Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-04-29
A NATURAL EFFECT.
What has Followed Talk Aboat Subsidy
Two Editors Gone Through With by Burg
lars-The Town Threatens to be Inundated
by Newspapers.

Two Editors Gone Through With by Burg
lars-The Town Threatens to be Inundated
by Newspapers.
From time whereof the memory
of man runneth not to the contrary,
the business of conducting newspa-
pers has been supposed to be an i'm
pecunious one. Shekels in the
pockets of editors were thought to
be as few and far between as angels
visits. Thus far in our lives, not
being connected with a second
hand clothing store or cigar shop,
we have hitherto gone our humble
ways without suspicion of having
any money about us. Highway
men gave us wide berth, impelled
as much by a formidable stick
which we can flourish in shilelah
fashion as by a revolver suspected
to repose in our hip pocket, and
burglars never thought it worth
their while to invade our humble
apartments.
But u brave change has come
over the spirit of our dreams and
the tenor of our fortunes.
The EUening Express started in
about mouth ago, to rave about
subsidized monopoly journals.
Every paper that supported the
new Constitution was in the re-
ceipt of railway shekels. Bank
bills were flying round thicker than
leaves in Vallambrossa strswu.
Now it Is creditable to the sa-
gacity of the average burglar that
he remembered the old cry of "Stop
Thief" and concluded that the
handsome and eloquent editor of
the Express was trying to throw
somebody off his own track. He
opined that the Railway Company
were subsidizing the Express to ad.
vocate the passage of the new Con.
stitution, with its Railway Com
mission of Three, and he Thought
he would like to have some of that
subsidy. lie accordingly hied him.
self to Col. Ayers's residence at
East Los Angeles and burglarized
1t, hunting for subsidy.
The result of the East Los Apge-
les burglary was a mammoth meer.
schaum pipe and five or six dollars
in money.
Finding that no subsidy of salts
lying dimensions was to be found
at the residence of the editor of
the E:rpresS, the burglar next con.
cluded that the editor of the HER
AID was the original Jacobs of the
subsidized guild. Accordingly, he
came down upon us, in our apart.
ments on Fort street, in "dem-
milton" Assyrlan manner. The
shutters were pried open. the low.
cred windows raised and our pants
and vest, reposing confidently upon
chair near the window, were
dragged out on to the porch and
rfled of their cotents, VIZ, a sum
ranging somewhere between $5
and Sc.
Had it not been for this hellish
cry of subsidy, raised by the editor
OF the -ErpreSS, both of us might
to-day be rejoicing in a small but
modest sufflciency. For our part
we proclaim the fact that our
wants are few, our income not re-.
dundant and We mourn that So or
So with all the poignaucy with
which some famous somebody or
other mourned over some ce!e-
brated something or other. If our
grief was not as agonizing as that
OF David over his long-haired Alb.
solem, as that of Achilles over his
dead Patroclus, as that of Penelope
over her wandering Ulysses, it was
at least acute. Had it not been for
this damnable talk about subsidies
that money would still be ours.
But that is not all. nor the worst.
The intelligence will go forth to an
lnquiring and iIquisitive world
that two Los Angeles editors have
been robbed in single week and
that the thieves failed to commit
suicide on discovering the contents
of their pockets. AS result, q
swarm of aspiring newspapermen
will pour into this wretched baili-
wick. Since the fact Is admitted
that two robberies of members of
the guild here have resulted In at
least Sll net, there Is no hope for
those of us who have stood the
storms of fortune.
Those two robberies are the be-
ginning of the end.
And the whole train of disasters,
when fully consummated, will be
referable to this monopoly-subsidy
talk.
AS the Frenchman said, we
"disgust."