The herald., 1893-06-06
A CASE OF HIsroaY REPEATING ITSELF.


II the matter we're not very serious
there would certainly be something very
smusing in the way the people OF San
Francisco are disposed to act the mar
plot as to everything that relates TO the
development Of Los Angeles county or
Southern California at large. This phase
of the matter was dwelt upon very
luminously in the article under the head
Of Port Los Angeles, which we repub-
lished in sundays HERALD from ad
ban WoRLo's FAIR ILLusrRATED HERALD.
There had probably never been since
the creation OF the world an evidence OF
gall 20 unduly inflated, or OF cheek
impacted in auch ICY cold storage, as
that which was exhibited by the mer
chante of San Francisco when, through
their official representative bodice, they
demanded that tho Southern Pacific rail-
way should recall the privileges OF equal
transportation facilities which that cor
poration had extended to Los Angeles
and other points. Admitting, for the
sake OF argument, that the concession
was wrung from the Southern Pacific by
our sea-coast advantages and the COM
petition OF the Santa Fe and its sffili-
ated roads, what sorry aspect San
Francisco and her foasilized business
men presented in their attemptB to make
the Southern Pacific railway ignore the
development OF section and the changes
that competition had brought about. In
other words, while proclaiming their
anxiety to force this great corporation
to adopt liberal policy, the liberality
az which they aimed began and ended
with themselves; and, as to all the rest
of the state, they sought to inaugurate
an era OF the dark ages OF transportation.
Under the circumstances, it is not
surprising that the people OF Los
Angeles look with great nonchslance
on the conflicts that have sprung up
between the merchants OF San Francisco,
with their sslfsh traffic association, on
the one hand, and the msgnstes OF the
Southern Pacific railway, on the other.
In this connection it is not unnatural
that the Angalefio whose memory goes
back some time should recall the fact
that, once upon q time, the people of
Sacramento had quite quarrel with
the officials OF the Csntral Pacific; and
that, ss consequence, the railway peo-
pie packed up their baggage and
moved down to San Francisco, planting
themselves at the corner OF Fourth and
Townsend streets, where they have re-.
manned ever since. Our people are
warranted in drawing their own con
clueions as to the long and bitter fight
which has been on tho boards for years
between the people and the merchants
of San Francisco and the railway COM
pany, beginning with the Goat Island
hare-ap of 1879, and coming down till
today. which finds the same old fight in
an even more intensified form. The con-
clusion drawn by most people here
abouts, who are accustomed to putting
tv and two toQether, is that the enor-
nous wharf which has just been erected
at Port Los Angeles, and which is to be
followed up by another psralelliog it, at
q remove OF four hundred feet, has been
constructed with view to enabling the
Southern Peci6c Railway to transfer its
prodigious business to Los Angeles from
San Francisco, after the manner Of their
hegra from Sacramento.
This would be another case of history
repeating iteeli. The HERALD believes
that that is just what is going to hap
pen in due course of time and our next
boom will not have been long under
way until the formal announcement
fthis most important move will be
made.