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4 LOS ANGELES HERALD • ISSUED EVEKX MOBMINO B> - TUB HEKAIO COMPANY , r. B. GIBBOH " ......p»rfa«»* M. U. LOBDKIX. ..Vie* Prerfdeat-Ckn. M«». ; *. KARI. LOBPgIA.... .Bec-Trea*. •' " Ent«r»d a> . *eeon«-eia»a matur at th« po»toffic* In to« Anc«l««- OLCIK 11ORNINCI PAPBR IN tO» ' . ANGELES FH »H OH. «, MM. Thirty-Hftta '*•*• , Chamber of Commerce Bnlldln».- TELEPHONES—SunMt, ' Fr«a» lit Horn*, Th» Htmld. ■ -; ■ * f Th» only Democrats newspaper in South ern California reo.l»ln« full AMool.ua Vr«. ;' report* '■: -~ ■' ' '^' e!.«SrFr«l! It. full of tb. Aw ct«t«d Preai. recelvlni Ita full report, aver aeln» JS.OOO word* a flay. 1 BASTBRM AOBNT-J. P. MoWnW tO« Cambrldr. bulldln*. New York; 111 Boyoe ■ building, Chicago. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION WITH SUN DAT MAOAZINH! Dully, by mall or carrier, a. month...-.I Kit, 5 mail or carrier, three month.. 1 JO Dail. by mall or carrier, rtl stonthi... I « Pally, by ma.l or carrier. one year 4.10 Bon<lay HeraM. on» year »•■» WwhlT Heraifl. one iT;d*suu.--.ndM«?cJ! Poita«» fiee in United State* and Mexico; clHWbcrit pottage added. THB HERALD IN BAN FRANCISCO AND OAKLAND— An«eie. and Southern Cali fornia vl«ltor» to Ban Franoisco and Oak land will an* The Herald on Hie at the new* Rand, in th. Ban *>an?"£;' '•"» bullllnir and on the rtreete in Oakland by Wneatley and by Amo. New. Co. * Population of Los Angeles 302.604 CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN II'VCSTIGIA NULLAiM] If RgTRORSUM '|U '". .;■... . TOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN • FOB VICE PRESIDENT "-- JOHN W. KERN Herald nibiicrlber. intending to leave the city for the rammer month* kindly notify the circulation department, and we will •end The Herald to your new address and I change the addrcm as often tut desired. LAND AND PEOPLE nnHERE are millions of acres of va cant land In the United States, ■*■ and yet from time to time many people lack employment. Surely some method might be devised by the gov ernment by which families who cannot make a living In the cities might be settled on the land. There are often hungry people In the United States, and there are always people who find It difficult to obtain employment. While Ideal conditions might be Impossible of attainment, It will be realized, especial ly by those who have visited the slums of New York and Chicago, that there was something reasonable behind the merely sensational features of Dr. Me- Glynn's once famous "Anti-Poverty Society," which was a Quixotic but well meant endeavor to relieve over crowding in cities and persuade slum dwellers to cultivate health, happiness and small acreages of land. The ne cessity for some means of social relief Is more urgent today than it was in McGlynn's time, for government re ports state that children who should be at school are at work in mines, mills and factories. In many cases children went to work because parents could not get work. Capable men were told to go "starve, or hang themselves," while their children were able to ob tain employment! And we do not need to sit up and look superior and assure ourselves that no matter what other states may have done, child labor was unknown in California. Unfortunately there were examples of it In this state. In California, however, child labor Is not such a slavery as it Is in the east. It Is in the mining regions of Penn sylvania and In the factory districts of New England that the cry of the chil dren ascends to heaven. A distressing condition has been produced by a lack of intelligence, comprehension or ap preciation on the part of the Republi can administration; and It will take years of good government before the effects of humanitarian, Just and sane economic policies become manifest. The Republican party -will not be continued In power If the voters understand that grievous social conditions result di rectly from Republican disregard of economic doctrines, and contemptuous and scornful neglect of the first princi ples of Americanism, among which Is the great social-economic principle which vitalized the nation, the princi ple which recognizes in popular free government an organized method of bringing the greatest good to the great est number of citizens. If some method Is adopted which will take the denizens of the crowded city slums to the mil lions of unoccupied acres which might be cultivated, the social problem will be In a fair way of being solved. Rental of a letter box is not high. It costs a dollar and a half for three months. But behold the colored gen tleman in the federal woodpile! The three months' rental is a definite pe riod, from a given date to a given date. If you wish to hire a box for a month, you must pay for the three months in which