Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-12
LECTURE BY MAYOR KALLocH, OF SAN
FRANCISCO.

| UNI MAUI hALIOCf1, OE DAN
FRANCISCO.
l. S. Kalloch, Mayor of San Francisco,
lectured at the First Baptist Church last
evening" his subject being =" California" He
was received by large and excellent audi
ence. The lecturer was introduced by Rev.
DIR. Frost.
Mr.. Kalloch began by saying that great
size is not synonymous with strength. Yet
there is something in size-just as big dog
is more formidable than poodle. The Amer
lean of all others glories in size, and boasts of
his country's great rivers, lakes, mountains
and States, and the Californian especially is
proud of the size of his State and its natural
curiosities. The lecturer explained that the
lecture was prepared for delivery at the East,
and therefore might prove of less interest
| here. He gave the area of the State, COM
pared it to the area of other States, Terri
tories and countries, and passed to consid-
Grafton of the climate of the coast, humorously
comparing it with the climate of other parts
of the globe, and drawing the conclusion that
no other is SO equable and so generous. He
| drew vivid picture of the rigors of the eli
mate of the northern Atlantic coast where
but one crop per year can be produced, and
the tiller of the soil is shut up half the year,
unable to do more than keep his household
warm and his stock from starving. His pic
ture of autumnal California was brilliant
specimen of word painting. He thought
| California has the most hideous hoodlum and
the most fearful tramp known to the world,
and both are products of the climate.
The hoodlum roams San Francisco like the
ownerless dogs of Constantinople. He is
never alone he is thin and why; plump
hoodlum would be as great curiosity as a
fat greyhound. He is the child of an out
door climate-and the restaurant. Almost
every boy at some time is an incipient Tom
Sawyer. The boys of California are not
| forced to live indoors and thus brought SO
Immediately as they should be under home
influences. 1t is not strange that those with
out any homes worthy the name, driven to
the wharves and hay-yards, should develop
into hoodlums. tramps and thieves. He
glanced briefly at the growth and mineral
products of the State, which he pronounced
enormous and exceeding by far the general
| understanding on those subjects. In stating
what are the marvellous earth-products in
California, and giving humorous account of
enormous potatoes, mammoth beets and
Munchausen onions, he INDUCED in some in
cisive hits at the love of the Californian to
indulge in boasting tales of the wonderfully
fruitful character of the soil. But climate
does not produce the best men, the greatest
intellects or the highest state of civilization
Money, miles, millions do not make great
State alone. 1t is only great as it originates
great ideas, adheres to great principles,
fosters great intelligences and is loyal
to truth and true progress. We owe
the soil OF our birth nothing, he said,
when it affords US but a mere existence, and
toor, Il L.
country which makes us most truly and in
the best sense men. That is not our country
which, by the act of welcoming our interiors,
compels us to step down ard out from our
life vocations, and forces us to beg for bread
for our wives and children. When it does
that, he added in vigorous language, it makes
US rebels, and rebellion is holy. The man of
sturdy will and independent thought is of
more value to the State than mines of dia-
monds and the wealth of Golcondas without
number. The unadulterated forty-niner he
next considered, and said that he is hope
lessly himself. What he left behind him
he brought with him; what he brought
with him he has forgotten. He
is hopelessly conceited and irreclaim-
ably forty-niner. In California Christians
need more leadin their shoes and grace in their
souls. Stock gambling he looked upon as
one of the most material obstacles to our
progress. Speculation in stocks he pro-
nounced to be gambling, as much so as is
faro. 1t is a reckless, foolish business, and
we will never become a successful people till
we stamp it out-indeed, it is running the
State, breaking up homes, and breaking up
hearts and souls. A paper of this city ire
ferring to the RECORD UNION had plainly
reviewed this subject, and properly and truth
fully pictured San Francisco under a boom,
and under going down of stocks,
and San Francisco paper had weakly
attempted to reply to the accurate
sketch. The young men of California,
born in such a feverish state of expectation as
regards speculation and sudden fortunes, are
birth-marked and booked for unhappy and
brief lives He declared that what the
State wants is homes, and men of the right
stamp in them-hardy and small farmers
like those of the West. If he read the record
Alright, the State is upon the eve of great
danger, resulting from rampant communism
on the one side and unfeeling capital on the
other, with no saving class of small land
owners between. The missionaries say that
the Chinese are here under the providence of
God. So is the small pox, but no one wants
to fosteri it. Beecher had said that if wecannot
endure the menace of the Chinese our religion
and civilization ought to go down under the
contact; and that is as sensible as to say that
| if we cannot have unresisting contact with
! the smallpox and not suffer, that we
deserve to go down to our graves.
| He denied that these questions had been
properly stated by Beecher. The real issue
| is, Can American labor compete with Chinese
labor and not be degraded The trouble is
| in California that capital does not feel or
realize its responsibility and duty to the
human race. The need of the State is pop
ulation. not of inferior races, but people for
her broad acres, people of brain, sinew, hon.
esty, industry; American in idea, sentiment,
and all other desirable qualities. The mani
| fest destiny of California he next considered,
and said that despite the danger of the hour
it would pass-the Chinese evil is but para
site-the other evils are more serious but all
will be overcome and the State enter upon
bright and happy era. The American
! people have taken possession of this heritage,
and propose to hold the fort-cerporations
and coolies, preachers and missionaries to the
contrary notwithstanding. They are brave.
patriotic. energetic people, devoted to their
free school system, which even corrupt
school boards and antagonistic religions can
not break up, and will build up here State
! filed with homes against which the hordes of
barbarism shall charge in vain In brilliant
oratorical efiolt he eulogized Califor-
MIA, sketched the possibilities of the
State and the future of her metropolis.
ittiQ COuSiuuCd VIII duSur1eS Tor the
State and the people in the near future. Mr..
Kalloch received the undivided attention of
the large audience, which he entertained to
its satisfaction by his wi. and the feryor of
his discourse. On those who were accus-
toned to hear the speaker year or two ago
the impression was made that he is lees Wig
orous in thought and expression than formerly.
That the nerve force is lessened, and that the
orator is not, in thought or manner, so ag-
gressive, incisve and forcible as before the
attack upon him which so shocked his nervous
system and brought him near to deaths door.
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