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Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
Editorial Expressions by Herald Letter Box Contributors

earnings as and where / will, ana
forced to assist in building up mon
opolies that, as I recognized long ago,
eventually would plunge this nation
into revolution.
1 do not believe there ever was n
time in history when just discomfort
was so rife, utterly desperate poverty
so appalling, inequality of fortune 50
preposterous as they are today, under
the rule of ballot majority. As has
been we'll said. we are discovering that
it means the "bludgeoning of the
masses"
The main cause is our superstition
that might makes right, that the voice
of the majority is the voice of Coda
superstition to which all the facts OF
life give the lie.
You will find a thousand persons
who will admit that our economic sys-
TEN is rotten for one who understands
that our representative system is even
more so. The fact is we have not
studied the ballot; do not comprehend
that, while an excellent thing for
reaching decisions where absolutely
vital matters are not at stake, it is a
murderous gun when permitted to BE-
used for the destruction of those basic
individual rights without which life
cannot be sustained.
Under what is called law" millions
are denied the elementary right to life.
inasmuch as to a starving IN, without
money or job, theoretical liberty
amounts to nothing. This bottom fact
we ignore, being majority-mad and
having no conception of the rights Of
minorities and individuals. In other
words, we have not yet taken the
trouble to think out the social prob
lem.
Woman is demanding the ballot be-
cause she holds, naturally and proper
ly, that she should have all the rights
man enjoys. But l myself do not con-
slider the opportunity to vote away life
and liberty a right. I consider such
conduct murder. no matter what the
law may say. Against man-made law
l confidently pit the unalterable truths
of life T. X. G..
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
WANTS AN ANSWER

Editor Herald: I desire Il plain
answer to the following questions, by
a Christian Scientist, as To their views
ON them:
First Revelations twelfth chapter,
from the seventh TO the tenth verses,
what is meant by the war IN heaven
Who were the ones at war? Who rep
resented the leaders on each side
What is the fate of those defeated
Second-Gcnesis, second chapter,
seventeenth verse God said in the day
that thou eat of the tree OF knowledge
OF good and evil, thou shalt surely die,
Did Adam and Eve die that day? In
Genesis. third chapter fourth verse,
tha serpent said you shall not surely
dle Who told the truth? And who
does the serpent representa-
TnIrd-Whv did the Lord destroy all
tn. people from the face of the earth
i'm N0ah's time2 And are we to look
forward to any such terrible disaster
In our day or future? And if SO what
will Doe the cause? Trusting to re-
caive some plain and comprehensive
answer TO each question
If science and health is a key TO the
Scriptures, viii some one who has the
key and llows how to use it, or un-
derstauds the combination, please un-
lock the safe filed with Information
and feed our inquirins minds?
[ enjoy the letters in The Herald.
A SEARCHER FOR TRUTH.
Los Angeles Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
OWEN BILL is DEFENDED

Editor Herald: Before the next con,
gress there will come up for Considera-
tion measure known as the Owen
bill, one of the provisions of which is
the creation Of a national department
of health. There is being waged
against this bill one of the most bitter
fights ever made against proposed
piece of legislation. There have been
organized all over our country So
called leagues for medical freedom"
which have no other excuse for exist
ence but to fight the owen bill.
The membership of these leagues 10
made up of our friends, the homeo-
paths and osteopaths, who dearly de-
test each other: those professed drug
haters. the Christian Scientists and
members of druggists associations
have inconsistently "stuck palms" and
have sworn to stick by each other un-
til their glorious fight for medical
freedom" shall be successfully con-
cluded
Added to the above are tho Chiroprac-
tors mental therapeutists, naturopaths.
DOwieites, etc, and back of all these
are the manufacturers of patent medi-
cines with their unlimited capital to
finance the fight.
An alliance made up OF such antago-
nistic and inconsistent clements is
rarely seen, and is comparable to the
witches caldrOn," so VlVldly seen in
Macbeth. Mr.. w. d. Hart, in Sundays
Herald, says: 1T would be rather sur
prisng if the American people did not
very vigorously protest against this
legislation"
The american people" will do moth
ing of the sort. Every particle of pro-
test against this bill has come and isl
coming, not from the american peo-
ple," but from these so-called schools
of healing, but which I should prefer
to designate as medical parasites"
feeding upon the body of the regular
medical profession"
In recent Herald editorial the editor
stated that the purposes Of the Owen
bill were to create a doctors trust.
AS we'll might one regard our present
educational laws operative to create a
teachers trust; or the law governing
the practice of law operative to create
a lawyers trust. Now the fact is the
Owen bill is good bill. Let any un-
prejudiced person read its provisions,
and l am bold to say that he will find
no serious fault in it, and the thing
that will insure the prompt passage or
this bill will be thorough reading and
understanding of its wise and whole
some provisions by tho American peo-
ple," and as thorough an understands
ing of the professional jealousies and
petty animosities that animate tI1e
souls of thase who are fighting it, MN
G. G. BRocK.
Redlands, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
WAS NAzARENE IN ERROR?