that month is include... In or der to dodge what looks like govern ment graft and to keep from giving the government something for nothing, renters must ascertain the exact date at which a three months' period be gins, *nd pay on that date! VOTE. VOTE EARLY FOR THE GOOD ROADS BONDS. Tou cannot vote often, but there Is nothing to prevent you from going to the polls as often as you please. Each time take a friend with you and wait uqtll he votes. If yon can collect a band of friends and march them to the polls, that will be still better. If you can organise] a procession of voters, better still. This is the day when the good roads bonds issue MUST BE CARRIED. Is absolutely essential to the pros perity of Los Angeles and Southern California that the -work of road-build ing and road Improvement should be pushed with the vigor and enthusiasm characteristic of this hustling section of the country when It undertakes -a. big enterprise. The good roads will bring other improvements. They will build up communities, add to the size and population of cities and towns, make ranches more valuable and In crease greatly the volume of lucrative business transacted. A system of good roads will be per manent. In the island of Britain are good roads. Some of them were made nearly two thousand years ago. They have been used by Roman chariots, British horsemen, farmers' wagons, all manner of plows, rakes, harrows and other farming devices, by droves of cattle, stage coaches, traction engines, automobiles and bicycles, by rich and poor, busy and leisurely. They have been used for century after century, and still they stretch over the country, like shining ribbons in the sun. and firm and mudlesa when it rains, for all have been macadamized in modern times and are kept macadamized. They are not repaired "occasionally." They are always being repaired, and the work provides constant employment for many men who but for it might be wandering about with empty din ner palls. In addition to the numerous other excellent features of the good roads movement, think of this one: Good roads will provide a new in dustry for Southern California. Don't "turn down" any new Indus tries. This is no time for that kind of thoughtlessness. Vote for the good roads bonds. Vote early. See to it that your friends vote. KISSING AND LAW fin HERE can no longer be any doubt I as to the status of an unsolicited ■*■ or unacqulesced-in kiss. Justice Chambers yesterday sustained the opinion of Guy W. Eddie, assistant prosecuting attorney, that a kiss thus bestowed Is battery. From time im memorial a kiss that was taken from a fair lady wlthput her leave was re garded as a stolen kiss. Therefore, to kiss a girl who said Nay, nay, was a species of petty larceny. If Mr. Eddie had followed the old precedent, and had ruled that what was formerly a poetical theft in this prosaic age was a literal theft, we would not have been surprised; although after a picnic or some frivolous diversion of that kind it would have been little short of scan dalous if all the girls had sworn out warrants against the boys for oscula tory thievery, or if the boys who were injured by the labial depredations of the girls had sworn out warrants. But to make a new precedent, and say an unwilling kiss taken from a protesting maiden Is battery, may cause trouble. As this is a delicate matter, we must be explicit. Herein lies the trouble. Solomon himself could not always tell when a girl Is really unwilling to be kissed, or when she is only making believe. And so, Mr. Eddie and Justice Cham bers, when a man kisses his wife without giving her fair warning and asking her permission, he Is guilty of wlfe-beatlng. Is he? Tut! tut! TAFT ON TRUSTS TUDOB TAFT has called the atten tion of the public to a matter " which with singular hardness of heart that public was persistently over looking. The public was engaged In making enthusiastic remarks about the trusts. The statements which have not been stated with regard to the trusts may be hardly worth stating; the thine-s that have not been said may h-> hardly worth saying: If any accusa tions have not been hurled they were probably not worth hurling. The fact is. the people, after suffering from the effects of a financial strlngensy caused by financial economic mismanagement, became indignant at the trusts. They realized that trusts were Interfering not merely with big industries but with little homes. They lost all patience with trusts, and when Roosevelt said he shared the popular idea with regard to predatory wealth the people roared with delight. But now comes Taft to split a hair and say while there may be unlawful trusts, as a matter of fact trusts in general are an economic necessity. "The combination of capital In large plants to manufacture goods with the