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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
BAiCSTIQIA'-'ialUlXAlfl
Hi KETRORSUMy JJ
In on.- respect the arctic cast has
it on us—the fly has gone into winter
quarters.
Well, Theodore Bell wasn't afraid to
get down to brass tacks in his Chutes
speech, was he?
Who doubts that Mayor Alexander
is impelled by the highest motives
when he publicly declares Fredericks
unfit?
No matter who Dolliver's sun
may be, it is reasonably certain lowa
won't be represented in the senate by
a Rhode Island member.
Mr. Taft is to start lor Panama No
vember 10. Feels, perhaps, that he
won't want to stay and talk over the
returns of November 8.
"Hoy escapes through courthous's
skylight." A hint for Fredericks. He
doesn't seem able to escape the bom
bardment any other way.
In the last analysis the Question Is
whether Walter Parker shall continue
to fill th offices of Los Angeles county
and use them for his purposes.
Colonel Roosevelt':! fight in New
York is now being directed at the
Tammany tiger. Thi- is what might
be called "carrying the war into
Africa."
Senator (.'lay's Bon has been ex
pelled from West Point for absenting
hiniM if without leave. It appears that
young (lay was a "briek 1' but not
the right kind.
It seems that all the neckwear worn
by men is made by women, This is
not the only way the m n get it in the
neck from the other sex -but they
usually deserve it.
Senator Aldrich was hit by a street;
car in New York and quite badly in- j
jured, When the doctor's bill comes
in he will find that ha has met his
match a..; a Qnancii r,
< me thousand wa ■ ■
the arrest ittle's vice
district, Fredericks was asked to
in- te 01 s a lew here but ri:
.en that.
Even alter being torn up bj one
of the , • i \. c i < ndl i hurri
cane , Florida has thi nervi t'. speak
of her Mi n the same class as
that of .South; in California.
It has been 6 i "■ w 5 ' rk
that the pickp i
in a trust. Ho n seem after all.
'in- formation of the otii-r I
not destroyed all competition.
Supreme court ruies that rallr a.i
must obey the law on the lons an I
short haul clause. What the rail
anl just now i
way i" ni a a bigger haul out of tho
public j ■ ..':.
J. K. Tener, Republican candidate
r . „ nia, is undi r
r being president of a swindling!
corporal i< >. ''• pro
iw he's on
the receiving
in California, Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts three former profes
sional baseball players are candidates
for senate, governorship and congress
respectively. Lett on.- national game
to go Into another, as 'twere.
The cutting aft of pigtails In China
portatlona
hi hair Department store girlies who
l,a\ c !■>■' n i fool
thick should now he able to wear them
two feot thick fur the sainu money.
BELL'S DETRACTORS
THEODORE BELL'S opponents an
Btlll representing—and to the dis
-*• credit of Hell's rival. It must lie
said, he has been representing;—
Cell has ceased to attack the Southern
Pacific and Is afraid to mention Boss
Herrln's name even ,in a whisper.
There was never a moment when this
was true. In his speech here on Tues
day evening Mr. Bell said with all the
emphasis that baa characterized his at
titude for years:
There will be no 'William F. Her
rin or political bureßU of the South
ern Pacific or any other corporation
In the government of California if I
am elected governor.
A record of several years of cam
palgning to arouse the conscience of
California on this subject stands bach
of Mr. Bell's good fnlth. Without im
pugning the good faith of his opponent)
it if- also the truth that his open oppo- !
sition to the Southern Pacific is of j
comparatively recent origin. Again in
nil speech Mr. Nell paid:
There will he no William F. Her
rin to tap legislators and governor
on the shoulder and place his men In
Judicial positions. Hiram Johnson
knows that I am sincere, lie la
trying to blacken my reputation
and make it appear that I nave de
serted the fight of a lifetime.
No leader In the history of California
has shown more political courage than
Theodore Bell. He went Into the San
Francisco municipal campaign and
fought Pat Calhoun's puppet McCarthy,
for which he was promised extinction.
He was one of the few men that had
the courage to call Wlliam R. Hearst
a charlatan to his face It was Bell
who virtually read Hearst out of the
Democratic party.
There is today in San Francisco labor
union opposition to Bell that he in
curred when he opposed McCarthy—not
because of any union matter but be
cause McCarthy was the candidate of
Calhoun.
