Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-08

the HERALD.
A Champion FaIsiner.
II Is perhaps just as well that. now
and then, the universal note OF praise
which visitors bestow upon California
and especially upon Los Angeles county
should be sandwiched with the outgiv-
inga Of some atrabilious individual, who
colors everything with a spleen which is
the result Of ~ badly adjusted chyme
and chyle; e. Of the possession OF tape
worms OF variant lengths. Such n dis.
gruutled creature, in the person of Mr.
George w. Hardwick, has lately been
pouring his jeremiads into the
ear of the editor Of the Indiana
Farmer, who conducts period
ical published at Indianapolis, Ind.
This fellow claims to have resided In
Los Angeles county for the nine months
prior to his visit to the sanctum Of the
Farmer. lie il sort Of male Cassan-
dra, who regards the climate and
especially the water about Los Angeles
az injurious to many people. Now, we
might admit all this without conceding
anything very much in derogation of
either on the theory propounded by
Shakespeare. that "what is one mans
meat Is another mans poison" He has
discovered that the afternoons here in
mid.winter are cold and chilly, and that
the price OF fuel is very high. Here
again we are obliged to concede that
Hardwick gets his work in without abso-
lutely tearing the truth TO tatters. But
this disgruntled Hoosier has by no
means got through with us. Horrible to
relate, he has actually discovered that
people die here! II is true that even the
climate of Los Angeles cannot give the
consumptive a new set Of lungs, and
that many of this unfortunate class, who
have sought this region as dernier re-
sort, in many instances, years too late,
do shuttle off this mortal coil. /" 1is
true, tis pity, and pity It's trne. >
Thus far Mr.. Hardwick's lying is OF
the character which is described by
jurists as the suppression of the truth.
He is careful not to say that people all
over the globe kill themselves by max
ing water an exclusive beverage, aud
that while the water Of the Los Angeles
river is as pure as any on the globe, we
have here most excellent and pure wines
and brandies to mix with ii, thus con.
ducing to longevity with people who do
not roll over into the gutter as soon as
they venture to taste or handle what, if
not abused, was intended by heaven as a
blessing to man. lie also indulges in
the lie of suppression as to consumptives,
by eoneealing the fact that, al
though many Of these people die who
come here too late, many others
who have timely availed them
selves of our matchless climate
not only live, but become robust
persons. A gentleman who is on the
editorial staff Of the HERALD. and who
halls from indianapolis, the city where
the Farmer is published, is striking
example of completely rehabilitated
health following upon settlement in
Los Angeles. We do not work mira
cles here. We simply assist nature.
Mr.. Hardwick again indulges in the
suppressio reri when he talks about the
fuel question. He knows very well, if
he has really lived here, that for three
hundred days in the year we have eli
mate which invites one to the open air,
and that a twig or two of wood in the
CRATE mornings and evenings in the Fall,
Winter and Spring is all that even inva-
lids need here, and that the fuel con.
sumed by an average family in Indiana
to carry it through the Winter would
serve for dozen families in Los Ange.
les.
There are drawbacks about this sec
tion, but Mr. Hardwick plainly shows q
disposition to lie about us, as well as TO
suppress the truth. Thus, in the fol-
owing passage, he simply falsiies like a
pirate. HE (Haidwi reports great
encouragement and dependency, says
the Farmer. "among many OF the set
"tlers, who have invested their all in
"land, and are unable to make living
"upon it or to dispose of it, and says
''that this and loss of health drive
''many persons to suicide The
Sazarac Club may have Hardwick' s
peer and Ananias, by mighty effort,
might have rivaled his rampant men
dasily, but we doubt both propositions
As matter of fact the real estate valu.
ations OF Los Angeles city and county
are nearly as large as those of the terri.
tory of Utah, lacking only $1,000, 900 of
that sum. Two-thirds of the mortgage
Indebtedness OF this city and county have
been cancelled during the past two years
During the past two years and six months
the population of the city OF Los An
geles has increased from eleven thou.
sand and few odd hundred souls to
easily twenty-five thousand, and the
volume of incoming population was never
larger than now. By table published
in the HERALD on New Years day We
showed that upwards of six millions Of
dollars worth of real estate was sold in
the city and county of Los Angeles in
1852, while considerably over nine mill
ion dollars worth changed hands in 1888,
the sales for the two years mounting TO
the enormous total of SIS, 500, 900. In
view OF such facts it goes without saying
that anybody who desired to get rid of
his property at fair figures would have
been readily accommodated in the period
embraced in Harlwicl,'s insincere and
false statement.
This mans willful perversion Of the
facts reminds us of the exclamation of
fat old Jack Falstafr, Good Lord, how
this world Is given to lying"
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