Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-04-05
what we Know .nd should DO.

what We Know aud should DO.
We entirely sympathize with the
movement to encourage our HON e
Industries. If Los Angeles is ever
to be q city of any pretensions she
must secure a prosperous and self
reliant class of mechanics. There
Is no royal road to city growth. A
blanket or a piece of cashmere
manufactured here should receive
the preference, quality being equal,
over the foreign article. In fact,
the Los Angeles, article, even if
slightly inferior, should be bought
at least by our own people. A lib
eral patronage is the mother of per.
fiction in any manufacture. The
flrst tentative efforts of our homo
artizans should be encouraged. We
should buy and use Los Angeles
soap, Los Angeles flour, butter,
lard, bacon, cheese and dried fruits.
In every way We can, We should
aim to build.up a consumption Of
our home products preparatory to
their general introduction abroad.
Owing to the enterprise of the
Messrs. Lankershim & Van Mugs,
our own brands of flour will shortly
become very popular all over Cali
fornia. They will make very su-
perior article and it will come into
general demand, in consequence.
Our manufacturers should aim at
excellence. That is their duty and
encouragement Of their efforts
should be the aim of the local con-
sumner. AS fine brooms as we ever
saw were made by the Los Angeles
broom factory. They were made
FROM broom corn grown in this
county. The dirtiest wretch that
ever lived would be washed whittier
than hyssop by Gibson's Los An.
geles soap. When any one comes
to Los Angeles to engage in any
business by which mechanics can
earn living in his employ, We
should try to further his enter
prise. 1t wouldn't hurt us to give
hf,,, m ,,ra,,,i,,p, IN fa.,k
By the general adoption of such o
policy Los Angeles county would
soon profit from the phenomenal
richness of her soil, her happy geo.
graphical situation and the wonder.
full variety of her produc-
lions. People here should
become industrious. Many man
who is suffering from bone laziness
from the simple absence of elbow
grease-has the insane idea that c
living can't be made in Los Ange
les county-that it don't pay Il
farm here. The probability is tina
this year we will hear the com
plant that barley is so plentiful
that it WASN'T worth while to raise
it. Yet, on inquiry, i. will be
found that the price of barley is
too high to admit of its profitable
manufacture iuto whisky in Los
Angeles county. With green feed
all through the year, We don't
manufacture any cheese or butter
for export. With more corn in LoF
Angeles county than is raised in
all the rest of the State put to.
gether, we have hitherto exported
very little pork and bacon. With
q yield from our vineyards of from
three to five times that of the mosl
favored sections of France, only
three or four of our vignerons have
made the business pay. With the
perfect knowledge that the Mis-
sion grape il not adapted for wine
making, and that Mr.. L. J. Rose
and others, through the intro iuc
tion of the Blaue Elbe, aud
other foreign grapes, have made
wines which will compare favora.
bly, with the vintages of the
Rhine, most of our vignerons
make no effort to better them.
selves.
We can bring wealth and pros.
perity out of our own inertness, il
we only care to do it, The whole
thing Is in our own hands. People
succeed by the virtues of industry
and perseverance and the God.like
gift Of common sense. Los Ange.
les county will, in twenty years
be the richest spot on the Ameri
can continent. The question is
will this result be brought about b,
the people who are here now or by
those who will shortly come here