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AT THE THEATERS
MASON—Dark.
BELASCO—"The Dollar Mark."
MAJESTIC—"BInck Tattl."
B URBANK—"Peter Fan."
AUDITORIUM—"CncIe Tom'a Cabin" Musi
cal Burlesque.
GRAND —"The Fortnne Teller."
ORPHECM—Vaudeville.
LOS ANOELES—Vaudeville.
FISCHER'S—"Her Husband."
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UNIQUE —"Sixty Mlnutea in Panama."
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MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS
WHEN the experience of Los An
geles with the mayoralty be
comes history, it will be pleas
ant to find that )n the hour of need
two such faithful citizens as Mayor
Stephens and George Alexander were
found. Both of them are men who put
duty above every other consideration,
and believe in good for good govern
ment's sake. The end of the mayoralty
trouble will be the beginning of a long
era of good government in Los Angeles.
Mayor Stephens Is one of the best citi
zens any city could be blessed with,
because he has shown he is self-sacri
ficing. All throughout the crisis he
acted only with a view to doing his
duty. His first care was tjie welfare
of Los Angeles. He allowed no con
sideration to swerve him from his
standards o»- ideals. When it was sug
gested he should make of himself an
Instrument to foil the citizens who had
brought about a recall election, he said
lirmly he was a man of his word.
In George Alexander, Mayor Stephens
and all other good and responsible citi
zens realizo they have a man who will
do his duty as mayor. He has tenacity
of purpose and strength of will. He is
unapproachable by interests, and can
not be swerved from the right path.
With Mr. Alexander as mayor, Los An
geles could not fail to maintain the
high standard of civic decency which
has character^.d her career, decency
which was menaced by the character
and conduct of creatures of the rail
road machine. We believe there Is
ahead of Los Angelas a period of un
precedented prosperity and happiness,
is gratifying to find that whila the
city has shown prudent care for the
financial aspects of the great undertak
ings which will make it the metropolis
of the west, the leading municipality of
the Pacific coast, the construction of
the Owens river aqueduct is making
satisfactory progress. This work has
won the ■warm commendation of the
city engineer of San Francisco, who
has said: •
"The men in charge of this great
work are entitled to be called statesmen
as well as engineers for the manner in
which this work has been conceived
and executed. They have foreseen and
secured for Los Angeles rights of in
estimable value and enormous possi
bilities. . . The superb citizenship of
the mass of the people of Los Angeles
in backing up their employes in every
action taken, the broiid recognition by
President Roosevelt and the heads of
departments at Washington In grasp
ing conditions as they exist here, and
the prompt action given despite all
cavil and objections from Interested
parties and selfish interests, have made
for the inauguration and partial con
summation of what I think to be one
of the most admirable municipal water
projects over conceived by a city."
Los Angeles will be better and more
prosperous than ever as a result of
the big house cleaning. Our city will
have a good mayor, and consolidation
will put on the map Greater Los An
geles, the leading city of the southwest,
with the harbor of San Pedro, one of
the finest seaports on the Pacific
coast. ]
YELLOW FLOPPER
THE Los Angles Examiner con
fesses meekly It has seen the er
ror of Its ways, crawls apologet
ically Into the recall band wagon, and,
If we don't look out, will soon be
claiming It originated the recall prin
ciple, suggested the recall of the
former mayor of Los Angeles and Is
entitled to credit for the political
house cleaning. It has published an
editorial entitled "The Recall Is Here
to Stay. It Has Proved Its Great
Value."
This simple avowal from the ex
associate leader of the pro-vice press
bears testimony to the fact that The
Herald, in Its advocacy of the truth,
has accomplished the most extraordi
nary reformation of modern times. It
also shows the marvelous aptitude of
the Examiner for flip-flopping when It
thinks it will lose prestige and circula
tion by having the courage of its un
popular yellow opinions.
