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Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
OTHER MEMS INDUSTRY

n HROUGH the captains of other
mems industry the industrial sit
Il uation in the United States may
yet be reformed. Rev. Dr. Burdette
in the columns of our Republican morn
ing contemporary has supplied the key
phrase to the relations of capital and
labor in the United States. The cap
tains' are all very well, and no doubt
they have had their place in eyolu-
tionary economic history.
Even if their patriotism has been
patriotism for revenue only, still it has
been patriotism-in a way.
But, unfortunately, they occupy a
position similar to that held by the
Tory chiefs among the American col
onists before the war of the revolu-
ton. They are privileged to command,
and if any profit is to be derived from
the accomplishments of the rank and
file, they are privileged to take pos
session of that. AS for the rank and
file, the members of the majority, they
are being subjected constantly to tax
alton without representation, a fact
which will be driven home with en-
phasis by the increase in the price of
foodstuffs without any corresponding
increase in wages.
The captains of other mems industry
occupy a most important and most re-
sponsble position in this republic. They
are Industrial bosses, and as that ex
cellent play 1.-The Man of the Hour"
shows the chief menace to the Amer
ican people comes when the industrial
boss joins forces with the political
boss, and the two proceed to exploit
the people.
There's q good deal in phraseology.
Some causes have been made and some
have been killed by phrases. There
fore we look for enlightenment and
for good results from the Introduction
into the language by DR.. Burdette, in
our esteemed morning Republican con-
temporary Of the significant phrase,
Captains of Other Mems Industry"
Now, since sad and repeated expert
ence has shown it is useless to expect
the captains. by raising wages or by
providing safety appliances, to inter-
fere with the profits produced by other
mems industry (profits being much
more valuable than human lives) it
would seem to be In the nature Of
square dealing If the captains were
asked to undergo personally a few Of
the risks and hardships to which the
men who are producing profits for
them are constantly subjected. If, for
instance, a "Cap" were loaded into a
coalminer's cage and lowered away to
the profundities from which his prof
it's are extracted by the toll of the
other men, his opinion as to the ur-
gent necessity for modern hygienlc
mining improvements and modern
safety appliances might experience that
reformative and progressive change
which mere moral suasion has been
unable to bring about.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
MUNICIPAL FREE MARKET is
SUCCESS If WELL CONDUCTED

PASADENA, Feb. 4.-[Editor Her
add: In the Letter Box department of
today's Herald there appears a COM
munication from a woman on munich
pal retail markets. The idea is O
good one if successfully carried out,
but if conducted as one of which the
writer has knowledge the public would
be about as well off without it, For
several years there has been in the
city of Oakland what is known as the
free market. 1t is a place where any
gardener or producer may offer his
products for sale without paying city
license. The original object was to
allow the producers to sell their goods
direct to the consumers, thereby giving
the producers the opportunity of SELL
ing in this way instead of through the
commission houses and realizing better
prices, while the consumers would get
fresher goods at lower prices.
I do not know how the plan worked
at first, but for several years 1 know
it was simply a place where inferior
goods, culls and seconds of all kinds,
and decaying fruits and vegetables
from the commission houses were dis
posed Of. Everything that could not
be sold to the regular trade was sold
at the so-called free market" The
people who patronized this free mar
ket were looking for quantity more
than quality. True, customers could
get more for their money than at the
stores, but they would get inferior
stuff, such as was not handled by the
regular dealers. A municipal or free
market conducted as the one in Oak
land is would be a benefit to the poor
who must buy the most they can with
their limited means. but not to the
public in general. A municipal mar
1et run as it should be would be a
good thing for Los Angeles.
GEORGE D. HUTCHINSON.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
DIAMOND TRUST

A ENCOURAGEMENT is made the re-
n tail price of diamonds is to be
IA increased by from $5 to so per
carat. This is thrilling news, and we
advise all persons who have not vet
laid in their winters supply of dia-
monds TO get hustle on, or first
thing they know diamonds will be as
expensive as coal and beef. The adj
vance in the diamond rate is purely
arbitrary, as Beers and Britons have
long ago settled their differences, and
the excuse that the supply of diamonds
is being interfered with by an un-
pleasantness in South Africa doesn't
go. 1t is played out.
No. The increase in the price of dia-
monds must be ascribed to that same
old trust influence which is debauch-
ing modern living. Having affected all
other necessaries Of life. it was certain
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
AMERICANS LIBELED

