Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-06
THE NEED TO

Let the people of northern and Central
California remember that now is the time
of all Others to do missionary work for their
own sections.
1t is in the winter season that the in
tending immigrant makes ready to move
westward. 1t is in the winter that the
new current to California sets in-the
moving this way of the class which comes
to this coast to escape temporarily the
climatic rigors of the East. 1t is in the
winter, too, that our W people have more
of leisure to devote to the missionary work
of disseminating information regarding the
northern and central sections.
The REcoRD-UNIoN, though it has
labored unremittingly in the cause, is
redoubling its efforts to spread abroad
reliable information concerning all this
vast and inviting region and to draw atten-
ton to it. We expect the people in the
future, as in the past. to second our effort
and the effort ofevery other paperan and intel
ligent agency working for the same end. All
that is lacking in northern and Central
California to-day is enthusiasm and self
confidence.
We have a fairer showing to make than
southern California we rave a more
equable and inviting climate; we have
cheaper and better lands we have greater
certainty of rain we have far more varied
and greater productive capacity in this
region ; we have, in short, six advantages
and invitations to every one that can
be presented in behalf of the lower
portion Of the State. In our section must
rest eventually the center of population in
California; here must be the great hive of
production and consumption.
This field is less rapidly filling to-day,
simply and solely because our people have
made less personal effort to advance our
claims. We have not sought to "boom"
northern and Central California. All it
has gained in development and population
and capital, it has won on its silent merits.
But this idea of waiting, this apathetic
trust that the country will draw to it all
needed factors, must be abandoned. We
will be helped just in proportion as we
help ourselves. If in the near future the
population of Central and northern Cali
fornia has not vastly increased, we will
have TO blame none but ourselves.
Our people are not lacking in public
spirit or in enterprise. The trouble has
been that of content-content with good
land, production and climate. But COM
petition has become sharper; we are being
stirred to the need of more people and
capital, more homes, more production and
more consumption. But this stirring must
mot be manifest only with the press. 1t
must touch all the people. 1t must now
he individual action.
If every man in northern and Central
California at the head of a home could be
made tomorrow to feel a deep sense of in
dividual responsibility to realize the i'm
portance of ~, John Smith" in this mat
ter, we should have such an output of
energy, such well directed effort, such
union and organization the next day, that
inside of a quarter the continent would
ring with our PROSECUTING.
To the utmost of its ability the RECORD
UNION will labor to awaken the people to
this sense of personal responsibility, this
right idea that every man in every COM
munity in all this magnificent heritage
owe his community something of time
aud energy and self-sacri6ee in advancing
the possibilities of northern and Central
California. We believe that there ought
to be live, vigorous county and township
and own and city immigration organiza-
tions formed where not now existing, and
that into the nostrils of those already formed
there should be breathed new life.
With what has been done before us, with
the colonies, the booming, the talking, :he
printing and publishing, and what the
vulgarians would term ''the wbooping up"
of our friends in the south, we of the
north will be guilty of more than negli-
gence, and deserve more than reproach, if
we do not profit by their experience, and use
the gifts the gods have given us at once,
vigorously and continuously.