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Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15
COMPULSORY IDLENESS is
CAUSE OF SLUM PROBLEM

Los ANGELES, March 11.-[Editor
Herald: Your paper has lately been
deVoting a great deal of space to
prison reform" and the "slum" ques-
tons and the way to abolish these
evils. l feel, Mr.. Editor, that all this
talk is futile and useless, as the cause
of there being both prisons and slums
is idleness. Not willful idleness and a
Discrimination to work, but a compul-
sorry idleness, because the labor mar
ket is overstocked and the man who is
willing TO work and can find no work
to do is loath to accept charity. Here
is the beginning of the Stun and then
the prison.
Provide work for all men and you
will abolish the slum and reduce the
prison inmates to the number that
should actually be there-those who
are degenerates and cannot safely be
any other place.
Judge Works was right when he said
that the slums were plague spots,
breeders of immortality, disease and
crime, and that from a mercenary
standpoint ii was good business to
abolish them. But the good judge
stops there, and what we are to do
with the occupants of the slums he
does not say.
Are we to hang them or imprison
them or deport them because their
means are so small that they are COM
PEELED to live in the cheapest tene-
ments they can find and exist on the
slender pittance which they can scrape
together by hook or crook?
There are thousands and tens of
thousands of acres of idle land right
here i'm California which is capable of
supporting thousands of people in COM
fort and reducing greatly the cost of
living If those who live in the cities
could be placed upon it to make it
productive. But, as in all other en-
terprises, capital is needed to pur-
chase the land and implements and
stock, and capital is what the people
of the slums lack.
If Rockefeller or Carnegie want to
do real good let them set aside a fund
of 100000 to put 100 families from the
slums onto farms where they can sup
port themselves in comfort and in a
few years pay back to the fund every
dollar they drew out. Then another
family can use that same money to
go onto a farm also. with a certainty
of a good living and a home for old
age. A, j. DlCkERMAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15
RAIN

VIZ ELCOME was the rain which
w frightened and beautif1ed the
" landscape and brought prosper
ity with every drop. Greater Los An
geles and the suburbs are always
lovely, but they are seen at their best
after a rainfall The rain brings out
natures inimitable colors wildly and
covers the hills with verdure.
Thousands Of acres in grain, hay and
beans were waiting for the rainfall,
and, now the refreshing showers have
come, are Quickened into new life.
Timely rain is Southern California;
greatest blessing. 1t is one of the
peculiarities Of the climate that rain
never fails to reward the patience of
those who wait for it, though they may
be weary with long waiting and de-
ferred hope. The prosperity Of South
ern California has been increased by
the rainfall. while the attractiycness
of natural beauty has been greatly en-
HANGED.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15
EXPENSE

A SIDE from other considerations,
~ think of the enormous expense to
which the nation is being sub
jected by the trusts. To demonstrate
the illegality of the combinations is a
costly process. Modern civilization is
certainly long suffering, patient and
extremely fond of talking over grlev-
ances for hours and days and years
before redressng them.
The contrast between the expense,
time and trouble of remedying injus-
tice and adjusting grievances by civil
lized methods and the immediate OBJ
viousness of the inJustices tardily rem
edied reminds us of the story of the
Highlander who during a temporary
military occupation of a Sassenagh
city in the time of the Georges was
quartered in the home of a poor hard
working widow
One day she told the soldier she had
not a penny in the house, and was
suing an employer for money which he
said was an overcharge. IN collect
your bill" said the Highlander Draw
ing his sword he marched into the
store of the offending merchant and
helped himself to a fine web of cloth.
He gave it to the widow, remariing;
This is the real justice. Your
Geordie's justice was invented by the
lawyers and the landlords"
The expense Of routing eonspirators
against the common welfare is as out
rageous as the offense of which they
are guilty. They should be made to
dcfray the cost of their own undoing.
They have danced; now let them pay
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15
THE FILIPINOS
WHAT Of the Filipinos?

