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I.OS ANGELESVaudeville. / OLYMPICMusicaI burlesque. I'ISCII KK'S— burlesque. WALKERComedy. TARIFF QUESTION BUREAU of statistics and labor of the department of com merce and labor reports Decem ber imports were $138,742,292, an In crease of 126,-821,730 over those of De cember, 3908; exports $171,662,197, a de crease of $17,165,710 compared with De cember, ISM. For the twelve months ending with December, 1909, the im ports were $1,475,520,205, an increase of $359,146,118; exports $1,727,383,128, a decrease of $25,452,319. The excess of exports over imports in the twelve months ending with December. 1909, is $251,562,923, a decrease of $384,598,437." Dutiable imports in the twelve months ending- with December, 1909. were valued at $775,777,953, against $611,729,546 last year, an Increase of $164,048,407; Im ports free of duty in the twelve months ending with December, 1909, $699,742,252, against $504,644,541, an increase of $195,097,711. Dutiable Im ports during the month of Decem ber, 1909, were $61,058,022, against $56, --013.657 in December last year; free Imports in December, 1909. $77,654,270, against $55,904,905 in December of last year. Imports are fifty millions great er than in the earlier high record year. 1907; exports are about twenty five millions less than last year, and nearty 200 millions below 1907. The in crease in imports occurs chiefly in manufacturers' materials; the de< n in exports occurs chiefly In foodstuffs, breadstuff's alone being; more than fif ty-seven millions below 1908, and about seventy-five millions below 1907: meat and dniry products about t. ty-nine minions less than l!'0^, and about forty-four millions less than 11)07; and food animals fight millions below VMS, and seventeen millions be low 1907. The decrease In the exportation of foodstuffs is partly due tn the In in the population of the United Statr?; partly to prices caused by natural con ditions, and partly to trust manip ulations. With Germany threatening tariff re prisals, it is evident the tariff ques tion, far from being settled, Is only in the first stages of a general revival, and of a discussion which will not bo confined to one country, but will be taken part in by all of them. AVIATION WEEK 1-JINAXOIALT.Y as well as In every | other reajMCt Aviation week was a colossal sueeess. Th<: final ac countings In connection with the greatest event of the twentieth cen tury show such gratifying financial condition that there Is no reason why tteps should not be taken to estab lish an annual aviation meet. Not only would It be useful to science, not only would it help advertise Greater Los Angeles, but it would pay. Ml the practical as well as :ill the senti mental arguments are in its favor, and any project of which that may be said should be established so firmly among the "customs of the country" that its continuation nhould be with out question. Citizens of I.os An to be congratulated on the bril liant tlnanclal us well hs si lentlfic suc cess of the aviation meeting. It was a success from every point of view and all the way round; a complete and flawlMa success, Illustrating right well the enterprising and achieving Angeles way. TAFT AND PINCHOT THE HERALD sometime ago took occasion to call attention to the -*- fact that about the most Impor tant net result of the first ten months of President Taft's administration was the ousting from his official position of Glfford Pinchot whose earnest, pa triotic and intelligent labors as the chief of the forestry division of tLs govern ment were, according '■" Mr. Roose velt's testimony, the foundation of the most important of what have coma to ■ be known as the Roosevelt policies, to wit: The policy of the conservation of natural resources. That our people may more clearly understand just what kind of a man the public service has lost as a result of less than a year of President Taffs statesmanship, wo quote from a recent address delivered by Mr. Plnchot be fore a group of publishers at the Uni versity club of New York. He said: "There Is no other question before us I that begins to be so important, or that I will be so difficult to straddle, as the great question between special Inter est and equal opportunity, between the privileges of the few and the rights of the many, between government by men^ for human welfare and government by money for profit, between the men who stand for the Roosevelt policies and the men who stand against them, This is the essence of the conservation prob lem today. "The conservation issue is a moral issue. When a few men pet posses ■ion of the necessaries of life, either through ownership of a natural re source or through unfair business methods, and use that control to ex tort undue profits, as In the recent cases of the sugar trust and the beef packers, they Injure