that such bitter at
tacks might lead to- dire consequences
that when Gaynor was shot down, in
the absence of any specific informa-
ton on the point, The Herald ven
tured the opinion that Hearst's cam
paign against the mayor had led to
the Gallagher's act
And so it proved. Gallagher had
on his person a Hearst editorial, and
subsequently in an interview he lauded
Hearst as the friend and champion
of such as he. How can it possibly
escape the consciousness of any Hearst
patron that he has a partial respon-
sibility for the crimes resulting from
such journalism? And how can he
fail to see what he ought to do when
Mayor Gaynor says: eff decent people
would refuse to look at such news
papers, the thing would right itself
at once"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

When the Missouri Pacific railway
directors gather for the first time in
their new board room at 100 Broadway,
New York. within q few days they Will
have ready for their deliberations
great wall map of the railways OF the
United States that is probably the
largest roller map ever made. The
map measures thirty-five feet across
and is forty-hve feet high when un-
rolled. In it's mahogany frame, which
takes UP nearly the whole of the long
side of the Gould board room, only
fourth of the depth of the map shows
between the, rollers at the top and
bottom.
The map has been a year in making,
and eight men have worked nearly
continuously upon It. 1t was made in
sections about ten feet square. These
were assembled few weeks ago on
the floor of the Twelfth regiment ar
mory and sewed and pasted together
so skillfully that it requires close ex-
animation to detect the juncture lines.
Then it was rolled up on its rollers
and transported downtown on a the
atrical truck.
A shade roller manufacturing com
pany made the two rollers. The top
one, which Is simply a giant spring
roller made of steel, is the largest
thing of the kind ever constructed
The manufacturers declined to guar
antee that 1t would work properly, and
Mr.. Gould had 1t made at his own risk
The roller is five inches in diameter
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

1t was Saturday and everybody was
ordering all sorts of groceries. and
all the orders said as "quick as pos
sible." The grocer's boy, John, began
early and was told to hurry. The
horse, not very young and always
overv orked, was hurried out of the
stable before ne had quite finished his
breakfast, and John soon had the
wagon loaded.
BE lively" the grocer said. ''get
back as quick as you can,' and john
gave the horse a sharp cut with the
whip just to begin the day with. John
kept the whip in hand and used II
frequently to keep the horse on the
run; he felt very proud of himself as
he flourished the whip, and he looked
on both sides of the street to see IL
any of the boys could see him.
Rush orders.
IT went to Mrs. Bells twice this
morning" said John to the grocer IN
the afternoon. IT should think she
might give her order at one time. not
piecemeal, keeping us running there
all day" Cant help it. Hurry up
said the grocer.
once during the afternoon the thirsty
horse. which had been given no water
at noon because he was 80 hot, trlea
to turn toward watering trough, but
John gave him another blow. Toward
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
ESPERANTO LESSONS FREE

Editor Herald: Doubtless you have
long ago formed your opinion as to the
merits of Esperanto, the international
language. 1 hope that it is favorable;
but as there is much irresponsible critl-
cism of Esperanto, especially on occa-
sion of the recent international conven-
ton in washington, 1 want to offer an
opportunity for every thinker to judge
for himself. I have had prepared 1O0.-
coo brief grammars Of the language in
pamphlet form, and will send one free
10 any nerson who is sufficiently in
terested to ask for it, enclosing stamp
for reply. I think 1t really due to this
great movement for an international
auxiliary language that now embraces
fifty nations in its scope, that you pub
lish this letter, so that your readers
NAV have the opportunity of judging
for themselves. ARTHUR BAKER,
Editor Amerika Esperantisto.
700 East Fortieth street, Chicago, ILL.,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
FIREARMS, ETC.

