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AT THE THEATERS
AUDITORIUM— Red Biding Hood."
MASON—"The Bed Mill."
BELASCO Stranger in New York."
MAJESTIC"Babes in Toyland."
BURBANK—"Faust."
ORPHEUM—Vaudeville.
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LOS ANGELES—Vaudeville.
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UNIQUE— Land of Tar and Tartar."
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YOUNG VOTERS
A FEATURE of the county conven
tion of the Christian Endeavor
union will be an address on "Civic
Righteousness." Recent events in- the
public official history of Los Angeles
have interested the young men of the
community perhaps more than any
other class. Most young men are clean
minded, therefore most young men are
enthusiastic supporters of Los Angeles
Herald in its fight for a clean city. The
younger voters will support a candidate
who will represent healthy sentiments
and high aspirations. Los Angeles is an
educational center. Its schools and col
leges and its great university are
already well known all over the United
States. The climate is favorable for
education, both physical and mental,
and many citizens have brought their
families here in the belief the children
in Los Angeles would be more free from
contaminating influences and more sub
ject to high, elevating influences than
in any other city of the United States.
And, other things being equal, -this
would be the case. However, when city
officials open the doors and bid Vice
enter our city and make itself at home,
a condition inimical to the best inter
e 's of the family and the school is
created.
This condition must be ended. In Los
Angeles there is no reason for it. There
is not the slightest excuse for it. With
a mayor of the right kind, and with a
police department. that would act in
thorough harmony with such a mayor
it would be impossible for" vice to thrive.
In a place like this, it cannot be found
unless it is deliberately and officially
encouraged, attracted, promised immu
nity. The election of an anti-vice mayor
will put an end not only to "graft," but
to all the evil influences that are pro
tected by graft. A good mayor will
have an ennobling and elevating influ
ence on the life of the city, and it is
; ticularly to the interest of the young
men of the community that the mayor
should be a candidate for whom Chris
tian Endeavorers and their friends can
vote with a clear conscience.
CONSOLIDATION
A CONSOLIDATION without any
strings to it is demanded by citi
zens of Greater Los Angeles. The
vigilant enemies of consolidation and
of San Pedro harbor will contest every
inch of the way, but they will be
taught that the people rule, and that
the wishes of the people must be re
spected. Square deal consolidation,
without vitiating "amendments," is
the only legislative program that will
be tolerated by the good citizens of
Greater Los Angeles. Harbor inter
ests must be safeguarded. ..
By dint of hard work, San Pedro has
been saved from corporation control
hitherto, but the designing corporation
must not be allowed to achieve by in
direct methods the purpose which it
could not achieve by direct methods.
Citizens of Los Angeles realize the im
portance of this subject, and any pub
lic servants or representatives 'who
try to thwart the public will must ex
pect to be called to an accounting..
WISE ACTION
WISDOM and a commendable re
gard for the views and opinions
of 10,000 voters who signed the
recall petition were shown by the action
of the meeting of citizens held yester
day to consider the question of sug
gesting a candidate who shall be placed
in nomination in opposition to Mayor
Harper. ' /
In a' matter of this kind the utmost
prudence is necessary. An excellent
citizen will be chosen as candidate for
mayor; and he will win. But the very
certainty of victory leads those who
are interested in the recall movement
to proceed in a way .which cannot fail
to be satisfactory to the business men
and voters of Los Angeles. Mr.
Stephens, the candidate first suggested,
would have been acceptable to the sign
ers of the recall, who represent all
political parties, all kinds of political
opinions, but are united in the common
aim of good citizenship. Mr. Stephens,
for reasons that are eminently satisfac
tory, that cannot possibly be ques
tioned or challenged, found it impos
sible to make the race. His withdrawal
opens the way to a choice among many
candidates, any one of whom would
make a far better and more representa
tive mayor of Log Angeles, than Mayor
Harper. The question is which of many
available citizens shall be selected? We
have no doubt the form of procedure
adopted, that of appointing a nominat
ing committee to select a candidate
whose name will be reported at a meet
ing to be held next Wednesday evening
is, under the circumstances, the very
wisest and most prudent possible, and
we are certain the candidate chosen
will be acceptable to the overwhelming
majority of the citizens of Los An
geles. .
