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CREDITABLE SERVICE
CREDIT is due to a. victim, aided by
a private detective agency and
the district attorney's office, for
ending the game that promised a re
munerative life interest in a prosper
ous business in return for a small
sum. No matter how much preach
ing may be indulged in on the subject,
poor human nature is far from being
proof against get-rich-quick schemes.
One of the amazing features of mod
ern life is the lack of originality in
the fake games and bunco-steering
jnethods of the persons who live by
their predatory wits. They always
play the same old Rime in the same
old way, and, disgusting to relate, al
ways succeed in fleecing many victims
and in amassing much wealth before
they are finally brought to book. Citi
zens of Los Angeles appreciate and
applaud all detective work, public or
private, that is applied to the legiti
mate purpose of protecting the public
from the minor predatory powers. The
major predatory pow. rs are almost
inaccessible, but their turn is coming
—some day. Meanwhile let us be
thankful that from time to time there
appears on the social scene a citizen
who is not ashamed to say he was
takon in and done for, fooled and
fleeced. Everybody may be fooled at
tome time. Anybody may be fleeced
ut some time. Worthy of credit is
the citizen who, instead of saying, "I
am an easymark and 1 don't care to
advertise myself," declares, "I was de
ceived and swindled, but I will take
care that the game which caught me
shall catch no more people." Every
man who causes the arrest of a swin
dler or stops a swindling game is ren
dering a service to society.
GAMBLING
WILL gambling in futures be abol
ished? It looks as if the move
ment which has In view the
elimination of this gambling element
from American life might flnd a method
of applying congressional action to the
problem. There is room for considera
ble popular missionary work in educat
ing the American people at to the dif
ference between the gambling they
have been taught to regard as legal
and the gambling they have been
taught to regard as illegal. And
we are going to take- advantage of
an Irish bull and say the moral differ
ence between the two is that there
isn't any moral difference.
It is no wonder anti-gambling move
ments are attended by some mental
confusion on the part of the public,
when we are gravely Informed Twee
deldum Is a highly reprehensible prac
tice, which must be stopped if the good
. name of the community or of the
American nation Is to be preserved and
Tweedledee is all right, because Hon.
Jay Gould and Hon. Russell Sage and
'Hon. Hetty Green and Hon. Get Rich
' Quick syndicates in various parts of
the country have used •■< in the effort
to amass the wealth which has earned
them the slavish admiration of many
or their fellow human beings.
OUR POLICE PROTECTORS
GREATER I.OS ANGEL.E3 should I
have and must have and will
have a police force that Is organ
ized, manned and conducted on
American principles. In that Import
ant branch of the public service it is
essential for the preservation of 1
American rights and for the mainte
nance of the welfare of the commu
nity that the spirit of the force should
be ma of thoroughly patriotic appre
ciation of the duties and obligations
to the American public of every pub
lic official and every public servant.
Any man who takes wages from the i
public should study the interests of
his employer and so regulate his ac
tions that his office holding should
never become paradoxical. Perhaps
the use of the term office holding is j
too loose. Perhaps many people have j
really come to believe the man holds
and possesses the office and adminis
j ters It at his sweet will.
But this is putting the cart before
the horse, for one of the principal
characteristics of American govern
ment as it was planned was that the
office should hold the man and that
he should do his full duty by the of
fice and fey LI. employer, the public,
as long- as he was a salaried incum
bent.
A correct appreciation of the du
ties of men who are held by
office and controlled by official re
sponsibilities would result in an ef
fective reform. It is a readjustment
of the point of view that is needed.
The servants of the public must study
the wishes and rights of the public,
and this applies especially to the
servants who wear the public livery.
The object of uniforming the police
force Is to apprise the public of the
fact that the uniform wearer is a public
servant, hound In return for the
wages he draws from the public to
treat the public with civility, to an
swer questions, to help the old, the
feeble, the sick or children at dan
gerous street crossings and to keep
good order, not for the sake of the
pastime of'breaking the heads of the
riotous or rushing them off to jail,
BUT FOR THE SAKE OP PRO
TECTING MEMBERS OP THE PUB
LIC WHOSE PERSONAL SAFETY
OH "WHOSE PROPERTY MAY BE
IMPERILED BY THE CONDUCT OF
THE DISORDERLY.
