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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
fIf^ESTLGIA JVULUAIfj
M: retrorsuMv JU
Senator Lorimer doesn't have to ask
"Who frew dat brick?"
Abe Ruef shouldn't go back to jail
because he needs fresh air, says his
doctors. How would it do to improve
the ventilation of the jail?
Will the women who are trying to
get us statesmen to promise 'cm the
ballot promise to enact some effective
hatpin legislation If we'll do It?
Judging from the pictures of Senator
"Billy" Lorlmer there was consider
ably more room at the head table at
the Hamilton club banquet after he had
been barred out.
"There is too much hysteria abroad
in the country," says former Vice Pres
ident Fairbanks. And every man who
makes his money by putting the public
to sleep says amen.
Woman haled her husband into su
perior court for non-support, alleging
that he Rave here only 60 cents in a
year. It ought to have made each o£
them feel like 30 cents.
It is amusing to see the change In
the standpat phraseology. Formerly it
was the "best tariff law ever passed;"
now It is "the best law that could be
passed under the circumstances."
Congressman "Cy" Sulloway of New
Hampshire was one of the standpat
congressmen who weathered the storm.
That Is, the first one; he must go
through another, and he probably Isn't
forgetting it.
M'seur Paulhan, who made a world
record at the Los Angeles aviation
meet, has cleared $100,000 by his ex
hibitions during the past year, which is
mixing business and pleasure to very
good purpose.
There seems to be a competition
among the resolutions committees of
the various meetings to see who can
indorse the Taft administration with
the most skill— that Is, without mean
ing' it too much.
If you overlooked that colloquy be
tween former Governor Pardee and
Judge Short, reported in
morning's Herald, read it now and you
will understand the demand for "state
conservation" better.
Georgia offers Hoke Smith for presi
dent in 1012 and Oklahoma nominates
James S. Sherman. We begin to think,
with Boss Barnea oi New York, that
there is a good deal of political hy>
teria abroad In the land.
"With Los Angeles at the head of the
campaign work of the Republican,
Democratic, Socialist and Prohibition
parties the City of Angels seerrs to I
have come into its own, politically,
with • ii tell sw oop, as 'twere.
Tel Roosevelt made one car plat
form speech in his pajamas over which
ed a raincoat. The newspaper
photographers snapped the picture and
be was angry, His remedy is to make
his pajama speeches out of the car
window.
It is said that the sultan of Sulu
supports fourteen wives on $125 a
month. Yes, but if American wives
Spent as little money on clothes as
those of Sulu, domestic problems in
this country would be very much sim
plified.
Medical experts (so called) say that
Abe Ruef Is sick and isn't, sick, ae
oordlng to the side that them.
The handwriting (Xpert and the medl
xpert ready to testify an;
that's desired are the two most fllg
nifled jokes extant,'
Hearst Shows His Collar
IN JULY, 1908, we believe it was, the New York World published]
a statement that the proprietor of the string of yellow journals
known as the Hearst newspapers had put himself tinder large
financial obligations to E. H. Harriman and his associates, by the
latter coining to his rescue when he was in desperate financial straits.
Since that time the statement of the World has been made good by
a thousand acts of the Hearst papers. Up to that date their opposi
tion to the Southern Pacific company in California had been the one
thing in which they had been consistent. The opposition, in fact,
had been so bitter that in some respects it transcended the bounds
of fairness and justness.
Readers will no doubt remember that the Hearst papers in their
effort to injure the Southern Pacific company as a business enter
prise, sent men along its tracks and wherever they could find a loose
spike in a tic. which will at some time or another exist on the best of
roads, they called attention to it both by picture and description, in
sisting that it showed that the road was dangerous to passengers
and unworthy of patronage.
Since the date when the New York World exposed Mr. Hearst's
financial relations with the Harriman interests not one word of op
position to, or criticism of. the Southern Pacific company has ever
appeared in the columns of the Hearst papers in California, so far
as we are advised. This pro-corporation attitude of the yellow journal
owner was emphasized by a cabled communication from him which
appeared in his own papers on the 7th inst, in which he attempts to
prejudice the readers of his papers against Mr. Roosevelt and the
splendid crusade that he is making for honest government and
against the predatory trusts and special interests that have been
using the government to rob the people.
