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Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
GET ON THE ToBoGGAN

Joe Cannon is on the toboggan,
And swiftly he makes his descent,
And loud Is the cheer as he lands on his ear
stll wondering If it is meant;
The sound of insurgents insurging
Ia heard through the land far and wide.
And regulars" all hear the popuace call,
Get on the tohoggan and SLIDE"'
Nelse Aldrlch is worried and doubtful,
And frightened Is Senator Hale,
While Crane and Depew are decidedly blue,
And Tawney is fretful and pale
They like not journey so sudden,
They know it's a rough way to ride,
And they say We're not we'll" when they
hear the loud yell
Get on the toboggan-and SLIDE!'
Rich Privilege, pursy and swollen,
Injustice and Legalized Wrong,
They see things at night in their pitifu fright
These powers that used to be strong
They hear the loud rumble of thunder
The voices that won't be denied,
For it's hard to stand pat when you hear
things like that
Get on the toboggan-and SLlDE!
The track Is swift and a steep one,
Oblivion's gulf is below,
And once on the way there is no place to stay
You hardly hit once while you go.
So pile 'em all on in a hurry,
Let plenty of force be applied
With a jolt and shove, and a loud holler OF
Get on the toboggan-and SLlDE!'
-Berton Braley in Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
LIQUOR QUESTION NO GROUND
FOR COMPROMISE, SAYS McAsLIN

WHITTIER, June 1.-[Editor Her
ald[: Permit me to call attention of
your readers to some philosophical
political problems laid down in Matt
Hughes Decoration day Grafton. Under
the heading Compromise a Failure" 4"
he wisely says: But there is one les
son of history overlooked by our faith
ers, and it is a lesson we may greVe
to say, as yet unlearned by their sons.
| That lesson is thar a compromise
never finally settled any question that
possesses a moral character" He is
speaking of the slavery question, but
does not the same eternal principle
apply to the whisky question, the tariff
question and all other questions that
touch human life?
Again he says. so often that the
words may be called his text: But
you never settle a moral question by
compromise"
Il applied to the treatment of the
liquor problem. it follows that local
option will prove a failure, and that
the people will then arise and abolish
the manufacture, importation and sale
of the deadly beverages, by national
laws and constitutional amendments.
Slavery, provided food. medicine, care,
religious training. and often kindly
treatment for its Victims modern
slavery robs them of all these and
destroying mind, health, means, moral
characer. rational volition, leaves its
victims thrice dead. dead i'm soul. body
and mind. NJ. G. McCASLIN.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
PEOPLE AND POWER

n TWENTIETH CENTURY magazine
is afraid of the power of Theo-
n dOre Roosevelt. w 3. Fleming
intimates that Roosevelt's popularity is
a sign the American people are los
ing faith in the republic. He adds:
THE people turned to julius Caesar to
save them from the social evils of
Rome, and elected him first consul,
then consul for life, then dictator and
pontifex maximus The people Of
France turned to Napoleon Bonaparte
and elected him consul, then first con-
sui, then consul for life, then emperor.
Is this history to repeat itself?'
Fears of this kind are founded on
the hallucination the citizens of the
United States are no longer capable of
self-government. But the history OF
the last few years shows that the
people are bent on taking the power
into their own hands and keeping it
there. 1t has not been a history of
bossism, but of war against bOssism.
With initiative, referendum and recall,
the people are protecting their power
and their interests as they never before
were protected in the history of the
republic.
1t is because Of his Americanism the
people trust Mr. Roosevelt. He is a
student of history, and is familiar with
causes and with first principles. Cae-
sarism with him is not self-seeking.
He who would form a definite opinion
of Mr.. Roosevelt's relations to America
should try to imagine what the repub-
lie would have been like without him
during the reign of tyrannous and OPP
pressive trusts, and what might have
been the results of the unchecked and
unrebuked efforts of the men charac-
terized by Mr.. Roosevelt as malefactors
Of great wealth.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
CORNISHWOMAN THINKS SOME
OF KING EDWARDS TACT GOOD

