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Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

pany and the Western Development
company, and the Pacific Improvement
company, and all the other aliases and
dlsguises of these gentlemen, was to
effect exactly this result, to transform
the expenditures into fixed charge
on the public that should endure for
the profit of the four gentlemen; and
that all these charges could be paid
only in transportation rates; and that
because of all these accumulated
charges and piled up accretions of
fraud the grain rate must be eXacted
and the farmers must pay and the
kkread eaters must pay and all the
world must pay.
And it appeared that there was no
end to these charges. That whenever
the great power that gripped and held
in its fist the state of California eX-
tended In any way its operations or
acquired additional lines or bought a
steamship or built a branch or spent
money for legislation or made an I'M
provement or paid rebate or made an
illegal lease or Strengthened its cork
screw track, it piled up more capitaliza-
tion, which meant more interest ana
dividends to be met, which meant more
charges to be paid by the public.
SEQUEL OF BRAVE ATTEMPT TO CURE
BY BLESSED REGULATION
And it appeared that when the Cen
tral Pacific defrauded the nation by
building a crooked, road. the public
paid the charges on the crookedness;
and when these crooked places were
made straight the public paid charges
| for making them straight. Whatever
| the railroad company did produced
more capitalization, and ali the capitdl-
ization produced interest and DIVIDENDS
to be met, and all the interest and dlvl-
/ al,n
! public. And at the other end OF this
| infalible mill stood the owners lssu-
| ing the excessive securities, and adding
the proceeds to their huge boards.
=! Judge McKenna's decision was filed
November 30 1896 In his accompany
| ing opinion he confined himself chiefly
to the constitutional aspects of the
case and to precedent and previous de-
| cisions He found that for the year
| 1894 the Pacific system of the southern
| Pacific had been operated at loss OF
! 1916 262 20, that the company could not
| afford to make the reduction of rates
offered by the commissioners, and that
| the reduction would be such conf1sca-
! ton of property as was prohibited by
the constitution OF the United States
| The clause of the California eonstitu-
tion upholding rates to be promulgated
! by the commissioners he declared to
| be null and void for similar reasons,
and he therefore continued the injunc-
tion and knocked out the proposed re-
| duction.
1t only remains to say that in 1898 a
new board of railroad commissioners
was elected, that on April "a, 1899, this
new board rescinded the grain reduc-
| ton resolution enjoined by Judge Nc
Kenna, and on May 10 the railroad
company graciously consented that the
case be dismissed. Which ended the
last attempt of the grain growers to
utilize Regulations artful aid in their
behalf They submitted to their fate,
| and after a time most of the wheat
fields were put to other purposes.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
INSURGENCY is CALLED
'GROPING TOWARD JUSTICE

Editor Herald: Had P. A. ]. studied
Socialism more carefully he never
could have made such a mixture OF
truth and error as he did in his at
tempted exposition in your issue of
the 9th inst. Socialism is more than
a political reform, it is an economic
revolution. When we have it all men
will receive the full fruits of toll,
mental or manual; and no man will
receive anything without rendering a
full equivalent in service to society,"
Granted that statutes can't make
men moral-laws can give them the
opportunity to be so. That it is true
that the teaching of moral axioms
and the religious platitude of the
preachers have had little effect simply
proves that the evil existing is the
result of an evil system. That the
natural tendency of mankind is toward
the good is abundantly proven in his
tory. betterment of moral condi-
tions has always resulted in new coun-
tries with abundant resources, because
poverty was greatly reduced and the
worker had always an avenue of es-
cape from complete exploitation. Con-
versely. the concentration of wealth
in the hands of non-producers and the
impoverishment of the workers has al
ways resulted in an increase in immor-
ality and all evil conditions, That
process is going on In our country
today with frightful rapidity while
the desire for betterment was never
more earnest or widespread.
Socialism will never be "ushered in
while the majority are unprepared to
receive it," it will come with the in
sistent demand of an irresistible ma
jority The widespread spirit of ''in-
surgency' in this country today is
a cropping toward economic justice.
The process of mental incubation"
will go on for a time yet and when
the revolution comes, while it may
seem sudden to those blind to mod
ern tendencies. the world will be ready
for it.
P. A. Us idea that Socialism is an
external movement, seeking to i'm
pose reform on an unwilling people, Is
his most egregious error
On the contrary it is purely educa-
tional, and seeks to convince men that
economic justice to all is the only
way to secure justice to self, and there
fore seek to abolish selfishness, as
teachers of moral platitude do, for 1t
can't be done; we simply seek to guide
it into right channels.
w. II. RUBELL,
Redondo Beach, July 20.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
ON THEIR NERVES

