Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-09
IMMIGRATION.
The Ideas OF a Practical Farmr-What Ha
Boen Done Elsewhere.

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EDITOR HERALD: The smoke OF
political battle is lifting, enmities
are growing moss, the spiders are
weaving the STROUD for hate, and
the bottle of prog ess, like cham
payne, will fire OFF the cork If you
adroitly touch 1t. THU re are dozen
peut up new departures that ought
to be unsealed, but migration in
volving the ideas and also the facts
both of departure and arrival is the
only element of progress in my
gun powder this morning.
1t has been suspected that our
immigration movement harbors
lurking selfishness with respect to
our sister counties of Southern
California. Did L hint that we
were drifting away from overt poll
tiles whose alias is horrors and
whose pluries alias is selfishness?
And are we drifting on to another
selfishness? "Thus when | shun
Scylla, your father, fall into Cha
rybdis, your mother" [ will lib
orally interpret Shakspeare by de.
claring that we shun the father
of whips and the mother of scorpi-
on7. The suspicion that undue sell
tishness turks in our immigration
movement has it's origin In the fact
that our Aid Sosiety is exclusively
COUNTY ASSOCIATION.
1t has been asked why our immi-
grafton movement is confined to
Los Angeles county, since South
ern California Is in terfused in many
natural and not a few present and
prospective artificial unities. The
reason becomes plain upou explain
alton. 1t arises in the nature of
the scheme; in that which imparts
to the scheme its peculiar and dis.
tinguishing value. What l mean
becomes obvious when / say that
it is proposed asa part of the duties
of the Supervisoral Board of the
Aid Society to edit specific propo-
sitions by our land-hOlders in par
ticular and by and OF our county in
general and to permit these propo-
sitions to 60 abroad. 1t is reason.
able to suppose that more or less
immigration will follow. The
Board wish to have it in their pow
er to direct the immigrant upon
his arrival to the very spot in Los
Angeles county where he will find
the concurrence of the published
and the existing fact. The Board
also intend to administer the
finances OF the Society with that
personal care ana with the assist
ance of the usual checks and bal.
ances that distinguish the system
attic and judicous management of
private business. 1t follows as of
course that the faithful execution
Of these intentions would be in
measure impracticable over az area
much greater than Los Angeles
county. It would be well
if each county of Southern
California had clunty
immigration society. 1t would be
well II every county in California,
Arizona, Oregon aud Washington
Territory had a county i'm migra-
ton society. The reciprocities be-
tween the North and South Allan
tic Coast and between the interior
North and South and between the
interior and he Atlantic seaboard
are now upon q scale of magniti.
cence that, per force of example,
should unity all the regions be.
tween Alaska aud San Diego and
between the Rocky Mountains and
the shores of the Pacific upon any
fair and comprehensive scheme to
secure the like reciprocities, and
which only immigration can Sc
cure within the present age. When
l say unity, / do not mean that
county organizations should give
up their individuality. There are
many ways whereby any number
of such organizations might Coop
crate with mutual advantage with.
out ceasing to be distinctive organ
izations.
While on the subject of the quail
flied unification and cooperation
of county associations, it might be
we'll to add word about the Coop
GRAFTON of citizen with citizen in
the same community. The petty
feuds that curse most small COM
mun!ties never SO clearly make
their own record as unmitigated
curses as when they defeat beneli
cent measures devised for the relief
of suffering community. 1t is
supposed that newspapers are In
the habit of warming each other at
the rate Of about thirteen efficient
furnaces per minute; and yet we
find our Los Angeles editors hear
tily cooperating in the promotion
of numerous measures on behalf of
progress. 1t is also supposed that
the people of the South and the
people of the North could not
unite in scheme of immigration
for the purpose of establishing a
colony of so-called Yankees in the
heart of the cotton belt; but stop
and read the following excerpt
from the Cincinnati Comm erciai,
of April 10, 1871:
From the Southern Argus
PROCEEDINGS OF THE RUHAMA
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF
CENTRAL ALABAMA.
The Society met on the 25th of
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