WATCH THE EXAMINER
CITIZENS of Los Angeles at this
crisis in municipal histoi y will do
well to keep a watchful eye on the
False Prophet. The Mahdist newspaper
is indulging in some queer antics. The
contortions of the Examiner, in en
deavoring to give people the impression
the interests now represented by Mr.
Hearst are on the right side and at
the same time attempting to throw cold
water on the cause of good citizenship,
will influence neither opinions nor
votes, but form an interesting study in
the conditions attending the chemical
transformation known as Harrimaniza'
tion. f
When a newspaper abandons its in
dependence and makes Itself a corpora
tion press agency it becomes a' menace
to the public, if taken seriously. At
the same time the common sense of the
people will prevent them from taking
it seriously or from" regarding as a
permanent policy for the public good
any of the eccentricities manifested. by
a style of journalism which, like a'
dying fish, turns first one color, then an
other, but always comes back to the
ground hue the same old dull, dirty,
drab tint of yellow.
GRATIFYING
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT should
be gratified by the manner in
which the Pacific coast has re
sponded to his .request that the ad
ministration at Washington should not
be embarrassed by any rabid anti-
Japanese measures. In Oregon, as in
California, wise counsels have pre
vailed. The Oregon legislature ac
quiesced immediately in the presi
dent's expressed desire that nothing
should be done which would tend to'
inflame the minds of the "Japanese
people or assist in causing a possible
breach between the United States and
Japan.
In Oregon the Democrats took the
lead in advocating an application of
the principles of Americanism to the
problem before the country. Senator
Norton, a Democrat, drafted the re
port, which said: "We deem it inad
visable at this time that this legisla
ture should add to the difficulty which
the federal government is now .experi
encing in handling this most delicate
question, and we believe the adminis
tration is zealously guarding the in
terests of the people of "the Pacific
coast and of the entire west, and that
it would serve no good purpose were
the legislature of the state now to take
any action in this matter which would
increase the difficulties of the presi
dent of the United States in handling
the question."
Like Oregon, California, in regard to
the Japanese question, has given Pres
ident Roosevelt a square deal, and we
are proud of it and anticipate most
satisfactory results.
ROOSEVELT'S ORATION
MANY people will be inclined to
think President Roosevelt's ad
dress on Lincoln will be remem
bered in history as the most note
worthy feature of a noteworthy and
remarkable administration. Every
American will rejoice as he realizes
that his president—our presidentthe
president of all the peopleis gapablc
of the magnificent and lofty oratorical
effort from which we quote this ever
to-be-remembered passage:
"As tho years roll by, and all of us,
wherever we dwell, grow to feel an
equal pride in the valor and self-devo
tion alike of the men who wore the
blue and the men who wore the gray,
so this whole nation will grow to feel
a peculiar sense of pride in the man
whose blood was shed for the union of
'his people and for the freedom of a
race; the lover of his country and all
mankind; the mightiest of the-mighty
men who mastered the mighty—Abra
ham Lincoln.", \:
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How thoughtful it is of the mayor to
threaten to bring libel suits against the
members of the minority of the grand
jury. This action on the part of the
mayor will give the public an opportu
nity of reading complete reports of the
testimony given before the grand jury
during its investigation. We have no
doubt the people of Los Angeles wouid
read with eager interest every line of
the minutes of the grand jury.
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LOS ANGELES HERALD: SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1909.
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PROSPERITY AHEAD
ARTHUR LETTS says: "I've been
boosting for Los . Angeles for fif
teen years, right in the thick of
things. Los Angeles is my city, and I
can't see anything but increased pros
perity ahead. Count me a booster, who
expects to keep boosting for fifty years
more." There talks the man of sense,
the level-headed citizen.