the average man without good reason, and they are guilty of a moral wrong. •■I believe In our form of govern ment, and I believe In the golden rule. But we must face the truth that mo nopoly of the sources of production makes it impossible for vast numbers Of men and women to earn a fair liv ing. Right here the conservation ques tion touches the dally life of the great body of our people, who pay the cost Of special privilege. And the price is heavy. That price may be the chance to save the boys from the saloons and the corner gang, and the girls from worse, ad to make good* citizens ot them Instead of bad: for an appalling proportion of the tragedies of lif« spring directly from the lack of a lit tle money. "Thousand of daughters of the poor fall into the hands of the white slave traders because their poverty leaves them without protection. Thousands of families, as the Plttsburg survey has shown us, lead lives of brutalizing overwork in return for the barest liv ing. '•The people of this country have lost vastly more than they can ever regain by gifts of public property, forever and without charge, to men who gave nothing In return. It is true that we have made superb material progress ui.der this system, but it Is not well for us to rejoice too freely In the slices the special interests have given us from the great loaf of the property of nil the people." We would ask our readers to com- are the strong, trenchant, direct state ment of the case of the people against the Interests, contained in Mr. Pin chot's speech, with the message upon the conservation of natural resources recently "delivered by President Taft to congress. The president's message undoubtedly contains much of interest and importance, and in it he makes a number of valuable suggestions as to the action necessary for congress to take In order to protect the natural resources of the country against spolia tion by Interests whose strength is only exceeded by their selfishness and utter disregard of the people's rights. Yet as compared with Mr. Pinehot's speech, and indeed as compared with the sort of message which President Taft's predecessor was wont to trans mit to congress, there is throughout his whole message a weakness of tone, a flabbiness of character, lack of di rectness, and an absence of that sort of convincing strength which leads to and, in fact, Impels, action on the part of the congressmen to whom it is di rected. After reading the speech of Mr. Pin chot and the message of President Taft, one cannot help wishing that the for mer could have written the tatter's me-- page, and that the president liail not permitted his administration to drift into such an attitude toward the pred- S Interests and tholr efforts to prey upon the common property of all the people as made it impossible fur tha government to longer command the ser vices of one of the most valuable pub lic servants that it has known in its whole history. President Tsit win have to make a better record in pro tectlng the rights ana serving the In terests of the people than ho has done, either in the matter of securing prop er tariff legislation or in inducing con gressional action upon any other vital question, In order to prevent the people feeling that his presidential term, pur chased ut the expense' oc Mr. Pin chofs dismissal, has been a dearly bought bargain for the American peo ple. True prosperity consists In constant work. Rood wages and moderate prices. Conditions established by the increase, in the expense of living without pro portionate increase in wages will be equivalent to a reduction in wages,. Whenever the wages of a country are reduced it has a tendency to sink to a lower level. Our trusts ami interests are enemleg of the public and foes of the republic. One of the biggest examples or the upbuilding and prosperity of Crcater Los Aiigelea is the University of Bouth arn California, it is one of the leading educational institutions of the wssl and ■' ii'iii Illustration of the [am Angeles way. LOS ANGELES HERALD: SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1910, Sad Situatoin for Former Autocrat 4PJHRh /1 I II I I l|l II 111 IlLiiLl'll I Witt////!-!