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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
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fiIMCS^GIAJIULLAfI
Hr r> rEtrorsum^.lU
It is noticed that each city reports
that food prices have dropped, but
somewhere else.
* The poets have formed a union. The
editors will refuse to recognize It, and
maybe they'll go on strike.
This year's corn crop is the biggest
ever produced. See how quickly bless
ings follow a decisive Democratic vic
tory.
Inspector Dew has resigned from
Scotland Yard. There is, however, no
Information that Dr. Crippen is re
stgnedi
Window glass trust officers were
lined $500 apiece. Another burden to
be loaded on the poor tired back of the
consumer.
Oklahoma City loses its fight in court
for location of the state capital, and
it will now he taken back in an auto
moblle to outline.
If the new Domocratic majority in
the house tackles the tariff it needn't
plead afterward that we failed to tell
it the thing was loaded.
The Pullman car trust promises to
reduce the price of upper berths. Then
it may even things up by charging for
the use of the stepladder.
Sacramento grand jury is investigat
ing the local plumbers' trust. Tho
trust's offense is in trying to get a
lead pipe cinch on the trade.
If Pasadena doesn't stop her boast
ing we may have to consider taking
back some of the overflow we gave her
to help make a good showing.
Hearst claims credit for all tho
Democratic victories except Xew York.
But he won that, too, by his abuse of,
iJix, though lie didn t intend to.
A reading of the press dispatches
convinces us that Belle Elmore Crlppen
is residing in live places in this coun
try and Canada, probably in sections.
An Illinois railroad section hand has
of his fourth
of twins and 1 i-; twenty-second child.
That is, thai was the tota at the last
report.
The revolution in Portugal was
caused by the queen mother'i Paris
hats. This season's are provo
cation enough even for turning over a
dynasty.
The best arpum the voting
machine -, api ■• loti of Independent
voting is ri E.
Mack pulled tin i [1 a Irver by
mistake.
Tin- Si attl< ''" • r ■■■ -iai y denes
tin' ( Ity an 1 i its taxi s.
It is about til . ty to show
that it is soiui n power com
-1 any it'
i "Dick" i , congr^K!;
from i ourt re
porter. i.l<- I:- i■■ •• , and
out Just who it ws itted that
lust tariff bill.
Capt. 11. H. lingers <■£ the New Tork
militia Is back from abroad. with a
prophecy of war with Japan, which
•was about as easy a way to get his
name in tho papers as any.
And among the ti
from the Thanksgiving .
in the fact that Charlie Murphy, bos
of Tammany, Is mentioned for the
United States senate from Kew York.
SENATOR FLINT'S VIEWS
A DISPATCH from "Washington say's
tli.it Benator Frank P. Flint, who
is just back from Europe, is more
than ever convinced of the benefits of
a protective tariff. "After seeing the
greater part of Europe," said Senator
Flint, "t reached the conclusion that
the, most prosperous people. I saw were.
thoM In the Oerman empire, where the
highest protective tariff prevails.
"The condition of both the laborer
and the manufacturer is most unsatls
\ In free-trade England. In fact,
a committee from the industrial classes
in i:njrlnnd visited Germany nnd on
returning reported that lvacra were
higher and employment steadier and
conditions more, satisfactory for the
workincinan there than in Kngland."
What Senator Flint says about con
ditions in England as compared with !
Germany do not at all harmonize with!
recent advices of the New York Jour- |
nal of Commerce, whose English eor
rcsp'yftdent reported the industries of
that country ns In tho best condition |
in years. Particularly is this true Of
the wool Industry, while in highly j
protected America .lust now the woolen '
trade is in the dumps. More recent
dispatches from there say that trade In I
all lines has so much improved that
the tariff party's strength has largely
fallen away.
