Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-16
AN AWAKENING.

We are advised by the agents and cor
respondents of the RECoRD-UNIoN, that
throughout the central and northern sec
ton of the State the liveliest interest is
now manifest in the immigration question,
and that never before have the people
taken such profound concern regarding the
development and settling of the whole
vast valley foothill and mountain section.
This is very gratifying news. With such
an interest felt among the people taking
material form as it is, we may anticipate
closer union and greater harmony of effort
In projecting plans for the accomplish
ment of the desired end. We have no
need to boom northern and Central Cali
fornia; all we need to do is to state the
simple facts concerning soil and climate
and the capacities of each. The facts will
do the booming. The people of these sec
tions know that there is no region in all
the States superior in natural resources
and advantages better adapted to the
wants of the newcomer, more varied in
production, more certain of RAINFALL less
dependent upon irrigation or nearer the
Eastern markets. They know that the
need does not exist for any exaggeration
concerning the section they are convinced
that when the truth is once fully and
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such numbers of home-seekers as to speed
lily quadruple our population. But it is
needed that every one shall do
his part and his full part in
disseminating the truth. Heretofore
We have been apathetic. The efforts
to upbuild the section have been praise
worthy, but not invested with a 1.-THE of
the energy and determination that have
characterized the exertions made by our
brethren in the south. The awakening
interest reported throughout the north is,
we repeat, very gratifying, and leads to
the belief that the energetic activity so
long needed is now to be realized When
men are convicted of individual duty and
set about to do 1t, effective results and re-
wards may be looked for. We are getting
down to the working, selfsacrifcing plane
now, and every resident of the central and
and northern sections should consider it
personal, bounden duty to aid to his ut
most all the approved means employed to
hasten the consummation all desire. Our
section has capacity for legions of desir-
able immigrants, and it can have them if
we exert ourselves. But it must be by per-
sonal labor, personal interest felt, personal
contribution of time and means to the ex-
tent of ability, personal aid rendered in
securing wide distribution Of immigration
literature, personal aid given to make the
Citrus Fair a success, and TO insure the
creditable display of the exhibits in Chi
cago in mid-winter; personal labor and
contribution to realize a permanent pro-
duce exhibition in Sacramento, to which
the new arrivals by all Eastern trains may
be taken, and where they may be con-
WINGED by their senses of the truth of our
preaching. The whole matter, the premises
and the conclusion; the whole sermon
all the sermons ever preached and all the
papers ever written upon the subject-may
be summed up IL two words, which en-
brace the beginning and end of the whole
question-personal effort.