Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-31
THE PARIS ExposITIeN-IMPoRTANT
CONSIDERATIONS WHICH CANNOT BE
IGNORED

year 1889. This sum distributed among
the States gives about Sc, 500 to each State
The Comrnissioner-General has left the
collection of the exhibit very largely to
the Commissioner of Agriculture. At
least, so far as Pacific coast observation
goes, the representatives of the Depart
ment of Agriculture have had full charge
of the collection of exhibits. The work
has been completed by the two Commits
sioners appointed by the Commissioner of
Agriculture at Washington, and the result
a part of a carload of material, composed
chiefly of the grape and its products, is to
be forwarded this week to the Commits
sioner-General, at New York, for trans
portation to Paris.
The gentlemen who have had charge of
the exhibit for California have been paid
a salary and expenses, and, therefore, had
funds with which to make an exhibit in
Paris on the part of our State. There is a
sense, therefore, in which CALIFORNIA;
share of the space allotted to the United
States is now fully occupied In fact it
may be said, upon authority of Commits
sioner-Generai Franklin, that no more
space can be given to the States of this
Union.
The plan of .he Paris Exposition is to
divide the worlds industry into nine gen.
eral classifications-; TO suffer TO State or
country to make a collective exhibition
embracing in the one collection the nine
subdivisions of the great exposition When
the California exhibit already collected
arrives in Paris, therefore, it will
distributed into nine small
portions. If it were collected equally
from each of the leading industries-in
short, if each leading industry of the State
has had its due representation in the col
lection, one-ninth of this part of car
load would be allotted to each of the nine
classifcations, and since California is one
thirty-eighth of the Union, and since
perphaps so far as manufacturing industry
lis concerned, she is less than one hun
dredtil, the outlook promises that in any
department of human industry where
California may be found at all she will be
classified with the whole of the United
States, in each separate division repre-
scented by one-ninth of her exhibit, and
relating to the whole as one-hundredth.
Therefore the production which will rep
resent her, automatically expressed, is
one nine-hundredth. There is further at
tenuation to be found in the fact that the
United States does not relate to the rest of
the world as one to fifty. Among the
places represented the United States will
hold the relation of one-fftieth. When
therefore, the California production comes
to be measured up against the world. it
will be one nine-hundredth of one-fftieth.
But the industries of California have not
been fairly represented by the representa-
tlves Of the Department of Agriculture
The appropriation made available to this
State has been devoted chiefly to the wine
Industry. The Governor of the State ap-
pointed two Commissioners, but the Com
missioner of Agriculture ignored them,
their fitness and their experience, passed
over their heads and appointed agents of
ms own. The result is partial, one
sided exhibit, relating to a single indus
try, TO the obvious exclusion Of all others.
These facts establish conclusively the en-
tire unftness of the Commissioner of Agri-
culture at Washington to collect an ex-
hilit which would adequately illustrate
the climatic and other advantages of Cali
foruia. That his work was not done intel
ligently follows legitimately out of that
other fact that he does not possess any
intelligence on the subject.
Committees from various commercial Or
CARNATIONS, including the Chamber of
Commerce, State Board of Trade, Manu- |
facturer's Association, Produce Exchange, |
etc, assembled in San Francisco the other |
day, having present with them the repre-
sentative of the Department of Agriculture |
at Washington. They were apprised Of |
the entire situation Letters from General |
Franklin and from the Commissioner of |
Agriculture were read, transmitting letters |
from the Commissioners in charge of the |
Exposition in Paris. 1t became conclu- |
si7ely apparent that no space would be |
allowed to California other than the one |
nine-hundredth part of the United States |
In each of the nine great classifcations, or !
the one fve-thousandth part of the world |
Such an exhibition is by far too micro |
scope to attract attention or to produce |
any good results. The committee, there
fore, very judIciously decided that unless
park-space upon which to erect building
An which an instructive State display for
California could be made that all effort in
that direction should be abandoned. In
fact, the committee had no choice in the
premises They were informed distinctly
that no separate space could be allowed to
California; that no collective exhibition
would be permitted to California that the
space taken by the United States Govern
nlent and allotted to America was already
full. Practically they found the doors of
the Paris Exposition closed to them, or at
least closed to any addition 10 that already
made by the Commissioner of Agriculture
at Washington, and what that public
fuactionary has done we have already ade-
quately noted.
The committee has made virtue of
necessity by declaring that unless they
can make a separate and collective exhibit
apart from the great Wol Is Exhibition,
1t viii not be judioious to 90 further
into the matter. Since it was impossible
to make collective exhibit, and since it
was impossible to secure space for addi-
tional exhibits, the committee might have
saved itself some elecutionary effort by
saying that it was not judicious to make
an exhibition in Paris unless an exhibit
ton could be made Thus the matter