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PRICES AND WAGES
HIGH PRICES and low wages bring '
home to the consumer a keen
consciousness of the tariff situa
tion. The citizens of this nation are
exposed to the workings of a tariff
which operates ln a manner counter to
their best Interests, and totally disre
gards any question of the greatest
number of the Inhabitants of the re
public or of the best method of bring
ing about economic conditions tending
to promote their happiness.
America begins with the American
home, and any legislation which makes
it difficult to maintain American homes
and care for American families is con
trary to the best interests of the Amer
ican public, and the existence of a few
(or even of many) citizens who are
unusually wealthy would not prove the
establishment in national practice of
one of the soundest of the fundamental
principles, that which recognizes the
NECESSITY OF PROVIDING A
FIRM FOUNDATIION OF CONTENT
, MENT on which the social structure
may rest.
A desire to do this inspired the
founders of the republic; but Jefferson
lan simplicity has disappeared, and the
luxury against the dangers of which
the early statesmen Inveighed is offset
by poverty direr than any they ever
saw or heard of.
In preparing a tariff the evidence
considered should relate to every phase
and aspect of life. The humblest wage
earner and the poorest consumer have
as much right to "have a say" in tariff
matters and matters economical as the
richest magnate and most lavish
money-spender.
EAST HOLLYWOOD
GREATER LOS ANGELES will be
enriched and strengthened by the
addition of East Hollywood to the
territory within the municipal area. It
will bring Into the municipal area Grif
fith park, the greatest breathing space
and recreation ground in any city of
the world. Greater Los Angeles will
provide a water board better able than
county authorities to protect the bed
of the Los Angeles river, and a city
government which will care for the
park. The people of East Hollywood
offer to Greater Los Angeles fine
schools ln good condition; excellent
streets, and a good lighting system.
The county has let the contract and
.begun work on the Los Feliz road. The
improvement on Prospect avenue street
surface will be completed this week.
The newly asphalted Sunset boulevard
from Los Angeles to Hollywood is com
pleted, and provides one of the most
- magnificent driveways in California,
, right through East Hollywood. Con
tracts have been written for the street
surface on Vermont avenue from Tem
»ple street to tho mountains, and work
on that has been begun.
Greater Los Angeles with Its new
i suburbs will be by far the finest city
-In the west. Good Government and
good citizenship will work together
. for the advancement of the best In
terests of our great and growing me
tropolis, and Its leadership not ,only
of the Pacific coast, but of the west is
insured.
IDAHO'S DISGRACE
IF any further argument wore needed
to convince tha people of the ad
visability of changing the present
method of choosing United States sen
ators and providing for the election by
popular vote of these supposed repre
sentatives of the people It would bo
found ln the choosing by a ntato legis
lature for a place in the United States
senate of such men as Heyburn of
Idaho. If anything too bad for this
man's support has ever come before
the body that his presence disgraces
since he was a member of it our atten
tion has not been called to it.
Ha has recontly achieved soma no
toriety of an Infamous sort by Its hav
ing been shown that he appeared upon
the account books of certain sf the
promoters of Alaskan coal land steals
as an intended beneficiary of tho at
tempted looting of the property of the
public. And the fact that after ha had
reason to believe that his connection
with the matter had been discovered
ha wrote a letter disavowing any in
tention of receiving for services that he
rendered the looters the quarter sec
tion of coal lands which had been
set aside for him, only tends, to more
clearly establish his guilt. This land,
be it understood, if received by Senator
Heyburn, would have been a payment
for services rendered while a member
of tha United States senate, concerning
a matter that came before that body
for action and the rendering of which
for a consideration would have sub
jected him to the same fate that over
took Senator Burton of Kansas some
years ago for violating the laws of the
United States in very much the same
way. It Is rather a pity that the prog
ress of the matter was checked before
his guilt had become so fixed and cer
tain as to have admitted of a" prosecu
tion and conviction, for In that event
the state of Idaho would havo been
relieved of the continuing disgrace of
being represented in the upper house
of congress by such a man, and the
senate of the United States would have
been, relieved of the continual disgrace
of owning such a member.