Most men like courage, and Theodore
Bell is trusted today because he has
shown so much of it. When his op
ponents try to show that after these
years he has suddenly become a craven
they pay a very unflattering compll- '
ment to the Intelligence of voters who
know Mr. Bell's record.
"BRAVE AND HONEST"
OUR morning Republican contempo
rary, in an editorial favoring
the election of John D. Freder
icks and the defeat of Thomas Lee
Woolwlne for district attorney, admits
at the end that Woohvine is '•brave
enough" and "honest enough." With
this much conceded by an enemy, and
the assurance by those who know him
well that he is a first class lawyer
and Irreproachable citizen of high
standards, no one who has misgivings,
if nothing more, about the advisability
of re-electing the incumbent should
hesitate as to his course on election
clay.
No man in Los Angeles has Sur
passed the record of Thomas- T^op AVool
wlne as ;i militant, consistent foe of
Southern Pacific domination. lie has
made sacrifices to do it, giving up his
law practice in large part—at times
wholly—to battln for a free govern
ment, rind he hns battled to mighty
good purpose, no small share of credit
for the recent awakening of the people
being his. Believers in and worker?
for good government and foes of ma
chine corruption owe him much.
i'.ut they owe themselves something,
ton. They are entitled to an honest
district attorney wh" will not play
fovorlteß, cover up crime, squander the
public money or i. t others squander it.
The bulwark of the machine is the dis
trict attorney's and coroner's offices.
Let no one deceive himself with the
belief that the hold of the machine on
Los Angeles county was torn away
by thi ivernment victory in *he
recent primary. If Walter Parker is
assured of these two offices he can re
build his machine to its old efficiency
in a fortnight.
In liis campaign for election Mr.
Woolwlne I i high standard for
himself. In view of his past good rec
ord it is not conceivable that he would
fail to be diligent, Impartial, economi
cal and fair as district attorney. He
will not only close the blind pigs, but
will prosecute known offender! of all
n I ■ tatlons. If he even makes
a sii> mpt to live up to his
platform lie will be an Immense im
provemi ni over the Incumbi n1
His chief newspaper opponent ad
mits he la brave and honest. Take the
word of his friends and his known
ord lor the rest.
TWO KINDS
IN forming his opinion of Captain
lerii ks as a politician, clis
-11 irney and man, .Mayor
h til- charges made
against Fredericks, and is moved to
action by his own knowledge. The,
■ knows Pn rlericks in all three
i , ki.ows him Intimately, and
his judgment on first hand
knowl
Similarly, hundreds of people will
i take Hi trouble to weigh the may
ons judicially. They will
leorge Alexander fays John
. i ! is unworthy of our
igh for us." A great
haven't the time to go into the
lly. It
i | for them when the issue
narro I . itlon of stand*
:i tin' two men.
uiiii for sev
oral •< attorney
itiiy, and faithful
pnly to thi "i'l machine and hin
1 truthful
llf has h;\>;i>-< been an nones) official
who couldn'l bo i untr n. 'I. What Ik;
aboul [TrederlckH will "go" with
..nils.
It is up t>< tin' voter to say mi No
iii ( harge
th<> Alexander
i. mil -frank, abovn board, above te
ch, Independent, trustworthy—or
ihe 1' i I dissembling
ty. servile to the Interests, extrava
me and money,
■ ..us to ii.- i [gh and Inflm ntlal,
i with tin- poor and unlnfluentlal,
ii' glectful of duty.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28, 1910.
JWACrOOC?' ME • ADVOCATE OF CLEAN I \%Mti& yM^i>l
ENGLISH JUSTICE
BECAUSE it is a subject that needs
Stirring up we revert to the dis
graceful American criminal court
procedure as it has been thrown into
bold relief by the Crippen trial. In an
other column an esteemed correspond
ent demurs from our comments on that
case. It seems to us that he has lot
sentimentality run away with his rea
son in praising our criminal practice.
There are few indeed who are now so
bold in defense of the American way
of defeating Justice.
Not even Crlppen's attorney has
complained of any harshness or unfair
ness. It is months since the crime
was committed. He hud opportunity
to present all o£ his case—every wlt
iifss, every particle of evidence he had.