The FIRST thought of the police
man who knows his business is PRO
TECTION. The next is how to effect
it. If the protection of the public ne
cessitates official Interference with the
liberty of an offender, an arrest la
Justifiable. But any arrest made for
the purpose of showing a PERSONAL
authority which actually does NOT
EXIST, all police authority being de;
rived from THE PUBLIC, is equiva
lent to insulting the employer as well
as injuring the individual who Is in
terfered with by arrest.
The correct relationship of the po
lice protectors of the public and guar
dians of the peace to their employer
and to the people In general is not
always thoroughly appreciated by
citizens and is frequently ignored by
the police.
A complete REFORM of police
methods and police attitude to tbe
public in Los Angeles and in every
other city of the United States would
do more to bring about general good
citizenship and to raise the standard
of public conduct and of individual re
sponsibility as well of police conduct
and police responsibility than any
otlu-r reform that can be thought of
within the range of civics.
Greatly to be desired is a police chief
who will reverse the mental attitude of
the men by impressing on them a
sense of their relationship to their em
ployer, and by teaching them the un
derlying philosophy of their calling,
which is that in the effort to bring
about permanent improvement in social
conditions it is better to attack
CAUSE than EFFECT. A citizen who
watches a policeman dragging a drun
ken man up the street is confronted
by a concrete example of a foolish
waste of economic and social energy,
for he is viewing an operation that
will be repeated and repeated and re
peated as long as the cause which
produces it is encouraged and toler
ated by the onlooking citizen and his
fellow citizens.
The cause of the protection of the
public will be helped greatly by a
complete reorganization of the police
force upon the basis of recognition by
the men of the fact that their mission
in life is to serve the public, and not
to obey political clubs, bosses,
lings and cliques; and of another im
portant fact, which is they should
study and learn how to deal with
CAUSE rather than effect, and thus
would cease piffling: and trifling and
squandering- the public's time by
"running In drunks," and heroically
subduing feebly pugilistic or maun
deringly "sassy" disorderlies. . It is all
very well to make a Sunday haul of
inebriated men. Probably they are
better off in jail than bellttering the
streets and interfering with the prac
tice of public piety. But with the
names of the Sunday victims of inebri
ation there should be printed each Mon
day morning a complete exposition and
explanation of the cause which led to
the effect represented by the "drunks."
ALONG. WITH THE NAMES OF
THE INEBRIATED PRINT THE
NAMES OF THE INEBRIATIONS.
Order the police to report the blind
plggers and illicit sellers, and when
ever possible to ascertain from a drun
ken captive the name of the miscre
ant who is responsible for his help-
Us.-i condition—the law defying person
who CAUSED the drunkenness of the
offending (and offensive) inebriate.
While instilling into the police force
a new ethical .system which could be
depended upon to produce practical re
sults which would contribute to Mm
betterment of social conditions. it
would be well- to extend reform to the
detective department, the members of
which are freed from the necessity of
wearing livery, but not by any means
LOS ANGELES HERALD: FRIDAY MORNING, .lAM'AKV 28, 19H>.
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freed from the necessity of recogniz
ing thplr responsibilities as public
.nts.
Indeed, their relationship to the pub
lic as its protectors should be more
fraternal and considerate than that of
the uniformed men, because their walk
in life leads them right into the sci
entific domain of criminology and
their fninili.'irity with the causes which I
produce disagreeable or inharmonious
effects should bo much more intimate
and expert than that of the uniformed
men. Yet what is the general bruit as
to the conduct of the men whose re
lationship with the cause of public
order and good citizenship should be
so trustworthily intimate that, one
would think, many transactions which
prove criminal or offensive could be
stopped at their wellspring by Judi
cious interference to restrain the op
eration of pernicious causes?
These members of the more studious
and philosophic branch of the force
are charged with abuse of their priv
ileges and opportunities by conducting
systematic persecution of political
refugees. Far from studying and at
tempting to cope with and prescribe
remedies for the causes of the crimes
of current chronology, these "experts"
waste their time and the public's by
doing politics sometimes for the poli
ticians at home, sometimes actually
for politicans abroad, for they have
been known to USE their American
privileges of office in the secret ser
vice of foreign despotism that de
manded tho capture and return of po
litical refugees.
