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SAN PEDRO
IT IS believed the passage of a
fortification bill for San Pedro
is assured. Nothing more strik
ingly betrays the provincialism of
certain eastern statesmen than the fact
that the expediency of fortifying thor
oughly such an important harbor as
San Pedro should ever have been in
doubt for a minute. It may be true
that westward the course of empire
takes its way, but the course of un
derstanding which will make our
friends of the Atlantic seaboard and
midland states, realize conditions on
the Pacific slorie and coast is slow in
making its way eastward. Perhaps
the tide of the course of empire is so
strong that it is difficult to supplement
it by a tide of understanding of west
ern conditions.
It is and always has been passing
strange that our eastern friends should
always have been willing to accept the
aphorism regarding the course of em
pire, and should have had any hesi
tation in accepting all the responsi
bilities that must come to the nation
with the thorough settlement and so to
speak the solidification of our vast
country.
The citizen's national understanding
still sometimes conflicts with his state
understanding, and from time to time
some Washington law maker, who
ought to know better, shows signs of
being under the domination of that
outworn superstition called sectional
ism. We don't want a sectionalism of
cast and west any more than we
wanted a sectionalism of north and
south. We have no use for section
alism. Fortunately the "ism" which
is powerful enough to drive out sec
tionalism is gaining in strength every
day. It is AMERICANISM.
GREAT ENTERPRISE
AT LAST the yellow paper has been
recognized in Los Angeles. At
last its mission is manifest. At
last its purpose is plain. "The Exam
iner does things." It says so itself.
On January 13 it received an order for
one dozen copies of part II of the paper.
This so elated it that it published the
order, with the headline stating it does
things. We congratulate our contem
porary on its magnificent and splendid
enterprise in getting an order for a
dozen copies of a; fragment of the
paper. Apparently the customer, who
specified part 11, did not wish to sub
ject the Examiner folk to the shock
of having to make a cash sale of a
dozen complete copies at a time. If our
friend will only be patient with good
luck we have no doubt in the course
of time the Examiner may sell a dozen
complete copies without danger of
nervous prostration.
Senator Perkins telegraphs to Lieu
tenant Governor Porter and Speaker
Stanton thanks for his re-election and
promises not to serve the state, but to
serve the state TO THE BEST OF HIS
ABILITY. This statement should be
acecpted at its exact face value.
IS VICE PROTECTED?
IN EACH succeeding installment of
The Herald's remarkable series of
articles published under the head
line, "Is "Vice Protected in Los An
geles?" cumulative evidence is fur
nished which indicates clearly the only
answer which can be made to the
inquiry. Protected vice is privileged
vice, and privileged vice insults a com
munity. We do not wish readers to
Infer we include all holders of liquor
licenses under the word "vice." It is
not our intention to convey any mean
ing which would be obviously unjust.
Reputable purchasers of stock In
"Mayor Harper's oil company" have
asserted that they received the impres
sion it would be good policy on their
part to purchase the shares offered
them.
What shall be said of the law break
ing element, composed of men who saw
in the man with the shares nothing
more nor less than a PANTATA WITH
PROTECTION? The pantata, it will
be remembered, is the "patron saint"
of a vice district in cities in which
vice is districted for the purpose of
making supervision and collection easy.
Representatives of that class of
habitual offenders who think it is
impossible to conduct business profit
ably without breaking the laws re
joiced to Bee the man with the shares,
because they knew from the practices
prevalent in other cities where protec
tion of vice became a fine art that an
anxiety to sell stock indicated, In all
probability, an anxiety also to see that
purchasers of eharea were "well
treated."
The lists of names obtained and pub
lished by The Herald show the thor
oughness with which the stock selling
idea was carried out In Los Angeles.
Shares were sold to the "big men" of
the traffic, and to the "little men" as
well. Some of the latter class, who
felt they could hardly afford to go Into
business with the mayor of Los Angeles
and his high official associates, were
they who with rude bluntness charac
terized the stock-selling enterprise as
"a holdup." Whatever it was, the
fact remains it was discreditable to
Los Angeles. Men who should have
been most anxious for the preservation
of the good name and fair fame of this
city apparently were the least con
cerned over the possible outcome of
their fantastic "business operations."
