Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-15
TIE STATE FAM
Glance at the Pavilion and Its Exhibits
TO Days Programme

TIE STATE FAIR
A Glance at the Pavilion and its Exhibits
-To-Day's Programme.
The attendance at the Pavilion last even
ing was all that could b, desired From
o'clock. the hour that the dosrs we're thrown
open, until 9 p. NJ, constant STEFAN of hu
mainly poured into the building until it was
FLIED. The music By the Fint Artillery
Band was excellent. and very much appre.
ciated by the assembly.
The programme for to-day is as follows:
g M-Pavilion opens for the dsy.
ga. M-Shootipg tournament al Park.
10 A M.-Ladies' tournament.
M-Races at Park.
7P. M.-Pavilion opens for evening.
To-days races are /: Running. colt and FLY
stake, for 2-year-olds dash of ono mile.
Running Selling race purse, $500 /; for
all ages dash Of one mile and one-quarter.
Running-Post stake dash of three miles
free for all.
RuDniug-Cousolation race; purse, $3.50,
for beaten horses one mile and repeat en-.
trance free. s-----k
The award Of the Shafter prizs for the best
loaf of white and brown bread has been
awarded to MISC Jennie i. Powers, of this
city.
The following sre the receipts for yester.
day: AT the Park. s2,SS7 25; at the Pa
vilion, 81, ISL 45. For the corresponding day
OF last year: At the Park, s.. 304 50; at the
Pavilion, 81. 006
The programme of music for tonight is as
follows: March, Hendricks :" overture,
Pretty as Picture !" Happy Hearts "
waltz; " The Rose " (clarionet solo by E. S.
Grant,; grand fantasia overture, 1.-The Dan
GERS DREAM" grand comic medley. "Songs
of the People galop, Inauguration +"
Home, Sweet Home" with variations.
THE ANNUAL ADDRESS.
At 9 o'clock last evening Hon. j. DeBarth
Shorb, of Los Angeles, was introduced in the
Pavilion to a large audience by President
LaRue. Mr.. Shorb proceeded to deliver the
annual address. He received the attention
of his audience to the close. He urged the
attention of his hearers to the necessity of
concert Of action looking to the arrest, if pos.
sible, Of the disproportions existing between
the producers. laborers, workers, and the nom
producers or idlers who throng the cities, living
by their wits on the savings Of others. There
is o shriuksge OF the rural population, and
an abnormal growth Of cities. The abandon
ment of the plow by young men to swell the
crowds or streets he deemed an evil demand
ing remedy. He corcsived of no higher duty
or more philanthropic eff Jrt than to aid in
the arrest of this tendency. He believed it
matter Of such serious import as to demand
governmental attention and interference
Revolutions follow discomfort, aud il is born
of lack of honest labor. Religion and civil
lizstion teach us to control our impulses. but
they do not change them. and when passion
usurps control of our natures we become
ssvsges. Society has a responsibility in the
matter that should lead it TO make the class
work that are an element of danger to
IL,
tion belongs to the soil, and his business
is to work it-sii other lines are artificial.
The farm eq1alizes the chances OF success for
mer. No. over three Fer cent. Of all men
attain success in mercantile vsntures Ia
agriculture only hve per cent. fail. The
trouble Is that 30 few are content with
enough, and SO many struggle for fIrtunes ia
brief period. Evil influences are at work
when such conditions exist, and the chief
cause is due to our mischievous syst, ms of
education that are primarily of fault in di
rectipg public opinion in the wrong. He be-
lieved our whole school system in all the
United States to be radically defective. They
enunciate the fallacy that all brains are
equal. We drag all kinds into the schools
and set about to enforcs the same amount
and kind of education, regardless CT all
differences Of receptive powers. He
did not wish to be un1eIsto ID to
be az enemy of the common schools
No one, of his means, had done mora to build
them up, or had paid his due to them more
cheerfully; but he objected 70 what is ordin.
ariiy taught in the schools-there is too much
teaching and too little lecsuring. The youth
is not impressed with the niece ssity of aspir-
ing to sslif5 Of usefulness. 1t pleased him
that agricultural chairs are being es.ab ished
IN all the leading colleges and universities.
Common aud high schools should also treat
OF that subject. He deemed the educational
sys.e N OF Austria 80 nearest the correct
System. l. is ole OF selection and rejection.
L. enforces ali the rudimental elements of
an Education, but takes care not to over.
educate an incapable mind, or TO deny to a
capable one the highest possible educa-
tion. IL embraces the idea that the
work. shops, farms and counting rooms, the
arts and sciences that belong to highly
civilized communities should have due con-
siderstion. The best system is that which
recognizes the varied conditions of human
life, the capabilities of man, lis duties and
his responsibilities. Young men must be ed.
uca bed out Of the old ruts and into new ideas.
To make farm life more attractive to city
youths we must drive out erroneous IDEAS and
show them that the mechanic arts have re.
moved the drudgery of forty years ago. The
speaker after celebrating this thought referred
to the philosophical history of agriculture
and the part it has played in civilization, and
this topic he considered at length, and then
passed to the advantages this fair land en-
joys which, when all svailed of, will make
agriculture as precise science as is mathe.
mates. Irrigation in California is as the life
blood to man. We must adopt it to advance.
Irrigation he did not deem too expensive
for ceresl raising if farms are cut up into
proper size. He dwelt at length on the i'm.
portancs of irrigation, and even favored, if
need be, Stale and national aid in its inter-
est. He drew picture of these great valleys
When once traversed by great irrigating
canals, and outlined their possibilities. He
believed of all men the great railroad builders
could best and most rapidly advance the
schemes of irrigation, and that by 80 doing
they would make the best of investments.
He believed in small FARMS small and many
homes; contented farmers with small farms.
and lobged for the time when the great val
leys shall be dotted with million happy
homes of prosperous agricuiturists