* .. ''■'' W'U '"^^^^s^^6 7i ■ BEEF STRIKE COULD the proposed strike of moat eaters for the purpose of rebuk ing the beef tru-t be carried into effect, it will have a remarkable and a lasting result on the American nation. It Is certain that lining- Without meat for sixty days, as. is propoSi '1 In land. Omaha, Plttsburg and other titi<---. will have tho effect of teaching they ran live without fleshfoods. With plenty of cereal*, fruit ami vege tables, life can '"■ supported easily. When the Scottish nation was one of oatmeal paters ami the English nation one of beef eaters, it would be hard to prove the unconquerable vitality of Us was not at leapt in pan at tributable to the superiority of their diet over that of their fellow tsland evs. To '"11 the truth, a man who devours warm-blooded animals, even when they fire killed and dressed for market, is much nearer to cannibalistic practices than he Is likely to acknowledge, ex i'lini,' during Ills very-frank mo ments. Cannibalism was coincidental with the era <t" human sacrifices. Af ter our ancestors had slain the victim under the spreading oak tree, he was generally eaten, and he was served garnished with sprays of mistletoe, ivy and holly, the sacred plants of the Druids. When the Britons became civilized they found other nations wera meat eaters, hut the meat partaken of was sacrificial. In the ancient families, the sacrificial priest or the patriarchal Chief acted us the sacred butcher, and after appeasing heaven with por tiona "f the carcass, the family divid ed the remainder. In the burnt offer read about we find the origin uf roast heel. After Hie saerlfli lal excuse had bren outlived, people continued to slay and eat warm-blooded animals: the Hebrew making a discrimination against swine rind insisting in hygienic methods of slaughter and preparation of cattle. The comparative scarceness and th« value uf the horse saved him from be in:; use.) for food by the Hebrews ami other ancient peoples: but in modeiia times, especially In the continental countries of Europe, hone-e%teri abound. ■ Facilities Cor breeding and feeding huge herds of cattle made America a meat-eating country. The beef trust became possible with the Increased usa of warm-blooded animals for food. Mankind can not only exist, but can thrive, prosper and be both Intellect ually and physically strong without flesh-meat. ABOLISH WAR A SAYING of Emerson's is being revived. Sixty years ago he Bald man could not fly because God could not trust him with wings. The thought In this laying should be dwelt on. God has trusted mankind with the art of flying at a time in the world's history when moat men are willing to receive tile doctrine of the brotherhood of mankind and are will ing to submit International disputes to arbitration and abolish war. "Most men?" Yes, most men. Let the ques tion of "war or no war" be submitted to the men of the world, take a big universal vote on the sub ject and the antl-wajLVote of the world will be greater tlian the other by at least two to one. Probably the majority atainst ni would be even bigger. If ivuni n wei» allowed to vote (and why not?) the derision to abolish War would prob ably be afflnned by ton to one. Sim-u Ood lias at last trusted mini with the art o[ air navigation, to put ll to a destructive osa would be a monstrous blasphemy. Every newspaper printed in thi world si id mw begin « cam palgn for universal International ar bitration ami tor ll stablishment of International courts. BELATED LOB ANGELES HERALD lon* ago published a cartoon showing the Mate railroad commissioners on- j i Raped zealously In the task of sleep ing, The nnne of Summerland natur ally suggested Slumberland, and we said that was- where the commissioners could bo found, a freight ratf Increase thai has been denounced by the indus tries of California as unjust, outrageous and preposterous has been imposed without the Interferes c of the so-called guardians of the rights of the people, the sleepy commissioners. An Investigation, at this late date, will be resolved by the common sense of the people into an Investigation of reasons why the commissioners did not do their duty. Every accusation which an investigation by the commissioners may establish against the railroads will also be established against the dawd ling, dillydallying, careless commis sioners. Is not that plain? The more they find out regarding the rottenness of conditions the more cle irly will their biameworthlnes be estab lished! I.et them investigate, by all means, ami let the facts disclosed by the Investigation include a disclosure I of the real reasons for the Inactivity Of I the commissioners. tiussia and Japan do not care to neutralize the Manchurlan railroads In the manner .suggested by Secretary Knox. Their note of reply, however, is said to be most polite anil most friendly. Both Russia and Japan are noted to] diplomatic politeness. That's one rea son wliy the rougher and readier di plomacy of the English speaking coun tries is sometimes at a disadvantage. Hotels of I.os Angeles are fillet! with tourists v. ho are flocking to our sunny and prosperous < iiv from every part of the United States. Intolerable weather conditions In the east make i,.vciy Los Angeles look lovelier than ever to old friends, and like ;t glimpse of paradise Itself to astonished and de lighted first-comers. Knights Templars' conclave may mci i in Los Angeles In 1818. By that time Greater L>os Angeles will be the marl time metropolis of the wesl and the harbor will be one of the