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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

the phases of the malady. I begin at
once to apply such remedies as will as
suage the disease.
A man who works 300 days in the
year, neither drinks, smokes nor goes
joy riding, and yet cannot earn enough
to buy proper food, comfortable hous-
ing or decent clothes for his wife and
children gets little comfort from read
ing editorials telling him that nobody
is to blame for empty stomachs and
bare backs.
| do not believe there Is a prominent
statesman or politician holding any
important office today who cares, or
would make the least effort toward
ameliorating the hardships put upon
the honest workingmen. Perhaps I
should give credit to former President
Roosevelt for his evidently sincere eff
forts to regulate monopolies, but his
efforts have done nothing to help US in
even the remotest way.
Has anyone paused to consider what
is to become of the boys of today-my
own by way Of example? They cannot
go farther in education than the gram
mar school; the wages of their father
will not suffice to support the family,
and the boys must become wage earn
ers, sacrificing any hopes of rising
above this position in life-tied forever
to such an existence as an uneducated
man must submit to. That is the flu
ture of the sons of the workingman of
today, and such men as these will be
will make up the greater number of the
generation soon to be our men.
The wife and mother of the working
man of today bears the heaviest part
of the awful burden of supporting the
family; it is she who tries to economize,
to find some way to buy the food to
pay the awful bills for the necessities
of life. How my heart seems to break
when 1 go home at night and look at
her patient, wan face, her dropping
figure and see her tired eyes.
[ know the long hours of the night
when she lies with wide open eyes,
planning, planning how to clothe this
one, how to keep that one in school,
what to buy for the table, for she must
exc out the few dollars to cover the
outrageous prices charged for meats,
vegetables and foodstuffs.
The vain display of the rich, the I'M
mense advantages they have and profit
by does not make the poor man who
looks on any happier.
So, as l ask above, can you give me
the address of a tailor who will make
the trousers with unequal length for
wear by the workingmen, whose one
leg is shorter than it really ought, etc.?
South Pasadena, Cal. N. N.
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whatsoever a man soweth that
shall he also reap" SO says human
ity's divine counselor, the Bible; there
fore a great and beautiful harvest will
b. shortly due a certain woman who
has sown bountifully of good seed with
generous, broad-sweeping arm; wo-
man whose charity is the sweeter for
beginning in her own home--rushing
Chicago.
may not give her name, lest 1 Of
fend where only honor Is meant, but
the good deed should be known of all
men, in the hope of finding earnest
followers of such an admirable ex-
ample; for you see, like the rest of us,
this woman realized the great harm
done by the Osler idea; saw how 1t
helped on the rapidly growing boy
cotting of old workers, who, shamed
and wounded, their tried loyalty and
honesty all ignored. were driven out
not because they were incapable, but
because 1t looked m re brisk, more up
to date, to have young men about
not old fogies.
Sons and nephews coming into great
firms were walking terrors to the cid
erly servitors, from the office help
down to the janitor and engineer. Wo-
men, too, with little bottles of wal
nut Juice, strove to hide the silvering
pies; buttoned themselves UP the back
and wore eyeglasses. when their souls
yearned for the comfort of spectacleS
all in the piteous hope of holding a
situation really theirs by right of ex-
perlence and proved trustworthiness, as
against the supposed "hustling pow
ers of Inexperienced youth.
We all heard of the weary search OF
elderly men for the ever-refusing' job;
heard of waning self respect, of final
surrender to despair and suicide, rath-
err than live a burden upon some strug-
Cling son or daughter; we all pitied
and were indignant-but this woman,
who has money enough to take no heed,
who chafes, who fretS, who could so
easily be the best dressed woman at
this or that resort, did not stop where
the rest of us did. She has, besides
sufficient money, opinions, and better
still the courage of them, and she dried
| the plying tears from her eyes and
| took counsel of her womanly instincts
that told her all men were not heart
| less nor cruel; that some were kind
| and many were at worst thoughtless
of others. in their own frantic struggle
| to get ahead.
| And SO she took of her money, and it
| spoke, as money can in all places OF
| the earth where there are human ears
! to listen, and this money, speaking
| through a fine office, and a great sign,
and the aphonelike voice of ads
in the city papers cried aloud that all
workers, male and female, who, bur
dened with years, MANNED or crippled
by accident, yet feeling themselves
capable of doing work of some or any
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Can you, man or woman of the bust
ness world, calculate the number of
times you have made figure in cheap
restaurants-you of the countless thou
sands who rush out when hunger de-
mands and business permits to get
meal in a hurry? At different seasons
of the year the menu plays through
certain changes, but always gets back
to the same tune with the regularity
of a street organ beginning its roll
again. So it has a chance to be pretty
we'll known. But the fact is that 1t Is
not at all known. If it were suddenly
'magicked" so that on each card one
could read a brief description of the
article named, one would frequently
see items like the following:
Salmon salad. cents
Colored sea bass or cod,
Vanilla cup custard. cents
Contains neither milk, eggs nor vanilla.
Griddle cakes and maple strip. '......'lo cents
Sirup made Of alphabetically favored
glucose.
SDonRe cake. Genus
Made with rotten eggs.
Strawberry Jam artt..,............. CENTS
Jam contains no strawberries
Charlotte russo oSnNs
Whipped cream has cream in it. and the
cake part is made Of incubated eggs
Kisses Cehts
Contains neither white of egg nor sugar.
Ice cream cents
No cream. Cold air one OF the substitutes
for 1t.
Bread and butter served with all orders'
Butter is rancid waste made over:
Rean and pea hulls ground up with berry.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14
OUR BIG c1r1Es