Let us have not only a new" deal in
police matters, but a square deal, by
insisting upon the part of our uni
formed protectors and our salaried
servants on a discharge of duty along
the lines of intelligent SYSTEM rather
than haphazard ramble-scramble.
Let our police deal more with
CAUSES, then time, money and en
ergy will not be wasted in the exer
cise of a miserable and fantastic "pu
nitive" function, which is non-reforma
tory and practically useless to soci
ety. The causes that produce the dally
grist of petty offenders and criminals
for the mills of the courts are constant,
and society by millions of Instances has
learned to anticipate them with such
confidence that It keeps court officials
and attendants on salary, with the
never disappointed expectation the
same old causes will produce the
same effects in specific instances that
will be renewed and renewed and re
newed forever and ever, amen, or as
long as the CAUSES are allowed to
exist.
BILLBOARDS
GOOD citizenship is intolerant of
the billboard. What's the use of
a billboard, anyway? It is a relic
of barbarism. Look at some of Ho
garth's prints and you will learn the
billboard was introduced because there
were no daily newspapers. With a
constant increase in mediums of print
ed publicity the necessity for billboards
has disappeared. A merchant who sent
a man on horseback to carry a letter
to a customer fifty miles away would
he regarded as somewhat out of date—
or, at the best, most eccentric.
The billboard method of advertising
iB as antique as the private mail courier
method of communication.
Los Angeles is a modern city./ It Is
our constant boast that we always rep
resent the last word in civilization and
in the improvement of civic and social
eonditlons. Let us give ourselves a
square deal. Friends and fellow mer
chants, we don't advertise our wares on
billboards. Why should any of you?
As far as advertising is concerned
we are all in the same boat. ,We
can surely afford to do without a
species of "advertising" which results
in far more harm than good, 'causes ill
feeling.. Interferes with . property, and,
generally speaking, is un . unmitigated
nuisance IlllilillllßMffllrrtiMl
Too Short
FORFEITED
WHEN an Individual enters Into a
conditional contract it heroines
null and void if the conditions
are not fulfilled within a given time.
The same rule applies to the depot con
cession which was wheedled out of tin;
city by the Southern Pacific upon prom
ises that have not been kept and con
ditions that have not been fulfilled.
There might be a savor of saving grace
if the railroad had shown any sign of
an Intention to redeem its pledge, but
absolutely nothing has been done to
warrant the presumption of existing
bona fides on the part of the railroad.
In three years the corporation has
failed to build a promised depot or to
make preparations for building said de
pot. The neglect of the fulfillment of
the promise has outlawed the conces
sion; and the railroad should either
make good without delay or should im
mediately restore to the city the prop
erty over which it obtained control by
foundationlesa representations.
DISCRIMINATION
lIIGURBB compiled by the harbor
| commission show the average
■ rate in the United States on a
fifty-mile haul is 11 mills per tun a
mile; the average in the United States
on a 200-mile haul is 7.75 mills; be
tween Los Angeles and San Diego, 15.7
mills; River station to University sta
tion, 85.7 mills; River station to Los
Angeles harbor, 53.4 mills. These are
eloquent figures. They show the com
parative rate per mile on freight be
tween Los Angeles harbor and the bus
iness section of the city is nearly eight
times the average short haul rate in
the United States. Herein is demon
strated and established a clear case of
discrimination against the progress
and prosperity of Greater Los Angeles.
F. r. Gregson, traffic manager for the
Associated Jobbers, characterizes as
"ridiculous nonsense" the railroad ar
guments in attempted justification of
preposterously unfair freight rates be
tween the business and harbor dis
tricts of Greater Los Angeles. Railroad
men should not be allowed to make
our metropolis run the risk of appear
ing ridiculous in the eyes of the world.
Put an end to fake and fantastic ex
cuses by ending the rate gouge.
Members of the fire board do well to
interest themselves in the predatory
and parasitical loan sharks who in
fest their department and prey on the
employes. The departmental loan
sharks should be put out of business
in Lor Angeles. So should all sharks
that charge exorbitant rates for small
advances to needy citizens. Out with
the Shylocks!