VIZ HAT Of the Filipinos?
w Are we as a nation to forget
W them? As a people are we to
leave them TO the tender mercies of
exploiters, which are cruel? Is there
to be never a word of protest?
Are injustice oppression and tyranny
changed into cardinal virtues when eX-
emplihed by citizens of the United
states? Is that which we laud as
patriotism in the American to be con-
sldered treason, worthy of death, in
the Filipino?
The Congressional Record published a
remarkable speech by Moorfield Storey
Of Massachusetts. Not much has been
said about it. No machine paper
dared to print I'll
Said Mr. Storey: "By force Of arms
we destroyed Aguinaldo's government
arbitrary, tyrannical. military
"Instead Of trying to help the Filipinos
build up a state, we began by Destroy
ing all that they had built. Was our
government less tyrannical. less mill
tary, less arbitrary"
A report of Gen. J. F. Bell answers
the question. He wrote: Il am now
assembling in the neighborhood of $500
men who viii be used in columns Of
about fifty men each. l take so large
81 command for the purpose of thor
oughly searching each ravine, valley
and mountain peak for insurgents and
for food, expecting to destroy every
thing I find outside of town. All able
bodied men Will be killed or captured.
Old men, women and children will be
sent to towns. These people need a
thrashng to teach them some good
common sense; and they should have
II for the good of all concerned"
On May "a, 1906, Capt Walter A.
Smith issued the following order; Can
country around Masasoh, Manjuija,
Magtacay and other sitios in that To-
cality must be covered and everything
destroyed by cutting down or by fire.
All people caught in these places
should be turned over to Lieutenant
Mohler for work. Have your
men take lots of ammunition and kill
everything that runs from the constab-
ulary except women and children"
Why are not the Filipinos entitled to
life, liberty and the pursuit Of happi-
ness?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15
ROOSEVELT POLICIES
T T is Rooseveltism that is RESPONSE
BILE for former President Roose-

7 T is Rooseveltism that is RESPONSE
BILE for former President Roose-
velt's popularity and for the
earnestness of the preparations that
are being made for his welcome home.
In political reign of terror. when
grating, predatory politicians and
malefactors of great wealth were in
what was tantamount to a conspiracy
to enrich themselves at the expense
of the nation and establish privileges
which would menace the stability Of
the republic, Theodore Roosevelt, in
spite of political Affiliations with a
party responsible <or many abuses.
took and maintained an American
stand. and with no uncertain voice
declared he was the president of
the American nation, and not of any
party or of any faction.
From this position Of vantage. with
out danger of interference by any
boss or of hindrance by any political
clique, and Straightforward and fear
less. with the mass of the nation at
his back. Theodore Roosevelt pro-
claimed the time had come for a rec
ognltion of the rights of the people of
the United States and for official ac-
ton TO curb predatory trusts, organ
izations form for purposes of ex-
ploitation, and greedy corporations
that aimed t. control and commercial
lie for their own enrichment the re-
naming natural resources of the
American nation.
His conservation policy alone would
have entitled Col Roosevelt to the
confidence of the p-ople Here was a
statesman who actually directed pub
lie affairs from > national viewpoint,
and regarded the greatest eood of the
greatest number rather than the gains
that might be piled up for few in
terests at the exp Sc Of the ajority
Of the people!
Whether or not there be any polit-
ical significance in the preparations to
welcome Col. Roosevelt home, there is
certainly ample proof of the abiding
and Astounding popularity of the
Roosevelt policies, and of the deter
mination of the American people to
surrender not one inch of ground
gained in the struggle for restoration
Of national rights and equal oppor-
tunities, and the abolition of special
privileges, but, on the contrary. to
press forward to new achievements in
Americanism.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15
SYSTEM OF GREAT WEALTH
BREEDS MANY WEARY WlLLlEs

EAGLE ROCK, March 9.-[Editor
Herald: A correspondent, while
handing me a bouquet (Which I appre-
ciate). has. limited that l have fallen
short of the goal because / have not
attacked private property l woula
like to make my position clear IN re-
gard to that. l believe IN prlVa.e
nroperty, the kind that is mostly
found within, and in close proximity
to the four walls OF the place we call
home. 1t is because l believe that
everyone should have an equal oppor-
tilnitv to acquire this kind of private
property that L am what l am.
But l do not believe in system that
enables a few to accumulate an I'M
limited amount of private property,
and by this means extort unearned
tribute from the creators of wealth.
7 believe that such a system results
in producing an enormous lot of Bill
Sykes, Fagans and Weary Willies at
the bottom and less numerous put
more expensive aggregation or Harry
ThaWs. Count Bonis and other gentle
men at the top of society. pelieVe
the above is the kind of luXurles COM
mon people cannot afford, ana that tne
system that produces such enects is
the sole cause of the high cost or Nv
ing as well as of the poor quality OF
living.
That this system is an utter failure
and fails to bring real happiness to
anyone would appear to be conclu-
sively proved when its greatest ben
eflciary feels compelled to offer mil
lion dollars to anyone who Will re-
habiItate an overworked stomach
and to employ seven abie-bodied ex-
secret service men to protect his valu
able body from real or fancied danger.
PRO BONO PUBLICO.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15
People Should Give Direct
Primary Idea Fair Trial
(san Francisco starr.

