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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
BWsipiA'-MyLUAifl
It; RETRORSUrf Jj
At -ut the only thing that hasn't
gone up In cost Is advice. That is
etlll free.
"Shall -,7e call her an aviatrix," asks
an exchange concerning a European
woman flyer. Why not ladybird?
The Portuguese situation affords
Secretary «nox another chance to pull
off one of his characteristic faux pas.
Nothing having been heard of Sun
ny Jim, it may be that he has taken
Sherman's march to the sea—of obli
vion.
Politics in Arizona must be fully as
hot as represented when the Tucson
railroad shops caught fire twice in cne
week.
Missouri lost population in the last
decade, but what of it? Isn't she go
ing to provide the next speaker of tho
liouse?
The Starkvllle, Colo., mine horror
suggests that there are some other ex
plosions wlio.se cause needs impartial
ly looki >g into.
It is well to give all the bands a
job celebrating the postoffice opening.
They won't be needed to jubilate over
the winning of a pennant.
The Woolwlne-Fredericks mixup
should not proceed any further until
the moving picture rights ure secured
by some enterprising party.
For the framcrs of platforms like
that of the Massachusetts Republi
cans the Maine thing to remember is
that the voters will pass on it.
A distinguished German scientist
says Americans eat too much. The
American food trusts art taking caru
of that matter, here professor.
fitimson got J2.".,000 for prosecuting
the sugar trust and now he must hand
it over to the New York Republican
campaig . committei it.
United States ' .surer McClung
wants a more sanitary currency. What
we want, Mr. Treasurer, is lots of It.
Wl. '11 attend to th'j sanitatl
Eastern paragraph-™ who are rhap
.' Using over Indian ■■ immer can en-
Joy it right through the winter by buy
ing a ticket to Southern California.
The Eskimo that sent down $1000
■worth of fur skins to buy goods he
saw advertised in the magazines must
be the John D. Rockefeller of his
tribe.
Hearst offers $50,000 to the aviator
who flics from the Atlantic to the Pa
cine. The Herald hereby offers a prize
of $100,000 to the first man to swim
across the Atlantic.
Massachusetts is exhorted to plant
trees on thousands of acres not now
utilized, While conservation is the
western question, rehabilitation is the
question in the cast.
A homeless boy, kept in jail twenty
eight days, found a home through Her
ald publicity. Now would any nice
j 'ung lady or attractive widow like
to be supplied with a husband?
Bankers are not the jolliest sort
■when yoi'ro trying to borrow money
of them, but Los Angeles found out
last week that they know how to un
bend as well as other i pie.
After Jj»iy Angeles has provided for
a 18,000,000 expenditure for good roads
Gov. Gilli'tt would like to have us
chip in a few millions to help the rust
of the c ■ - v.-.tld roads. "Well, hard)}.
SEND THE SMALL SUMS
WHIUR the fund for the relief of
the families of the Times' dead
has been steadily mounting t'>
Rood proportions it should he remem
bered that more thnn ■ score of homes
have been bereft by the assassins'
deed and a lßrcrer Bttta will be needed
than has yet been secured to give to
each the relief that a rich and pros
perous city like Ijos Angeles ought to
extend Divided amnnn all the living
victims, the fund at present in hand
will be scarcely more than enough to
tide them over present emergencies.
Surely the people of 1..0S Angeles
who live In comfort and have been
spared the dire experiences of crushing
prrief and want combined mean to do
more than that. Subtracting the larpe
sums given to the fund, it is seen that
the general response hns not been as
larpe as it should be. There ought to
bo thousands instead of scores of con
tril utors In a city as large and pros
perous ns this.
It is quite probable that many who
cannot give large sums have been with
holding their offerings in the belief
that what they can offer will not be of
material nid to the fund. To such
The Herald wants to make it clenr that
their co-operation is just what It asks
more than anything else. While The
Tli raid is not personally soliciting sub
scriptions, it is glad to be a medium
of such offerings to this charity. It
will gladly receive the (rifts of mil
lionaires, but would rather turn over
$1000 in dollars and dimes than in
large sums.
The newsboy who gave a dollar of
his savings to The Herald fund typified
the kind for whose sympathies this
paper is particularly glad to be the
medium. Let those, therefore, who
have hesitated to send in small sums
be assured that their offerings will be
as ncceptable as the largest and do as
much to remove the stigma of the most
tragic misfortune that ever befell
Southern California.
