Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-13
gus Angeles 4lerald,
CITY AND COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
SATURDAY, ,......,... MARCH 19, 1915.
Golden Words.

The San Bernardino Guardian of
the 18th inst. has the following sensi-
BILE editorial:
The counties of Southern California
Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego especially-should cooper
ate heartily for the common good.
Sectional jealousy is almost as con-
temptible as domestic jealousy; par
ticularly when there is hardly any
thing to be jealous about. 1t was the
fashion some time since to set up an
imaginary antagonism between Los
Angeles and San Diego, just as it has
been the fashion among a few fossils
in Los Angeles and San Bernardino to
cultivate an imaginary rivalry and a
real ill-feeling between the two latter
counties. Now, after all, there is no
real rivalry, either in the present or
prospective, possible between Los An
geles and San Diego. Nature made
Los Angeles commercial center-in
short, the commercial center of our
extensive country-rich in minerals,
rich in soil, and teemingly productive
in the precious articles of commerce.
Geographically Los Angeles, with her
incomparably rich back country, must
become great city. True, she has not
nearly so good harbor as San Diego,
but 1T is equally true that she has inn
mense advantages in her magnificent
valley, fertile hills, and dependent back
country, which San Diego can never
hope to possess, had she Scott's Texas
and Pacific terminus located next door
to the Horton House tomorrow. Los
Angeles has no need to dread San
Diego; San Diego would exhibit a sad
want of sense were she to set up in Op-
position to Los Angeles. Again, San
Diego with her immediate resources
and prospective railway advantages,
has every reason to anticipate period
of progress and prosperity. True, she
cannot build up southern San Fran
cisco, q la Aladdin, as she once fondly
INDUCED sanguine hopes of doing; but
she can become fiourishing CONNER
cial town, gradually and surely. The
prosrey:ty of her great Northern
neighbor, Los Angeles, will not at all
retard the growth of San Diego; Oh
the contrary, it will tend to increase it.
AS to San Bernardino, although it is
more intimately, by geographical prox-
unity and commercial intercourse,
connected with Los Angeles; although
it must, by the ineXorable fats of ge-
ography, commerce and railway, con-
tinue an ally of Los Angeles, yet its
rapid growth will in measure stimu-
late similar progress in San Diego.
Each of the three counties has its pecu-
liar recommendation, but let any two
of them take on rapid growth, and
the third must be more or less bene-
flied. Let us not disparage each other
then. Let us work, first for our re-
spective counties, next for Southern
California, especially for the Southern
Southern California. The Guardian
has of late faithfully adhered to this
course of policy, and we are glad to
see that we are effecting great deal
of good, especially in conjunction
with the liberal press of Los Angeles,
in bringing about cordial feeling
between Los Angeles and San Bernar-
dino. Apropos of all this dissertation,
we reproduce the following from an
admirable article i'm the San Diego
Union of the 9Th inst They are
golden words and deserve reproduction
In every paper in the three counties.
Says the Union:
deed reason to be sensitive to the at
tacks which have been leveled against
them from the very beginning of the
existence of their city by San Fran
cisco in particular and other points in
less degree. In plain language, they
don't like to be lied about; and we
don't know any people who are not
sensitive in this regard. But, as to
envy or fear in view of the growth of
Los Angeles, San BernardinO or other
points in Southern California, we can
affirm that no such foolish feelings
exist. On the contrary, San Diego
views with the liveliest qualification
the large accessions of population to
the adjacent counties and the rapid
development of their great resources.
We regard the advance of our neigh
bors as directly contributing to the
prosperity of San Diego, with which
those flourishing communities will so
soon be connected by railroad. We
should rejoice if $4,000 people could
be settled around Los Angeles before
the end of the present year. The more
producers brought into Southern Cali
fornia, the more rapid the growth of
the commercial center and distribut-
ing point of the great region stretch
ing from Point Conception away
beyond the Colorado to the Eastern
boundary of Arizona. San Diego
welcomes immigration to any quarter
of this wide territory"
These words have the right ring to
them. There is certainly no sectional
jealousy there. Build up the a0hole
country, and the towns will regulate
their population and business capacity.
If Los Angeles. advances rapidly, San
Diego is benefited; so is San Bernar-
dino. The people will go to whatever
section suits them; county rivalry is