Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
THE COMMON SENSE VIEW

INC OOflION SENSE VIEW
Los Angeles needs no Instruction,
from any source whatever. concerning
either it, duty or the propriety Of It's
action relative TO the plight OF San
Francisco.
That fact cannot be emphasized too
strongly in regard to two impertinent
meddlers-the Canadian 'potentate'
with his "edict" and the local yellow
yawper with it's hammer"
The first OF these two has the audac-
ity to express horror at the purpose OF
Los Angeles to have its flower festival
next month, within a few weeks after
the calamity that befel the northern
city. The yellow yawper echoes the sem
tlment Of the "'potentate" and hings
this javelln at Los Angeles:
"He Cthe 'potentateO was guided APP
parentiy, by his sense Of the fitness of
holding a celebration or JUB1LATTON
here while so many were still suffering
from the San Francisco calamity. The
Examiner believed he was right in his
Judgment and said so.'
Note the use Of the word "jublla-
tion,' meaning, as defined by the
highest authority, "The act Of jubilat-
ing or exulting; rejoicing; exultation;
triumph; shout of joy"
But the reader may draw his own
conclusion from that snake-llke per-
version.
Solomon tells us that ITO everythin g
there is q season. and time to every
purpose under heaven" When the tele-
graph flashed the first news Of the dis
aster at San Francisco every dweller
in Los Angeles was thrilled with a de-
sire to lend a helping hana at once.
There was no question then about the
feeling of Los Angeles toward the
stricken sister, nor has there been
cause for any such question since. This
city has almost literally divided it's
ralment with San Francisco and
emptied it's purse in the latter's lap.
But "there is a time to every pur-
pose under heaven" The time for
assistance to San Francisco will not
have passed so long as that city needs
assistance from Los Angeles. The time
has come, however, for Los Angeles to
recognize it's new responsibility and it's
duty toward California, as state, and
to every section of the state including
San Francisco.
Los Angeles is today, and necessarily
must continue to be for months, the
metropolis of California.
AS the leading city of the state for
the time, the duty devolves upon it, pre-
eminenty, to demonstrate to the world
that the progress and prosperity, the
greatness and glory of California, have
not suffered one iota by the calamity at
San Francisco.
Having lavishly aided the northern
city in its time of need, Los Angeles
now can do no greater service for it's
stricken sister than by furnishing tan
gible evidence that California energy
and courage are as buoyant as of yore.
convincing evidence abroad that our
people are both apprehensive and dis
ccuraged. Such awakening of the old
California spirit of enterprise as every
section of the state evinces, in
the present emergency. gives the lie
direct to the states knockers" near
and far, and ought to crush the head of
the Kissing Journalistic snake in the
grass.
The Fiesta is the one thing needful
now to refute the lies that have been
sewn broadcast in the east, evoking the
universal Indignation of all true Cali
fornians Let us not only have the
Fiesta, but let the occasion be the
greatest and grandest of the kind ever
witnessed in Los Angeles.