anaheim-gazette 1912-09-19

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 STRANGLE HOLD SOUGHT BY GAMBLERS HORSE RACE BETTING MADE POSSIBLE BY CUNNINGLY DISGUISED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT MILLIONS OF PROFITS AT EMERY-VILLE TRACK—LARGE FIGURES SHOWING SPORTS' HARVEST Editor: Gazette: At the November election the people of California will be given opportunity to say at the polls whether race-track gambling shall be revived in California. At enormous expense, those interested in seeing race-track gambling resumed have had placed on the ballot, through the Initiative, the so-called Race-Track Gambling bill. If a majority of the electors who vote on this measure vote for it, the present anti-race track gambling law, under which race-track gambling has been suppressed, will be nullified. Should the initiated bill become a law by the votes of the people, the legislature can not repeal it. It could be repealed only by the votes of the people. This would require the initiation of a repealing law. The gamblers, once more established, could afford to spend literally millions to defeat the repealing measure. It is safe to say, that even with the State aroused against the evils of race-track gambling as it was in 1908, $100, ling establishment have made, mark the way. For some reason, the New California Jockey Club fails to include in its statistics the list of its by-products—the men who have lost their all at the track and gone to prison cell, or suicide's grave; and the women who have lost their all and gone to worse. But the prison books and the morgue books show these statistics if the books of the New California Jockey Club do not. It rests with the people of California so say whether men and women of this State, as victims of race-track gambling, are again to fill prison cell and morgue slab. FRANKLIN HICHBORN. JAPS TAKING ABALONES Threaten Their Extinction by Wholesale Catches at Rocky Point Japanese diving crews are at work in the abalone beds near Aliso Canyon on the coast between Arch Beach and Serra, and they have planned to extend their operations to other abalone beds toward Serra and close to the mouth of Aliso creek. These Japanese are employed by San Pedro firms. On several occasions the San Pedro crews have been arrested and fined for violation of the State laws that cover the taking of abalones, but they are now said to be following the law closely. The laws regulate the size of the abalones to be taken and stipulate that those that are taken must be brought ashore and separated from the shell on shore. The purpose of this law is supposed to be to allow inspection of sizes by anyone wishing to make such an inspection. The crews now at work on the rocky coast below Arch Beach are attending strictly to their own knitting so far... which race-track gambling has been suppressed, will be nullified. Should the initiated bill become a law by the votes of the people, the legislature can not repeal it. It could be repealed only by the votes of the people. This would require the initiation of a repealing law. The gamblers, once more established, could afford to spend literally millions to defeat the repealing measure. It is safe to say, that even with the State aroused against the evils of race-track gambling as it was in 1908, $100,000 would be required to force the repeal of the proposed gambling bill should it become a law. The time to defeat it is now. The vicious feature of the proposed gambling measure is that it does not appear to be a gambling measure at all. Through several pages, the bill prohibits gambling and provides direful penalties for all who gamble. In the last lines, however, appear a few words which open the way for the return of the gambling element. "Any and all racing associations and corporations," the bill provides in these last lines, "which shall obtain licenses to conduct race meetings in the State of California pursuant to and under this act, may conduct and carry on and permit within the enclosure where horse racing is held betting upon the races conducted within said enclosure by and through the Paris Mutual and Auction Pool Systems of betting." Once the people of California by their votes enact that provision into law, the gamblers will be given a strangle-hold-upon the State of California. What this would mean is shown by the details of the last gambling orgy at Emeryville in 1908, the year before the first anti-race track gambling law went on the statute books. The 1908 gambling season at Emeryville lasted 180 days. Six races were run each day, 1080 for the season. Each gambler or "book maker" paid the New California Jockey Club $20 each for each race for the privilege of betting with the public. The average number of bookmakers making bets with the public is placed as high as 40 each day; 35 is a low estimate. On the low average of 35 each day, the book-makers paid the New California Jockey Club $700 a race, $4,200 a day, $756,000 for the season for the privilege of betting with the public. The lowest cost of running each book is placed at $40 a day, or $1,400 a day for the 35 books, or $252,000 for the season. This makes a total of $1,008,000 that the gamblers had to ed and fined for violation of the State laws that cover the taking of abalones, but they are now said to be following the law closely. The laws regulate the size of the abalones to be taken and stipulate that those that are taken must be brought ashore and separated from the shell on shore. The purpose of this law is supposed to be to allow inspection of sizes by anyone wishing to make such an inspection. The crews now at work on the rocky coast below Arch Beach are attending strictly to their own knitting so far as the law is concerned. They are watching the sizes and are taking the abalones to shore to separate meats and shells. The State law is weak in that it furnishes no real protection to the abalones. As long as the fishermen obey the