As was to have been expected of a
man with this kind of a record, he has
promptly aligned himself against all
measures proposed by President Taft
for the purpose of carrying out the
pledges of the Republican party con
cerning the conservation of the na
tural resources of the nation; just as
he has with equal promptness aligned
himself against about every other de
cent piece of legislation that has been
attempted by which the Interests of
the predatory corporations that are
constantly seeking to Invade the rights
of the people, were ln any way threat
ened. This brilliant example of the
kind of men who appear as friends and
defenders of the predatory Interests in
the national legislature a day or two
ago put the cap sheaf upon the monu
ment of dishonor that he has so in
dustriously constructed for himself by
objecting to the loaning of government
tents for the use of the Confederate
veterans at their annual encampment
at Mobile, Ala., and by criticising the
presence in the Hall of Fame of the
capitol building of the statue of Gen.
Robert E. Lee, one of the purest men
and most elevated characters that any
country ever produced. To the honor
of Senator Heyburn's senatorial col
leagues be It said that when his objec
tion was put to a vote not one of them
voted with him, and he remained the
sole occupant of the pinnacle of In
famy that he had erected ln his ef
forts to keep alive that feeling of sec
tional strife which cost this country
at one time so dearly and which every
patriot since Grant said "Let us have
peace," has, as a part of his patriotic
duty, endeavored to destroy.
The state of Idaho is to be com
miserated for being misrepresented and
disgraced by the presence of such a
man in the councils of the nation.
RATES GOUGE
SHIPPERS of Los Angeles will not
inactively tolerate the assault on
the Interests resulting from the
rates gouge between the city and the
seaport at San Pedro. It is contrary
to reason and common sense as well
as to justice and right that any cor
poration should be allowed ,to exact
within the limits of Greater Los An
geles an outrageous tax upon indus
tries In which citizens are engaged.
At San Pedro there is being estab
lished a warehouse district. Between
the industrial and the warehouse and
shipping district of Greater Los An
geles rates must be so adjusted that
the export • trade at its very outset
will not be taxed, while the import
trade, subjected to tariff at the sea
port, will not bo subjected to another
exorbitant tariff on the haul from tho
seaport to Los Angelas. The effect on
goods shipped either from or to Great
er Los Angeles would bo to create a
selling price that would cither elim
inate reasonable profit or would make
the articles so dear at market that our
industries would be handicapped in
competition.
FOES OF SCHOOLS
PEOPLE of Los Angeles are pay
ing dearly for the iniquitous fight
against the school bonds by the
foes of the schools. What th. common
sense of the friends of education
prompted them to urge, namely, that
the school population was being in
creased so rapidly any attempt to de
lay school building would result ln
mischief not easily remedied, has un
happily, been justified. Increase In
school population has not merely over
taxed facilities but has partially para
lyzed some important branches of edu
cational activity. Nothing more shame
ful, more contemptible, more disgrace
full than the blockade of the bonds
ever happened In the Viistory of Los
Angeles. Tha evil that men do not only
lives after them, hut survives the origi
nal transaction and Is lastingly mis
chievous in their lifetime.
Tho Los Angeles way ls a winning
way.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 0, 1910.
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A JUST JUDGE
WHEN the successful candidate
WW for district attorney of the city
' ' and county of San Francisco
during his campaign made certain
declarations as to the favor with
which ha would regard Mr. Calhoun
and others against whom criminal
charges were then pending in the
courts of San Francisco It was under
stood and believed by most people of
good sense that these declarations were
the result of support which he was
receiving or expected to receive from
these indicted prominent citizens of
his city.
