The herald., 1895-01-20

in Los Angeles county. There sre no
| nearly 40 many people in this county
from what ere .distinctively known s
the southern ststes as many would CON
! lecture.
The eastern and middle states. in.
Guiding Maine. New Hampshire. Yer
mont, Massachusetts, Connecticut
Rhode Island, New York. Ohio, Penn
sylvanis, Illinois, Indiana and Now
Jersey have sent rs some 1900 voters
while the southern states do not rur
over $500. The northwestern states o.
Wisconsin. Michigan, Kansas, Mime
sofa and lows have given us about 5000,
the far western states and territories
supply only about 800.
MANY NEW WORKERS HERE.
California itself has contributed about
500 American citizens who had the
chance to exercise their elective franz
chise at the last general election. The
sister Pacific states have been so busy
with their own immigration labors that
they have sent us but few citizens; the
list OF voters whose nativity is Wash
ington and Oregon reaching only the
imall number OF lis.
1t is quite q significant fact that New
York heads the list OF states which have
loaned us citizens to develop the virgin
soil OF this fair county. 1t 10 no small
thing for a New Yorker to point to the
$500 voters OF Los Angeles county who
first drew breath in the Empire state,
and draw some fiattering conclusions as
to the reason for the enter
prise that ia making nature yield
its best returns in this section.
No New Yorker need feel lonesome
when he consults the great register, no
matter how forsaken the one gentleman
may feel who sew light fret on the Car.
DINA islands or the ona who happened
to be born in Persia. The same may be
sad OF the ubiquitous gentlemen from
Ohio. They have branched out in the
Buckeye state as well as in New York
and az they have also done in
pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and
Iowa. The people from what. In the
old.fashioned biographies, before they
reclassified the states, were known as
the middle staten, could almost etsrt
county OF their own ont here ii thoy
could all get together.
THE WESTERN STATES ARE SHY.
The southern state which has sent the
largest contingent Of people to Los AM
gelss county lie Missouri, which has 1850
names on the great register. yet this is
not as large q quota as any one OF several
OF the eastern and middle states.
In glancing over the number Of PEG.
pie from different states it is suggestive
to see how few there are from the far
western states and territories. Their
names appear but seldom through the
big volume, and one wonders how much
this proportion will be changed when
the new transcontinental railroad to
Utah is completed. and that section is
put within easy reach OF the Pacific and
Southern California. The register
shows but $50 names from Nebraska.
Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, New
Mexico. Indian Territory. Montana,
Wyoming, Idaho and North Dakota.
There can be very little doubt that
with easy and cheaper railroad facilities
those states and territories will, within
the next 20 years send many people to
this section to avoid the uncertainties
and vcissitudes OF life where nature
does not smile as frequently and posen-
TALLY as it does here.
While it 10 true that the southern
grafton to this part OF California az some
other portions OF the United States, yet
the supplemental register taken lass fall
shows an increasing proportion from
that section over the original register Of
1892. This immigration lie not confined
to any one part Of the south, but has
come from many states, from the Caro-
linas to Arkansas, from Texas to Mary
Land old nara;ntN, e.
miliar with the immigration predict
that it will be an ever increasing num-
Der as the years go by.
WHAT THE REGISTER DOES NOT TELL.
A study OF the great roll OF voters OF
Los Angeles county is no less interest,"
ing from what it doea tell than it is for
what it leaves untold. 1t does not by
any means include all the adults in the
county. There are several hundred
men scattered throughout its con-
fines, possibly from countries
not enumerated, who have not
yet availed themselves OF the opportu-
nifty OF showing some superior Judge
how much they do not know about the
institutions and government of the land
in which they live. 1t is said that the
proportion of such persona is smaller in
proportion than in other sections of the
country. The schoolmester 10 abroad in
tina land, and QUE by one these aliens
are bowling to the dominant forces about
them. Ii they do not themselves see
the mead of citizenship they are in many
instances rearing children who will not
be satisfied until the toga o! citizenship
will cover them. The very spirit that
moved these people to seek their for.
tunes in far away land invests them
with desire to enjoy all the privileges
OF that land. During the past yesr the
number of naturalizstions OF citizens ex-
ceeds that Of previous ysarn, and hsre
again has been observed the almost
arithmetical progression of the iorces at
work in the assimilation OF the varied
raeea who are spying out tho land.
One is so accustomed to hearing of
people who go to Washington city--when
they have lived nnder favorable horo-
scope-that it seems queer to think that
people are born in the District OF Co.
umbia who seek their fortunes else =
where than under the shadow OF the
White House and dome of the capitol.
Yet upon the great register of Los An
geles county appear the names of about
6O gentlemen, who seem to have be-
lieved that this land offers them more
inducements to materially prosper than
to remain in the city where the prep-
nant hinges of the knee are accustomed
to be crooked.
In view OF the recent distresaiul antics
OF the weather in Florida, and the &C.
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