Bust tha beef trust. It is no hardship
to use fruits and vegetables, which are
frown in great profusion and variety
near our city. If all the meat in the
world were abolished Creater I^os An
geles would not miss it, and we would
still have Hi"' richest and most varied
dietary of any city in the world.
Los Angeles banks yesterday report
ed $2,576,115.4u clearings. This showed
increase of $1,043,733 as compared with
the total for the corresponding date of
year, and beat by $34,090 Wednes
day's ililgh mark record *9f the year.
Excelsior! That's the Los Angeles
way.
A monkey created much excitement
in the council chamber. It is not the
first time monkey ihinei have iiium
inat.'ii no ; peak consistently) that
august hall. Yesterday's nionki y was
lied by his keepers before hi- bad
done much harm.
The beef trust can't "bluff" Greater
Los Angeles. All the vegetables and
fruits that .grow under the sun are
grown within market mileage of our
well Bupplled metropolis.'. ,
Public Letter Box
TO rOlllil.'l'OMltNTS- Intended
for publication mast be accompanied by the
name ;i. tl iiililrr-* of the ivruer. rue Mr .ili(
fives t;.i* widest latitude to correspondents,
but aiiuinu no responsibility for their views.
CORRECTION OF CRIME NOT
FOUND IN PENITENTIARIES
LOS ANGELES. Jan. »«.— [BditOT
Herald]: it is with pleasure I read the
articles that appi ar in the Letter Box.
Those on the treatment of criminals are
especially good. To my mind there
can be no more important subjects
than, "Why we have crime." "How it
may be abolished" and "How treat
those wo call criminals." These are
subjects that should Interest every cit
izon. To abolish crime we must deal
with the cause, not the effect; we can
never do away with crime by punish
ing. Punishment never madfi a man
better. It may make one submissive,
but will not make him kind and good.
The child who is punished because he
does what he is told not to do will lie
to avoid punishment, but the child who
knows he will be praised becau.se he
has told the tnuth will be truthful.
The child who is taught to love all
animals, all people, will not be apt to
harm anyone. Jesus said "Love your
enemy." r would say "love all and you
will bave no enemy."
It would be well to strike out of our
language the words "must." "shall."
"must not" and "shall not" and teach
our children to do right bec&uae it Is
right, not because some one says they
must.
Teach the child that fire will burn.
That if ha disobeys God's laws he will
suffer and, above all, teach him to rely
upon his own inner self to know what
is right.
To do away with crime wo must be
gin at the root. The phybician, who
deals with effect and not cause, will
not remove the disease. We must do
away with things that make criminals.
The present system of profit and
competition must be abolished. Any
system that allows dogs to be decked
with Jewel* and ride automobiles,
while children are half clad and hun
gry breeds envy and crime. So long
aa we have the very rich and very poor
true love can not exist.
To abolish crime we must do away
With tho kings, queens, czars and
ruler*. The government must be run
by the people and for the people. Chil
dren must be born and reared with
the thought that God never made one
better than another, born with thy
thought that all men are brothers, that
all are children of one divine force,
each having a right to live and enjoy
God's blessing.
The way our asylums, reform schools,
Jails and penltentlariei arc run is a
disgrace and a curse. They should be
s of education rather than punish
iiii nt. Who is able or honest enough
to pass judgment upon another? Many
an innocent man has gone to prison,
while many rascals ran at large. Th J
rich man who is grinding the lives out
of little children for profit is a greater
criminal than the man who steals your
purse.
If one must be put behind the prison
l»\r>; let him go there with the thought
it is for his good. Then bring out the
love that has been negledted in early
life. Like attracts like. Love attracts
loye. Let us teach ourselvei to love.
then we may teach others to love, and
thus abolish crime.
MARY E. THRASHER.
DEPLORES QUIBBLING BY
WRITERS TO LETTER BOX
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24.-[Eclitor
Herald]: I deplore the lack of tolerance
as exhibited by Dr. H. H. Dow In to- i
day's issue denouncing as quibbling a
frets discussion of the Bible and the
more so because I find he la quibbling
himself by persistently adhering to the
strict literal sense of the Word. Matt,
xxvi. 34 and 35, must be taken together.