with the direct primary idea, become
convinced that the principle is i'm
practicable, and finally consent to go
back to the old corrupt convention
system.
To this end we have the wall on be-
half of Frank Flint.
But the fact should not be lost sight
of that the machine is responsible for
the present form of the direct primary
law. 1t i'll becomes a man who has
been honored as the machine has hon
Ored Frank Flint to complain of a
law that the machine has made-made,
too, largely in Senator Flint's interest.
But of Senator Flint it might we'll be
said in this instance, HE doth protest
too much" If the powers decide that
senate, the dollar and cent incldentals
Of the direct primary law won't pre-
vent his candidacy.
AS for the citizen. he should not lose
sight of the fact that a machine-sanc-
toned direct primary law Is not nee
essarily a fair expression of the di-
rect primary idea. Indeed, the chances
are strongly against its being so. The
direct primary idea Is one thing, the
machine direct primary law is quite
another. II is up to the people of Cal
ifornia to give the direct primary idea
fair trial. This the machine does not
propose the direct primary idea shall
have. Nor will 1t have until the con-
troll of the state Legislature is taken
out of machine hands. Until this be
done the work of making good prin-
ciples unpopular through the passage
of laws curiously twisted to that end
will continue on merrily.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

" ARIOUS newspapers are printing
u articles to the effect that Senator
Frank Flint will not be cand1-
date for reelection. For this blessing
California might well be thankful.
ant the reason given for Senator
Flint's alleged backwardness to reach
again for the tOga is of curious inter-
est The statement is made that under
the direct primary law it becomes so
extensive to run for an oftlce requlr-
mo statewide Vote-even though
made by legislative districts-that Mr..
FIint does not think that he can al
ford to run. All of which is certainly
important if true.
The average citizen is apt to read
Senator Flint's wall, put down MS
paper and say things not at all com
ELEMENTARY of the direct primary ldea
mot that he wants Flint returned TO
the upper house of congress- out the
average citizen has small sympathy
with expensive election schemes.
And our direct primary law makes
urinary elections almost as expensive
as II is possible to make them. The
direct primary law makes the primary
election expensive, because the ma
chine which placed Frank Flint In the
United States senate wanted the prl-
maries made expensive. The machlne
wanted them made expensive for two
reasons:
First-That it might be easier for
the machine to discourage good men
from becoming primary candidates.
Second-That the people of Califor-
mia, muddled over the provisions of
an expensive and cumbersome primary
arrangement, might become disguised
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15
CONTENDS LABOR ALONE CAN
BUILD AND OPERATE PLANT

OCEAN PARK, March 7.-[Editor
Herald: In The Herald of February
% T. II. answers my contention that
large industries can be conducted
without capital, and uses the steel in
dustry to illustrate his point and to
show where my position is wrong. The
illustration would have been very good
had he not forgotten to insert the
point.
Now, Mr.. r. H., to be brief, let us
suppose you are the capitalist with
S25, 600, 600 who built. equipped and put
in operation the steel plant to which
you refer. 1t may be in order to ask
how you came to possess so much
wealth Your answer is immaterial.
You did not get it by any productive
process You did not earn it. 1t rep
resents $25. 100000 worth of labor that
increased the commodities of the COM
monwealth by that amount.
Since you did not work for it, but
by unproductive methods-namely, the
exploitation of labor-accumulated this
amount of, the medium of exchange,
and have become so accustomed to
think along capitalistic lines of doing
things, perhaps you really belleVe there
is no other way.
But let us consider. You say under
his theory the laborer q presume you
meant the laborers) who erect the
plant and manufacture the machinery
for equipment could not receive any
pay until the plant had been in sue
cessful operation for several years"
Why not? While you were building
this plant, did you raise sheep, clip
the fleece and weave it into cloth and
make your garments? Did you raise
the potatoes you ate, ETC.? Or did
others do those useful things while
you were manufacturing hoes, shovels,
plows and other implements for them
to use, that they might supply you
with the things you had to have or
die?
In my former letter spoke of intel
Iigent cooperation as means of ac-
complishing results. In the construc-
ton Of your steel plant thousands of
men, women and children, representing
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

with a guarantee of rapid and cheap
freightage, Los Angeles will be one of
the principal sharers. and the splendid
seaport of San Pedro will entertain
proportion of western trade and COM
MERGE that will make it one of the
worlds principal and busiest harbors.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