greatest economy is Just as necessary as the assembling of the parts of the machine to the economical and more rapid manufacture of what in old times was made by hand. The government should not interefere with one more than with the other, and when such aggregations of capital are legiti mate and properly controlled they are the natural results of modern enter prise and are beneficial to the public," says Taft. We are rather more than half way Inclined to think the public Is also more or less beneficial to them. When Judge Taft proves trusts can get along without the public, we will vote for him. The Republican candidate is bewil dering. No man who was ever "on the stump" or engaged in canvass for high office had the distracting knack which Judge Taft possesses of making all kinds of plausible differing statements with regard to the same general propositions. The mental condition which produces this variety of expression may be understood when we think how difficult it must be for a candidate to try to please both the people and the trusts. LOS ANGELES HERALD: THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 30. 1908. It Seems Heavier Than When It Was Full -* # ~"4 SAN PEDRO HARBOR WITH great gratification friends of San Pedro harbor and citizens desirous of the prosperity of Southern California learned yesterday of the governmental decision which will set the harbor project free from the hindrances which "interests" sought to Impose upon it. It Is ap parently decreed by fate that the peo ple shall have the untrammeled use of the harbor for which they have fought so long and so well. The prosperity of Southern California will be greatly enhanced by a good public harbor at San Pedro and by good public roads throughout the state. Eastern commentators will have a great deal to say about the "usual good luck" of Los Angeles which has now given the city a magnificent harbor and a splendid highway system. But while we accept the gifts of the gods when they come, we may be pardoned if we refuse to confuse "good luck" with "good pluck," and it is owing to good pluck Southern California has won nearly everything which makes it the most remarkable section of the most remarkable state In the Union; while Los Angeles, with its marvelous, unprecedented and unparalleled spirit of public progress and civic patriot ism, not only has set an example to every other city in the land, but has sot a pace which she herself must follow, if she would "to her own self be true." We therefore claim noth ing more than what Is Indicated by the march of events and the signs of the times when we say the destiny of Los Angeles is not only to be the greatest city of the Pacific coast but the metropolis of the west. With San Pedro harbor, good roads, the com pletion of the lnteroceanlc canal and the progressiveness, grit and good sense of the finest body of men, wo men and children In the world, nothing can prevent our queenly city from ful filling her magnificent destiny. TWO KINDS OF GUILT? IN a Los Angeles court a "trust.d clerk" was found guilty of em bezzling money from his em- ployers. He was accused of having taken about $2000. He was fined $100 WHICH HE PAID. HE HAD TO PAT IT, OR HE WOULD HAVE POUND HIMSELF IN WORSE TROUBLE. No- while we have not the slightest intention of offering: excuses for this young man, we confess that, no doubt like our readers, we are Impressed by the fact that for a minor crime this man was pursued with more keenness and on conviction was treated with less leniency than a much bigger crim inal, on which, or on whom, for It la a corporation and both a "which" and a "who," a huge fine was Imposed on account of many acts of law breaking. The young man, it appeared, had made partial restitution of money he had stolen. The big corporation has not attempted to make restitution of the money It obtained unlawfully. Tet the young man Is punished; and the big corporation fights and evades pun ishment. Is there one law for the rich and another for the poor In the United State*? Is it possible that in the great republic Justice Is not even handed? Can it be true that politics, pull and pelf constitute a kind of triple armor which guarantees Immunity to offend ers? Surely it is not fair that petty offenders should be dealt with more rigorously and vigorously than great offenders, especially In cases In which the offense is similar, in which, Indeed, if all the curious workings of the hu man mind could be followed, it Is not at all improbable the minor offender was Influenced, consciously or uncon- sciously, by the low state of financial morality which has been the cause of hundreds of crimes, each of greater magnitude than the erring young clerk's, and all unpunished. Gold has been found at Moneta and Santa Barbara