The lord chief justice presided with
notable fairness. A jury of Crlppen's
peers unanimously said alter hearing
all he had to offer that he was guilty
of a deliberate, cold-blooded, atrocious
murder, for which a desire to continue
his previous immoral life was the mo
tive.
Contrast the case with the Thaw
trial, a disgusting, long-drawn-out
travesty with its perjured witnesses,
its haggling, its Irrelevant spread
eagle oratory, and the final escape of
the murderer from his just fate alter
a second trial and an expenditure of
money like water. Dr. Britton Evans
on the stand swore Thaw was insane,
but now declares Thaw sane and says
he never was insane. The famous Pat
rick case dragged ten years through
the courts and he still lives in prison.
Richard Molineux, whose heartless
poisoning Of his young wife not one
person in fifty doubted, completely es
caped by dragging his case along for
years until Important witnesses were
gone. Nan Patterson, who shot her
paramour in a cab, had one long
trial, then another, and finally went
scot free. Now porter Charlton, self
confessed wife murderer, after months
of haggling is, thanks to our laws,
still safe from extradition.
These are not exceptional cases. They
are the rule. A .Missouri court set
aside a verdict of murder in the first
degree because the foreman of the Jury
spelled first "fust!" Another court set
a murderer free because the Indictment
failed to say explicitly that the bullet
■ I the death. An Ohio court freed
another because a slight mistake was
made in the spelling of the Indicted
man's name.
So disgraceful have American trial
conditions become that the courts
themselves and the American Bar as
boi ii ion have denounced them and
called for reform—not from any mo
tives of cruelty but from a sense 01
justice and the need of better i"'u
tectlng society.
What is the result of our laxity?
in the year 1907 no less than 848 homi
cides were committed in Now York
city alone—more than two a day. The
vicious have come to bsllsve that if
they kill, the chance of paying the
penalty is not one in fifty.
It is not so in England, and the
Crippen trial explains why. But if. tho
English way is swift to convict the
guilty it is also swift to free the in
nocent, as witness the acquittal of Jliss
Leneve.
If wo think the English way is too
summary, let us at least try to find
tho mean between it and the Ameri
can extreme that lets assassins like
Thaw, Patrick, Mollneux and others cs
eape ami .spread the Impression that it
is safer to murder a person than to
rille his pockets.
Some of the standpat papers that
dreadfully fear Rooseveli Is going to
i.. a dictator never blinked an eyo
while Aldrich was general manager of
tin' country.
Two men in Ohio are lawlng over
an Inch of land. Of course nelthi r
can yield an inch in a suit of this
Hind.
A Clean Record
PUBLIC LETTER BOX
TO COKKJUtfONDSNTS —Letters Intended for publication mult bo accompanied by tiio
name and address of the writer, TU* Herald «lye» the trident latitude to corrtupoudeun.
but assume* no rc»pou»ll>ilitj {or their view*.
HOW MANY DEGREES?
Editor Herald: Will some one in
form the writer the origin of the term,
"The third degree." anil what is the
nature of the "second," and will the
"third" be the limit, or may we ex
pect a fourth in the near future.
Los Angeles, Cal. K.
HERE'S A NOVEL SUGGESTION
Editor Herald: Perhaps you will
have room lor .another guggeation on
the question of'equal suffrage in your
most interesting Letter Box.
I believe it Is true that "nothing
is settled until it is settled right." I
also believe that nothing is settled
right until it is adjusted in harmony
with natural law or universal prin-
eiple.
The positive and negative forces nre
universally coexistent, but the two
cannot be merged into one without
destroying the individual qualities of
each, To have both men and womori
aompeting for the same office ana
when elected contending for different
ideals would tend to create friction
between the sexes in many ways. Is
there not a better way?
The sentiment for the popular elec
tion of senators is growing very fast,
but why have two legislative bodies
composed of the same kind of repre
sentatives elected in the same way?
Why not abolish the senate as it now
exists and substitute for it a house of
women representatives, elected by the
popular vote of. the women, to co
operate with the house of men repre
sentatives Jointly legislating for the
le?
This I believe would be scientific
and in harmony with natural law.