m HE weekly observations on cur
rent topics in the San Francisco
Il Call by Edward f. Cahill are
usually marked by souno postulate'
and conclusions, but Homer has nod
ded for once. In the issue of last Sun
day he says:
June 80 of this year the registra-
tion for Los Angeles county was
So 627 real or alleged voters. In
San Francisco at the same date
the registration was not much more
than half the Los Angeles total,
and at the registrars office they
figure that when the roll is closed
on the 9th instant the total will
be in the neighborhOod of $4,000
Nobody pretends that Los An
geIes has a greater population than
San Francisco, nor is any eXplana-
tiOn offered to account for regis
tration One-third greater than ours.
A similar discrepancy Of figures in
this relation has been observed be-
fore, and the only theory that
seems to fit the fact is that they
register every tourist and visitor
who passes that way. The Los An
geles directory shows 1850 real es-
tate brokers in the town, mon
detachments to corral and register
the passing stranger.
The directory shows more real
estate agents in Los Angeles than
any other calling. The doctors
come next with 1902.
Mr. Cahilrs suspicious are misplaced
Passing by the rather gratuitous and
unkind assumption that all of the real
estate men of Los Angeles lend them
selves to crooked politics-a most abb
surd idea--it is evident that no such
wholesale fraud could be perpetrated
in any city without exposure. Demo
Gratis, Republican machine regulars
and Lincoln-R Roosevelt factionists are
active and watchful of one another as
has never before been the case. Each
is fully alive to the detriment to itself
of any crooked work on the part OF
the other.
How long could fraud be practiced
without the under dog exposing and
making valuable capital out of il?
The real explanation of the figures Sc
distressing to Mr. Cahill and so de-
structive to his judgment is so simple
that he has passed it over. 1t is that
Southern California is aroused TO its
power and duty as never before. The
voters of San Francisco have simply
Jagged in the march of the new cru
sade.
It is patent that the wonderful
progress of Los Angeles, material
municipal and otherwise, has got on
the nerves of the hay city. 1t is fool
ish to lose control Of itself that way
for mere jealousy.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
UP TO WICKERSHAM

~ ENATOR ALDRICH, We are in
formed by the dispatches, will
~ stand on his dignity and ignore
the charges made by Senator Bristow
and Clifford Pinchot that he raised the
tariff on manufactured rubber, and
then with his son and others formed
the rubber trust.
But Senator Aldrich's dignity does
not make any difference with the duty
of Attorney General Wickersham to in
stitute prompt investigation of the
matter and prosecution, both civil and
criminal, if the facts appear to warrant
1t. The Sherman antitrust law pro-
vides fines aggregating $4,000 or i'm
prisonment of three years for parties
to conspiracies in restraint of trade. 1t
also provides that persons injured by
such conspiracy shall recover threefold
for actual damages.
These charges have been made by
responsible men of the highest stand
ing. Mr. Wickersham has taken a
solemn oath to do his duty. 1t is for
him to say whether the Rhode Island
senator may content himself with
standing on his dignity.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
WHY SHOULD ONLY MERITS
OF CANDIDATES BE PRINTED

Editor Herald: Surely your editorial
today. headed "Scuttling the Ship"
and anent the Ohio insurgents, hits the
nail squarely on the head. Unquestion-
ably if the movement is to gather
strength, as / believe it will, its leaders
must understand that it is not merely
a partisan or political upheaval, but a
wave of legitimately moral indignation.
It voices a nations disgust with Of
fetal confidence betrayed, with the in
conceivably colossal robbery effected
by privilege through the sloth or cor
ruption of the peoples representatives.
Just at present our own city is plas-
tered with the. showcards on which
candidates for office strive to win the
voter by exhibtng-often most inju-
diciously, as | venture to opine-their
photographs and a statement OF what
they consider the commendable part OF
their careers. / hope for the day When
we shall have an innovation in politics;
when the people also will have their
cards on exhibition. Then we may
have a chance of reading something
like this: Don't eptrust -- with
public funds. He has grown mysteri-
ously wealthy" Or Vote against
- for Judge. He has been service
able railroad attorney" Or, again;
Defeat -- for prosecuting attorney.
He is a professional man hunter. cruel
and vindictive. t. X. u
Los Angeles, July 20.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
SHATTERED IDEALS

