Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-20
what the section Wants at This
Time.


Time
The great question of the hour is how
to bring back more active times in this
section. In the first place there is a good
deal being done in the very best way.
The area planted to orchards of the vari-
Gus kinds of fruit is being increased at a
rate unprecedented before. Literally
millions of trees are being planted,
which in few years will augment the
revenues of our people by hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Many new people
are coming in and quietly making pur-
chases of lands with the view OF plant
ing them to fruits. Theee are mostly
cash purchases, and every payment they
make for their lands goes into circulation
at once, clearing off perhaps half dozen
mortgages. Yesterday there were a
score of releases of mortgages recorded.
The people are getting out of debt, which
is the first step towards becoming pros.
porous.
Then there are active preparations go.
ing on looking to taking care of the fruit
crops that are coming ir. There has
been too much rush in times past to pro
duce fruit without using adequate means
of caring for it. That is what most
astonished the New England grocers
here the other day. They thought il
strange so much fruit should be let go tc
waste. Better methods are to rule in
this reanact hereafter
There are some things that some peo
pie propose to bring back prosperity, that
are rather to be avoided. A certain class
of pseudo political economists never see
any way SO clear to prosperity as
by means of heavy taxation.
They are generally more political
than economical, and the prosperity they
look for is largely their own. These
people tell US that sewer system to cost
half million dollars, and storm drains
to cost another half million, and an out.
fall sewer to cost a third half million,
and street work to cost whole million,
are the true steps to take to reach pros
perity and sacks full of gold. 1t is all
the most senseless rubbish ever uttered.
If public improvements are needed, that
is reason for making them, but to pro-
pose tax as way to enrich the tax
payers, is very much like increasing your
possessions by throwing them away. Let
the people hesitate long before they at
tempt to tax themselves rich.
Rather one of the things to do to make
times more prosperous is to lop off need.
less expenses at every point, and learn
to live within our means. Instead oil
increasing the taxes of this community
the proper thing to do, indeed the
need of the hour, is to lesser
the burden of taxation that now oppresse.
every property holder in the country
This community in its city and county
officials is probably the worst ridder
people in the United States. Every
Office fairly swarms with horde o
people, half of whom are idle, who ar,
simple parasites on the producing part o
the community. 1t is no exaggeration t.
say that one-half the people engaged il
the work OF governing us could well b.
dispensed with. Let one make tht
daily rounds of the six Supe
rior Courts and see the work done
in them at go enormous an expense if he
wants to realize why the people are
taxed to death. That department of the
government is not the worst. There are
others where waste of muscle and talent
is much more painfully apparent. The
taxes piled on the property. holders in
this section are unparalleled. The people
are long-suffering, but their purses are
not 30 long. The bottom is being
reached at rapid rate, and the view
presented is not pleasing to the people.
They are getting up good ready to
make very vigorous kick. 1t will be
one that will be felt and will land 9
whole nest of people into lines of indus.
try where their efforts will be of more
benefit to the public generally.
A CANNING establishment of this city