A day or two ago in the courts of
San Francisco this gentleman, having
assumed the offico of district attorney
and undertaken to exercise the .author
ity of the office, endeavored to make
good his pre-election promises by mov
ing for the dismissal of the criminal
case against Mr. Calhoun. It would
appear, however, that in the plan evi
dently made by him and his political
sponsors, including Mr. Calhoun, to
dispose of certain criminal accusa
tions against the latter and other
prominent citizens, they reckoned
without the presence and power of an
honest judge who ornaments the San
Francisco bench. We refer to Judge
Lawlor, who refused to grant the dis
trict attorney's motion to dismiss the
case against Mr. Calhoun, and Insisted
that the case should go to trial. Of
course with a district attorney com
mitted to Mr. Calhoun's interests in
charge of the case a conviction is not
to be looked for, and there can prob
ably be only one result of the trial If
it ls entered upon. At the same time.
Judge Lawlor will have the conscious
ness of having done his duty, and some
day, when tho majority of the people
of San Francisco wake up to the fact
that honesty and decency in their gov
ernment are the best policy as well as
the best principle, Judge Lawlor will
receive the reward of public appre
ciation which is due him, and the dis
trict attorney will likewise receive the
meed of pubic execration which is his
due. Having done right Judge Lawlor
can afford to wait for his vindication,
and having done wrong the district
attorney will certainly receive his con
demnation some time and in some way.
EGGS
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH is
preparing to settle the question
of the stage of existence at which
an egg may still claim the adjective
"fresh." An egg, when young and
charming, speaks for itself. Even on
a most intimate acquaintance there
can be no disclosures to jar the con
fidence of friendship. But the egg
with a past! Ah, there's the traitor
that must be stamped.
In early middle life the egg still can
carry the jaunty air of youth and gat
away with it. But there is a certain
stage in which the egg passes from
the buoyancy of adolesency to mature
sedateness. Such an egg on' being
tapped never can bo mistaken for
aught but what it is—a middle-aged
egg, with Its habits formed. From this
time the egg's life drifts into the se
nility which makes it uncompanion
able. State board of health will sup
ply the test which will discriminate
between fresh and storage eggs, and
thereafter every egg will be marked
officially for Identification.
Citizens of Los Angeles are agreed
that the billboard nuisance is detri
mental to the city. Injurious to' its
interests, and in every way obnoxious.
With public opinion definitely known,
the work of responding to that opinion
by taking measures to protect property
owners as well as defend and main
tain the general reputation of Los
i Angeles as the best and cleanest city
i lc ml *n in i, i i-.- frn». ■rii'int-rihi ii
Now for a Ride in the Big Auto
Examiner Used Dishman in
Attacking Good Government
THE local Hearst paper, the Exam
iner of Los Angeles via New-
York, is always on the lookout
for a chance to Injure the Good Gov
ernment cause. It lacked the courage
and the character openly to support
the machine candidates in the late
campaign, and strove to create the im
pression tht it was perched high up on
the fence where it could look down on
our little provincial affairs with dig
nity and condescension. But it could
not refrain from casting a rock occa
sionally where it thought the most
damage could be done, says the Pacific
Outlook.
Since the new administration went
into offlce it has been waiting Its
chance to get in one of its sly digs—
"sly, dev'lish sly"—as J. Bagstock
would say. The removal of an unsat
isfactory ehlef of police gave the de
sired opportunity. Largely because of
their personal regard for the chief the
commissioners refrained from giving a
reason for the removal, although the
reason was perfectly well understood
by all who were familiar with police
affairs. In this wo believe the com
missioners made a mistake. At the
time of the removal they should have
frankly and fully explained to the pub
lic just wherein Mr. Dishman had
failed to make good. Nevertheless we
understand very well why they hated
to do this.
But the Examiner, performing for
Mr. Dishman the part of a fool friend,
and doing its best to injure the admin
istration, published a faked interview
With the ex-chief, In which he was
made to say that he had been ap
proached by some one representng the
Good Government organization who
assured him that If ho would only
agree to "do politics" for that side his
niece would remain secure for him.
Mr. Dishman promptly repudiated the
Interview and declared that no such
proposition had been made to him. But
in the west should not be difficult.
The billboard nuisance must be
abated.
Young Moti's Christian association Is
preparing for a new members cam
paign. The Y. M. C. A. is a head
quarters of good citizenship. To be
long to it is like holding a certificate
of character. Los Angeles Herald is
with the association in every forward
movement. ,
Laws regulating street car speed will
be enforced. This Is as it should be.