No person with properly trained
brains in the place where the brains
ought to be dreams for an instant that
the exposure of revolting and discred
itable official conditions in Los.Ange
les will interfere with the prosperity of
the city any more than the revelations
of the Lexow investigating committee
interfered with the prosperity of New
York. It was after the Lexow- investi
gation that New York began to carry
out the program of expansion, annex
ation and growth which gave the Unit
ed States the second city in civiliza
tion, and the greatest in the western
hemisphere.
As a result of the recall of Mayor
Harper and the ejection of officials
who have been obstructing the progress
of this city and menacing its pros
perity, Los Angeles will make advances
in might and efficiency, and soon will
be the greatest city of the western
coast. What has been done -in the
physical history of Los Angeles and
the tributary country will now be done
in the moral and political history there
of. We must have good civic and po
litical roads along which Los Angeles
may travel while making a history of
greater and greater achievement, and
in order to have good moral roads, good
political roads, PROGRESS ROADS,
we must clean out the rubbish.
Los Angeles, having shown the world
it has the courage to remove.obstacles
to progress, will gain prestige and win
the admiring respect of every city in
the United States and in civilization.
As Arthur Letts says, "There is noth
ing but increased prosperity ahead."
ROYALTY JEERED
SOCIAL conditions in Germany are
so bad Hans forgot his courtesy
when King Edward visited him,
and ■he hooted and jeered royalty,
i Mobs of plain men on the streets of
Berlin yelled most disrespectfully at the
men who are addressed as majesties
and highnesses. '
Modern majesty is not very majestic,
and modern highness is not oyer im
posing. Probably the Germans were
unmannerly, but what they said in a
somewhat strenuous manner may be
Interpreted: "It is important we should
have enough |o eat and drink and wear
and that we should have shelter. In
return for these necessaries we ill give
you strength and skill. You will not'
buy our strength, and skill. ( You say
you cannot afford it; that business con
ditions would not justify it. ' Do busi
ness conditions or any conditions jus
tify the starvation of any of the people
as long as there are enough necessities
of life for all? Why is one citizen better
taken care of than another not one
whit less deserving of care? And, above
all, why are royal personages treated
as if they were demigods?"^
- The German workingman and peasant
'cannot understand royal flummery
when he is unable to earn money, and
when the pot is not boiling. Of course
conditions are not at all different when
the pot is boiling, but somehow the
workingman is not always eager to talk
about his rights when he is sure of
square meals and a home and perhaps
a little recreation, * Most people . are
contented with very little. When you
think of i. is it not really wonderful
that quiet contentment should be the
principal characteristic of civilization?
But there is a danger line to this con
tentment. When poor people are no
longer able to eat their fill the danger
line has been reached,, and it may be
crossed upon provocation such as that
afforded by the display of wealth and
waste attendant on the visit of a pup
pet king to a toy emperor.
It's the Stains That Stick
MAYOR'S DISGRACE
A MAYOR who takes part in orgies
or otherwise misconducts himself
is utterly unfit to hold office. The
grand jury report accuses Mayor Har
per of having participated in an orgy.
Testimony as to th« part he took in
a free and-easy "frolic" was laid before
the grand jury. Probably the public
will now be convinced, even without a
"Lexow" investigation, that the recall
of Mayor Harper is actually necessary
upon moral grounds as well as finan
cial and economical. The city cannot*
afford to entertain a chief executive of
Mayor Harper's "broad" ideas.
We believe in broadmindedness, but
do not believe in profligacy. The pub
lic will also take this view of the case,
and that is why the recall election will
be successful and why Mayor Harper
will have to step down and out so
that a good and representative citizen
may administer the affairs.of Los An
geles. It is most unfortunate that Mr.
Harper's friends should have urged
him to "bluff" his way through the
storm of criticism, but when the storm
of criticism is succeeded by a hurri
cane of evidence the mayor's bravery
begins to look like foolhardy rashness.
Public opinion is aroused and the peo
ple are determined to protect the repu
tation of Los Angeles by placing in
office men who will not do violence
to that reputation..'