In this communication, which is given all the prominence of
scare heads, large type, leaded lines and double columns on the first!
page of his papers, Mr. Hearst says:
"I cannot sympathize with Mr, Roosevelt's reckless and inde
cent attack upon the financial interests." Then he goes on to read
the people a lecture on "business development," in which he says:
"Business generally is just recovering from the stress of the re
cent panic, and violent threats leveled at the business world can do
little good and may do much harm to the whole country. Business
development depends largely upon confidence, and is more unsettled
by disastrous talk than by stringent acts conservatively performed."
All this notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Roosevelt in all his
political life, and in the hundreds of speeches he has made to his
fellow citizens in which he has advocated honest government and
decent politics, has never said one word against honest business and
to which any honestly conducted business enterprise could find ob
jection. On the contrary he has, while condemning the predatory
interests that rob the people through corruptly acquired influence
in legislative bodies, insisted at all times that honest, legitimate busi
ness should be protected, fostered and encouraged in every way.
Only the other day in Ohio, some of whose cities have lately
been the scenes of mob violence growing out of industrial friction
between employers and employes, he condemned that sort of thing
in unmeasured terms and stated that where mob violence existed
all progress of reform and every other thing must be suspended un
til the supremacy of the law was restored. And this, by the way, is
something that no Hearst paper has ever dared say when mob vio
lence was reigning in the community in which it was published.
Just the other day the city of Los Angeles was treated to what,
upon its face, appeared to have been a development of that sort of
spirit which leads to mob violence in a clash which occurred between
striking workmen and others on one of the streets of the city. While
the other papers of the city came out in condemnation of violence
growing out of the strike the Hearst pap*er not only had not one word
to say against it but it did not even undertake to report the facts of
the occurrence beyond a mere mention of it in its local news columns.
This incident, taken in connection with Hearst's recent criticism
of Mr. Roosevelt, is but another evidence of the kind of unutterable
faker that he is.
On one hand he tries to recommend himself to the capitalists by
whose accommodations he is enabled to keep his infamous yellow
journalistic enterprises afloat, while on the other hand his papers do
not dare assert any devotion to law and order where they think that
it will lose them a subscriber.
In the same way he lias shown his treachery to the cause of
organized labor, of which lie pretends to be the friend. While pro
fessing unbounded devotion to organized labor in his paper in San
Francisco, in which city organized labor is especially strong, he
takes an attitude against it in the great mining enterprise from which
he draws some of the money that he spends in his efforts to glorify
himself and minister to the overgrown egotism which is responsible
for having his name appear 174 times in one number of one of his
daily journals.
The refusal of Mr. Hearst to fairly treat organized labor in his
mining enterprise resulted in the miners' organization of the country
sometime ago passing a resolution denouncing his professions of
friendship for organized labor and exposing him as the faker that
he is.
His papers circulate largely among a class of ignorant people
into whose weak minds his reckless denunciation of better men some
times sink and fester until they produce terrible consequences.
There appears to be no doubt that the assassin of President Mc-
Kinley found his inspiration in the Hearst newspapers^ and a copy
of one of these newspapers with a denunciation of the president con
tained therein was found upon the assassin when he was arrested.
Similarly, the man who attempted to take the life of Mayor Gay
nor announced that he was a reader of Hearst's New York paper, and
a member of an independent political organization in New York of
which Hearst posed as the head and the leader.
It is within the bounds of possibility that some weak-brained
crank into whose mind Hearst's denunciation of Roosevelt shall sink
and fester will sometime try to do for that fearless advocate of de
cency in politics and champion of the rights of his fellow country
men what one reader of the Hearst papers did for President Mc-
Kinley, and another tried to do for Mayor Gaynor. Should such a
thing ever occur and be successful it would mean the greatest calam
ity that could befall the American people at the present time, but it
would at the same time probably sound the deatli knell of Hearst's
yellow journalism in America. However, as great a price as the
people would be willing to pay to be relieved of that incubus any in
jury to the splendid champion of the American people and their
rights would be too great a price. We can but hope and pray that
this wretched mountebank and the yellow disgraces to journalism
which the money that he has inherited and which lie receives from
his mother enables him to keep alive, may not bring such a calam
ity upon the people of the United States.
JUDGE LAWLOR
IN HIP address on "Needed Reform
in the Criminal Law," which he
will delivi i before the city club in
this city today, Judge William P. Law
lor of San Francisco Is likely to point
out some bad spot? In California Juris
prudence In an Interesting way, and
make come suggestions worth consid
eration as coming from the fullness of
a lively experience In his home city
with criminal law as it sometimes be
comes involved with powerful political
pull.
