Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-01-29

won in her unselfish period has Ian
guished short OF complete justification.
So il comes TO pass that California is
the unfinished window In Aladdin's
tower, waiting the return OF the cum
ming architect to complete it. The
hand that shall do II Is not moved by
the spirit which gangrenes the pages
Of the HERALD. Reckless misrepre-
sentation TO elevate one section OF
the State upon the furnished repu-
tation OF another section will not do
| it. A generous rivalry is consistent
with loyalty TO the whole State, but
| detraction and falsehood are not the
weapons Of a generour warfare.
The following is the article com
mented upon, which appeared in the
HERALD as soon as this delectable
conspiracy developed itself
The HERALD Sunday had a few tenn
perate remarks about the prime com
edy OF the age which is involved in
| the people of the northern and CEN
| trail counties Of California setting up
citrus fruit belt. We have not cared
| to characterize this outrage on truth
az il deserved ID is a fruit Of the
conspiracy tactics Of the last year,
citrus exhibits in Northern California
never having been heard of prior to
| that date. The northern and central
counties have seen with dismay that
| the tide OF immigration from the East
and the world at large IL setting ire
sistibly towards Southern California.
They have, as sort Of breakwater,
made up their minds 10 deceive the
people, and we regret 10 see that the
San Francisco papers are pdriiceps
crimiais in this plan. As an instance,
we append the following from the
Call.
I'VE omit CaH article.--Ed. 4ta
In the foregoing we have the proof,
clear and irrefragable, that the lead
ing newspapers of San Francisco are
willing to lend themselves to one Of
the grossast frauds of the age. No
excess OF charity can disguise the
clear Peter Funk enormity OF this per-
Torrance. The writer in the Call,
unless he is an inconceivable ass--or-
binary assninity may be assumed oil
| Gail editorial writer's without the i'm
putation of moral obliqnity-knows
that 10 the foregoing paragraph he is
wilfully deceiving his readers.
The truth is that the probability is
extreme that most Of the oranges ex
hibited at the Northern Citrus Fair
have been slyly purchased from Los
Angeles or Riverside growers. That
few oranges have been grown in
Colusa and other counties in the
neighborhood of Winters and
Smartsville, cannot be doubted,
but they have been grown
under infinite difficulties and
have at no time assumed
anything like a commercial PROPOSE
ton. They have been cherished and
nourished as a sort Of outdoor exotic.
They have been guarded as the apple
of the eye of their owner. They
have been wrapped in blankets at
night, and have received undivided
care and attention at all critical
stages of their existence. Taking all
portions OF Northern and Central
California together, II is fair to say
that perhaps thousand dollars
worth of oranges have been sold
from these trees in the last twenty
years. As commercial proposition
this is not an overshadowing show
ing. But still IL is enough to buttress
a Peter Funk programme.
We observe that this Peter Funk
exhibit is to be taken down to San
Francisco. With the additional pur-
chase Of two or three carloads of Los
Angeles and Riverside oranges, sand
wiched in between a couple of cargoes
OF the Tahiti imports, it will probably
be made to do good service in the
game Of deception at the Mechanics
Pavilion at the Golden Gate. Every
thing goes in Peter Funk layout.
The melancholy feature of tie whole
thing is that before the present sea-
son end1 every orange tree in North
ern and Central California will be
frozen dead toits roots. The snow will
lay deep and long over the cit
rus fruit belt of Northern and
Central California. The people
there will be obliged to dig their
trees up and set them beside the
kitchen fire to have any guarantee
that single one of them will live to
shiver and quake in the rigors of the
winter of the next year. Amongst
the exhibitors mentioned at the Sac
ramento Citrus Fair as recorded in
the Colusa Sun, we notice the name
of Mr.. l.. +. Moulton. This gentle
man, some years ago, came down to
Los Angeles county, bought six thou
sand orange trees and set them out
on his place in Colusa county. OF
the six thousand one tree, through
the plentiful use of blankets, has
succeeded in living.
Just here is the CHASTITY hypocrisy
of this Northern Citrus Fair. 1t was
intended to distract attention from the
semi-tropical citrus belt of Southern
California Providence, which hates
a lie, has so arranged the present sea-
son as TO remove Florida from the
competitors OF Southern California as
an orange producer, and to assure the
death of every orange tree, outside of
dollhouse, which stands in the
northern and central portions of the
Golden State