\,.j, : b, Cal. J- 0. G-
A WIDOW'S EXPERIENCE
Editor Herald: 1 am a constant
i of your "grand old paper" and
svould like to answer "Auld Lang
Sync's" letter. "Listen not to false
prophets." If your heart Is right with
(iod and you feel you are doing ritfht,
then by all means marry. Would this
lady that predicts bo much evil finance
you in your declining years if you
nei ded it? Or walk with you, hand
in hand, and speak cheering, hopeful
words to you as you enter Into the
valley of the shadow? It's bo easy
to give advice, A few years ago I
was persuaded to marry a certain
man. Hod told me not to; that he
was not the rlsht one, but my friends
knew better, as all friends do. and
gained their point. Bo 1 embarked
(.n that troubles, iiie matrimonial sea.
An i there was trouble that 1 hope and
pray no Other woman will have to go
through. But It's all over now, and
did the friends who advised and proph
, gied bo much come forth when T was
having my trials and tribulations?
No, not one. They oamo afterwards
and congratulated me, and I hate them
for their deceit, You tell this lady to
read In St. Matthew, 7:1-2, lL'::«;-:f7,
23:13-14 and James 8-8. Read the 23d
ns, get the true signifies [
each verse, and marry and be happy
and don't let Idle talk spoil your life.
WIDOW.
Los Angeles, Cal.
AMENDMENT NO. 1
Editor Herald: Have you given con
stitutional amendment No. 1, which
will be submitted to the electors of the
at the. coming general election,
leep study and critical examina
tion it requires?
Jio you realize that the report of the
commission on revenue and taxation is
full of Inaccuracies and that most of
rguments being advanced in favor
of the adoption of the amendment am
merely glittering generalities which
will not bear the light of investigation? i
l claim that the tremendous i;ttorts
being made lor the amendment are in
a large meaiure Inspired, and that the
i eople of thiH state have not been en
lightened regarding the true condition
of affairs.
I assert that no opportunity wa
i i,} send to the electoi-H, through
the seen tary of state's office, an argu
ment against the amendment, as pro
vided by section 1198 of the political
code. Buch an argument In In com
preparation by the undersigned, nmi
will be HUbrnittetl to the press within
the next thr«a or four days.
\ cursory examination of the amend
ment has convinced me that it is not
fur the- best Interests of the people of
tate, :lii.l that it Should be over
whelmingly defeated.
A. !■:. BOTNTON,
State senator, Sixth Senatorial Dis
trict.
San Francisco, Cal
DR. CRIPPEN'S TRIAL
Editor Herald: I generally find
myself able to agree With the views
of your editorial page, but the one in
this morning's paper contrasting the
■peed with which Dr. Crippen was
tried, convicted and is promised hang
ing;, in England, with the more de
liberate and painstuking American
method, and your approvul of the
summary and inadequate trial can
not meet with the approbation of any
judicial mind; much less when we take
into account the fact that life, is to be
taven; that the case Is tried wholly
upon circumstantial evidence; that no
human being can say that the wife, an
actreil of doubtful reputation, may
not bob up soon after it Is too lato
to save a life.
The cold-blooded haste in taking
human Hie which characterizes Brit
ish methods will I trust never find
favor in this country. It seems to me
the views expressed in till, particular
editorial are so out of harmony with
the humane and kindly spirit of- the
paper, that Mr. Hyde must be on the
job while Dr. Jekyll is taking an out
ing.
If the editor were on trial for his
life. I am sure no amount of pains
taking would have been too great on
the part of the court and the jury,
every doubt would have been asked
to be resolved in his favor, and wh'le
uncertainty still existed, as it does In
this cane, imprisonment would have
been asked rather than placing the
man beyond any possible revelations
the future had to offer.
The whole trial was a disgrace to
civilization, and the bloodthirsty haste
to execute by advancing the time of
execution one week, and placing it on
the Bth day of November instend of
the 15th, us originally set. shows a bar
baric- thirst for blood that is no credit
tn human nature.
M. G. McCASLIN.
Whlttler, Cal.
TROLLEY SERVICE COMPLAINT
Editor Herald: Many of the people
who ride on the Glendale car line con
sider the 25-cent round trip fare (IB
cents by commutation tickets), to be.
out of proportion to the distance trav
eled, but this is not our greatest
grievance. If I were to ride on an
Edendale car, for Instance, paying only
r. cents, I could, by transferring, rule
Immediately to my place of business,
but riding on a Qlendale car and pay
ing a higher fare, I am obliged to Ret
out at a point which is just a mile
from my business and must then either
lake time to walk that distance or pay
an extra 10 cents a day. Is this just?
