Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-28

Lanentabie LACK Of L,beraIity.
Without in the slightest degree
desiring to overrate the claims of
California, we nevertheless think
that no equal section of the earth's
surface could have made finer
display, of natural products, at the
Paris Exposition, than our own
State. No Californian can remem-
Der without shame the pitiful ex-
hibit made by this State at the
Centennial. Californians are gen.
orally credited with being the most
liberal people on the globe. For
our scant population we have more
millionaires than any other sec
tion either Of this continent, Eu-
rope or Asia. Though San Fran
cisco is only, at the best, but
thirty years old. she already has
citizens who rival the Medici and
Fuggers OF old, and the Roth
schiIds, Hopes and Coutteses, Of
the modern world. Why our por-
ton Of the exhibition at the Cen.
tennial should have been neglected
is mystery to us. There should
have been iberality enough
amongst Californians-the sup
posed ne plus ultra Of liberality-
to have seen to it, whether the
State did its duty or not, that We
were properly represented at Phil.
adelphia. And now comes the dis
tressing intelligence that our fat is
likely to fall into the fire at the
Paris Exposition. The California
collection is said to be very
fine one, especially in all ranges
Of minerals. To say nothing
of the display we could make in
gold and silver, nearly every min
eral valuable in commerce is pro.
duced somewhere within the am
pie borders of our State. Tin mines
are even rarer than mines of the
precious metals; and, in Southern
California, we have tin mines.
From cinnabar to coal we could
furnish splendid specimens. The
fact is that 1t would not have been
difficult for us 10 have the most in
teresting exhibit, both in range,
variety and perfection of natural
products, made at the Exposition
Universelle. Now comes the disa-
greeable intelligence that our ex.
hibit will be likely to suffer from
lack of accommodations in the
American department. Commits
sioner Mccormick has, altogether,
but SIS, 900 at his disposal. Why
could not our mining millionaires
have set apart portion of the pro-
ceeds of single "dea" on Cali
fornia street to erecting an unique
and handsome California depart
ment of the Paris Exposition? One
hundred thousand dollars, judi.
ciously expended, would have &C.
complished wonders. California
is not only one of the States of the
American Union, but she is an en-
pire in herself. She can produce,
in time, as much wine as France,
as much wheat as the Kingdom of
Great Britain and ireland, as much
corn as the Nile valley and as much
gold and silver as the ancient mines
of Ophlr and of Mexico and Peru.
1t would not, of course, be expected
that our infant State should make
notable display in manufactures,
but we should therefore be the
more anxious to put our best foot
forward in the lines in which we
excel. 1t would rebound far more
to the honor of California that
money should be expended in this
way than in those foolish and I'M
checked personal OUTLAWS which
are making the name of Califor-
MAN in Europe synonymous with
the nouueau'' richie who for ages, in
that storied continent, has excited
the contempt of the old time no.
bilIty.