San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-03-22
Stands by Southern California.

Stands by Southern Caiifornia.
Los ANGELES, CAL, Feb. 20, 1883.
Editor FREE PREss:-Your letter Of
long ago was duly received and
should have been answered long
since. but I thought I would wait and
see if th bottom ioas out Of Califor-
mia, as the papers east of the Rockies
have 80 long insisted was the case. I
am sorry to see the malicious mis-
representations that are being con-
stantly spread before the people OF
the cast, when the fact remains that
California is as always hitherto, the
most perfect place for homes that
can be found anywhere, and is just as
prosperous and delightful as it was
months ago, when all of you "press
fellows were willing and anxious to
set forth its glories. The true in
wardness of the change is not that
California is a fraud any more now
than at any time hitherto, but that
the furore to come to the golden
shore, and the immense sums Of mon
ey being brought here, combined to
work disastrous results in depicting
the frost bitten regions Of much of
their wealth and thousands of their
best citizens, for it is a noted fact,
that we have less tramps and worth
less people in Southern California
than any other portion of the country
I know anything about. I do not
blame the good people east for desir-
ing to keep their people and money
from coming here, for the bone and
sinew, with the means they control,
cannot be spared from any section OF
the country in such numbers and
sums as have been turned in this di-
rection, but at the same time the
direputable means resorted to are no
credit to those who seem to think they
cannot accomplish their object in any
other way. 1 must say that I have
not seen in your paper such a state
ment as I speak of, and they may
creep into the columns Of any paper
sometimes, where the management
is divided. But the course of the
'.Newsos," and many other eastern
papers is simply villianous. If they
would allow any corrections of their
misstatements, it would seem as if
they wished to be fair, but I happen
to know the "News" at Dallas, will
not publish anything now, favorable
or in justification of California.
Of course the people here dislike
the manner in which things are mis-
represented, but have no fears that
our country will be seriously injured
by these attacks. Every man and
family. who come.here and stay long
enough to take off their hats and
take bath, are ready to testify in
our behalf; and when you remember
that not q single person who has ever
come to California and remained,
whether rich or poor, but has bet
tered his condition, and that all Of
these have friends and acquaintances
who will, to great extent, be gov
erned by their experience, we do
not apprehend that there will be any
serious check in the tide Of immigra-
tion and flow of capital to our shores.
You will no doubt call to mind the
fact that certain peripatetic scribblers
used to skip through Texas, and
while not staying long enough to
have a shirt washed. aud OF conse-
quence not being in position to know
Of what they were writing, would
write back to the old states, accounts
of Texas which were totally vicious
and almost devoid OF truth. We
Texas people denounced them as
they deserved.
No one can come to California, stay
a few days (perhaps in some Of our
short, rainy periods) and be able to
pass or form any matured opinion as
to its merits or dement's, nor indeed
of any other country. / have known
persons to have interviews published
in the News who came into and out