The Herald has said repeatedly that
there is enough evidence to show the
unfitness, of Mayor Harper for his po
sition. Upon hearing this evidence the
grand jury was forced to put on record
the fact that the mayor of this city
had taken part in an orgy. Friends
of Los Angeles in every part of the
United States will share the indigna
tion of our humiliated citizens over the
official misconduct revealed and com
mented on by the grand jury report.
MAYOR HARPER IS NOT GOOD
ENOUGH FOR LOS ANGELES, r
i We must have a mayor who is good
enough for all of us.
Another record has been broken in
this' enterprising and record-breaking
state. Noah's rainfall lasted only forty
days and forty nights. Ours has that
score beaten already. Unlike Noah's
flood, the California downpour is a
prosperity bringer, and will cause the
earth to yield her-increase in lavish
abundance. Hurrah for Southern Cali
fornia, where we always have plenty
of everything, including rain.
Pro-vice newspapers and politicians j
have only one hope. They hope to pre- i
vent the people from voting. They
know if the citizens go to the polls l
the pro-vice cause is lost. Therefore, j
even in advance of the nomination of
the people's candidate, let us urge all
our friends to make up their minds to
vote for him and to help free the city
from vicious and demoralizing influ
ences.
Notorious Southern Pacific lobbyists j
are working for the defeat of the di
rect primary law. The machine will
exhaust every resource of diabolical
ingenuity before it will consent to sur
render to the people the right to rule.
A pro-vice morning contemporary
publishes a letter under the head-line,
"Is Harper Tight?" This is the most
unkindest cut off all. Pro-vice papers
should avoid such frightfully rasping
personalities. , '"• - '
For mayor of Los Angeles—A Square
Deal Man. We will get him, and he
will be elected.
Next mayor of Los Angeles will be a
true representative of the people of
Los Angeles.
Some people spell it "pink sox," As
you like it. We all know w_£t it
means. s - '.';-" _ "
{ Pink socks are no longer scoffed at
by • the sockless or "practical" politi
cians.. <U-':,V ?vV?^-'
The State Press
No, There Won't
The majority report of the Los Angeles grand
jury says there was an "orgy" in the redlight
district participated in by the mayor of the
"Angel City" and his chief of police. The mi
nority report gives the alleged details brought
cut in evidence. Query: Will there continue to
be room among the "angels" for these officials?
—Pasadena News.
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Alaska-Yukon Exposition
October 10, 190S, was an anniversary in
the history of Alaska. On that date forty
one years ago the American flag was raised
at Sitka to indicate that Russia had with
drawn, and the vast territory which will be
exploited at Seattle next year was a part
of the United States. —San Luis Obispo
' Breeze.
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Rush to California
i Another furious blizzard is reported to be
raging throughout the middle west and , this
means that . the people who are now on the
waiting list for sleeping car accommodations
two weeks ahead may be required to wait four
weeks, so great will be the rush to get to a
pleasanter climate.— Enterprise.
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Weather Report
"After many days of arid dedication, the
vapory captains marshaled their thundering
hosts and poured out upon thirsting humanity
and pulverized vegetation a few inches of aqua
pluvialis." That is the way one editor took
of telling his readers that it rained.—Corona
Independent.
V
Monosyllabic Secretaries
The secretaries of state, it has been dis
covered, have generally had names o* «. sin
.gle syllable, as Day, Root, Hay, Smith? Case,
Black, Fish and Blame. The name of the
next secretary, Mr. Knox, complies with the
rule. —Merced Sun.
Rain and Sunshine
The rains will end some day, and then the
sunshine will be all the sweeter, the flowers
all the brighter, the grass all the greener and
the people all the happier because of them.
Cheer up, and let 'er rain.—Santa Barbara
Press. .
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Cruelty . Unpunished
The spelling deformers have put out an
other list of mangled words. Where is the
Socrety for the Prevention of Cruelty to the
English Language?— San Jose Mercury.
Lincoln Coinage
President Roosevelt has given his consent!
to the placing of the head of Lincoln on
one of the popular coins, probably the half i
dollar—Redding Searchlight.