Is any ordinance supposed to be ob
jectionable? Then, as Judge Works
says, enforce it. The way to find out
whether or not an ordinance is objec
tionable ls to put it to the test of
practice.
Chinese New Year was begun last
night. China has been celebrating
Now Year's longer than any other na
tion, but the newest Chinese New Year
Is always the same old year in the
same old way. and that's what's the
matter with China.
If the bill goats would eat the bill
boards we would be in favor of having
a flock of them turned loose to browse
in lovely Los Angeles. They would find
plenty of provender.
California Creamery Operators' as
sociation will meet in lovely Los An
geles. The crams do la creme of the
creamers will gather ln the creme de
la creme of cities. ■
One way to beat the hosiery gouge
would be to go barefoot. But it won't
bo as easy to dispense with underwear
as with socks. We may have to resort
to sackcloth. ' ;■'■'''■'■•.
If tho nation intends to own the
trusts It would better get busy, be
cause there is every reason to believe
the trusts Intend to own the nation.
In one respect at least Mexico Is wor
thy of admiration. As a trust buster
tho southern republic Is a success.
both the Examiner and the regular
machine organ, the Times, have con
stantly reiterated the statement that
the cause of Dlshman's removal was
that he "would not do Good Govern
ment politics." ,
We have heretoforth set forth in
these columns our theory of what con,
stitutes "doing Good Government pol
itics" by an officeholder, and in the
light of that theory there is consider
able truth in this explanation of Dish
man's removal. The way tho Good
Government organization expects its
people to do politics when ln offlce is
by attention to business, by doing their
duty without fear or favor, by striving
for the city's best interests and, in
short, by making good. That, too,
seems to bo our opponent's idea of our
way of doing politics, for during Mayor
Alexander's short preliminary admin
istration every time he headed off some
piece of folly by council or saved the
city money or showed ill some striking
way efficiency and devotion to duty,
the reactionary press raised ■ a great
outcry about the mayor "doing poli
tics."
Yes: in that sense ex-Chief Dishman
"failed to do politics for Good Govern
ment." and for that reason was re
lieved. The Instant he Is out, Parker,
the machine leader, telegraphs to Sen
ator Flint asking that a place be made
for Dishman, and a place is straight
way provided under the new postmas
ter. Thus does the machine take .an'
of its friends. We do not question that
Dishman will make a good assistant
postmaster, but he was not the man
the city needed at the head of the
police department. We note this with
regret, for at the time of his appoint
ment we were hopeful that In spite of
his unfortunate affiliations he would
reorganize the department and bring it
up to standard. Perhaps he did his
best, but the results were not what wo
had expected.
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SEES RACE TROUBLE AS
RESULT OF PRIZE FIGHT
PASADENA, Feb. 7.—[Editor Her
ald] : Many thoughtful people are won
dering if the coming Jeffries-Johnson
contest may not only deepen the exist
ing race antipathy between the two
races, but may result In an open con
flict In different localities if not
throughout the whole nation.
The writer has been studying this
problem for the last forty years, and
from my observation, especially for
the past few years, I am forced to the
conclusion that this race antagonism
is growing stronger as the years go by,
and the cause of this can be traced to
the action of the colored race.
The general disposition of our Amer
ican white race is to see and to help
every man get all the enjoyment pos
sible out of life. In other words, we
are a generous, open-hearted people.
Yet while this is characteristic of our
people they are quick to resent any
encroachments upon any of their vested
rights, and if persisted in will defend
even to open warfare.
It is a well known fact that wherever
colored people edge themselves into a
residence community occupied by the
white race it not only tends to
greatly depreciate realty values, but
that It lowers the social standing of
the district In the eyes of the com
munity at large.
You touch the value of a man's prop
erty to Its hurt and at the same time
ruthlessly tread upon his social sur
roundings and you touch his heart, the
result being that you arouse his ire.
If persisted in, you render him des
perate, and he will defend his rights
with all the powers of his being.