German advices, on the other hand,
report a very largo number of hands J
unemployed. Rut Senator Flint pro- '
ceeds to upset his own argument most i
Ingenuously by adding that in Spain
and Italy he found the fruit district
hands receiving such low wage! that |
California fruit growers must have
more tariff to compete with them. Now,
Spain and Italy are both high tariff j
countries. If protective tariffs are such
a pood thing, -why Is not the labor
of Spain nnd Italy better paid? And
why does not Senator Flint hold them
up aa the horrible example on the tar
iff subject instead of free trade Eng
land, which is Incomparably more pros
perous than either of these tariffed
countries?
The truth is that the tariff has little
if anything to do with wages. If ev
ery country were to remove the tar
iff barriers Ihe superior skill and in
telligence of the American workman
WOUld hold the lead he has now, and
the skill nnd intelligence of the Ger
man workman would hold second place
for him, while Spain and Italy, with
Ignorant labor, would bring up the
reur as now. Education, Inventive
ability, mechanical talent, fertility of
Boil, climatic conditions all have their
Influence in these matters, but along
comes your tariff champion and claims
their virtue! and effects all for the
tariff.
The United States is not prosperous
under a high tariff. The men who own
the mills are, but the masses are not.
The men in the New England cotton
mills earn an average weekly wage of
$8.52; those In the southern mills $5.v.
Btatlfttlca compiled by the federal cen
sus bureau In 1908 showed the average
wage of 8,297,819 wage, earners in this
country's manufacturing industries
was $10.0fi per week, or Just 2.7 cents
more than the average in Berlin?
SAN FRANCISCO
ITS vicissitudes considered, the
growth of .San Francisco, as an
nounced by tho census bureau, Tian
boon wonderful. It has a population of
416,912—50 me 74,n00 more than In 1900,
and an increase of 21.6 per cent over
ten years ago. Moasured by what lias
to be the California standard this
is not a largo ratio on paper, yet Phil
adelphia increased only 19.7, St. Louis
19.4, Boston 19.6, Buffalo 20.2, Pittsburg
18.2 rind Baltimore but 9.7.
Xono of these Cities—no modern
city, indeed—ever suffered the awful
blow tflat fell upon San Francisco in
the decade. Besides the cataclysm
thai destroyed her buildings she lost
thousands who, frightened, left never
to return. She has replaced them and
added many thousands more, has spent
over $30M00,000 In reconstruction, and
given a large share of her population
and means to the upbuilding of the
acrosa-the-bay cities.
in fairness, the splendid showing of
iid 124.;! per cent increase in
Berkeley and Oakland must be credited
largely to the metropolis. Thousands
of their people earn thoir living in and
around San Francisco. All of them do
much of their buying and tnke much
of iht ii pleasure in the Bay city; and
of Oakland particularly it may bi
that it is as truly a part of tho I
place as Brooklyn Is of New York city.
Bo that the showing of the San Fran
cisco Increase is In fact probably
ond only to that of Los Angelea tn
marvelous achievement in the entire
country, and is a source of pride to
every California!!. Los Angeles hope!
and expects to load San Francisco in
1920, but it will want that city to bo
second In the showing, as the)
Vi it will be.
All California la growing as no othei
state or group of related cities arc
growing. Tills generation will ■
the feats of eastern and probably of
the world's communities brushed bach
Into In Igniflcance by the galloping rise
TURNING A NEW LEAF
MANY harsh words have been said
by Southern Calltornlan* about
San Francisco's government and
the supine spirit that permitted it.
They were deserved. San Francisco
has dona things and permitted many to
be done In h 1 name, unn buked, that
would have been discreditable to any
American Ity; things that could bo
done them without arousing
t]ie peo] quick a"'l .summary re
prisal.
But we fe< i like forgiving and for-
KettinK in view of tlie admirable dis
play 01 plrlt made at the polls
lai i Tm sday, when tliirt i
charter amendnienta were voted on
()n th. iaii Francisco vot
bowed discrimination and a
yressive ami rlghteoua civic spirit that
LOS ANGELES HERALD: FKIDaY MORNING, NOVEMBER IS, 1010.
isf^ K&AKNE-Tjr"
will restore to her much popular confi
dence among those whose good will Is
worth having, and free her from the
domination of tho bad Influences, that
have dragged her name in the dust.