Then, very often, them are eiglity-
Bye or more people crowded into a car
which .scats only thirty-two—jammed
so tight that one cannot oven hold a
magazine before him. The height of
gallantry la to surrender your "strap
hanger" to the lady standing next you,
although, after all, any kind of inanl
mati prop Is rather superfluous for it
is impossible to fall very far! in all
fairness I must mention that for one
morning we were permitted to ride In
, man-1 new ear almost two feet Wider
than the old ones—in fact it was so
broad that we had to go slow in some
places in order to dodge the, posts. The
backs of the seats were furnished with
handles for the benefit of the stand
ing multitude, but, alas, there were
only two s-;eat;s more than the old ears
had. And all the i eople Buffering those:
Inconveniences meekly insist upon pay
ing the same fare that those who sit
comfortably In scats pay. Is this
equitable?
Then, too, if a man is ready to go
home at, say 5; 40, why should he be
Obliged to hang around till 6:05 In or
der that the company may run three
cars once In half an hour thus sav
ing the price of two more motormen?
Why should the company furnish light
sufficient for only one car which must
be distributed over the three, render
ing it Impossible to read except by a
lort of continued-story process, for we
ilu have a little light whenever we stop
at. crossings, but this in certainly not
very satisfactory. The conductor is of
ten obliged to carry v. lantern so that
no wag may attempt to pass a scrap
of paper in licit of a ticket. Although
ours Is a "through" car it is often
out off live or six minutes by being
Immediately preceded )>y an Bdendale,
which stops at every other crossing for
a certain distance.
F. HAHKET.
1 Glendale, Cal.
Dr. Gladden's Municipal Church
The proposal of Dr. Washington
Gladden, the famous Congreiratlonnl
ist minister of Columbus, Ohio, that
municipal "churches" bo aat&bllahed
; in every town and city, n* let forth
: by him in an artlola In tha Century
i Magazine, has occasioned eonaldarable
comment in tha religions world.
Dr. Gladden* Idea of tho municipal
church tl not that there should ba B
in'iv church in the ordinary «enae of
Unit word, but that there should bo
;iti organisation mad* up of repi
tatlvea of nil tha ohurcnei of n t->wn
or city and timt thin oriantMtlon
should conduct In a systomutl- and
businesslike way avary phase of char-
Itabli and banevolant work.
Ha considers that tha churches have
experienced a "slackening of thoir
power" beoauaa thay have allowed
■uch work to be too greatly absorbed
by outside agencies, and aaaarta that
such work IS peculiarly tha work of
tha churdnes mid could ba oarrled on
bf> them affectively both to the better
ment of humanity and to the butter
■ mont of the churches themselves.
The machinery for the munlslpal
church Is already at hnnd, thinks Dr.
Masters or Servants-Which?
At the recant bankers' congress in
T.us Angeles, Oeorge M. Reynolds, the
president Of a Chicago bank, committed
himself to certain old-fashioned doc
trines in relation to the .rate of returns
that should be permitted in the ease of
public utility corporations, in a word,
Mr. Reynolds believes that such cor
porations should be allowed to make
what may be called ■ speculative
I profit, and share an increment of value
which they have not earned.
This position appears to have been
very much in consonance with thai
taken by counsel for the Spring Valley
Water company In the litigation now
at hearing before Judge Farrlngton In
this city. Mr. Reynolds is quoted:
•I can remember when the first rall
-1 road was built through the state In
which I was born. At that time the
land in the state had only a nominal
value. The building of the railroad,
Which made the markets for the pro
ducts of the soil accessible, caused an
appreciation of the value of farm land,
1 until now it is being exchanged at $200
an acre. I cannot see how any fair
minded person should presume to take
the position that the railroad should
Sufficient Refutation
On the evening of Wednesday, No
vember 2, Theodore A. Bell, Demo
cratic nominee for governor of the
state of California, will speak In the
Dreamland rink in San Francisco.
