The herald., 1894-07-08
HOW Los ANGELES WILL PROFIT IN
THR END.

over this broad land, and that blight
has rested on business for a long time
past, cannot be doubted. That this has
reached an acute stage just now is
equally beyond question. There is
congestion Of population in the states
beyond the Rocky mountains, and these
redundant masses consider themselves
aggrieved. There is no question of the
TACT that there is determined purpose
to reduce wages in all kinds OF produc-
tive industry; and this, if it does not
produce revolution outright, will lead to
an embittered condition of thing ghich
will involve interminable contro rsies
and no end OF trouble. The ions
who have started in to impcver the
workingmen will undoubtedly b noist
by their own petard, and in their at
tempts to deprive labor OF its iust share
in the profits OF manufactures they will
find that their own capital is earning
nothing. There is very rarely any profit
in strikes, either to the corporations
against which they are directed or to
the strikers themselves, but they are
bound to result in disturbances which
will derange business, and perhaps for
years. They are as liable to be peren-
nial as the cyclone and sc destructive as
the tornado in the country to the east OF
the Rocky mountainp.
1t is good to know that in Southern
California we have a region which is
veritable harbor of refuge-a haven of
peace. While tits true that we are suffer
ing even here from strike just now, it did
not originate in this seraphic region.
1t is one OF the rumblings from the con-
gested cities and states of the east.
Though our local railways, and even our
transcontinental ones, are involved in
the strike misery, the orders for this
discordance come from the east. In the
benign climate of Southern California a
protracted and envenomed strife is out
of the question. Long disputes are as
impossible as cyclones and tornadoss.
Multitudes OF the best people in the
east are aware of the chaotic condi-
tions which exist around them, and they
are anxious to get out OF the melsn-
choly prism of disturbance. They see
on the Pacific coast OF the United States
a comparatively new country, sparsely
populated, and which is certain to be
the home OF millions. They also know
that the most delightful and varied
products of earth are grown here, and
that they will find here vertable gar
den of Eden; where every one may sit
under his own vine and fig tree, with no
one to make him afraid. Resources of
practically unlimited extent are tribu-
tary to Los Angeles. and a civilization
unrivaled on earth is springing up
under these new and inspiriting aus-
pices. That this condition OF things
will result in an unexampled settlement
in this fair land, let no man doubt.
We have sometimes been tempted to
believe that it was misfortune that we
had not more manufacturing in Los An
geles. Perhaps that very fact will be
our greatest attraction. Under the hec-
tic conditions in which manufactures
exist in the United States. under con-
stantly disturbed phases of the tar
if. there ia generally more or less of q
lamentable squalor and destitution.
Transitory periods Of prosperity are suc-
ceeded by appalling suffering. There
are no such vicissitudes OF fortune in the
| lives of the orchardists and vineyardists
who will largely make up the popula-
ton OF this section. All the circum-
stances of our surroundings admit of the
development of universal prosperity and
ideal homes. Manufactures we ahall
OF course have, in the manufacture of
wines and brandies and crystalized and
canned and dried fruits. Smelling and
reduction works and foundriee and roll
ing mills will undoub ubtedly follow in the
wake OF the extension OF our railways to
Salt Lake City. But these will be
simply Incidents of our Development
will be one factor in many. While we
shall have a great abundance OF both
the base and precious metals, there will
be such variety OF production OF all
kinds here that no one interest is in any
danger OF becoming overshadQwing.
Even as we write, and with all the
disturbing elements that are ours as a
legacy from the east, building is going
on in Los Angeles at the rate OF five
houses day. by official statistics which,
as we have heretofore proven, indicate
an increase of population q. the rate OF
ten thousand souls year, Such re-
suit in midsummer speaks well for the
rate at which our population will in
crease during the fall, winter and spring.
Myriads in the east will flock out here
as soon as the channels of travel are
opened. determined to get away from g
region where strikes originate, cyclones
are perennial and the life OF the ordinary
citizen has become anything but pleas
ant.