Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-11
no,tco 10 Mail Subscribers.
MONDAY, JUNE -, 1888.
The Eastern Press, Southern Cali
f0rnia and its Future.

The Eastern press, Southern Cali
fornia and its Future.
Perhaps the most singular feature OF
the recent development Of Southern Cal
ifornia was the concerted attack ON it all
along the line by the Eastern press. 1t
came with an unanimity that was ac-
centuated ty the laudation OF Florida
which appeared in the same papers al
the samc time. These assaults were led
by the New York Herald, and were re-
echoed from Omaha to st. Paul and Min
neapolis. The same astute correspondents
who thought that things had been over
done in Los Angeles, San Bernardino,
San Diego and the other southern coun-
ties OF California, saw merit in expansive
land schemes in Lower California,
which were being carried on with
all the perilous incidents attending
plans whose success was, after
all other business eventualities had
been provided for, contingent upon the
adjustment of Mexican land titles and
the continued friendship of the Mexican
Government. On the part Of the press
of Nebraska, Minnesota and other north
western States this hostility could be
readily accounted for. Many of their
NEST valuable citizens and heaviest cap
itnlisls have, during the past six or seven
years, been coming to Southt RI Cali
fornia, investing their money here to
great advantage and writing back glow
ing accounts OF their pecuniary success
and of our climatic and other attractions
to their late neighbors and business as
sociates. On all grounds it was highly
desirable to check this movement, and
the Northwestern press saw with ecstasy
that their cause had been espoused by
the New York Herald. Precisely what
were the motives which led that errati(
journal to adopt its inimical course
is still matter of conjecture. Any sol
ution of the difficulty is complicated by
the fact that its principal editor, Mr.
Charles Nordhoff, had been one OF the
earliest and most encomiastic OF the adj
vocates Of this section. So unhesitating
was he in his endorsement of the posi-
bilities OF Southern California that he
had been denounced as prejudiced and
paid "boomer." Mr.. Nordhof had lived
to see all his predictions not only realized
but more than surpassed. Indeed, in
view OF accomplished facts, his views
which originally appeared in the form o.
letters to the New York Tribune, in the
spring OF 1872, and which were shortly
after embodied in book form, seem the
merest prose. In face of the things
actually accomplished, his predic'
tions are tame to degree
If he were to drop into Fresno
county, for instance, in this year of grace
1888. he would view with amazement q
realization Of his expectations which
more than answers to "heaped measure
filed full and flowing DER" And YET
Mr.. NordhcR raised no note OF protest
to q sweeping, unjust and injurious ar
raignment in the New York Herald of &
whole section which, Notwithstanding
the magical results already achieved, is
as yet but in the initial OF its develop
ment.
Fortunately for Southern California
Mr.. Ncrdhoif was not the only New York
editor who had visited Los Angeles and
Southern California. Amongst the most
illustrious Of that guild was Mr.. Charles
A. Dana, the brilliant genius OF the
New York San, who had beer
here in company with the
lately deceased Ex-Governor Dorsheim
er, who afterwards himself entered
the editorial guild is the conductor o
the New York Star. Mr.. Dana was ac
companied by a secretary, and while his
expressions OF this section were no
given voluminously, they were expressed
most fayorably in the columns OF his
widely circulated journal. Important as
was the service rendered to us by Mr.
Dana on that occasion, it was dwarfed tc
insignificance by that accorded in the
spring Of the present year. On the 26,t
of last April there appeared in the Sm
a whole page devoted to Southern Cali
fcrnia, in which special attention wa,
given to Les Angeles, and to an exhaus
tive, exact and appreciative account o.
the marvels OF development which
had taken place here. The ac-
complished writer who prepared
that article had been over the ground il
person. He wrote absolutely without
bias, and his truthful narrative undoubt,
edly did much to stem the tide OF mis-.
representation and flippant depreciation
of the Riviera OF the American Cont
nent.
Another great New York editor, in the
person of Mr.. Pulitzer, Of the World
had also paid this section visit. AL
though he did not write or cause to be
written any very elaborate accounts Of
Southern California, his personal out
givings were highly favorable and saga-
cious as well. The World was not allowed
to join in the chorus of depreciation in
augurated by the Herald.
AT the present time we may fairly as