Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-23
LIT US HAVE QUALITY AS WELL AS
QUANTITY.

The supervisors of the various coun-
ties are appointing representative clti-
zens to attend a conference IN San
Francisco at the beginning OF Septem-
her to take into consideration the ques-
tion of quiukening immigration to Cali
fornia. This body will doubtless repre-
sent some of the best thought on this
subject in the state, and will be COM
posed partly of gentlemen who have
already had practical experience IN i'm
migration projects. If it will only start
out right when it meets, it will be in
position to accomplish very beneficial
results for the state. Such body will at
once recognize the superlative fact that
California ought to be made essen
TALLY a representative American state;
that no amount of ephemeral benefit
will compensate us for grating upon the
state population that is alien and un-
American in its habits and instincts.
second to that we have suffered from by
the Chinese irruption, to have vast
immigration of plantation negroes from
the south thrust upon us, so it would
prove permanently injurious to us
to have hordes of ignorant and
low-class people from eastern and
southern Europe fastened upon our
state. We should be choice in the
people we invite to our matchless COM
monwealth. and none who are not by
race and intelligence fit to make the
best representative American citizens
should be encouraged to immigrate to
California. This will be the state OF intel.
ligent farm and orchard culture it will
be prosperous in proportion to the
mental caliber of the people who per-
manently settle upon our land. In
other states the man who tills the soil
may be intelligent or not, providing he
have muscle. 1t makes but little differ
ence about his mental status i'll
the crop yield. But in this
state, where the esthetic branch of hus-
], bandry fourishes, and where the man
who cultivates ten or twenty acres with
brains as we'll as muscle is certain OF
better results than can be obtained else
where from quarter section, the intel
Iectual timbre cf the people we wish to
attract here as permanent residents
ought to cut most conspicuous figure.
We want the best people we can get,
and these people, both in the United
States and Europe, are the ones who
have means and who would be able,
with very little help, to develop Caliior-
MIA vineyards and orchards and build
up comfortable homes. We are sure
Of having this Kind Of population in the
long run, but the stream may be started
on its way here sooner and in larger
numbers by the judicious action of a
home board OF immigration such as we
hope to see the coming conference es-
tablish, than if left to its own volition.
Our state is 30 rich in natural resources
and offers such strong inducements to
the man of intelligence and enterprise
to take lot and scot with US, that we
ought to be able to pick and choose from
the best people OF our country as we'll as
of the countries that are in political and
racial sympathy with ns.
At any rate, we ought to lay down and
faithfully abide by the rule that in the
matter of immigration we shall not
sacrifice quality to quantity. California is
worthy of the best manhood OF America,
and should be made the nursery OF that
manhood.