A majority rule, allowing any person
to become a candidate upon the presen
tation of from 10 to 20 legal sureties,
find providing for his election by a ma
jority vote, including the privilege of
filing; a statement of 100, 200 or 300
words, according to the fee paid by
him, which shall be printed by the city
and sent out with the sample ballot to
every voter, won out. The candidates'
immes only shall appear on the ballots,
tho party circles or symbols being elim
inated, and the names printed In dif
ferent order In eacli assembly district,
thereby giving each candidate equal
opportunity of heading the ticket.
An effective system of initiative, ref
erendum and recall passed with a good
majority. An amendment permitting
tUo people to vote for thu recall of any
street railway franchise received a big
majority.
(>ne of tho "bad" proposed amend
ments that failed by a large majority
was one to place the city library pat
ronage under control of the mayor.
Several amendments for Increasing sal
aries of city officials and decreasing
working hours also were defeated.
San Francisco has as many worthy
and public-spirited citizens as any city
of its size to put these new laws into
operation. Heretofore they have been
helpless In the hands of rich and or
ganized pelf. With the new working
tools in their hands it is not to be
doubted that the story of Los Angeles'
redemption will now be repeated in the
Baj City.
And none will be more glad to ap
plaud than democratic Los Angeles,
lilg things are happening, politically
and clvlcally, In California this year.
Tho League of California Municipali
ties Is planning to adapt commission
government to the smaller cities. In a
few years the Golden State will boast
the bfft government in America as not
the hast attractive of her innumerable
lodeatones.
MR. SPELLACY'S LETTER
IN his letter to The Herald, paying
a deserved tribute to Theodore
8011, and, incidentally, an equally
merited rebuke to those newspaper!
and campaigners whose ardor and anx
lety to win led them to make cruel
and wholly unjustified assertions about
tho Democratic candidate, Mr. Timothy
Spellacy drew attention to a serious
aspect of political warfare in these lat
ter days.
It is that under existing conditions
—and it is particularly true in Cali
fornia because of its great expanse of
territory—"an honest political leader
breeds financial bankruptcy to him
self." -Mr. Bell's long fight against tho
'corrupt Southern Patiiic must have
.■;■■• expensive to him, with no
return except a term in con
whlch, as is well known, yields
' profit. He must have spent lib
orally of his own private means, and
from that had no help but
through the voluntary assistance of
friend ; and everybody knows that
such help must have been meager
i. in view of the almost hopeless
prospects of tho California Democracy
i . this year.
• probably has not been a year
in the past ten that Jlr. Bell could
not have sold out to the Southern Pa
wlth much profit to himself. In
vic\- of the fact that he resisted such
atlon to tho last he deserved
something better than the shameful
• Mr. Bpellacy now rebukes,
ami still deserves apologies from a
many soui
But .1. Ide from the personal phase
of (he matter, it all suggests that the
me oon when tho expenses
npalgnlng shall be borne by the
gtati n i tho individual. If the
: t:t '; ild appropriate a sum for the
i.di'ates named at prl
i, limiting expenditures strictly
to that Mini, it would rob the rich
man i i he now hah
lOd for politics, and let
worthy i :• men aspire to honorable
eh few of them now dare to
do.
i lon like the railroad would
then I :< ii crushing superior
ity ovei others of moderate means,
and <' could not use the
Income ■ . tic lr offices to finance them*
: vi i' ■ 11on.
No( ' i living thing about
Mr. si" ■ Ills declaration
that li" lit i" en cured of being a
thlck-and thl artisan, The more cv
cry di i' .sees of practical poli
ties tlii- more no is nnt tr>* ri>anb the
ime decision.