LOS ANGELES, May 30-EEditor
Herald: 1t really seems too bad there
should he such i'll feeling over a mis-
take. Whether it was made for pur-
pose or not. it does not give us the
right to personally harbor resentment
1t is better to remember the man him
self for whom they representation mis-
represented.
we all know that King Edward, with
his ready tact and hatred of unjust
ness, would never have carried out such
a piece of program. Maybe it was a
case of lauding those who paid the bills
Here's a thought, boys: If you felt
the slight to your dignity SO badly over
one shortsighted meeting how much
more must women feel the slight to be
told by you to go away back and sit
down. just because you boys want to
tyrannize more and more over us, 10
laud yourselves, while you buy and sell
your own kith and kin, and at the same
time, proud of your cowardice, like
those who talked at that one-sided
meeting? A cORNISHWOMAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
HARRY PRATT JUD-

n RESIDENT HARRY PRATT JUD-
SON of the University of Chicago
II is a weightier person than his
boyish Harry" for official use as the
head of a great university would indi-
cate, is the latest conspicuous Ameri-
can to paint his country's character
and future in very dark hues He is
gloomy in the extreme in his view of
conditions and prospects in the civil
lized world, as we'll as in the United
States.
According to the Judson jeremiad
delivered before the Northern Baptist
convention in Chicago recently, the
times are most corrupt and degenerate
in history, with the exception of the
period just before the fall of the Ro-
man republic and of that which pre-
ceded the French revolution. BY way
of particularizing he cites war; dis
honesty. drunkenness and social vice
as four proofs of the decadence of the
age.
Here is complete contradiction of
President Judson's views and evidence
that his conclusions are unwarranted,
in the very substance of his own argu-
ment. The four great curses that he
cites are all losing rather than increas-
ing their power for evil They are still
terribly prevalent and destructive, but
they do not support DR.. Judson's as
SertiOnS.
Preparations for war are carried on
upon vast scale. They are costly and
burdensome. but they involve none of
the horror of war itself. There is less
fighting than ever before, less killing
and manning in battle, less sickness
and death in camps and on the march.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
WIRELESS

7 ATEST wonder of wireless is the
result of the experiments of two
~ Brooklyn boys. And here be it
said in the domain of modern science,
boys bid fair to rival or excel their
elders. One reason is their imagina-
tion is not trammeled by traditions and
conyentionalities-t minds are free.
This ought to attract all the more
attention to their ability for expert
ment, which is as great as their pas
sion for it.
Two young members of the Brooklyn
militia organization have perfected a
wireless outfit which they attach to
the handlebars of their bicycles and
extend ten feet in air. The new idea
is practical 1t works.
We don't know which is more deserv-
ing of admiration-the wonderful wire
less. which will revolutionize all mod
ern methods. or the wonderful
twentieth century boys, who in the
most advanced fields of experimental
ton outexpert the professional eX-
perts.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
PICK GOOD MEN

NOOD GOVERNMENT is the issue
1T at today's primaries, and un-
" doubtedly the voters of Greater
Los Angeles will meet that issue in
the Los Angeles way by picking good
men. The candidates of the Good Gov
ernment organization are George H.
Stewart and Frederick ]. Whiffen.
officials of the Good Government or
ganization make formal announcement
sibe for Mr.. Whiffen and Mr.. stewart.
The leaders of the organization having
put these candidates formally into the
race stand sponsors for their acts,
pledging the people that if they are
nominated and elected they have the
utmost confidence both men will con-
sistently represent the principles and
interests of the best citizenship of Los
Angeles.
Neither of these candidates, if elected,
has any selfish interest to subserve
They are loyal and energetic crusa-
ders. clean and conscientious, and
thoroughly interested in the cause of
purer politics and better municipal
government
Good Government is inseparably as
sociated with the name and fame of
Greater Los Angeles. Our citizens
have won national renown by their de-
votion to the cause Of clean, well-con-
ducted efficient, businesslike. result
producing government: a system of
government in line with the best
policy" which is good old HONESTY;
the policy of the square deal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
Men Who Deliberately Took Measures
to Raise Prices Should Be Punished
Sacramento Union. }