MYSTERY EXPLAINED
READERS of The Herald, and es
pecially Democrats, were amazed
yesterday to find the following
paragraph printed as what is known
in newspaper parlance as a "filler" on
page 12:
The "insurgency" movement is
not going to hurt the Republican
party. It will help it. rather. It
will result in a much lie di d
cleansing and an awakening along
lines that needed new Ideas and
new blood. It will also, in the end,
get rid of some undesirables, who
will go to the Democratic party,
where they ■belong.
For this amazing utterance and its
appearance in The Herald we are in- j
debted to our unfortunate morning
contemporary, the Times, to which j
newspaper the hospitality of The Her- i
aid has been extended since the ex- \
plosion destroyed the plant of the \
former. The result has been more or i
less confusion in the crowded compos-
Ing room of The Herald.
The foregoing paragraph, which was
the conclusion of a political speech' of
an Insurgent candidate, had been re
moved from a "galley" of type and in
the confusion, instead of being thrown
away, Inadvertently was placed on an
other "galley" containing brief articles
wKlch are kepi In newspaper offices
for emergency papers and are tech
nically known as "fillers."
We hasten to repudiate the senti
ment expressed In the above para
graph and must crave indulgence for !
any mistakes of a similar nature that !
may occur while The Herald force is
endeavoring to enable our contem
porary to rehabilitate Itself und at the
same time assist the Times to con
tinue daily publication with*as little
interruption and inconvenience to its
patrons as possible.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA lias been
occupying a place very near tho
center of the world's stage during
the past fortnight. The horrors of the
Times disaster had hardly ceased to
h.;!d prime place in the columns of the
newspapers and give us the most un
ibfe publicity we have ever suf
feri i when red revolution began to re
volve in Portugal around Henry T.
Gage of this city, tho United States
minister to that country. As Mr. Gage
:■ ■■! the dire n>'us from home and then
" to see ;i dynasty tumbling
around him he might have been par
doned for wondi ring if the foundations
were being kicked out from under
things everywhere.
Next came celebrity of a pleasanter
Bort. Walter Bro'jkins, a former Los
ci boy, who has come to be looked
on a iler American aviator, es
hed a new world's record for en
durance flights by his trip from Chi
to Springfield. Now that record
■ en superseded by another, made
by Arch Hoxsy, a former Pasadenan,
who flew from Hprlngfleld, 111., to Clay
' Co., taking the worlds honors for
lined flight a distance of 104 miles.
The science of aviation owes much to
these da intlesa young men and South
ern California is proud of them.
Both of !!.•■ aviators are in the serv
ice of the Wrlglits, and this is as good
a place as an; ■ . that while the
Dayton inventors of the aeroplane let
others have a clear field for fancy fly
ing and bpectaoular "stunts," they
come alonu regularly with the perform
ances that ari establishing the air
motor as a prai tloal, serious device of
tiie future. The Wrights and their
fi arless young men from Southern
California are ada«ring to a course
that may let others momentarily dim
their glories, l/ut in the end will estab
lish them in the minds of an intelligent
country as the men pre-eminent over
all others in me new science.
The.fact that nearly every town In
Kansas had a former cltlsen in the Loi
Anfroltis Times til" tnak. s tin: Wichita
Eagle wonder what California would
do for bright idea* if Kantsan would
shut down on emigration.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1910.
PARTY LINES DISSOLVING
THIXOt* are not looking very bright
in the camp of Jnlin D. Freder
icks, the Republican candidate
for re-electioin to the office of district
attorney. Following- the defection of
Mr. S. C. Graham from the Republican
county committee because he could
not square hia conscience with party
regularity, with the discredited and
disgraced county attorney on the
ticket, came the withdrawal of Mr.
Charles H. McClure from the commit
tee for the same reason.
Now the Los Angeles Express bolts
Fredericks, pointing out his gross
dereliction of duty, and announces its
purpose to support Thomas L,ee Wool-
Wine. Evidently it thinks that an offi
cer who can't find tim" to meet
charges, not only of failure to do his
plain duty but of actual felony, is not
entitled to the consideration of candid
people, or, for that matter, the sup
port or association of honest people.
Mr. Fredericks makes no adequate
<l< fense agafnst the charge of having
shielded, not once, but many times,
persons guilty of serious crimes.
Walter Parker stands accused of hav
ing attempted to corrupt City Clerk
Lelande In the Hotel Alexandria by
bribery in order to put through the
<-teal of the river bed for corporations.