n EADERs of The Herald have re-
II Gently been discussing through
~ it's Letter Box whether a curb
should be put upon the indiscriminate
sale of firearms. When a spectator sit
shot dead with a bullet in the heart
from mysterious source, as happened
in this city Monday night, the weight
of the argument would seem to shift
heavily to the affirmative side. If the
victim of this tragedy were the read
er's father, brot.er or son. the reader
would be sure to hold a strong opin-
ion in the matter. There is as much
reason for regulating the sale of fire
arms as the sale of poisonous drugs,
Either in the hands of reckless per-
son is public menace.
At the same time we have no hesi-
fancy in advising people who live in
parts of the city not patrolled by po-
lice to secure legal permits to carry
firearms, and be prepared for the In
dividuals or the pand of highwaymen
who have been robbing and assault
ing men ana WOIIleil Ol TIC SllpNNo eSI
night during the past few months,
The fact that in more than one in
stance the victims have been subjected
to indignities that can only be limited
at here, would seem to absolve in ad-
vance anyone who might be fortunate
enough to rid the community of the
degenerates by well directed aim.
When wife can be dragged from the
side of her husband at pistol point,
as was the case last week, or young
woman chloroformed, maltreated and
robbed on a public street, conditions
are about as bad as they we'll could
be.
The police department can find in
these and other similar occurrences
the inspiration for some extra activ-
ity, and they will have the thanks of
the community if they bring in the
culprits-dead or alive.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
TAWNEY PUT TO BED

A N Associated Press dispatch from
IA recorded the defeat of Representa-
"A st. Paul on Tuesday night which
tive Tawney of the First Minnesota
district also announced the incident
that 'Tawney has gone to bed" 1t
was very appropriate thing for him
to do Mr.. Tawney's constituents sang
the slumber song to him in such sooth-
ing style that no appreciative candi-
date could have failed to feel it's eff
feet. The Minnesota statesman will
henceforth have plenty of time to lie
abed late mornings, for he will not
be at the beck and call of Speaker
Cannon-or of the successor of the
speaker.
Mr. Tawney is entitled to good
snooze. For nine terms-more than
eighteen years-he has not slept at his
post surely. The latter half of this
term he has been one of the most wide
awake agents of special privilege on
the floor of the house. No legislation
that would fatten the fortunes of trust
magnates or help money to gain a new
point over human welfare found him
wanting. And when the supreme test
came-the vote on the Payne-Aldrich
tariff that was to raise the price of
rubber, steel, WOOL cotton, beef, ETC.
he was there for his masters.
II might have been better if he had
earlier contracted somnolent habits. If
the Associated Press could have said
on the day of the vote on the rubber
tariff that "Tawney has gone to bed"
he would have been spared from being
the lone congressman from his state to
go on record for it; also spSred from
being the one now left at home. And
Mr.. Taft would have been spared the
haunting memory of his best tariff
ever speech at Winona, that he now
cries out in his anguish he would fain
forget.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
Far and Wide

Dodging automobiles is a healthful exer-
cise-Toledo Blade.
There's fortune awaiting the man who
can invent an aerial life preserver for
aviators.--Albany Journal.
For sale--A bargain; 1000 pictures OF
Messrs ]. j. Jeffries and j. A. Johnson;
all styles. Address Observation-Disclosures
Sentinel.
Does all this agitation against whiskers
for doctors presage a campaign for a sani-
tary Santa Claus next Christmas?-Chi-
cago Evening Post.
The ST. Louis Globe Democrat has an
editorial on 'An Outrage on Arkansas Re-
publicans." so there must be two Of them
in Arkansas now.--St Paul Dispatch.
Now that Mr. Bryan has declared in ia
vor OF local option. it is remarkable that
no irreverent paragrapher has ventured to
dub him the Beerless Leader.-Provldence
Journal.
II Mr.. Roosevelt could be assured of the
vote OF all the people who have visited
him at Oyster Bay there would be no use
of any ones opposing him for anything
Dayton News
The new census shows that little Rhode
Island. which makes tariffs and things for
the rest OF the country. has just about a
fourth the population of tho city of Chicago
The Advance
A woman recognized an old, long missing
sweetheart by his voice he called out the
names of stations in the Hudson tube. Fear
of such things probably accounts for most
conductors apparently Disgusting their
natural yoiees.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
WHY MAINE DID TT