1910
PUBLIC LETTER BOX
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TO COKMiSI'OMJKNXS—Letters Intended lor publication must be accompanied by tue
name and address of the writer. Th* Herald five* the widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes no responsibility for their »lews-
WHAT CAUSED IT
Editor Herald: Now that the battle
is over and the field has been at least
partially cleared of its debris, we can
view the scene clearly and calmly con
sider the aftermath. Republican dere
licts bestrew almost the entire surface
of the United States. A bloodless rev
olution has covered the arena with po
litical corpses—wrecks of former po
tential Republican leaders who tamp
ered with the tariff against the inter
ests of the people. My view of the
genesis of things as they are Is some
thing like this:
Republicanism begat high tariff.
High tariff begat trusts.
Trusts begat monopolies.
Monopolies begat high prices, and
High prices begat revolution.
It was the old fight renewed, of
Democracy against plutocracy, and, of
course, with a free hand and no favor,
democracy won. Let it now proceed
to keep on winning by carrying out the
purpose of the election. SKNEX.
Hollywood, Cal.
ASHAMED OF THE G. 0. P.
Editor Herald: While we voters for
Good Government candidates were con
gratulating ourselves on having ob
tained fairly good officials for the city,
and expected the same results in the
county election, our sanguine expecta
tions received a hard jolt In the return
ing to office of a man who was clearly
proved to be a falsifier for private gain;
and not only a falsifier, but at the same
time a perjurer to his solemn oatli to
uphold and enforce tho law of the
State of California,
I have seen many elections, but nev
er have I scan such an exposed and
convicted prevaricator honored with a
majority of votes that returned him to
the office which he had disgraced. Is
that sensible voting? Or Intelligent?
In what way?
Anyway, it shows a very low state
of morality if not dishonesty in the
majority of voters. Or is politics on
the sanie level with questionable busi
ness? 1 am ashamed of our county
voters. If that is Republican politics
1 will have none of it. C. F.
Los Angeles, Cal.
TIMID CONVENTIONALISM
Editor Herald: Many "have a zeal
for God, but not according to knowl
edge." Solomon says: "To everything
there Is a season" (Ecclesiastos 111:1),
therefore there Is a season to dress
warmly, and a season to go naked.
J K. should not ridicule idealists. They
have been the sole cause of the world's
progress toward the prophetic .Mil
lennium, and have always been perse
cuted for it by conventionalists. The
sooner J. K. and millions like him re
alize that conventionalism is only an
other name for stupidity, more or less
in the proportion that the con
ventionalist is conventional, the more
rapidly he will become Christ-like; tor
the Christ was the most radical teach
er the world has ever known. Ho nev
er did or said things by halves. He
had the divine courage to be always at
the logical conclusion of every sound
doctrine, which is more than the civil
ization of the distant Millennium; it
la the civilization of Heaven. If J. K.
will read my first and second letters
to this box more carefully he will lind
them unanswerable, because they <l< -
fend the Holy Bible as it is, and not
as ox-cart conventionalism would have
j t S. M. S.
Los Angeles, Cal.
SCHOOL AGE FOR CHILDREN
Editor Herald: Being the fathf-r Of
three sons, now in business In this city.
I would say to "Puzzled Parent": Do
not send your children to school to
study before they are 7, if possible.
The mind of a child up to 8 yean of
age should be as free as the air.
The writer remembers whrn his old
est son wan 4 years old (he is now 82).
He took him to see Prof. Fowler, the
well-known phrenologist, and was ad
vised not to send the child to i
before ha was 8 years old, the pi
nor saying aa above—that the mind
of a Child should be free until 8
had pawed. It was cruel, he af
firmed, to bind a child's mind before
that age.
His advice was acted upon and ex
perience proved its correctness, in the
case of my boy ut least, for he was al
ways at or near the head of his clan
.■,ii(i passed through two grades at one
term iv one Instance.
It is probable that a hard and fait
rule in this matter is difficult to es
tablish. But that children are sent to
school for study far too young, to get
them out of the way, as a parent re
marked to the writer today, mus,t bo
conceded by every sensible person.
