Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-03
The Same old Faking Refrain.

The Same Old Taxing Refrain.
The Tribane, like old Polonius, ID fond
of indulging in that tediousness which
Hamlet's contemplated father-in'law
called the mere limbs and outward
fiourishes of wit. Its faculty OF "still
harping on my daughter" is as illimit-
able as was that of the old Danish Coun-
cillor in the play. Having started in to
blow it's bazoo in favor OF the Santa
Clara mines, it keeps up the trombone
snort in spite of common sense, truth
and good taste. OF course, it is per-
fectly at liberty to signalize itself as the
great promoter of Lover California fakes.
1t is of very little importance, in fact,
how it employs its feebly-forcible editorial
space. One of its San Diego yoke-fel'
lows, who piled in the Goals, while the
Tribune blew the bellows, on the biggest
humbug ever sought to be floated on an
unoffending public, has come to its
rescue, and the Tribune OF yes
terday parades a lot OF stun
from the columns of its contem-
porary. There is in this extract the
same lying asseveration that Lower Cali
fornia is Just like Los Angeles county,
with the same rainfall, the came lands,
the same streams, and 30 on, al
nauseam. All the same, where Lower
California, outside of that portion which
lies on the Colorado Desert, has one drop
of water, Los Angeles has million, and
where that arid waste has one acre OF
arabic land, Los Angeles county has a
thousand. A desperate gang OF specu-
lators are trying to swindle the Amerl-
can people, and the people OF California
particularly, and the HERALD would not
allow the infamous plot to be con-
summated. 1t was high time that the
| fraud should be denounC ed and exposed
when this journal performed that honest
and meritorious office. The HERALD
has invariably treated Gen. Vandever
with distinguished consideration, but
whcn he introduced a measure IN
tie Congress of the United States
to pay Mexico $2O,0O0,0Oo for Lower
California it brought the light of common
sense to bear on the matter, and charac'
terized the project as it deserved. When
the Tribune began its disgusting toad'eat-
ing to the General, praising the "saga-
city" which would seek to pay a big
price for nothing, we laughed, and under
stood the clumsy trick, knowing that the
Congressman from the Sixth District will
probably have voice in disposing OF the
local offices. The Los Angeles Times. a
Republican journal, felt obliged to call
it's contemporary to account for its offen-
sive obsequiousness. Vandever's project
fell still-born in the Congress OF the
United States, a fate that does not usu-
ally attend 'sagacious" measures in the
public interest, but which has very fire.
quently overtaken corrupt and filibuster-
| ing schemes in the history OF the
United States. In its anxiety to kotow
to the supposed dispenser of the Federal
patronage hereabouts, our slightly
esteemed contemporary was simply
guilty of using misnomer. II, instead OF
calling the Generals project sagacious,
it had called it an abortive one, it would
have reached scale of accuracy which
it very rarely attains. Meanwhile, the
Joint project of General Vandever, the
International Company of Mexico, and
the Tribune, can only be correctly des-
cribed by word which was favorite of
one of Goldsmith's most charming
characters, and that word was-fudge.
To all the interminable romancing about
Lower California mines, lands and
streams, the HERALD begs to say-fudge,
and with big, big F. The streams and
the arabic lands do not exist on the
Peninsula in half the degree in which
they are to be found on the Colorado
Desert.