Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-10
THE STATE FAIR.
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ties. Let me give you one more quotation
from the distinguished men OF the past, of good
old Franklin, who TUNED thelighlning. and VINO
says: There seems 10 be but three ways TOR Il
nation to acquire wealth. First is by war, az
the Romans did by plunderinG their conquered
neighbOrs. This is robbery. The second is by
commerce, which IS generally cheating The
third is by agriculture, the only honest way
wherein g man receives real inerfGse'Uf the
seed thrown into thr gr1und-a kind 81 cOutin-
Ued miracle, wrought by the hand Of God in his
favor, q reward Tor his innocent life aud his
yirtuous industry Web may you gentlemen
here assembled be proud OF thing hUs spoken
Of ty ANN Of such distinguish 4 worth and
i2r-reaehing Intelligence.
But tht sc fine things 10Y friends. were said 81
agriculture ere she had attained her present in
poItapce. Il was said OF her when She pre-
fcuied herself Under skies iess bright ihan
YOURS, and lees favored clinics than ours len
her learning and her Development were III their
infancy. Ere vet you had the deepest learning
of man applied to tins science, or had gathered
so great q knowledge Of the tearth's pooduc-
tons, end the Improvement Of everything
that grew cut upon the earih, Wneihef
It 10 the plants, or whether 1t he
tho lyirg tissue or whether il he the
horse or OK. or that more elevated animal. man
himself because agriculture does Dot g Op with
the OK, or the goat, and the sheep end the
wheat but il reaches even to mau himself.
And here Tonight you VIII dud assembled lnthls
hall what 100 years dgp you could not have as
selnbed IN the mighlieSt empires Of tbs world.
Two hundred years ago you could not hare pro
duCcd an 6ssemblage Oh men and women like
this in any CAPITAL IN Europe or anywhere else.
No Agriculture has eunobled men ma women,
too. ID has sheltered, refined and improved
the stock - much rs EGu have improved
the racehOrse. 50 that we may still be proud OF
Agriculture and we may justly sag things OF her
more beautiful than was sild of her before. Then
this land of ours All, 10 IS OF all the land, say
the most beautiful; yes, in every way that yea can
apply the word beauty Wei may re apply to
Inn
Il Is u Eoodiy sight TO see what heaven hath
done for this delicious land. What fruits Of
fragrance blush on every tTee,Whst sood!y pros
pect DER the hills expands. We are indeed
ours is q new land OF promise, and
in order that may illustrate
this idea propose to contrast Tor
n few moments this land and the cid land
of promise Going back to the early records Of
that venerable book that is dear 10 us all. we
find that the Almighty had promised to single
family land. OF all the lands We would sup
pose that II was the most beautiful ana blessed
And for years and years he trained that family
ere they were allowed to enjoy the land of
promise. They passed from the east to the west;
from the Asiatlc country, the cradle OF the
human race, finally into Egypt, whose
learning in the arts and agriculture was
the pTOudest and the grandeSt then upon
the earth, because il is said Moses himself was
skilled in all the learning OF the ancient Egypt
ians. And by and by, after years and years of
bondage and training, that strange people were
allowed 10 pass ont of that land, and for forty
years in the wilderness, after having received.
amid the laundering and lighting Of sinai, the
laws Of Almighty COT. That law which is the
foundation OF the code of every civilized nation,
and every system Of laws that has existed from
the time when the Almighty gave at The
trembling mount this law to Moses. has been
based on il.
By and by that people thus educated, thus
trained, thus wrought uD,weTe allowed to reucr
the plains OF Moab alter forty years of trial
for Ot dancers by flood and field
they were allowed TO approach the plains of
Moab. Then VIC iind the great leader with an
undiInmed eve aud with constitution sill
strong. assembled Neob TO the top ot lfsgah. to
view the land OF promise, which he was not
permitted 70 enter, nor to cross the dark
rolling Jordan, bat from its great hight
looked upon the land that he had
learned from tradition, well MS by inspiration,
that his people should enjoy. And looking from
Piagah's hight-looking over this splendid land.
the most best OF all the earth-iying away t.
the north were the proud lebanon clothed
with cedarS and crowned with SHOWS on the
east the plains Of Arahia, Sonia and Damascus,
with Ill her richness 10 the west was the Ned
iierranean. or Great sea. In the midst was the
Jordan and Plains OF EsdraelCu, where more
human blood has been shed than on any other
spot on earth. EnTapt with his vision, there he
died and was buried. And IL has been well said
that
That was the grand+st funeral that ever
passed on earth,
But no one heard the trampiug or saw the train
go forth
No one but the bald old eagle on gray Beth
peors hight,
Which from his rocky eyrie looked on the won
drous sight"
We leave there generally the history of this
people and suffice II TO say, after passing the
Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant, whose
waters rolled back to let 1t pass, they planted
in tnat heather land the laws of the Al
mighty. There was found the worship
OF Dagon and Bell; and by and by, through the
influence of these laws, that people became one
OF the mightiest upon The earth. their land sup
porting a dense population of cultivated people.