Editor Herald: "Christ's death was
error" So says Mrs Fanny Green of
Los Angeles and she thinks by my
first letter about dying in error that l
have not been educated in Christian
Science. admit this and that I did
not know they taught the astonishing
statement above given, but nave
read tho Bible ever since / could reno
anything, and before that it was read
tn me. and l don't believe Christs
death was an error
Christ claimed to be the Son of God,
and said: I do always those things
which please him" He said: II have
power t1 lay down my life and have
power to take it again" He said: 4
came forth from the Father and am
come into the world. Again I leave the
world and so unto the Father
Mrs Green thinks this an error.
though Jesus said: Il tell you the
truth. 1t is expedient for you that l
go away (John 16-O, though he said
ought not Christ to have suffered these
things and to enter into his glory
duke 1926, though he said: "Thus 1t
bohooved Christ to suffer and to rise
from the dead" duke 24-46).
Mrs. Green thinks his death was an
error. Jesus affirmed again and again
that he was sent into the world by the
Father to save the world. This is the
WILL" said he "of him that sent me,
that every one which seek the Son
ana beleveth on him may have ever
lasting life. and I will raise him up at
the last day" (John 6:40.
Jesus stood for the truth when he
knew it meant his death. Was this an
error?
Let us try to stand Tor the truth
Without bitterness and perhaps we can
help one another. I take It all men
want the truth, not error.
ANNA p. HART.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

waha being navigable from Silver
Springs to Pulatka. where it enters the
st. John river. and boats can descend
to Jacksonville. 100 miles from Marion
county; here cargo can be transferred
to an ocean liner.
The more pershable products are
usually shipped by rail by express
Three railroads traverse the county
and the boats travel about twenty-five
miles through the county. Land in
this county and Putnam Lake and
Sumter counties is very similar, with
a few exceptions, and in this whole
district is found land of great richness.
If you are going to this county 1t is
best to locate on the Ocklawal1a river
on account of cheap transportation, and
the land IS as fertile as any in the
state.
Many people have an erroneous i'm
preston of Florida and believe the
whole state is swampy and full of ma
laria. If one keeps away from the
everglades and keys and a bayou on
the west coast called Cedar KEYS and
territory surrounding Pensacola, he
will find it as healthy state as any
in the Union.
| have heard some people claim there
were swamps in the center of the state
This is not true, as there were no for
ests there. The lower country always
appears to be s-ampy, but when the
trees are cut down the boggy land is
no more, as any one may know who
has seen forests converted into farm
land.
Land can be bought in this county
very reasonably, as last accounts I had
of it only about one-ffth of it was
under cultivation. Large tracts are
owned by lumber companies and most
Of the timber Is cut off leaving fertile
land. Good water can be obtained from
wells at forty feet and artesian water
at 800 feet or less. T. II.
FISinOre. Cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
INFORMATION FOR B. r. L.