IT ARDLY a murmur has been heard
I'll against the postal savings sys-
- TEN, although it was well known
many great interests were unalterably
opposed to such a method of caring
for the interests of thrifty earners of
small wages-the So to $25 a week
class who constitute the overwhelming
majority of the people of the United
States. But Senator Hepburn has
made the discovery postal savings will
upset business ana financial equilibrium
throughout the United States. He
says the measure will endanger If
not destroy incomes to the amount of
hundreds of millions Of dollars, and
disturb the earning capacity of the
investments of widows and orphans.
1t is only in the United States, mark
you, the postal savings system carry
ing only small accounts would have
that awful effect, Like parcels post
and old age pensions, postal savings
system has been a remarkable and
unqualified success in other countries
where 1t has been adopted. But in the
United States it would not do. 1t
would disturb equilibrium, and would
involve in ruin Widow Hetty Green
and Orphan Pierpont Morgan and all
the other lone, lorn widows and or
phans.
According to the Tories, this IS GER
tainly a ricketty, lottery old country
"sure Michael" No matter what fine
accomplishments in progress and re-
form may be achieved by other coun-
tries. the republic must not think of
overtaking them (say the reaction
eries) because, in spite of the great
success of all reform measures in the
effete bacl1woods of Europe, they would
not do at all, at all, in the progress
sive United States. Sometimes. we
think a certain political section in the
progressive United States should be
named the Progressive Euchre party:
the people are being euchred at every
deal
We hope they won't be euchred out
of a sane and beneficial postal savings
system, one which would be a definite
application of the American princi-
pie of the greatest good for the great
est number. Experience of other coun-
tries show that far from interfering
with Legitimate banks, the postal
savings system is a great help to
banking in general. BY taking ad-
vantage of the small savings permitted
by the postal system, many people
eventually find themselves in possess |
sion of a sum big enough to encour-
age or prompt them to start regular
bank account. The bankers of Bri- |
tain know this full well, and find pos I
tai savings a source Of prosperity.
But in the United states it wouldn't !
work. Isn't it maddening to have re-
sponsible ofIice-holders and represen-
tatives of the people of the United |
states turn on their constituents and |
contend the general level of intelli- |
gence is so far below that of the peo-
pie of the United Kingdom, New zea-
land, France and Germany that Amer !
leans cannot be trusted with old age |
insurance, government employment |
bureaus, parcels post or postal savings |
banks?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
RATES GOUGE

nj ERCHANTS and shippers of
Ik Greater Los Angeles are anxious
-AhA ly awaiting official action which
will free this city from the odious
tyranny of the discrimlnative railroad
rates imposed between commercial Los
Angeles and San Pedro, the seaport of
Los Angeles. The present rate is an
outrageous gouge, and The Herald has
presented convincing case against
the arbitrary rate makers. Every one
who has at heart the progress and
prosperity of Greater Los Angeles
should take part in the fight for the
establishment of square deal rates be-
tween Los Angeles and its seaport.
Greater Los Angeles is a city Of
great maritime opportunities. Other
things being equal, 1t will become the
leading port of the Pacific coast. It
will benefit by the opening Of the
Panama canal; and is situated at such
a commanding point of vantage for the
oriental as well as the South American
trade that all citizens who have a
reasonable expectation OF life will live
to see the day when one of the great
est warehouse districts in the United
States viii be established at San
Pedro. and when the commercial and
industrial section of Los Angeles viii
be as big and busy as that of any
other city in the United States.
But other things must be equal--ln-
,-.frr Thara 1tt,sef l.a ~, ,,,I
OF gouging.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
NEW FOOD TRUST