This seems to be the short-sighted
policy of many of these colored people.
For Illustration: A society of colored
people purchased a lot on a prominent
corner In a residence district in a
beautiful city Of Southern California,
and, without as much as by your leave,
proceeded to erect a church building
thereon. Result: White residents real
ize that lt is but the entering wedge
to a mixed community with aforesaid
results. They are thereby, rendered al-
GOVERNMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS
Frederic J. Haskin
■M-BBHB present Investigation ,of
«->■*?_ tho Balllnger-Pinchot contro-
Hill, present hundreds
the i.aiiingor-i'inehot contro
versy is but one of bundle dl
ml Kt* of inquiries of great and
ik-^S small import that havo been
[ggjgfat made by the government
f ough its legislative and executive
branch^ In the past hundred years.
Millions of pages of testimony have
been accumulated and embalmed in
the records of the congress, thee ex
ecutive departments and the courts,
and millions of dollars have been spent
In the asking of questions and the
gathering Of facts. Usually it is con
gress Itself that provides for Investi
gations and probes, but often the de
partments do it on their own initia
tive.
At the present time there are at least
five Important Investigations being
conducted by the government. The
Ball.-iger-Flnchot controversy is being
threshed out, the monetary commission
has not finished Its work, the Browns
ville court of inquiry 13 still asking
questions, and the meat trust is being
p-obed, in addition to these the Im
migration commission still has work
to do. As a rule all governmental In
vestigations come high, but none are
so expensive as the commissions creat
ed by congress. The immigration com
mission already has spent more than
$600,000 in probing the Immigration
question, and it wants still more
money. The monetary commission
also is spending money by the hundreds
of thousands of dollars, and the indus
trial commission was no more careful
Of Uncle: Sam's pocketbook when it
made its investigations into Industrial
conditions.
Usually these commissions are little
more than pleasure junkets. The mem
bers travel abroad in regal style, and
nearly all of thorn are on the rolls at
the capital. These commissions plan
to go abroad just about vacation time,
and the senator or representative who
Is a member manages to find a place
for his secretary, who is thus enabled
to draw two salaries from Uncle Sam,
and have his expenses paid while mak
ing a trip to Europe. Whether these
commissions really are worth what
they cost Is a question about which
there has been much discussion. ,
* . .
The senate Brownsville inquiry rep
resents about the most fruitless effort
to get at the truth that has ever re
sulted from a governmental investiga
tion. It cost several hundred thou
sand dollars to conduct the hearings,
and little more was known of the mat
ter when the senate got through than
before it began. The testimony fills
books, which would occupy a whole
shelf in a sectional bookcase, witnesses
having been brought from the four cor
ners of the country.
The Standard OU probo made by the
department of commerce and labor and
the beef trust investigation by the
same department ore about the most
important investigations ever made
under a cabinet officer. It will be re
called that in the beef trust investiga
tion Commissioner Garfield asserted
that the packers made a profit of only
99 cents each on the cattle they
butchered. Few investigations have
been received with more incredulity.
Nobody believed that ' Garfield had
reached the bottom of his subject. The
Standard Oil investigation was the one
that resulted in the Kenesaw Mountain
Lapdis verdict of $29,000,000 against the
Rockefeller combination.
The house and the senate have some
times been hoist by their own petard
when asking for Information from the
departments. Many readers will recall
the time when the house asked for in
formation about the relations of mem
bers of congress with the postofflce de
partment. There was never a more In
dignant set of men than the members
of the house, when nearly all of them
wero embraced In this report. It was
then that William Alden Smith made
his sensational speech nominating
Uncle Joe Cannon for president. The
house that now quarrels with Mr. Can
non applauded Itself hoarse that day.
Few inquiries havo attracted such
wide Interact as the Schley court of
inquiry, In which it was attempted to
settle the controversy growing out of
the battle with tile Spanish fleet at
Santiago, It is not too much to say
that Admiral Schley was the popular
hero, whatever may have been the
technicalities of tha case. Senator
Rayner of Maryland was his principal
counsel. The embalmed beef inpuiry,
after the close of the Spanish war, was
one of the most important army in
vestigations the service has seen.