HT HEN Maine went nearly 10000
wv plurality in favor of the Demo-
" cratic ticket last week for the
first time in thirty years, there were
some of the standpat persuasion who
tried to lay emphasis on the alleged
fact that local issues, such as resub-
mission of the prohibition question
and the like, cut a large figure in the
result Maine newspapers are now at
hand, and in them we find no such
subterfuges.
The Lewiston Journal, the leading
Republican paper OF the state, says
that If Roosevelt had been running
for president Maine would have given
him a majority of $4,000, which is a
frank admission that the fight was on
national lines.
What explanation is there for the
Democratic victory in Maine on Mon
day." asks the Journal, "but the be-
trayal of campaign pledges and Of plat
form promises by highly oficious Re-
publicans in office? Had Taft vetoed
the Aldrich schedules and had congress
faithfully responded to downward re-
vision, Maine on Monday would have
gone Republican. Local issues did not
defeat Governor Fernald, but the uni
versal and reasonable unrest elected
by the mistakes Of the extra session
Of congress, in which a majority of
Republicans and a minority of Demo-
Gratis united to promote a trust-build-
ers' tariff"
There could be no more candid ad-
mission that national and not state
questions led to the widespread de-
sertion OF the Republican ticket by
it's usual voters. Maine has been
counted as thoroughly protectionist
as California. When it turns its back
on the old creed, what hope is there
for any party IN this country that
holds to the doctrine and tries to find
other causes for the trust plunder of
these days?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
Stories of the Grocer's Boy

the close of the afternoon the horse
began to hang his head, and when
John tried to whip again he did not
go any faster. When he stopped Tor
the third time at Mrs. Bells house the
horses legs were trembling and ne
closed his eyes as if going to sleep.
Mrs. Bell looked out of the WINDOW
and said, 1T think it's shame for Mr..
Rush to let that boy race his horse 30
all day. Every time he came here the
horse was in sweat, and now ne
looks as if he would drop. It's wicked
to work a horse So" Her visitor re-
piled, Eyes, the horses have to suffer
for mans thoughtlessness. and wom-
ans, too. He's been here three times
today, hasn't he?" But Mrs. Bell
didn't see the point of the reply.
1t was o'clock before John put the
horse in, the stable; he gave him a
big drink of cold water, which the
horse drank greedily; then he gave
him his supper. He did not rub the
horse down, but hurried away for the
night.
The horse died the next morning.
John was discharged. Mrs. Bell
stopped dealing with the grocer. All
three together had killed the horse
the grocer-the woman-and the boy
driver. Each could see that the others
were to blame. Each failed ito. see his
own cruelty.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

Considerable attention is being CIV
en- by the public prints in the east
to a married couple who have lived to-
gether seventy years without a dis
agreement pronounced enough to be
called a quarrel. In this day of suf-
fragettes and affinities many wonder
how they did it, says the Cleveland
Leader.
The wife, in true womanly fashlon.
says: 1--WE just loved each other, ana
that is all there was to it." But the
husband, more prone to reason from
effect back to cause, says: Il minded
bv own business and she attended to
her own affairs" This simple little
rule of conduct and the application
of it's spirit of fairness and tolerance
to all the details of family life is un-
doubtedly what kept their matrimonial
bark in smooth and sunlit waters.
1t needs not the dispassionate OBJ
seryation of the philosopher nor the
experience of the Judge of a divorce
court to perceive that the starting
place of much marital discord lies In
the disposition of one or both
of the parties in the partnership to
insist that the others personality shall
he nodded over. Where one Is much
stronger in will power and determine
tion than the other there is often
virtual surrender by the weaker. When
both are fairly we'll matched In THIS
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
INCUBATION DENOUNCED

Editor Herald: I see in your paper
today that petitions are being circu-
lated protesting against the compul-
sorry vaccination law in Long Beach.
Good for Long Beach! No wonder 1t
has made such progress with such
thinking men and women as it has.
May the time soon be here when
every city and town in the United
States will take such steps as Long
Beach; then the law and the M. DIS,
can go to Africa or elsewhere and in
oculate their poisons on another race,
as our people will then have outgrown
such filth, graft and crime, and health
and prosperity will reign.
FLORA L. w.
Hollywood. Sautember 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
A sTRAw-HAT INsuReENT

