Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-17
STILL OTHER LESSONS.

We have sought to draw from the Citrus
Fair several lessons of immediate benefit,
and not without success. Some of these
have found expression in these columns.
Still others appear to us of such Importance
as to justify comment.
Thus, it is apparent that when the Cit
rus Fair is removed to Chicago it viii lose
one very powerful adjunct, to wit the at
tendance upon each county exhibit of the
intelligent committeeman who now prove
such efficient aids in giving strangers in
formation. 1t is one thing to place an ex-
hibit in view, another to convey the full
force of its preaching. For it is necessary
that the stranger should know, for instance,
where Nevada county is, what the location
of Butte, what the general character of
Solano, and so on. He should know whether
the altitude is great, or the land of the
growth is bottom or valley whether the
fruits were grown with or without irriga-
ton, etc. These are essential points of in
formation, and there are probably fifty
practical fruit-growers now engaged at the
Citrus Fair in explaining them to visitors.
But what will be the situation in Chi
cago? One or two men will be in charge,
whose supervisorial and mechanical labors
will alone occupy their whole attention.
1t will be simply impossible for them to
explain matters to the thousands of visit
Ors to any appreciate extent. But there
is a method by which the desired end can
be quite well attained Let there she
prepared cards of large size, for
each county exhibit, giving in single
lines the location of the county, its topo-
graphic charaeter-as, valley, foothill or
mountain, etc.-its mean temperature, its
average rainfall, general character of soil,
whether the fruit was grown under irriga-
tion, that it has been raised thus far only
for ornament, and the ground about the
trees scarcely at all cultivated, etc.
A dozen or so lines of this kind will pre-
sent the facts to the intelligent observer
very forcibly, and illuminate the exhibits
with the light of indispensable informa-
ton.
Still another suggestion offered is the
outgrowth of experience on the first day of
the fair, when two hundred Eastern visit
ors attended-that is, that there is abso-
lutte need for a display of large map of
Central and northern California. Such
chart would save vast deal of explana
ton and dispute and clearly show strangers
the relation of the section represented by
the exhibits, to the southern region. the
metropolis, the chief rivers and the great
rail lines of travel and transportation; and
a map should be displayed also showing the
isothermal lines from the Atlantic to TIE
Pacific. Indeed, we can conceive of the
practicability of procuring a dozen COM
paratively small maps of the section-such
are printed in great number-and dis
playing them over each exhibit in con-
nection with hecards of information. The
cost of these maps and cards would be very
light, their benefits unreasonable.
THE force of the objection to the Reagan
bill to regulate interstate commerce over
lines of rail transportation, is in the utter
revolution the bill will work in the matter
of through rates. Through and way rates
are not interchangeable, but broadly dis
tinct. Yet the Reagan bill proposes a lev
cling process that would make the mile
and the ton the measures and standards of
the reward for the haul, whether the dis
lance is long or short Thus, the fruit
grower near market could get to it on
mile rate that would not be oppressive.
but under the interstate bill the distant
grower could not reach market at all if he
had to cross State line en- route. for the
mile rate for the haul within the State
would prevail for the whole distance of the
long haul, and thus become prohibitive.
The scheme will not work. 1t may be
tried, but it will be at the expense of the
producers distant from market, who will
rise IN their strength to ascertain why
they are to be punished.
IN San Francisco a great deal of law
lessness has been manifest recently. The
action of the people and authorities in the
car strikes has net given confidence that
property rights and inalienabIe guarantees
are held sacredly in San Francisco by a
class that appears to be able to dominate.
There is need for regeneration of the spirit
of genuine liberty in the Bay city and the
crushing Of the spurious article.
IMMEDIATE-prompt- are the
cures made by Red Star Cough Cure.