In passing, one might mention the
work of the Industrial commission,
which is remembered more for the say
ing of Henry O. Havemcyer of the
sugar trust, that the protective tariff
most desperate and are made the bitter
enemies of a people whom they natur
ally like to befriend; and who is to
blame?
This is but one case In thousands
that are coming to pass the United
States over. Hence the outbreaks and
race bickerings that are continually
happening and will continue to happen
until our government takes this black
bull by the horns and commands a
halt.
It veritably seems to me that this
race of people is displaying a short
sightedness worthy of children of im
mature years when they antagonize and
willfully offend the race upon whom
they depend foe life's sustenance and
upon whom they must depend for their
moral upbuilding to a great extent.
Too much condemnation cannot bo
placed upon the heads of that class of
agents with white skins and black
hearts who for a few paltry dollars
will connive at and locate an undesir
able element of any description in a
community where it is not wanted,
thereby injuring hundreds of homes
and bringing worry and sorrow upon
the inhabitants thereof. A man who
will be guilty of such a despicable act
Is too mean, too low down in the scale
of business and social life for any
recognition, and ought to be relegated
to that oblivion which only exists out
side of human decency.
WILL SHARP.
SEES NO PLACE FOR HELL FIRE
IN MODERN CHURCH DOCTRINE
LOS ANGELES, ■' Feb. 7.— [Editor
Herald]: In conversation with a well
known Christian worker a few days
since on the question why there was
such a declension in our churches of
late years I ventured the opinion that
next to tho "abounding of iniquity" or
"sin in the flesh" was the hateful and
God-dishonoring doctrine of eternal
torment that had been for centuries a
favorite weapon, the horrors of the
flaming pit being held forth to frighten
tho worldling into believing they knew
not what.
Tens of thousands of good men and
women have been made unwilling
skeptics, refusing to believe that he
whose darling attribute is mercy could
first make man subject to evil and
then for the transgression of his law in
a short lifetime through weakness of
the flesh consign such a one to end
less torture. Happily there are few
ministers of the gospel in this day
who believe in tills hateful doctrine,
yet it is still held as a tenet in most
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Is the mother of trusts, than for all the
other millions of words of testimony
It printed. The report of the commis
sion was at one time the most widely
quoted authority on industrial condi
tions In the country, but its vast
volumes seldom are referred to now.
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An important Investigation was that
of the New York custom house ln 1877.
Chester A. Arthur was then collector.
He was identified with Roscoo Conk-
Ilng, and President Hayes wanted to
remove him. Conkllng fought it tooth
and nail, but Arthur was forced out.
Hayes then sent to tho senate for con
tinuation as collector the name of a
man who has since become a great
factor In American —Theodore
Roosevelt. Although no charges wero
filed against him, he failed of confirma-
ion. The failure was not because of
the lack of fitness of the appointee,
but because of the pique of Roscoo
Conkllng. It Is perhaps the only time
in the history of the country that one
future president of the United States
was removed from a colloctorship and
another failed of confirmation as his
successor. This overhauling of the
customs office was almost as thorough
as the one Collector Loeb lias been
making, ,
• * *
There were perhaps more investiga
tions of scandals in the '70s than In
any other decade of American history.
The disputes of the rival governments
In some of the states, as in Louisiana,
led to prolonged inquiries. The trou
bles in Virginia and Mississippi were
made the subject of congressional in
vestigations. The greatest of ail the
scandals of this period was the Credit
Mobilicr, in which many well-known
statesmen were involved. James G.
Blame and the famous Mulligan let
ters figured in this affair. Mulligan
had been a clerk to a gentleman with
whom Blame had correspondence. He
secured Blame's letters, brought them
to Washington and exhlbted them.
Blame made an appointment with him
to examine the letters. Thinking the
Maine statesman was acting in good
faith, Mulligan showed them to him.