Editor Herald ! Will attempt to
give b. r. L. a little of the desired
information concerning Marion county,
Florida IT is 100 miles south Of the
north line of the state and lies about in
the ccutrr from east to west. 1t is the
highest point in Florida and has sea
breczos day and night either from the
Gulf or the Atlantic ocean.
The average temperature in January
the coolest month i'm the year, is SO
degrees and that Of the hottest months,
July and August, is 81 degrees. The
soil of this county j., mostly black,
sandy loam from one foot to three feet
deep. undorlaid by q clay subsoil. The
county was once heavily timbered; the
surface soil is formed largely of decom-
posed vegetation, trees, etc. 1t has an
annual rainfall Of about fifty inches.
raining every month In the year, and
any one can make good living and
more on ten acres of this land, If not
arraid Of work
Four crops of vegetables can be
,,at-oI annually Of some variety, or
three of others and COW peas to ploW
unGer for fertilizer. One crop of cell
erv annually, and not a large one,
would bring clear profit of $500, and
other croDs could be raised the same
year
All crops grown in any part Of the
United States do well i'm that county
aycapt apples and wheat The best
paying crops are those raised during
tbe winter months, and one need have
no fear Of finding a ready market for
his produce, as the buyers arc as nu-
merous as sewing machine and insur-
ance agents in other parts, and con-
tract for your crops before they are
half grown.
This county has direct water freight
to New York city, the river Ockla-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
A NEW co.PARTNERsHlP

Editor Herald: The man who sug-
gests the fairest, squarcst copartner-
shin between capital $50 called and
the people will find his prescription III
demand in the United states
pngordIess of any political lines,
woodrow Wilson hits the nail on the
head and suggests fundamentals OF
such n firm of National Economies. IT
will not do to exploit the pubic; II
will not do to make the Worklngihan u
mere instrument instead OF partner
at will not do to dominate markets ana
prices
What. then. will it do? The people
of the United States have given iegal
notice that they will not stand loI
these conditions longer. They nave
served long and patiently, and as long
as they intend to, in the minor part,
They have learned the business ana
seek to obtain a fair partnership Ill
the prosperity Ito which they nave
Contrbuted) of the nation. Ihey nave
tried to live on the small plttance al
lowed them, and have waited patiently
to be invited into the private o1ilce'
They want to examine the inventory
and have a word to say about the
valuations and a determining voice IN
the distribution of the dividends. Hhey
well know that they are riparian own
ers of the golden streams of equality
and fair play and Incidentally realize
that they have only had skim milkD.
They insist upon n square deal not
alone for themselves but for the Amer
lean citizens. poor or rich, employer or
laborer; and will as ever resist all
communism socialism or highway rob
berism of any and all combinations.
hostile to these incarnate principles or
justice, and any further exploitation OF
conditions. which divert the full frui-
ton of their common inheritance Of
equal opportunity, constitutionally
guaranteed them.
The great prosperity of the country
speaks for itself and for them; and rs
one of our greatest of presidents has
said, there is as great or greater
promise in the future, but the people
themselves have noticed a little shy
ness in the dividends thereof coming
their way, and in the present and in
the future aim to secure for themselves
and their fresides Il more equal lis
bursement which they firmly believe
is the epitome of justice.
LINCOLN c. CUMMINGS
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
LIGHT ON SOCIALISM

Editor Herald: It is n surprise to me
for c. C. r.. one of the educators Of
society, to ask me, one of the to-be
educated. what incompetency means as
applied to Socialists. 1 always have
suffered under the deluson that the
first requisite of an educator was
knowledge of the subject to be i'm
parted, so neglected to explain. l
further apologize to c. c. r. on the
grounds that I thought that a slight
knowledge of Socialism was necessary
before one became an advocate of It,
I hope he will not feel offended at one
of his pupils assuming the place or
the educator at his request. Socialism
is the application of the theory or
evolution to sociology. The theory of
evolution teaches that an organism is
preserved in proportion as it is adapt
able to its environment, adding to
that the discoveries of Kropotkin and
giving it n wider application as So
cialists desire, a species is preserved
in proportion as it practices mutual
aid. Now apply that to present day
society and you have your answer.
The competents are those who practice
mutual aid and are best adapted to
their environment. Is it not self-eVi-
dent that those who have the capable
tiles which fit them for success in this
environment are the competentS and
that you and your fellow Socialists
through the columns of the Letter Box
are but uttering the whine of the beat
en- in the struggle for existence? 1t is
more marked in your case. I'VE work
with our hands and brain bringing the
good things from the earth and work.
ing them into shape for all human
needs. Then what do we do? Simply
turn them over to the competents." !"
Oh. what a confession. Is 1t not the
cry of the whipped, a plea for mercy
at the hands of the victor.
]. r. O'BRIEN.
1n11 East Seventh street.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

