The herald., 1893-01-26
STATE DIVISION.

A Cry for Its Accomplishment from San
Diego Vidette, is thoroughbred Cali
fornian. In the old days his paper, the
American Flag, was synonymous for all
that represented the best interests OF
the state, but he has recently joined the
state division party, as the following ex-
tract from the last Vidette shows:
Every measure that has been intro
duced in the California legislature for
the past quarter of century for the
benefit of Southern California has been
opposed by the northern and middle
portion of the state. The members of
the legislature fiom San Francisco have
at all times bitterly opposed
every proposition calculated to benefit
Southern California. But few
days ago when bill was introduced
to amend the. codes authorizing the
state to invest the school funds in irri-
cation bonds it was jumped at once and
denounced by the northern members
and the metropolitan press as mon
strous proposition. There can be no
good reason advanced why the school
funds should not be invested in irriga-
tion bonds, they have been passed upon
by the courts and pronounced constitu.
tional, and by the bankers convention
as the best tsecurity that could be offered,
consequently the opposition cannot be
of any other motion than jealousy. and
desire to keep South California down
and subservient to the wishes and uses
OF our rival city of the north. 1t is all
right to tax Southern California to build
a arailroad depot in San Francisco for the
benefit of the Central and Southern
Pacific railroad companies and the
metropolis of the north, but to make
market for South California irrigation
bonds by investing the state school
funds in them would be an imposition
upon San Francisco and the northern
portion of the state monstrous and not to
be tolerated by them at all. Therefore
we say with such hostile feeling toward
US, with such wide difference in the
rainfall, coil, climate and topography
between the two sections of the state it
would be much better for the people of
Southern California to demand and in
sist upon immediate state division. The
question has already been submitted to
vote OF the people and carried by an
overwhelming majority. All that is re-
CURED now is an act of congress to ratify
the decision of the people in order to
create and make the state OF South Cali
fornia. We could then make constitu-
tion and laws adapted to our require
ments. Southern California, unlike
Northern California, cannot exist with
out general system of irrigation, and If
the principle was part of the fundamen-
tai law OF the state, the commonwealth
could take charge, build and control
the entire system, and under state man.
agement the taxation would be lighter
upon the producers and land owners,
Our representatives Of the south should
at once organize and petition congress
to pass the bill creating the new state OF
South California. The press of the
southern counties should without DELAY
join in O call for state division conyen-
tion, to assemble at an early day at Los
Angeles for the purpose of devising WAYS
and means. An earnest and united
effort now would result in the creation
of the new state of South California.
Let us all join hands and work for state
division as the only means of solving
the irrigation question, and of keeping
at home the enormous sum in taxes
sent north annually, not one dollar of
which ever finds Its way back into any
of the southern counties.
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