Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-09

tOrueu TO get our pTOuuc5s luCO Tue SUI DS. Sllt.
also to the ships themselves (which are to
carry them away or bring back their returnsl,
is a profit which goes directly into the pockets
of the producers.
So, also, if we furnish better and cheaper
facilities to the trade of our neighboring ma
tions, in the Pacific we shall induce
the trade of these countries TO pass
through our port, to the direct and
indirect advantage of our people. AS
commerce has created these new lands on
the waterfront they should not be sold by
the State to individuals, but be reserved and
sacredly appropriated to commercial uses for
ever.
These lands are not needed for such pur-
pose to any great extent, but as our State and
cities grow, the purposes for which different
portions of them will be most useful will de-
velop gradually, and continuance of the
wise policy which has reserved them will as
sign to each portion its proper share in serv-
ing the great commercial needs of the metrop-
oils of the Pacific coast
NATIONAL POLITICS.
1t may be deemed that the affairs of our
own State, at this time, are of sufficient i'm
portance to engage the full time allotted to
this occasion, without any allusion to national
affairs. But l cannot forbear to notice the
fact that in some of the States violence has
been resorted to, and by threats thousands of
voters have been prevented from exercising
tba constitutions al riOht of s1ffraua and mora
recently, in another State, a mere informality
in the election returns, or clerical error of
town meeting clerk, has been made the pre-
text to thwart the will of the people and
annul their verdict.
a free, interrupted ballot is the great bull
wark of constitutional liberty, and whenever
it becomes apparent that in any State of this
Union result has been reached by violence
or fraud, different from that which would
have been attained if fair election had been
held, republican government is little more
than delusion and farce and 1 trust that
the State Of California will be ever ready to
use all lawful power SO to shape the admins
tration of the National Government that
every citizen entitled to vote shall exercise
that right securely under the protection of
just and equal laws, and that the result of
his vote shall be faithfully recorded and hon
estly returned as the expressed will of the
people,
EDUCATION.
The public system of education will demand
at your hands much earnest and careful con-
-, 1ar g. &C
of our State declared general diffusion Of
knowledge and intelligence to be essential to
the preservation of the rights and liberties of
the people. Whatever power governs the
schools shapes the intelligence of the genera
ton. The destinies of republic rests upon
an intelligent suffrage, and the intelligence Of
the suffrage depends mainly upon the public
school system. The changes in the system
made necessary by the new Constitu-
ton presents an opportunity of gen.
eral review of the existing system,
and such wise reconstruction and
improvement as experience may have suc
gested or patient and earnest consideration
may develop. A Republican government
LII ue pctltCb VI tuc lIuc
character of its people, and if we would at
tain that righteousness which exalteth
nation" and avoid that " sin which is re-
proach to any people," we must become, in
its best and truest sense, an educated people.
Liberty will not decay so long as government
is controlled and directed by virtue aid in
telligence, and in State like ours, where
the people are the source of govern
mental power, general education is the |
only means by which we may hope |
to transmit the free institutions under which
Eve live in full vigor to succeeding genera
tions. To neglect or abandon our system of |
public education is a surrender to the ig- |
norance and vice which usurp the reins of |
government when virtue and general intelli- |
gence are weakened or decay. Educate our
people, and the liberties We enjoy will remain |
mistaken by the assaults of iusidioUs usurp- |
ations and undiminished by the fight of !
time. The State University is the crown
ing glory of our educational system. |
The new Constitution wisely provides !
for its continuation as q public trust. |
By the terms of that instrument its
government is to be perpetually continued in |
the character prescribed by the Organic Act, !
passed March %, 1868, and the several Acts
amendatory thereof. 1t is now subject only |
to such legislative control as will insure COM
pliance with the terms Of its endowments. |
1t is further provided that the funds derived |
from the sale of lands donated TO the State by |
the Government Of the United States shall |
be invested as directed by the Acts Of Con-
gress, and the interest accruing shall be de- |
voted to the maintenance of college of agri- |
culture, where such branches OF learning as |
relate to scientific agriculture shall be taught. |
1t will be the high privilege of this Legisla-
ture to devise the necessary details of lesisla-
ton by which the object of the original grant !
or donation to this State shall be carried into
execution, and [ am happy to believe that
this responsible duty will be esteemed sacred
privilege, and the obligations imposed will be
with that conscientiousness a true
appreciation of the moral grandeur of the
subject inspires.
AID To ORPHANS.
l commend to your generous sympathies
the claims of the homeless children who,
beneath the roofs of the many noble institu
tons philanthropy has builded, find the shelter
denied them by the adverse fortunes of life.
| most respectfully recommend the continu-
ance of such judicious State aid as will second
the efforts of our charitable citizens. Such
aid WILL in my humble opinion, do much to
encourage and promote the spirit of charity
among our people by arraying the testimony
of the State on the side of Christian phi
lanthropy.
CONCLUSION.
At the threshold of the administrative du-
ties into which by these ceremonies l am
being indicted, 1 am conscious of most
earnest desire to discharge them as in the
high Court of truth, honor and justice. To
achieve the distinction of an honorable posi-
ton in the State may be the goal of self-love
and pride; to rise equal to the high preroga-
tive by the conscientious discharge of its duty
is the more worthy aspiration of ambition.
For the brief term I shall enjoy the honors
and bear the responsibilities of this exalted
Office trust that my every thought shall be