The record-union., 1897-02-20
A VERY FEEBLE SUGGESTION.

1t has been suggested that Northern
California establish a bureau of solicit
alton in Les Angeles in order to divert
the people who visit Southern Califor-
mia from investment in that country
and persuading them to cast their lot
with the northern portion of the State.
The people of Southern California go to
the original source from whence popu-
latfon may be derived The people of
Northern California, apparently not
equal to this enterprise. depend upon
the superior sagacity and superior at
tractiveness of Southern California to
get people into the State, and then de-
pend upon reinforcing the population of
Vesting the southern end of it of its i'm
migrants.
Nothing could be more unfortunate
than this attempt. In the first place
it is eloquent of the impotency of
Northern California to compete in the
Eastern States with the southern por-
7lon of the State in Offering attractions.
In the next place it will precipnate a
conI oversial comparison of the rela-
tive advantages of the two sections of
the State, and sooner or later result in
elimination and recrimination, of angry
Misrepresentation, and the energy
" hich should be exerted in the original
field viii be diverted into a channel
where each section of the State will be
trying TO destroy the other
more humiliating spectacle could
mot be presented than that of North
ern California supplicatfng the immi-
grafton induced by the people of the
southern part of the State not to set
tie in that section at all, but to 60 to
the section which contributed nothing
TO induce them to come to the Pacific
Coast.
The immigration into Southern Cali
fornia is quite different from what it
Is supposed to be by the people Of the
northern portion of the State. Ninety
per cent of all the people who go to
Southern California go there for the
purpose of enjoying the clemency of the
winter climate. Their original inten-
fion is not investment, but pleasure.
They are often seduced by the beauty
of the country and its general attract
1yeness to invest, or to make homes-to
make the southern end of the State a
permanent and recurring winter resi-
dence. There are but few Of the class
who want to raise wheat or deciduous
fruit But little can be accomplished
by attempting TO divert population
from Southern California to Northern
California, while the whole attempt to
arrest, obstruct and hinder the growth
of Southern California by invading its
territory by an immigration agency is
as pitiful as it is contemplate It will
eVentuate In angry controversy injuri-
Gus rivalry and mutual misrepresenta-
ton
Discussing these matters with citi-
zens of Southern California, we have
been assured by them that they would
offer no obstacle to the missionary eff
fort of Northern California in the
the people who come from the East 10
Los Angeles away from that section.
They say that the more the two sec
tions of the State are contrasted the
better ii viii be for Southern Califor-
ria, and in this expression they appear
to think that they are indulging in the
broadest liberality. This is not the case.
They are simply indicating, only too
plainly, that a wordy warfare as TO the
real merits of the two sections of the
country is about to be precipitated.
When a Los Angeles citizen declares
that the more the northern part of the
State is shown the less likely the peo-
Ile are to leave Southern California for
Il residence in 1t, he is not coneealing
his sentiment Of resentment. He is
simply meeting It by an unjustifiable
boast. The feeble-minded genius who
suggested the abandonment OF the
Eastern field for the sake Of fishing Tor