The Examiner would form a valuable
addition to the circus. Nothing In the
list of attractions offered by the big
show is more striking than the flip
fiopness of Mr. Hearst. When this per
former takes the ring let all others
look to their laurels. "Now," thunders
the announcer through his speaking
trumpet, "now will appear the great
est marvel of the ages, the saffron
king of political contortlonism! The
one, and only! Watch him work!
While you think he is here, he is there,
and when you have made up your mind
he Is there, he is here. The swiftest
lightning change artist of modern
■times. Now you see him, and now you
don't. Whatever he says, he doesn't
do; and whatever he -doesn't do, he
says. The champion flip-flopper of
modern times will now do that most
marvelous and phenomenal acrobatic
feat called flipping the flop on the re
call."
All other performances in other rings
are suspended. There is a minute of
breathless silence. A long roll from
the drums, a blare of trumpets, and
before the bewildered public stands the
wonderful William, bowing and smiling
in his new role of recall advocate.
Look out for his editorial utterance
claiming all the credit. Somebody in
his office is grinding It out for him
now.
He has already said: "The recall is
here to stay. No amount of chicanery
on the part of practical politicians,
criminal trusts or oppressive corpora
tions will ever get it removed—at least
from the charter of this city. With it
the people have come to their own, and,
appreciative of the fact, they are not
going to take a step backward. What
is still more to the point, the country
at large is awakening to the fact that
the recall Is the proper method of con
trolling those who would be unfaithful
stewards. Chicago is putting it into
its charter. New York city is agitat
ing It and may put It In its charter.
The day is surely coming when the
initiative, the referendum and the re
call will be a part of our national and
state laws, as well as being Included in
national charters."
When the man who writes the Ex
aminer editorials under the norn de
j plume of William Randolph Hearst had
ended this piece of work he leaned
back in his chair and remarked re
flectively to the yellow office cat: "And
once more we have proved the truth
of the old saying, 'Hindsight is better
than foresight.' "
INDICTMENT
IT IS reported that at least one In
dictment already has been found
by the special grand jury, and the
news is causing consternation among
pro-vice politicians who not long ago
wire weaving bold, brazen faces and
threatening to bring libel suits; and
also in the offices of newspapers which
were misguided enough to espouse the
cause of the enemies of Los Angeles
and to heap cheap ridicule and Bil
iingsgivte abuse on the champions of
civic decency and the friends of good
government. Now that the grand Jury
is finding indictments, the former
jeerers and jesters are right sad and
sorrowful. The pro-vice cause "does
not look good to them any more."
It will be Interesting to watch how
the various unhappy newspapers which
committed themselves to a bad cause
with unreasoning and unseasonable en
thusiasm will "save their faces" in
those parlous days for pro-vice In
terests. An Indictment Is not necessarily
a conviction. Nay, it Is not always a
trial. At the same time it is an unde
niable fact of a most unpleasant, dis
agreeable nature for the person In
dicted and for all connected with him
or associated with him in any way,
directly or Indirectly. And eeiually dis
agreeable is it for newspaper pro-vice
partisans.
LAND GRABBING
BY the anti-land grab bill the
land reserves will be protected
from speculators. School lands
will be sold at public auction and other
safeguards ot publicity will be thrown
about land transactions. It is clearly
contrary to the spirit and Intention of
such transactions that they should be
manipulated for speculative purposes.
As social needs become more and more
urgent, and as the population is in
creased, it becomes more and more im
portant that all of the rights of the
public should be safeguarded.
Thera is opposition to the bill. Grove
Johnson of Sacramento is leading thai
opposition. The success of the measure
would be a deathblow to an industry
that has filled many pockets and con
tributed gieatly to the worldly success
of many wealthy citlseM. It would be
an end to land grabbing and a rebuke
of that Interference between the people
of the United Stales and the rights of
the people of the United States which,
exhibited in many departments of activ
ity besides land dealing, has been tho
cause of much trouble and discontent.
Every meaiurt which Is clearly for the
good of the people should receive en
thusiastic popular supports
LOS ANGELES HERALP: SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1009.