They were not merely avaricious, but
disloyal. Their offense is rank; a stench
in the nostrils of all good citizens of
Los Angeles, and of all good and decent
people everywhere.
PROTECT YOUTH
BILLS regulating the sale of liquor
and tobacco have been introduced
in the legislature. The object of
the measure Is the protection of youth.
It is proposed to raise the age of per
sons to whom tobacco may be sold
from 16 to 18 years, and the age of
persons to whom liquor may be sold
from 18 to 21. This legislation may be
described as limited prohibition. Boys
under the ages mentioned are at a
susceptible age, when habits are ac
quired and formed. Moreover, the
body is in a condition of physical
transition which makes it extremely
important it should not be poisoned
with alcohol or nicotine. Many of the
troubles which overtake men in middle
life are by the doctors ascribed to
early smoking or drinking. A boy who
smokes or drinks even moderately be
fore he has attained his full growth
will do himself more harm in the years
of his youth and tenderness by using
tobacco and alcohol than he will by
using stimulants and nicotined smoke
during all the years of his later life.
Smoking and drinking after maturity
are not nearly as harmful as smoking
and drinking indulged in before the
growth of the body and the mental de
velopment are complete. No duty with
which the state is charged is more im
portant than the protection of its young
men. Society certainly owes one duty to
itself which it cannot safely shirk
that duty is the complete education of
the youth of the nation, and education
can neither be thorough nor complete
when it is interfered with by premature
drinking or, cigar smoking.
ANTI-GAMBLING LAW
ALL the gambling interests are act
ively enlisted in a most strenuous
effort to prevent the success of
any really effective anti-gambling leg
islation in California. That is the plain,
blunt truth, and might as well be re
alized and faced. While Arthur Letts
and his friends have really worked
wonders in making any kind of an im
pression on Governor Gillett, yet the
only anti-gambling measure which will
be worth while, which will be worth
working for, and which will be a real
moral and reforming force in the com
munity, should it be adopted and receive
the governor's signature, is legislation
of that drastic, thorough kind which
allows no possibility of dodging the is
sue, which provides no possible means
of evasion of the intent of the people
of California, which, as voiced by the
law-abiding, respectable and solid ele
ment in the community, is to banish
race track gambling from the state as
efficaciously as the last snake was ban
ished from Ireland by Saint Patrick.
Thorough is the word. Slipshod anti
gambling legislation would be worse
than none at all. Some of the anti-vice
laws which from time to time were
adopted in New York as an alleged
"concession" to reformers were as a
matter of fact merely slipshod or med
dlesome measures, skillfully and craft
ily designed to disgust the public with
the word reform, which, by reason of
craftily contrived measures, became
synonymous with governmental ineffi
ciency. With the examples of other
states before California, there is no
reason why we should not and every
reason why we SHOULD-compel the
enactment of effective and practicable,
thorough and real anti-gambling legis
lation.
Is vice protected in Los Angeles?
Well—we are smiling. So are you.
LOS xINGELES HERALD: FRIDA V MORNIXG, JANUARY 15, 1909.
THRILLING DAY
DID you observe anything peculiar
in the atmosphere yesterday?
Didn't you experience a stfange
thrill; an unwonted glow? The air was
filled with sheer, unadulterated joy
over another international wedding.
Miss Beatrice Mills was married to
the earl of Granard. Another large
bunch of D. O. Mills' money will cross
the briny ocean and help to make the
court of King Edward the most truly
and augustly royal in all the world.
Over in Germany Wilhelm is biting his
finger nails to the quick with envy as
he sees the 'aughty Englishman scoop
in a big American fortune and a' lovely
American lass. An old Scotch song,
with riotous shamelessness, proclaims:
It's hey for the lass wl' a tocher,
The lass wf the ailler for me.
Blawsted British baronialism has
adopted this for a motto. "Tocher," we
should explain, means "dowry." Now
isn't it all plain? What a: charmingly
frank acknowledgment! And even
although on the foggy island they sing
songs about the tocher-hunt in the
United States, the huntable brides are
still right willing to be hunted, and
from time to time we hear of an Amer
ican girl who evidently does not take
much stock in the famous lines:
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.
Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'TIS
ONLY NOBLE TO BE GOOD, sings
Tennyson, and thank heaven, the vast
majority of our American women share
his opinion, and members of a nobility
as far above the gilded vulgarities of
Burke and Debrett as the heaven is
high above the earth are to be found
by the thousand thousand, ROCKING
THE CRADLE AND RULING THE
WORLD.
AFFORESTATION
IN HIS forceful Scottish way the
secretary of agriculture said to the
members of the American Forestry
association, at the annual meeting," The
time is coming in this country when
trees will be as scarce as diamonds
unless immediate steps are taken to
preserve our forests." This will per
haps serve to impress on the minds
of citizens who have hitherto taken
only a languid interest in the subject
the overwhelming importance of na
tional forestation. The question is one
which, if it were thoroughly under
stood, would take precedence of all
others, for it involves the very life of
the nation. By deforestation well
watered areas have gradually become
arid, crop bearing lands have ceased
to yield their yearly treasures, pastures
have withered away and flocks and
herds have disappeared from bare,
brown straths and hillsides. The last
rose of summer has faded and gone
and the rose bush has died with the
flower, and those who scan the skies
for signs say sagely, "Because of the
dry weather! Why, the drought has
been terrific. We have never known
anything like it." But modern students
of climatic conditions know the ex
planation of the drought is in the bare,
brown hills which once were clad with
forests. Many great rivers have been
reduced in volume during the past
half century. Others have disappeared j
from the rocky beds which mark the
courses over which once the life giving
waters flowed. Trees, trees and more
trees are needed. One of the nation's
urgent necessities is afforestation,
along with which of course there must
be forest preservation.
Exhibits for Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition will be sent from Los An
geles April 1. Apart from the exhibits
for citizens of Los Angeles the most
interesting feature of the exposition
will be the teachers' tour, conducted
under the auspices of Los Angeles
Herald. Readers of The Herald are
invited to vote for the teachers whom
they wish to see among "the chosen"
who will visit the fair. If you have
not voted before, do it now. If you
Can They 'Jimmy' It?
have voted before, do it again. At
this "election" there is no restriction
on the number of votes you may cast.
When the rain is over and gone, sur
veying parties of the highway commis
sion will begin to lay out preliminary
lines for the first of the good roads to
be built with the $3,500,000 bond Issue.
The realization of good roads will be a
triumph for the long-headed citizens
who were first to call public attention
to the highway needs of Southern Cali
fornia.
New York lies under a heavy blanket
of snow, and again the municipal au
thorities are confronted by the most
terrible of civic problems, the mid
winter care of the foodless, shoeless,
clothesless, homeless wretches who
crowd and huddle in the slums and
stews of the great, wealthy city. Con
trast that with Los Angeles.
Too bad for the smokegrafterg they
did not realize the Smokegraft cigars
were loaded. Trick cigars have a habit
of going off at the wrong time. They
are never trustworthy, even when they
are made by the trust. It begins to
look as if the city hall administration
of Los Angeles would all end in smoke.
"Ain't that a shame?"
Rip Van Winkle came to California.
"Hello, commissioner," said the gov
ernor. "You are a little late in the
game. Still, I think I'll be able to ap
point you to something or other that
needs masterly inaction. So don't go
away mad."
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
gave his overcoat to a shivering, chilly
prisoner who was brought before him
for sentence. This will teach John D.
that after all the judge is a kind, ami
able, human, humane and just man.
Thus did the schoolboy read the im
mortal lines: "The way was long, the
wind was cold, the Harper was infernal
old."' But neither Sir Walter Scott nor
the schoolboy thought of the giddy
young Harper of Los Angeles.
Squealing pigs scare some politicians.
They shudder at a shrill sound. Pork
delights them not, and yet a most im
minent and agitating question with
some of them is, Will they save their
bacon?
Chicago has been making experiments
as to the value of an onion diet. Prob
ably the experimenters were lonesome
for a day or two after they arose from
a ten-course gorge of onion dishes.
What magical letters are S. P.! They
conjure up visions of Southern Pacific,
Southwestern Packing, Some Politi
cians, Slick Performers, Several Plums!
When "de gang" commercializes it
self all goes well, until somebody
squeals. Even a pig's squeal is fraught
with danger to Sinful Personages.
