The record-union., 1893-01-06
PERRIs AND SAN JAC1NTo.
Where Their Interest Lies in Count,
division plans

PRRRIs AND SAN JAO1NTo
Where Their Interest Lies in County
Division Plans.
A correspondent of the san Jacinto
Register, who signs himself "A Nom
Resident and for Riverside County,"
talks to the people of Perris and San
Jacinto in this language:
Permit me, a nonresident propertv
owner, to make few remarks concern
ing county division in 4 direction that
has been but slightly touched upon.
San Bernardino has been all along try
ing TO divert attention from the main
issue, and get people to discussing mat
lers that are somewhat foreign TO the
man question as affecting tie people Of
Perrls and san Jacinto Valleys 1t is
rather significant fact that San Ber-
nardlno, so far, has not been able to send
single business man 10 discuss the mat
ter with you, but has in every instance
sent lawyers, whose business in life ap-
pears to be, mainly, trying to make the
worse appear the better cause" while
riverside has sent men who represent
the three leading industries Of the pro-
posed new county, viz: banking, mer-
chandlzlng, agriculture and horticulture
san BernardlnO says to you again, plain
as can be, II You take in Riverside to
JNN'A nov SOhA4tyy Silb Is sure 70 treat NOlI
as San Bernardino treats Riverside, by
gerrymander in supervisoral districts,
by building expensive county buildings,
ana Dy unequal taxation, but San Ber-
nardlno Omits to say that she is but a
drono in the hive, living off the balance
| OF tne county, with comparatively in
significant rate of taxation, while River
side Is wealthy and a producer, with a
preponderance OF the wealth of the pro-
posed new county in her favor.
Now has 1t ever struck the opponents
OF riverside County to ask the question
Why is it that San Bernardino hangs so
firmly to Riverside being unwilling to let
her go on any terms, and willing also to
sacrifice any other part of the county in
order to keep Riverside in her clutches? q?
Does it not strike you that what San Ber-
nardIno is making a desperate struggle to
prevent, namely, the secession of River
side, would be the very best thing that
the Perrls and san Jacinto Valleys could
aim at?
San Bernardino says that if you will
only set up a county of San Jacidto she
will befriend you and help your ever after
in every possible way. Let me ask: When
has San Bernardino done anything for
any struggling colony in her own county,
beginning with Riverside and ending
with the latest-tounded colony? River
side had to carry on her struggle for ex-
istence without the aid of San Bernardino.
and in many instances in the face of ridi-
cule and jeers from many who ought to
have set better example; and from Sep
tember. 1870, until Christmas, 1892, it has
been the province of San Bernardino to
sit down with supine indifference and
calmly say: Il don't care whether you
sink ar swim; but if you do swim will
do my best to cripple you by UNEQUAL and
high taxation"
What has been the course of Riverside?
n NAn~.a
but what Riverside has been largely in
terested in. Etiwanda, Ontario. Red
lands, Highlands, Rialto. South River
side and Banning-au have had the adj
vantage of Riversides experience and
financial aid, and have all drawn upon
Riverside for some of her best and most
enterprising citizens. 1t has only been
necessary heretofore to enlist the efforts
Of Riverside on the behalf of any place to
get settlers from all parts of the United
States to make success of it. Riverside
has helped the Perris and san Jacinto
Valleys in the past. Indeed, but for the
help OF Riverside in the early settlement
Of the Perris and San Jacinto Valleys.
they would have been far from attaining
the success they have to-day. Riverside
IS not an agricultural settlement, and
hence could not give you the assistance
she can do now under irrigation. River
side knows what can be done with water.
ANU W ME sIlG ~ AOluluR OlL neT nAnd TO
help you and sending Of her money and
her best and most enterprising citizens
to develop your resources and to make
you partaker of her splendid success,
some of you are i'll effect saying. we want
none of your help, and, rather than accept
it, we would be willing to fail
AS a nonresident, / should say to the
readers Of your paper, compare the ca
reer Of Riverside with that Of San Ber-
nardino and think Of the money San Ber-
nardino is spending to prevent Riverside
aftiliating with your part of the country
and try to furnish a motive and you will
all be led to say, with that example be-
fore US, we will all work for Riverside
County.
San Bernardino says to you, Riverside
will take all the trade away from your
small towns, when she knows perfectly
well that Riverside has aourished in sDita
of her opposition until she surpasses San
Bernardino in every respect. Ontario
and Redlands also manage to hold the
trade of their own places, and will the
merchants of Perris or San Jacinto saw
that Riverside merchants have more en-
terprise than they have themselves? As
a large property-owner in the proposed
new county I hope not
We believe that it will be for the best in
terests of all 10 join in with Riverside
and invite a continuance of the inflow OF
that capital and enterprise that alone can
make our beautiful and fertile valleys a
a success.