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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
AT THE THEATERS
AUDITORIUM—
MASON—"Vejrta Herns."
BCKBANK —"The Crisis."
UKLASC'O—"The Spendthrift."
MAJESTIC —"An American Lord."
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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. *
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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. -