Is official Los Angeles responsible for
the fact that various forms of vice
flourished unchecked and unrebuked in
this city?
Protection to American industries is
always associated with a tariff which is
levied. Is vice protected in Los An
geles?
Success to Los Angeles' 5000 club of
the Young Men's Christian association.
And of course it will be successful.
When there is fine work, is it not a
reasonable certainty S. P. has got some
of it in?
What is YOUR answer to the ques
tion, Is vice protected in Los Angeles?
Can you hear the Southwestern pig
squeal?
The trail of the Ser Pent was over
it all.
Systematic Plunder is a Selfish Pol
icy,
Good old rain! Every drop is a dol
lar.
The State Press
Nightmare Hybrid
Not all the nature fakers are operating In
the line of animal prescience. An exchange
relates that a Massachusetts man by trans
ferring the pollen from orange blossoms to
cucumber flowers has succeeded in producing
a cross between the two which has the skin
of a cucumber and the shape and color of an
orange.—Riverside Press.
Real Government
In real republican government the people
have something to say instead of simply going
through the motions and ratifying the action
of the machine and the bosses. The direct
primary and direct legislation will help to
place government in the hands of the people,
where it belongs.—Oakland Enquirer.
International Unity
The invitation sent by the president to the
governments of Canada and Mexico to partici
pate in the conference at Washington in Feb
ruary on the conservation of natural resources
is an object lesson In the essential unity of
the nations of this continent. —Long Beach
Telegram.
Lillian's Love Letters
Carefully packed away in several trunks
Lillian Russell has all the love letters that
have been written to her and intends to pub
lish them some day, but the reassuring state
ment is given out that she will suppress the
names of the writers.— Long Beach Telegram.
Bitter Struggle
Unless early indications are at fault, there
is going to be a bitter struggle at Sacramento
over the proposed anti-race track legislation.
It promises to be the exciting feature of the
legislative session that has just opened.—
San Diego Union.
Dad
"Now, what's the matter with 'God bless
our dad?' He gets up early, lights the fire,
boils an egg, and wipes off the dew of the
dawn with his boots while many a mother is
sleeping."—Santa Paute. Chronicle.
Is It Believed?
How many people believe that Senator Per
kins would succeed himself if- United States
senators were chosen by popular vote in Cali
fornia? Don't all speak at once.—Visalia
Times.
Be a Booster
"Put the hammer in the locker.
Hide the sounding board likewise;
Anyone can be a knocker.
Anyone can criticise;
Cultivate .a manner winning,
Though it hurts your face to smile.
And seems awkward in beginning,
Be a booster for a while."
—Compton Enterprise.
Far and Wide
Worry
"Why are we a nervous generation? It is
because we live in an environment of nervous
irritation. We are constantly drenched in
emotion. We worry, worry, worry lest we
shall lose something we prize, or fall in our
undertakings. Passion, fear, greed and envy
throw our minds and nerves out of balance
and diminish the power of our organism to
resist the microbes that are constantly assail
ing it. It has been scientifically demonstrated
that worry causes a predisposition to disease."
—Kabbi Hlrsch, Chicago.
Education
A national department of education, with a
secretary in the cabinet, seems decidedly am
bitious, in view of the beggarly support now
given by congress to the national bureau cf
education. Commissioner Brown would con
sider himself extremely fortunate if he could
hire a few more experts to make important
educational investigations and. in many ways,
make his modest bureau fulfil the mission
originally outlined for it when it was created.
—Springfield Republican.
Houston Hub of Fashion
lime. Marie of Chicago, a lineal dascendant
of Sweet Marie probably, speaks of "up
holding Chicago's reputation as the millinery
center of the country." Stuff! The most
beautiful and deadly of all millinery is Hous
ton's, our understanding being that the Paris
milliners are already on their way to Huuston
to get ideas for next season's styles.—Houston
Post.
Still Some
"Billy" Sunday, ths ex-ball player evangel
ist, is said to have brought fifty-two "weep
ing and repentant sinners to the mat Tor
the count," at Spokane, during the five weeks
of his revival meetings. From this record
it is quite evident that there are some sinners
loose in Spokane yet.—Seattle Times.
Wave Advertised
The present cold wave was one of the best
advertised we have had in a long-time. Had
it not kept its engagement the weather bureau
would have been in everlasting disgrace.—«
Washington Star.
