Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-22
SACRAMENTO WILL NOT COMPETE.

The committee in charge of the Sacra-
mento county exhibit for the State Fair
has come to most sensible conclusion re-
garding the matter of competition. They
have resolved that Sacramento will make
free exhibit, and do just as well as if in
competition for the money award. OF
course, this does not affect the right of in
vidual exhibitors in the county group to
enter their goods for individual premiums,
just as has been done in the past by exhib-
itors in all the county exhibits.
The location of State insti luton al
ways attaches to it a something of local
character. 1t is impossible to divest
Capital or State asylum, or a State expo
sition of all local interest Or character.
People, despite their better Judgment look
upon the city or county where such insti-
tutions are located as largely dependent
upon them. Capitals are always held to
be sort Of State pensioners, and as such
become targets for rebuke. As matter of
fact, so faC as Sacramento IS concerned it
is wholly untrue that she IS n State pen
sioner. Sacramento county is what it is
because of natural resources and applied
industry; the city of Sacramento is what
it is because of its commercial Importance,
centrality of location, great mechanical in
dustries and inland trade with Central and
Northern California. But these very rea-
SONS, and the fact that she is the natural
capital of the valley of the State and
railway center of special significance, desig-
nate her as the proper place for State
Fair.
But the committee of farmers of Sacra-
mento county realize that their COMPETE
ton is not viewed without some disfavor-
some feeling that it is not just the proper
thing at the State Fair, because of the
ease with which they can make an exhibit,
and the freshness of the products they
can put on view. Their contiguity to
the Exposition Building enables them to
avoid packing, and they can thus make
their exhibit in superior manner while
distant counties have to pack and transport
their goods more or less to their injury,
and at greater or less expense.
To avoid any shadow of dissatisfaction
that might arise, therefore, and to testify to
their sincerity of effort in making the
State Exposition truly representative, Sac
ramento's agriculturists and manufacture
ers will not enter the grouped Sacra-
mento county exhibits for competition, but
will exhibit just the same to show what
Sacramento's resources are. This is a
right decision; it speaks of public spirit,
broad-mindedness and cordial desire for
the benefit of the whole State. 1t be-
tokens the total absence of localization of
the fair, so far rs our producers and manu-
facturers are concerned, and stands to the
high credit of the committee and the
public-spirited men it represents.
GENERAL BoULANGER has secured re-
turn to the Chamber of Deputies again
This unfortunate result was attained by
the art of the Reactionists, who favor any
thing that will ipjure the Republic
Boulanger will not behave himself in the
Chamber; he goes there for the purpose of
creating trouble, and he is certain TO at
tempt it. If the conservative Republicans
could be induced to leave him alone, to
make no replies to him of any moment, to
treat him with the contempt he deserves,
tbera wouId no NO daDc,ar in tho ,,,,