Judge Lawlor is one of the heroic
figures of the ugly graft prosecutions
of San Francisco His uprightness and
fearlessness made Ii pi i gain
for the forces of decency what Henej
and Johnson accomplished before a su
pine public spirit withdrew its (support,
ami hi- refusal to give the Bam I
his court to Ii ga] I n bi hall of
the discredited Patrick Calhoun has
prevented tha collapse oi
against the street rallwas magnate foi
i orrupting citj offli
The bench and bar huve been brought
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1010.
Into disrepute too often in recent years
by the tricky practitioner and Judge.
Men like Judge I^awlor, who have held
to the hlsh standards of old and have
stood like a rock for courts free from
sinister influences, have been the sav
ing grace in a frequently bad situation
in this country.
Last month Mr. Calhoun and his at
torneys created a theatrical scene in
Judge Lawlor h court in San Francisco,
in which, one after the othor, they
made studied and vitriolic attacks on
his course during the past year or so.
Judge Lawlbr'B restraint under the
provocation they hoped would goad him
to an undignified attitude was s.> ad
mirable that he emerged from the inci
dent with every good opinion of the
public confirmed.
It Ik a pleasure to say these things
upon tho occasion of his visit to a city
that appreciates citizens and public
officials of the kind he has proved
himself to be.
What is Aviator Koe. doing at sky
piloting? A party With such a name
hould be running a boat, not a flying
machine.
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DE-CANNONIZED
T) ETRIBUTION is swiftly overtak
r^ ing the Cannon congressmen of
■"' the recent session. About half of
the districts In which Republican In
cumbents sought renomination have
voted, and a full score of the house
machine have been Invited to stay at
dome, some of them being members of
prominence. Their elimination for in
surgents or Democrats (as the general
election shall determine) so weakens
the Cannon oligarchy that Its death Is
already decreed. The list Is as follows
to date:
James McLachlan, Seventh Califor
nia; sixth term; rivers and harbors.
Duncan E. McKinlay, Second Cali
fornia; third term; elections No. 2; In
sular affairs; merchant marine and
fisheries.
Charles F. Scott, Second Kansas;
fifth terms; chairman agricultural.
W. A. Calderhead, Fifth Kansas;
seventh term; ways and means; in
valid pensions.
William A. Reader, Sixth Kansas;
sixth term; chairman irrigation of arid
lands; Improvement Mississippi river
levees.
James M. Miller, Fourth Kansas;
sixth term, chairman 'elections No. 2;
interstate and foreign commerce.
Amos L,. Allen, First Maine; sixth
term; Indian affairs.
Ralph Coles, Eighth Ohio; third term;
agriculture, territories.
A. J. Gronna, North Dakota; third
term; public lands.
W. P. Hubbard, First West Virginia;
second term; Interstate and foreign
commerce.
Nehemiah D. Sperry, Second Connec
ticut; eighth term; chairman alcoholic
liquor traffic, postoffice and post roads.
A. F. Dawson, Second Iowa; third
term; accounts, naval affairs.
J. A. T. Hull, Seventh Iowa; tenth
term; chairmnn military affairs.
Henry W. Palmer, Eleventh Pennsyl
vania; fourth term; revision of the
laws.
John M. Reynolds, Nineteenth Penn
sylvania; fifth term; chairman mines
and mining, postoffice and post roads.
Charles F. Barclay, Twenty-first
Pennsylvania; second term; census, In
dian affairs.
Allen F. Cooper, Twenty-third Penn
sylvania; fifth term; chairman print
ing, foreign affairs.
William H. Stafford, Fifth Wisconsin;
chairman interstate and foreign com
merce.
Washington Gardiner, Third Michi
gan; chairman appropriations.
Thomas R. Hamer, Idaho; public
lands.
This list does not include Livingston
and Howard of Georgia, Democrats,
who were retired for too great friend
ship with Cannon. The retirement of
Houtell of Illinois (not yet accom
plished but assured), McKinlay of Cal
ifornia, Calderhead of Kansas, Smith
of lowa. Hull of lowa and Sperry of
Connecticut, old members and leaders
of the house, already has de-Cannon
ized the body. The new speaker will
cant his eye over a very different house,
and the name of that new speaker will
not be Cannon.
Representative Needham's belated
repudiation of Uncle Joe Cannon means
that whereas he formerly held the
speaker in awe and fear, he now f< ars
him not, and hopes his constituents
will send him back to Washington .so
he can give the old man a kirk.
"BAD Placed on Lorimor," says a
news headline. Also a. tag.
THE COLONEL
The Colonel is a wondrous man,
A traveler bold.
He Is at home In Turkish khan.