Editor Herald: The time is near at
hand when it is customary to discard
the summer lid and once more assume
the drear and drab headgear which
covers our dome of thought the major
portion of the year. And why, for
sooth, should we do so? Are we, the
mighty lords of creation, become 80 de-
generate that we sheepishly submit to
shake our buff-colored friend at the
whim of fashion?
Perish the thought, and let us assert
our superiority over the feminine per-
suasion by refusing to bend to the
tyrant. The backbone of the citizen is
needed in this fight against the habit of
swatting a straw after October Is. Ev-
erv man who has q red corpuscle In
his makeup would show the stun tnat
Won at Waterloo by Valiantly wearing
his while the sun shines warmly.
JOHN SMITH.
Los Angeles, September 90
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22


Mayor Alexander of Los Angeles an
nounces that he will call a meeting
of representatives of the various dis
tricts of Los Angeles county with the
view of creating a consolidated city
and county government.
1t would be a corker. The area or
San Francisco is but forty-seVen
eouare miles. The area of Greater
London is but 693 square miles. The
area of Greater Los Angeles on the
plan proposed would be 42O2 square
miles.
1t would be the biggest city on earth
and, in fact, 1t is evident that moth
ing short Of that will ever satisfy the
ambition Of Los Angeles. And it is
nothing against the people of that
city.
Possibly-probably in fact-the
dream of the mayor of Los Angeles
contemplates the excision of two or
three thousand square miles and pre-
senting them to one of the adjoining
counties. 1t could do that, and by
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
Sarcasm from San Francisco
(san Francisco chronicie)

20 Chronicle)
consolidating what remained would
still be the biggest city on earth
If it comes to the point, however,
it is doubtful whether Los Angelenos
would consent to 1t. Los Angeles new
er gives up anything.
It will be good thing If the pro-
posal of Mayor Alexander is accepted.
1t would not only lay new and tre-
mendous foundation for the Los An
geles boosters to stand on, but it
would make for economy and efficiency
of government.
There would be no unpoliced SUBJ
urbs, such as we have, for the har-
boring of desperadoes to ravage and
plunder the adjoining city.
The proposed consolidation would be
a good thing for Los Angeles, good
thing for the annexed territory and a
good thing for the state.
Tourists would come from afar to
visit the biggest city on earth, and
some of them would drop some of their
money in the wayside inns of San
Francisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
DISCUSSES LETTER BOX POLICY

Editor Herold: 1 enjoyed those two
little editorial homilies on the Letter
Box, but each, alas! contained dis
appointment. The first cut out an in
terestinr as well as a timely discus
sion, which might have cleared up
some widespread misapprehensions;
the second puzzled me by a general
inhibition of "disputatious' letters.
Probably purely disputatious' letters
were had in mind. Such, of course,
are nuisance. But a Letter Box
which did not dispute would be of little
use-it would be too much like a "mu-
tual admiration" society. Truth has
to be threshed out and error "scotched"
and that necessarily means controversy
or disputation. To "pile in" haphaz-
ard with brief and bald statements of
our conflicting opinions, without sift-
ing the pros and cons, is only to as
sert once more that everyone knew
already-that Opinions differ" The
aim of a Letter Box should be to unity
opinions on certain mainline prin-
ciples, by clarifying the issues, and
this cannot be achieved by a whip
and away method. 1t is "dogged as
does it" in the work of elucdation.
]. W. McKINNON.
Los Angeles, Sept 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
HEAVEN SPARE USl

OF LESS Importance, perhaps, than
some Of the other incidents of a
" busy day in New York and some
very interesting happenings in Mime
sofa, but of the highest significance
to the people of the entire country
was the result of the primary election
in the district in Utica, N. Y, in which
James S. sherman resides and from
which he sought election as a delegate
to the Republican state convention Of
his party.
Mr.. Sherman and his friends must
have put forth strenuous effort to
make a showing to offset recent asper-
sions on his character and acts, but
he was not only not able to get an
Endorsement from his neighbors, but
was unable to rally to his support two
ffths of the voters in the precinct.
If he goes to the convention he will
have to do so as the proxy of some
regularly elected delegate.
If this is what is thought Of Sher-
man in the home city in which he ac-
cumulated much of the fortune that
enabled him to buy his present emil
nent Job with a fat campaign contri-
button by forming an ice trust 10
squeeze profits from the poor, there is
assuredly good reason for the rest Of
the country to regard with great con-
Germ the fact that between Sherman
and the exalted office Of Chief magis-
trate there stands, but single life.
The prayers Of the righteous should
ascend daily to heaven that for the
next twenty-nine months, until March,
1918. no untoward thing may befall the
person or mind of William Howard
Taft.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
CHALLENGES HUTCHINSON