Necessary Precaution
As an unobtrusive warning to those who
swore off uttering profane words, we would
suggest that they be careful to exercise strict
surveillance over the elusive collar button.—
Salt Lake Tribune.
Italy Has New Law as to the
Manufacture of Olive Oil
ITALY has a new law concerning the
• manufacture and sale of edible oils
which will be of interest to Amer
ican importers and consumers, says the
Santa Ana Blade. It was put into ope
ration April 8, 1908, and contains the
following provisions:
Article 1. It is prohibited to place on
the market under the name of olive oil
any product which differs entirely or
partly from oil called by that name.
Article 2. Whoever manufactures,
ships, keeps in stock, sells or puts on
sale edible oils in merchantable quanti
ties different from olive oil, or resulting
from the mixture of oilve oil with seed
oil or with that derived from other
oleaginous substances, is required:
(a) To report it to the mayor of the
municipality within a month from the
publication of this, law on the opening
of the factory, warehouse or business.
(b) To indicate by conspicuous char
acters displayed outside the place of
manufacture, warehouse or sale, as
well as on the receptacles, the charac
ter of the oil, and whether it is genuine
olive oil or mixed with seed oils.
In the absence of such indication,
whenever mixed oils or those derived
from oleaginous substances or seeds
may be found on premises containing
alimentary substances, or in cellars or
adjoining warehouses, the presumption
will be that the oil was intended for
human consumption.
Article 3. Manufacturers of and deal
ers in edible, oils are obliged to furnish,
in return for payment, samples of their
wares upon request of the municipal
Intensive Method of Fruit
Cultivation Is Profitable
INTENSIVE cultivation of the soil
is almost unknown in the United
States. Land in America has been
so cheap and new land so readily ob
tainable that we have been content to
exhaust the soil and then move the
bulk of our farming operations to new
localities which the far west (or, to us,
the middle east) has afforded, trusting
to time and Providence to recuperate
the spent soil of the Atlantic states.
But the day of such wasteful folly is
passing. Increase of population in
this country is going to be such that
inside twenty-five years it will be
necessary to double the agricultural
output in order that none may go hun
gry. This can easily te done, and
without such intensive cultivation as
the pressure of poverty makes abso
lutely essential in overpopulated coun
tries like Japan and China. But while
it may be admitted that necessity does
not lay its hand so heavily upon us as
in less fortunate regions the advantages
of making the best use of our natural
opportunities should not be over
looked.
Right in this same connection the
york which is being undertaken in
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VIRTUE RESTS WITH PERSONS,
NEVER WITH INSTITUTIONS
LONG BEACH. Jan. 12.—[Editor Her
ald] : What does your correspondent
"Young Man" mean by "real law"? Does
he mean the universal and God-given law
that was, is and eternally will be, or the
man-made statute lavr that varies with
the whim of legislatures, or that other
tyrant of our civilization called "custom"?
I would like to direct the attention of
this "young man" to a few facts while
the metal of his thought is soft to impres
sions, and not hardened Into prejudice and
formalism.
All the good there is in this human
world, all the virtue, all the right thinking
and living, all the sense of justice and fair
dealing, all the noble impulses toward
high ideals, all the moral sense, are found,
and found alone in individual men and
women. Therefore, the judgment seat to
which all actions, as well as all thinkings,
must be haled and tried is the consensus
of private judgment.
Institution* know nothing of abstract
right and wrong, but they are, always were
and always must be, per se, things of pol
icy, of habit, of the shifting wind of cus
tom. I say this of all "institutions" that
attempt to encroach on the field of morals.
There is not a crime known to any deca-.
logue that these creations of the ages and
vices of humanity have not committed, and
they are at it yet, only held in check by
the enlightened common sense of our time.
The crowning madness of our age is our
loyalty to these wooden idols, set before
us by ambitious power seekers, and our
appalling servility in knee-crooking to
them. If the poor old race depended on
its "organizations" for its betterment, the
reform spirit would die of dry rot, human
experience would get daily worse instead
of better, and the hopes and prayers and
enthusiasms of the great and good would
come to naught.
