Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-14

m HE highest rank possible, however,
cannot be obtained without the
- establishment of factories or the
fabricating trades in all their varieties
and amplitude, for their products are
destined in the near future to consti-
tute large part of the expectations.
Raw materials in fair measure are here
attainable. Climate is favorable to un-
interrupted work, and food supplies
should not bear oppressive prices
There should be large demand for man
ufactures In the markets of the Oce-
anic, Oriental and South American
countries Manufacturing there will be
slow in development, those especially
of the more substantial and useful
kind. The day is not remote when
power required in manufacturing here
should be abundant and cheap, ana
living should not be so expensive as
to repel labor or capital. Trade and
industries are twin guarantors of a
prosperous and resplendent future.
In addition to what has been pointed
out thehe must be ships of all classes
and in numbers adapted and suf-
ficent to the work that will be re-
quired. Wait not for government to
grant aid in any form. They must be
built and put into service as the busi-
ness of the port shall demand. Ships
in amplitude are as necessary on the
water as cars on the railroad tracks.
There also must be avoidance of re-
pellant port charge sand ample con-
veniences for loading and unloading
cargoes. The ports freest from cost
to ship owners are those most patron
lied and consequently most fiourishing.
II iu certo i'm that tho SbarppSt contest
in the future between the nations will
be in gaining control of the commerce
of countries bordering on the Indian
and Pacific seas. Up to the present
time the United States has taken
very subordinate part. Conditions here
on the Pacific coast have not been such
as to make available the advantages,
geographical and otherwise, the coun-
try possesses. We are now so situated
except in respect to the possession of
an adequate merchant marine, to be-
come the largest beneficiary of that
commerce. Foreign ships now en-
ployed in the trade between this coast
and the oceanic and oriental countries
are few. The Japanese are doing the
most, but her eXportable commodities
are insignificant compared to ours and
our importations from them will never
be in large volume. If we delay put
ting ships into that service Japan and
European nations Will step into the
opening and supply the demand. For
eign ships should not become seriously
competitive when conditions are so
preponderantly in our favor and they
will not otherwise than through our
own neglect or want of the true Amer
lean spirit.
Ample harbor facilities do not yet
exist, but they will be provided as re-
quired by the exigencies OF commerce.
The government Of the United States
of late years has appreciated the value
of such facilities and instead of scat
tering appropriations upon unimportan
places, as was formerly done. there
have been liberal appropriations at
such points as are of large commercial
importance. In addition to break
waters and the deepening of channels
by the government, there is much to
be done by local authorities in the
construction of WharVes and other con-
veniences.
In carrying forward the project of
making Los Angeles a commercial CEN
ter of high rank. it should not be as
sumed there will be no obstacles
thrown in the way, no efforts of cor
porations or individuals to acquire
privileges detrimental to the public in
terests. On the contrary, it is wise to
anticipate that plots will be formed
and schemes concocted by the selfish
and unprincipled to grasp the cream of
the benefits that will attend the pro-
motion of the enterprise in every stage.
This should be expected, because of
late, more especially, it has become a
practice of a class to push themselves
into positions from which they can rob
the public, and their efforts have been
and are likely to be aided by officials
elected by partisan and machine
methods. The people have also become
more or less demoralized by the prac
tices that have prevailed. Our social
system is far from being up to the
standard prescribed by Huxley, VINO
said:
"Other things being equal, the most
vigorous social systems are those in
which are combined the most effective
subordination of the interests of the in