Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-29
SUNDAY. MARCH 80. 1894.
A LIVE, NOT A DEAD ISSUE.

A correspondent in other columns
gives some pertinent statistics about the
expenses of number of the state gov
ernments of the United States, which
clearly show that, with tine present rate
OF taxation for state purposes accruing
to the treasury at Sacramento from the
counties composing what would probably
constitute state of South Californis,
we could readily support the expendi-
lures involved in a new commonwealth,
save some OF the money, and keep all OF
It at home. That there will some day be
a state of South California goes without
saying. That the sooner that great de-
ssderat,.n, ia achieved the better it will
be for all the people of the southern end
of the state is also indisputable. That
the high ignominy and outrage OF the
people of this section holding the bag.
while those of the. bay and northern
counties get the game, will continue
much longer we do not believe. San
Francisco and the central counties GER
tainly escape their just need of taxation,
and they laugh in their sleeves when
they see the patient way in which the
people of the southern counties pack
more than their share of the public bur-
dens.
That state Of South California is
dead issue is absurd. Nineteen out of
twenty OF our people would welcome a
new commonwealth tomorrow. 1t is
not Immediately attainable, but it is in
the not remote perspective. No set of
cozening politicians have right to
barter away the aspirations of great
and growing section. Los Angeles
county alone sends away to Sacramento
yearly enough money to make, in ten
years, this section incalculably rich if
retained at home. The HERALD does
not claim that the conditions for an
agitation for state division exist here
Justnuw. Tney are lueonr, but none the
less are they lying perdu for some not
distant day. The men who have so
smoothly, and with such boundless
effrontery, undertaken to stultify the
region in which they live, may be made
to realize that they are the fly on the
chariot wheel of Esop's fable. The
means by which the state Of California
may be made to grant an enabling cleo
ton for the formation of a new state are
not dscernible just now, but inevitable
developments always carry with them
their own accessories. When the day
comes for this accomplishment of mani
fest destiny the instrumentalities will
easily adjust themselves to that
end. Probably some such connu-
biating processes as those which re-
suited in the formation OF Orange and
Colusa counties will be found most ex-
pedient. That is to say, in some ex-
citing state issue, the southern votes
in the legislature will be massed and
cast SO as to invite the largest possible
cooperation from abroad.
How ridiculous is it to say that the
issue is dead one, and impossible of
attainment, when California has already
once in her history given her consent to
q segregation of the southern counties
with a view to the formation of new
state? What has been done once can
readily be done again. If it had not
been for the advent of the war, we
should undoubtedly have had state OF
South California thirty years ago. All
the circumstances point to a realiza-
tion OF this aspiration, founded upon
the unwieldy proportions of the state,
~ I n :. .ol
interests. es g. 4
The HERALD declines to be bound by
the efFnsive and unpatriotic utterances
of Governor Markham and others. 1t
begs to point out the fact that neither
Governors Stoneman nor Waterman were
very potent after their terms of office
had expired. This may likewise be the
case with our present hypnotic governor.