Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-09

the harbor and power plant bonds
\ is actively begun, and yesterday,
the second day of the real campaign,
saw a great amount of work accom-
plished III the way OF circulating iitera-
ture and appeals.
Robert M. Lusk, president of the Los
Angeles city council, yesterday joined
in the campaign and issued a hearty
appeal, in behalf of all the members
of the Los Angeles council, for voters
to support the two bond issues election
day, April 10.
Mr.. Lusk's appeal is as follows:
ITO the voters of Los Angeles:
ut occurs to me that no fair-minded
citizen of Los Angeles can consistent
ly oppose the voting of $3,000,000 of
bonds for harbor improvements at
wilmington and San Pedro. The prom
ises on the part of the people of Los
Angeles that that sum would be vot-
ed and expended at those places, was
the consideration which induced the
people of Wilmington and San Pedro to
surrender their municipal government
with all their harbor rights and privi-
leges and become part of the greater
city.
Would 1t be right, would it be just
to those people, after relying and act
ing upon our promise to them, to neg
lect or refuse to keep good faith with
them? 1t would be equivalent to the
reputation of an honest debt The
people of Los Angeles are too hon
orable, in my judgment, to accept the
great advantages which Wilmington
and San Pedro have, in good faith,
surrendered to them, and then neglact,
fail or refuse faithfully to carry out
the agreement on the part of this city.
every consideration of duty and
honor, to say nothing of selfish inter
est, necessitates the voting of the
bonds as this is the only way In which
Los Angeles can fulfill it's solemn
agreement. Aside from the question of
duty and honor, and viewing 1t alone
from the standpoint of self-interest,
there is nothing that would so much
conduce to the growth, development
and prosperity of Los Angeles, as the
establishment of her harbor.
May 1 be permitted, as an humble
servant of the people, to urge every
true, loyal, patriotic citizen of Los An
geles to attend the polls on the 18th
inst. and vote for these bonds.
URGES POWER BONDS
"As to the $3,5OO,O0 power bonds to
be voted for at the same time 1 would
say that they are of equal importance
to the city. 1t is estimated that 10000
electrical horse power can be developed
by a suitable power plant. 1t is beyond
the Imagination of the most fertile
brain to grasp the wonderful possibili-
ties to Los Angeles of such an electrl-
cal force. The city would be able to
furnish power for the various manufac-
turing enterprises that would probably
be established here by reason thereof,
and thus provide lucrative employ
ment for thousands of skilled and other
workmen. Aside from the aqueduct 1T
self there are no two enterprises to
compare, in Importance, with the estab-
lishment of the power plant and the
harbor.
with the successful completion of
these three great enterprises 1t is
question of short time only when Los
Angeles will be the metropolis, not only
of California but OF the Pacific slope.
The bosom of every loyal citizen of Los
Angeles should swell with pride when
he contemplates the growth, develop
ment, prosperity and beauty of this
city, upon the completion, within the
next tive or three years, of these three
great Enterprises; but 1t will require
the voting of the bonds in order to
establish the harbor and power plant.
Los Angeles will then have an abun-
dance of water, the best lighting sys-
In the world and one of the finest har-
bors, and will then become a paradise,
indeed.
Let us all vote for the bonds on the
10Th inst. ROBERT M. LUSK,
president of the City Council"
ASKS oRGANIZATIoN's HELP
In addition to this appeal the Los
Angeles harbor commission sent cir
cular letter to all of the twenty-four
improvement associations in Los An
geles, which are urged to aid in the
two great projects now pending before
the voters of Los Angeles.
This letter to the improvement as
sociations reads in part:
1.-The commercial supremacy of Los
Angeles hangs in the balance and the
vote on April 10 will determine wheth-
err or not she shall equip herself so
as to realize all of her natural advan-
tages., Her commercial interests have
been built by an arbitrary rate fixed
by the transcontinental railroads which
has made her terminal point and a
distributing center for freight. This
advantage is gradually being taken
away until she is nearly placed upon
the same level as interior cities. There
fore she must improve the harbor so
as to enable commercial interests to
take advantage of cheap transporta-
tion over natures highway, and there
must be assembled at her harbor in
one harmonious whole the steamship,
the railroad, the factory and the ware
house.
believing that you will boost as
Won can boost and that we will roll
up a magnificent majority for the
bonds. I am for the future welfare
and upbuilding of Los Angeles, very
truly YOURS, A. P. FLEMING,
"Secretary L. A. Harbor Commission
Mr.. Fleming also issued statement
TO the public answering the criticisms
which recently were raised by certain
nrivete opponents of the bond issues.
These opponents, some of them mem
hars of fhe Federated Improvement
association. at a meeting in the cham
har of commerce Thursday night, ad-
roitted their error after a lengthy dis
cussion OF the issues involved, and
voted unanimously to support the BOND
- The question they previously raised.
however. related to the plan or the
nroposed expenditure of the money to
The explanation issued by Secretary
FLEMING. along the lines set forth by
Citv Attorney Leslie r. Hewitt Is as
follows:
EXPLAINS THE BONDS
"The understanding of the manner
and place of expending the $3,000,000
for harbor improvements is as fol-
lows:
.sTwo million dollars will be used for
the irnproyenent Of the 146 acres in
the outer harbor and other parts