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Gates, advertising man ager 1 __ - , Population of Los Angeles 327,685 CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN AT THE THEATERS AUDITORIUM— MASON—"Vejrta Herns." BCKBANK —"The Crisis." UKLASC'O—"The Spendthrift." MAJESTIC —"An American Lord." —Vaudeville. « GRAM)—"Woodland." 1.08 —Vaudeville. OLYMPIC— burlMau*. FISCHER'S—Musical burlesque, WALKER— I'JilQVEMelodrama. GREATER LOS ANGELES WITH every increase in area and in population the necessity for a permanent policy of good gov ernment In the city must be supple mented by good government In the county. Los Angeles city and Los An geles county are connected by such close and indissoluble bonds that in ferior or corrupt county government is bound to have a bad effect on the in terests of the metropolis. It is of the utmost importance that the manage ment of all the affairs of the county, of every department of £ ounty govern ment, should be entrusted to clean, re sponsible, high-principled citizens, in dependent of railroad machine in fluences and beyond reach by bossism or by any unscrupulous power behind bossism. Extend the good govenment principle to state and nation. Let Greater Los Angeles be a center from which shall radiate a compelling ex ample of the efficacy and the business like results of reform. We urge our fellow citizens not to ollow their personal Interest in any and every phrase and phase of local gov ernment to be dulled by custom. They have a right to be well informed of every governmental suggestion, action and movement. They have a. right to make suggestions. They have a right to criticise. Intelligent, wideawake public interest will restore to the peo ple complete governmental control of county and state and nation as well as municipality. S. P. "CALLED" CITY COUNCIL, issued an ultimatum to tho Southern Pacific Railroad company, stating that unless the company gives satisfactory indication it Intends to build a modern. $1,000,000 station at the site of tho archaic and decayed Arcade depot, the city will take stops to dispossess the company of the portion of Fifth street ohtained by it FOUR YEARS AGO on the rep resentation it needed the ground to be used as the approach for the fine new depot it proposed to build. Mayor Al exander sent a message on the subject to the last council, but owing to cir cumstances since happily remedied the influence of the political department of the 3. P. was stronger with that coun cil than the Influence of the mayor's message. The mayor's message to the Good government council, calling attention to the circumstances attending the gift to the corporation was followed by the introduction of a resolution to the ef fect the city will not tolerate delay and subterfuge, and the corporation must redeem its pledges and show it intends to make good and to give the city a square deal, otherwise the city attorney will be Instructed to take pro ceedings for setting aside the deed re storing tho street to public use. The patience of Lob Angeles in re spect of this long promised depot has been as phenomenal as the procras tinating, shifty, devious policy of the Southern Pacific company has been «d!ouB and exasperating. INVESTIGATION JODOB WORKS will r*C«lr« the! support of all good citizens in : his suggestion Los Angeles should hew to the line of tire- good govern ment policy it has marked out for it self. Thorough and impartial investi gation of the charges to which he called the attention of the city coun cil wlB be the policy that will be most likely to promote the welfare and prosperity of Los Angeles. If the charges which have come to the at tention of the worthy president of the council are foundptionless, there is no reason why anyone should fear or dodge investigation. If on the other hand, as he Intimates, there is a foun dation of fact for some of the charges made, the sooner the causes of com plaint nre removed and the depart ments complained of reconstituted on a good government basis, the better it will be for Los Angeles and for all concerned. Judge Works called attention to charges of alleged extravagance, po litical corruption and incompetent labor in the street department: charges that real estate dealers have been en gaged in procuring frontage consent for applicants for liquor licenses, charges of neglect of duty by members of the library board and other city commissions. Judge Works is also of opinion the acceptance and use of street car passes by officers and employes of the city is illegal, and he agrees with Los Angeles Herald in thinking the bill board nuisance should be dealt with and, if possible, abated. Judge Works suggests the appointment of a com mittee to take up the various subjects of complaint, and