Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-09-24

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tion rules the hour. The plow is throw
aside and the sword is taken up in an.
ger. Ruin holds high carnival till
exhaustion cries "Halt!" Peace follows
and in short time the fields that were
red and SCARED are covered with aowine
grain; the ruin that marked the towns
and the cities in the wake of cleshinp
armies is nowhere to be seen. Instead
OF the sad spectacle of wars ravages we
behold:
the wide field revive.
With sI.;ns fruits and fertile promise. and the
Come forth her work of g,adness to contrfve.
With all her reckless birds upon the wing"
All is changed, and kind Nature has
come, like sweet restorer, to fill up
with her exhaustless bounty the
CHASTITY gaps that man had made in
her benignant face. So it is in localities
where wild speculation had usurped the
place of steady and laborious develop
ment. The traces of injury inflicted
have been almost obliterated. The neg
lected vineyard and orchard are again
cultivated and cared for. The gener-
GUS seasons, the fruitful SOIL. and the
wisely directed arm of labor have all
contributed to restore us to that healthy
growth which is the only true sign and
muLiment OF permanent prosperity in
any community.
Whilst all around US in every direction
there are vacant lands ready to reward
the hand of toll, still we find many peo-
pie crying out against their ill fortune.
They have health ami strength, and vet
they seem helpless. These people would
not succeed anywhere. They may not
be constitutionally indolent, but they
lack will-power. They are barren. of
mental resources and the faculty of
energy is not in them. This kind of
people are always with us. If the world
were run as a frst-class hotel free of
charge, these men would be first at table
and first to find fault with it. In
Bellamy's Utopia they would be drsg
and nuisance, and like the fallen angels
bring discord into paradise. This kind
OF gentry have struck me in early days for
dollar to buy meal, when the lowest
wages per day for common labor was
half an ounce. These men are with us
now, and although this district teens
with possibilities for the industrious and
energetic, they will be always found 'son
the ragged edge" decrying their luck
and maligning our section.
But where on all this wide earth is
there brighter spot for the man of
muscle and will than in this district
Not one acre in a hundred of our vast
domain is cultivated. The soil of our
coming vineyards and orchards and
farms is untouched. Our mines are
virgin to the hand OF exploitation, and
our subterranean rivers of oil have
hardly been pierced. Our fisheries are
ready to reward in golden drafts the men
who will work them. Our factories are al
most in an embryotic state. Nature every
where holds out the hand of bounty to
the willing taker.
Not since those days when near the Euphrates
Our common parents dwelt in listless ease,
And plucked Hesperian fruits, which round
them eprang
Their Eden notes, has land been blessed like
ours.
Opportunities! Why they are every
where. The men who will not seize
them remind me Of the sailors who,
after a severe storm in the South At
lantic, had drifted they knew not where,
and we're dying of thirst. At last q
clipper hove in sight and bore down
upon the distressed craft. "For Gods
sake" cried the skipper of the drifting
vessel, ''send us water; we're dying for
the want of it," The captain of the
clipper was disguised, and yelled back
through his speaking trumpet: "Dip it
up, you lubbers; it's all around you."
They had been for days dying of thirst
in the ocean estuary of the Amazon. So
it is here; brawny men are in want in
the midst OF opportunities. All they
have to do is to dip them up. Those
who have the energy and the manhood
to open their eyes and stretch forth their
hands will gather in the ample reward of
their discernment and enterprise. Those
who are too lazy or too stupid to take ad-
vantage of the splendid opportunities that
lie on every hand will still 60 on, as they
have been going, growing at their bad
luck and cursing everything and every.
body but themselves, the real and only
authors of their unsuccsss.
But time admonishes me that l must
bring this address to close.
could dwell long over nv allotted
half-hour to draw lessons from the ex-
perience of the past decade and half.
In that short period what amazing ad-
vances have we made in developing the
wonderful resources of this rich district.
Agriculture in all its branches wes in it's
infancy with us at the beginning of that
period. Ventura,
"Loveliest of the train.
OF sunny sisters ON our southern saore,"
Was then only noted for her restricted
fields Of barley and corn, the vineyards
of Arnsz and Camulos, and her extensive.
sheep-walks. Now her valleys are rich
in orchards and vineyards and her oil
wells have lifted her commerce into
splendid proportions. Her shire town
has become place of hustle and busi-
ness, and her old and now centers of
population have grown in wealth and
Importance. Los Angeles. county, in-
Guiding Orange, could boast of but little
in agriculture fifteen years ago. Outside
of few choice places chat you could
count on your fingers, its whole expanse
was the ranges of cattle and sheep. Now
il is rich in farms and orchards and vine-
yards and beautiful homes. Its population
has increased twenty-fold and its
assessed wealth has swollen from seyen
millions to one hundred millions of
dollars. And yet her vast domain has
only in spots here and there been SUBJ
iected to the hand Of industry When
she shall have obtained the population
which her resources will justify. she
will be one of the wealthiest as she is
now one of the most attractive and
salubrious counties in the Union.
Let the brave heart go out and gather
in the reward that awaits 1t in this in
comparable field of industry. Look
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