On English wul.l.
He Is at home where tigers tread
Or hlppoi stray.
The world must he, as Shakespeare said,
Ills Oyster Bay.
—Wanhlnxtun Star.
The Big Boot
California and Palestine
Palestine is more like the state of
California than any other in the Union
in everything except size. It lies be
tween longitude 34 degrees 30 minutes
east, and between latitude 30 degrees
30 minutes and 33 degrees 45 minutes
north. It is practically a California,
reduced to about one-twentieth its size,
but markedly similar in general topo
graphy, climate, vegetation and agri
cultural and economic possibilities.
Like California, Palestine is longest
from north to south. Like California,
too, it has both very high mountains,
having an elevation of 900 to 10,000 feet,
and very deep depressions. The Dead
sea, 1200 feet below sea level, is the
greatest depression known, and, like
the Death valley of California, is situ
ated in the southern extremity of the
country.
Such formations always give rise to
a great diversity of soil and vegetation.
Where a very ancient civilization
exists, as in Palestine, such formations
likewise favor the development of
many varieties of cultivated plants
and give rise to different methods of
cultivation.
Passing from east to west, we have
in Palestine the coast zone, extending
along the Mediterranean, similar to the
littoral region of the Pacific, and the
zone of hills and plateaus of the moun
tains of Judea and Galileo, forming, so
to speak, the backbone of the country,
and being similar to the foothill region
of California. Farther east we have
the valley of the Jordan, the dlversl-
Merely in Jest
SHE WAS WRONG
There was an opresslve silence In the
parlor. At last the desperate young
lady broke out.
"George," she asked, "why don't you
propose?"
"Somehow —somehow, I can't bring
myself to do it, Myrtle! 1" blurted the
young man.
"It's only a short, sentence, George.'
"It's a sentence for life!"— Judge.
THE UTILITARIAN
"Hello, Johnny," said the village
blacksmith; "I hear your paw has gone
into politics."
"Sure."
"How'd that happen?"
"Well, my uncle left him a silk hat
and a Prince Albert coat in his will,
and paw had to do something with
them."— Washington Star.
A SAFE DEDUCTION
"Do you think you could identify the
burglar?" asked the detective from the
city hall.
"Well, I never saw him," replied the
victim, "but he was a very small man."
"How do you know?"
"Haven't I told you he Rot into our
fiat without any trouble?"— Catholic
Standard and Times.
HTS BLUNDER
Ho—Why on earth do ports almost
always speak of "wine and women!' to
gether?
She—l'm sure I don't know; it isn't
very complimentary.
He Of course not. Many wines im
prove with age; and most women do
not.—Merry Thoughts.
FOUND GUILTY
Lenox—Would you call Teddy an ab
sent-minded fellow?
Bronx—Well, the other- morning he
thought he had left his watch at home,
and then pulled it out of his pocket to
see if he'd have time to go back and
get it.—Brooklyn Life.
PROFESSIONAL ADVICE
Bilklns—Doctor, my wife has lost
her voice. What can I do about it?
Doctor—Well, as a married man, I'd
advise you to get down on your knees
and return thanks.— Chicago News.
DOING HIS BEST
Joiner (to his apprentice)— Well,
Willie, have you sharpened all the
tonls?
Willie—Yus—all but the 'and saw,
and I haven't quite got all the gaps
out of it.—The Sketch.
A SIMILITUDE
■How did you happen to MBit that
bone Comet ?"
"Bocause," answered the sardonic
sport, "by tin 1 time he geti once around
the track everybody has forgotten that
in' ever started." -Washington Star.
fled parts of which are similar in soil,
climate and agricultural possibilities
to the San Joaquln, Imperial and Death
valleys. Finally, still farther east, are
the plateaus of the transjordan, with
their fertile soils of volcanic origin, do-
voted from time Immemorial to pasture
and the cultivation of cereals. They
are regarded as the granary of the
country, and have been famed since
Bible times for the abundant herds of
Bashan. Extending eastward, these
plateaus pass Into the steppes, and,
finally, toward the south, form the
deserts of Syria and Egrypt.
In Palestine, Just ns In California,
we have a dry, warm season, and a
humid and more temperate one. Tha
rainy season extends from October to
May, and the dry season from May to
October. The rainfall varies, accord-
Ing to the locality, from loss than six
Inches In the extreme south, near the
Egyptian frontier, where rains are In
sufficient and uncertain, to more than
forty inches In the north of the country.
