Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-03
URGES CITIZENS
TO USE BALLOT
CONSOLIDATION COMMITTEE
APPEALS TO VOTERS
WEDNESDAY is ELIMINATING
DAY OF LONG FIGHT
For Years Chamber of Commerce Has
Struggled TO Make Possible
Great Free Harbor at
Los Angeles

The, Los Angeles consolidation cam
paign committee yesterday issued the
following appeal to voters to partlci-
pate in Wednesdays election:
To the Voters of the City of Los
Angeles and Wilmington:
"Wednesday, August 4, is an epoch
making day in your history. That day
You must determine by your vote
whether Los Angeles shall be a great
maritime city and Wilmington the
great commercial distributing center of
that city, or whether Wilmington will
commit commercial suicide by reject
ing the opportunity to develop her nat
ural resources, and that Los Angeles
must direct her energies in other direc
tions to attain that commercial SUI
premacy that she must surely, sooner
or later acquire.
In the great struggle with Coils p.
Huntington, representing the Southern
Pacific Railroad company, on one side,
and the chamber of commerce of the
city of Los Angeles, representing all of
the people of Southern California, ably,
honestly and fearlessly led by that
peerless native son, stephen NJ. White
(whose memory has been perpetuated
by that bronze statue at Temple street
and Broadway, which is daily re-
minder to the coming generation that
the people are not ungratefuD, this
great commercial organization won,
and the breakwater was located at San
Pedro instead of at Santa Monica, and
the outcome of the struggle deter
mined that at some time San Pedro
harbor must come under the control of
municipality with ample resources,
courage and patriotic citizenship to de-
velop it, that the surrounding and con-
tiguous territory might reap all the
advantages of this wonderful gift of
nature.
Territory Annexed
THE next move of this patriotic body
was the instituting of proceedings to
annex sufficient territory that the bor-
ders of Los Angeles might join the bor-
der of San Pedro and Wilmington.
This done, under the advice of this
body, a harbor commission was Great
ed, and by the city council directed, in
conjunction with the city attorney, to
prepare and request the Thirty eighth
general assembly of the State of Cali
fornia to place a law on the statute
books whereby any two or more cities
might unite under one government. The
legislature granted the request, and on
the passage of this law the civic bod
les, the city council and the chairman
of the board of supervisors appointed
a committee of fifteen representative,
busy. business men, and directed them
to take the necessary steps to bring
about the consolidation of Los Ange-
les, San Pedro and Wilmington, that
such a municipality might be estab-
lished on San Pedro bay.
This committee has given its ser
vices to this cause, both day and night,
from time to time, for the last four
months. giving its holidays and making
business sacrifices that cannot be meas
ured in dollars and cents, all without
compensation, that you, Mr.. Voter,
might have the opportunity that will
be presented to you August 4 and Aug
ust u. The consolidation of Los An
geles with san Pedro and Wilmington
means that San Pedro harbor will no
longer be a private harbor but will
take it's place on the navigator's charts
and become known to the world, and
that here will be the great commercial
city of the coast. 1t means that we
will reap all of the advantages that
naturally belong to us by the opening
of the Panama canal. 1t means that
the city will be placed in a position
that will enable her to reap ali of the
advantage of her great aqueduct, and
the municipality owned and controlled
light and power plant. 1t means the
control of transportation through the
great natural highway of the sea.
Up to the Voters
Now, Mr.. Voter. this committee has
conscientiously and faithfully dis
charged its duty. 1t is up to you, for
a duty is before you that you must per-
form. Put aside other business, go to
the polls Wednesday, August 4, early
IN the morning, and deposit your vote
in favor of the consolidation of Los
Angeles and Wilmington. EXpend that
part of the remainder of the day that
you can spare in seeing that the other
fellow votes for consolidation. Re
member that the 189 precincts have
been consolidated into SO in the city of
Los Angeles, and that your voting
place may have been changed since you
last voted. Consult the daily papers
so YOU may be able to vote before COM
ing to business in the morning.
"Do your full duty August by Vot-
ing for consolidation. that Los Angeles
may become the future great residen-
tial manufacturing, maritime city Of
the Pacific coast.
"a. P. FLEMING,
chairman Campaign Committee"
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