Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-09-24
To our joyous place of meeting,
From her pampas-shadOwed soil
santa Barbara sends greeting
With her olives and her oil.

From her chosen home away.
,Ceres-like and soft, Ventura
Enters with her treasures chief
| Corn. to see that "Old Missouri
Fain would hang her head in grief.
Bwoons Imagination lest on
| This wide farinaceous sea;
Beans! to surfeit cultured Boston,
Through the ages yet to bel
Tell US not of coasts Atlantic,
| Where tbs pillows seethe In wrath;
| Where the storm king, wild and frantic,
sweeps the cities from his path
| Tell us not of windy Kansas
Shrinking from the billiards. breath;
1 Where the awful cy clone fans us
With Its mighty wings of death?
Tell us not of Minnesota,
: Clothed in snowy winding sheet,
Nor OF wind-swept, bleak Dakota,
With their puny fields of wheat!
Lol our spreading plains and valleys
Burdened with golden weight,
Would have sunk kome's countless galleys
In her proudest days of stated
Here are melons an European
mi King would give his crown to see
That would make an Ethiopian
Show his ivories in high glee!
Here are pumpkins, in whose BODY
Half New England might abide
squashes, IN which "little Rhody"
Well might squeeze herself and hide
Here are Babies ell creation
Cannot in the crop excel;
With and without irrigation,
And spontaneous growth as we'll.
Not an insect pest eer troubles;
OF the scale-bug is no fear,
And the product Ofttimes doubles
To the grower every year!
There are never IFS" nor ''naybes'
In the calculation sure:
Ch1efest of our crops is babies,
While our climate" shall endured
So we come from every county
At the soft September's close,
Bringing thes of every bounty
Heaven uDOn our land bestows.
True, we have our little troubles
Insect troubles; but we know,
Like the evanescent bubbles,
They will melt away, and 60.
AS from Truth fees deadly Error,
As the mist before the breeze;
So Icerya's pallid terror
From VedOlia's coming fees.
Still Aurantii's legions vex us
But that these may pass away
In due time, and 60 to-Texas,
Brethren, sisters, let us spray!
Sisters at our family meeting
Let no discord e'er prevail
Welcome all. and friendliest greeting
Sisters of the South. all hail!
Let us free our hearts from folly
Each in other taking pride;
Feelings all of "casus belli "
In the future laid aside,
Stunning still each narrow by-way,e
Ever onward, hand in hand,
Let us march on Times grand highway,
Queenliest of Earth s tairess land 20 M2
The poem was greeted with applause
Mr.. Lichtenbsrger then introduced
Gel. j. J. Ayers, the orator of the even.
ing, who delivered the following address
COL. AYERS ADDRESS.
Mr.. PRESIDENT, DIRECTORS, LADIES
AND GENTLEMEN-It is nearly 1000 years
since Cicero said to his son Marcus: "Oi
all the pursuits in which something is to
be gained, none is better, none more
fruitful of desirable results, none sweetei
to the taste, or more worthy. of freemen
than that OF agriculture" This compre
hensive criticiem of the great orator il
just as true today as it was when Caesar
thrice refused the crown offered him by
Antony upon the Lupercal.
The soil and climate of no country Offer
better inducements than those OF our dis
trict to render the vocation of agriculture
not only a pursuit worthy of freemen, but
ono which will enlarge the understanding
and dignity the character of those who
triously follow it.
The exhibits in this vast hall merely
epitomize the grand possibilities of agri.
culture in this favored section. The
three counties which now constitute this
district-Los Angeles, Orange and Ven.
tura-are not only rich in their food re-
sources, but bear in their bosom mines
and oil rivers that will in the future
swell to immense proportions the
volume Of commerce of our Sec
ton. We have in these three
counties, lin full measure and running
Ger" all the natural resources that
would be required to sustain civilized
and polished people, even if we were
shut out from the rest of the world and
forced to depend solely upon that which
we could produce ourselves.
Let us see: We have timber, granite
freestone, marble, the material for brick,
These would ensure the building of our
cities and homes. We grow the choices:
fruits and nuts Of two zones, all the Der.
ries, all the cereals, all the vegetables
We have grazing ranges for our cattle
and sheep. Here is food and raiment-
nutriment for our stomachs, wool for OH
backs and leather for our feet. We
have the choicest of dairy lands where
our domestic stock can be brought to the
utmost degree of perfection. Nothing
that a bountifully furnished table re-
quires is LACKING. The waters of oul
coast are alive with food-ishes, and
they 80 abound in their season that {
great industry lies almost dorman
awaiting the hand of enterprise to seiz
and develop it. We have auriferou
placers, tin mines, silver ores and golt
ores, and to illuminate the darkness 0
night we have oil wells OF exhaustles
flow. The Sixth Agricultural District i
go richly endowed by nature that
could, like the Scottish tyrant's castle
"laugh siege to scorn." If the Who'll
world were to boycott US, we could grow
fat in defying it.
The Supreme Dispenser has seen fit t.
bless but few spots on earth with the
riches He has showered upon this-witl
all that is required for the sustenance
the comfort and the luxury of man. Blu
in one important respect he has left u
alone in our glory. What we have al
ways claimed, and what is now reluc
tantly admitted even by our enemies, i
that the climate of this section is match
less in it's salubrity, it's mild equability
it's soft and grateful acceptance to thos
who revel in it. As has often befor,
been said, to live in such a climat
makes existence constant source c
delight. Nowhere else on this broa
footstool is the range of temperature al
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