Fredericks did nothing about It. In
stead, he has made Parker his boon
companion, confidant and adviser.
Percy Hammon was Involved in the
same river bed scandal, Fredericks
made no attempt to bring him to jus
tlce, Instead, lie made Hammon an
assistant at liberal salary in his office.
Lucy King forged a will. Freder
icks, sworn to prosecute crime, and
knowing of this crime, did nothing
about it. Instead, he made use of the
opportunity afforded by the forged
King wills to profit personally to the
extent of about $12,000, and by meth
ods that were closely akin to the be
trayal of confiding clients, according
to Mr. Woolwine'a charges.
These are only a few of many
charges which the district attorney
refuses to meet with anything more
than a statement of generalities that
Thomas Lee Woolwine, his accuser, in
stantly refuted with sworn and docu
mentary evidence The only Inference
Is that he cannot do so. His negative
record Is known to all who have
watched the conduct of his office, even
superficially, i lis positive bad record
seems established beyond a reasonable
doubt, and appears to be confirmed •'>
his silence under charges that would
stir men of character to tlieir depths.
In the circumstance it is straining
party regularity beyond the limit to
expect men like Mr. Graham and Mr.
Mediae and newspapers like the Ex
press to support Fredericks, much less
to take up a defense for him thnt ho
will not undertake for himself.
The action of these members of the
Republican county committee and this
Republican newspaper, as well as
some thousands of others whose minds
are made up the name way but are
not publicly avowed, is new proof of
the breaking down of party lines in
city and county affairs. Already the
complete emancipation of the city from
the political boss has been achieved in
Los Angeles. There are exactly the
same weighty reasons for divorcing
county business from party politics.
When a notoriously bad man is In
office or seeks to get Into office it in
a moral and patriotic duty to put him
out or keep him out, as tho case may
be, and no party shibboleth should
blind a Rood citizen or a Run,] party
to that duty. It has ceased t'j blind
thousands, and as time goes on It will
have still less influence with voters.
The defection from the ranks of Re
publican leaders is not ;i matter for
party rejoicing, but for public re
joicinß. It marks the beginning of a
movement that is going to deliver Loh
Angeles county, and in turn every
other county in California, from the
control of professional politicians, and
substitute in its place a business gov
ernment for tho benefit of all the
pi - ipli
Only a Dream
Far and Wide
TREBPABS IN THE AIR
Perhaps the t'.rst case in record of
trespass in the air is thru of Herr
Frey, who was fined 2u marks for fly
nig: over Berlin v.-ithout a permit; if.
indeed, there are any arrangements for
authorising flights. The technical
charge, was that the aviator Imperiled
the public safety on the presumption
that the science, of aviation is not so
well advanced as to warrant flights
over thickly populated areas. The Ber
liner.-?, who were enthusiastic over the
exploit, may remonstrate that they
could cheerfully take the risk If the
aviator were minded to. — Providence
(R. I.) Journal.
HE WILL IF HE CHEWSES
A Georgia girl swallowed a gold tooth
while in a dentist's chair, and now
she's suing the dentist for $10,000. Evi
dently she thinks the dentist ought to
do the coughing up.—Louisville (Ky.)
Herald.
HEALTH HINT
A physician says that breathing
through the nose is the proper way to
Sleep. If y>u wake in the night and
find your mouth open get up and shut
it.—Guthrie State Capital.
AN OMEN
Isn't it about time for the savants to
discover that the digits of 1912 add up
to 13, so that it is almost certain to
be politically unlucky fur somebody.—
Indianapolis News.
MARSE HENRYS IDEA
"Ih Newport exclusive?" asks the
Metropolitan Magazine. Well, it is ex
pensive, winch amounts to the same.—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
HO\^CA\ THERE BE ANY DOUBT?
The governor of Kansas has now
taken this matter of adjusting freight
rates In hand, so. of course, they will
be adjusted.—Omaha Bee.
RAILROADS PLEAD POVERTY
How the railroads now tearfully
pleading poverty will reverse them
selves with the inxt batch of bonds!—
Wall Street Journal.
AX OFFERING OF PLUMS
Instead of an olive branch Mr. Taft
offered the insurgent Republicans a
branch of the plum tree.—Now York
World.
WHO SAID HE'D RESIGN?
Seems kind of mean t-. invent a per
fectly new rumor for Mr. Balllnger to
deny.—Chicago Evening Poat.