avenues. There is gold everywhere, but the trouble is nature has put up some of it In large pack ages, while the rest of It is distributed In such minute quantities they are bardly visible. Thomas A. Edison once proposed to crush the Hudson Pali sades for the sake of the gold in them, but no one took him seriously, espe cially after he had explained the pro cess would probably be more costly than the amount of gold secured. New York's latest sensation Is an al ligator fight. Having discovered that these ferocious creatures will attack each other as viciously as bulldogs, the keepers now reduce the alligator popu lation in the ponds of Central park by picking the two llkejiest 'gators and sicking them on each other. A photog rapher takes snap shots for the Sun day papers. The 'gators do the rest. A battle always is "to the death." At least, so the New York papers say. The attendance at the fourteenth an nual convention of the Young People's Christian Endeavor Union, which met at Palmß, Is another evidence of the keen Interest taken by the Juvenile America In "the higher life." One of the consequences of the era of fren zied finance has been the great growth an<i prosperity of what we may call anti-Mammon associations and organi zations. Popular education must be financed is the verdict of the deputy city at torney, who gave the city council a written opinion to the effect that the council must levy a sufficient tax to raise the amount of money the school boari says It will require. Another attempt to introduce prize fighting Into New York has been foiled by the police. From its attitude to ward scientific fisticuffs one would think old Manhattan was a paragon of piety. "Good roads! Good roads! Good roads! Rah-rah-rah, wins boom ah. Tiger!" We admire your enthusiasm, and share It. By the way, have you voted for the bond Issue? Chicago has produced a Sunday school superintendent who for fifteen years was a manufacturer of counter felt coin. Another record broken. Mount Etna 1b giving signs and warnings of an eruption. Must be some kind of big election down below, too, eh? Harriman and Gould were in con ference yesterday. And the conse quences will be? Taffs answer. SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE Before the committee stood little Big BUI, And he twaddled, and twiddled and twod dled. The trusts' paradox enervated him still— They must be denounced—and be coddled. So he piped: "They are wicked, and yet they are not. They are all that is evil and splendid. They are black. They are white. They are cold. Tbey are hit. They must be attacked, but not ended." Ha said that the system wai frightfully bad, Tet It mliht be much worm, was his finding. Bo "let u» be Joyful, yet let us be «ad: No law Is a law that Is binding." When Judgment Day comes, and the angel asks Taft, "Pray what was. In sooth, your In tention?" He'll say: "Do not press me! T« sods, how I laughed While Necessity spurred mr Invention I" —Philadelphia Record. The Public Letter Box Letters Intended for publication must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. The Herald glve» the widest latitude to correspondents, but assumes no responsibility (or their views. Letters should not exceed 200 words. SAYS OF MR. SMOOTH'S PLAY NOT CRICKET AND NO SCORE LOS ANGELES, July 27.—[Editor Herald]: What are we to think of a man who (in a recent controversy) strenuously advocated the actual and concrete cruelty of sentencing petty criminals to long years of "living death" in jail, yet pretends to be shocked and pained at the abstract and impersonal levity of another in quot^ ing a mild Joke on a (purely suppositi tious) person afflicted with the stutter ing habit, said Joke being quoted for Its peculiarly apt application in an argument on woman's legislative ca pacity? I venture to suggest that the protes tant is too obtuse to perceive that the butt of the Joke (as here employed) was not the lingually afflicted, but an attitude of thought figuring In the "Buffragette" discussion. Or else—car ing nothing for the real question—he Is making It an occasion for an unfair personal attack on the writer -who quoted the joke. In either case—be It stratagem or stupidity—he "fakes the issue." That issue is not the unim peachable good taste (or otherwise) of the original Joke—now, but casually used as an illustration—but is a ques tion as to the truth of the charge that women are lntrlnclcally and essentially unfit for governmental functions. The parrot story was quoted—as I am sure the rest of your readers under stand —to point the moral in a humor ous way—of woman's right to retort upon her male belittlers: "If we couldn't with practice legislate as well as you men, our capacity is poor indeed;" and I ttakn comfort in the conviction that it is onjy one of your readers for whom this spoon-meat explanation becomes neodful. Similarly on previous occasions Mr. Smoote has needed much calling "back to the mark." This time, I fancy, it will be generally agreed that his play Is "not cricket," and that the umpire will say, "No score." VAL. STONE. SAYS AGITATORS GET WHAT THEY ASKED COUNCIL FOR PASADENA, July 27.