Editor Herald: You have received
a great many letters on the immortal
itv of the sJul Permit me to coutriDdte
my mite also. The immortality Of our
soul follows naturally from its being
a pure spirit The activity Of pure
spirit consists in thinking and willing.
1t has am intellect and a free will AS a
spirit it is a simple substance couse-
quently # cannot die, as death is Moth
ing else but a. dissolution Of parts. We
can prove The simplicity of the soul
from The fact of our consciousness Ah
through our life. from childhood to
old age. we feel within ourselves 81
never CLEANSING simple principle, al
though everything else in us may
chan e. Sensation is complex. We
may feel it sometimes in one part Of
our body and then again in another.
1t may pass as II We're, from A to b,
from Is to G, etc But our understand
ing and willing proceeds constantly
from one and the same principle; we
never notice. as In sensation, a transi-
ton from one part TO the other, con-
sequantly this principle of our reason
ing and determining faculties must be
simple one-havng no parts, and there
fore 1t cannot debut this principle
Is the rational soul Of man.
The faculties e understanding end
determining have nothing to do with
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

Editor Herald A gun is an admir-
able weapon for defense or the obtain
ing of necessary food, At present it is
used mainly for the determination 0f
life, that of mankind included. Twist
the matter as you will, the ballot is
only another form of gun: and, in
reality. an infinitely more deadly one.
Our political campaigns are literally
compaigns-war, in which the trium-
phant majority tramples the utterly
helpless minority under foot. For ex-
ample the people of this country are
just beginning to understand that a
protective tariff means special priv
ilege for the few at the expense of the
so-called inalenable rights of the
many. For more than thirty years
my term of residence in this country
I have been robbed by the ignorant
majority of the right TO spend my
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
FEATURES oE SOCIALISM

Editor Herald In replying to A
Wife's and James Jordan's letters in
the Letter Box. both proclaimed
Socialists, I find it difficult, as there
are so many brands Of Socialism that
the advocates when cornered in one
take protection under another brand
Socialism is no stranger to me-
took the advice given by Socialist
street orator in selling literature to his
audience: IF you want to fight So
cialism study it and then fight it in
telligently." MARKHAM Socialism teaches
that economic conditions produce the
inequality in society yet A Wife de.
claims against the individual I don't
doubt that she can justify her position
brands. Marx further teaches that
labor power IS a commodity and that
its value is determined like all other
commodities, namely, by the cost of its
production. It's price is determined by
means of competition between buyers
and sellers. and the relation between
supply and demand. The Socialists ad-
vocate municipal ownership, as it Will
lessen the cost of production of com
modities by eliminating waste labor
which means reduced taxes and reduced
cost of living. The competition be-
tween the workers for jobs will go on,
accentuated by the elimination of graft
and waste labor which viii reduce the
wages in proportion to the decrease in
the cost of living. if not moro. Does
that solve your difficulties? In some
French cities in which municipal own
ership under the Socialists has been in
practice they have the results stated
above, and to overcome them the pa
rents, no longer being able to provide
for their own offspring the municipal
ity feeds and clothes them. Have the
American people become so debased as
to wish to be made municipal paupers,
recipients of charity at the hands OF
their self-appointed saviors? I protest
against the incompetents dragging me
down to their level. I protest against
a perpetual bread line. | am satisfied
to have it appear for a short time,
every eight or ten years.
J. F. O'BRIEN.
Ano cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
COMMENT ON LABOR