Palestine Is even more favored than
California with regard to the winter
temperature. Although the thermome
ter rises aa high In summer In Pales
tine as Ui California, with extremes of
110 to 115 degrees Fahrenheit, though
not so often, it very rarely drops In
the winter to the freezing point. Snow
is rare, even on the plateaus, and our
farmers are practically safe from any
damage by frost over nearly the entire
extent of the country..—Aaron Aaron
sohn's Agricultural and Botanical Ex
ploratlons.
Far and Wide
MORE DATTOS COMB IN
The United States is lucky to have
secured the loyalty of the Morns. They
can sail and dive and make weapons
and fight; but, uulike the Tagalogs,
chicanery is not their long suit. There
is good raw material for citizenship
In a free republic, in the Mohammedan
Moros.—Brooklyn Eagle.
PULLMAN COMPANY'S FRIENDS
It is now asserted that the Pullman
company is aiding Lee O'Neil Browne,
now on trial for alleged bribery of Il
linois legislators. The Pullman com
pany does not, rush to the aid of leg
islators without ample reason, and hern
is hoping that the clew will lead to the
exposure of the legislative activities of
the sleeping car trust.—Pittsburg Post.
GRANDPA'S BRANDIED PEACHES
What has become of the old-fash
ioned woman who in peach canning
time always put up a few Jars of bran
died ones for grandpa?— Denver Re
publican.
THE MAIN. TROUBLE
The question now is, Can John D.'s
charity trust give it back to the people
as fast as tho Standard Oil company
can take it from them?—St, Paul Pio
neer Press.
FOR THE DEBATERS
If nothing can save the party but
Theodore Roosevelt, just how much is ■
the party worth saving?— New Bed
ford Standard.
AN IRREPRESSIBLE
Son-in-law "Nick" Longworth failed
of getting tho nomination for gover- |
nor of Ohio, but the fact that he was
the other day selected as a Judge for a
baby show is another proof that a good
man can't be kept down.—Buffalo Cour
ier.
IN PRIVATE LIFE
If the truth were known, probably
even the weather prophets wait for
their wives to toll them when to take
off their winter underwear.—Dallas
News.
SOCIAL VEGETARIANS
Mr. and Mrs. Beet entertained Carter
M. Slaw, wife and children last Bun
day. Also a Mr. McNutt of Taylor
villf.—Mercerville, la., Banner.
MUST HAVE PUBLICITY
Then are some women who believe it
is lictter to bo a suffragette than to
never get one's name into the papers.—
Dallas News.
QUALJ7IBD ASSENT
Bill—Don't you like to see a dog
flu-wing a bone?
Jill—Yes, if It's not one of mv own.
—Yonkers Statesman.
Public Letter Box
TO CORRESPONDENTSL*tt»n Intended
(or publication must be aroompanled by the
name and addreaa of th« writer. The HeraJd
(|VM On' wlil*»t latitude to . correepondente,
but tiiuniH no responsibility for their views.
letter" must not exceed 200 worde.
TEDDY AND HIS CRITICS
Editor Herald: Some of the criti
cism of Mr. Roosevelt for his use of
the pronoun "I" Is more of a reflection
on the critics than on the former pres
ident. In this country we assume that
the citizen Is sovereign, and the strong 1
citizen ought not to be obliged to base
his views upon their having-, been ac
cepted by some one clue. In presenting
his views on the tariff Roosevelt
doesn't pretend that they are or that
they are not the views of any other
person. In a careful reading of his
speeches I failed to | observe an oc- 1
casion where he has claimed to have
been the one, who discovered or first
saw the opportunity to apply the reme
dies which he suggests. He makes no
such claim, neither does any ordinary
person, reading Roosevelt's speeches
or listening to him, believe that he
makes any such claim; but a few
newspapers, jealous of the power for
good which this man exercises, far be
yond that of any man of his time,
B*ek to make capital of such trivial
things, when the logic is really the
other way. I enjoy criticisms of
Roosevelt. It is beautiful to consider,
that he is not a perfect man, and un
doubtedly a wise criticism considerably
aids him In the prosecution of his
work. And It is not required of him
that he shall be perfect and that he
shall not have faults or that he shall
be equally deep on all subjects. 'Ho
has aroused the conscience of Amer
ica, and the nationalism which he gavo
expression to at Osawatomle will go
ringing down the centuries, and In time
to come the newspapers, still published
when the present generation is gone,
will proclaim it as an act of manhood
that this man, cingle-handed, without
a party at his back, without an or
ganization ever having considered tne
subject, dared to proclaim before the
world: "I believe." S. T. PARSONS.
