Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-19
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.

The following letters from the peo-
pie of are presented:
EDITOR HERALD: Go for the Fair
and its management, and we will back
you. GRANGER.
EDITOR HERALD: Will you please
ask the Secretary of the s. d. A. A.
why he was not at the Rink on Satur-
day evening to award the premiums?
His n of Sunday morning shone less
brightly than before. Ell MONTE.
EDITOR HERALD: / have in San
BernardinO county q Durham bull.
The premium offered was $40. 1t
would have cost me $110 in time and
money to exhibit him.
RIVERSIDE.
EDITOR HERALD: Your style of
dealing with the Fair and races meets
with hearty concurrence in this Sec
tion. tits the general expression that
there never was such q failure as that
Fair; and that the HERALD has gained
immensely in popular favor, on ac-
count of its just denunciations, is
self-evident fact. ANAHEIM.
EDITOR HERALD: 1 am fond of ag-
ricultural fairs, also of hOrse-racing;
but with preconcerted effort to make
the former subservient to the latter,
have no sympathy. Let the fairs and
races be held at different times, and be
disconnected. Then no fault can be
found with the management. 1 con-
cur in all the HERALD has said on this
subject. Los NIETOs.
EDITOR HERALD: In regard to the
many unjust prizes given at the Fair,
l notice that So was given for the best
portrait painting, and $40 for the best
brandy. Is it because the committee
were betterjudges of the latter article
that they failed to meet last Satur-
day? A JUDGE OF THE FORMER.
EDITOR HERALD: "Truth is mighty
and must prevail" in spite of owners
of fast horses. The interests of this
county were represented at the Fair by
the displays made by O.W. Childs and
T. A. Carey, and Workman's banana.
What pitiful show! when We have
thousands of acres in grapes (and not
one on exhibition), oranges, lemons,
lines, nuts, peaches, pears, etc. Are
our representatives in the legislature
going to consent to our being taxed
for such an institution, that favors
only the owners of fast horses?
DASH O. WAWEE.
EDITOR HERALD:-YOu stated in
to-day's paper that the "Fair had not
been a success" that it had mot done
credit to Los Angeles and it's re-
sources" l have cOnversed with
many substantial citizens to-day, who
endorse all the HERALD had to say in
regard to the Fair, in to-day's paper.
In fact the farmers of this county
have become disgusted with the way
the Fair is conducted in this county.
Instead of Fair, we have from the
first to the last day of the Fair, horse
races, and scarcely anything else, ex-
cept the Ladies, Equestrian Exhibi-
tiOn. 1 would like to know what it
takes to make an Agricultural Fair?
and what the object of Fair is? Does
Fair mean horse racing? Is the object
of Fair to make the people better?
or is it calculated to draw people to-
gether, and offer inducements to the
people to become gamblers? Many
young men take their first lessons at
the races, called "Fairs," that is the
influence and result Of this Fair! Have
our county or people been benefited?
Take away the fine display of fruit
and trees, of O. w. Childs, and Il. A.
Carey, also of r. Montague; what
would there have been in the Pavilion
to attract any special attention. The
horse racing may have been success
financially, to the Agricultural
Society, but the Fair has been grand
failure in every sense of the word, and
is of no credit to the county. 7
OBSERVER.