DIR. Lyman Abbott says there is too
long a time between presidential cleo
ton day and Inauguration. He thinks
the date of Inauguration should be
changed to December l. This would be
a splendid idea if the scene of the in
auguraton were shifted from Wash
ington to Los Angeles. Nobody can
guarantee the weather in Washington
on December l, but in lovely Los An
geles 1t is superb.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

Judge Silent wants for park super
intendent a man who is "a dreamer
but not a somnambulist. a poet but not
a rhymester, a painter but not
dauber, an artist without a profess
sion, a modest man, not an egotist."
The office of park superintendent is one
of great Importance. Los Angeles
parks are famous, and must be kept
up to their reputation and to the ex-
pectation of the people of the United
States
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

down town without I witness some act
that portrays the gentleman, and
oftentimes it is a hand hardened by
toll that does the gentle, kindly deed
that makes the world well worth Nv
ing in. -
OF course some must rule while 9TH
ers must serve. Some rise above all
obstacles by the strength of their
Wills. That is right, but it is work
that elevated them above some of their
fellowmen.
If the world was created for man
that never worked nor his father It ls
a mighty big world for a mighty rev
,,oonle as the servers would have to
he few for such a small number 10
Lott on G.. M. C.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-The Passion Play.
BELASCO-"What Happened TO Jones'"
BURBANK-'Sweet Kitty Bellairs"
GRAND-"The Girl from Paris
Los ANGELES-Vaudeville
NIAJESTIC-"The Right Of Way"
MASoN-"The Round Up."
OLYNIPIC-Musica1 farce.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
PRINCESS-Musical farce.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

Engineering work on Los Angeles
aqueduct is attracting great attention.
Every enterprise undertaken by this
city has been successful; and the sue
cess of the aqueduct construction work
is adding another laurel to very large
wreath of triumph"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

Marshall briggs, former state SEN
ator from Sacramento. says Los An
geles is the most aggressive, progress
slve and prosperous community in
America and has achieved a success
without a parallel. Evidently Mr..
briggs is correctly impressed by the
Los Angeles way.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

The best token that any one can
give of his belief in good citizenship is
participation in public affairs by vot-
ing. You cannot vote unless you
are registered. If your name is not on
the register you should see to it that it
is inscribed on it without delay.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

Los Angeles is the metropolis Of the
greatest mining country in the United
States. Legitimate mining is one Of
the foremost industries of the day. 1t
is a pity there is not some accurate
method of blacklisting concerns that
are not legitimate-the long-distance
operators that find victims in the east.
There are not many of them. There
should be none at all,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

Charles p. Taft, the presidents
brother, is arranging for private
telephone wire between his humble
home in Cincinnati and the White
House in Washington. This private
telephone service win cost Brother
Charles $4,000 year. Was ever such
Jeffersonian simplicity? What q
Simon-pure democracy America is get
ting to be,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15
Public Letter Box

TO CORHESPOSDENTS-L intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name aud address of the writer. The herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes no responsibility for their VieRh
Letters must not exceed 800 words.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

Los Angeles chamber of commerce
will send big excursion to Arizona
today. Los Angeles chamber of COM
merce lives up to it's reputation for
enterprise, energy and success.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

On all matters pertaining to advertising
address Charles R. Gates, advertising man
ager.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

Population of Los Angeles 327,685
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

Pasadena puts on the kits the day.
Hooch!
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-15

he recent flight of the grand
lama of Lhasa from Tibet
to India, pursued by a band
of Chinese soldiers, probably
marks the end of one of the
most remarkable religious
United labor bulletin., 1910-04-08

