The herald., 1894-12-19
THE s1LuR1AN HowLs.
\ Gnashing OF False Teeth In the North
srn 0taom Belt.

| From the San Francisco wave.1
A congress of supervisors from Southern
| Calfornias seven counties is in session at Los
Angeles. The telegraph dispatches inform us
that they are Overwhelmingly in favor OF a dt-
| vision of California-a song we have heard
| sung before by the Markhams, Millards. the
Higginses and McLachlans, and the rest the
round-trip excursion-rate tourist settlers
| from south of Tehachapi. When this unpa-
triotic scheme was first Matched in mind and
broached to the public, thrill OF indignation
swept over the entire state. Tho pioneers,
| their sons tho who had laid the foundation
for this commonwealth, those who loved and
honored itin all its glory, those who braved
dangers and suffered privatons for its ad
vancement--shrank from the contemplation
Of such sacrilegious deed Since the nature
ana characteristics of the new people Of the
south have come more prominently into view,
since it has been found that these peo pie,
though among us are no part of us-we must
confess there is n growing feeling in the north
to procure enforcement at any cost
Back in certain eastern states, where hoar-
frost and forbdding winters have, through a
long series of years, made mad attack upon
the lungs OF weak humanity, there has grown
up among the sturdy and rugged New Eng
landers, race OF expectorating and lungless
beings, thoroughly apart from their associates,
whose constitutions crave warmth and sum
shine and to whose shattered lungs the soft
semi-tropic air is like unto soul sustaining
breath from heaven. In those regions, too,
where miasmatic poison burdens all the at.
mosphere, another race of beings, with iaun-
diced and distended livers, has grown up, and
it is from the ranks of these our southern
counties have been populated Another class
that came hard upon their heels, hungry for
plunder, was the keen-eyed "snaprer-up of
a.. ~ -, A,,,nr
can nomed the ne'er do well ut home, who
picks up living by his wits, first here, then
there. If the physical infirmity of the two
rstmentioned classes constituted their only
fault, they would be welcome; but they do not
like California or its people; they have
brought with tn spl all the narrow salfishness
of confirmed invalidism, all the mean and
des picable traits of a race bred on all iceberg
and Graded in beds of snow. They have
among them lawyers--aud Los Angeles is one
vast field of liverless and lungless lawyers
Many of them have inherited the fruits of
centuries of saving aud coughing, aud possess
a competency sufficient to maintain them in
ease for the balance OF their days. but the
tn rift and coughs OF centuries are not to be
laid aside in moment They brought the
old tin sign along with them, too, which lad
done duty in the east, and the boarding
houses and hotel corridors of the southern
metropolis announce thut .hey are ready to
d for practice against the older practition.
ers. BID is hardly the proper word. for, as
they must remain in the hospital, they look
upon retainer as so much money found
within their ward, and accept fees which an
attorneys clerk would blush to name as COM
pensation for more menial services. So long
as they confined their incursions to these
lines, 1T was no t0ncerE OF ours; but When they
demand a enforcement Of the coughing coun-
ties, when they made incursons upon our
government, and inflict upon us Markhams.
they become the subject for criticism.
The last Republican state convention-and
that is the parry which they affect-in obedi-
ence to their behests, drew across the state an
east and west line at Sacramento, north OF
which they refused to make nominations, to
the disadvantage of large AMI important
section of our state. When Mr.. Markh am, our
present goverfor, had resided in the state OF
California but four years. his lungless constit-
uents elected him to congress. Hardly was
that term over before he forced upon the
Republican party for governor and what
governor he has made Republicans are in
clined to declare that Mark hams administr ira
tton has been conservative-and cowardly
they might add His campaign opened with
wilful lie, and his administration has con
tinued lie through to the end. He broke
south, until they fairly hate him in a narrow,
bigoted and spiteful way he was false to the
northern politicians who stood manfully by
him through his campaign; his every appoint
ment records the breaking of f.ith with some
one who had befriended him 1t is not neces-
sary to refer 10 the rumors abroad as to money
transactions charged to him, further than to
say true or untrue, they are the common
property of the street. Now that Markham
goes out. we have Millard, with whom we I'M
uerstand Mr.. Higgins, ex-private secretary to
Governor Markham md another Los Angeles
man of short sanding, wields large inhu-
encs; and so the power of the south remains
potent in the administration.
Twice in the history of that territory known
to geographers as California, has a stranger
race wrested It's possession from the occu-
pancy OF n self-satisfed people. First in his
tory came the swarthy invaders from the
south, making their incursions across the
desert of the Colorado. Within these fruitful
valleys, commencing at Los Angeles and
working slowly northward, they took up their
a abodes, enslaved the aboriginal races and
once having made conquest of the territory,
relapsed into an indolent enjoyment of its
God-given blessings. Then followed the
American adventurer, who broke in upon the
pastoral quiet of a government which had
fallen into languid siesta, and in the mad
ru n for gold brushed aside the haughty don
who, bowing with graceful resignation, gave
way before the new invader Now a third in
vasion is at hand, which may ,be nipped in the
bud if we but let the invader cut our state in
two The south wants division So let it be-
They have managed to wheede thousands of
dollars from our state treasury for needless
public buildings. Let them keep them. Let
them found new EN- pire if they can. wherein
the only qualification for Office will be a de-
sire 10 return east, weak pair of lungs, and
copious expectoration.