Los Angeles daily herald., 1885-12-12

OIL Los Anhtlth. lht tit1 ucAhfh'hs ~ ''7NN
and all other municipal notices appear only
In It's columns.
Afr. b. n. Rowe is the Santa Ana agent of
III nEnALn.
LOS Angeles, san Francisco aud
san Diego.
Some time ago the San Francisco
Post contained a leading editorial in
which IL assumed that there was a
race between Los Angeles aud San
Diego as TO which should be the me-
tropolis Of Southern California. This
was, not to be offensive TO
our charming neighboi to the
south OF us, as though some
New York journal had contain
ed an editorial which would raise
the question as to whether or no Lon
don or Hamburg would be the center
OF the worlds exchanges in the imme-
diate future. The spirit that ami
mated this article was an outgrowth
of the chagrin and jealousy with
which San Francisco looks upon the
phenomenal progress of this city.
The leviathan by the bay just now is
stretched out dormant, and It is meas
urably annoying TO her people TO hear
OF the rapid strides which are being
made in wealth and population in the
county seat OF what they were once
wont TO contcmptuously designate AZ
one of the "cow Counties" That this
jealousy exists is not matter Of spec
ulation. II was shown, and in most
hostile manner, by the united attempt
of the business men Of San Francisco
to induce the managers of the South
ern Pacific Railway to withdraw from
Los Angeles the advantages which
her railway and geographical situation
gave her. The Post, upon being called
to task by the HERALD for its un-
founded theory, in its issue of the 9TH
inst, says
The Los Angeles Herald is some
what grieved because the Post ven-
tured TO speak of San Diego as II rival
to Los Angeles. We shall not quarrel
with our esteemed contemporary on
that question. When the marvellous
progress that marks, not merely those
cities but the whole State, shall have
slackened, it will be time enough TO
dispute about precedence. Mean
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push its own interests, not stopping to
quarrel with its neighbors for pushing
theirs, something will be developed
more substantial than prophecies and
arguments.
Our esteemed and sprightly contem-
porary is not usually given TO such
/" breaks, and il repairs its slur very
gracefully, as follows:
For our own part, we feel proud OF
Los Angeles, not altogether ON its
own account, but because its aston
ishing career reflects credit ON Cali
fornia. For some time San Francisco
has been burdened with maintaining
the reputation OF the whole Pacific
coast, and we are glad to have some
assistance. At the present moment
Los Angeles is undoubtedly the chief
representative before the world of
the new tendencies that are trans
forming the whole face OF our state.
Its name is the first one mentioned
in the councils OF Eastern and Euro
pean families when they are dicnss-
ing the desperate proposition TO take
their lives in their hands and trust to
Providence in the savage West.
What its population may be, we
shall make no attempt to guess.
From II 900 five years ago, it
has Jumped TO $4,000 or 10000,
or 10000. But whatever the figures
may be now, in II year they viii he
quite different, and what they may
touch by the time the next census is
taken, tires the mind to imagine. In
1880 Los Angeles was consorting on
equal terms with San Jose and Stock
ton. Now it considers Sacramento
unworthy passing mention, speaks
patronizingly of Oakland, and com
pares itself in some respects with San
Francisco. The HERALD asserts that
no point on the American continent
can show such u rate of growth. Al
though Denver and st. Paul and
Minneapolis might object To the state
ment, the claim is at least not absurd.
and for such comprehensive declara-
ton, that is saying a great deal. And
the volume of trade, the advance in
building, the development Of those
social and intellectual qualities that
distinguish a city from u village, all
keep pace with the progress in popu-
lation.
Nothing could be lairer than the
foregoing, but the Post follows il up
with the subioined Mephislophelian
passage;
But ii Los Angeles were unique, ii
its excellent newspapers aud beauti-
ful new opera house represented
nc.h.ue -. ahe resources of that
''imperial county, which as the llER-
AID Justly remarks, contains eighty
thousand people, aud will soon dou-
bile the number, we should take little
interest in it. 1t is because the same
forces that have produced such brill
liant results there are at work through
out the State, raising California to
the rank for which she was created,
that we watch with pride the advance
OF our southern friends The Los
Angeles Of to-day is the Colusa and
the Fresno OF the future The stream
of population SO long absorbed in the
prairie States has reached rs at last.
Between 1870 and 1850 Kansas ont
stripped Ms, and at the end OF
the decade was leading rs hy lia0h.
In the last five wears We have made
mp the lost ground and are again
about TO take the lead Probably We
shall never he passed 10y any slate
that is now behind us, hut shall keep
on overhauliug our tagging compel.
itors until We reach our natural posi-
lion of first, or at least second com
monwealth in the mon. To that
end, we in San Francisco shall well
come the prosperity of aur sister
cities, whose aid is So essential to the
great end jealousy iu such a mat
ter is impossible. \ city whose pop
lilation at the last census exceeded
the combined numbers ol all other
places OF any Importance in the vest
srn third oi the Union, may icel
reasonably sure OF its rank.
Jess so. Los Angeles is doing very
well, hut she has exactly the same
advantages. neither more nor less,
that Colusa and Fresno counties have.
The plan is 10 confuse matters 10 the
vision OF the outsider, and 10 lead him
10 think that there are any number OF