It is of considerable Interest all
through the state of California to note
that the chairman of the meeting,
which is expected to be a monster out
pouring will he Dr. Edward Robeson
Taylor, ex-mayor Of Ban Francisco.
Dr Taylor was the reform mayor of
San Francisco prior to the election of
McCarthy He was practically nomi
nated and practically elected by the
anti-graft forces of that city. Tie II
a man of sterling Independence of
character: a man vigorously and mili
tantly oppopsed to the domination of
the Southern Tlciflc In the politics of
California; a man who In private and
public life in San Francisco fought the
grafters at every Inch of the road and
Merely in Jest
AN ANTISEPTIC CHILD
Little Walter was always carefully
guarded against germs. The telephone
was sprayed, the drinking utensils
sterilized, and public conveyances and
places were forbidden him
"Father," he said one night, in a tone
of desperation, "do you know what I
am going to do when I grow up.
"What?" asked the father, prepar
ing himself for the worst.
"I'm going to eat a germ. — Success
Magazine.
* THE POINT OF VIEW
Judge W. D. Anderson of Tupelo,
Miss., relates this occurrence:
"Uncle George Snow, an old ante-
I bellum negro, was introduced for the
state The counsel asked Uncle George
Which side of Souchatouchee creek he
lived on. to which he replied:
"Which side of the creek do I live
I on, boss?"
I "Yes " '
"Owlne up or down the creek, boss?"
! —Case and Comment.
THE FALL OF TYRE
"What happened to Babylon?" asked
the Sunday school teacher.
"It fell!" cried the pupil.
"And what became of Nineveh?
"It wan destroyed."
"Anil what of Tyre?"
"Punctured!"— Cleveland Leader.
• "
FLAT LIFE
"The unequal distribution of wealth
is what I complain about."
■•Yea- and we'll soon be complaining
about ' the unequal distribution of
heat."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
A bag of peppermints sat beside
Uncle Ethan. "I always try," he Mid,
"to be as broad-minded as I possibly
i*n ti Vi o "
"But I can't help Inclining to be
lieve " he went on, "that no one ought
to chew gum and eat candy at the same
time."—Youth's Companion.
NEW WRINKLES
An Irishman desired to become nat
urallMrf, and after the papers were
elgned the Judge turned to him. "Now,
Dennis," he said, "you can vote.
"Will tliiH ceremony,' inquired the
r.ew citizen, "hilp mo f do ut any bet
ther than Ol have been vottn' for th
lasht tin years?"—Sussecc Magazine.
HE SAW THEM
Willie (on the roof garden)— How
small the men look down there papa.
Willies Papa-No wonder, Willie.
They are all going home to their
w l ves ._Phlladelphla Times.
QUALIFIED
Father—lf you should run over a
man with your car what would be the
first thin* you would do?
Son— Try not to back up and *o over
him the second ttm^-Boston Herald.
JUSTIFIED
"What do you think gave that actor
stage fright when ho made his first
appearance?" a.sked the manager.
■Premonition," replied th.- press
nf?ent. "He knew what his acting was
going to be like."— Washington Star.
( \tl.intn .louriuil)
Gladden, In the pastors' associations
of cities and such other local church
federations. An enlargement of these,
both In membership and In activities,
would be all that la necessary. Tha
caro and succor of the poor, the si.lt
and the unfortunate would be \ the
prime object of the municipal church,
and In addition Dr. Gladden lavs out
a tentative program for its activities,
as follows:
It should turn the light on bad
housing conditions, and secure healthy
habitations for the people; airraid pro
vide playgrounds for children: should
Investigate the drink traffic and tho
social evil; should look into tho prob
lem of unemployment and start an
employment bureau; should endeavor
as the representative of the Prince
of peace to mediate In industrial wins
between employers and employed.
The Institutional chureiieg located
here and there throughout the coun
try are stressing many phase? of the
work proposed for the municipal
church, but Dr. Gladden thinks that
all the churches should bo represent
ed In the work In a compact organ
ization, and that the work In this way
should be given greater emphasis.
(Sun Francisco Call)
not share in the nppreciation or xnn
value of the property, at least as much
as it has contributed to the conditions
which have made higher values."'
These corporations are natural mon
opolies nnd if the principle announced
by Air. Reynolds were admKted they
would be enabled by their position to
take all the traffic would boar. In
deed, some of them still contend for
this principle, which menus, of course.