rules they can rob abalone beds to a finish. If the progress made by the Japs along the rocky coast is continued it will not be long before the abalone will become extinct. At Laguna Beach it is reported that the Japs have rented a piece of ground at the mouth of the Aliso from Thurston, who owns a ranch there, and will make the place their headquarters during the siege of the abalone beds. They will dry the meats there, and prepare them for shipment. Deputy Fish and Game Commissioner W. K. Robinson of Trabuco was at Laguna this week looking the situation over. Residents of Laguna Beach are indignant over the fact that the Japanese can deplete the supply of abalones in the wholesale manner planned. It is thought that the county law is not sufficient to cope with the situation. CALIFORNIA APPLE SHOW Valuable Prizes Offered For Competitors at Watsonville Exhibition Prizes aggregating over $7,000 will be awarded for exhibits at the coming California Apple Show to be held at Watsonville from October 7th to 12th. These prizes range all the way from cash to silver trophies and merchandise and assume the form of fruit trees of all varieties, orchard tools, spray outfits, agricultural implements and other useful features of the horticultural industry. Last year, the prize list was slightly in excess of $5,000 but the awards this year have been coming in thick and fast from all over the country until even the $7,000 mark may yet be passed before the show opens. With the show less than a month distant the application for exhibit space are flooding the office, but the floor space of the show is so large that it cannot be defended for violation of the State laws that cover the taking of abalones, but they are now said to be following the law closely. The laws regulate the size of the abalones to be taken and stipulate that those that are taken must be brought ashore and separated from the shell on shore. The purpose of this law is supposed to be to allow inspection of sizes by anyone wishing to make such an inspection. The crews now at work on the rocky coast below Arch Beach are attending strictly to their own knitting so far as the law is concerned. They are watching the sizes and are taking the abalones to shore to separate meats and shells. The State law is weak in that it furnishes no real protection to the abalones. As long as the fishermen obey the rules they can rob abalone beds to a finish. If the progress made by the Japs along the rocky coast is continued it will not be long before the abalone will become extinct. At Laguna Beach it is reported that the Japs have rented a piece of ground at the mouth of the Aliso from Thurston, who owns a ranch there, and will make the place their headquarters during the siege of the abalone beds. They will dry the meats there, and prepare them for shipment. Deputy Fish and Game Commissioner W. K. Robinson of Trabuco was at Laguna this week looking the situation over. Residents of Laguna Beach are indignant over the fact that the Japanese can deplete the supply of abalones in the wholesale manner planned. It is thought that the county law is not sufficient to cope with the situation. CALIFORNIA APPLE SHOW Of course, the only Roosevelt had for that Mr. Knox had bled Senate from Pennsylvania accepting Mr. Knox as President because Mr. elected Senator, he was "Permit me to ask if I could ever acquire lessece, lily, in your leaving position, had I not also services you could render." Even more influence did Roosevelt police was Elihu Root, when Secretary of War at State during the Roevington. To The part Root in The Roosevelt making bets with the public is placed as high as 40 each day; 35 is a low estimate. On the low average of 35 each day, the book-makers paid the New California Jockey Club $700 a race, $4,200 a day, $756,000 for the season for the privilege of betting with the public. The lowest cost of running each book is placed at $40 a day, or $1,400 a day for the 35 books, or $252,000 for the season. This makes a total of $1,008,000 that the gamblers had to win from the betting public to pay their running expenses. The probabilities are that $1,500,000 would be nearer the correct figures. This, the public had to lose before the gamblers made anything for themselves. And the gamblers are not in the business for their health. The estimated volume of betting at the track during those 180 days was $36,000,000. This would be unbelievable were it not for the known cost to the gamblers of their operations. An enormous volume of betting was necessary to enable them to meet their expenses. On the day that the New California Jockey Club closed its most successful 1908 season, Henry Klein, son of a New York capitalist, was sentenced by a San Francisco judge to a term in San Quentin. He had stolen money from the establishment where he had been employed as cashier to bet on the races. This gives hint of the source of that $36,000,000. Fifty thousand dollars of it was stolen from the funds of the State University; $20,000 of it was stolen from a prominent Oakland dry goods firm. At the time, a former San Francisco official who had stolen $70,000 from the municipality—the bulk of it lost at the Emeryville race-track—was doing time at Polsom prison. The money waged at Emeryville is not hard to track. The wrecks of human lives that the Emeryville gamb... ANAHEIM GAZETTE T. R. TURNS UPON THE MEN WHO MADE HIM ATTACKS ON KNOX AND ROOT NOT BORNE OUT BY LETTERS WRITTEN AS PRESIDENT DENOUNCES "BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT LEND THEMSELVES TO HIS AMBITION" Theodore Roosevelt was not the author of the so-called Roosevelt policies, any more than Senator Elkins was the author of the Anti-Rebate bill which bears his name. Those policies were formulated by Mr. Roosevelt and his Cabinet. They were the joint product of the combined thought and study and wisdom of the President and his official advisers, precisely as the Anti-Rebate bill was