Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-02-19
THE CITY OF ANGELS.
While the Writer Thinks il
Somewhat Celestial

of Los Angeles for his West Virginia
Friends HE Thinks Il the Prettiest
Place ON Earth aud He is Not Far
Wrong.
L Concluded from Yesterday Z
California's development has not
been solely along material lines.
Even with her brief history it seems
TO me that, from an intellectual point
of view she has proven the reasonable
ness of prophecy just alluded to, Let
me quote this time from one Of her
own gifted ones, a resident of Los
Angeles.
BESIDE THE WESTERN SEA.
O, wait to see the glory OF this land
that fronts the West,
Land as yet unsung in story of earth's
greatest and its best,
But its future swims in brightness, and
the golden Veto Be,
Shining with Fame's spotess Wilderness,
lies beside this western sea.
Poets here and grand immortals in the
realm of art and song,
Patriots shall tread its portals, and the
sons OF science throng
Here, where Summer ever fingers !:
where lofty mountains rise,
Thrusting upward granite fingers to the
deeps of cloudless skies.
Wide we set our sea gates open to the
old and waiting East,
Commerce, all her barriers broken,
brings to us of wealth feast,
And the glory of this nation in its rich
Futurity,
Shall shine proudest in its luster here
beside this western sea.
But must not forget my promise
to show you more Of the city Let
me say that her people are as unique
az herself Many Of them are just
the common people hut from all races
and all quarters of the earth and some
OF them with wholesome ideas OF
American liberty. To Illustrate: At
certain review recently held a
pompous member of Parliament found
himself on the outskirts of huge
crowd. Being anxious to obtain a
good view of himself and some ladies
who accompanied him and presuming
he was well known, he tapped a burly
cockney on the shoulder and said In a
peremptory tone: 'sMake way there. :"
ssWho are yer pushin?" replied the
cockney.
"Do you know who / amp said the
indignant statesman. 81 am repre-
sentative of the people"
"Garnl That amt nothing" growl-
ed the man. eWe're the bloomin'
people themselves Ii you will go
with me you will not be long finding
out that "we're the bloomin' people
themselves, though the flower is not
always beautiful or fragrant one /
might take you through the numer-
Gus charming parks--the wide and
wealthy streets-show only her beau
tiful flowery homes OF refinement as
for example to Pasadena (now sub
urb of Greater Los Angeles) small
town of few Thousand which now
boasts OF twenty millionaires residing
in It's boundaries, said to be the rich
est little town in the world, besides
having some celebrities lin the way
Of ostriches.) We speak Of the mill
lionaires as in the line OF curiosities
(perhaps | have transposed a word
here) and not as examples Of happi-
ness and greatest success in life.
What does 1t profit man to be the
landed proprietor Of countless acres
unless he can reap the harvest Of de-
light that blooms from every road Of
Gods earth for the seeing eye and the
loving spirit? And who can reap
that harvest so closely that there shall
not be abundant cleaning left for all
mankind? The most that wide
principally can yield TO its legal own
er is living. We measure success
by accumulation. The measure Is
false? The true measure is apprecia-
tion. He who loves most has most.
But / would not be faithful In my
picture of Los Angeles if covered up
her deformity, her ugly cancerous
evils which seem to send their roots
all the deeper because Of her outward
fairness. Her open saloons-her
brothels-a whole street Of disreputa-
BILE, unspeakable places. Her divorce
courts, layity of divorce laws six or
seven causes anyone of which consid-
cred sufficient ground for divorce,
Sunday made legal business day and
other wrongs and evils. We are try
ing to wipe out these stains. 1.-THE
world credits us with what we accom-
plish; Heaven with what we at
tempt"
We have just recently repealed the
state law taxing church property and
our churches are now exempt. Cali
fornians like the English cockney are
a very contentious people always hold
ing high their own self esteem. This
spirit has even invaded recently one
of her chief halls Of learning so that
w. v. q. is right in the line of sue
eession If that distinction is so con-
stituted. Our great (symbolic) grizzly
bear has broken into the halls of
Stanford and his claws are red with
raven. Perhaps it is too much learn
ing that is q dangerous thing. Could
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