1 read some pirate stories that were terrible
but fine.
I went to see their author, as pilgrim
seeks shrine.
These tales were dark and fearful and my
troubled spirits sank
When noting how some monster made his
victims walk the plank.
I found him in his study. He was pale and
rather slight,
He had a gentle lisp and was defective in
his sight.
There was tlmld apprehension in his down
cast eyes Of brown.
He wrote with perfumed ink and wore a
skybIue dressing gown.
So Z turned unto the poet whose idealistic
lay
To delicate rednements lured my fancy day
by day
I found him eating pork and beans. His
girth was something vast:
His voice was like the echo OF a foghorn In
the blast.
The back of his abundant neck was wonder
full TO see.
Il folded Ger his collar something like a
figure 3.
horrd dream.
'Tis sad but true that men and things are
seldom what they seem.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
THE CASE OF HoRNING

~ ELDOM has the desire of the
- community, represented by the
~ police and prosecutors, to be re-
venged on an unfortunate individual
been so evident as in the case of Fred
Horning, who has been spirited away
to Folsom prison. A victim of the
brutal third degree as operated by
more brutal police, convicted of a
crime of which he probably knew
nothing, Horning bids fair to serve
the better part of his life in the
penitentiary.
Whether Horning was guilty. of the
assault of which he was convicted is
immaterial. It is known by every
newspaper reporter and all the police
officers in the city that following the
killing of Captain Auble,. it was
deemed necessary to punish some one.
and as the real criminal was dead,
Horning was made "the goat"
Instead of reforming an unfortunate
youth-his greatest misfortune was
that he fell into the company of Suth-
e-land-the police and prosecutors are
doing IL in their power to make of
Horning a real desperado. They cam
not understand that the day when
society seeks to be revenged on an
individual is past. Consequently they
blindly send this youth back to prison
where doubtless they will succeed in
developing in him real criminal in
stincts and change him from man to
human wolf whose brutalized In
stincts drive him to robbery and muir
der.
But more 70 be pitied than Horning
are these police and prosecutors whose
profound ignorance of sociological and
psychological truths leads them into
irretrievable error.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

(DetfOlL
DR.. F. Melchers, German blologst,
adds an important new chapter TO the
problem of the origin of man by de-
1,ivinp him from four different breeds
2f apes instead of from one, as tne
other evolutionists would have us pc
lieve. According to DR.. Melchers' the
gorilla. the gibbon, the orang-outahg
and the chimpanzee is each the great
ancestor of different races OF men,
theory which would set aside the doc
trine of the brotherhood of man ana
substitute the cousinhood of the races
The learned biologist does not relate
us by color, but by the shape OF the
skull. We have heard before or the
dolicocephalic the brachycephahc ana
the mezzocephalic skulls which char-
acterize different breeds of the animal
who flatters himself by calling him
self homo sapiens. Melchers assures
us that there are four sorts OF heads
among men, each descended from one
of the simians above mentioned, ana
the way he divides them Is not very
fattering, and puts some very proud
varieties of the race in different com
pany.
The gorilla Is the ancestor OF the
West Congo Guinea -Soudan negro, OF
the Banus and the Zulus and also OF
the fair-haired and red-haired north
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
Our Simian Ancestors
Detroit Free Press.)

free PreSh')
ern races such as the Scandinavians.
the Saxons. the North Germans and
the Firms.
From the chimpanzee descend the
Bushnen, Lapps, Berbers, some Tur-
anian races, Iberiaps and Southern
Europeans.
The South Germans, at least the
black-haired and short-headed ones,
are brothers of the scarcely human
Australians and Papuans, which all
alike are children of the orang-outang.
The Mongolians, Malays, Polynesians
and Siberians trace their common an
cestry to the gibbon.
We shall doubtless hear more from
this new genealogy, and a new book Of
heraldry will be forthcoming III which
our best families will compete for reg
istry as descended from one or the
other of the four great apes, instead of
from the robber followers of William
of Normandy.
We miss from this genealogy, how
ever, one form of simian who must
have been the ancestor of good many
humans we have met-the ring tailed
monkey-and another found in the
dense forests of South America, where
we could wish all his descendants, and
one especially, were still conhned-the
bowling baboon.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