other matters which may require investigation. Eternal vigilance is the price of good government as well as of liberty. There is not a self respecting citizen of Los Angeles who does not agree with Judge Works the gr>cd govern ment standards of Los Angeles should be consistently high. Good government is not afraid of In vestigation. Public officials and pub lic servants who do their duty con sistently nnd fearlessly have certainly . nothing to fear from investigation. Judge. Works is right. When ugly rumors fill the air or when direct charges are made, citizens should be in | a position to ascertain definitely the cause of rumor or the basis of com- ' plaint. j. BEEF TAX IX THE opinion of our morning He publican contemporary, the popu lar rebellion against the super-tax Imposed by the notorious beef trust is only an epidemic. In our neighbor's opinion it is a craze. Nay. more, our neighbor fays it is nothing but a flurry that will soon pass out of people's minds.' We would be sorry for the American nation if all this apologetic belittlement of a very grave and portentous situa tion in economic history were true, be cause It would indicate on the part of the nation a mental condition entirely foreign to its reputation and its tra dition. The rebellion against the trusts is only in its first stages. It is not a passing epidemic. It is a condition and not a theory that confronts us, and the condition affects NOT THE PRICE OF MEAT PER BE, BUT THE COST OF LIVING. Harold Swift of the beef trust says high as the price of meat if?, it will go higher. Very well. The consequence will be America will become to a great extent a non-meat eating nation. A Californian not only can exist without meat, but with a sufficient knowledge of how to buy and how to cook the vast variety of prodigal wealth which is poured out for the use of mankind by nature, with the aid of plowshare and hoe and not of butcher knife and cleaver, can live in luxury. We heartily advise our readers not to be misled by our beef-booming contem porary who editorially urges them to be wary of sudden abstention from this kind of food. If they use plenty of other kinds of food, the abstention from the use of dressed carcasses can not be too sudden. Burns' Selkirk grace is being quoted by the advocates of meat eating: Somp hae moat and canna pat, An<l some would eat that want It; But we hac meat and we can eat, Sao Ut the Lord be thanklt. Our contemporary is not making a correct application of this famous quatrain. The word "meat" in the Scottish vernacular did not (and does not) mean butcher meat, but "FOOD." The term "butcher meat" is used to ex press steaks End chops and what not, and the person who in England and the United States is called a "butcher" in Scotland Is bluntly named a "flesher." So it will hardly do to quote Burns as a beef trust advocate. And abstention from meat is neither an "epidemic" nor a "craze." It is an economic condition. In California the use of nesh is less excusable than rh any other part of the Union. Ours is not a beef eater's climate. Nature tries to tell us this by giving us a profusion, wealth and variety of fruits and vege tables not equaled by the products of any other country in the world. This is the very last place that should mourn over the abstinence from beef, or should find It hard to fight for the poor, half-starved slum dwellers of the east by refusing to have anything to do with any trust that increases the price of living. The higher the rate of living and the lower the rate of pay the nearer is the approach to serfdom. Why should we Caltfornians person ally worry over the price of beef? Bless your hearts, there are enough vegetable products here to keep us all fat and well, hale and hearty. President Taft says sensational statements as to prosecutions under the anti-trust law have no foundation. It was the ass that spoke to Batumi but it was the elephant thai »4< Taft. It said "Whoa, isiil." LOS ANGELES HERALD) WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 26, I<>lo. * _^_ iam ■....