Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-25

been denied. The diversion OF com
mefce from our ports by the use OF th
canal is deceased argument, used b,
the enemies OF cheap transportation ant
the friends "of all the traffic wall bear.
! Now let us consider bow the c.saa
will help the Pacific coast, and especi.,,
ly Southern California. | will onl,
alIude to the immense markets open Il
our northwestern lumber trade; to on
wheat trade, changed from elk months
gamble, over 15 900 miles OF ocean, to {
basis OF 25 days and cash market; t.
every branch OF industry and commerce
which will feel the 9uckened pulse o
10000 miles dstanced and over 100 days
time removed. This has always beer
our disadvantage. We are at the out
posts of the worlds commerce and In
dustry. Calcutta, Bombay and Madras
are better situated than California, be-
cause they have discarded the Cape ol
Good Hope and use the SueZ canal
How, specially, will the canal benefit
Southern California and Los Angeles
In general way, have already stated.
But it will directly benefit your people.
For many years New Zealand, Australia
and Argentina have supplied European
markets with fresh meats, by means OF
marine refrigeration, and Cape Colony
has lately been sending fresh fruit to
Northern Europe, across the equator, by
the same meane. Marine refrigeration
has been developed into an economic
science, and horticultural products are
much easier protected from decay than
fresh meats, needing only a temperature
of SO to SO deg. Fahrenheit, instead of rs
to 2S deg. Fahrenheit. A dry atmos-
| phere is a necessity always provided for.
In the recent efforts to place fruit in
London markets by refrigerator cars, at
a cost OF $1,000 per car, as l am in
formed, there are serious disadvantages
besides cost. Refrigerator cars must
use ice, and with ice dry atmosphere
is difficult to obtain. Then tranehip
ment is injurious as we'll as expensive.
When steamships with modern refrig-
orators are prepared at San Pedro, Re-
dondo or Santa Monica, to receive the
products of Southern California orchards
and farms, and to land them in North
ern Europe or our Atlantic coast, in IS
to 20 days, at one-half cent per pound,
or less, you will no longer think of where
you are to find markets. The great GEN.
ters of consumption will ask you to ship
all you can produce. You cannot grow
too much, for the millions of Europe
will, for the first time, learn what South
ern California produces by aetual use.
Luxuries will become accessible to the
masses in the products of your soil.
Truly, Southern Californians should
welcome the canal as the great desider-
atum of their position-a Godsend to
all within it's borders
California needs more desirable popu-
lation. People are deferred from COM
ing here on account of cost, end trans-
portation is too high for the producer.
Climate is something; fertile soil is
something, but bread and butter are al
most everything to the settler and his
family. Cheap transportation is the
problem of the age. The railway sys-
TENS that are now ready to fight each
other for overland traffic, will change
their policy when the canal is open, and
about face for distribution from, as we'll
as carrying to, the Pacific coast. The
short maui to and from tide water will
supplant the long haul with pro rata
division. Our coast cities will assume
their proper position-their natural re-
lations to the great interior. The canal
has become go absolute a necessity to
our country that both great political
parties advocate it, and candidates for
high Office mention it as one of the most
important questions before our people.
There is no longer doubt as TO it's con-
struction in the near future. The only
uncertainty relates to who will own it
when built, and how lond, dependent
upon finances, it will take to build it.
We object to European control for valid
reasons, but European CONTROLS assured
unless the canal meets with financial
encouragement at home. Pending the
effort to secure legislation for govern,
ment control, based upon it's guarantee
OF securities, it has been deemed wise, by
those high in authority, to float $5, ,000,-
600 secured bond loan, which can be
covered by legislation in the near future,
and, even if no legislation is had, can be
included in financial arrangements for
European capital, should the company
be obliged to go there. This loan is pre-
sented to the people OF Los Angeles with
the suggestion that, if they believe in
the canal, they should prove it by taking
such email portion of it as they can
without detriment. The bonus of 20
per cent. in the capital stock, full paid
and unassessable. OF the Maritime Canal
company, will probably pay for the sub
scription, if held until the canal is in
operation.
This is clean-cut effort to keep the
project at home until our government
acts upon it. The moral influence of
long list of responsible names as sub
scribers, even for moderate amounts,
will greatly aid in placing securities.
That our government will legislate
as demanded by public opinion | deem
certain. 1t is conceded by all Americans
that our country must control this great
waterway. General Grant wrote: II
commend to my countrymen an Ameri-
can canal under American con-
troll" President Harrison says it
is mot only desirable, but has become
an absolute necessity" and Mr.. Cleve-
land will PROBABLY say no less for he
signed the bill which gave the project
life. England controls Suez by pur-
chase. Shares which cost her "a 100000
are now selling at e2O,000,000 When
she wanted to do so she closed Suez
with her ironclads. against the protest
of France, and if she obtains control Of
Nicaragua she may do so against the
protests of the United States. With her
band on this great ocean artery she holds
American life.blood at her mercy. 1t
will be national crime to permit it,
but, if the stock of this company is Of
fered in Europe what result more
natural? Next to our country England
needs the canal more than any nation,
and England believes in it, her most
able engineers are advocates OF it and