Blame promptly put them In his
pockfet and announced that no power
under heaven could force him to give
them up. Ho afterward did offer to
make them public, but Mulligan al
ways declared that Blame kept, back
the really incriminating ones. A pro
longed examination of the Credit
Mobilier affair was made in congress,
but only two of its members were
recommended for expulsion.
Other famous investigations of this
period were those dealing with the
whisky frauds, the quartermaster's
claims, the ship subsidy scandal, tha
Tilden cipher messages, the Star
Route cases, the public land frauds
and the railroad lobbies. It was in ona
of these cases that Senator Hoar, then
almost a new member, declared that
every step of the building of the
Union Pacific railroad, from its Incep
tion to Its completion, had been
steeped in fraud.
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The house of representatives proud
ly styles Itself the grand Inquest of
the nation, and very early ln its life
began to assert its right to make In
quiries of whomsoever it pleased. The
first instance was when charges were
brought against Gen. St. Clair In 1792.
while Washington was yet president.
The house at first asserted Its right to
investigate an army officer, but after
ward decided that as a matter of
courtesy to the president lt would
waive Its right and let him make the
investigation.
In 1826 John C. Calhoun was under
the charge of having profited by a
corrupt deal with a contractor while
he was secretary of war. He askeU
the house to make an Inquiry into the
matter and he was exonerated. Henry
Clay also fell under the ban of the
scandal monger at one time and asked
congress to investigate him. He, too,
was cleared of the insinuations against
his character. „,....■.
In 1837 the house wanted to investi
gate Andrew Jackson, but it was not
long In finding out that lt had caught
a Tartar in Old Hickory. The hero of
Now Orleans thought that the execu
tive had an authority equal to that of
congress, and he did not propose to
have the legislative end of the estab
lishment investigate the executive end
unlss it was for purposes of Impeach
ment. He replied »^ 1*. M Ms
resolute manner would permit .not
"By the Eternal, they could go to
thunder with their probes." The story
of the inquiries that have been made
by to government might be continued
indefinitely. There have been dozens
of investigations that were as full of
important and significance In the r
time as the Ballinger-Plnchot probe is
today. _
T_,_n n rroff-Tho Now Orleans Carnival. _
of our evangelical churches, though
seldom touched on by the . ministry
only when some great revival is In
program Is it brought forth to arouse
ftThe writer has not been affiliated
with any sect or denomination for
years yet has an abiding faith in
the live and mercy of the "Father of
the Spirits of All Flesh" as well as
in hli justice. I would like to meas
ure lances v.lh any exponent of the
doctrine of "eternal torment taking
the evidence only from the "law and
,'stimony, that being the true light.
(Isaiah vli., 20.) -J- K» KITTS.
DOES NOT CONSIDER REAL *;
POLITICS OBJECTIONABLE
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7.-[Editor
Herald]: Quoting from y.our paper of
his morning, you say "We do not
believe any self-respecting citizen of
Los Angeles would tolerate for an in
stant any condition of alliance be
tween police work and politics. Why
not if politics is to be tolerated to tho
extent of selecting our mayor, the?
sheriff of the county, tho governor of
the state, the judges of our county and
state courts, who have to do with the
violation of all laws and who may de
prive the citizen of hi. liberty and
even his life? » politics Is to bo tol
erated to the extent of selecting our
representatives to the city council, tne
state legislature, and in the congress
of the United States, who make the
laws the police enforce, then why
should "politics" be so objectionable
when applied to tho police depart
ment? Politics is defined as "the sci
ence of government." If this is ap
plied to the police department in truth
and In honesty, what could be better
for the good of the community than
the application of "the science of gov
ernment" to even the police depart
ment JAMES O. PARKER.
(Pro Bono rubllco—Your letter good, but
must have your nan., and address or can
not publish communication.—Editor).
Marked _, .
Patience— you notice that man
how he looked closely at everybody's
hands?
Yes;' he had probably lost his foun
tain pen and was looking for the one
who had found Yonkers Statesman.
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I lie— Thnt lamp looks very bright and clean
Cm- lie New Year, dear.
1 she—Yes; 1 hope to goodness it has livan up
smoking, tool-Yonkers Statesman.