Far and Wide
Harriman
Mr. Harriman's entry into the directorate of
the New York Central marks a new era in the
American railroad world. Mr. Harriman has
ushered in several new eras of this kind and it
remains to be seen whether he has not a few
more up his sleeve. Some people think he has
by no means completed his Alexandrine task of
taking over practically the entire strategic
skeleton of the railway plexus, the control of
I which would dominate completely the entile
I steam transportation fabric.—Newark News. |
j Lincoln Holiday
A Lincoln holiday would be entirely proper
j this year, but it should not be made permanent.
i February is not a desirable season for such In
-1 terruptions as the holidays now constitute, and
to hat. two within a fortnight in midwinter
I would prove a decidedly objectionable disar
j rangement of business. Lincoln can be hon- |
ored in other ways.—Boston Transcript.
Smiles j
A "charming young French woman, declares it
is her purpose to teach people how to smile j
joyously. Not at all a tad idea, considering
the appalling spread of the prohibition wave.— !
New York Herald. I
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P. D. Q.
Already a Meridian lover has adopted as. his
i cry of distress the Marconi C. Q. D. signal-
Come Quickly. Darling. And her reply is al
ways O. X., which she intends for Of Kourse.—
' Meridian Journal.
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Castro Grinned
It is understood that one C. Castro grinned
broadly when he learned that negotiations be
tween the United States and Venezuela had
reached a deadlock.—Manchester Union.
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Let's Be Happy j
We've' more money than any nation in all
history and the run we get for it is unexam
pled. Why shouldn't we be a happy people?—
New York World.
Army Is Safer
Thirty thousand American workingmen killed
last year. A lot of our laborers may decide ta
join the army and be on the safe side.—
land Loader. • .. -:
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Patriotic 'Suggestion
We urge San Francisco to make haste to
secure Captain Hobson as a fortification
against the Japanese invasion.Dayton
Herald.
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What Kearney Missed '
. Dennis Kearney died too soon. How the
sand lot agitator would have enjoyed the
present imbroglio!— Salt Lake Herald.
Southern Pacific Is Trying
to Convey a Right of Way
IN VIEW of the fact that the South
ern Pacific Railroad company has
again asked the board|of super
visors to amend the franchise of the
motor load between San Bernardino
and its junction with the main line to
Redlands, so that it can run regular
steam freight and passenger trains over
the road, the people living along the
line of the motor road wish to call the
attention of the public,' and particu
larly of the business men of San Ber
nardino and Redlands and of the board
of supervisors, to what such a change
would mean to them, writes N. B.
Hinckley in San Bernardino Sun.
The motor road runs for its entire
length on the public highway, and in
the Mission through a very highly de
veloped residence section. The present,
motor train has for .rears been of "no
practical service to the public and has
run so seldom that it has not been of
so great danger to the public as it
might have been. But to change the
character of the traffic over the road
so that steam engines drawing freight
and passenger trains run frequently
over it will make the road very danger
ous and unsafe as a public highway.
And bear in mind that this road is the
main traveled road "of the Mission dis
trict, and that large portions of it have
been splendidly built up and have had
thousands of dollars spent on them.
The value of the homes along the
road, and there are many comfortable
and good ones, for the Mission is a
prosperous community, would be de
stroyed. Who wants to live right on .
road ■ where trains are passing fre
quently, a road much of which-is only
fifty feet in its total width? It is the
most dangerous proposition to our
families driving in and out of the yards
to the road to find an engine and train
dashing fast them. A dangerous prop
osition also to our children going back
and forth to school, for there are two
schoolhouses on the road, one of them
a large building costing over $12,000.
William the War Lord Now
William the Quiet and Tame
EUROPEAN dispatches .relative to J
|, the "silent revolution" which has
-* been going on in Germany since |
the reichstag called Emperor William j
to time for his indiscretion of foreign '<
relations, are replete with side lights
upon the '.'real character" of the Ger
man "war lord."
The "silent revolution," it should be
explained, "moans nothing more or less
than the emergence of the German peo
ple, both in official and private sta
tions, from the influence of the throne
fear which has been traditionally and
practically ground into them. It is said
that no ruler of Germany has been held
in greater awe by the people than
William 11.