Editor Herald: In your issue of Sep
tember IS l read a letter signed by
Edward L. Hutchison, in. which this
gentleman says, referring to the trou-
BILE that occurred at the Labor Temple
at the celebration of Mexican inde-
pendence, when the lauding of Presi-
dent Diaz was hissed, that he stands
by what he said there of the great
work accomplished by Diaz.
I refute this statement, otherwise |
affirm that Diaz in Mexico has stood
against freedom, against progress and
against humanity, and l challenge MI.
Hutchison to a public debate at any
time and at any place to prove to him
that he is wrong and that the prog
ress made in Mexico has been made
in spite of the Mexican despot.
| await Mr. Hutchison's reply.
L. GUTIERREZ DE LARA.
420 West Fourth st.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
FROM A soUTHERNER

Editor Herald: Have either you or
vour readers read "Rooseveltian Fact
and Fable? It's worth reading. Have
YOU forgotten what you must have
heard Of his past?
Where would the principle of states
and died1 be If his doctrines and "big
stick" carry? You judge a man by the
comnanv he keeps. who have been
his supporters and lackeys? Let the
south at least. never forget I'VE
Judge the future by the past, why
else read history?
Keep a clear head and "dinna for
get"
Then onward and upward to noble things
zach man with his head held high.
We'll see the old south in the lead again
In the good time bye and bye.
FIDELIS.
Los Angeles, Sept. IS.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
WE WINK AT PILLAoE

Editor Herald 1t is sadly significant
of the state Of public morals to which
we have been brought by the all-per-
vading spirit of ruthless grab that peo-
pie are not shocked at-and the press
does not comment upon--the extortion
so commonly practiced nowadays by
reputable members of the legal profess
tion-"repute" being here used in the
sense of success" and therefore of
professional and social standing. 1t is
nothing unusual Though l claim it is
disgraceful and abominable) for law
yers to stipulate for and obtain from
their clients as much as half the sum
at stake in an action, said fee amount
ing sometimes to a fortune out of
one case. l remember q recent in
stance where a tribe of Indians was
awarded large sum- think it was a
claim against the government. The
Indians-some eighty or more-Were to
receive one-half the amount, the other
half was to go to two lawyers. The
papers published the fact; not word
of comment; they evidently didn't ex-
pect 1t to Jolt their readers at all. And
there are many cases-not of Indians,
either-similar; there is one before the
local courts Just now. For my part, L
cannot get used to it. / stand simply
amazed at the brazen impudence of
such shameless extortion; and in sheer
bewilderment find myself asking: If
half, why not three-fourths or four
fifths-I really don't see why it should
stop at half! Conscience and scruple
were of surety dead (and damned)
long before it reached the moiety stage
therefore why so modest?
Similar thoughts possess me when |
note the growing craze for boosting the
pay of high officials and great person.
ages generally. Doubling the presi-
dents salary; $250,000 bonus besides a
pension to Lord Cromer Cretiring from
Egypt; $350,00o year to the British
queen mother; increase of John Burns
salary to $25, 900 a year; enormous sal
aries to presidents of railway and in
dustrial Insurance and other corpora
tions, water boards, etc.-all of which
the struggling masses have to pay.
Time we called a halt!
CHAS. A. WICKS.
los Appalas Sentember 90
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

A physician just arrived from Ger
many says he has with him a supply
of observation-disclosures benzoldihidri-
chloride. Il we should unhappily ever
need any of the specific we shall insist
on it's being sugar coated.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22

The Arizona Democrats might put a
clause in their state constitution MAX
ing it impossible for a cabinet mem
ber to live in Massachusetts, hibernate
in Washington and claim a senatorial
seat in q far western state.