busiest In th world. By all means bring the Knights Templars, give them a good time and show them the foremost city of the Pacific coast. Anti-beef I uttons are bciiiK worn in some eastern cities. "Have you sworn off beef?" is a common form of saluta tion. Now doth the vegetarian exult and the food faddist, snidinK; the battle afar off, exclalmeth Ahn, I told y so. While the, newspapers of the country are commenting on the magnificent success i-d Aviation week, don'i let them forget Los Anueios scores magni ficent successes In everything it under takes. That is the Los Angeles wuy. Greater Los Angeles, plii« Hollyw I, will be tin 1 metropolti of the wevt. Don't forget consolidation clay. All who wi.wli to PM oi'.r big city become more prosperous and famous than ever siiuuM ■upport ami work for consolidation! Hollywood and consolidation will i c the next bier feature in the history of Greater Lus Angeles. HIS DEFICIENCY You tftrnk that Kitty Oabaway Had got It from her brother, Who |tHwd he heard some fellow say Ha had It from another, That ]:■ Me. a mutual friend of theirs. Had Mdl I.ou Tattle talklne With an acquaintance on the stairs While through the hallway walking; An.i she suspected pas»er»uy Picked up the conversation, Which hinted that Gaoreo Clay and I Were holding a flirtation. An. you bellevo It? O you Jack (That Isn't iHM, It'll humor.) Where la the joka? Why, that you lack a proper Dee of rumor." - i". Moxori In Puck. Public Letter Box TO COHRESrONUENTS— Letteri intruded for publication mu«t Us accompanied l>y the mime anil uciiire*s of tlie writer, lliu Hi*fald givci* tlie nldrst latitude to rorr<".;>onUeni«, but a^sumcj DO responsibility fur tlitlr Ti«Uh, GOVERNMENT STATISTICS NOT ALWAYS COMPLETE ELSINORE, Jan. 18.—[Editor Her ald]: In your Letter Box of this date 1 see .sir. Lewis fears the laborer Is being exploited by the rich, as another contributor to your paper did recently, both claiming our great corporations not paying the worklngman the net value Of what he product -. and at tempting to prove this by statistics. I wish i;> affirm that unless one Is fa miliar with the construction, operation and maintenance of our industrial plants he is not In a position to oalcu ; late <>n this point, us government sta tistics are Insufficient facts from which to draw conclusions, not showing all expenditures for operation and rnain (■ pane,', which must be deducted an nually and proportionately from the yearly profits. A reserve must also be n talned to n place buildings and machinery which in main- of our industrial plants last but a few yens. Statistics make no allowance fur this expense, nor for In terest on the capital Invested nor on raw material carried In stock. For example. iak<' the largest corpo ration, the United States Steel — com monly dubbed the billion-dollar trust it has 150,000 i mployes who are noi exploited. The corporation has made .■s much as $32,100,000 quarterly not profit and paid \% per cent quarterly dividends on preferred stock. Thla gives the stockholder, or man you claim exploit* the laborer, 7 per cent per annum on his Investment; and how many worklngmen would be will ing, if they were fortunate enough to have a few hundred dollars to invest, in take less than 7 per rent Interest? Every employe since 1903 h'^s had the ri^li; to purchase the preferred stock bearing 7 per cent Interest as ions "s he remained an employe of this corpo ration or its branches, and received an annual bonus of $^> on sacb share, mak ing the mi' rest I_' per cent per annum. The stockholders draw but 7 per cent interest annually, and I claim they do nol exploit the employes, They draw sometimes nothing on the com mon stock, other times 1 or 2 per cent a nnufl lly, i was for many years employed by ■ this corporation, and could s" Into de j tails and prove my claim If necessary, and know that the employes oi' the si; i i or Iron corporation! are not ex ploited. T. H. CHARGES LACK OF LOGIC IN QUOTING BISHOP LEWIS l.os ANGELES, Jan, 20.— [Editor Herald]: Mr. Stone's letter is the most Illogical I have ever Been, Quotations from the words "i Bishop Lewis are so made as to wholly misrepresent their meaning and purpose. The logic of the story of the doctor whose patient Its all right, but whom the doctor proposes to change, is that because the Chinese are a people who give great attention to education on which official preference is always given, the Introduction of schools and universities by the mission aries Is to do great harm. In what way did their education ever benefit them as a people or nation? How jj^wiy railroads, hospitals, etc., have they built? Was the nation in morality and Intelligence Improving or otherwise? Ask the most intelligent Chinese, and | all will point to the past as their Golden Age. Referring to the advant age an American citizen has, Mr. Stone ignores