Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-28
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Louis, and finally disputes the crown of
supremacy with New York herself. in
the only matter wherein it is still sup.
posed natural advantage is more effective
than brain and will, viz: the products OF
handicraft.
But the unenlightened consideration OF
this question is likely to err quite as
much in what it expects as in
what 1t doubts. In fact this
may prove the more mischievous
OF two quite opposite manifestations of a
superficial estimate OF the subject. A
gentleman of means, whom | have met
often of late, is erecting a factory-he
hasn't yet decided for what, but is look,
ing around. He doesn't want to enter
older lines OF manufacture for fear that
It Will be overdone.' Doubt-iust as
though anything the world wants over
and over again, time without end, could
really be overdone.) Many another con
founds doing orer with OVERRIDING. But
when offered a new line OF manufacture,
advantageously meeting an old demand,
hear how sagely he argues. "There
isn't mnch Of this special ware in use
(If there were he would urge his first OBJ
jections), ergo there won't be much de-
mand for itW What fearful non seqtli-
tur How utterly such argument would
annihilate every invention under the
sunl How directly he flies in the
face of his own business experience,
II he have any, requiring results
before causes. Why. almost any
one would be content in opening
trade even in old lines, should he
meet expenses for weeks or even months
after starting; but here is a gentleman
who requires prospective customers to
come rushing frantically after him for
wares they have perhaps never heard
Of. Now ridiculous as this appears
when put in this light, it is hardly an
exaggeration of the condition OF mind of
large percentage Of those who profess
to be, and ignorantly are, in favor OF
building up great industries.
III this presentation OF the case appear
too much in line OF what seek TO con-
denim, viz undue appreciation of difficult
ties, say no. We cannot ignore what
we would remove. Difficulties of opinion
are in this case the only real difficulties.
Men and communities come in time to
be much as they imagine themselves.
Such is not yet the actual condition of
this expanding, progressing Los Angeles.
We must shake off these impressions be-
fore they become fixed. One half the
rim injected by the real estate men into
their "corner lot boom" will cause such
expansion Of manufacturers as will dis
tance disadvantage and competition.
/ imagine there are scores of enter
prises and millions of capital in this city
to-day lying dormant only for want of
the assistance each can and will give the
other. The gulf that separates them ia
scarcely real, and certainly not impass-
able. Who is there can give the COM
manding word that shall span the
chasm, land in so doing open new high
way to prosperity such as the Angelefios
have never witnessed yet?
\ / trust this problem 1 propound, less
complex but far more weighty, will re-
ceive at least the attention bestowed
upon the current mathematical riddles,
and II anything have said or cam do
shall assist any to an advantageous solu-
tion Of the same, / shall feel both-give
and receive reward in keeping with
the question ITSELF Respectfully yours,
ARTIFIcER.