Merely in Jest
FOND REGRETS
"Homeward bound, eh?"
"Yes."
"You seem thoughtful. Thinking
about the girl you left at the be.ach?"
"No, I was thinking about those two
hundred plunks."—Kansas City Jour
nal.
NO OREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT
lilox —They have a monkey at the zoo
that chews tobacco.
Knox—That's nothing. I've seen lota
of monkeys smoking cigarettes.—Chi
cago News.
DEPTH
"Some of your thoughts are very
deep," said Pennum.
"Yes," answered Inkum. "At least
three feet down in the waste basket."
—Washington Star.
MORE PRACTICAL
"I'd like to kiss the hem of her
■carf."
• id ratlier kiss her dainty coat of
tan."— Kansus City Journal.
Professor Lowe on the Exposition
'letter in the Fan Francisco Chronicle)
Editor Chronicle—Sir: The writer,
an ardent Southern Callfornlan, liad
the opportunity of witnessing for five
consecutive hours the great parade
in Son Francisco during the celebra
tion of Admission day.
I cannot conceive how any one
could look upon this parade, with its
wall ot intelligent, orderly citizens on
either side of the streets, extending
five miles, willing to stand for thut
long period of time, as interested as
were the paraders themselves, and not
feel that above all places In this whole
L'nited dtates Han Francisco is the
proper one for holding the great
world's fair of 1916.
The people arc not only enthusiastic
and patriotic, but have the ability
above all sections of the country to
make such an exposition a greater
success than any other world's fair
ever hel.'. They have not only taken
the laboring oar upon themselves but
are working f^r all purts of the state,
and especially WIU it benefit Southern
California in greater proportion than
any other section.
While the pittance that other parts
of the state will sustain in proportion
to the voluntary tax upon themselves
is bo very small in proportion to the
benefits there should not be a
single vote against the method now
outlined for raising the balance of the
capital necessary to make a most com
plete success for the whole state, as
well as the west and Pacific coast in
gent-ral.
The continually growing prosperity
of this state between now anrl the time
for the great exposition will make the
.■nirns appropriated appear much small
er than they dn today. While all the
coast will be visited by the millions of
people v.-ho will attend the exposition,
It can be depended upon that every one
will visit Southern California and
spend a great deal of time and money
there, and where there will be more
attractions and more to see than in
any other section except the exposition
Itself.
The great orange groves and olive
Orchards, both the largest in the
world, nnd California is the only state'
in the Union where olives are grown,
will form one of the great attractions,
while its interurban railway system,
with the most elegant car service and
finest roadbeds, is more extensive than
any other that can be found in tho
world (thanks to Henry R. Huntington,
who had the foi-fHhousht and enter
prise tfi carry through the Stupendous
undertaking, now acknowledged the
B^eatest single-handed electric railway
builder), and which ables th« visitor
to travel in all directions for 100 m>l'S
around the great city of Los Angeles,
thus making it easy and Inexpensive to
visit every section of" Southern Cali
fornia, and will still further be ex
tended between now and the time the
exposition opens.
In addition to this, new railways will
enter California, one from the south
and at least two eastern railways are
now contemplated and perhaps more,
thus enabling tho great mas 3of east-
European Lemon Market
(Consular Report)
Regarding citrus fruits, the earth
quake of 1908, which destroyed entire
ly the city of Messina, did not produce
great damage to the lemon crop or
groves. However, few of the fruit
shippers at Messina survived, and the
packing houses there were all de
stroyed. Consequently the fruit is now
purchased by shippers established at
Palermo and Catania.
On account of storms in Sicily last
winter and spring, by which many
(lower buds were destroyed, the pro
duction of lemons this year was prob
ably one-third less than that of the
(.receding several years. The quality,
however, is good. Only a limited quan
tity of lemons remained in August for
export, and probably none will bo ex-
em i puple to bo comfortably accom
modated.
'l'lic Yosemlte valloy and Mariposa
bis trie grove will be made accessible
to visitors by rail, both summer ami
winter. Railway facilities will also be
enlarged for accommodating visitors
to the Grand canyon. Among the
various other great attractions will be
I the fully extended Mount Lowe rail
way, which has been one of the great
est advertisements of Southern Cali
fornia and will be still more so when
the road is extended to the summit of
Mount Lowe and the new fireproof ob
servatory built there to contain the
Instrument!. The lamest searchlight
in the world will cap one of the higher
peak* which will at night light all the
incoming and outgoing trains and
throw its rays for 100 miles around.