THE census of nearly all the lead
ing cities has now been given
Il out and it is interesting to look
over and compare them. There are
forty-six cities for which a popula-
ton of more than 100000 has been an
nounced and there may be others to
enter this class.
Two cities have disappeared from
the list as made up at the census of
1900 Allegheny, Pa, which had 1886
inhabitants ten years ago, has been
merged with Pittsburg. st. Joseph,
Mo, which was forced into the 100000
class by a padded census, has dropped
back into the ranks of cities of from
$4,000 to 100000. Its population is H.
403, against a reported 102, 979 ten years
ago. Returns so far show that ten
cities have crossed the 100000 mark
since 1900. They are Albany, N. Y,
Birmingham, Ala, Alfalfa, Ga, Bridge
Ohio, Grand Rapide, Mich, Lowell,
Mass, Richmond, Va, and Nashville,
Tenn.
In 1900 there were 112 cities with a
population of from $4,000 to 100, 900.
The count so far as it has progressed
shows that siXty-two cities have risen
above the $4,000 limit since 1900 and
there will be a number Of others to
enter this class. Only three cities in
the list as at present made up indicate
q dSc1ina in rOpu1at iOo in the ton vaarc
from 1900 to 1910. One of these is ST.
Joseph, Mo, noted heretofore, where it
is not believed there has been an actual
decrease, but a shrinkage due to the
fictitious enumeration of 1900. The other
two cities are Chelsea, Mass, and Gal
weston, Tex. Chelsea had a population
of 34,072 in 1900 and reports in 1910
only 32,452. Galveston's count in 1900
was 37,7S9, against 36,9S1 in 1910.
Eight cities have a population of
more than 100000. They are New York
Chicago, Philadelphia, st. Louis, Bos-
ton, Cleveland, Baltimore and Pitts
burg, in the order named. In the past
twenty years there has been no change
in the rank of the five largest cities
OF the ten largest cities in the world
New York stands second, Chicago fifth
and Philadelphia ninth. 1t is likely
that another ten years will see Chicago
in fourth place and possibly In third.
Nine important cities of the United
States showed approximately the same
rate of growth in the last ten years.
They are, Boston 1876, Buffalo 20.2, New
Orleans 1871, Omaha 81, Paterson 1914
Philadelphia 1877, Pittsburg 1872, st.
Louis 1914, and Washington 1873. If
they do no better in the present dec
ade Los Angeles is likely to outstrip
such cities as Boston and Pittsburg, as
she has already passed so many others.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