TN SPITE of protests, remonstrances,
threats and denunciations. a
Il breakfast food trust is being
formed. Thomas W. Hicks of the Ma
tional Financing company says:
"There are twelve cereal producing
firms in this country where one hold
ing company could handle the entire
output. We seek at present to COM
bine these twelve firms and avoid the
throat cutting which has been going
on for years" The most puzzling fea-
ture in connection with the formation
of trusts is their "enterprisers" Ito
coin a needed word via the French)
do not seem to realize they are in
dulging in a species of Socialism and
are providing argumentative ammuni-
tion for the Socialist party. This
financier, as a matter of BUSINESS,
calmly states the competitive system
is contrary to the interests of indus
operation in the output and market
ing of cereals. Now, if the principle
is right for cereals, 1t is right for every
other product; and if it is right for
every other product. the Socialists are
right, and we might as well admit it
and stop controverting them.
But the trusts are directly opposed
to an American principle, that OF the
greatest good for the greatest num-
ber." The trusts use cooperation in
order to produce results that will be
nightly beneficial to a few people, for
whom all the rest will have to 'pungle
up" It is to be hoped Socialism in
actual practice would not produce sim
liar results. Is there any guarantee
it would not?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
ATTITUDE OF HERALD is
STAUNCHLY SUPPORTED

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2.--rEditor
Herald: "Other Mems Industry" "A
Pittsburg Captain of other Mems In
dustry." Is it true in this age of our
boasted enlightenment? Alasi 1t is
blazoned in letters of blood throughout
our beloved country. in sweat shop and
mines. My soul is set on fire with the
Injustice, and 1 would to God that the
words Living on other mems indus
trv without due compensation" were
blazoned on the sky a mile high that
All men might know the infamy. And
YOUR editorial, Children" How it
stirs my soul! You are plowing. This
is the narrowing that stirs men to
act their part TO remedy these evils.
PIow deep. stir up the sub-soil that
has lain so long fallow.
"Cry aloud and spare not"
]. r. KITS. .
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05

Ballinger-Pinchot investigating COM
mittee has adjourned proceedings for
a week. Ha! Brilliant beginning! If
the committeeman and counsel had
been on hand and had got right down
to business the dignity of leisurely and
reposeful inquiry would have been
marred. We respectfully suggest the
members of the California state rail-
road commission be added to the COM
mittee. AS adroit and mastery sleep
ers they are equaled by few, excelled
by none.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
AT THE THEATERS

AUDIToRIUM-Dark.
MAsON-"Father and the Boys
BURBANK-"An On Account OF Eliza"
BELAscO-"The Man OF the Hour"
MAJEsTIC-"The vfrginian"
ORPHEUM-Vaudevill
GRAND-"The Wizard OF the Nile"
Los ANGELES-vaudevil
OLYMPIC-Musical burlesque.
TISCHER'S-Musicai farce
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
WALKER-Comedy.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05

A two hours fight between insur-
gents and regulars is reported from
Nicaragua. There was considerable
shooting, but no one, was hurt. Citi-
zens who believe in a sane and safe
Fourth of July celebration should hire
a Central American army to do the
firing,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05

Good government will be established
in Los Angeles county and in the
state OF California. The prospect is
painful to the shattered survivors from
the last lambasting. Hence those
hnNNls
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05

Captain Hance presides over $5,153,-
O75 of actual cash sin the city vaults.
The size of the pile is one of the in
Vulnerable instances of the growth and
prosperity of Los Angeles. There's no
denying ss$S$$$$ marks.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05

AS this country is increased in size,
population and "world-weight" it be-
comes more and more obvious the
interests" will have to swallow the
following pills: Old age pensions, par
GELS post, postal savings bank, gov
ernment employment bureaus. Surely
this is not a bitter dose, so why
should 1.-THE interests" make wry
faces? Do they really prefer poverty,
pauperism, asylums, hospitals, jails?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05

The salary loan shark is disgrace
TO Los Angeles, a menace to official
integrity, a nuisance to the men en-
trusted with care of the city pay rolls
and an all-around bad actor Make
him desist from his loan-sharking or
get out of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05

Billboards must be banished and
billboard art must go.I This is LOVE-
LY Los Angeles, and any interference
with the beauty Of the city is an in
reference with prosperity.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
HARMoNIZES PARTS OF =
MUCH DISPUTED CHAPTERS

LOS ANGELES. Feb. 3.-[Editor
Herald: Whereas many have set
forth their views concerning the in
depreciation of Matt. 24:34. and some
have questioned tho possibility OF har-
monizing parts of the chapter with
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05

The Roosevelt is. to be sent to the
south pole. This is not exactly
Roosevelt" and it is doubtful wheth-
er the brave colonel and former presi-
dent will be drafted into the Antarc-
tic service. Probably he will be con-
tented to be represented by the steam
ship with the lucky name.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENTS-L intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name a"d address OF the MriIP. rhe n AID
gives tire widest latitude TO correspondents,
but assumes no responsibility for their views.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05