This Way to the Rubbish Heap!
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CHAFIN'S FALLACY
EUGENE CHAFIN, recently candi
date of the Prohibition party for
president, who is- now in Los An
geles, represents a narrow and mie
ehief-making fallacy. Mark you. wo
do not refer to the movement or the
cause. Advocates of temperance are
by no means confined to the Prohibi
tion party nor is Mr. Chafin the only
temperance leader in the United States.
But he represents the fallacy that a
political party, embracing all sorts and
conditions of men, with all varieties
of business and social interests, ct:n
be built up out of one. kind of men,
representing- one political and one social
interest.
Mr. Chafin, after having been in Los
Angeles thirty-six hours, was Inter
viewed by one of the obstructionist
pro-vice papers, and "without hesita
tion" said Alexander "would not do."
This should make hundreds of votes
for Mr. Alexander to swell .the over
whelming majority by which he will
be elected mayor of Los Angeles.
The people of this city are capable
of managing their own affairs, and re
fuse to be dictated to by one of the
"red herring" candidates used to at
tract away votes from Mr. Bryan in
the presidential election.
If Mr. Chafln will devote the rest of
his life to championing the principle he
represents, and by urging it in such
an effective way that it will be taken
up by one of the greater political par
ties and embodied in the next plat
form he will have achieved a triumph
in constructive statesmanship. The
Prohibitionists can do lots of good, but
not by making a separate, office hunt
ing party of themselves, and by caus
ing confusion, and perhaps interfering
with the election of a good citizen
simply because he refuses to utter
their shibboleth.
Prohibition Is not a party. It is a
principle. If Mr. Chafln understood
the local situation better he would
never have lent himself to the wily
anti-recall plotters. But a man who
becomes oracular and positive with re
gard to the affairs of Los Angeles
after having been In the city for
thirty-six hours cannot do much harm.
No self-respecting citizen of Los An
geles can possibly regard seriously Mr.
Chalin's condemnation of that excel
lent, clean, conscientious citizen,
George Alexander. That would bo too
ridiculous.
DEPLORABLE
DEPLORABLE and unnee»ssary
was the sacrifice of little Terry
Smith, who was drowned in a.
deep pond near Pasadena avenue and
Avenue 62. The treacherous mud hole
should not have been there, but litiga
tion has prevented the draining of the
water. The quarreling parties would
rather go to law, and spend money and
waste time on court proceedings, than
spend tfio amount of money that would
have been necessary for the removal of
this death trap from a residential dis
trict. The city endeavored to drain
the water through a culvert, but own
ers of property across which ditches
would have to be dug to allow the wa
ter to be drained into tho Arroyo Seco
objected, and enjoined the city from
performing the work; and since the
injunction was granted the water has
stood then,, becoming: daily deeper,
waiting to drown poor little Terry
Smith. In a ease like that we should
think common sense would suggest the
water should have been drained flrst
and then tho question of responsibility
for the necessary payment settled. If
there are any other bottomless mud
holes, deep ponds and death traps any
where, they should be attended to and
made late without delay. One disgrace
like the preventable and unnecessary
death of Terry Smith is enough In the
history of any city.
Isn't is about time some "Greater
Los Angeles" Hags and badges were in
evidence?
IMPORTANT MEETING '
AT Blanchard hall tonight there will
be a big rally of the supporters
of George Alexander. Most of the
leaders who took part in the recall
movement will be present. All the is
sues of the campaign will be clearly
presented by splendid orators; and,
among other things, the legal phase of
the movement will be fully discussed.
The law on the subject will be set
forth and It will be shown why a re
call election must be held.
There should be, and doubtless will
be, a big attendance at this meeting,
which will be one of the most impor
tant of the campaign. All citizens who
wish to acquire Information on the re
call and everything pertaining to It
should attend this gathering, at which
the discussion of the entire subject In
every phase will be accurately in
structive and illuminating.
