Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-13
A Greeting to Greater Los Angeles

I
who awake morning and find the city of which all
so proud ful-edged maritime metropolis possession of
which the harbor experts OF the United States OF eng
and others have repeatedly said can at comparatively small
expense the finest arbor the Pacific coast and
the finest in the world.
There is no doubt that today the city of Los Angeles is the arg
est center of population the Pacific coast.
There doubt that by properly improving her habor
accommodate the commerce which will certainly with
the completion the Panama canal Los Angeles and will
within half years. make herself the largest center OF
commerce and wealth on the Pacific coast
Herald under its present management has at all times led
fight of the hbo San Pedro by the people OF
Los Angeles this because recognized the fact that
furnished the only hope free harbor for
This control has become assured 1t has been the high
privilege of of those connected most intimately with the man
agemen and control of The Herald to give their best efforts to
bringing this about,
For nearly twenty years progressive public spirited citizens
the city Angeles have led the fight for harbor for
California and the southwest free from corporate
control This fight has been waged against some OF the most power
m influences 1t has at last been crowned with
and complete and from the habor in the pos
city Los Angeles and protected by its charter
the naenabe property of the people for whom has BEEN
and will be, constructed.
It both the privilege duty city assist the United
government which has heretofore spent $OOOO upon
harbor in the work of completing its development and i'm
provement.
thing which has given the city of Los Angeles its prmacy
among cities the Pacific and for first place size
the spirit which has led all times make the most of its
porunies and to create opportunities where none existed
This Los Angeles spirit recognized by the San Francisco
Chronicle in an editorial on Wilmington consolidation election
published few days ago, in which that paper said:
anyone imagine that if had happened that the people
who in Los Angeles had settled about San Francisco bay
and who live here had settled in the brush along the
Angeles the relative positions of the communities
would be what they today? Imagination fails to core up
adequate picture Francisco and central California would
bean today in the hands of the Los Angeenos"
possession of the harbor avoaby situated of any
the great domestic and foreign
erce this result of the completion of
the canal people of Los Angeles today hold factor
which, properly used will make their city forever immeasrab
greatest of population and wealth upon the
Pacific
They must use opportunity however by beginning
great work OF properly developing and improving their harbo
No time should providing the money which the wealth
and credit of city abundanty enable provide for improving
harbor capacity for accommodating this great COM
erce And when that money provided no
time spending the end that accommodation OF
the most perfect kind shall be furnished for this commerce
There is affairs of cities, we'll of men, which
leads fortune This tide has come IN the ca
reer of Los Angeles avaed of to the fullest extent
And people Los Angeles not fool themselves into the
belief that they meet the control and
Improvement of their harbor Efforts will be made by selfish IN
eress to prevent y properly and fully taking advantage OF
opportunity which the control OF the hoor oes "
efforts must and defeated.
will be made under the guse OF false pleas economy
prevent city from improving the public frontage upon Its
harbor
Efforts will be made to interfere full and proper
troll of the harbor by the city.
Efforts will be made to prevent the cys administering its har
Dor on the broad liberal lines along which it must be ad
nistered in order attractive the world commerce
which by its natural location belongs to and which will
win # those who control it are true opportunities But the
cv whose people nearly OF years fought SO siren
nos1v the fight for free against ali and kinds of IN
fences will prove false inefficient in the administration OF
the great trust which has been put into its hands
The Herald the material OF which the citizenship OF the
# of Los Angeles we'll have doubts upon this
score And we are well that from point tc
the cv of Los Angeles only being the greatest center OF
population greatest commercial city the west coast OF the
greatest nation in the world.
for Greater Los Angeles and the great people "ho
have made it possible!
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