simply destroyed for the sole purpose
of making those who eat that kind of
food pay more for their supplies.
In the most open ana outrageous
way the men who composed the syn
dicate are alleged to have acted, and
they have been for weeks openly de-
flying and laughing at the state au-
thorities and grand jury. OF course 1t
is impossible to say what will come of
the indictments. That is a matter for
petty jury to decide in each case.
But those who understood the investi-
cation have gone as far as they can
in the matter, and to them belongs
the credit of having made the investi-
cations and exposures which have re-
suited in the indictments.
The proper law officers Should push
the cases against the men indicted as
rapidly as possible. Men who thus de-
liberately destroy food that the poor
may be forced to contribute more to
their profits deserve to be handled
with no gentle hands by the state.
They are deserving of severe penalties
if the charges against them be proven.
There are other lines of food sup
plies where the same tactics are said
to have been followed, and there are
other localities besides San Francisco
where the same schemes only on
smaller scale have been adopted
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02

w HEN at the last session of the
w legislature Senator Eddie Wolfe
of San Francisco asked that a
committee be appointed to Investigate
the high price of food and stated in
that connection that it was customary
to dump into a crematory tons of fish
daily, SO as to keep up the price of
that commodity in the San Francisco
markets, the critics of the legislature
declared that it was simply another
scheme to create a junketing committee
and that it would accomplish nothing.
Yesterday in San Francisco the grand
jury indicted a corporation and twenty
individuals for doing just the unlawful
acts complained Of
The fact is mentioned because 1t is
an evidence that the committees do do
something and that while they may
iunket and spend money they also ac-
complish more than they are usually
credited with.
The scheme of the men indicted was
clearly. so far as the evidence of their
acts has been made public, in viola
ton of the Cartwright law, which
forbids any acts in restraint of trade
or for the purpose of artiticially keep
inc up the prices of food. 1t has been
shown that as many as fifteen tons of
fish a day have been sold for glue or
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
Here Is Book by Mark Twain Which
Might Be Circulated Generally
(Truth seeker)


a dialogue carried on between an Old
Man and a Young Man. The subjects
discussed are of a philosophical ma
ture-an analysis of the factors that
go to make up human personality and
achievement, and the disheartening
result is thus given in one OF the clos
ing chapters of the volume: 1T is
desolating doctrine: it is not inspiring,
enthusng, uplifting. 1t takes the glory
out of man, it takes the pride out of
him, it takes the heroism out OF him.
it. denies him all personal credit, all
applause; it not only degrades him to
a machine but allows him no control
over The machine; makes a mere cof-
feemill of him and neither permits him
to supply the coffee nor turn the crank,
his sole and piteously humble function
being to grind coarse or fine, accord
ing to his make, outside impulses do
ing all the rest"
The Times makes the stock remark
that the book in question is not cal
culated to add much to the authors
reputation" but Mark Twain seems to
have written 1t less for the sake of
reputation than for the sake of Truth
"a motive he probably knew would not
be appreciated by the reviewers. But
let the public be allowed to judge cor
itself Let the book be printed for gen.
eral circulation.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
GEN. gucKNER a BON oRATAH'

1t is narrated that Colonel Breckin-
ridge. meeting Majah Buffo'd on the
streets Of Lexington one day, asked: 4:
"What is the meaning, sub, of the con-
cose befo' the cot house,
To which the majah replied:
General Buckneh, sub, Is making
speech. General Buckneh, sub, is
bon oratah."
What do you mean by bon ora
tah?"
IF yo' or I. sub, were asked how
much two and two make, we would
reply 'foh' When this is asked bon
oratah he replies: When in the cose
of human events it becomes necessary
to take an integeh of the second de-
nomination and add it, sub, to an In
tegeh of the same denomination the
result, suh and l have the science of
mathematics to back me in my judg-
ment, the result sub, and | say IL
without feah of successful contradic-
tiion, sub, the result is fo'.' That's
BON oratah. h."-Lyceumette.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
HE DID HIS BEST

Mr.. Raymond appeared at his neigh
boris door one November evening at
dusk in a towering rage and uttering
fierce threats against his neighbor's
dog Nero. Vainly the neighbor tried
to explain that Nero was only a puppy.
"He belongs to Johnny" he went on,
"and it would break Johnny's heart If
anything happened to him. l think"
hopefully, that his manners will im-
prove"
Manners" repeated Raymond, "Tm
not complaining of his manenrs, but
his nature. After he had jumped all
over me he bit the back of my leg.
That's as far as he can reach,
broke in Johnny, in wounded tone.
you don't expect little pup like him
to bite a big man like yon on the neck,
do you. Mr.. Raymond? ?"-Youth's Com
panion.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
STRICKEN