J. It. K.
Los Angeles, Cal.
WHY MEXICANS COME HERE
Editor Herald: As trouble in Mexico
is now "hot i' mouth," I thought that
a few hard, cold facts as to the prime
cause of it all would find a place in
your valuable Letter Box. For the last
twenty years it has been a mystery to
me why so many Mexicans flock to Cal
ifornia. It is plain that it is not for
Bain, for they never save up anything-—
living always up to their moans. Then
why is it?
During the last six years I have had
extra facilities for finding out the truth
of the matter. I have been, most of
the time, down In the Calexico country,
astraddle of the line, where I was
mixed up with the cholos all the time;
working, eating and sleeping with
them. The most of them are. from
away down in that country where the
trouble Is—Guadalajara (Wahdah-lah
ha-rali, I pronounce it for the tender
foot).
There are many of them young and
intelligent fellows, but totally ignorant,
not knowing the alphabet In their own
language. Having a desire to write
back to their "queridas" (sweethearts),
tiny ore keen to learn to write, so I
murdered many a monotonous overling
teaching mem to write in tholr own
language.
1 took advantage of the opportunity
to worm out of them their reasons for
deserting their country and coming to
this. They say that Diaz has sold off
the land to foreign capitalists in large
lumps, so that they cannot make a
home for themselves; and if they did,
there is no market for anything they
might produce, because the consumers
there have no money, and our protect
ive tariff blocks any exportation; that
the foreign holders do not even allow
them to remain peons and work for a
living, as their former masters, the
hidalgos, did; so they have to come
here where they can at least make a
living. Then I would explain to them
how our late windbag president, T. X..
has withdrawn all the land, water anil
timber out from under my feet, so that
I cannot locate a soldier's homestead—
reserving it so that none but capital
ists can get possession of it. And then
I would point out to them the stealing
of the lands in-the Imperial valley by
the capitalist! sending straw locators
to squat on a quarter section, unlaw
fully, and then go through the farce of
having It conveyed to them as a third
party; and how our blessed govern
ment sustains them as owning it, not
withstanding it is stolen property. And
then they will ask me how it is that
stolen land cannot be replevined the
same as any other stolen property,
which stumps mo; for I cannot explain
the unexiilainable.
Then they remark —ignorant as they
are —that they see no difference in the
design or methods of villainous govern
ments robbing the people of their legal
and natural rights. And I concur
I tut they hope and expect that Diaz
will "murio muy pronto," and then
there will be lota of fighting to drivo
nut the gringos, and then they will re
turn to "their own, their native land,"
and reclaim their lost rights. It is
not to be supposed that an editor of
a live newspaper has time, especially
in election time, to thresh and winnow
out reliable information concerning for
eign matters, so I send you a little Hip
pine as an auxiliary to my private
statements. WM. H. HARRISON.
Soldiers' Home, Sawtelle.
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IMPRACTICAL
"You should always write »s If you wern
it ldri-sslng an audience," said the man with
literary alms.
"It's Impossible." replied the Impulsive per-
M.n. "You couldn't keep a Jury In mind all
the time you are writing; a love letter."—
Washington Star.
MOMENTOUS QUESTION
In the pleasant autumn weather,
When the leaves begin to flow.
Ana the forest looks as brilliant
A* the lady In the show.
Sweetly we commune with nature.
Feeding on her wealth our soul,
As we wonder how In thunder
' We can buy our winter coal.
In a mass of gold and yellow
Hung the leaves upon the tree«
Or to earthward softly flutter
On the light, Impulsive breeze.
Ah we view the living poem,
Done In smooth, artistic rhyme
It's distressing to be guessing
Can we buy our coal on time.
—New York Telegram.