Industrial servitude for whole com
munlties. The fact that increase of
population follows as a consequence of
In, pi ase of public facilities does not
entitle them to tax the community to
the limit of endurance. This Is a case
Where the human sense of justice re
fuses to permit the appropriation of an
increment that has not been earned.
In substitution for this principle and
measure of value the constitution and
the laws allow these corporations a fair
and reasonable return on the invest
ment. This of necessity, because a
monopoly holds a power of arbitrary
taxation that must be made subject to
regulation in the public interest. Other
wise they would be public masters and
not public servants.
(Sacramento B«e)
was one of the strongest forces in the
regeneration of the California metrop
olis.
That Dr. Edward Ttobeson Taylor 13
to preside at the great Bell meeting in
San Francisco to champion the cause
of the Democratic nominco is In Itself
sufficient refutation of the unjust and
untruthful Insinuations and innuen
does that have been made against that
candidate.
And when any one hereafter reiter
ate-: such unfounded aspersions It will
he sufficient only to point to the spec
tacle of the anti-graft mayor of San
Francisco presiding at the Theodore
A. Hell meeting and lending him the
support Of his Influence and his char
acter became of his thorough belief
In the sincerity, the honesty of pur
pose and the determination of Theo
dore A. Bell, If elected governor, to
drive all malign Influences out at the
government of this state.
Far and Wide
ROME AND ROME
Colonel Roosevelt got out of Rome-
Ga , last weak with somewhat less dis
turbance than marked till departure
from the other Home.—Kansas City
Star.
GREAT CHRISTOPHER
If Columbus had not discovered
America there might never have been
this row in the MassachusttH Dem
ocratic party.—Uoston Advertiser.
THE JAPS ARE GOOD COOKS
Korea Is called "The Land of the
Morning Calm." Cooks muni come on
time and be regular.—Memphis Com
mercial-Appeal.
ART AT A STANDSTILL
Hobble skirts for undraped statues
is Die latsot fashion note from police
headquarters.—Washington Poat.
AND SAFELY LANDED BOTH
In the view of our eastern friends
Hoxsey "carried Caesar and hia for
tunes.—Chicago Evening Post.
AX UNFOUNDED FEAR
Noting that they are beginning to
knock Hans Wagner over in Pittsburgh.
we confess a gnawing and possibly 11
--beloua fear that Colonel Roosevelt a
popularity may wane with the flight
of time.—Ohio State Juuniad.
HOW CAN THIS BE EXPLAINED?
Columbia university wants a hospital.
And yet it has no football team-—
Providence Journal. "
IT CERTAINLY IS NOW
Aviation in certainly looking up.—
Washington Post.
ME AND ANOY AND JOHN
Me and Andy and John
Are givin' a lot away
To colleges hero and libraries there^
We'ra helpln' 'em every day.
Thsre's John—h«'i smllln' a happy smlla
And wrltlQ' the checks against his pile;
Ami Andy—blddln" the world have peace
And wishln' the wars would somehow cea»i
And me—l'm doln' my hours o' toll
To pay the bills for th» steal and oil.
John and Andy and ma—
We're certainly helpln' some
With money tor this and money for that
A* fast as petishune come.
There's Andy makln' 'em carve his nam«
Upon the libraries for his fame;
And John—he's teachln 1 the young te say»
An' glvin' advice he always gave.
And me? I'm helpln' 'em meet both «nds
By chlppln' In on the dividends.
Andy and John and me
Hold wealth as a preahus tnjat;
We're helpln' 'em here an 1 helpln 'em ther«
By shovelln" out our dust.
There's Andy—busy as can be
conslderln' plans for a library;
And John a-whackln" a boundln' ball
And lettln' his words o' wisdom fall;
And me! I'm payln' my small amount
To help 'em both to a bank account.
Me and Andy and John
Are glvln" our money free;
The colleges here and libraries ther*
Are gettln' It from u» three.
There's John —he's happiest when he gives.
And he'll be doln' that while he lives;
Ami Amly—makln' 'em raise their part
To build the huuses for books and art.
Anl mo? Py Kliiuer! How fine 1 feel—
A-paylu' the bills fur oil and ateel!
—Wilbur D. Nesblt la Saturday Evening
Post.