From the Los Angeles Examiner, September 22, 1905
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WOMEN ARRANGE FOR PARLIAMENT AND CONVENTION
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The progressive women of Southern California are getting ready for two important conventions — . . . the Women’s Parliament, which will convene here October 10-11, and . . . the county convention of the Equal Suffrage League October 12. . . .
At a meeting yesterday of the executive board of the county organization at the home of Mrs. Mary A. Kenney on South Figueroa Street, a committee was appointed to draft suitable resolutions on the death of Mrs. Mabel Osborne, late president of the Los Angeles Suffrage Association. . . .
Mrs. Bertha Baruch, county president, has issued a call in the form of a printed circular . . . .
The presidency would naturally fall to Mrs. Sara Wilde Houser, the vice president, but she is unable to serve on account of the demands made on her time by a small baby.
“The mother’s duty is paramount,” says Mrs. Houser. . . .
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The following principles of equal suffrage are set forth in a leaflet just issued by Mrs. Baruch:
• If “Constitutional liberty” means equal rights and opportunities, then women are still in bondage.
• If women are annoyed or their property depreciated by a public nuisance, if they are distressed over civic disorders, they have the personal privilege to complain of their grievance and, if possible, to secure the remedy.
• If women resent the mismanagement of municipal affairs, they may utter their protest against the abuse of political power individually or collectively, but it avails nothing so long as it does not come from legalized citizens.
• The protest of men is potent because it is backed by the authority of political worth. Every man represents a vote.
• The protests of women are impotent because the voice of a woman has no political value or significance.
• The imperative demand, therefore, of some women, for all women, is for political emancipation or freedom; that women be given the equal political right and opportunity to utter their protest by vote or throught the ballot. . . .
Are you doing your duty as a possible or actual American citizen by refusing to help toward the realization of t eh democratic ideal which, in the immortal words of Lincoln, calls for “Government of the people, for the people, by the people”?
Do the women of California legally and politically belong to “the people”?
If not, then, why not?
Yours in faithful service of the Cause,
BERTHA HIRSCH BARUCH, President.
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From the Los Angeles Examiner, September 22, 1905
C.F. Lummis Doesn’t Look Same
to All Clerks
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Librarian Charles F. Lummis is trying hard to make a happy family of his force of clerks, but progress is slow.
Those laughing, merry young women clerks, who were for so long a time under the direction of one of their own sex, are experiencing a great deal of difficulty in getting accustomed to the ways of the eccentric defender of the Indian.
They look on with awe at everything he does and appear timid and shy, and half afraid when he speaks to them.
In time, he thinks, they will understand him, and then the family will be a happy one. To that end he is now working.
To his home, where his queer, quaint and valuable curios are kept, he has invited
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every clerk in the library.
They have gone singly, in twos and threes and in groups of as many as five.
But some have not gone at all. At least two are known to have had pressing engagements on the nights Mr. Lummis has selected for their entertainment at his home.
To them a second invitation has not yet been given, but those women say they are
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keeping their date book filled with “phoney” engagements for fear he may ask again.
Some have gone to the house out of curiosity and others because they wanted to get into the Librarian’s good graces and in line for promotion.
These latter think Mr. Lummis a real fine entertainer and a jolly fellow. They praise him from morning till night, much to the dislike of those timid young women who say they can’t understand or get accustomed to him.
Mr. Lummis is aware that his woman clerks would rather have a woman over them than a man, and he is trying hard to drive away that feeling of uneasiness which is so apparent to the habitues of the library.
His social gatherings at his home will continue throughout the winter and for the sole purpose of proving to his clerks that while he is a real “lion,” he neither bites nor claws.
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From the Los Angeles Examiner, September 22, 1905
MESSENGER BOYS SCARCE ARTICLES
Telegraph and messenger companies of Los Angeles are once more being brought to a realization that the people of this city are prosperous and that they send their children to school.
The prospective opening of schools next Monday has left the Western Union Telegraph Company with an insufficient force of messenger boys.
Six or eight faithful youngsters are pedaling around the city delivering enough messages to keep fifteen busy.
“We are trying to get some good honest boys who will remain in the employ of the company and will work their way up into higher positions,” said Manager R.H. Miller yesterday.
“A good, lively boy can easily make $1.50 a day. Recently it seems as though there has been an unusally small number of applicants, and there is really a good chance for the right kind of lad.”
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From the Los Angeles Examiner, September 22, 1905
No Longer May Crippled Beggars
Laugh at Police.
Experience of Mayor McAleer With One-Legged Negro Results in New Law.
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A new city ordinance which is being drawn up by the city attorney and which provides for punishment of crippled as well as able-bodied beggars is the outcome of an experience which Mayor Owen McAleer had a short time ago.
“I was walking down Spring Street one evening and my eyes rested on a negro who was sitting on the sidewalk with his back to the building and his limbs stretched out on the sidewalk,” said the mayor.
“One of his legs had been cut off just above the ankle. He had assumed this position so people could not get past him without noticing his crippled condition.
“I probably wouldn’t have stopped had not I noticed a man stop, look at him and then pass along. . . .”
[The mayor then heard the beggar] “grumbling because the man had not given him anything. The negro was uncouth in appearance and his language was vile.”
“. . . I saw a policeman. I instructed him to take the negro to the police station.
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Not wanted in Los Angeles.
“Imagine my surprise a few days later to find the same negro again seated on the sidewalk and begging.
“On making inquiry, I found that there was no law under which he could be prosecuted.
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“We don’t want beggars in the street, particularly this class. If there is anyone so needy that he or she deserves help, we have places for them.
“The Associated Charities is doing a great deal of work in this direction. . . .”
Acting [Police] Chief Auble . . . said:
“The proposed measure is made necessary by the number of crippled persons who show a disposition to come to Los Angeles for begging purposes. . . .”
The importance of this legislation is exemplified by the case of Isaac Mier Golas, a Jew from Australia who is now confined to the insanity ward at the County Hospital.
Golas is a cripple, 24 years old, who was arrested by the police on September 5 while wandering about the streets.
He is a victim of drugs, consuming when admitted to the hospital as much as 70 grains of morphine and 40 grains of cocaine a day.
There is not a spot on his body that is not marked by needle punctures.
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