It is believed that this road will also
he extended to the great Carnegie ob
servatory on Mount Wilson, which Is
already one of the most extensive in
stitutions of its kind and will be con
tinually added to.
The early work of the Lowe observa
tory under Dr. Louis Swift, who dls
j covered over 300 nebulae and seven new
I comets, so attracted the attention of
j the astronomers of the world that
; many medals of honor were bestowed
I upon Dr. Swift and the institution. It
I was to this early work that Southern
i California Is indebted for the estnbllsh
i ment ot the Carnegie observatory un
der the management of one of the most
able astronomer! of the world.
I These two observatories operate on
| entirely different lines, and, therefpre,
one does not duplicate the work of the
other. The last observatory does high
ly scientific work where the public can
not be admitted generally without In
terfering with its operations, while the
Lowe observatory, with its astronomi
cal instrument which Alvin Clark de
clared was the finest he had ever made,
will be supplemented by at least nix
smaller instruments more suited for the
use of laymen and which will admit of
;i half dozen lines of spectators where
they cannot only see but have fully
explained what they see and where to
look for interesting heavenly bodies,
making this observatory an educatlon
ui feature of the people generally.
With all the attractions named above
together with the exposition, it is not
strange that all who can reach Cali
fornia will he here on that occasion.
This whole country wants to see and
know more of California. Not only
this country, but many other countries
are interested in this great state, which
is proving the marvel of the world.
The United States government and, of
course, the people who want to visit
California more thnn any other spot,
are more Interested in encouraging this
great exposition than any other sec
tion of the country. There is not a
single city where one hundredth part
of the attractions can be found to in
terest people, outside of the exposition
itself; therefore the talk of New Orl
j enns, or any other eastern or western
city, would be mere folly.
1 T. C. S. LOWE.
ported during the Iftßt months of this
yonr, contrary to the practice in the
last two or three yoars, in which lemon
Khippinfr never stopped throughout the.
entire year.
After the increase in 1809 of the
American duty on lemons shippers Of
fered very low prices to producers.
ThuH a considerable number of pro
ducers shipped direct. This caused a
temporary hostility between shipperß
and producers. The price, however, Is
lilKh at present on .aacount of the
scarcity.
1/ you do not Icnow how to farm, writs Mr.
Uooaewlt. He'll tell you all about It. There
la w.,rn< ihlnif he ha» raised more of In a
month tlian wan ever rained before by one
nmn In a lifetime.— Charleston News and
Couriur.
Public Letter Box
TO COnRESPONDENTa—Lettera Intended
for publication mint be accompanied by th«
n»me »nd aaar«aa «f the writer. The HareJd
flvea tha wldcet latitude to oorraapondenta,
but aaaumaa no reiponalblllty for their view*.
liCttarn must not exceed 100 words.
A BARKING DOG
Editor Herald: There is a small dog
with a largo voice, who rarely misses
a nlKht that ho does not exorcise It
nt the cost of the neighbors living In
tho vicinity of Moneta and Thirty
fourth street. I, for one, have lain
awako in my bed waiting for the fa
miliar bark to ceaso bo that I could
go to sleep and get my necessary
night's rest.
Why do not the men who passed the
law not allowing the peddlers to make
an outcry see What they can do to
prevent such an unnecessary noise?
x. i. <"-
Los Angeles, Cal.
: -#
AN ARMY POST HERE
Editor Herald: Why not a large
military garrison for Los Angeles, to
complement the proposed coast de
fends at Point PirminV The bill for
the army reorganization, which Wash
ington dispatches In The Herald state
will call for the abandonment of small
posts in the interior states and the
mobilizing of the garrisons at coast
centers, should prompt the commercial
badies of Los Angeles to petition for
the establishment of an adequate gar
rison in this city. Los Angeles is one
of the most important cities on the
entire national coast line from a mili
tary and commercial point of view.
It should bo made secure against at
tack, though war be ever so remote.
This can be easily accomplished by the
creation of an infantry post here in
(support of the proposed batteries. Let
a united press and a united citizen
body demand that this be done, lhe
federal government has given but
■cant recognition to the military and
naval necessities of this coast, and it
is time that a concerted fight was
made on this apathetic attitude. Lei
The Herald, a leader. l^ B °« kTON<
Los Angeles, Cal.