^_: »—_^_ M ___ J ■linn ,—, PUBLIC OFFICIALS /~V ITIZENS of Los Angeles hope for I . and expect the highest efficiency and Integrity In every office con nected with the police department. It la the aim of GCeater Los Angeles to have the finest police force in the world. It Is hoped this very important branch of the public service will be constituted on a basis of permanent efficiency in the interest of good government. The police department should protect the rights of all citizens, without regard to politics or prejudice. In the period of metropolitan expan sion upon which Greater Los Angeles Is entering we have need of the very best citizens for the public service, men whose devotion to duty will be above every other interest, and who will make it an article of official faitli that thoir obligations to the people, from whom they derive their power and in whose behalf they hold office, are the only obligations which their official position can possibly recognize or take into account. TAPS DEATH has been very busy at the Soldiers' home recently. Of course. all of the old lads over there have been in imminent danger of death at one time or another, and some of them carry the scars that show where the Grim One made a grab for them, and (temporarily) missed. All old people stand in a peculiarly tender relation to the younger generation, and this country never will be thoroughly civilized until it makes pension or in surance provision that will keep old folks out of "institutions" and freed from risk of starvation. But while we as a nation believe in institutions rather than in an advanced system of social economy, which will encourage prudence and thrift and discourage hoggery and extravagance, there is no institution which is the center of such tender national interest as a soldiers' home. Here, huddled together under the rules and regulations, are animated fragments of the nation's history. There Is not one of the old boys who has not been associated with some strenuous period of the national life, 3ome crisis in public affairs. As death summons the veterans more and more of tha history of the country is trans ferred from the memory of actual hu man experience to the cold, unemo tional pages of historical records. Goodby, brave hearts! Some day the American nation will think Btora of men and less of property, and then, in your correct relation to the rich republic, that of being by far and in an overwhelming degree its greatest and most valuable asset, you will be remembered with respectful as well as with tender and true appreciation. RATES GREATER LOS ANGELES through the harbor commissioners -has put the matter of rates squarely up to the state railroad commissioners. The presentation of the case for the consolidated city is Irrefutable. It car ries with it the force of common sense and of logic. Undoubtedly every point In Greater Los Angeles is now entitled to have ■ receiving and discharging depot, with the rate advantages per taining thereto. The only charge that can bo made between Los Angeles and San Pedro is a switching charge, and that must be reasonable. The shippers of every part of Greater Los Angeles are entitled to all the privileges and advantages of Greater Los Angeles, and "the whole of the territory, for merly known as San Pedro, Wilming ton and Los Angeles, is now governed and controlled Iby the Freeholders charter which governed and controlled Los Angeles prior to the consolidation of the three cities." The rules apply ing to the regulation of rates apply to all the city. Time for a New Dress REFINEMENT'S REWARD TIT ALTER WEYL. in the Success Vy Magazine, writes: "It is not trua ' ' today that the righteous in their old age never beg bread. . . . And there are men, honest and intelligent men, and great men and geniuses, too, who cannot keep their heads abovo water, and are driven by their human ity into a penniless old age." This means the dispositions of certain men are so FINE they cannot mix in tiia gouges, schemes and cunning plans of some of their neighbors. For their refusal to touch pitch and to be de filed these men are punished, are de prived, are kept from receiving the full financial equivalent of the living' they fairly earn, and, from the weekly "pay" day to the final and Inevitable poor house, are robbed, betrayed and dis criminated against because they are honest. What has become of the prophets who croaked that Los Angeles under Good Government would return to village conditions? That its prosperity would be undone? TV'here, oh where are the calamity howlers? In what sub-cellar are they hiding their dis credited heads while their fellow citi zens are rejoicing over the unparal- Jeled and unprecedented progress and prosperity of well governed Los An geles and the triumphant success of the Los Angeles way? United States department of agricul ture year book for 1897 said: "All food FOR men and animals is directly or in directly the product of vegetable life." Therefore, before the nutrition of ani mals and man can be achieved to the best advantage, a thorough acquaint ance with the laws governing the nu trition of plants is necessary. Cali fornians should be better posted on the subject of raising their own food. Then they would be Independent of the beef trust. Charles E. Russell says the trusts per se have nothing to do witli in creased cost of living, which has come as a result of economic evolution. All right, Charlie, if you economically evolute salaries to keep pace with ex penses, no one will be able to con tradict you. But we cannot believe that in a groat country where jMtice prevails ther,e can be one kind of economic determinism for one class and another kind for another class. Los Angeles Is in earnest in every thing she undertakes. This city is "thorough." That is why the citizen.