In 35 Jesua "Heaven and earth .shall
pass away but my words shall not pass
away." Here it is clearly indicated that
If his words cannot pass away they
must live in another heaven and earth
or iii the people of a new generation or
new church. The prophecy therefore
does not refer to the destruction of this
material globe together with all hu
man beings. Verse 34, "This genera
tion ■hall not pass away till these
things be fulfilled." I have always ta
ken this to mean the Jewish race or
church and that has as yet not passed
away, nor have "all these things been
fulfilled." The Aiiosti.- Paul, being an
iiHcetlc and reasoning for himself, spoke
to tho \vicked,Cortnthlans against mar
riage, not by commandment but by per
mission, as ho says himself In chapter
VII, not considering that ho himself
The English Elections
VlS—The fioyse of Commons
Frederic J. Haskin
iTSBBSnONDON—It Is pecullarinrly an
JnTsl Kngllsh anomaly that the
a i British parlinmcnt should con- i
Kngii.-h anomulv tlut the
jiiiiinli parliament Should con
a V?M\ sist of one chamber which is
3 f^v\ the last on cm ith to I cognize
|Sy/CTps| a hereditary right to legislate,
ami another chamber which is
the most truly responsible to public
opinion of till the legislatures in the
world. The house of commons is not
an ideally democratic! institution, but it.
lis most sensitive to the public ill, and
It is chosen under conditions of politi
cal purity not approached in any other
country.
The suffrage In England is not what
Americans would consider democratic,
since a complicated system of property
qualifications, varying In different sec
tions, la imposed; and since land
holders may vote in every constituency
Where they own property. The limited
suffrage which shuts out the very poor
and the plural suffrage which gives the
very rich many votes, as well as the
fact that the constituencies are ar
ranged without due regard to popula
tion, constitute the chief faults of the
British parlamentary electoral system;
• * ■
But the corruption and Indecent poli
tics which' disgraces the elections In
many other countries and in many
parts of the United States is almost en
tirely unknown here. This purity of
elections is secured by what is known
as the corrupt practices act, an out
growth of the reform bill of 1832, which
was placed on the statute books In ISS3
and which has been made even more
stringent by subsequent amendments.
The machinery by which the British
house of commons is elected differs al
together from the political and elec
toral machinery of the United States,
but the means taken to prevent cor
ruption might be employed even In
America.
The G7O members of the house of com
mons are elected from constituencies Of
various populations—counties, boroughs,
cities and universities. When a parlia
ment dissolves by limitation at the ex
piration of seven years, or when a die
solution is brought about by the death
of the sovereign or by some extraor
dinary political crisis In which an "ap
peal to the country" forces an election"
the queer mixture of ancient usage and
modern methods compos-ing the British
lection system is set to work.
The king issuer, a proclamation on
the day the ministry tells him to do so:
ordering writs for the election of a new
parliament and fixing a day for the,
meeting of the new legislature. All the
essentials are attended to by the minis
try, but the proclamation declares sol
emnly that the king has decided he
needs a new parliament, that ho has
managed the whole business on his
own volition. When this proclamation
Is signed writs are Immediately dis- ;
patched to the sheriffs, mayors and re
turning officers who are to hold the
elections in the various constituencies, ]
' * 9 * '.
Candidates have been actively en- ■
gaged in the campaign for several
weeks, usually, when the writs arc is
ued, but they are technically known
only as "prospective candidates." A :
member of parliament does not have to
live in the constituency which he rep
resents, and, indeed, the majority of
the members "sit" for some district :
where they do not reside. Nevertheless
there is more and more talk about the :
"carpetbaggers" in England all the ]
time, that phrase having been bor- •
rowed from America. The political par- ]
ty organization In the United States, 1
by which precinct committees build up ;
to the all powerful state and national ;
committees, is wholly unknown here. ■
English politicians have nothing but ',
scorn for the American system',- which, 1
they say, binds the local committee as i
a slave to the national organization, j
Yet In England the local committees ,
ask the national committee to select a j
candidate for them! Imagine the Dem- ,
ocratic congressional comimttee of the
Third district of Arkansas asking a \
national committee for a congressional ,
candidate, and then tamely accepting
an atediluvian New Hampshire Demo
crat brought out of the museum for ;
that purpose. That is what the Eng- 1
lish politicians call local freedom of ,
party action... 1
■, • • ■ •
When the writs are issued each slier-, ,
iff of a county, mayor of a borough i
or returning officer of a division ap- (
points a day for nominations and an- ]
other day for polling. This may be
any time after five days and before ,
twenty days from the time of receiv- 1
ing the writ. Each candidate must be ,
nominated by a proposer, a seconder ,
and eight assentora, all ten of whom ,(
must be registered voters In the con- |
stltuency. On the day of nominations .
