The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-04
A BUREAU OF DETRAcTIoN EXPOSED

For a long time there has been a sort
of bureau of jetraction. misrepresen ia
ton and SANDER in Southern Califor-
mia. The work has been actively carried
on by system of whispers, pretended
confdences, anonymous communications,
and the grossest and most inexcusable
instrumentation. The sufferers have
been botanists, scientific men and those
generally whose public spirit or public
service has in any way come into the
field claimed by the agricultural depart
msnt of the state university. To the
already large mum Der of our most valued
citizens thus secretly maligned has been
recently added our honored and public
spirited citizen, Mr.. F. L. Allies. This
whole miserable business has long been
in condition where the injured parties
could get no satisfaction from the, real
authors. Now, however. matters are fast
coming to head. One secret Sian der
after another mas been traced to one or
another of the political lobby or the reg
ular staff of a department. of the univer-
sity.
Is is indeed an apparent advantage to
the parties in interest to have the prop
erty and the appropriation of the differ
ent state boards and com m issions turned
over to them. 1t is also easy to claim
an economy in the destruction OF boards
that have done as much public service as
the state board of horticulture under its
distinguished and capable president,
Hon. Elwood Cooper, or of com missions
like that OF vticulture or Of forestry.
But there is no true thought of economy
amongst them. All the political heeiers
and patronage seekers engaged in this
campaign care for is to get the apprc-
priation and property turned over to
them.
The state can we'll be proud of such
men as Victim ore, Eilwood Cooper, Sena-
tor Buck, Alex Craw, Koebele. Com
missioner Snow, W. S. Lyon and all
tuose who have so constantly been
maligned and misrepresen5ed by this
political bureau. 1t is also easy to under
stand that political lobby such as this
conspiracy maintained In Sacram ento
should 60 beyond ordinary methods and
whisper detractions against personal
character. First, because the lobby was
composed of men with as little con-
science as manhood, and second, because
such excellent work had been done by
such good citizens without salary and
gratuitously, that SANDER and misrepre-
senratIon by irresponsible parties. under
direction of the would-be bene6ciaries,
was about the only way to weaken and
destroy them. 1t was this policy that
has been continually belittling the work
of the beneficial lady-birds IN our
orchards, simply because these were in
troduced and disrib uted by men in the
conspirators' way. Besides, a constant
stream of Misrepresentation and per-
sonal ISLANDERS have been poured on Hon.
Elwood Cooper. Secretary Lelong Albert
Koebele, Alex Craw, Senator Buck. and
in fact every one who has told the truth
about what the lady-birds were doing. 1t
is a well known fact amongst orange
growers that the life of their industry is
due to such lady-birds as the Vedala
and the Rhizobius. The close margin
on which the growers now operate would
never permit the annual expense of gas
or sprays; consequently the board of hor
ticulture, if it had never done or helped
in doing anything else besides saving the
orange men would still have compensated
the tax payers a thousand times over.
In the face of the plainest evidence of
the efficiency OF the lady birds, when
properly colonized on the black or red
scale, as we'll as the white, these con-
spirators continually procure advice to be
sent to growers to spray or gas-treat
orchards, which action is certain to kill
any lady birds there.
When to such methods OF procuring
property gathered by others and appro-
priations for the doing of certain things
is added the incompetency of the self
seekers to carry on the work of the boards
whose property and appro priatIons they
have captured, the public loses all
patience with them.