-? of Los Angeles intend to have Good Government in every department, from top to bottom. Nothing but the best is good enough for Greater Los An geles. Six bitter sneers and silly gibes at Americans of Celtic blood or birth adorned the page of the morning re^ actionary yesterday. Even the Sassen nach Celt-hater who is hardest to please will admit that is going some. HER HAT The hats are now bo vary large, I really think we might Just put a motor on behind And fly, like Wilbur Wright. — Minna Irving ID New York Times.. Oh. Minna. Minna, surely you Are puttlnu ill' a bluff; V Methtnks the hats Cor women are Already high enough. . —Birmingham Age-Herald. Whin woman buys a bargain plume, Anil saves a I.limit thereat, Bhe thinks the teat Is certainly A feather In her hut. —Tdpdta Capital. When a woman buys a plums For a Inn big an a twin* Her husband nays It certainly Makes ■ feather of his pur»e. ' —St. Louis Times. Her husband bought a hal of hat«, "II tame, 1' quoth he, "•he'll natter." But wlfey merely muttered "Itats," And nuw he's mud's a natter. Public Letter Box TO CORRESPONDENTS—Letters Intended (or publication nil be accompanied by the name anil ucidresa of the writ*?. The llcriild civet tire widest latitude to correspondents, but asiame* no responsibility for (heir vl«w>, INSISTS THAT IBSEN PLAYB ARE OF LASTING INTEREST LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24.—[Editor Herald]: I have been much astonished and shocked at the Interview with Jjouis James, given in yesterday's is sue of your paper. His criticism of Ib sen seems to mo one of the most ex traordinary I ever read, espeelatty where ho says: "Ibsen means nothing to me. I never read him and never saw one of his plays. I did not under stand him and I do not believe any one else does. Ibsen was a novelty only. His plays are disconnected and uninteresting outside of action on tho stage." One would like to hoar what Bernard Shaw, Edmund Gosse, or other well known critics, would say of these re marks, apart from the fact that it is extraordinary that an actor, himself producing a play by an acknowledged master, should admit that he never bothered to see or read one of that master's works. No wonder that Mr. James' performance, which I witnessed, was thoroughly unsatisfactory and lost him money. I sat In the theater last week at a performance of "Men and Women," which deals with the criminal ques tion, and the respective rights of tho Individual and society. And I thought to myself how inevitable It was that, with the increasing complexity of our city life and civilization in gen eral, these problem plays should grow more and more Into popularity. For we have passed from tho simple to a highly complicated life, and the stage, which always must reflect the manners of the time, is bound to occupy itself, more and more, over the disputed questions that everybody Is arguing. Mr. James further says that people do not go a secom time to see an Ibsen play, and he implies that hav ing seen one on the boards, their inter est is dead. My own experience .is that after even a lecture on Ibsen groups will form and discuss, with great heat, the problems he has raised. I have known them argue for weeks whether Nora did/right in tho "Doll's House," and whether Mrs. Alvin, in "Ghosts," was iciilly a good wife and mother. marie c:. dwight. SOUTH PARK RESIDENTS MAKING STRONG PROTEST LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21.—[Editor Herald]: R. C. Scbultt In an article in today's Herald strikes the seatl meat of at least BO per cent of the property owners of the district who are. supposed to pv.y for the personal benefit of a few selfish promoters, to enlarge South park, as they style it. About a year ago, after a month or more of hard labor, they presented a petition to the council with forty-five signers, which was in less than ten days' canvassing, protested by nearly HOO property owners, representing 32, --604 feet frontage. Then they got up an other petition, which then contained l':;j slgnera (covering iil l the first one< I, Which petition was checked off rind canvassed by protestlng.preperty mni erf. which showed that nearly two third.s were renters and non-property owners, others were signed by two and even three persons living in the same house. After the council whs shown the facts a rule was adopted that no petition would he considered to that effect unless signed 1)V 35 Per