But there is no danger. The voice of
the faithful has runs all down the cen
turies, and it still rings. Their battle for
the right is always on. The reformer is
as much a part of the science of things as
is gravitation or the "procession of the
equinoxes." While evil lasts good will be
there to counteract it. Have faith in hu
man nature, but put no trust in "institu
tions." They are masters of human en
ergy, of human time and human providence.
SENEX.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CRITICS
CONFUSED AS TO ITS TERMS
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11.—[Editor Herald]:
It is evident that tha critics of Christian Sci
ence who find fault with its teachings regard
ing matter have been misinformed as to its
view point.
The statement, "There is no matter," is
not meant to convey the impression that man
has no body, or that the objects around us
do not exist, but is equivalent to saying that
these are.not material, as they appear to the
senses, but are, in the last analysis, mental
ideas. On this subject, Paul says to the Cor
inthians, "For the things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not seen
are eternal."
This doctrine of the non-existence of matter
as an entity or power apart from mind is
not only taught by Christian Scientists, but is
also held by many eminent physical scientists.
Such authorities as Professors Huxley and
Fiske have said, in substance, that we live in
a thought world, thsre being so such thing
as matter.
When Christian Science heals severe organic
disease through mental action alone it proves
that what we have been calling matter has
no existence apart from mind. The scriptures
bear witness to this fact in John 6:63: "It is
the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing: the words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit, and they are life."
Christian Science has discovered that all
causation resides in mind, and this explains
why it makes cures after all material sys
tems of healing have failed.
WILLIAM E. BROWN.
WORKING CLASS MUST FORM
INTO ONE INDUSTRIAL UNION
SAN PEDRO, Jan. 12.—[Editor Herald]: It is
imperative that the working class of this nation
organize as an industrial union to prevent our
further exploitation. The exactions imposed
by the master class are many, but the call
to action ought to meet with the hearty ap
proval of all wage workers, regardless of sex.
First, by cutting down the hours of labfcr,
say to seven hours a day, which will solve the
problem of the unemployed and certainly re
lieve the clogged labor market.
Second, by the abolition of child labor. Let
women wage carpers receive the same wage?
authorities or of officers of the ministry
of agriculture, industry and commerce.
Article 4. Whenever it is desired to
have proof of the genuineness of olive
oil intended for export, such proof is
furnished, except in the cases otherwise
provided for by international treaties,
by means of a certificate of the analy
sis of the sample taken, in the manner
to be prescribed in the regulations.
Article 5. All violations of the provis
ions of article 1 shall be punishable by
a fine of not less than 500 lire, and all
violations of the provisions contained
in articles 2 and 4 shall be subject to a
penalty of not less than 200 lire.
In case of a repetition of the offense
the minimum fine is to be doubled, and
imprisonment for terms up to three
months and one month, respectively,
are to be added, coupled with a suspen
sion of business for a period of from
ten days to six months.
The application of the penalties men
tioned above is not to preclude the ap
plication of higher penalties to which
the offenders may be subjected as a re
sult of the provisions of the *>enal code
or other special laws.
Article 6. The sentence shall be pub
lished, at the expense of the offenders,
in the local newspapers and affixed to
the billboards of the local chamber of
commerce and the agricultural boards
of the province in which the offenders
reside.
Article 7. Refusal to furnish samples
in accordance with the provisions of
article 3 is to be punished by a fine of
100 lire, and the operation of taking the
samples shall be performed by the au
thorities.
Hungary affords a suggestion worthy
of consideration. A traveler who lately
passed through southeastern Europe
says he was astonished at the progress
that is being made by Hungary as a
fruit country. Although Hungary is
a great fruit producing country, a few
years ago the ministry discovered that
two-thirds of the nation's consump
tion was being imported. The minis
try at once set to work to encourage
the planting of orchard trees along the
Hungarian highways. Surveys were
made; the trees were supplied at half
rates so that over 2d0,000 fruit trees
have been set out already and the
number is rapidly increasing. They
not only add immensely to the beauty
of the country, but are beginning to
furnish a valuable crop. Adequate
laws have been passed for the pro
tection of the trees and the young peo
ple are being taught to respect the
rights of the property owners.
Altogether the progress made in this
work has been highly' satisfactory.