—[Editor Her ald] : I regret to see the council of Los Angeles has supinely bowed to the agitators and passed an ordinance just to their liking. They only wanted to speak In certain districts and, strange to say, the new law does not restrict a single one of those points. They can now speak at Second and Hill, Fourth and Hill, Fifth and Olive, Sixth and Olive, Seventh and Grand, Main and Winston, and on all Inter secting streets cast of Main; kt the Plaza and all outlying points. These people are too shrewd to care to speak where their crowds will be constantly cut up by street cars. Now they will go ahead and preach the doctrine of discontent to our employes whose wages we have at about a satisfac tory point. Small wonder they are gathering a following. The council is Illy advised and lacXlng in moral courage. A GENTLEMAN. ADVOCATES GOOD ROADS AND ADOPTION OF THE BINGLE TAX LOS ANGELES, July 29.—[Editor Herald]: In support of the cause of our good roads and as a fitting supple ment to the paper in yesterday's Let ter Box by Mr. Moriarty, I submit the following remarks: Query: In speaking of land values, what is meant by the term "unearned increment" In our political economy? It is that value which owners or buyers of land acquire by tl\e future advance of price. AH citizens throughout the county, I think, much prefer the town or city lot to the farm acre, because of the much higher rates of profit the invest ment will yield. And in saying as we do that this value is unearned we mean exactly what we say. And then the question arises: "To whom does the increase rightly belong?" This is a value the assessor should asses, and of which he should make special mention. This Is the one par ticular thing to bear taxing. The owner has obtained it, furthermore, entirely without labor or effort, with A Doodle Dee Catechism By Anxious Hearstophile IN regard to the career of the politi cal pariah, parasite and prestldlg ltateur called William Randolph Hearist, who is now posing as some body in the world of politics, and who is howling himself hoarse against peo ple who "change their political opin ions and affiliations;" and who also declares his loss of faith in political "leaders" of the "old parties," let me ask: . _ Is this the Hearst who was a Demo crat, then a bolter, a labor union agi tator, a Democrat again and crazy to run for the presidency as a Democrat in 1904, then a fusionist for the mayor alty of New York city and for the gov ernorship of New York state, then an Independence League organizer of a personally conducted party of "abso lute independence;" then a "'keynote" chairman who has not been In America for a long time? Is this the man who can choose a "pure party" from "totally corrupt old parties," who can choose "pure lead ers" from what he calls corrupt lead ers of old parties? Is this the man who used his mother's money to run papers to fight such pure, decent and clean men as Stephen M. White, when he was the Democratic candidate for United States senator from California; who fought the Hon. James G. Ma gulre when candidate for governor, till his good mother told him he was wrong? Is this the immaculate Hearst who fought our splendid Franklin K. Lane, now honored by the nation, and who fought our equally splendid Theodore A. Bell, also now honored by the na tion, when they at different times ran for our governor on thp T^»mocratic ticket, which the Hearst claimed to support? Is this the Hearst who i-rlnted Priest Yorke's diatribe against Hon. James G. Maguire In huge letters on the front page of his sheet, who did the same with Roosevelt's ante-election statement about the campaign money which he got from corporations? Is this the Hearst who has refrained from criticising said statement ever since, Day of Machine Politics Is Over in the United States THE power of close organization, and especially the power of money in carrying elections, is one of the crying evils and most alarm- Ing signs of the times. In the time of Jackson, Harrison and Lincoln things were done openly and in sight of all the people. Now too many things which determine results are done in back rooms, in secret caucuses and under cover. There money gets In its work. The great corporation, the powerful monopoly, the gigantic trust, never goes before the people in a struggle for Justice and right. It gets Into the back room, and there wins its victories. It believes In stalking its game; in the