INFAMOUS BILL
GROVE L. JOHNSON'S change of
venue bill is as bold and as bare- i
faced an attempt to defeat the
ends of justice as ever was made by
or for any plotters or schemers since
first the lawless element In society be
gan to plot and scheme against the
lawabiding.
Francis^J. Heney points out that If
the infamous Johnson measure should
become a law every man against whom
Indictments have been found will bo
able to get his case transferred to a
court presided over by a friendly Judge
and the efficiency of the graft prosecu
tion will be impaired.
A measure of this kind is obviously
drawn in the aid of grafters and not
drawn in the aid of the people or in
the interests of justice. As Mr. Heney
declares the Johnson bill will seri
ously embarrass the San Francisco
graft prosecutions and all similar pros
ecutions in this state. It Is an infa
mous plan to defeat justice and pre
vent the people of California from get
ting a square deal.
OBSTRUCTION
BY appeal to the courts for an
injunction, enemies of the reca'.l
are endeavoring to block the elec
tion, and to bring to naught both the
good Intentions of Mayor Stephens and
the plans of the citizens who nomi
nated George Alexander. The applicant
for the injunction seeks to restrain city
officials from holding the recall elec
tion. The supporters of Harper, who
are responsible for this move, are not
actuated by motives of patriotism or
of regard for Los Angeles. They see
what they think Is an opportunity of
thwarting the plans of citizens who
have hitherto had by far the best of it
in the fight for good government.
Having been whipped all along the
line in the open, the machine men will
now try some bushwhacking, not with
the hope of accomplishing anything for
their lost cause, but with the hope of
making trouble for citizens whose in
terest in the good government and
welfare of Los Angeles led them to
take a series of steps of which tho
recall election will be the last.
POWER
PRESIDENT TAFT In his address
on Grover Cleveland said: "We
hear much In these days of tha
usurpation of legislation by the ex
ecutive branch. As long as the legis
lative branch has the power of the
purse the danger of executive usurpa
tion is imaginary. The real danger
rises from the disposition of the legis
lative branch to assume that it has the
omnipotence of parliament and may
completely control the discretion con
ferred upon the executive by the con
stitution."
The president emphasizes a point to
which attontlon has been called by
The Herald. The difference between
the United Kingdom and tha United
States is not, as many fondly suppose,
the difference between a king-ruled
state and a republic, but the difference
between a people-ruled state and a re
public. Parliament, as the presWent
says, is "omnipotent." No human
being in the United Kingdom has the
power of the president of the United
States, who is today one of the most
powerful rulers in the world.
Members of the recall campaign com
mittee and the Municipal league units
In an appeal to friends of the recall
movement and supporters of Mr. Alex
ander to contribute to the campaign
expense fund. There are many neces
sary expenses which must be met, and
for the sake of the complete ani
triumphant vindication of the recall
principle all who are Interested in the
election of the people's candidate for
mayor should help to finance this great
and memorable flght for good govern
ment.
A produce dealer says people are not
rating as much as they used to. He
complains they have the same old food
habit, but think the purchase of any
but the plainest kind of victuals 1b a
waste of money. He blames not pov
erty, but diet reform which followed
the eating economies that had to be
practiced after the panic and strin
gency. Citizens are not as extrava
gant as they were before the pinch.
Ambassador Bryce must have jarred
the good people who have been inno
cently calling him an Englishman when
he said: "Municipal government has
a tendency to become partisan ere
as elsewhere. In England perhaps one
half of the municipal elections are
fought along party lines. In Scotland
that is the exception, and I do not
observe that municipal councils are
any the worse in that country."
"By a fortuitous concatenation of
circumstances the esoterl&,apteryx was
resoluted into a mink-hating deroga
tion, upon which the invertebrate sa
gacity of the coruscating lizard of the
north, with his pale pink back dipped
in the dyes of Aurora, divulged." This
is a home-made specimen of Timesese,
the new occult language. Isn't it like
the real article?