the fact thai the advantage Is because of our treatment of them after the boxer uprising, returning the large unused balance of the money paid un for losses, which they credit to the spirit of Christianity that controls the Christian nation. Pity Mr. Stone has less recognition of the power of Chris tianity over this nation than the Chi nese have! Ami where are "knowledge and scholastic attainments" most prized, in Christian or unchristian lands? What about discoveries and In ventions that have come bo fast as to amaze the world? Are they the result of Chinese love of learning of a. hun dred years ago, or found only in Chris tian lands? The story of the conversion to Chris tianity at the point of a pistol is prob ably ■ Fabrication, like 'many others published In our land, the imagination of globe trotters and unworthy of no ii... ii true, It could bo no evidence for or against Christianity. How does it happen that men like Mr, Conger, many years minister to An Epoch Marking Campaign Frederic J. Haskin <_—__i i ».\l>< in. The genera] parlla- IK |TJK military election now in H £■*§?[ progress in England Is in ■It ESS! many respects the most i'M jaJPTj portant political campaign IthJvMall since the ballot box was in vented. Tho peculiar issues Involved are such that whatever the result Of the voting, the constitution of the British empire Will be radically changed. Usually it is Impossible to weigh the importance of a political I campaign in advance, but from the I Brat it has been known hero that a I Liberal victory would mean the reduc lon of the power of the. house of lords i to the extent that it might not veto or amend bills affecting revenues, and j that a Conservative victory would mean that the power of the house of lords would be augmented and that of j the house of commons reduced to a j point approximating the condition of affairs before the revolution under ■ Oliver Cromwell, i • * • Here England decides whether it will adopt the newest notions of po litical reform and advance toward So cialism, or whether it will return to a mole pronouncedly individualistic system. The campaign was the most I exciting that Kngland has ever known J —far more "fast and furious 1 than any campaign the United Stales ever has known, The most Important reason for the unprecedented interest in this particular campaign is the fact that I there Was a real, living, burning issue. . At the beginning of the campaign this issue of the people against the peers was olear-cut, and it was sufficient to get the country thoroughly awake. Then other questions were Injected, until, at tin- close, the speakers wen compelled to discuss many side issue... each of overwhelming Importance. Seldom has so, much been crowded into one campaign, never has so much depended on the result of an election, • • • To begin at the beginning: The Lib eral party came Into power in l'JOii by ian overwhelming majority. It at tempted to legislate along "progress ive" lines, but its great majority in the house of commons "as of no ac count when the house of lords could I veto or emasculate every measure. The house of lords is always overwhelm ingly Conservative. The first prime minister. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, died, and was succeeded by Herbert H. Asqulth, the present premier. David Lloyd-George became chancel* lor of the exchequer, a position which amounts, If transferred to the United States, to a combination of all the power held by the secretary of the treasury, Speaker Cannon, Senator Al drlch and Chairman Tawney of the house committee on appropriations. • • • Each year the chancellor of the ex chequer makes up the budget, a bill providing for the collection and ex penditure of all the revenues of the country. This budget goes into effect as law on the day it is introduced in the house of commons. It is just as if Secretary MacVeagh had the power to ■ draw up a bill fixing all taxation, in- I eluding the tariff, and making all ap propriations, including fixed charges upon future administrations, and that such a bill would become law at the moment it was transmitted to con-1 gress. However, the budget, although already In effect, must be passed by parliament and approved by the king. The king's approval is purely perfunc tory, as the crown has not exercised the right of veto since the days of Queen Anne. The budget introduced on April 29, 3909, is the cause of nil the trouble. It provided for the revolutionary process of taxing land values. After much stormy debate it was passed by j the house of commons by a hugs ma jority and sent to the house of lords. That body, on Nevomber 30. 