"Oh," John" cried the farmers wife,
I'm afraid I've taken that dreadful
new disease"
What makes you think so, dear?" he
asked, alarmed, gathering the frail
little woman into his arms and strok-
ing the thinning hair as she sobbed
out the story of her fears upon his
broad shoulder.
"Well," she exclaimed, after l have
got up, dressed myself and the chill
dren, cooked breakfast, washed the
dishes, prepared the children for school,
strained the new milk and set it away
to cool. churned and worked the but
ter, swept and busted, done the ironing.
given baby his bath cooked dinner and
washed the dishes, sewed all afternoon,
cooked supper and washed the dishes,
undressed the children and put them to
bed, and sat down for the evening, |
am too tired to do my darning! l never
used to feel so. 1t must be the hook
worm PUCK.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
In Spite of Judson's Jeremiad, the
World Is Becoming Steadily Better
fsan Jose Herald.)


! The once fearfully familiar laying
waste of farms and pillage of towns
has practically ceased. DR. Judson
should never have mentioned war in his
indictment of the age which is doing
more than any other ever did to estab-
lish international tribunals to judge
disputes between nations and prevent
appeals to arms
The case is equally plain in regard to
drunkenness. 1t is less tolerated, less
condoned less common, than 1t was
generation ago or twice as far back,
There Is more effective and active war
waged upon intemperance in industry,
commerce, transportation and all forms
of business. 1t is more Stunned IN
public life, more condemned in society,
than the same vice was at any time for
many centuries.
The case is not so one sided in respect
to dishonesty, but even there the odds
are in favor OF these times against any
period before civil service reform. be-
fore the old doctrine that public offices
were spoils and belonged to the vlctors
in party strife was discredited, and be-
fore there was even an outcry against
what was then custom sanctioned and
legalized graft.
Let the relative honesty of this gem
Grafton and that OF any other in mod
ern times be made the subject of a col
lege debate, and on facts the cham
pions of the present would have the
advantage. There is proof enough in
countries so backward that they are
like contemporary past For whole
sale trickery and cheating in business,
go to lands which have not changed
vitally in thousands of years.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
WINGER WINGED

W HERE'S a man i'm Missouri who is
wanted badly by the fool killer.
a He is the bright and benevolent
individual who shot at Charles Willard,
the aviator, while Mr. Willard was
travelling aloft i'm Curtiss acceptance
The marksman actually winged VIII
lard's aeroplane, splintering the pro-
peller
The rascal who shot at the aviator
deserves all the punishment tho law all
lows yet probably MI, Willard i'm spite
of his Indignation, win agree with the
statement the fellow has sileu ciyiliza-
.tion its first object lesson in the art Of
disabling aeroplancs, and has shown
that very ordinary marksmau armed
with a common rifle can bring down a
bird-man easily AMI quickly.
This viii give pause to rouaucers
and cause some modification of stories
of aerial espionage and OF invasion in
which all the advantage is given the
bird man. and people down below are
supposed to stand i'm silent terror while
he aviates at his will.
The strangers rifle practice was de-
cidedly Objectionable and reprchensiIle,
yet it winged many plausible theories
when it winged and brought down the
Reroplane.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
TRYING TO RAISE TOMATOES

Somewhere in the great metropoli-
tan wilderness a South Yonkers man
found his bride. Although she had
never titled a garden nor planted a
seed, yet they decided to raise few
vegetables in their small patch. George
spaded and raked the earth and Mary
did the placing of the seed-that ls'
some of 1t.
later. what do you suppose is the
matter with those tomatoes? They
haven't sprouted yet - o.Lo
''Perhaps dearie," he replied, tine
ground is too cold; it needs sunshine
"Oh, I hope that is the only !Teason'
I feared they hadn't come up because
forgot to open the cans."-Yonkers
Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
NJ EW YORK TINES Saturday Re
~ view of Books states that four