Neekly)
Black earth one ingredient.
Ginger ale Genus
Artificial color, flavor and bite"
And so on, through all the appetiz-
ing items with which workers in the
business world feed themselves at the
cheap eating houses.
What does it mean? That the quick
lunch and small restaurant men, who
are legion, are rascals, deliberately
tampering with the requirements of
the pure food and drugs act? No; 1t
means that the pure food and drugs act
is their greatest protection in the
fraudulent business of selling patrons
an imitation in place of the article they
think they are buying. 1t means that
the act protects their consciences as
well, for, unless they be of an inVes-
tigating turn of mind they need not
even know that there is any fraud. 1t
means that the laws letter is the
greatest assistance one could have in
breaking it's spirit. Ask your eating
house man. If he runs dairy lunch
he points to his menu and tells you
that only milk-and-rice or milk-and-
bread pudding and the eggs the GUS
toners order a la carte are cooked on
the place. They may be cheap, but
they are bona fide. The pies, cakes.
charlotte russo, pastry, and so on, come
ready made from the wholesale baker.
IF a 25-cent dinner is served, meats and
vegetables are cooked as well, but the
rest comes from the baker just as is
the case with the lunch man. They
don't know what the baker uses. Ask
him
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14
SCHEDULE K

TN the November American Maya
zine Ida M. Tarbell continues her
n able and lucid exposure of the
iniquities of the tariff so clearly that
anyone can understand a subject mis-
takenly supposed to be only for
statesmen. Miss Tarbell takes up the
celebrated schedule X. which was
framed by the ulti-mllionaire wool
manufacturer, William Whitman, and
passed at his behest.
Schedule K has: First, raised the
price to the ultimate consumer-the
people who wear clothes. Second, it has
resulted in the mills, owned by the
wooden trust, being filled with for
eign workmen, brought on by the
trust because Americans will not do
the work-so wearing to nerves and
dangerous to health-for starvation
wages. The trust pays on the average
$444 a year to its workmen-under
as are usually available to employees
of the trust. Third, and undoubtedly
foremost in the eyes of the author of
the tariff law, the wool trust, at the
top of which stands William Whitman
of Boston, one of the largest manufac-
turers of worsted goods in the country,
is literally coming wool into dollars.
Whitman has for many years die
tated the wool tariff through Lodge
and Aldrich and his special agent, S.
N. D. North. 1t was he who wrote to
Congressman Dingley urging Dingley to
make the tariff high but not so I'M
necessarily high as to attract unfavor-
able criticism"
Whitman's chief mill, at Lawrence,
Mass, valued by him at $12, 0OO,O 00 was
built not from invested capital but
from THE PROFITS, and on its pres
ent capital pays 20 per cent. At a re-
cent hearing on the increased cost of
living Whitman gave it as his opinion
that cotton clothing was as good for
tuberculosis victims as WOOL
AS an illustration of the tariff for the
benefit of american workingmen" and
of infant industries" schedule K is a
veritable calcium light Read Miss
Tarbells article.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14
HOW ONE CITY PRosPERs

Editor Herald: Los Angeles, one of
the most prosperous of the worlds cit
les, owing to it's climate, ought to be
interested in the remarkable prosper
ity of Vancouver, B. c., without any
climatic help, but the reverse.
One Of the reasons, If not the prin-
cipal reason, for the rapid growth OF
Vancouver is it's hospitality toward
capital. Vancouver doesn't stand in
the door and welcome capital with q
club In Vancouver capital is received
with open arms, and hidden to expand
and fructify without let or hlndrance
Vancouver says to capital: go ahead
and produce wealth to your heart s
content, and what you produce shall
be yours against the world, There
shall be none to modest or make you
afraid. No government or Individual
shall touch an atom of your producl
without your consent"
In 1902, land and Improvement were
taxed equally in Vancouver and there
were All building permits granted, the
average value of construction being
10000 In 1903 a policy of eXempting
60 per cent of improvement value from
taxation was adopted and in 1905 the
building permits had grown to $40,
with an average value of the construc-
ton of S2S00.
In 1906 the exemption of improvement
value was increased to rs per cent, and
in 1909 the building permits were 2O54,
with an average construction value OF
$500.
In March, 1910, improvements were
totally exempted and local revenue IS
now raised entirely by a tax on lana
values. with the result that in the
seven months of 1910, for which figures
are available, there have been issued
1870 building permits, carrying an av-
erape construction value of $3.50. Can
there be a clearer demonstration of
cause and effect?
ARTHUR HUDSON.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14
ELECTION REFORMS