Those who have passed through the
Santa Clara valley in this state will re
call how a similar effort has been made
in many localities there to carry out
the same idea.
as men in department stores, laundries, or
wherever women are employed.
Enforce better conditions in saw mills, log
ging camps, mines, machine shops, or any
employment that endangers the lives of mem
bers of our class.
Enforce the rights of free speech, free press
and peaceable assembly, everywhere when
gatherings are greater than halls can accom
modate.
It certainly appeals to women, owing to their
low standard of living, to think this matter
over and help set a strong movement in opera
tion in Los Angeles.
Refuse to be the slaves of starvation wages
you have noble womanhood, and to protect It
is your highest duty, which is impossible to
accomphsh as individuals, but unionized as a
collective body victory is yours
President-elect Taft says "wage workers
have a nght to organize." Let us take him
at his word and proceed to organize on cor
rect lines.
The working class stands ready to prove to
every city council in this nation that by' re
ducing the hours of labor, holdup men, petty
thieving and hobos would pass into history
You foster them by building jails. Lack of
employment and poverty are a highway lead
ing into every avenue of crime.
R. MACDONALD.
CALLS AMERICANS TO TASK
FOR NEGLECT OF PRISONERS
PASADENA, Jan. 13.—[Editor Herald]: It ia
a matter of constant and growing wonder to
me that the contributors to the Letter Box
do not give more attention to the vital affairs
of life and less to philosophical speculation and
discussion. As human beings, our right rela
tions to one another should be our first con
cern. Whether mind exists in matter or apart
therefrom is of slight interest to me; but the
knowledge that three Mexican emancipators
Ricardo Flores Magon, Antonio I. Villarreal
and Librado Rivera, have been held incomuni
cado sixteen months, in vile captivity in our
county jail nils me with indignation. What
are the people of this country made of that
they can go on ignoring the black injustice
perpetrated against these men. We must be
insensate stones indeed to remain so indiffer
ent to their fate. It is a disgrace to the
nation. "Woe to ua when it become noised
abroad, and the European press begins to
probe our iniquity. The day is coming, peo
ple of America, when our guilty country will
be held up to universal contumely and scorn
for this outrage against human rights
Think of this shameful affair, writers'to the
Letter Box; the nearest duty is the first. After
you have helped restore the Mexicans to lib
erty, the least reparation that can be made
tor the wrong done them, it will be time
enough to turn your attention to philosophiz
ing- JOHN M. HAVES
MIND CAN DO BUT ONE THING;
THAT IS, KEEP HANDS OFF
ALHAMBRA, Jan. 11.—[Editor Herald]: In
the last letter 1 pointed out the existence of
the two nervous systems—the cerebro-spinal
and sympathetlcs—and stated that the latter
controlled the vital functions and was largely
independent of the higher centers—will, etc.
The higher centers do exert an inhibiting In
fluence on the sympatheties indirectly, but
have no power to increase vital activity direct
ly. Thus, fear, worry and all the emotions
disturb the nervous system to the extent that
some of these vital functions are .stopped and
much harm results from long continuance.
All passions when uncontrolled are deleteri
ous to health; and love which is normal and
health giving, as Mr. Cecil says, may result
in disease and insanity when uncontrolled.
The secret of the power of the mind over the
body, therefore, lies in controlling the mind
and emotions, that they may not disturb the
vital functions.
Healing power all resides in the individual
cells, and all mind can do, and does, is to keep
its hands off and allow the sympathetlcs to
do their work as they want to. Nor is it
jiecessary to call in the "Power of Hea-^jn,"
"Divine Mind," or drink something out of'a
bottle. Hence we see the limits of mental
healing. It can remove its own obstacles, if
no obstruction exists, much as religion cre
ates its hells and removes them with a promise
of heaven.
Fear or worry is the greatest of all mental
marauders, and suggestion and knowledge will
dispel it. DR. HUMANIT.xS.
One of Her Faults
In thought profound she faced the pi-an-o.
She feared to touch the waiting ivory keys;
He coughed a cough, and then, in accents low.
He spoke, and thereby put her at her ease.
"Fear not, Patrise; I thought you always knew
I've loved you, dearest, loved you with your
faults!"
It was enough; her doubts all straightway flew.
She then thumped out "Merry Widow "Waltz."
—Yonkers Statesman.