WOMEN DEFENDED
Editor Herald: Your Edendalo cor
respondent, referring to the "Green
tragedy," betrays gross ignorance of
the true state of women and will no
doubt be eet aright by the sex he
slanders. He makes this general ac
cusation: "A woman can love her
husband truly notwithstanding the fact
that she may have one or two lovers. '
He who can pen such arrant false
hood* is totally In the dark as to the
inherent chaste qualities with which
Divine Providence has endowed the fe
malo sex. Every true woman loves but
one man. She cannot act contrary to
the true womanly instincts which is to
make a home anil raise offspring to the
only one she loves. The possibility of
such a stato In women contemplated
by W. F. Hawklnson evinces a low
and degrading morality which every
right minded man and woman must
condemn. Alexander Dumas flls in a
public controversy of a similar case
in France said this: "A married
woman who sets up flirtations with
other men of an adulterous nature is
but 'la quenon' (strumpet). Kill her.
Chastity consists in the love of one
woman for one man, the father of her
children. c- F.
Los Angeles, Cal.
*i ,!■—a*— '
NEED FOR SHARP EYES
Editor Herald:ln your issue of today
is a statement of the case of a friend
less lad and what hapened to him he
calse he was poor and friendless. Not
having the money to put up at the
Lankershlm and not knowing about a
possible shelter at the Salvation Army
or at Bethlehem, he actually climbed
into a box car to sleep, and for this
heinous crime he was promptly arrested
and jailed by one of our ever vigilant
police, and then left in a Jail cell
twenty-eight days without a hearing.
Your reporter does not say, but I sup
pose they must have given him some
thing to eat. He does say that a
sharp-eyed matron found him at last
and brought about his release. I
wouldn't have thought of calling her
sharp-eyed after her taking twenty
eight days to find him, but maybe she
was. Perhaps the cell was in a dark
corner somewhere! But, say, what
the matter with us, anyway? Axe we
short of common sense or common hu
manity, or both? I suggest It might be
a good idea for The Herald to send
around a "sharp-eyed" reporter quite
often to look after such things. There
might be some more little boys, or even
men. tangled up in idiotic red tape.
Don't you think so? I feel out of
patience with the press sometimes for
its prying Idle gossip about citizens'
private affairs, but In matters pertain
ing to public welfare and in running
public business we need constantly the
light that only the honest, Independent
press can give. I believe The Herald
to be that kind of a paper, and I am
not a Democrat, either, though I vote
for individual Democrats qften, and in
tend to next time! W. B. C.
Los Angeles, Cal.
'TOM' PAINE DEFENDED
Editor Herald: Perhaps I may be
allowed to dot the i's and crow the
t's of Peter Dale's letter where he
deals with Roosevelt, the historian.
Truly the latter did reverse the order
of things by all accepted standards.
When, in his "Life of Gouvefneur Mor
ris," he glorified that envious, self
seeking and treacherous person, while
he vilified the truly great, wise and
over self-sacrificing Thomas Paine.
JPaine, the author of American Inde
"•nilcnce, the man who educated
V/aahlngton, Franklin, Jefferson and
the rest up to the first idea of separa
tion; Paine, founder of the republic
of which Roosevelt later became an
"accidental" president; Paino who in
vented that grand auxiliary to human
progress, the Iron bridge; who was
Joint inventor with Fulton and Henry
of the steamboat; Paine who wrote
the immortal "Common Senso" and
"Crisis" papers which more than any
thing elre achieved the revolution. The
man who, thoufeh poor, gave his writ
ings (which would have made him
vastly rich) to help the cause of free
dom; who incurred outlawry by the
British - jernment, and the loss of his
patents and all other rights for the
cause of precious—but, alas! ungrate
ful— hainan liberty. This was the man:
author, statesman, brave soldier who
yet hated war, philosopher whose
tender heart was concerned for dumb
creatures as well »» for humans, who
.honored women and championed
childhood, who anticipated Lincoln,
Garrison and all other great liberators,
as c advocate of slave emancipation,
even as he anticipated the whole
school of modern humanitarian writ
ers on almost every theme of public
weal and policy—land nationalization
included. This was the man whom
Roosevelt has called a "dirty little
atheist."
When the American constitution "was
amaklnf?, Paine had—and avowed—his
misgivings lest the evils of royalty
misht tend to survive in a presidency.
For> nns it is this century-old forecast
of Pnlm"s that has earned him Roose
velt's dislike. It certainly hits Teddy
"where he lives."
WILLOUGHBY SMART.