Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-10-23
gus Angeles Aerald.
TheLargest Circulation Of any Paper
Printed in the County.
That Calcium Light.

upon us and we are dazzled. The Ju-
piter Tonans of San Diego has thun-
dered, and we are terrified. He has
prophesied and we tremble. He has
used large words and we have gone to
the Dictionary. He has quoted Dick
ems and the Classical Antiquities, and
we have at once consulted Smith and
Modern Literature. He has accused
us of being middle aged, and we have
gone to the glass to see whether we
are growing old.
Failing in his judicial aspirations,
failing even in electing his candidate,
having bolted the regular nominee,
because he himself was beaten in the
nomination, our Jupiter Tonans turns
prophet. He prophecies defeat for the
regular nominee, and wonderful sue
cess for his own candidate, he builds
majorities, and has his Judge passing
decisions and winning laurels on the
bench. How successful q prophet he
was, let the vote say. He probably
had confounded prophets and profits
that is, the ducats were jingling in his
pocket before his advocacy appeared,
for this is the way San Diego, with its
scanty 5000, living upon the few un-
fortunate eastern people, whom exten-
sive advertising have brought into
their midst, supports its dailies.
Encouraged by his success in the ju-
dicial canvass, this Jupiter Tonans
puts on the garments of the prophetic
hag, and becomes prophecies. Thus
she prophecies, with her usual accu-
racy:
The proprietor of that paper is a re-
tired schOOlmaster. We know this by
an infalliable inspiration. He is just
verging ON middle age, and has ac-
quired that fixed pedagogic pig-head-
edness that prevents his taking the
advice of friends. We have heard of
people doing very absurd things.
Quilp's boy, in cold Curiosity Shop"
who always VOuld stand on his head,
was one OF them. But that left that
urchin's pennies and marbles in his
pocket. This enterprise of starting
the HERALD was not only a folly, but
an expensive one.
The protector of the HERALD must
be great criminal, if, as Talleyrand
said, q blunder is worse than a crime.
1t was terrible blunder to start such
a sheet in Los Angeles. 1t showed, in
the first place, that the poor fellow is
out of his reckoning; and, when the
mariner is out of his bearings, he is
sure to be cast on the rocks. The alb
surdity of it! Here is this fated man
sneering at San Diego, which is so
alive, alert and intelligent that, with
only about thirty-tive hundred people,
she would support two daily newspa-
pers to the one Los Angeles could pre-
tend to support. He goes to work and
fiings out sheet that would be large
enough for San Francisco, and does
not hear the roar OF the financial
breakers ahead. For little while
Los Angeles may handle the goods
which go up to San Bernardino, the
Clark and Ivanpah Districts, and then
will have to fall back upon that solita-
ry wOolen mill, and peddle oranges
and sour wine Tor living. What a
future to be exultant about? AS the
San Diego "back country" she will
do very we'll, but there is an end.
Still that remOrseless veil keeps ris-
ing, and We see the poor fellow the
subject of speculation amongst the
cent. per cent. people. he will be
able to write, on the margin OF his
big sheet, the names of his few SUBJ
scrIbers, for the Los Angeles folk, ex-
cept the dilettanti, are not reading
people, and the latter like to read the
San Francisco and eastern dailies,
and to borrow the World, and read
that.
But the end is soon reached. Mad
with the shame of having mistaken
Rip Van Wrinkle village, in which
there are number of very elegant
and aristocratic people, for an en-
bryo city, this newspaporial Charles
the Twelfth, born "to point moraP
of misplaced confidence, and to "adOrn
tale" of disappointed nope, will some
fine morning, take the cars for the
Breakwater. Embarking on the steam
er, he will come down to Point Iona;
and, as the vessel rounds that splendid
headland, the glorious panorama of
San Diego, nesting at the foot OF her
gentle mesa, with the sun emblazOn-
ing her elegant villas and gorgeous
public buildings, will burst on his
dazzled but respondent vision. 1t
will madden him. With the cry of a
lost spirit, he will plunge overheard
into the deep waters which circle
Zuniga shOal, and the memory OF the
Los Angeles HERALD, and its ambiti-
Gus conductor will have been gathered
to the "limbO of things lost on EARTH"
Our pedagogical experience has
been confined to two years. We had
the reputation of being very good
schoolmaster. Our newspaper ex-
perience dates as long and as far back
as that of the editor of the World,
and we had the reputation of getting
up a very good newspaper.
That we knew what We were
about, our 600 daily subscribers, con-
stantly increasing at the rate OF 100 a
week, and our we'll filled advertising
columns, is proof.
The filings at Los Angeles are but
the fiOunderings of the advocates of a
city who see their cause to be lost.
They see Los Angeles the centre of
railroads, radiating out in four direc-
tions. They see it growing steadily,
fine buildings erected, and the elite
of the east coming to make it their
home, while the grass is growing
In the streets of the city WWith