Editor Herald: If l bought suit
of clothes from New York at the price
'T. H. says he gets them for, deliv-
cred here to California, l would imagine
I smelled the sweat of some poor Wom-
an working sixteen or eighteen hours
a day for enough to buy half enough
to live on every time l wore them
and I wouldn't want the people of Los
Angeles to work under any such con-
ditions. I'd buy where they paid living
prices for making clothing. Or are
you like the secretary of the Carpen-
ters' union? In 1907. when the peo-
pie of New York and Chicago were
striking against the high rents man
tried to interest the people of Los An
geles in the same kind of move, so
went to the Carpenters union head
quarters, then on San Pedro street
and asked the secretary what he
thought of such a move. His reply
was: 1--WE don't care how much rent
they charge for their houses, just so
they let us bull, them" Think of the
selfishness attached to that kind of
spirit The uni n would only work
on the building a couple of months or
so, then be willing for the owner to
rent it for years and years at a price
that might keep some poor man or
woman from having enough to eat.
High rents, as "T. H." says, cuts
some figure in fixing the price on
clothing in Los Angeles. In New York
bushes. is carried on nearer heaven
and nearer hell, higher up and lower
down, than is allowed in Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles you may go ten stories
high on ground that costs $4,000 or $4,000
a front foot; in New York twenty or
thirty stories may stand on the same
foundation. And the Sweat shops"
and "slums" of New York are nearer
hell than I ever want to see any part
of Los Angeles get; and the way to
keep it from it is to patronize home,
pay good wages and fight for lower
rents. More a-comin'.
w. S. BURROUGHS.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
EXPLANATION OF SCRIPTURES

Editor Herald. Kindly allow me to
criticise the correspondent who an
swers Anxious to Know 1t would
seem this eo-caIed instructor needs
an interpreter Of the Seriptures-eVen
the children of today can teach
Christs mission Up.u the earth far
better. as his greatest work was to
teach us how 60 become physicians
and to heal tho sick. and also that
those that came after him could do
even greater things than he did,
Christ said the letter killeth. No place
in the Scriptures does Christ declare
himself "infallibje," nor does he de
clare his work "miraeles' but all per
formed under natural law (spiritual
IavD. and his teachings were that we
could do the same if we lived in "the
spirit 1t looks like this correspond
cut would either be compelled to with
draw his statement or else declare
Christ wrong with all tho rest o. the
people, as he emphaticallE denomces
us To be- ! would suggest that he
obtain more perfect understanding he
fore De attempts to instruct the pub
Iic. MRS. FANNY L. GREEN.
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

matter. Our soul can understand
much better, being freed from the
bod than it can now in the flesh. God,
tire purest of spirits, knows all things;
an angel surpasses the intellect of man
indefinitely, so that the material body
is only an impediment to the act Of
understanding.
1t might be asked: is the soul OF
animals not a simple substance also?
Yes it is, but it is not a spiritual one.
The soul of animals depends entirely
upon the material body; it is totally
immersed in matter; and the matter
failing, it fails also-it perishes with
the body.
These arguments are taken from rea-
son. to which they properly belong.
Revelation has nothing to do with
them. Mr. Edison is undoubtedly the
greatest elect clan, and as such, his
words have a great influence for harm,
and an unthinking multitude is innu
enced by him. but as to metaphysics
Mr.. Edison is equal to 0. NERITAS.
Santa Ana, Cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
Los Angeles, Cal.
THOUGHTS ON LIMBS

Editor Herald: To the Rev. ]. W.
Brougher D. D., Reverend and Dear
Sir: Replying to your question of Sun
day, do the people of Los Angeles
want indecent shoWs?" l beg TO state
that you have your answer in the rec
ord attendance on Monday night at the
Auditorium. Doubtless the majority
were disappointed, but the churches
cannot be blamed for this, for they
advertised the show as well as they
could. May God have mercy on the
miserable sinners who cannot look on
a pure girls leg, even six inches above
the ankle, without impure thoughts or
imputing impure motives to an inno-
cent displayal May God create in you
and all your church a clean heart.
Yours very sincerely.
ALFRED FRANK.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
COMES OUT IN THE OPEN

Los Angeles, Cal.