cent of property owners, which was later reduced to 25 per cent, which they admitted they could not get. Now they expect the new adminis tration to let down the bars, so as to continually harrass the property own era in the distrirt by forcing- them to bring in a mujority protest as often as they bring In a petition with a few signers. J. R. SPRING, 640 East Forty-ninth street. PROTESTS AGAINST STREET WORK ON SUNDAY MORNING LOS ANGELES, Jan. [Editor Herald]: Wo arc pretty well agreed that whether we regard and observe Sunday us a holy day or as a holiday merely it Is a good, thing for Los An geles. Our offices, stores and saloon* aro then closed and rest and recreation hum uml to us. .Sunday, may bo called the parlor day of .the week. We enter upon Its enjoyment, in our bent clothe* and with our best behavior., Multitudes ■ The English Elections V—The British Spellbinders Frederic J. Haskin Irra— nil ONDON.—AII British campaign K*VJa methodß aro much more i Hondon.— All than those em methods are much more strenuous than those em « t*s*3 ployed in America, and the RjJ'TJI public speaking and private ItfaggisJl canvassing campaigns are not exceptions to the rule. The right little, tight little islands are so small that they can be covered with ■pell binders to an extent impossible in the United States, and every advantage of the natural opportunities is taken. Premier Asquith and Mr. Lloyd- George, for the Liberals, and Mr. Bal four and Lord Lanßdowne, . for the Conservatives, are the chief spellbind ers, and each of them spoke nearly every night during the campaign. Every one of the 670 parliamentary dis tricts had several meetings a week during the campaign, and in many of them a dozen meetings were held every night. Four hundred peers were on the stump, more than 600 members of par liament, 100 women and not less than ' 2000 ordinary.speakers. This docs not take into account the volunteers, but only those spellbinders who spoke un der the direction of the national head quarters of the two principal parties. It may not be out of place to note that the two parties, Liberal and Con servative, have no such compact or ganization as Americans are familiar with in the Republican and Democratic parties. There Is no national organ ization having any authority over the party at all. The sole party authority lies with the voters of each constit uency. For purposes of convenience these small associations, represented by central committees, delegate certain powers to the national organization. In the Liberal party the central body Is called the National Liberal federa tion. It is a permanent institution, maintaining a publishing house and keeping up a party campaign of educa tion in season and out without regard to the campaign. When the campaign comes on this publishing house sells enough literature at a profit to make expenses for the next few years! Im agine such a condition In the United States. . . The National Union of Conservative and Constitutional associations is the headquarters of the Conservative party. It maintains a publishing house and a political library just across the .street from the house of lords. This institution enjoys the patronage of the highest classes of the British public, and its publishing house Is operated un a self-supporting- basis. While the election battle is waged between the liberal and Conservative, forces, It must not be understood that these two parties meet each other in clearly aligned forces as do the Repub licans and Democrats in the United States. The liberals have the largest party organization, but in the last par* liatnent their 376 members were allied with S3 Irish Nationalists and 54 Labor party men. The Conservative members find the greater number of their party leaders in the ranks of another party, the- Lib eral Unionists, which has a national federation of its own. Mr. Balfour 11 nd his chief supporters are known by their friends as X Tnionlsts. By the Kiidlcals all Conservatives of every type are called Tories. The Liberal Unionists are the political heirs of those Liberals who seceded from their party when Mr. Gladstone made home rule for Ireland a party issue. They Inslitad upon keeping the name Liberal and upon declaring their preference for the maintenance of the United King dom. Joseph Chamberlain has been the chief Liberal Unionist and from his sickbed he has directed the Con servative fight in this campaign. He has compelled an unwilling; party to adopt his scheme of tariff reform, be cause that party had to have some issue with which to combat the Lloyd- George socialistic tendencies. In this campaign the Conservatives and Unionists were absolutely amal gamated, as they have been for several years. The Liberals, the Nationalists and the Labor party made separate campaigns, but were careful not to op pose each other. In a constituency where the Latborites were stronger the Liberals supported the Labor candi date, and so on. There were a great many indepen dent candidates of various types, and many trades union candidates Inde pendent of the Labor party. Of the £70 constituencies 54 went into the elections with three-cornered races. In seventeen constituencies the Tory i candidate was unopposed, in one the Liberal was the only candidate and in Ireland over forty Nationalists had no opposition. It strikes an American as amazing that some of these unopposed races aro the result of courtesy. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain is ill, and therefore, out of courtesy, the Liberals refused to nominate a man against him. The geek worship nnd helpfulness In the churches, other multitudes find their best help in the quiet of their homes, in strolls and rides and amusements. The custom of "keeping Sunday" baa become so general that the advantage it confer! amount alßloit to a right on the part of our citizens. Anything in the way of the ordinary business of the week which can be avoided Is an intrusion on that day and an invasion of that precious right. As the entrance of a noisy fellow, in soiled wnrlt-u-duy clothes, into a parlor full of polite com pany would ba regarded as a grosb breach of good manners, so an open violation of the proprieties pertaining to Sunday by forcing on public atten tion of the noisy beat of labor is sordid and vulgar. That contractor is not a true friona of labor and is coarse flbered who de ties public sentiment by keeping up his building operations on Sunday. That other contractor who, on Sunday morn ing, with hissing of steam, clatter of chains and all the other noises of men working with plow horses incident to the street improvement of Fourth street, between Grand avenue and Hope street, falls within the same con demnation. This outrage on common decency by thus rudely disturbing the harmonies of a quiet Sunday morning is intensified by the fact that this was city work and done under a "good gov ernment" administration which was elected on the supposition that a new order of affairs was to prevail in build ing up Lot Angeles into a "city beauti ful." J- W. C. PROFITS OF CORPORATIONS FULLY PROVE EXPLOITATION LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24.—[Editor Herald]: T. H. says the 150,000 em ployes of the steel trust are n,ot being exploited, and of course he knows, as he was one for many years; He also denies the value of government statis tics In discussing subjects of this kind. . ■This question of exploitation is so simple that'lt seems as if a child, could understand it. It-can be briefly stated as follows: A man is being exploited when he falls to receive in wages the full net value of ■ what he produces. Now !it„ Is < quite,; evident, that »thesa numerous : employe* ar» not - receiving th« full product of , their labor, for T. speaker of the house of commons, Jatnei William Lowthor, Is a Conserv ative. He has presided over a Lib oral parliament for four years, and because he Is speaker the Liberals did not plnee a candidate against him. Imagine "if Democrats refusing to oppose Joseph G. Cannon because of courtesy! But of course the British speaker has no political power. No Liberal candidate opposed Arthur James BalfoUT in the city of London for the quite sufficient reason that no one could be found to lead the forlorn hope. Tim city of London, Which is a smalt section'of London containing not more than 50,000 population, tho finan cial ami bunking center, is almost solidly Conservative and no Liberal candidate would have the ghost of a show at the polls in the shadow of the Bank of England. Wherever there wns a contest the | speakings and canvassing went on al most continuously until the polling day. The candidate for parliament is bound to pee as many voters as pos sible and personally to ask for .their votes. This Is called canvassing, and on such trips the candidate is often accompanied by his wife or sister or daughters. This takes up all the day. John Burns of Battersca, In London, is said to have canvassed personally almost every voter in His borough. Many of tho candidates have quite wonderful canvassing records. It is literally a house-to-house canvass, and strange as It seems to an American, the candidate Is left entirely free by hangers-on and "workers" while he is engaged in this business. ». • ■ As few of the candidates live in the constituencies which they represent (any Englishman may be a candlrtatr in any county, borough or division that will accept him) this ennvassing is a. necessary part of the business of get ting acquainted. There Is little