The beefstcals ana the mutton chop
~ Innocuous may lie.
And truly in the butchers shop
They're getting rather high.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05

On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles R.sGates. advertising man
ager.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-05
CLEAR. CRISP AND CT EAN

Population of Los Angeles 327,6s5
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-23
STRAW HATS

All the new 1910 models, up-to-date
in every way. snappy styles for men
and young men. Wonderfully good
hats at 45c to. $2.70
Mems Panama Hats, fine imported
quality. newest blocks. Better than
any 5000 hat in town, Special at $4.s5
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-23
MEMS NEcKwEAR

Mems shield, teck and bow ties, 25c
and SOC values at 15c. for... CSC
Mems soc and 75c four-in-hands in
all the new shapes and colors at. .2sc
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-23
Every Ladies Coat in
in the store for less than
Half price.

Night Gowns OF fine neinsook, made
in high neck. open front or dainty slip
over and empire effects All prettily
trimmed and a bargain at .ssc
SSc Combination Suits, front of cor
set cover trimmed In medallion effect
with val lace insertion. leading ana
ribbon. A number of styles to choose
from. $1.25 values al. $50
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-23
EXTRA SPECIAL

Mems Trousers and boys long
Trousers In sizes 2s to 50 waist. that
We have been elling all season at
$3.50 and s175 and are cheap at that
price Now go while they last at. csc
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-23

TWO NEW MODELS IN WHITE
AND TAN LINENE WASH
SKIRTS, $f.05.
One style is a trimmed tunic effect
with deep fold. The other is fancy
front plated panel trimmed with large
pearl buttons. s1.5O and $500 values
at. .$1.05
LADIES' AND MISSES $3.50 AND
$3.50 WASH SUITS, ONLY ss.65
Ladies' and Misses Wash Suits III
white. tan, pink, blue and beautifully
trimmed and made. Great bargain
at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .$3.65
HENDERSON AND LA PRINcEssE
CoRSETS
Henderson and La Princesse Corsets
attract the best trade as they are ex-
pressly designed to meet the critical
requirements of women of fashion.
Henderson corsets. SOC to $500
La Princesse corsets, $500 to $1,000.
Special prices during our clearing
sale
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-28
UPPER MISSISSIPPI, FIRST.

The Dubuque Times-Journal takes
the Chicago Record-Herald TO task
for declaring that the Hennepin canal,
which was built at a cost of $7,000,000
was built too late 1t agrees with
Major Richie that it was built too
early, and that it will yet claim is
full share of business ana prove an
important feeder in waterway trans
portation. The Times-Journal is an
enthusiastic supporter of the improve
ment of the upper Mississippi, and dis
agrees with the Record-Herald in the
contention that the small volume of
business on the river today is due to
the fact that the railways have de-
yeloped into the most economical
means of carrying freight. In regard
to this the Times-J ournal says:
"This explanation is not based on
fact. The railways touched low water
mark in cost of handling freight
some years ago, and rates on heavy
freight have since advanced, the actual
advance in some instances being
nearly fifty per cent. The upper Mis-
sissippi has never had chance tC
show what it could do in competi
ton with the railways if given re
liable six foot channel The boat
owners have never been in position
to solicit a seasons business under
guarantee of delivery. They have
never been able to calculate on q
navigable stage of water from st
Louis to st. Paul throughout the sea
son. They have offered rates which
would have made it to the shippers
advantage to use the river If he could
rely upon that service. The six foo
+ channel is the thing needed TO make
4 the service reliable. Such a channe
could be established from St Louis
to st Paul for five per cent of VIVA
/ the deep waterway would cost. TIL,
upper Mississippi river improvement
should therefore have the first CLAIM
upon the governments attention
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-28

The philosophic minds of the pro.
fessors and others at the Missouri
State university are wrestling with
the problem why the boys do not line
up on the outside of the church doors
on Sunday and wait for the girls as
they used to. One of the pastors
thinks it is because the men see the
young women oftener during TIE week
and another thinks it is because the
young men have grown more chival
rous and are more careful of the feel
ings of the girls.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-28
PRICES FlFTY-THREE YEARS AGO.

