The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-03-09

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I tBxtract from VIM. Kelley's Financial Speech,
Delivered in the House Of Representatives,
Feb. 18th. - : 2 s,a3s'zs: ss>5
That Was IN unfortunate reference the
gentleman made to California. He held
her up as IN example Of prosperity TO- be}
envied BY the suffering people Of her sis
her reputation and notification. Of the
legal tender law. Sir, It may b m act
Of temerity, but I am prepared to present
her as = warning to those citizens Of
other States who lsz believe ;. that
by contracting the :: volume Of
money they can promote the welfare Of
the people. or hasten the day when pros
perity shall again dwell within our bor.'
ders. In natural gifts and geographical
position, :Calilornia excels any other State
in the Union. In abundance, variety,
value and accessibility, her resources ex.
ceed those Of any other State or nation.
She is - accessible by ocean voyage to
Caucasian emigracts as arc the island
provinces of England: She is by rail
within six days of the cities Of the East,
crowded with skilled and aspiring work.
men. She is the exclusive American
producer of quicksilver, her mines Of
cinnabar being many and rich. i need
not refer to her wealth in gold and silver
or her production of wheat, wine and
wool. The world knows how great
it is, for it practically enters
as distinct item into national statistics.
In recent years her lands have yielded
unusually large crops per acre: of supe-
rior tobacco, and in the Merced and other
valleys cotton is now grown with profit.
She has the only great deposits tin, that
Of San Bernardino, yet discovered on this
continent, and is not without corn, cop.
per and iron. She has lakes of borax,
mountains Of SUI phur, and produces the
fruits Of the world, growing strawberries
in the open air more than nine months in
the year. Her climate is as healthful
and delicious rs that Of Sicily, Of which
she is an enlarged and improved edition.
No other State presents SO many or such
great attractions, yet measured by all
that makes the true greatness Of State
she is one Of the least progressive of the
American sisterhood. Stunned by men
Of enterprise whose capital is
limited, her wealth does not
attract the laboring masses. Of
the eastern States, Great Britain or the
continent. While the immigrants have
flown into the cold northwest by the
thousand, they have hardly gone into:
California by the score, and her laboring
classes are pariahs, who do,not speak our
language or seek to establish IN interest
in our country by acquiring homes or
land, so that there, among the golden
sands and vcrdant fields Of California, is
the land owned bya few capitalists and the
labor performed by homeless wanderers.
Do exaggerate the picture! Let facts
speak.
Let me compare her with States of her
own age who are almost absolutely with.
out mineral resources, whose summers
are brief, whose winters long and severe,
whose farms lie nearly thousand
miles from the seaboard, the profit on
whose products is greatly reduc ed by the
immense cost of bringing them to market,
and the cost of the manufactured arti-
cles they consume enhanced by the fact
that they have to traverse the same
long lines Of transportation. Let me
compare California with Iowa, Wisconsin
or Minnesota. In order to do this Justly.
We must bear in mind the fact that Cali!
fornia was admitted to the Union Sep.
tember 8, 1850; that Iowa, having been.
admitted December 49, 1846, had pro
ceded her not quite four years; that,
Wisconsin was admitted May %, l848,
preceding her = little more than two
years, and that Minnesota was admitted
May IL, 1858, and is therefore nearly
eight years her junior. How do these
purely agricultural and almost hyperbo.
rean States compare in all that consti-
tutes the true greatness Of State with
their more richly endowed and happily
located sister The extent: of her terri.
tory is vastly greater than that Of any Of
them, yet the census of 1870 shows her
population to have been but 582,031, Q
H whom 49,3l0 were Chinese; while Iowa,
four years her senior, had population Of
l,680,637; Wisconsin, but two years her
senior, population Of 1,054,085, and
Minnesota, nearly eight years her junior,
was nearly her equal in population, hav-
ing 446,056. 49,, 1,:tr.,.
Time will not permit me to run / par.
allel between her and each of these
States. To make the contrast with Iowa
would present differences SO striking and
immense that they would stsgger credul.
|ity. I therefore take Minnesota, the
youngest-cight years, or nearly one.
thiri younger than she-and the most re-
mote from the seaboard, the one also
which stretches farthest into. the wintry
North, whose boundary is the northern
) boundary Of the country, - and
whose season for the growth and
gathering of crops is limited
to half the year. The area
of Californi. is 188, 1913 square miles, and
that of Minnesota $1,000. In 1850 Cali.
, fornia had 379,994 inhabitants and Min.
t nesota but l72,023; the increase Of Cali.
forhia for the succeeding ten years was
bat 100, 1923, while that Of Minnesota was
, 274, 4,033, which is $3.50 in excess Of the
increase Of California, which
started into the, decade
, with more than 100 per cent. in advance
The assessed, wealth Of California was
in 1860, $139654 ,667, and in 1870 it wal
!. $3.50, ,844, ,068, IN increase Of . little moro
! than 90 per cent. The assessed value II