or no rivalry for the party nominations and old members are never disturbed ex cept for treachery to the party. The longer a man has been lp parliament the better his constituents like it—a fact which has a lesson in it for Amer icans. Tho speakings are conducted along lines peculiarly English. The announce ment of a speaking by one of the big guns, Mr, Balfour or Mr. Lloyd-George, for instance, will read: "Doors open at 7. Sir James Johnson will take the chair at 8. Admission by ticket." Ev erybody who wants to go rushes wild ly to the office of the election agent in tho constituency, who corresponds to the American district chairman. Ev erybody who calls is given a ticket, regardless of the seating or standing capacity of the hall. When the day of the speaking ar rives, and usually only* two or three days' notice is given, tho ticket hoid ers begin to line up at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. If, for instance, the hall holds lf.oo and ] 0,000 tickets have been issued, It behooves one to be early on the ground. A corps of policemen keeps the crowd In check and lines up the ticket holders, two and two, for blocks and blocks. The doors are opened at 7, according to promise, and the first 1500 get in. Then the police close the doors and the other SSOO people do Just what they knew all the time they would do—rush for "the vans." • • • "The Vans" the huge motor vans ar ranged as speakers' platforms and po litical circulating libraries. A 1 spell binder hulds forth from one end, and a librarian distributes leaflets and miniature posters from the other end. At one Liberal meeting In London, at which Lloyd-George was the speaker, there wore no 1e63 than fifteen of these overflow meetings groupd about as many vans in the neighborhood of the hall where the chancellor was speak ing. ♦ The outdoor speakers, usually merft bcrs of parliament and often peers, al ways begin by inviting the attention of the hecklers and by promising to answer any questions which may be asked by any one in the audience. "The Voice" Is not at all backward, and the van speakers are usually en gaged in a Joint debate with the crowd. It Is ever so much livelier and morn exciting than the same sort of thing in America. In recent years American political excitement reached its climax In the McKinley-Bryan campaign of 1896. Leaving out of the question the great street parades which were tho feature of that contest, the 1896 Amer ican campaign was absolutely tamo compared with this English political battle. It appears that all Knglish men have political convictions or prejudices, and that evury one of them Insists upon proclaiming his views from the stump to tho people or from the audience to the speakers. Nobody is silent. Tomorrow —Tbe i:utli.li F.lcoflom: Vl— The lloiim- i>f liordg. H. admits that the steel trust "has made as much as $32,00U,000 quarterly net protn." This alone is sufficient to prove the fallacy of his conclusions. But it is not necessary to quote liguros to prove my point. All that I ask is that the Letter Box readers use their reason lor a few minutes and answer the following questions: 1. Is not every corporation in the world on business primarily for profit? L\ Is not this prollt produced by Rh employes? 3. Would there bo any profit and could the corporation remain in busi ness if its employes received the full value of their labor? The answers seem plain enough to me, and if T. H. can disprove them I wish he would do so, as I am anxrous to see his line of argument. In closing I wish to thank The Herald, for its tight against billboards. How much longer will public opinion allow these horrible monstrosities to dis figure the city? W. SCOTT LEWIS. WANTS AN INVESTIGATION OF INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22.—[Editor Herald]: Why this continual row over industrial districts? Your paper seems to have space for everything else, why.' not investigate the industrial situation. here and take a stand for the right? Property owners with strictly indus trial property, where such has not been Included in the so-called industrial dis trict, are being held up and black mailed by petty "gangsters" and oth ers who insist dh being bought out at exorbitant prices. • . Industries are being driven elsewhera and valuable property made to lie idle, _ by a certain amount of false sentiment and this,graft, while the matter has been buffeted around by city officials. This Is a matter of great importance to the whole city and should be taken up by the papers a^dHvi^hodie^ GATHERING NEWS Reporter-Mr. Ticker Just gave me ■ bl« mood on th« Investigation at hi» trust. Editor—Flnel What are his terms? , \lteportoi— As u»u»l.Omlt ail names, dates, places ami the real fact. In the ease.-Fuels. -