NJ EW YORK TIMES Saturday Re-
~ view of Books states that four
~ years ago few copies of book
bv Mark Twain. bearing the title
what Is NAM" was privately
printed. The authors name does not
appear on the title page, nor does the
book carry the imprint of a publisher
A PREDATORY note, interesting from the
intense seriousness with which Mark
Twain evidently undertook the studies
contained in the little volume, Is as
follows:
February, 1905. The studies for these
papers were begun twenty-five or
twenty-seven years ago The papers
were written seven years ago. / nave
examined them once or twice year
since and found them satisfactory. l
have Just examined them again and am
still satisfied that they speak the truth
Every thought in them. has been
thought (and accepted as unassailable
TRUTH by millions upon millions of men
and concealed, kept private. Why did
they not speak out? Because they
dreaded (and could not bear) the dis
approval of the people around them
Why have | not published? The same
reason has restrained me, l think. l
can find no other"
The bulk of the book, the Times re-
viewer says, is written in the form or
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
MAYOR OF MILWAUKEE

The mayor said to the policeman: OFFICER
there isn't a man. woman or child IN NIL
vaul5ee who may not come into this office to
see me. I want you to especially encourage
people who have not the appearance OF wealth.
This is the office of the Milwaukee people,
The new mayor proved his democracy when he
went from his home to the city hall. 1t cost
him a nickel ride IN street car and he had
to hang on a strap a that-San Diego Labor
I.aaler.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02

Since Pulitzer-who made all his
money from newspapers-has given a
$4,000 golden dinner set as a present
to his son, people will begin to think
the newspaper business" is not such
a poorhouse job as its detractors pre-
tend. Pulitzer, a foreigner, made a
mint of money by sensational Ameri-
can journalism. w. r. Hearst, an
American, is said to have lost a mint
of money by sensational American
journalism
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
CATACOMB COMMITTEE

The recently reformed" house committee on
rules is proving to be as secure a catacomb
f. proposed legislation antagonized by the
special interests as was the one of which
SIP Cannon was chairman. Not a single
res lion which might adversely affect unlaw-
ful combination. such the sugar trust, has
been reported favorablF by the new commit
tee Speaker Cannon dominates the reformed
body Just as effectively as he did the old rules
cOmmittee.-Ventura Democrat
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
y
DECENCY DEMANDED

While we have not tested the question re-
Gently in California, there is no question but
that the same result would follow here II
the matter to come up for vote III
this commonwealth II those who conduct
the liquor business are wise they will profit
by the experience of those in the southern
states and stand not for a policy which Will
lead temporarily at least to prohioition' put
for 4 course that will make the saloon de-
cent and It's management respectable.-Sac-
m Op0tO Union,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
State Press Echoes
EXPERT BoOKkEEPER

Hereafter" was the parents mandate,
Il must insist upon your keeping books.
You'll never be a business man unless you
keep track of your money"
The lad promised, and a week or so later
was called upon by his father to give evi-
dence Of his improved financial methods.
Proudly he drew from his pocket small
memorandum book which he submitted for
the merchants inspection. The entries were
brief. but comprehensive.
May /. 1910-Received from father 5000"
May ,, 1910-Spent Unfolding
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
XCIX

TRIDAY MORNING CLUB is
making preparations for celebra-
Il ton of the ninety-ninth birthday
of Rebecca Spring. Mrs. Spring will
begin her hundredth year of useful,
active life by being the guest of honor
at a club luncheon.
Mrs. Springs friendships are all new.
Her old friends have departed long
ago; in fact she has outlived several
generations of old friends
But her heart of sunshine has en-
abled her to make new friendships
and there is not woman alive any
where on earth who has more people
willing to yield her cheerful homage
for her own sake and for the sake Of
all she represents.
In Mrs. Springs small frame is con-
tanned an epitomo OF all the modern
history of the United States; and for
many years, when the times tried
mems souls, she was in that history,
and Of that history The episode by
which she is best known is her errand
of mercy TO John Brown, wounded and
in prison after his futile blow for
emancipation.
But in many other episodes she took
active part. and her friendships-think
Of it-cNtond away back to Words
worth the gentle English poet Of the
Lake school, and grabbed Tom Carlyle,
the Scotch philosopher, and Emerson,
the profound American thinker and
Whittier, the Quaker bard. She is the
most wonderful woman in the world
today. May she enjoy happy, pros
porous and hoalthy hundredth year.