The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-02-18
Letter From Major Dollard.

dlu OEuGl llCAaS .
Ground Hog day has
come and gone without a word as
to whether or not he did business
on the Pacific Coast this year. If
he attempted it it is safe to say he
did not see his shadow in Southern
California ; for the last six or sew
en- weeks shadows have not been
in fashion, but it has been rain,
rain, rain, except when it has been
fog as a substitute. If there ever
was a time when one could keep
comfortable here indoors during
the winter without a fire that
time has gone out of fashion
too. We expect to build a home
in the spring, and a furnace to heat
it will be one of the indispensibles.
This is indeed a ed delight
full" country the birds singing,
the flowers blooming, and the teeth
%chattering with the cold, unless
you are close to a good heater. 1t
is not only rain, rain, rain, but
mud, mud, mud, and this is the
season to plant your lima and 9th
er beans, peas, potatoes, and other
vegetables, or mud them in, if you
desire to raise crops with the aid
of the storm waters. When the
South formed the Southern Con-
federacy Parson Brownlow, of Ten
nessee, was invited to join, to
which be replied "No, when | get
ready to go to hill Til cut my
throat and 60 direct, and not go
around by the Southern Confeder-
acy." If I was compelled to make
a choice between farming here and
following the parson, | think |
would follow his lead without hest
tation. Perhaps this is because l
have done my farming by proxy in
the past. But soon the clouds will
roll by, the sunshine will come
again, this internal fog, which rules
the hour, will be dispelled, and
we'll return to that UNNECESSARILY
delightful California, which charms
mankind-when it has the price.
l wonder if it was such weather
as we have recently been afflicted
with that was responsible for the
following, clipped from the Los
Angeles Times, "the greatest news
paper west of the Rockies"
A Roa asst for Los Angeles.
1t is a matter of pain to contemplate,
but one DR.. ]. A. Elmere, Of No. 1876
West Third street, does not like Los
Angeles.
He writes for the paper in his old
home town, Worcester. Mass, intlmat-
ing that we won't do and that Los An
geles is a 'swart on civilization
A perusal of sthe following burning
extracts from DR.. Elmere's epistle,
convinces one that he ought to join
the City Club:
LOS Angeles is situated on a sandy
plain midway between the San Gabriel
Mountains and the Pacific Ocean,
about 'steen miles distant either way,
and has about a quarter of q million
inhabitants in winter and half as many
in m
Its principal industry is real estate
and secondly to harbor tourists. SAND
lots are sold or snapped to eastern
suckers" at fabulous prices and fc
titious values. There are more 10
sale and to let signs here than in any
other city in the world, and I hav'
been a sglobe-trotter' and seen a goot
deal.
I'm fact, almost everything and al
most everybody here is for sale at va
rious prices and promiscuous terms
Graft, bluff, and humbug is every
where! Politics is rotten and the loca
and state government is trust-ridden
with favors to the few and the genera
public be damned
Business IS now carried on is large
" the science of over-reaching and de
ceiving and statutory requirement
have q greater bearing on all business
transactions than integrity or q sens,
Of personal honor.
los Angeles is on the outskirts o
civilization, on the borderland wher,
the orient meets t he occident, and as /
city dispenses chiefly hot air, a war
on civilization and social ulcer OH th.
republic.
'Police protection is poor and imper
fect, hold-ups are common on thu
streets, the street cars are unsafe and
the number they kill Is enormous. The
gas lis of poor quality and Insufficient