Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-12

which will attact the commerce OF
the world.
And why should it not? For
years we have watched the ships
20 by, day by day, as though there
was nothing back Of San e.iro
harbor more than you VIII ma
around the magnificent harbor or
Magdalena bay in Lower Califpr-
MIA. For years our merchants have
paid to transportation companies
the same tariff from San Diego to
Los Angeles that they assessed
merchants from San Pedro to Los
Angeles, and other schedules could
be quoted here too tiresome Tor re-
production.
No War with North
We have no war with our neigh
bors in the north, and no desire to
curtail their advancement, although
distance of several hundred miles
separates us, making more per
feet understanding between us by
that reason, if for no other, all
the more difficult. 1t may, be well
to remember that Baltimore does
not expect to thrive by reason OF
the prosperity of Boston, and we
do not see how we can expect TO
be nourished by the activity OF
trade relations in San Francisco.
This city has undertaken-and as
has been we'll said by those who
NAV not love us very much, we
have never undertaken anything
vet which we have not accom-
plished-it has undertaken to spend
$4,000 900 within the next ten years
upon the development of its har-
Dor.
Bv obtaining municipal control OF
enough wharfage to keep private
interests within reason in their
profits, and by being entitled, un-
der our charter to have munici-
pally controlled railroad we VIII
undertake, If necessary, to Wrestle
with transportation companies as
to what shall be a fair toll for the
shipper to pay. Upon that theory,
we trust that there will be gov
ernment-owned and controlled line
of steamships coming from the 18th
mus of Panama, which, coupled
with the control by the national
government of the railroad across
the isthmus, will enable the gov
ernment to have a voice in TINS
very vital question
Can Work Out Problem
I do not believe this community Is
COulIOllGu NY PeAbNA AASNNAHAAA'
Socialist code, however, sincere It's
advocates may be- finds but little
healthy soil for it's doctrines here,
and these suggestions, therefore,
are not brought out except from
what we believe the necessity of the
hour. With these checks upon cor
porate power, we can work out
hand in hand, public as we'll as pri-
vate interests, with ample returns
for both. Why should we pin our
faith upon such a glorious future
Why this unnecessary optimismf
The difference between the Optim-
ism of the west and that of the east
is very largely a matter of form.
The east takes it very much as a
matter of course that it can ac-
complish anything it sets about to
do. 1t despises an observation
that 1t cannot do it, and Whether
it fails or not it is liable to be
contented with itself, to all ap-
pearances. The west has sterner
landscape in front of it. There is
no turning back, and the motto Is
ever forward, come what will.
And thus, sir, you will find your
self upon the fringe of this Pacific
ocean at almost the southwestern
extremity of this mighty nations
life. looking into the faces and
watching the heart pulses of the
men and women who have flung out
the nations frontier line to invite
or repel, as the case may be, the
friends of commerce or the antago-
nists of war.
New Type of Pioneer
Here is a manhood and a woman
hood which has been brought from
the best products of the east and
middle west. 1t is new type or
pioneer. 1t has wrestled with
newer and more subtle conditions
than even the old pioneers did who
fought the crude and harsh forces
of nature in the early days of the
states history; all honor to them,
noble scions of a mighty generation
that followed, with which the new
comers are freely commingled and
become as one; and together, thus
united, those indigenous to Cali
fornia and those who have come
into her bosom, this great com
munity of Los Angeles, with its feet
nesting by the waters edge and its
head uplifted even unto the Sirras,
stands mighty as the forces of ma
ture with which it is surrounded,
with mind clear as the sky which
barely dims the eye the year round,
stands ready at the call of duty
from nation or state, to do its
share for the uplifting of this great
people, to strengthen the hands OF