1909, re jected and vetoed the budget, in ef fect, by adopting an amendment to it declaring "That this house is not jus tilled in giving its consent to this bill until it has been submitted to the judgment of the country." This action | was taken by a vote of 350 to 76. Whereupon the campaign was on. • ■ • Some understanding of the nature of the British constitution, and of the sharp practice by politicians of both Liberal and Conservative parties, is necessary to explain this crisis. The British constitution is not a written document, like that of the United States, but is the collection of govern mental precedents from early times un : til the present. .Since the re-establish ment of English affairs after the Crom well revolution the house of lords, un der the accepted' constitution, has had no right to reject or materially to amend revenue bill?. The budget has been exclusively the work Of the house Mi commons, and the assent of th" lords has been given just as the perfunctory approval Of the king is required. The Liberal government was unable to pass its proposed "progressive" legis lation In separate bills, so the whole mo- china, Prasldent Vattt and hundred* of such iiH'n indorse missions and extol the work o( missionaries? Fortunately The Herald hai published the addressea and Interviews of these bishops so tuny and {airly thai the lei ter by -x'r- Bione ian do no harm, and any Intelligent reader cannot fail to m c the animus of hii Illogical vm 1 of gar bled aentences froni the address ol BUhop t*wi«. J. N. LISCOMB. PLEADS FOR CONTINUING FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU I.OS' ANGELES, Jan. 19.— [Editor Herald]: 1 road In The Herald several days ago that our now council was talking about doing away with the free city employment bureau. As a resi dent of twenty-five years and for i long time .a taxpayer and , having helped to elect, our mayor and present council I think I have a right to sug gest that the free labor bureau be kept up and properly run as it should be. i think it should bo put In a good lo cation, two good rooms secured, a man put in as manager who li qualified to run it right, with a good lady assis tant. A large sign should be put up, notices put In the papers so everybody could line! it—both those who want help and those out 'it' work, I was hero when that office wan started, through the efforts of organized labor, did what i could to have it established. Former Sheriff White was the first manager and made It a success. It would be a good thing 1 and no trouble about it if properly carried out. Or ganized labor has free employment of fices at the Labor temple, 540 Maple avenue, for its members, and is secur ing employment for a great many members every month. I see no .rea son why the. city could not and should not keep up ■ free labor bureau to help the'poor people who want a job and .are willing to work. They should bo furnished employment free. It would be better and cheaper than to have them beg for something to eat, a place to sleep and arresting them, having tin ii to feed and putting them in jail -and In the chain gang disgrace to the city and' our present civilization. <i;il reform scheme was tied up with revenue measures and Introduced In in* budget in this form the budget might have been open to the charge of con taining extraneous matte/ of legislation Dot strictly iii the revenue class & ays : ir in nf legislation formerly common In the United States when "riders* 1 were attached to appropi latlon hills, pi England the system In called "tacking." The lonis might have objected to the budgel (in this score, but the quarrel then would have been Indeterminate, The; did nol dare to undertake b step so n volutlonary as to reject the bill In toto, The "referendum" amendment was the result. By Its adoption the housa of lords admitted thai 4he soda) reform measures In the budge! were "In ordi r" and nol subject to the charge i r tacking, The lords also fon ed c •< solution and asked for an election. For more than a century the power to dis solve parliament has not been ezen by the lords. The campaign bijgan with this clear ( 111 issue: Mas or has not tiic house of commons the sole control of the purse strings of tho nation us exercised since the days of Cromwell? The Liberals di i lared In the afflrmath <j the lords of defying the constitution, and I asked ili" people to return the Liberal government and to limit the power of the lords, The Conservatives, on the oilier hand, diii not mccl the issue squarely, but set up the claim that the amendment by the lords was nol b Jcctlon but v referendum to the people. Beneath iliis quibble, fcowever, the Con servatives were stirred t l( mighty effort, and the peers themselves awoke to ac tion such as they have not dreamed of in 200 years, ... N With one of the great partiea thus unwilling to meet the Issue which caused tho election, it was Inevitable that (he waters should become mud dled. The Conservatives, led by the former prime minister, Arthur J. Bal four Of t:ie house oi commons, and by Lord Lansdowne