Consul General George Horton has
made a report from Athens on the con-
spicuous work of Greek physicians in
combating the country's two chief
scourges-malarial fever and tubercu-
losis. An annual average of 1000 per-
sons dies each year from the former.
while in epidemic years. due to excessive
rains, the number exceeds 5000, which
was the case in 1905 The population of
Greece is 2,433.s0 The people have
been interested through lectures, pamph-
lets. etc. to fight the Misunderstanding
mosquito by draining stagnant ponds and
throwing petroleum over them. A tuber-
culosis congress will be held in Athens
next year. to which will be invited not
only physicians. but all the mayors and
other prominent people of Greece.
United labor bulletin., 1910-04-08
UNION LAUNDRlES

The laundries listed here are plants
xhioh have recognized the rights oil
their employees. have granted short
work-day and have signed minimum
waxe scale (no pieoework.) The label
zach is entitled to US is a guarantee that
they are living up TO their agreements
otherwise the label would not appear on
the laundry list when delivered. Assist
y IN securing universal short work-oay
and fair wages for the girls by demand
ting their label on your work
United labor bulletin., 1910-04-08

Six hundred girls have returned to
their posts in the bisque warehouse and
dipping departments of East Liverpool,
Ohio. potteries. ending a Today strike.
Eight thousand men. idle as result OF
the tieup. returned to work in the IS pot
teries which the girls walkout closed.
The employers agreed to 10 per cent.
increase in wages
United labor bulletin., 1910-04-08

1t is repeatedly published that the city
of Philadelphia is in partnership with the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. The fact
is that the city doesn't own a cents
worth of the stock or bonds of the COM
pany Neither has it any control over
its affairs. Its representation on the
board of directors is only advisory and
in no way authoritative. However, an
authoritative element OF the city officials
are stockholders. The city's directors
are on the board only as n part of the ar
rangement under which the city is to re-
ceive part of the receipts of the COM
pany over all expenses, dividends and
interest. and the controlling element OF
the city officials have self interest in
the company by being stockholders. and
1t is men of such self interests that the
people of Philadelphia have repeatedly
elected to office to conserve their in
terests.
United labor bulletin., 1910-04-08
MIsCELLAEEoUs.


The following are the establishments
doing work for the trade in the depart
ments specified:
Press Rooms, Jobbing-
Publishers Press Room, 1742 Stout
Tudor's Cylinder Press Room. 9Os Curtis St
Binding and Ruling, Jobbing-
VIM. Deter. 1886 lawrence.
Publishers Press Room, 1742 Stout
Thomas Furlong. 1874 Arapahoe.
Engraving, Jobbing-
Frank Reistle. 1902 Lawrence.
Denver Engraving Co. 1914 Curtis.
Williamson Haffner Co, 1888 Arapahoe.
Smith Brooks, 1741-z7 California
stereotyping, Jobbtng-
Western Newspaper Union. 1896 Curtis.
Smith-Brooks. 1741-41 California
E1ectrotyping, Jobbing-
Frank Reistle, 1902 Lawrence.
Smith-Brooks. 1741-=7 California.
United labor bulletin., 1910-04-08

Sworn statements and other document
AIRY evidence intended to support charges
made against the United States Steel cor
poration by the American Federation of
Labor have been presented to Attorney
General Wickersham.
United labor bulletin., 1910-04-08
UNION CIGAR FACTORIES.
BUsHESS DrsrRIcr.

The following is a list of cigar fac
tories in Denver and vicinity entitled to
use the BLUE LABEL OF the Cigar Max
ers' Union:
]. W. Sanford. Sec. 2oI Railroad Bldg.
Phone Main 745s.
United labor bulletin., 1910-04-08
BARRIERS USING UNION ToWELA
Fab COAL MINEa.

The following 70 a list Of mines -
ploying union coal miners. unasr .
signed agreement with U. N. W. OF A.
District No. Is: List 10 corrected -
February I. 1909:
Mines at Lafaystts-5impson. Aitsheil
Strathmoor. Park Dale and Standard.
Mines at Louisviile-Acms. Hez Nes-
and .. Hecla, Electric. Matchisss 80
Brooks Harrison. Centennial.
Mines at Downsr-Monareh ana HitshsiL
Mines at Marshali--oorham ana Fer
Mines at Erie-LehiSh.
Mines at Bunnyside-Vssuvfus csA O
Mines at supsrior-fndustrfai