Dolliver-By an Intimate Friend
(.By a Formnr Member or CongreM)
Editor Herald: The recont sudden
death of Benator J. P. Dolliver, one Of
the most prominent progressives, and
the appointment of "Lafe" Young, one
of the most prominent and best
equipped standpatters, and who Is
■ warm personal friend of President
Taft and a defender o£ the recent tar
iff bill, would seem to make the an
tagonism rather acute between the two
senators from lowa, as Senator Cum
mins has been one of tile most pro
nounced opponents of that bill. The
closeness of tho voto iri the legislature
between the two wings of the party
will be likely to prolong the contest
until late in the session of congress.
The writer has been well acquainted
with Senator Dolliver for twenty-four
years and has followed his career
closely ever since he sprang into prom
inence as the result of his remarkable
speech as temporary chairman of the
stato convention.
The senator had from the beginning'
of Ills career warm personal friends In
Chairman Charles Beardsley, Ret
Clarkson and Governor Carpenter, the
latter of whom had for him almost the
attachment Of a father, and Is said to
have wept when he was defeated for
the nomination for congress by S. J.
Holmes in ISBB. At the next congres
sional convention in 1888 he wns suc
cessful and was elected to congress
by about 6000 majority and became a
member of the fifty-first congress, pre
side,! over by that great man, Thomas
H. Reed.
Mr. Dolliver acquiesced in that rule
more honored in the breach than tho
observance —that a member should as
sert himself very little in his first term
—and did not take a prominent part.
He came near being overtaken by the
disaster that overtook so many afler
the passage of the McKinley bill, in
cluding McKinley himself, Dolliver's
majority being reduced to about 1000.
The fifty-llrst coi'gress passed more
important legislation than any con
gress since that lime, including the
McKinley bill, the disability pension
bill, the Sherman anti-trust bill, modi
fications of the immigration laws and
other acts of importance. The tariff
bill reduced the duties In the most of
the articles in iron schedule $4 a ton.
The duty on lumber was reduced, to
$1 a thousand and many articles were
added to the free list, including bind
ing twine. A higher duty was put on
tin, of which none was then made in
this country, and it has resulted In the
production of our entire supply.
The great mistuke of the MeKlnley
1)111 wus the removal of tho duty on
sugar, which had produced a revenue
of near $60,000,000, and the passage of
the sugar bounty, which caused an in
creased expense of $15,000,000, constant
ly increasing. Senator Sherman of
Ohio did not favor this and Mr. Blalne
was decidedly opposed to it and Mr.
McKenna of this state, now a member
of the supreme coi'.rt, then a member
of the committee of ways and means,
(lied a minority report against it.
These measures added to the addition
al charge of over X 40.000.000 caused by
the disability pension bill, changed a
surplus of $70,000,'i00 annually which
had been continuous during all the
years of Cleveland's first term and tho
hrst years of Harrison's term to a
deficit of over #$50,000,000. and in its
effect brought on the panic of 1593,
from which the country had only par
tially recovered when the Wilson bill
went into effect in 1895.
Los Angeles as an Advertiser
That it pays to advertise has become (
a. truism. And not only private Indus
try finds that dividends follow the pub
licity agent, but communities are
awakening to the same truth. It pays
to boom a city.
The recently announced census report
on Los Angele3 may be quoted in sup
port. Two hundred and eleven per
cent increase in population in a de
cade tells an eloquent story of ambi
tions realized, of boasts made good.
The city and the entire Pacific const
has reason to feel elated.
Southern California is one of the gar
den spots of America. Good soil and |
a balmy climate combine to make Los
Angeles a mecca for the continent. The
city's natural advantages , are im
portant, but more important still is
the fact that the city advertises. I
Merely in Jest
IT WOULDN'T DO
A Washington woman who was conduct
ing the culinary education of a young maid
had many amusing experiences to lighten
th« tedium of her task.
(mo morning she said to the girl. 'I
want those eggs to be boiled exactly three
minutes."
"But, ma'am." said the maid. "I have
no clock to tell me when that time Is
ripe."
