Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-08

Tho HERALD office Is connected with the tclo-
phone system Of Los Angeles city and county.
Orders foJ Advertisements or Job work mas be
sent through thls medium 10 number lSe.
Mr.. D. N. Rowe Is the Santa Ana agent Of
tho HERALD.
A Donbt Hemoved-The Remedy
for Threatened Peril.
There can no longer be any doubt that
San Francisco Is imbued with aprofound
jealousy of Los Angeles and of all other
points which threaten to become formida-
BILE competitive centers Of trade. Hor
merchants, instead of disposing Of their
commercial concerns so as to accommo-
date them to the changed conditions Of
business on this Coast. have settled
down into stolid, dogin-the.manger
spirit Instead OF seeing. with pride
and pleasure, the growth of all sections
Of a splendid commonwealth, these short.
sighted people would like to force a re-
turn to methods which have passed away
forever and aye. Az well seek to re-
vivs tho code Of the Medes and persiana
or Of Drsco as to again make operative
the peculiar business methods upon
which San Francisco largely built up
her hectic prosperity.
Heretofore, when the HERALD asserted
that tho merchants and capitalists Of
San Francisco were jealous Of the growth
Of Los Angeles, Sacramento, Stockton.
and other thriving interior places, the
statement was met with, in many cases.
q smile Of derision. San Francisco. II
was thought. was SO secure in her metro.
pslitan status that she would disdain the
odlous role Of rspressing the develop
ment Of ths State at large. Charitable
people pooh-poehed the idea, whether
they resided in Los Angeles or else
whore, while tho San Franciscan affected
to break into broad guffaw at the very
suggestion.
Our own people, at least, can no longer
afford to be Indifferent as to this matter
One Of our leading citizens has seen the
memorial, addressed to the managers of
the Central and Southern Pacific Rail-
ways. to which is appended the sigma.
tures Of most Of the leading merchants
Of San Francisco, demanding that Los
Angeles aud Sacramento shall be reduced
to q state Of commercial vassalagc. Only
. very careless person. indeed, can put
aside a palpable fact Of that kind.
For two years past Los Angeles has
been growing in wonderful ratio. This
has been the case not only with the city,
but with the county at large. Produc.
tion, Of varied, manifold and remuner-
ativs character. has kept pace with the
tremendous settlement which has been
witnessed here. To-day. at least in the
hurly- -burly, toll and trouble seen in our
streets, on all hands, we are actually
varying upon the metropolitan status.
There 10 something Of the glut of Broad.
way. In New York City, in the crush Of
trafiic In all our leading thorough.
fares. The locomotion of teams Ia
rendered still more difficult by the
piles Of building material which obstruct
our streets in avery direction. The
transfers of real estate kereabouts OK.
Deed in number and amount those
recorded in the city and county of San
Francisco. The great Babel on the Bay,
instead Of regarding with sympathy tho
splendid progress chronicled in Los
Angeles, and. In lesser degree. in Sac.
rAmento and other growing cities, looks
on with frowning brow and and irrecon-
eilabls .impatience at this auspicious
movement. The growth of Portland
stir her spleen to the depths. She is
insane enough to think that she can
play the roll Of commercial King
Canute and whip back the very waves
of trnde. She beholds with dismay
great multitudes Of persons OF means
and enterprise pouring into Los Angeles
ION the South, and Portland on the
North, from the East, and thinks that
she can pronounce, through the imperial
railway system Of the Pacific Coast, q
psrsmptory veto on further progress.
A brief retrospect is here not amiss.
II ever there was city built up on false
commercial principles 1t is San Fran.
cisco. During the war, while the whole
country was reaping the benefits of the
adoption or the national currency, the
merchants and bankers of San Fran.
cisco debarred the people Of this
State from the large profits which
would have resulted from hearty
adoption and belief in the green.
back and in our national bonds. They
did this in order that they might buy
goods 10 New York with greenbaoks,
when the latter were worth only thirty
seven and n-half cents on the dollar, and
sell them to the people of California for
the same face amount in gold coin. with
the usual profits and commissions supef.
added. They gloried in the role of play.
ing rsurer to the whole Coast; and their
greatest delight was, not in watching
and fostering the development of su-
perb domain endowed with practically
unlimited possibilities, but in bringing
about periodic eras of foreclosure. in
which they could grind the people OF the
interior as between the upper and the
neither milestone. What splendid agen.
eies OF development, in view OF the un-
prscedented profits which were attendant
spcn belief Ia the ultimate favorable
outcome Of the war for the Uuion and the
consequent rehabilitation Of the national
credit, were left unavailed of by these
usurers Of the Pacific Coast, in order
that they might make the money.chang-
sr's excrbitant gain involved in buying
for greenbacks and selling for gold coin.
We do not for moment believe that
she Southern and Central Pacific Rail.
ways will abandon their sagacious policy
OF developing the whole State. in order
to cater to the unreasonable and extor.
tonate demands of the merchants of San
francisco. We opine that those corpor.
stions have entered into an enlightened
and comprehensive system of assisting
development throughout the whole State;
certain that, In such just scheme Of
transportation, will be not only their
own greatest ultimate profit, but that
Los Angeles. at least, has reached stage
of development and wealth in which she