a meeting is held, attended by the can- ,
didates. The sheriff or returning ofll- ,
cer asks for nominations. If only one ,
name is presented and the nomination ,
is in proper form the sheriff declares
that nominee to be duly elected a mem
ber of parliament. In this fashion Mr.
was out o£ harmony with the divine
laws of providence. For why did God
runt man male and female? Churches
tome and go, but the words of the Lord
remain forever.
The kingdom of heaven la always
compared to • marriage both spiritu
ally and naturally, nor is the woman
alone nor the man alone the true
church but the one man and the one
woman together form the true church.
Marriage is heaven and adultery Is Mil.
C I*\
SAYS ENGLAND HAS OUTGROWN
VACCINATION SUPERSTITION
LOS ANGELES, Jan. [Editor
Herald]: I want to indorse what Mrs.
John Bobieskl says about vaccination,
and how that pretentious fallacy—not
to say superstition—has been exploded
in England by a careful analysis of
facts and figures, when that analysis
has come to be made by people whose
vision was not distorted by personal
pecuniary interests in the shape of
vaccination fees. The failures of vac
cination is so patent as to be almost
common knowledge today-in England,
and that is why the government has
had to pass a law exempting from
compulsion all persons who declare
themselves as holding "conscientious
objections." (And never until they
•■have to" do governments relieve the
masses from the oppression of class
made laws of this character). So wide
spread indeed has become th« convic
tion that vaccination is a humbug and
an evil, instead of the blessing it. was
once thought to be, that parliament
has had quite recently to amend the
Conscientious Objectors' act, making
exception simpler ami easier than ever.
The conditions in the United States
where a child can be denied access to
the public schools if its parents will
not surrender it to the .risks of a
demonstrably dangerous operation, are
aß candaiandaßl TwNoNi
J. \V. McKys'NON.
CHURCH SCENE SUGGESTS
REPLY TO CRITICISM
I.U.S AN*;iOLKS, .Inn. I!t.—[Editor
Herald]: That letter of criticism writ
• •y Frank ritune January iti reminds
Joseph Chamberlain, being unopposed,
Was i-i ' t.ii the first member of the
new parliament which will sit on Feb
lii.-i 1 j 1.1.
But if then' is more than one. enndi
date the sheriff asks for a show of
hands, and then the candidates de
mand a poll. The poll is ordered for
the day previously agreed upon and
announced. Within one hour after the
nominations the candidates must 4e-
With the sheriff a sum, varying
from $600 to $6000, according to tho
si;:e of the constituency, to secure
the payment of the expenses of hold
in ; th" election. All the expenses must
be paid by the candidates on a bill
iitcd by the Sheriff, or other re
turning officer. On the day these
nominations are niafle the political
party committees suspend activities
and by formal resolution declare them
selves non-existent. After the elec
tion they are reorganised.
But the successful candidate's seat
is not assured. J(e b elected and
may take his seat, but if every provi
sion (if the corrupt practices act has
not been met. then a petition may be
Started wherein a number of elec
tors may allege violations of tile act.
If the allegations are substantiated,
the member Is unseated and is ren
dered incapable of holding- any office
for the term of seven years, and ha
may be further lined or punished.
The corrupt practice! act limits tho
amount of money a candiduto may
spend in his campaign, limits specifi
cally the things for which this money
may be ipent, .-111(1 mains the candi
date responsible not only for his own
acts, but for those of his agents and
supporters, EDacli candidate under tho
law is required to appoint an election
agent, and all campaign expenses must
be paid through this agency. Expenses
may range from $17.10 to $I*ooo, accord
ing to tho population and area of tho
constituency.