"So clock! Why. you have the kitchen
clock! What do you mean?" '
"Hut you have not forgotten ma'am,
continued the girl dcprecatlngly, "that only
this morning you told me that the kitchen
clock was too fast!" — Harper's Magazine.
HEROISM
A woman is charged with bringing gems
Into this country embedded in Gorgonzola
cheese. Persons familiar with Gorgonxola
cheese — and we don't see how anybody can
be — will faintly appreciate the heroic meas
ures that customs officers are caltoa upon
to take at times In the pursuit or duty.
Probably they worked in relays digging
out the Jewels —the asphyxiated being car
ried from Uio field a» fast as they dropi»ed,
and fresh volunteers taking their places.
But what's the punishment that will lit a
crime like that?— Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A CONGENIAL TASK
He was a very quiet boy, or a studious
turn of mind, and that was probably why
his fond parents apprenticed him to a nat
uralist. In his new sphere he was willing
enough, but painfully slow. After giving
the canary seed, a Job that occupied two
hours, he said:
•'What will I do now?"
"Well," replied his master, reflectively,
•I think you may take the tortoise out for
a run."—Tit-Bits.
HE DREW THE LINE)
The Pastor's Wife—l called on Mrs. Har
lem this afternoon and found her so beau
tifully optimistic. One expression she used
has haunted me ever since.
The Pastor—What was It. dear?
The Pastor's Wife—"There's music In every
thing."
The Pastor—Huh! I guess "he has never
listened to our new choir.
MARKETING IN CRIMSON GULCH
"What makes the butcher put both hands
in the air? Is he afraid you are going to
shoot?" - .
"No " answered Bronco Bob. He has
gotten over being afraid. He knows I ain't
going to shoot as long as he keens his
hands out of reach of the scales while the
meat's beln' weighed."
OVERHEARD
Lady Customer like to get a pair of
pinchers.
Floorwalker—Shoe department, two aisles
to the right, ma'am. —Boston Transcript.
CAUSE AND EFFECT
Harold—l've got an— --beastly head
ache this mawnlng, doncher know?
Hattie—What caused It 7
Harold—A howid thought struck m« last
night, i
Senator Dolllver bore only the hum- ;
ble part of a quiet member on these
measures which subsequent even's
vindicated except the Injudicious abol
ition of the sugar duty.
The Sherman anti-trust bill, which la
growing into Increasing prominence In
recent years, ,was not In its Inception
a partisan measure. It was firm sug
gested by Senator Kyan of Texas, who"
introduced an anti-trust bill In the
fiftieth congress. ■ In this he was fol
lowed by Senator Oullom, but In that
congress Senator Sherman expressed
grave doubts of Its constitutionality,
but his doubts seem to have disap
peared and in the fifty-first congress
the first, bill he introduced was an
anti-trust bill. The name session anti
trust bills were introduced In tho
house by Mr. Culberson of Texas, Mr.
Henderson of lowa and others. The '
several bills after being considered
went to conference and Mr. Culberson
of Texas, a member of the Judiciary
committee, had charge of It on its
passage and it passed by a unanimous
vote. Mr. Dolliver took Just pride in
the passage of these measures,, par
ticularly of the pension legislation,
which he would have made more lib
eral at that early date.
I think Senator Dolliver's veneration
for Senator Allison, with his well
known conservatism, which was shown
by Allison's long harmony with Sen
ator Aldrlch, who often yielded to Al
lison In the interest of better legisla
tion, often restrained him from the full
assertion of his own personal views,
which were optimistic and full of faith
In the people and which came out in
full force in his last years In the .sen
ate and on the platform. He was not
only a great platform orator, but one
of the best debaters of his day. This
was shown not only In his debates with
that brilliant man, Wilson of West
Virginia, many years since, but in his
more recent debates with Champ Clark
of Missouri. The writer met him the
day he was appointed senator by Gov
ernor Shaw. We were both in south
west lowa. He was just returning
from a series of debates at county
fairs and Chautauquas in lowa and
Missouri with Champ Clark and he had
Just gotten a telegram announcing his
appointment. After congratulating
him I asked him if the joint discussions
In which it was presumed there would
be some soreness did not become mo
notonous. "Oh, no," said he, "Champ
Clark Is a versatile cuss." I don't know ,
whether the debates were reported. „
They would not have the great fame
of those between Lincoln and Douglas,
but the talent and prominence of the
speakers would make them interest
ing. The writer has heard the senator ,
a number of times and had the pleas
ure of hearing him in the late state
convention and his speech showed no
abatement of his powers, but rather
an Increase of his power to hold his
audience by his wit, Irony and argu- .