From the testimony taken before the
Pacific railroad commission ii appeared
that the $62000,00 of issued capital
stock of the Central Pacific Railroad
company was divided among the four
gentlemen as free gift, and the four
gentlemen paid not a cent of 1t, and
that this $62,O0O,000 was part of the
capitalization on which interest must
be paid by means of charges levied on
! the public.
And it appeared that all the bonds
| fraudulently taken from the govern
ment at the mountain rate, $4S,000 a
mile, when the actual construction was
on level ground, all these We're in the
account and must be paid for by
charges levied on the public.
| And it appeared that all the bonds
| fraudulently taken from the govern
ment at the foothill rate 900 a mile,
when the actual construction was on
| level ground, all these We're in the ac-
| count and must be paid for by charges
! levied on the public.
And it appeared that all the money
| fraudulently taken by the Contract and
Finance company (owned by the same
owners) on excessive and eXtraVagant
| charges for construction and repairs
all that was in the capitalization and
must be paid for year after year by
charges on the public.
And it appeared that the manipula-
| tion by which at the end of the con-
| struction period the Central Pacific
owed the Contract and Finance $500,
| 900 and took for that debt the Central
! Pacifics notes for So, 100000, and sub
sequently received in payment for these
notes S70Oo,OO0 of land grant bonds,
that all this graft also was iii the cap
! italization and must be paid for by
charges levied on the public.
And it appeared that the grating
contract by which the Contract and Fin
! ance undertook to- make repairs ON the
| Central Pacific and furnish its supplies
and thereby raked off S2,000,000 a year
| of extra profits-that all this was in
the capitalization and must be paid foi
year by year by charges levied on the
public.
And it appeared that all the graft
secured under the aliases of the West
ern Development company and the Pa
| cifc Improvement company, all the eX-
cessive bond issues. fraudulent con-
! struction charges, and magnified costs,
all these were included in the capital
| ization and must be paid for year after
| year by charges levied on the public.
And it appeared that when the West
| ern Development company raided the
sinking fund of the Central Pacific
company there were items of cost that
| went into the capitalization ana nus'
be paid for year after year through
charges levied on the public,
And it appeared that when suits
were brought that threatened in a pain
full way the regulations of the gentle
men involved in these operations and
they bought back at 400 and 900 and
1900 the stock they quoted at so. these
expenditures went into the capitaliza-
ton. And when the directors of the
| hirad nrritRrS npWSna nnrS
and magazines to praise them and THEN
work, or to favor legislation in behalf
of the Central Pacific. these expend-
itures also went into the capitalization
And it appeared that the real pur
pose of the Contract and Finance COM
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
State Press Echoes

In an indirect way the Reno colony is
rendering a big service to the country at
large. 1t is surely bringing about uniform
divorce laws, unlntentionally, of course, but
1t is surely working toward that end. The
Reno colony is unconsclously working out a
big reformaton.-San Francisco Bulletin
The Republican party is spending ~ per
cent of all the revenues collected by the
government the present fiscal year for wars
past and wars anticipated and only per
not like this should vote the Democratic
ticket this fall.-san Francisco Star.
one may sean the resolutions in vain to
discover that the 1000 negro walters who
held a convention recently in Detroit deplor-
ing the acceptance of tips. viewed the prac-
tice with alarm or adopted rule forbidding
themselves to continue it.-Sacramento Bee.
The headline to the effect that the Irish
Take Portland" refers to the Oregon me-
tropolis. But the Irish have also taken
Portland, Me, and most of the cities be-
tween the two Portands. Long live the
Irish!-Pasadena Star.
Just by way of passing, it may be noted
that Roosevelt has not arranged to make
any speeches for Speaker Cannon or Soreno
E. Payne in their campaign for reelection
TO the house.-Riverside Press.
The department of justice at washington
has borrowed Speaker Cannon's Bible. That
department of justice SHOULD not have a
Bible is quite as surprising as the fact that
Mr. Cannon has one.--Alameda Times-Star.
The striking overcoat makers of Pttsburg
may have chosen the psychological moment
for their walkout but the eastern weather
reports make this hard to believe,-San
Francisco Chronicle.
People grow gray headed early in Califor-
MIA from drinking wine, IL is said In Okla
homa city it's worrying about the next
graft the city council will spring-Okla-
homa Times.
Los Angeles has policewoman VINO taxes
the lady prisoners and explains the tricks
OF the male criminals.-salt Lake Tribune
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
Merely in Jest
EMPTY TITLES