still hunt. For a good many years now this policy has pre vailed. Things have been settled in caucus, and money has too often bought the caucus. The people have been called upon In the election simply to record the decrees of the caucus, to swallow the program. Of course, under such conditions there is no call for general political excitement. Excite ment is an invariable feature of the action of a great democracy when deeply interested. If everything is elated beforehand, why should the democracy be excited? "We are thankful that this sort of thing Is coming to an end In this land, No Quarter Will Be Asked in Big Fight for Freedom IT IS WAR all along the line and no quarter will be asked or given. Every device of trickery, the steal ing of representation by the appoint ment of delegates wherever possible and the gerrymandering of districts will be employed by the "organiza tion." The professionals and the pro gramers know that in a straight fight they would not have a chance on earth; their only hope to win is by dis honest practices. By such tactics they have maintained control In the past, but they cannot do it when the people are aroused to a sense of the situation, so vividly and truthfully described by Otis. In San Francisco the league confi dently expects to win control of the delegations from all the Important dis tricts. The thing can be done If all the Republicans who want honest gov ernment will turn out for the primary, and the result will be startling to peo ple who have been accustomed to watch the proceedings of past legisla tures. It has been the repeated history of these bodies that, with rare excep tions, the San Francisco delegations have been venal, Ignorant and debased. They have been a disgrace to this city. A decent delegation from San Francisco will be almost with precedent, and the Lincoln-Roosevelt league means to send one of that character, says tiw San Francisco Call. —— small expense to himself and without being deprived of the advantage ac cruing. Concerning this possession the people of this county must get I"i3^- But what should the property owner be allowed to have that may be ex empted from taxation? "Manifestly, you will say, "it Is the Improvements he may create." , ' „. .„ But the community has no need to tax these. A proper subject of taxa tion is the value which the community has conferred upon the landed estate. The title In fee simple rests upon the right to take in taxes-an annual™" tal or its equivalent. The tenure re mains If this Is secured. The tax sale is In proof of the fact. >. _.» *„, Good roads In this county must_be paid for without injustice to any. The landless class are exempt. The taX from all owners this rental in full will cause a better regulation of occupancy. All will buy land, and there will be no cornering of the market. Thus tax burden will come to rest upon a, multi tude of shoulders. Let us have these two good-things at once-the »Me tax and* those good roads, Take the advice of ONE WHO IS WISE. EDWARD VII AND JOHN BURNS; KEIR HARDIE AND GRAYBON LOS ANGBLEB, July 2«--[*!a t 1 h t^ Herald]: I read In today* Herald that King Edward has visited John Burns who was hurt while helping to "ft a. motor car from the body of an injured policeman. And The Herald's comment is "The world do move! - ■ The above sounds all very well Ibut alas! It IB subject to a heavy discount, "Messrs'Kelr Hardie and Victor Gray son. M. P.'s (having protested In ad vance In parliament against the king s visit to the czar as a "public • affair calculated to discredit England), were omitted from the list of Invitations to although everybody In America now knows that said statement was a mon strous falsehood made for political purposes only? Is this the same Hearst who runs half a dozen papers on his mother's money, or on Harriman's money, and who never criticises anybody who is opposed to the Democratic party? la this the Hearst who got mad because Bryan would not nominate him for president in 1904? Is this th« same Hearst who has had a fit ever since? Is this Hearst the "wise and pure politician" who twice supported Mayor Schmltz and Abe Ruef and upervisor "Jim" Gallagher in San Francisco and who In his political wisdom had those worthies of his selection go to New York to harangue the town in behalf of the Hearst? Is this Hearst the same wise and self-appointed patriot who puts Mayor Schmltz fi.n& Ruef and Gallagher and Hearst and the Howard blovlator from Alabama far above Senator White, and Lane and Bell and Bryan of Nebraska? Is this the Hearst who made a per sonal record In San Francisco which has outlived even the fire and the earthquake, and who is now able with family assistance to run a political party without principles and without remorse? "Is this the thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars md search the heavens for power; To feel the passion of eternity? Is this the dream he dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue firmament with light? Down all the stretch of hell to its last gulf There is no shape more terrible than this— More tongued with censure of the world's blind greed— More filled with signs and portents for the soul— More fraught with menace to the universe." EDWARD L. HUTCHISON. say the San Jose Mercury. The great democracy of the United States are rising up. and saying that we are done with being slated; done with being sold out to monopolies; done with hav ing to take program in the making of which we have had no part; and now we shall vote as we please. Roosevelt is the prophet of this new era. He has kindled a spirit in the people which he cannot himself control. Parties and candidates must now stand on their merits. The reign of the democracy is again coming in. Men and parties must appeal to the people. No longer Is caucus king. The people are king. Hence, in this campaign more than In many preceding ones, the appeal must be to the people. The caucus is dis credited; money has lost Its power; the people have resumed their own. Con sequently we believe that both parties In this campaign will do well to em ploy some of the old methods. Let them go before the democracy. Do not rely on the secret plans of the machine, whether big or little. Rely on the people. Not for many years has the machine been bo nearly Imbecile as now. Roosevelt, Folk, La Follette, Johnson, Hughes and many others won victories by defying the machine. They appealed to the people. The people are sound. The machine Is a" rays un sound, commonly rotten. As an Incident of this campaign for decency In politics, the league is pledged to lay on the shelf those handy men for "the Interests," Julius Kahn and E. A. Hayes, who now misrepre sent the.fourth and fifth congressional districts. They have fixed up an al liance with the "push," and will be found fighting' shoulder to shoulder with Eddie Wolfe, Tom Finn, Phllly Crimmins, Fred Eggers, Daly the milk man and all the other strikers and heelers and led captains that take or ders from Herrin. Hayes and Kahn must go. In Alameda county the same fight is waged with the same vigor. The ma chine, under the leadership of "Jack" Cook and Dargie, is in the last ditch. They are Inventing silly roorbacks to cover their own tracks, but their doom as sealed, and they know it. From all over the state come inspiring reports of the activity of the leaguers, and the sum of the situation, based on careful analysis, is that the anti-machine Re publicans will elect thirty assembly men and fifteen senators, as against twenty-eight assemblymen and fifteen senators In the Herrin "push." Those figures will give the leaguers control of the Republican caucus and enable them to name the United States sen ator. So much accomplished will be a satisfactory beginning and will open the way to clean out Mr. Herrln's em ployes who now officer the state house. the annual royal garden party. The point Is not in any loss to these two labor members, because they never at tended the function; but it is cußtom ary to invite all members of parlia ment without discrimination; and it is felt that "Ed" made a bad move this time. As to John Burns, he Is no longer re garded as a "labor" member. V. S. DECLARES STORY OF FROGS AND CHICKS NOT NATURE FAKE SANTA ANA, July 29.—[Editor Her ald]: Some one has something to learn. In yesterday's Herald I read a story about frogs eating a woman s small chicks in New York. It Is all right but the head line wherein you speak of the item as a "nature fake." This story undoubtedly Is true, for I have had similar experience to Mrs. Ferguson's. Some years ago in Central New York I was raising Aylesbury ducks near a large pond. I had made some pens ex tending down Into the pond, and turned the ducklings Into them. It was not long before I noticed that my flook was growing less. Fearing that the cats were after them, I covered the pens with fine chicken wire, but still the flock decreased. What could be catch- Ing them? Was it turtles? Bullheads? Or what? Early one morning I was watching near a pen, when I saw a large bullfrog come scrambling up the bank Into the grass with a duckling In his mouth, half swallowed. It was so large that the frog could not swallow It all at once. I grabbed the frog and pulled out the partly digested duck, which was fully as large as the frog. This frog, and there were many others like him In the pond, would weigh fully two pounds. They were a species of very large frogs, not the common brook frog. For some time afterward we had tried frog legs for breakfast—and my ducks were saved. Yours truly, A. B. HAWLKT