Tale held celebrations at _ios An
geles and New York last night. The
New York men had President Tatt
for a guest of honor, and tho Los An
geles men had another good, robust,
typical American leader. Carter Har
rison, formerly mayor of Chicago. Tho
Yale yell rang and resounded clear
across the continent.
Says Ambassador Bryce: "It Is (l
thoroughly democratic idea that those
who represent the best citizenship of
the municipality should put them
selves, with their ability and ex
perience, at the disposal of the legisla
ture; of the land for working out tho
problems of government."
Los Angeles is the most interesting
city in the United States, and at
present is the chief center of attraction
Everybody is "looking this way," in
order to see how the good citizens will
defeat the tricksters and elect
triumphantly ."Honest George" Alex
ander as mayor.
"It may seem to some as If the Times
had the great southwest on the brain."
—Times. We knew something was the
matter, but had no idea It was as seri
ous' as our neighbor says it is. We
hope the cranial oppression may be
relieved speedily. Would trepanning
do any good?
What has become of the man who
tried to call the champions and friends
of good, honest municipal government
"pink socks?" Can it be he himself
Is now wearing pink socks?
Greater Los Angeles will be a model
municipalit., distinguished for good
government and for high etandards of
citizenship
Harper Bewails the Base
Ingratitude of Walter Parker
THE statement published by former
Mayor A. C. Harper of Los An
gelaa, explaining ''his retirement
from office under fire, Is one of the most
pitiable confessions ever made by a dis
ci-edited public official. Mr. Harper
would be a pathetic figure if his, posi
tion Were not one to provoke contempt
rather than pity. The most significant
feature of the' "statement" Issued by
I Mr, Harper is the confession that ho
| wns the creature of Walter Parker, the
political factotum of Herrln in Loa An
gelea politics. Harper declares that he
Would not have resigned even at the
(I. mam] of Mr. Earl of the Los An
yeles Express under threat of exposure
had lio not been abandoned by Walter
Parker, which left him politically
without a "leg to stand upon." This
Indicates the, base ingratitude of
Parker and the "organization" In
throwing Harper down when he had
become no discredited that he could
no longer be useful. I*arker and his
coterie of Southern Pacific machine
politicians evidently thought that tlioy
were executing a masterly coup by per
mitting Harper to resign, hoping there
by to confuse the reform elements who
had put Into execution the machinery
of the recall. In this, however, they
apparently counted without their host,
for they were umhl* to force the ma
chtne candidate. Smith, upon the coun-
Roosevelt's Associate Scores
Modern Social Conditions
f] UESTS at the annual dinner of
Uthe Amhorst Alumni association
of Boston and vlolnlty listened
to some live talk the other day
by Rev. Lyman Abbott, D. D.,
editor of the Outlook, with whom
Theodore Roosevelt is* to be as
sociated. In the course of his renmrks
Dr. Abbott said that as he had been
made a doctor of laws, he would talk
of laws, some very old ones, which ho
sometimes thought havo be«n forgot
ten in America, says the Oakland En
quirer. He pointed out that the health
of the nation depends on its moral
health, and that this in turn rest, on
obedience to four old laws of the He
brews—"Thou shalt not kill, thou Bhalt
not steal, thou shalt not commit adul
tery and thou shalt not bear false wit
ness."
"Perhaps because I am old, perhaps
because I am conservative (laughter),
but It seems to me that these laws do
not mean what they did in the time of
Moses," said Dr. Abbott. "The right
of man, of property, of the family, of
the individual, have all grown larger
and more difficult to handle.
"In one year more men, women and
children are killed on our American
railroads than were killed by the Rus
sian army in thnt greatest of modern
battles, the battle of Mukden. W«
take little children from the schools
and playgrounds, and grind 'em up in
mills and factories—not In Massachu
setts, I believe.
"We take women from their homes
and the care of their babos and put
them Into factories, too, to eke ovit the
wages of the fathers of their children.