For twenty years the emperor has
been looked- upon as a dashing, fiery,,
intrepid hotspur statesman. The peo-
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EMPLOYMENT SOMEHOW MUST
BE FURNISHED UNEMPLOYED
GRANGE. Feb. 10.—[Editor Her
ald]: A short time ago a.federal of
ficial, speaking of the unfortunate men
and boys in the bread lines of New
York city, said they were a lot of
"bums," and there should be a state
farm to which they could be sent and
"compelled to work for their living."'
The idea of state employment is all
right, and this country will soon be
obliged to provide it in some form, but
if the above suggestion is worked out
in the spirit in which it was made it
will carry with "it the elements of
failure. Judging from the way state
institutions are managed, there would
be expensive buildings and a number
of officials who would receive larg.
salaries and be given power to compel
those sent there to perform a daily
task, thus making of it a sort of penal
settlement and another burden on the
public funds.
But put the same number of men on
a state farm to work co-operatively;
give them necessary tools to make a
fair start; furnish them with materials
to build plain, cheap homes; let them
make their own rules, elect their own
foremen and managers, who will work
with them, thus insuring faithful serv
ice and cutting out large salaries. Let
each man understand that a share in
the work insures a share in the profits
and let the product belong to the work
ers, except for the rental to the state
for the use of the land and a fund
for replacing worn or broken tools.
Such . a community would soon be a
self-supporting, self-respecting body of
citizens.
Some people who do not keep them
selves-informed of what is being done
in other countries will sneer at this,
but let those who sneer mention a bet
ter plan. If one thing is certain it is
that our present system Is a failure,
and some other must be tried, for, with
the cost of our pauperism and with
insanity and crime increasing faster
than/ the wealth of the country, how
will the expense be met? More police,
more judges and more jails arc de
manded until one is constrained to
ask: What of the future? L. W.
DEMANDS USELESS WHEN NOT
BACKED BY ECONOMIC POWER
' BAKERSFIELD, Feb. 7. — [Editor
Herald]: '!1 demand," says Maggie Tull
in the Letter Box. "that woman be
selected for her noble qualities and not
for^i sex slave."
This is the sort of language I have
heard these last twenty-five years
wherever workmen hold indignation
meetings. Probably it will be heard for
some time to come. What use is a de
mand unless it is backed up by -power?
What power is there in those who are
economically dependent and are con
tented to remain in that position?
There are people in this country to
day who have a longing for economic
independence—not the economic inde
pendence of the collectivity but that of
the individual, which is the only kind
worth talking aboutbut their voices
are almost inaudible amid the clatter
of contented drudgery.
For the great thing they are up
against' 13 that ninety-nine out of a
hundred workingmen are perfectly con
tent so long as they have a good job,
although they are then entirely depen
dent on the employer; and that the
vast masses of women think they have
solved life's riddle when they have man
aged to catch a competent provider.
So long as this mental condition" pre
vails the Maggie Tutls may continue to
demand, but they will demand in vain,
VICTOR H. TELFORD.
What could ever compensate us for a
few little children (accidentally?) run
over and killed or maimed, because a
railroad runs down the street . with"
barely room to stand between the track
and the school yard gate through which
the children pass in and out.
As for public policy, it is pretty
thoroughly established that it is con
trary to public policy to grant "rights
over public roads when such, grant de
stroys their value for the purposes for
which they have been dedicated.
As a matter of fact, the motor right
of way is about as unsuitable for a
railroad as can be. So unsuitable and
impractical is it that we can only be
lieve that the asking for the franchise
is not for the purpose of constructing
a permanent railroad, but for the pur
pose of so temporarily using or mis
using the right as to try to acquire a
different, more direct and practical
right of way at much less expense than
it otherwise would be put to.
Is it right to give into the hands of
any corporation, gratis, a club which it
can use over the heads of a community,
by means of which it can attempt to
force them to give it the prvileges it
seeks? Is it right to grant away pub
lic privileges of great value on false
representations in order to work a hold
up game on a community?