EMBERS- ELECT of the new
N California Legislature should set
LII their minds to work on the
necessary reform in our election meth
DDS and hasten with all proper speed
an act for the shortening Of the bal
lot and the separation of elections
Voters who last Tuesday struggled
with the bed-sheet ballot and its le-
gion of names, and left the booth un-
certain whether they had voted as they
desired, will thank them for it.
The ordinary voter cannot pass in
diligently on the merits of so many
men and propositions and record him
self in the interest of good government.
The extreme to which American Vot-
ing laws have gone is illustrated by
the fact that in North Dakota the bal
lot was seven feet long! No one need
expect that weak and vicious men can
be kept out of office with such a handi-
cap on the voter.
The long ballot is the friend of poll
ticians and an encourager of ineffi-
cheney in office. 1t is the refuge of
pOILlCdl SATELLITES WHICH cannot endure
the light Of publicity. The short bal
lot represents the hope of popular gov
eminent. 1t is not a panacea, but an
opportunity. The short ballot advo-
Gates received large accessions last
Tuesday.
Another reform that ought to come
is the voting machine. The totals of
the vote in great cities like Buffalo
and Rochester were known to the out
side world sixty minutes after the polls
closed. 1t was three days before we
knew in California how some of the
contests went The voting machine is
d promoter Of honesty and intelligent
voting and saves money by the reduc-
ton Of precincts and election officials
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14
Justification of the Suffragettes
. November FORUM

November
The anti-suffragist, the mentally
slovenly who have given no thought
to the question, and those who stlil
have an open mind in regard to the
subject have persistently condemned
the methods employed by the mill
tant' suffragettes as "unwomanly,'
"In bad taste" unfair" ineffective"
And while it is true that the methods
employed have not always been those
that are exercised by women in polite
society for securing their desires. 1t Is
indubitable that the present state OF
nubiic opinion has been brought about
and could only have been brought
about by such overt acts of violent
protest as would force the attention OF
the whole world upon the issues in
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14
RIME OF THE ANCIENT PoLlTIsH

It was an Ancient Polltish
That grabbed me by the sleeve,
And told the gruesome tale to me
Without byyour leave.
Says he, 1.-The ship were sailin' free,
'Twere back in Nineteen Nine,
Wed scraped her bottom good and clean
OF barnacles and Bryan.
AN she were reelin off the knots
An sliding like "A snake,
When this here Tariff Bill riz up,
A bobbin' in her wake
IAN day an night it tagged along
Till all me mates was blue,
Fer fear at It would work EN- Ill,
An what Wuz they L do?
"says I, Me merry mates, belay!.
An then 1 up an roared,
An grabbed that boomin' Tariff Bill
An yanked 1t right aboard
Says they L me, ~ elephant
Y want { wreck the ship?
Lego that bloomin' Tariff BnlH
An smote me on the hip.
"An' then they throws me on the deck,
Ez cruel ez can be,
An ties the Bill around me neck
An drops me IN the sea!
AN ever sense that orful day
never finds no rest,
with that same bloomin' Tariff Bill
A hangin' on me chest"
--Wilkes-Barre Record.
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FORUM
volved History has shown that dig
nified petitions containing the sigma
lures of hundreds of thousands of rep
resentative citizens have availed the
art Mill said in his "Subjection of
Women: 1.-THE concessions of the
privileged to the dnprivileged are sell
dom brought about by any better
method than the power of the unprivi-
legged to extort them" The militant"
suffragists have caused a bill to be in
troduced into parliament and forced
Mr. Asquith to hear their demands in
person. Why? Because they have lit
orally stuck at nothing, because they
have been prepared to sacrifice life
itself in vindication of their right to
vote.
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AS A woRKINeMAN SEES 1T

