Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-31
our members Of Congress.

California needs men in Congress who
can represent her material interests. In
the nomination of candidates like Nc
Coppin, Thompson, Lynch and others,
the Democrats seem to have wisely con-
sidered this necessity and to have en-.
deavored to meet it. Ihe interests OF
this State are great and peculiar. They
are i'll understood by the rest OF the
country. 1t is hard to make farmer In
Iowa or Illinois understand the perma-
nency and Importance of our fruit inter.
est. He has few apple trees and cur
rant bushes and occasionally Con ord
grapevine. These bear infrequently, and
have no relation to his income and cut
no figure in his calculations. 1t is hard
for him to comprehend that over vast
acreage in California fruit is the same
means of profit that corn and wheat and
hogs ana cattle are TO him. He is active
in attending to that which concerns h'm.
His member of Congress must go to the
.wheat.bin and corn-crib for Ideas. he
must consider the great agricultural
interests of his section. LIS produc.
tions, their protection from accident ana
disease, their transportation to market,
their use as raw material in manufac-
tories. are all the concern of the states
manship of that ssction. Politics must
consider the chinch bug, the potato
beetle and the Hessian fly. When the
grasshopper becomes burden the poll
tician must be against the grasshopper.
When pleuro-pneumoni and the hog
cholera smite at MONDAY the public
l. I'D To p
vastation. But when the people OF that
section are asked to divert their atten-
tion from their own concerns to care Tor
the interests of fruit culture In Callfor-
MIA that culture at once shrinks to the
proportions of their weed invested apple
trees and their gger-infested currant
bushes, and they fall in enthusiastic
interest. Hence we must send men to
Congress from this State who carry
with them the politics OF the orange
and fig and olive, and who know the
raisin as their neighbor and the vine as
power in the land.
We must, in other words, give to our
leading industries the same attention
which goes to hogs and corn In the
Mediterranean States, and we must send
practical business men to represent
them.
Our wine interest has long Sbeen
looked upon in the East as ON par
with the domestic production of currant
wine, that cranky juice which puts the
bowels quarreling and swells the head.
SO long have those people drank foreign
wines when they needed something to
play return game with whisky that
that they little realize the magnitude of
the wine culture here. But this year
we are producing $4,000, 900 gallons OF
wine worth S9,000,000 and yielding
revenue of $S5 to every acre of vines IN
the State. Our raisin crop is hundreds
of thousands of boxes of the finest that
ever went to market. Our olive culture
is striding forward and in years to come
will eclipse that of France and Italy.
1t goes without saying that industries
of such magnitude should not be left to
suffer from the neglect OF our people
nor the lack of knowledge of outsiders.
With an eye to securing in the House
advocates of these swelling interests, the
gentlemen named and their colleagues
have been nominated. 1t must be ad-
mitted in behalf of the Democratic party
that it always did pay strict attention to
the temporalities of the people. The Re.
publican party has taught that it is the
mission of Government to look after the
souls of men. Hence its tendency has
been to try and make them moral and
sober in accordance with the statute in
such case made and provided. To dis
tinguish itself from the Democracy it
took on the title of "the party of God
and Morality" and deserting those
things which appertain to the national
body it took official charge OF the ma
tional soul. Out of its peculiar cult came
the idea of political prohibition, as a
substitute for personal temperance, and
clinging to its skirts is that other move
ment which proposes union OF church
and state by putting certain religious
recognition into the Federal Constitu-
ton.
The Democrats seem to believe that it
is proper to leave morals to the indi-
vidual, and to give all men the open
opportunity to enjoy the blessings of
Providence, in the belief that there Will
be no need of a statute to invoke their
gratitude to the Giver of all good.
When men are fed and sheltered,
clothed and in their right mind, they
need do law to compel them to temper
Fance and order.
For these reasons Democrats go into
Congress from this State to represent
it's business interests. They have no
alliance with the polemicists who be-
lieve that the law should dictate diet,
drink and the form of common prayer.
They are therefore free to secure the
material interests of our people, to carry
the news Of our great industries to q
people TO whom the tale is strange, and
as public officers and private individuals
they will have weight upon the inert
opinion of the East to convince it that
our soil, while devoted to productions
widely differing from those of the East,
is capable of more generous return
and therefore merits the generous
attention of statesmen.-San Francisco
Alta