Los Angeles Herald, October 5, 1908
Flag and Banners Captured Amid Much Disorder
SALVATIONISTS AGAIN IN JAIL
Twenty-Five Arrested for Parading Streets
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Amid scenes of disorder, at times bordering on riot, 25 members of the Salvation Army were arrested last night by Sgt. Kriege and a squad of officers for violation of the ordinance prohibiting parading on the public streets without first having secured a permit therefore from the Police Commission.
The arrests were made at 5th and Hill streets, while the two local corps were parading the street with their band playing and banners waving, the rank and file shouting and calling to passers-by and spectators.
The moment the members of the Army were stopped by the police, the series of disorder began.
Citizens crowded in and mixed with the Salvationists, and the officers and the crowd swayed one way and then the others, while shouts and cries made it almost impossible to hear orders.
When Sgt. Kriege started to take the flags and banners away from their carriers and place them in the patrol wagon, an over-zealous youth . . . threatened trouble.
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. . . the appeal to popular patriotic feeling caught the crowd, and there were shouts and cries of “Keep the flag!” [and] “Don’t let them desecrate the flag!”
The youth declared that they could touch the flag only over his dead body, and his melodramatic announcement was received with cheers . . . he was hustled out of the way, and the patrol wagon, with its load of prisoners and flags, started for the station . . . .
The Salvationists protested against their arrest and claimed that it was an outrage on the part of the police to break up their parade.
They were reminded, however, that the law . . . was an old one, time-tried and tested and that without the regular permit they could not march over the public streets.
Major E.W. Campbell, the executive officer of the Army in Los Angeles, his wife, Mrs. Campbell . . . were arrested. . . .
Major Campbell at once gave bail for his own release, and three other prisoners were released on bail later in the night. . . .
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| Postcard view of 5th and Hill Streets, where 25 Salvation Army marchers were arrested for violating a city parade ordinance. |
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Los Angeles Herald, October 5, 1908
Salvationists Scoff at Terrors of Jail
(Earlier the same day, before the arrests)
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“We will fight the city ordinance until we get our rights, if we are forced into the chain gang or to work on the rock pile,” said Major Campbell at the Salvation Army meeting yesterday afternoon.
The two corps of the Army in Los Angeles joined in a procession and marched and countermarched through several of the streets, led by Major Campbell and the Army brass band.
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They then wended their way into the Monarch Rink for the meeting at 3 o’clock.
One of the women stated that she was approached by a negro who had been arrested in the slum district and said:
“We gets pinched when we’s bad, and youse gets pinched when youse good, and what’s to be done?”
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Los Angeles Herald, October 3, 1908
ARMY LASSIE READS BIBLE, IS ARRESTED
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Owing to the fact that the amended ordinance prohibiting public speaking in the downtown or business district did not legally go into effect until yesterday, the members of the Salvation Army arrested by the police Wednesday and Thursday nights were discharged in Police Court yesterday morning.
Arrests of members of the organization
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were made last night, however, when attempts were made to speak on the streets within the proscribed district, and the prisoners, with but two exceptions, were placed in jail for the night, they having declined bail.
The first arrest last night was made
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at Fourth Street and Broadway. . . . She protested at her arrest, drawing the distinction that she was merely reading the Bible and had not attempted to speak. . . .
A crowd numbering from 1,500 to 2,000 persons witnessed the arrest, and, as usual, jeered and hooted at the police. . . .
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Los Angeles Daily Times, October 6, 1908
THE LAW SUPREME
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“Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s.”
The Times commends the above advice, coming from a high authority, to the Salvation Army.
This is a government by law. The law is supreme in this country. And law must be general; it cannot be made to apply to one class of people and not to another; it must regulate the doings of all; no exceptions can be made in behalf of any person or persons, high or low, pickpocket or preacher.
The law has forbidden certain practices on the streets of Los Angeles, and the Salvation Army has acted very unwisely in running counter to the law, defying the police and promoting demonstrations of the mob spirit.
The disturbance of Sunday was not creditable to anybody responsible for it. The offense of the Salvation Army lay in giving occasion and stimulus to the enemies of law and order.
The local officers of the Salvation Army should be disciplined by those higher in authority. They have brought discredit upon an organization whose avowed enlistment is in the cause of the Prince of Peace.
The city authorities have enacted an excellent ordinance for the suppression of street nuisances and peace disturbers, and they should have the earnest moral support of every patriotic citizen in enforcing it to the letter.
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Los Angeles Herald, October 16, 1908
NEGROES WANT ‘CLANSMAN’
BARRED FROM STAGE
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The fact that “The Clansman” is to be produced at one of the local theaters has aroused the indignation of a large number of the best negro citizens, and they yesterday sent a petition to the mayor to have the play suppressed.
. . . they say “The Clansman” . . . deals with features of the negro national life in such a way as to reopen wounds that have cost the life blood of the nation in their healing.
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They claim it excites race prejudice by portraying one of the most brutal of crimes and the triumph of mob law.
The petitioners feel race prejudice should not be excited, in view of the friendly relations which exist between the races in Los Angeles.
Other cities have suppressed the play, they declare, and they ask that the mayor do likewise.
Mayor Harper will investigate before acting on the petition.
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Los Angeles Herald, October 1, 1908
Broadway Department Store
Broadway Cor. 4th
MORE OF THOSE $12 SUITS
For Men and Young Men Go on Sale Today
Here’s the aim of our men’s department, briefly put: To get more men — young and old — to clothe themselves here — and how? By selling clothes at popular prices, such as they never hoped to find in ready-to-wear garments; making, style and fit such as they have believed impossible outside the high-grade, high-priced tailor shops. These $12 suits are evidence of this policy — just compare them with the usual $17.50 and $20 suits and you’ll see the point.
First — the materials are all wool — worsteds, tweeds and velours — in the new fall shades, of course — neat mixtures — new stripes — overplaids — new hairline stripes — and other novelties. The coats are the 32-inch length, have the new concave shoulders (hand padded), the close-fitting collars. The pants are cut in the new legsform style, half and full peg. They’re great suits, men. See them today, main floor annex.
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Los Angeles Herald, October 3, 1908
House Hunting
Through Want Ads
The trials of house hunting have certainly been made easier since THE HERALD began to print the Want Advertisements.
There was a time when a man and wife had to walk up one street and down another searching for the right kind of a home.
Now the owners of rentable houses either send or telephone the advertisements describing their property to THE HERALD, either daily or Sunday. The advertisements are printed — families wanting to move watch the "For Rent" columns — when the class of a house they want is for rent they go to look at it — if desirable, they rent it.
Perhaps the house you want may not be advertised today or tomorrow, but if you watch these column every day, sooner or later you will find the house advertised for rent which will suit you.
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