Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-14

The bill has passed the Senate, and II Is be-
lieyed will pass the House at next session
of Congress. When passed 1t will add much
value to every Xneyshba h IN
every vineyard at rs per. cent. There has
been much said in the cause OF temperance.
It's evils have been painted by the master
minds, and not In 100 vivid colors, ana be.
cause. l, however. differ in the remedy,
for / do not believe that total abstinence
will ever work the cuie aimed at.
1t will not do either for one TO judge
one, or what may not be required by one is
a necessity for another. The general man
requires stimulant. In women we find
this desire finds vent in the tea cup. Man
finds 1t in wine, whiskey, brandy. The
barbarian or the highest civilization in.
dulge in some form Of stimulant. The Ger.
man drinks wine and beer, the Frenchman
almost wholly wine. These are the products
of their country. Both fashion and self
interest recommend their use, and 1t is a
fact that drunkenness and the accompany
ing evils and excesses are unknown.
America is the land Of whiskey. Beer is an
innovation, wine yet luxury; but time
will bring about, as it is fast doing, a
change; and IL the temperance advocates
would bring their energies to bear in advo-
eating the drinking of pure, dry, light wines
the reformation that would dbeaccomplished be
would far exceed the good now accom-
plished. But am going from the subject:
/ wish to sing the praise of our delightful
country. and not its prosy moralizing
When we claim that we excel in the pro-
duction of fruit and fowers-also corn,
hay barley. etc-the products of the garden
should not be forgotten. We have advan-
tages here by reason of our climate making
1T possible to grow various products every
month in the year, enables US to grow pro
duce for less favored localities ard furnish
them at times in the year when no such
article can be had. 1t may surprise many
of my hearers that large business mas
sprung up in Vegetables. like lettuce, rad,
ishes, potatoes, onions. asparagus, ana
especially cabbages. and that many car
loads are annually shipned from Caiiiornia
and from this county. Nor Is the vegetaDle
world the only one where we can claim ex
to be fully abreast with it. Take the horse,
for he can re measured by a rule that no
one can cavil at that is his speed as meas
ured by the best. Take Mr.. Baldwin's stable
OF thorongbbreds, now In the east. perhaps
ing, and by the daily kilograms you read
of his victories against the combined
stables of the east. meeting the best from
Kentucky, New York and all the other
States, even competing against California
horses, and his success is far beyond that of
any other stable with like mum ber of horses
and all his own rearing Is in our own
county. Again, take my own stable, and
there, with all my own raising in our couu-
ty; the four yearold Stamboul won all the
four-year-old stakes in the State; the three
yearold Aicazar won all but one OF the
three-year old stakes and purses, and Sou
dan, two-year-old, won two out OF five
starts. 1t may be charged that we are
boasting, but are we? Is it not true what Is
claimed? 1t may sound fabulous, but
have no desire to tone down facts to make
them sound true. 1t is not in spirit of
envy or to make Odi0us comparisons that
speak. 1 do it to teach the many Young and
bright faces that are before nae the good for.
tune that is about them, and 10 create de-
sire to improve these exceptional opportu'
mites. That ali this State has great, pros
porous future is an assured fact. We wish
1t so. There is no "pent-up Utica that con
Wits Wish vRat Gat we pS"fhl have We feel 'n that
we have as favored land as the
sun ever shone on, and that our produc
tions are the equal of any other locality. 1
have seen all the principal exhibits made
in this State OF agricultural products and
fruits; have seen the favored products from
Placer, and other favored mountain locali
ties. But We, too, have our mountain sides
We have shaded hooks in which fairies
would delight to hold their revels. We
have beautiful mountain cafions with here
and there widening vista. where grow
fruits fit offerings for the gods. and the
equal of any wherever. grown. Place ;
where mountain streams in all their limpid
purity, here tumble and foam over blue
granite rocks, or finding less dcclivity
smDOtnly uOWlng OuWaru, Ouiy hoW anu
then broken by the play Of some trout in
search of his evening meal and mirror like
rejecting the foliage of the arching branch
es of the sycamore, the alder, the cotton
wood or the willow, while the slopes on
either side of the mountain are clothed
with various species of the pine.
would not give much for a man who
with such beautiful surroundings, would.
not get enthusiastic and sing the praise of
such country and feel Home feeling of
my heart linger around me STILL"