Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-30
ALL PULL TOGETHER


III HE city council is to be commended
for acting upon the advice of the
consolidation committee and call
ing the consolidation elections for
Wilmington and San Pedro on differ
ent days. with the Wilmington election
first.
The gentlemen composing the con-
solidation committee have earned the
gratitude, and entitle themselves to
the full confidence, of the people of
Los Angeles and their representatives
in thescity council by the patriotic and
intelligent manner in which they have
discharged their duties.
The members of the consolidation
committee, to a man, are known for
their intelligence, character and devo-
tion to the public welfare. Being the
representatives of the city of Los
Angeles in the matter of consolidation,
the city council could not have ignored
the advice of the consolidation COM
mittee in the matter of holding the
elections without discounting the
chosen representatives of the city-a
course that would have been wrong
had it been adopted, and for which no
reason could have been urged.
We are sorry that our San Pedro
friends seem to have taken the calling
of the Wilmington election previous to
the San Pedro election so much to
heart. We believe they viii find that In
advising this the Los Angeles CONSOLE
dation committee has been acting for
the best interests of all parties, includ-
ing San Pedro. just as they have al
ready found, in the report of the Los
of San Pedro were scrupulously guard
ed and provided for on the most liberal
possible scale.
We feel sure that in the ex-
element of argument before the
council at its meeting on Mon
day some expressions were used that
did not reflect the cooler judgment of
the speakers. Any suggestion that any
action of the Los Angeles committee
was dictated by a desire TO serve any
corporate or special interest is unwor-
thy of any honest, intelligent man, and
if such suggestion was made it was no
doubt the result of thoughtless heat
in the argument, and the maker of it
should be, and no doubt is, profoundly
sorry that ne permitted his enthusiasm
to get the better of his discretion.
After the Wilmington election has
been safely and successfully landed, we
venture that our san Pedro friends will
find that the calling of it in advance
was the best possible thing to do; and
that the favorable issue of their own
election will have been contributed to
and made much less difficult of ac-
complishment by the holding first of
the Wilmington election.
The harbor question is entirely too
big to be treated from any narrow or
selfish standpoint, and the sooner all
the friends of San Pedro harbor-I
whether they live in Wilmington, San
Pedro or Los Angeles-realize this, the
better it is going to be for every in
terest which they desire to serve-it
makes no difference in which city that
interest may be located.
NOW THAT THE DATES FOR THE
ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN SET, LET
US ALL PUT OUR SHOULDERS TO
THE WHEEL, AND WITH A LONG
PULL, A STRONG PULL AND a
PULL ALL TOGETHER LAND THE
PEOPLES HARBOR AT SAN Pc
DRO AND WILMINGTON UNDER
THE SHELTERING PROTECTION
OF THE CITY CHARTER OF Los
ANGELES, WHOSE TERMS WILL
PROHIBIT THE FRITTERINGl
AWAY OF THE PEOPLES RIGHTS
IN THIS GREAT PROPERTY.
AND THEN WE WILL AT ONCE
TAKE UP THE VOTING OF A $10,-
100000 ISSUE FOR THE IMPROVE
MENT OF ALL OF THE HARBOR
FRONTAGE WHICH THE PEOPLEI
CONTROL, BOTH ON THE INNER
AND OUTER HARBOR: AND FOR
THE IMPROVEMENT, LATER, OF
ALL ADDITIONAL FRONTAGE
WHICH THE PEOPLE ARE GER
TAIN TO SECURE AS A RESULT OF
LITIGATION NOW PENDING.