William Jennings Bryan once joked about
our American fondness for titles.
You all know of the colonel he said
who got his title by inheritance, having
married Colonel Browns widow? But
once met a general who got his title neither
by Inheritance, nor by service, nor by any
thing you could mention.
" General l said to him, how do you
come by this title of yours, anyway?'
why. sir said he, L passed my youth
in the flour trade. and for twenty seven years
was a general miller
II know another titled man. Judge Greene.
Are you, sir, l once asked him. "a Unit
ed States judge a circuit court judge
- I amt neither he replied. I'm judge
of hoss racin'. > "-Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
WHAT SHE AnORED

In her trim little bathing suit she sat on
the white sand.
Il adore intelligence" she cried.
so do l." said he. IAN the same, though,
beauty. and intellect never go together"
And do you think me intellectual?" she
faltered
NO" he confessed frankly.
With a faint flush she murmured;
"FlatteTer.' r.''-Exchange.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

1t would be well for the electric COM
panies that charge 8 cents for light in
defiance of ordinance to remember the
fate of the New York gas combine that
spent a fortune on lawyers and then
had to cough up another fortune, with
interest, to customers.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
EXPERIMENTAL

First surgeon-I'l never try another
operation like it. The risk is altogether
too great.
Second surgeon-Thats right It's
altogether experimental, of course.
don't suppose I'll want to try it more
than once myself.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

Now it's DR. Keeler who is in
trouble for marrying a group of wives,
The medical fraternity is using up en-
tirely too many Of the sensational head
lines lately. And Cook is threatening
to return to earth.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

The Republican state conventions
that are straddling the issues by in
dorsing both regulars and insurgents
are matched by the electors of Texas,
who chose a y"wet" governor and a
"dry" legislature on the same day.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

Jack Johnson insists that he refused
big bribe and is honest. On his own
testimony he is therefore disqualified
for service in the board Of aldermen or
the senate.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

Wealthy Americans who have until
this year been smuggling diamonds,
gowns and bric-a-brac through the
New York custom house are heartily in
favor of the promotion of Loeb to be
governor, or any other old thing.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

The American Magazine disproves
the charge that it is afraid Of the
Mexican subject by printing in it's
August number q scorcher on the Diaz
government.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENCE intended.
for publication must be accompanied by the
namo and address OF the writer. The Herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes responsibility for their ViewA
etters must not succeed 200 words
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

For the next Fourth Of July games
the creased pole climbing and the three
legged race, a contest between ladies
dressed in en- regle hobDe skirts.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

The Minneapolis public library, which
has barred Robert w. Chambers novels,
must want to raise the stories to the
top of the list of the six best sellers.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
PRACTICAL GIRL

He told her of his boundless love
While on his bended knee,
And said, BE mine; then, darling, oh,
How happy We shall be-"
But she, cold, calculating girl,
OF love entirely Tree,
Replied, First tell me, Mr.. Spoon,
What is your salaree?'
Chicago News,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

An exchange says that Mexico is not
a republic, and somebody will soon dis
cover that the Nicholas regime in Rus
sia is not a benevolent democracy.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

During his visit to Beverly recently
Senator Dick was taken for an actor.
Two or three senators we know do
somewhat resemble heavy villains.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

The Nicaraguan board will ask the
advice of Uncle Sam, says a dispatch.
His answer should be to take the board
and spank them.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
SPORT AND COIN

"Why didn't you get up before the referee
counted ten" asked the disappointed backer.
II was a little confused" confessed the
vanquished pugllist. Il thought he was count
ing up the gate receipts and 1 was listening
for bigger figures. s."-Vashington Star.