All claims for election expenses must
be submitted to the; candidate within
fourteen days after the election, all
th claims as allowed by a court must
paid within twenty-eight days, and
and complete public returns must
made within thirty-five days. The
ure to meet any of these require
ments makes the election void. The
candidate is responsible for his duly
appointed agent and for all other aup-
Btora who may be working in his
alf as bona fide agents, whether
ti or without the knowledge o\ the
didate.
Ny bribery by any agent voids the
election, and bribery is denned iis the
giving or promising to give, whether
the promise is kept or broken, of any
money, or anything worth money, or
any treat of food or drink, or any em
ployment or promise of^-employment,
or any pay tor lOH of time while vot
ing. Thus a supporter of a candidate
i may, without the candidate's knowl
edge and against his express orders,
treat another man to a glas of beer
In exchange for a vote. That ad
would void the, election and unseat the
member. Employer! are prohibited,
under heavy penalties, from influenc
ing the votes of their employes, and
the beneficiary of such undue iufluenco
loses his seat.
This law, of course, is not obeyed
In the letter, but it Is a constant re
minder to candidates and their agents
to be very, very careful. The law pro
hibits the hiring of bands of music,
and therefore English political speak
in£s are without the inspiration o
brass music. The law prohibits th
purchase or giving away Of badges o
distinction. An enthusiastic part;
man at a recent election printed, a
his own expense, some cards to be won
in hats, bearing the name of the part
candidate for parliament. The ex
pense altogether was ten dollar* an
the candidate knew nothing about It
But the law had been broken in his
behalf, and he lost his seat in parlia
ment.
• • •
Election expenses incurred by the
party for party purposes, and, not In
the interest of any particular candi
date, do not come under the law. A
great deal of money is spent in this
way, and there is some corruption. A
district may bo flooded with free beer
and free coal, as is often done in Ten
don, by "charitable organizations" witli
political Intent. ,
The result of all this machinery is
that the house of commons is elected
by a system so nearly free from cor
ruption that no taint lies on the titlo
of the house tp represent the will of
■ the electors. Cumbersome as it is. it
is a far better election system than
any other that has been devised for
the maintenance of the purity and
dignity of the ballott. The house of
commons conies to London as the voice
Of the people.
nmorrow —Tlie KnK<i»l> Wwtloiw:
VIII The Tariff Keform Issue.
me of an extremely, windy day when on
passing a small church I went in just
as the minister in glowing terms was
introducing a.missionary from China.
The lady, with fluent speech, grace
fully described how her own family
lived in a large houseboat loaned to
them from the British government and
how they kept two Chinese women to
wait on them, and how it took nearly
two years to teach these women to talk
and read the Bible in English, and
,when that was accomplished one 01
these women accompanied her to tho
Chinese residences, for that was the
only way she could get inside of their
houses. The inmates would first thor
oughly inspect her clothes, then her
woman would read a chapter of the
Bible to them, and amid much giggling
would leave to visit the next house, and
the. next, then home. This was done
once or twice a week.
The minister, an earnest, good man,
said: "Well, Bister*our church is small,
but perhaps we can pay one of these
Bible women. How much do they get
a year?" .
She answered with much self-com
placent assurance: "Oh f When they can
read well enough wo pay them $12 a,
year."
in silence the minister rubbed his
chin, then said: "Let us sing a hymn."
It Is just as Lincoln said, you can
fool all the people a part of the time,
and part of the people all the time, but
you can't fool all the people all the
time. • ■■■■■■* ELIZA KKKTZ.
THANKS HERALD AND WRITERS
WHO SENT IN WORDS OF SONGI
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28.—[Editor
Herald]: i think when one has asked
a favor of friend or stranger and the
favor has been granted the beneficiary
■hould at least say, "I thank you."
I asked through The Herald a few
days ago for the words of the song,
■'B Pluribua I ■num." On Sunday, Jan
uary 23, I llnd the wing published In
{■nil in The Herald, and see that quite
a number of strangers to me have sent
in copies of tho wonts, and one lady
has kindly copied the music and sent
thai in. too. Many thanks to The
Herald and to each and every one of
these good people, who ho kindly re
gponded to my request. ,„__;_
fi. D. RANNELLS