of the peers, offered tariff reform, meaning protection ln -1 ''-.id or fiec fTa.de, bs a substitute for all the relief offered in the Lloyd- George budget, and proceeded to make their campaign upon that issue, [n ad dltlon, they charged that the Liberal government had tailed to provide for the adequate defense of the nation against what they declare to he an im minent attack by <;« i many. Thus the two parties went to the country. Premier Asqulth, leading the Liberals, although all but overshad owed by the ...re-u Lloyd-Oeorge, In the defense of the budget and in the nt tack upon the house or lords endeav ored to k.cp the original issue clearly before the pi 'pie. The lords and the Conservatives, who forced the referen dum on (hat issue themselves under the leadership of .Mr. Balfour, sought to place the emphasis upon tariff reform. Mr. BftlfOUr has a record of many years as a free trader, and also as a severe critic 01 the house of lords, so that his part in tin- campaign was most difficult. But he was thoroughly in earnest in Opposition to tile land tux and laud valuation features of the budget, and he used the best weapons at hand with which to fight, if the campaign could have hen kept to tho Itsue upon which the referendum was taken then' would nevi r have been a doubt of a sweeping Liberal victory, and the practical abo lition of the house or lords. The Con-N servatlves were, forced by the law of self-preservation to bring in the tariff reform issue. The Liberals toll the people (hat they Suffer because the land is held by a few men who do not use it to the best advantage, and that these land owners must share in the burdens of public taxation. Thn Conservatives ten the people that free trade has brought them to their low estate, and that it" they will adopt a protective tariff there will be work for all the unemployed, a job for every man. and that the foreigner will pay the taxes to run the govern ment. To American ears the campaign thunder Is strangely familiar. Not least among- the Interesting feat ures of this remarkable campaign v that both parties have gore to tho United States for precedents and exam ples lo prove their causes. The Liberals have pointed out that all land i:: taxed in America, and the Conservatives have retorted with the amazing discovery that th" land (ax has kept down tie' price of real estate in Boston! The Conservatives have pointed to the high wages and prosperity of American working-men as the product of the pro tective tariff, and the Liberals have re torted with the price of butter and eggs In Kansas City! Thomas Jeffer son is quoted in attacking the house of lords, and Alexander Hamilton 's brought forth to defend that institu tion. Mother England seems quite ready to learn something from the Yankees, but at the same time she has much to teach the United states about the busi ness of conducting campaigns and man aging elections. Tomorrow—The Kngllili KlrWlnna: ll — PoUtlfi on Billboard!. FurnTgh the poor people work, mnke them Relf-Buatalnlng and do away with the chain gang, r- have faith in our mayor and councilman. They nvo doing well, but 1 don'l bellave it would lie a good thing to do away with the city free employment bureau. I hope tlio new council will consider it thoroughly. One nf the biggest question! In this country is the poor unfortunate unemployed. The city and the well-to-do people should do all they ran to furnish the people work at liv ing wages; If nil were employed they would lie better citizens, and Rood limes WOUld not be a dream, but a reality. .1. n. BAILEY. CLERGYMAN INDORSES ANTI-BILLBOARD MOVE I LOS 'ANGELES, Jan. 20.— [Editor Herald]: Again the policy of your ex cellent paper is worthy the praise and support of every fair-minded citizen. I most heartily indorse and commend your position against the unsightly and offensive billboards, Before I was aware of any public sentiment! or had read your Bontlmonts concerning the matter, 1 had in sermons called attention to the blatantly vulgar billboards staring everyone in the face at every turn and corner. I rejoice that you are -waging a strong warfares against the system. May I also express by appreciation of your contention against offenders In the liquor traffic? J. F. WATHON. j WANTED Wanted—A man -who dnres to speak tlio truth. Of ancient hard, or sago or youth I caro not whlcii— may bring the proof; Wanted— man to speak the truth. Wanted—A man whose heart Is pure- Untainted by the.world* allure; Who recks not of the world'! reproof- Wanted— A man to speak the truth. ; Are. then, all men thieves and liars? That 1 milit publish my desires For a man whose web and woof Will enaJJlo him to «prak tho truth? Manhood stand! aside, aloof, UMnnlng i" the falsifier's proof; Wondering, as he turns away. Will there ever l>o a day When men will lov» th» truth. • „ —A. W. eieepar.