Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-25
= VICIOUS AND xEnpAcIoUs ASSAULT

We reprint this morning from the Los
Angeles Herald an article on the Northern
Citrus Fair that is at once so evidently the
product OF vicious ignorance and unal-
loyed prejudice, that no characterization
Of it whatever viii so well serve the pur-
pose of exposing its mendacity as its full
reproduction.
We do not propose to engage in any GUAR
lel with our Los Angeles contemporaries
on this topic. When our answer is put in
nat shall be the end Of il, 50 far as we are
concerned. The facts are so easily demon
atrable that there is no room for a length
ened dispute concerning them
But wnen n deliberate and malicious lie
5 told, even by a Los Angeles paper, CON
corning the people Of this part of Gods
footstool, We propose to nail it as a lie, and
pin it to the wall of fact with the dagger
Of righteous Indignation.
We invite every reader of the REcoRp-
UNION to peruSe the HeraiGs article-to
the people of northern and central Cali
fornia it will be its own best refutation.
Unfortunately, however, there are those
abroad--for falsehood takes the wings of the
wind-under whose observation the Her
ais malicious assault may fall, who have
not the means to probe its untruth. For
the benefit Of all such we call attention to
The fact that the REconD-UNIoN does not
lear to reprint the slanderous product of
enyenomed malice-malice without the
excuse OF slightest cause, too, since there
: no earthly or other reason for any sort
OF ill-leeling or ungenerous competition
between southern and northern California,
regarding the production of citrus fruits.
1t must suffice FOR the present to give a
general, specific, sweeping and unqualified
denial TO the false assertions malignant
lnnuendoes and mendacious statements of
The Herald, which are lies gross as a
mountain, open, palpable." In brief. the
exhibitors in the Northern Citrus Fair
picked the fruit shown, from trees that
have lived through the winters Of all this
section for periods varying from five to
twenty-five years.
The northern citrus belt does not s,,fi;.r
from snow or cold. The present stormy
season has not in uriousy affected the
orange. olive or lemon trees of tie north
ern section. The fair was not "gotten up
for the purpose Of fathering lie or pro-
pagating faisehood, but for the altogether
commendable purpose OF teslifying to be-
lief in the productive capacity of a given
section of State in the development of
which all the people of California have, or
should have, common and proud inter
est; an interest undivisable knowing no
bounds and entertaining no such vicious
guests as jealousy, anger, prejudice and
misrepresentation.
The fruits in the northern fair are not
-sandwiched between those OF Los Angeles
and Riverside. They are exactly what
they are represented to he; nothing more,
nothing less, and as free from deceit and
fraud as heaven is from sin and corruption
The exhibitors who append their names
to the exhibits, and thereby pledge their
honor and fair names for the truth of the
placarded statements accompanying each
exhibit, are citizens whom the Herald viii
lies aud contenns without counting the
enormity Of its deed These men and
women, whom this ill-adyised advocate of
local interests in Los Angeles brands as
frauds and the perpetrators of fraud, stand
IS well before the world as any other peo-
pie of the State, and are the peers of the
best citizenship Los Angeles can produce.
With the winter winds raging over the
plains and moving down tender plants and
slight trees: W tn the uncomfortable waters
Eoaminy along the streets OF Los Angeles,
destroying life an property; with the
mountain nights robed in their mantles of
snow, and the hills bathed in white fakes
down-falling from the gracious hand of ma
lures All Wise Ruler; with weeks Of
clouded skies, and the sun shrinking be-
hind a misty veil that has overshadowed
valley and foothill these many weeks; with
winter, indeed, as stern and rigorous and
severe as is known to the annals of Cali |