the joint product of the entire Committee on Interstate Commerce, of which Senator Elkins was the chairman. The man chiefly responsible for the anti-trust policy of the Roosevelt administration, was Philander C. Knox, to whom, when he resigned from the Cabinet, President Roosevelt wrote: "There is nothing I can say which will in any way add to the reputation you have won, and no tribute I can pay you which will approach in value that already paid you by the hearty admiration and respect of our fellow citizens. . . . Under you it has been literally true that the mightiest and FARMING DO If the honest, industrious A forever at the mercy of Relief from Has Been Brought The Los Angeles After a stubborn, long drawn out fight, the Evening H and getting the Los Angeles C A Free Public From Grower to Consu The old Plaza (opposite the Old M been set aside for y The man chiefly responsible for the anti-trust policy of the Roosevelt administration, was Philander C. Knox, to whom, when he resigned from the Cabinet, President Roosevelt wrote: “There is nothing I can say which will in any way add to the reputation you have won, and no tribute I can pay you which will approach in value that already paid you by the hearty admiration and respect of our fellow citizens. Under you it has been literally true that the mightiest and humblest in the land have alike had it brought home to them that each was sure of the law's protection while he did right, and that neither could hope to defy the law if he did wrong. In what you have done you have given proof, not merely of the profound learning of the jurist, but of the bold initiative and wide grasp of the statesman. You have deeply affected for good the development of our entire political system in its relation to the industrial and economic tendencies of the time.” During all President Taft's administration Mr. Knox has sat at his Cabinet table advising the President and helping to mould the policies of the Taft administration. During all that time the friendship between Mr. Knox and Mr. Roosevelt remained intact, until the latter became obsessed with an ambition to enjoy a third term in the White House, and espoused policies which compelled Secretary Knox to pronounce them “a violent attack on the autonomy of the States.” Forgetting all that he had said before of Mr. Knox’s “profound learning as a jurist,” of his “bold initiative” and “wide grasp of the statesman,” Mr. Roosevelt immediately denounced him, saying, on May 11 of this year, “I could not expect Senator Penrose's representative in the Cabinet to take any other attitude.” Of course, the only ground which Mr. Roosevelt had for this comment was that Mr. Knox had been elected to the Senate from Pennsylvania, and yet, in accepting Mr. Knox's resignation, tendered because Mr. Knox had been elected Senator, he wrote: “Permit me to add that I do not think I could ever have made up my mind to acquiesce, however reluctantly, in your leaving your present position, had I not also realized the services you could render in the Senate.” Even more influential in formulating the Roosevelt policies than Mr. Knox was Elihu Root, who was successively Secretary of War and Secretary of State during the Roosevelt administration. 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Organization was effected by the election of temporary officers as follows: Mrs. George Balderston of Santa Ana, president; Mrs. Cunningham of Santa Ana, vice-president; Mrs. D. W. Head of Santa Ana; secretary; Mrs. Ella Coons of this city, treasurer. A large number of women signed the membership roll. Germania Halle A splendid Lunch every day. Best brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars for those desiring them. Cold Beer always on tap. Your patronage solicited. We make a specialty of Kentucky Dew Whiskey. J. D. Heitshusen ANAHEIM Cigar Factory ARNOLD & SON, Props. West Center St., Anaheim, Manufacturers "Permit me to add that I do not think I could ever have made up my mind to acquiesce, however reluctantly, in your leaving your present position, had I not also realized the services you could render in the Senate." Even more influential in formulating the Roosevelt policies than Mr. Knox was Elihu Root, who was successively Secretary of War and Secretary of State during the Roosevelt administration. To the part played by Elihu Root in the Roosevelt administration Mr. Roosevelt has himself testified. Speaking at Cambridge on June 25, 1902, he said of Mr. Root: "He has done the most exhausting and most responsible work of any man in the administration, more exhausting and more responsible than the work of the President, because circumstances have been such that a man of Root's wonderful ability, wonderful industry and wonderful conscientiousness, the President could not help but devolve upon him work that made his task one under which almost any other man would have staggered. He has done all this absolutely disinterestedly. Nothing can come to Root in the way of reward save the reward that is implied in the knowledge that he has done something of incalculable importance which hardly another man in the Union—no other man that I know of—could have done as well as he has done it. . . . Root has done this work with the certainty of attack, with the certainty of misunderstanding, and with the certainty of being hampered by ignorance (and worse than ignorance.)" When the election of Mr. Root as temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention seemed imminent to Mr. Roosevelt's ambition to enjoy a third term in the White House, Mr. Roosevelt publicly announced that "Root stands as the representative of the men and the policies of reaction. Has Any Anaheim Person Never Felt That Way? Feel all out of sorts? Tired, Blue, Irritable, Nervous? Back feel lame and achy? That's the story of sick kidneys—Bad blood circulating about; Uric acid poisoning the body. 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