The herald., 1894-12-31
WANT MORE THAN WIND.
The Valley People Are IN Earnest
and Mean Business.
Good Prospects for the Completion OF
the Road to Salt Lake City-This
and the Valley Line Will Make
the South suprsme.

As Moses led the children Of Israel
out OF the land OF bondage, into coun-
try flowing with milk and honey. so is
the angel that holds the destiny OF all
Southern Caliiornia-Los Angeles-in
the keeping Of her hand, about to de-
liver the enthralled hosts OF the great
San Joaquin valley from the CALLING yoke
OF the Southern Pacific company of
Kentucky.
After groaning under the lashes Of the
heartless taskmasters Of the rapacious
corporation for 10. these many years, the
people Of this fertile valley see the frat
glimmer of hope OF deliverancs SHIN
mering over the eerrated peaks of the
Tehachepis.
In vain have they knocked at the
gates Of the silurian metropolis on the
chores Of San Francisco bay. The old
toll.taker by the sea has refused TO
grant entrance except by one narrow
portal, and over that is inscribed in let.
ters OF gold. Southern Pacific" sup>
plemented by the legend, abandon
hope, who enter here"
Through this gate not few ventur ed,
and did MOI again issue forth until
they had been shorn OF all their sub.
stance by the gate-kespers. 1t was
truly hopeless task for the people of
the valley to attempt to barter or traf-
&c with the inhabitants OF this walled
in city, so long e. there was but one
method OF insress or egress. Therefore
they finally turned away with heavy
hearts and loud lamentations.
So loud and long was their wall OF dis
ress that 1t reached the ear Of Los AN
gelss, sitting serene and happy on her
enbowered throne in Southern Califor-
mia. 1t was like the cry from Mace
donia: "Come and help u.s."
Moved to pity by the tale OF wrongs
rscited by the long.suffsring people OF
Fresno and the country roundabout. the
Raisin city, the good angel rose up and
said: Peace, be still; I will succor
you"
Such, allegoricslly. Is the railroad cit
uation in the San Joaquin valley. as it
presents itself at the present writing.
Los Angeles has heard the cry of her
oppressed neighbors beyond the Te-
hachepis, and the response is daily
manifested by the sentiments expressed
by her publjc-spirited citizens through
the medium OF THE HERALD.
Day by day interest in this PROPOSE
tion grows. Even the quiet of rainy
Sabbath did not lessen the ardor of the
citizens on the question Of competing
line OF railway to Fresno. Wherever a
little group of citizens was gathered.
there was the question discussed; and
numerous were the compliments be.
slowed on THE HERALD for the intelli-
gent and persistent manner in which it
is keeping the subject before the peo-
pie.
THE HERALD coniesse1 that the re-.
sponse evoked by the effort far exceeds
its most sanguine expectations. The
people simply have become alive to the
benefits that would accrue from closer
business relations with the great cep-
tral valley of California, and they see
the necessity Of competing line Of
railway to make that country tributary
to Los Angeles, and they mean to zee
that the project is accomplished.
Tbs more the question is sgi.sted and
investigated the more apparent it be-
comes that the project is sntir ely feast.
bic and that its ultimate accom- plish-
ment is but question OF time. and not
very long time at that. It ia morally