rnlSES Fir I'll f1tEE YEARS AGO.
The present high prices are not un.
precedented by any means. In its is.
sue for the current week the Salem
News publishes a communication from
correspondent signing himself Il. L.
g. who quotes figures from an old
day book kept by prosperous iner-
camille firm doing large business IN
that community fifty-three years ago.
The quotations cover a period of about
six months, January l, 1857, to July
4, 1S57,-and are illuminative as to
the cost of living in those days. They
are as follows:
Flour, So to 81 per cwt., equal to
$1.50 and So per sack; corn meal 5Oc
per bu.; bacon and hams, 15c per h.;
side bacon, lie to 13c per ID; pota-
toes, S125 to S1.50 per bu.; lard, to
15c per h.; butter, 25c per h.; eggs,
s to 10c per ,doz.; molasses, 81 per
gal; sugar, four grades, IA, 16 2-3, 20
and csc per lb.; oysters, 90c per can;
crackers, Ice per lb; dried apples and
peaches, 15c per h.; green apples, 81
per bu.; pork, $3.50 per cwt.; whiskey,
S1.20 per GAL; brandy, $3.50 to SIS per
GAL; rice, S1l4 to Zoe per lb.; coarse
salt, &c per h.; wood, So to 81 per
cord; coal, $3.50 per ton; beeswax, 25c
per h.; fence nails, &c per h., or S5.25
per key; wheat, SOC per bu.; solid
shank garden hoe, soc; chopping axe,
SIPS; brooms, 25c each; mutton, to
&c per ID; veal, Sc per h.; stovepipe,
per joint, 35c: coffee, .16 2-3c per lb.
garden rake, soc; 25-lb. keg white
lead, $3.50; linseed oil, s1.40; putty,
10c per Id.
The correspondent says by way OF
comment on this showing of the cost
of articles in everyday use:
by comparing these prices with
what we are paying today, we can bet
ter understand what the trusts have
done for us. Kerosene had not come
into use at that time, but was selling
in small way at s1.25 per gallon
We were burning candles and spirit
gas at 81 per gallon in those days
Many more prices might be quoted but
these will suffice for the present =
1t is quite the fashion nowadays tt
rail- against the trusts as unmixed
evils, but they have unquestionably re
duced the cost of many necessaries b,
cheapening the cost of manufacture
If some of them have misused their op
portunities and perverted their func
lions, others have contributed to bet
| ter living at less cost In other words
| there are trusts and-trusts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-28
CHAPTER XVI.


~ REssED in rough. clean. bust
ness clothes. he was far diff
ferent from the Challoner OF
H. FIVE wears before This man
was strong. rudy flush upon his
face In fact. he looked SO good that It
was a willing hand that went out to-
him III greeting.
well, this is a pleasure" said Shir-
ley. smiling Laurie. you're the pic
ture of health
And you, Shirley-why. you never
looked better. What have you been
doing with yourself all these years?
Miriams happiness at their spon-
taneous greeting was good to see.
IF dared Id Kiss YOU" Laurie
went on. laughing good naturedly. but
he compromised on his wife. who had
been holding the bit of fancy work
on which she sewed. Suddenly she
glanced down at 1t.
OH she said. conscience stricken,
and hurriedly thrust 1T into a closet
Challoner watched her in surprise. and
when she returned he put his arm
about her and kissed her once again.
Shirley drew up her chair and, SET
fling herself hack comfortably into II.
armed to Challoner and went on eh.
citedly, Now tell me about yourseil!
We've saved $500" began Mir1am'
answering for him, and
give hundred dollars.v' interrupted
| Shirley, entering completely into the
spirit of things How did you ever
do it?''
Miriam turned to Challoner, smiling;
Laurie, do you remember the, day
when we had saved our first $1Qf'
"ShaIl ever forget it," returned
/ her husband devoutly, and. turning tc
Shirley, "The fact is somehow 0f 9th
1 err I've made good. and done it ~ five
years too. But you don't know{ wha
1t means RI ine-to us.
Ito be continued.)
HESTER:
Gold Medal Flour makes the light
sponge cake ever saw RAe8HE
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-28

1t became known during the re-
cent conference in Washington that
Governor Hughes Of New York would
veto woman's suffrage bill If it were
presented to him The governor did
not make this statement, but those
who know his ideas let the informal
ton escape. Hughes is man who
would veto any bin he did not think
proper 1t appears from this that the
women who are making such a strong
effort to secure favorable action for
the woman suffrage bill at Albany are
wasting their time.