ment.
Socially Senator Dolliver was an ad
mirable companion, witty, sparkling
and entertaining. The writer met him
casually some years since at the resi
dence of his friend.' Governor Carpen
ter, and has seldom passed an evening
where the conversation was of a high- I
er character for Intelligence and enter
talnment. He will long be remembered
as one of lowa's purest, noblest and
most distinguished characters.
OCCASIONAL*
South Pasadena, Cal.
(Clevelnnd Plain Dealer)
I Los Angeles is probably the most
persistently boomed city in the United
States. She has for years cried her
wares along overy highway; her
charms have been described for tlm
admiration of the world. No man could
be so Ignorant as not to know what
this Californian city thought of her
self.
And the remit of this campaign of
persistent publicity is told in the cen
sus figures. It is an object lesson In
the advantages of advertising:.
Why should such cities as Los An
geles and Denver be permitted to
monopolize this method of self-dovel
| opment? The lesson is too good to bo
Ignored. The only city in the T'nltert
States which does not need advertising
is New York. Cleveland noods more
thnn it is fretting. Let us boom Cleve
land as Los Angeles has been boomed.
Far and Wide
NOT FLYING HIGH
General Allen thinks that one dirigible,
one aeroplane and three small captive bal
loons constitute too small a plant for the
organization of aeronautical companies In
the signal corps, called for by congress:
and, moreover, he has neither the men
nor the money. In military aeronautics the
United States has hardly left the ground
yet. — Boston Transcript.
INDECENT HASTE TO THEM • •
It must be agonizing to criminal lawyers
In this country to note how quickly Crlppen
was tried and convicted.—Philadelphia In
quirer. t
TAKING NO CHANCES
One thing that makes It harder for Bev
erldge Is that his opponent, John W. Kern,
has cut loose from Tom Taggart.—Chicago
News.
ENOUGH SAID
It Is already reported that turkeys are
scarce. It Is unnecessary to be more ex
plicit.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
ANOTHER REASON
Wo bought a million pounds of hair from
Japan last year. * Think, ye. patriotic Amer
ican women—a lot of that money will be
used for battleships! — Cleveland Leader.
ANOTHER WHO COULDN'T
Jack Johnson declares he Is through
with the automobile racing game. Barney
Oldfleld rather thought he wouldn't come
back.— Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
NO REASON TO WORRY
Republican orators who lost their voices
In the campaign shouldn't worry. They'll
have nothing to shout —Atlanta Con
stitution.
PORTUGUESE! REPUBLICANS
Ono trouble with the Portuguese republic
seems to .be the conviction of each citizen
that he Is the man to run It.—Philadelphia
Ledger.
■ PLENTY OF OCCUPATION
No man who minds his own business ever
complains of having; nothing to do.—Har
risburg Telegraph.
FIG AS MAYFLOWER
What a tremendously large vessel the Trent
must have been, to judge from the now
steadily increasing number of those who hap
pened to be on the steamer and to see the
rescue of Wellraan.—New Haven Register.
NOT YET
According to report* the government will
soon have to set aside reservations to prevent
the Yankees from becoming extinct,—Milwau
kee Sentinel.
NOT PROGRESS
Some men think they are going ahead be
cause they dodge around so much.—Milwaukee
Journal.