We all want to see the Southern Pa
cific Railroad company have a- direct
line between San Bernardino and Red
lands, but let them go at the matter m
the right way, select a suitable right of
way for such a road and get the busi
ness men of the two cities to help them
so far as they are willing to do so.
Let the matter be taken out into the
open and gone at in a fair, square man
ner, instead of giving away rights the
use of which destroys the value of
private property and interferes danger
ously with the public safety, rights
which in reality are not wanted, but
which once obtained can be used to the
irreparable injury of a whole com
munity.
ple have been taught to regard him as
the most brilliant of the Hohenzollern
line, says the Humboldt Times. "
Now they have found out that he is
a most ordinary individual—an excit
able, fickle busybody, bustling into'
everything, and just as quickly bustling
out. They view him today as one of
the most mortal of mortals rather than
as a god of the gods. #
Criticism of the throne, heretofore
inhibited under the most stringent and
drastic provisions, has become free and
open. Lese-majesty has become safe.
And William is now a recluse. De- #
void of the power, apparently, to cope
with the situation which he has cre
ated, he has withdrawn from the public
eye and is cooping himself up within
his p.-laces, pouting and fretting, no
doubt blaming everyone but "himself.
CONDEMNS CRIME COMMITTED ;
IN THE NAME.OF LEGALITY
LOS ANGELES, Feb. . 10.—[Editor
Herald]: As a menace to political
liberty superstition in America today is
equal to the religious superstition of
the dark ages. The Puritans thought it
a religious duty to burn and torture to
death any one who exercised his rea
son to find any truth that would -ex
pose the fallacies and absurdities of
their religious and ethical teachings.
What crimes are not committed in
the name of legality that none of us,
as individuals,, would be found guilty
of?
The case was reported yesterday in
all the papers of Los Angeles of a man
who years ago lost one leg and all the
fingers of both hands in a railway ac
cident. We had that man thrown into
l prison for forty days for vagrancy. I
> cannot believe that any individual
would so 'mutilate his fellow being and
further insult him by denouncing him
as a criminal because he has not means
to support" himself. But, as an organ
ization of individuals, we have done
just that.
This man attempted to get away
from his miserable existence by letting
a street car run over him. That act of
his was called a -crime, for which he
must be punished. "Verily, our method
savors of the mob spirit that tortures
its victims as horribly as it can with
i out killing them.
What shall this man do? He is de
prived of equal ability, and denied an
equal opportunity with his fellow men.
He is denounced and punished for ex
isting without capital which he cannot
obtain; he is arrested and punished for
attempting to get away from that
criminal existence for which he was
punished.
I have talked with three good and re
spectable citizens about this case, and
all were as positive in their belief that
the cripple was guilty of crime as were
the Puritans in their belief that all who
did not think as they did were crimi
nals. As none of the three citizens
gave any valid reason for his belief, I
define it as superstition as absurd as
those of the Puritan witch burners.
J. W. L.
REFINEMENT OF CRUELTY
IN MODERN CIVILIZATION
PASADENA, Feb. 9.—[Editor Her
ald]: "I am hungry; can you give me
something to eat?" asked Tom Farley,
a railroad machinist, to Patrolman
Oker on South Main street yesterday
morning.
"I will have to arrest you for beg
ging," replied the patrolman.
"But I am willing to work if you can
only tell'me where I can get something
to do," pleaded the man with a help
less look in his face.
Farley was sentenced to twenty days'
imprisonment by Police' Justice Fred
erickson for begging.— note in
Friday's Herald.
And we wonder from what kind of
m terial are made, or what conditions
produce, AMERICAN-BORN AN
ARCHISTS. Great God of love and
mercy, where is the heart and con
science of this thin veneer upon bar
barism which we call civilization? Why
must an American citizen be penalized
for the crime (?) of being hungry and
c t of work? Surely to suffer the
degredation of begging for work and
then for bread is enough without the
added stigma of ball and chain and in
voluntary servitude! , Surely the ex
treme limit of refined cruelty has been
reached in our treatment of our un
fortunate brothers whose only crime is
that of being out of work. -
' J. MALCOMB JONES.
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