Los Angeles, Sept. 9.
OPPOSES SHIP SUBSIDY
Editor Herald: In a local paper this
morning we see restated President
Taffs statement that the subsidizing
of steamship lines out of the U. S.
treasury and the expenditure of U. S. •
money in the reclamation service are
1 the same. That anyone upon whom
the great American people have con
ferred the honor of their presidency
should thus offer Insult to their Intelli
gence is astounding. Everyone at all
conversant with the provisions of the
' laws providing for the reclamation ser
vice knows that there is provision for
regaining the money expended out of
the money received from sales of the
reclaimed lands, while they know
equally well that money handed over '
to a corporation in a subsidy Is Irre
deemably gone, as far as the U. S. •
treasury Is concerned.
The article referred to quotes: "Of
course we are familiar with the argu
ment that this would be contributing to
private companies out of the treasury
of the United States, but we are thus .
contributing In various ways on similar
principles In effect by our protective
tariff law, our river and harbor bills
and by our reclamation service."
Will you kindly sort out the truth
that the tariff law and subsidizing do
put money Into the. pockets of private
companies (and that President Taft
admits they do) from the misstatement :
that reclamation of desert lands and
improvement of rivers and harbors has
an Identical effect with the above rob
ber schemes? -... ..
It is high time such trifling and ef
frontery were fittingly rebuked.
WARREN H. ESTALY.
Los Angeles, September 8.
CRITICISES SUPREME COURT,'
Editor Herald: I notice in some of |
the reactionary newspapers denuncia
tion of Mr. Roosevelt for his Denver
speech in which he criticised the fed
eral supreme court for its fine hair
splitting In decisions at the expense
of equity and human rights. I for one
applaud him for it. It was time some
body with a voice loud enough for the
whole nation to hear did It.
The United States supreme court has
at all times Interfered with the popular
will and has at all times in the history
of this country been the refuge, the
fountain of hope of the crooked, the
mighty and the wealthy.
It is so when Mr. Roosevelt says
that the judges cover up their rulings
with "highly technical subtleties," and
it is so when he says that most of
them are "honest but fossilized," and,
he should have added "Indifferent and
irresponsible." They are not respon- I
sible to the people, for they are ap
pointed and not elected. They are not
responsible to the president, for ho ,
cannot .remove them, and therefore
they act as if -they lived on another -
planet. This the founders of this gov
ernment did not intend, and if they did '
—if they meant to place the Judges as
an obstacle to progressive legislation—,
then I believe we are old enough to
remove the obstacle.
PROGRESSIVE.
Avalon, Sept. 8. >:.* ;,'
CRITICISES ROOSEVELT
Editor Herald: . James Patterson in
his letter of September 5 Is right.
Roosevelt is a political hypocrite of tho
first water. In public he denounces or
ganized wealth; but all his cabinet
appointments, all his friends, are taken
from the henchmen of the trusts and
the wealthy lawbreakers. For Instance,
what help did he give LaFollette, Cum
mins, et al.. In the senate, and the feW I
insurgents in the. 'house, in their fight
against organized wealth, while in tho
presidency, when his voice would have
been a mighty aid to them? How about
the "Dear Harriman" letters? His
I open approbation of the notorious per
jurer, Paul Morton? How about that
secret visit to the pope, that no one
knows about? He was smart enough
and cowardly enough on • his return
from Africa to keep still until he found
1 the in.'lirgents were sweeping the coun
try; then he Jumped Into the limelight
with "progressive Ideas." The Repub
lican policies of today are the Populist .
and Bryanlstlc theories of six to twenty
years ago. Then they were howled
down as visionary; now, as long as. I*-;
"Rosy" advocates them, they are bright •
and beautiful. E. R. JOHNSON. ,
Los Angeles, September 7.
HE WAS ACQUITTED
Editor Herald: A passing. mention
In today's Herald of Police Chief Koh- •
lern's name reminds me that I never
saw how the "case" against him fin
ished. It may have been reported; .
but it evidently v.as not given that
prominence that the Initial acusatlon
enjoyed, for I have asked several
friends, and they all of them, like me,
missed the wlndup—though remem
bering (as I do myself) that the re
ports bo far as they went pointed to
a conspiracy, against the golden rule
chief. 1 assume that he was "cleared," ■',
and if so, I would like to see the fact
given "bold advertisement" for the
encouragement of ' other reformers
and tho confounding of those "who
sought to "assassinate" his character.
J. i: WARD.