Editor Herald: I would like to ask
a question, i. e.: Can you give me the
address of a tailor who will make
trousers with one leg shorter than the
other?
am a voter AS such I have at
times seen editorials explaining why
the snpleWorm tariff is not to blame
for the wives and children of working
men going lily nourished and poorly
clothed,
I have not read any of them. If I
have a child critically ill with dis
ease I do not leave the child without
attention and medical aid while l study
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

Students Of the University Of Mich
igan smoked thirty-three thousand
boxes of cigarettes last year, So not
even the higher education escapes its
tribute to the tobacco trust.
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nnnn REAsON PROVIDED

When England and Japan begin 10
worry because we propose to fortlty
the canal we have abundant conhrma-
ton of our purpose.-Baltmore star
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The minis are going to turn out some
new gold coins for the Christmas
trade. 1t would increase their popu-
larity if they would turn out a large
number for Christmas presents.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

one of those Illinois Central officials
on a salary of $500 managed to save
half a million dollars in four years.
He might be called the Senator AID
rich of the railroad world.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

A newcomer asks what we tell the
kids of Southern California about
Santa Claus instead Of the reindeer
and sleigh story at Christmas Diri-
gible and equilibrator.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

Constant Reader" writes to ask:
Is it correct to say at is anybody
else's, or anybody's else?" Neither is
correct. The proper form Isl 1t is
J. Pierpont Morgan's.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

TO find who was most 70 blome for
the landslide, write the names Taft,
Ballinger, Aldrich, Cannon, Hitchcock
on a sheet of paper. Close your eyes
and lay your finger on the paper,
open your eyes-and that's the one.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

Every once in a while a young
woman puts on her hobble skirt and
her French-heel shoes and pulls her
peach basket hat down over her eyes
and ears, and wonders why men do
not marry as early as they used to in
her mothers day.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

Five men were killed and six seri-
ously wounded during the Adron-
dacks hunting season. This is terri
ble-almost as many casualties as in
a South American revolution.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

President David Starr Jordan says
the Japanese war caused the high
process Now will the prof kindly
tell us how it raised the price of an
egg laid yesterday?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

Paris ate 1900 tons of mule meat last
year. Unless some way is found to
make the beef barons come to time we
may have to fall back on the mule-or
the family cat.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

We pause a moment in our busy life
to say that the New York Herald's
reelection predictions came pretty
near being the real thing in the proph-
ecy line.
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WINDOW

whats all that trouble about the
long and short haul?" demanded the
secretary of the woman's club.
tits this way" explained the treas
urer: "Some dressmakers say train
ought to be six feat in length; others
say three feet is enough."-Kansas
CITY Journal.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

If it is true, as a New York paper
says, that IT, city has S700000O win
dowless bedrooms, New York has
either grown enormously in the past
few months or the people keep an
astonishing number Of guest cham
bers.
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WHY THIS OMISSION?

The esteemed outlook has an articIe
entitled "Why Maine Went Beht. II
the Ont1oolt will look up the old quota
zion again it will find that isn't the
wav Maine went.-Kansas City star
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

A Washington preacher says "the
love bug infests our parks" No re-
lation to the lightning bug. The love
bug finds his prey only in dark hooks.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

An Indiana man who laughed for
twelve hours, unable to stop, may
have read one of the speeches of James
S. Sherman, who was in that vicinity
about that time.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

Iowa need not be so puzzled as to
what caused her decrease in popula-
ton. The missing ones can be found
in the Iowa society OF Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14

A dispatch says the name of the
new king of Siam is Mahavajiravudh,
This is evidently an error. That must
be the name of his whole family.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-11-14
SOMETHING TO HIDE

Some one has discovered that if
the hand of sleeping person is placed
in salt water, that person will reveal
the secrets Of his past life" said the
hostess, and the visitor Immediately
began a hurried search for his hat.
"Where are you going?" she asked
in alarm.
Going home to hide the salt cellar"
replied the visitor, who knew some
thing.-Tit-Bits