And the supreme court of the United
States has declared that It Is right for
the state to interpose and prevent this,
because the life of the nntlon depends
Crime Is Punished But the
Criminal Is Not Reformed
PRISONERS who go to Folsom or
San Quentin are usually either
put to work In the rock quarry
or the jute mills. They are given no
opportunity to acquire useful knowl
edge of a trade so that when they do
again leave jail they can earn an hon
est living. Dismissed at the prison
doors, #>n release they go out with •*■
new suit of clothes and $5 in caßh, says
the Humboldt Standard.
There are two ways of looking at
this problem. One is to affirm that
the ex-prisoner is placed at an enor
mous disadvantage; he is punished lor
his crime by a penitentiary sentence
and then Is punished again when he
comes out by being branded as an "ex
convict" and still further disqualified
from getting along in the world bo
cause -possessed of no useful knowl
edge that would enable the earning of
an honest living. The.other vlnw lnoks
The State Press
Party Men
"Shall the Republican party shoulder
the sins of Irwin and Summerland?'
asks the Call, referring to the two
most distinguished members of the
state railroad commission. Well, has
anyone suggested a method by which
the Democratic party can be made to
shoulder the sins of those men? They
are In ofllce as party men, are they
not? As Republican party men, are
they not?— Francisco Star.
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Beets Pay
The farmers at Huntlngton Beach,
in Southern California, have decided
not to plant any celery, lima beans or
small vegetables this year, but will
confine their operations almost entire
ly to sugar beets. There is no doubt
but what it pays to grow beets when
one knows how to take care of them,
and does it.—Visalia Times.
Thomas' Tarry
A. L. Thomas of the Mount Pleas
ant Record, near Templeton, was shak
ing hands with his numerous friends
in the county seat today. Mr. Thomas
goes to Arroyo Grande for a short
business vls'.t ami expects to return to
the city tomorrow for several days'
tarry.—San Luis Obispo Breeze.
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Alack.a.Day!
"The woman's idea of modern in
dustry," observes the reverend editor
of the Outlook, "is to play bridge
whist morning and night; her idea or
modern life is to have somo one else
support her." Alack-a-day, doctor,
that such things should be.—Fresno
Republican.
Philanthropist
The American farmer is a ■ philan
thropist, in a way. He may carry
Into his hundred labors the inspiring
thought that millions of peoplo in for
eign lands, across seas and in distant
climes, look to him for their daily
bread.—Pasadena Star.
Naked Truth
The Gorman religious sect, which has
turned loose in the forest without
clothing-t apparently stands for the na
ked truth.—San Luis Obispo Breeze.
Horrid
According to a contemporary, the ac
tresß "looked lovely wearing a bunch
of spring violets." la that all?— San
Diego Tribune.
(Oakland Enquirer.)
ell as Harper's successor, and that
body, deferring to public sentiment,
elecfed as temporary mayor William D.
Stephens, who refused to take the office
except under a condition that he should
serve only until March 26. the day set
for the election under the recall In
voked against former Mayor Harper,
In opposition to whom the reform ele
ment of Los Angeles has nominated
| George Alexander. Mr. Stephens Is a
I man personally uftobjectlonable; In
fact. Mr. Stephens might have had the
nomination of tho anti-Harper element
when the recall was Invoked If he
would have consented to make a cam
paign. In any event, the Incident of
Harper's forced retirement has given
the upper hand In Los Angeles to the
elements opposed to the Southern Pacific
p-lltlcal machine, managed by Walter
"arker and the organization In alliance
with the Los Angeles Times. It has
alao turned the spot light upon the
manner in which Parker has manipu
lated local politics, 'vhlle It has shown
tho utter faithlessness of the Southern
Pacific boss In abandoning Harper to
his fate. When he could not servo
them they "left him naked to his ene
mies." The pitiable position of Harper
abandoned to his fate by the faithless
Parker ought to be a warning to poli
ticians of this stmnp who serve the ma
chine and the organization In Califor
nla.
on the lives of Its mothers. And for
onco in Its hlntory, tho supreme court
was unanimous. 'Thou shalt not JtlH'
means more than the polgnard or the
poison today, In these complex modern
times.