At last came the browning act. There was
erected the temple of the living God. upon
whose altar His presence was manifested ny the
Shakina. That land was so thoroughly cultl-
waited that 1t supported one of the most dense
populations on earth. But by and by the grand
catastrophe OF all Others was Teached-when the
Saviour was crucited on Calvary. And later
STILL the Roman ploughshare passed over the
foundations OF their ruined temple. That land
had been the home Of soldiers. warriors.
prophets ana wise men. and in the course OF
time there again Egyptian darkness;
again leaning and agriculture, and ali the re
filming arts lanGuisted and persisted away,
when the Sarscen and the barbarian overrau
AID overthrow the existing civilizations Then
there arose a longing for Il new land OF promise.
The first had been announced by prophets and
inspiration: but the s. cond came upon the sort
of inspiration that springs from the longings VI
the human heart for something better. and
there was looking out lor something
new there again might be sown the seeds of
refinement and progress and in dGe time the
New WOrli was discovered. This seeking lead
the adventures across the broad Atlantic 10 the
New World. The Spanish explorers III
Mexico We're seeking the tabled II Dorado, and,
in more northern Climes, the Fountain OF Youth.
The Atlantic side was settled stu there was an
dissatisfied longing for a new land Turning
for moment 10 the great historian Ar
mold, some fifty or sixty years ago in
writing upon the subject OF modern history ana
.1f. hn
subject of modern history, tel US that there
is to be 10 new history that this modern his
-nry is to be the las that the races now upon
the earth, and the religions Tow .contendlng,
hu nan greatness: that these races must work
a. all that can be done but byand by this land
of ours came prominently in view as the
new land of promise. Situated as the
old Canaan, with similar climate
and with similar soil with the great Pacific
ausW erng lathe western sea- stretching between
here ana the other states, answering to The
desert surrounding Canaan, aud to Europe, on
one side, with high mountains, higher than
Neob. Pisgah. Herman or Lebanon, and with
Grander scenery than ever existed in that older
land. When our old pioneers, who are cele-
bratiug the admission OF our state into the glOr-
ious onion, when they passed into our
borders they brought with them more
than the children of Israel. They
had lot only the ark of the cove
enant but the Christian religion and the
Constitution ofour great country, withthe priIl-
cipalS OF liberty; and they found mere already
erected Christian affairs. and they found it q
Christian land There was no heatnen to be
driven out; no Dagen or Bell were w0rshiPed
here. We have grander people than The Jew
ish people. because instead,Of having one fam
lily here we have them all, OF every kindred
tongue; We have all the great races of
Europe with us; the great races that have
been the ciViiZeTs OF other lands; they
have come into the new land of promise,
And what is the result of this g? We have finer
breeds of cattle than those OF Bashan: We have
finer grapes than those of Eschol; we have
richer figs than those OF Damascus ana there
is no Dead Sea within our borders. similarly
situated. far as the Old World was concerned,
breeds of animals have improved upon the
stocks that We're brought TO this country, and
We he ar from the East-though am not much
of q IA rseracer - day by day that orr
horses are outspeeding all the fleetest of foot.
Europe produces nothing that eXceIs us in
speed, nothing superior to the American
cattle. and nothing equal io.the American citi-
zen. Nor do the Eastern States equal us i'll the
production of the human animal. Here the
other day-and l speak Of itSFith no disrespect-
some gentleman was standing upon platform
and. observing the Grand Army people when
here-and they were q representation of the
best men and women of the Last, from every
quarter of this great raion-".why." he said,
= could tell a California man or woman
the moment he OF she stepped upon
the platform. They were a superior animal,
and why? They are better sheltered, they are
better fed they,are better trained sthey are bet
ter educated in every line aud walk of life. A
mau of - years here is strong and vigorous, and
fl he had remained in Indiana or Missouri. or
any of those States, he would not ;have Il tooth
in MS head they would have been shaken out