'•What Is meant by 'Thou «halt not
steal?' To whom belong the mines and
the forests? We havu said, 'He may
have them who can get them," and we
have shaved our hills as a man
shaves his face with a razor. We have
dug copper and coal until we can see
our nation Impoverished in the time
of our own grandchildren. It's time
for u« tn wnke up.
"The tramp that, wrecks a .train Is
in tho criminal class; we put him in
prison. How about the man who
wrecks the railroad—the financier? I'm
Kiad to any we're beginning to put him
in prison, too, Tho man who lakes
my purse violates the right of prop
erty—he gets something for nothing—
but he who goes Into our exchanges
for the purpose not of adding to th»
wealth of the nation, but to get an
other's money is dishonest—the only
difference between him and the limn
with n roulette wheol is that he's more
successful.
"There havp been frrnntod 140 di
vorces In the rnito.l States rvery day
except Sunday for twenty year*. Tho 1
family is the b.-tsls of the state; de
stroy the state, burn the churches, Bi
bles and ministers, runt leave the fam
ily and the family will reconstruct all
the rest. Destroy the family and th.)
rest will fall to pieces.
"The only dlfferencfi between the
Connecticut Puritan—where the aver
age divorce to marriage in one In nine
—and the Mormon is that the Puritan
drives his wives tundom and the Mor
mon drives his abreast."
at the problem from the standpoint of
the gtate. If the man is turnt-d loose
with a heart rankling at his real or
imagined wrongs, If he finds himself
a sort of outlaw or pariah, and Is so
handicapped that he cannot earn an
honest : I viper unless he be a man of
unusual abilities or have special con
nections, then the state runs the great
est possible danger of having to deal
with the ex-convict again for some
new crime he may commit. In either
i ase only half the object of the prison
sentence has been carried out. Th«
crime has been punished, but no re
ferm has been >Hf ltd. It Is in view
of theso considerations that many of
our states have established special n
t'ormatorles, such ;:« that at Klniira,
N. V., which has accomplished a nota
ble work and one worthy of Imitation
in California. It Is time prison work
in California wore carefully revised
and brought clown to date.
Far and Wide
Not Alway- Buncombe
"Not unwise or excessive paternal
ism," declares President Taft, would
be the prompt onactment by congress
of "a proper postal savings bank bill."
Besides, such a law would fulfill a
promise of the Republican platform.
As wo understand It, platforms not al
ways are framed for purposes of bun
combe. Many voters who lend to them
support believe their pledges should be
carried to execution.—St. Louis Times.
Healthful Season Approaches
Philadelphia's baseball organization
has been purchased by the dominant
politicians of that city. From which it
is inferred th:it when city employes
wish to go to the games It will not be
necessary to have such a high mortal
ity rate among their grandmothers.—
Fittsburjj Dispatch.
Franklin on Tariff
Benjamin Franklin described a high
tariff as something wanted by Its ad
vocates "for their private interests un
der pretense of public good." It Is true
all the same, even if Benjamin Frank
lin had not said It.—Centre (Pa.) Dem
ocrat.
Not Until Now
Thomas C. Platt retires after having
been for fifty-two years in polltlcat
life. Can anybody recall anything he
has, done for the benefit of the public
during that time?— Chicago Record-
Herald.
Mean
Boston Is shocked over the revelation
that President Eliot cannot milk a cow.
This is an underhand way of trying to
prevent his selection as ambassador to
Great Britain.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Wire Pullers
The "wireless" at the Philadelphia
city hall will be fo» use only in emer
gencies. For ordinary occasions there
will be wires and men to pull them. —
New York Tribune.
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Another
Mr Carnegie has offered a dlplodocus
to the University of Bologna. They
will soon be as plenty as poodles if thia
keeps up.—Plttsburg Gazette-Times.
Bubbling
Indications are numerous that Mr.
Harrlman Is bubbling over with advice
ho would like to give concerning the
Panama canal.— Washington Star.