Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-19
THE EDUCATORS CONVENTION

large. 1t Is OF great moment to the Stale
that body of upwards of $500 people,
whose lives are devoted to foremost in
tellectual work, should come into the State
as its guests, and enjoy the opportunity t.
see 1t at its best. These are broadly intel
ligent people. They are practiced OBJ
servers; they are, mainly, people of middle
age, of settled habits Of life, and given to
looking at things in a practical and unsen-
timental way. When they return to the
East they will be able to speak by the
card Of a number Of facts, the truth of
which has been ia doubt in many an
Eastern mind.
They will, for instance, see some of our
finest orchard and vine lands they will
visit four of our best valley sections; they
will have full opportunity TO examine our
markets and ascertain the character of our
products, and the cost Of production and
living. Very many Of them will 90 back
well informed concerning our soils, the
prices of lands, and the isothermal belts
that make one valley more fruitful than
another in one line of products, and less 50
in another. They will meet and be in
communion with people from all parts Of
the State whose life habit tends to make
them accurate in all their statements con-
corning the geography and production of
the State, and the character, climatic and
otherwise Of the several sections of Cali
fornia
These visitors also are being favorably
impressed by the profuse attentions shown
them, and the extremely generous charac-
ter Of the hospitality extended 1t is
traism, that to treat with man to adj
vantage, you should give attention to the
condition of his stomach, or, as Mr.. Depew
so well put it few days ago, good din
ner IS a wonderfully shrcwd diplomat. Our
visitors are being dined with great prodi-
gailty, and entertained in way that salts
fes the taste and gratilies the vanity of
the guest. In this way they are
given opportunity to sample our food pro-
ducts and look upon some very fine ex-
hibits of the general production and in
dustry OF the country. Thus, it was
happy thought that suggested to the Colusa
county delegation to make their head
quarters illustrative Of the agricultural
resources of that section. Alameda has
done the same with fruit products, and
Santa Clara with fruits and flowers while
some of the lower valley counties have
been able thus early to make good exhibits
OF grapes. Most of the visitors are taken
TO see the production exhibited at the State
Board of Trade rooms. which speaks for
some fifteen or sixteen Of the richest coun-
ties OF California.
Then, too, accompanying the teachers
are Z number Of people whose attention is
very little taken up by the business Of the
Association; these have nearly all their
time upon their hands, and are using it
diligently and intelligently to see and
learn Of the State and its products all that
they conveniently can. Many of them
will remain in the State until the last DAYS
Of August, and quite large number will
have the opportunity to visit the earlier of
our annual eKpositions of California pro-
ducts and manufacture.
Il will be seen. therefore, that in spend
ing some $4,000 in entertaining these Wis
itors, the California teachers are doing an
economic piece of work beneficial to all
the State and creditable to our reputation
for hospitality. The Eastern people un-
derstand this; they make no concealment
OF their surprise at the bountiful charac-
ter OF California hospitality, and while
they do not for an instant doubt the sin
certify of their welcome, they all under
stand that Californians are solicitous to
advertise their Safe, TO induce desirable
immigration, to draw to us as rapidly as is
possible strong men and women from the
East, with some little capital, to become Of
u and build homes to the State. Our Wis
tiers speak very frankly upon this subject,
and commend the effort warmly One
cannot visit any Of the headquarters" in
San Francisco now maintained by the
teachers, and where they congregate in
large numbers TO exchange greetings and
views, and escape hearing this matter dis
cussed. Whoever gives ear will hear our
visitors saying that they know just what
We want, that they perceive clearly the
need of the State, that they understand
our anxiety to have them spy out the
land" and realize our eagerneSs to have
them examine closely into all its claims;
they not only appreciate it but are graft
fed TO find Californians thus loyal TO home
Interests and bold in their endeayors to
tavorably impress guests with the capacity
OF the State to maintain a large population
upon the minimum Of exertion, and with
the maximum of result in production for
the needs of that population.
These educators will now have especially
favorable opportunities to inform them
selves concerning cur educational system,
and by which States and people are by
many judged. We can present it to them
with perfect confidence. We have every
reason to be proud OF it, and can submit 10
be judged by it without any trepidation.
In liberality Of expenditure it is not sur
passed, and in intellectual and social re-
suits we have reason to boast Of it.
We can trust to lie challenging their ad-
miration. 1t is very gratifying to know
that in the large group Of visitors We are
now entertaining, there is handsome
number of men and women who stand in
the front rank of higher educational work,
especially distinguished for their eminent
services in the diffusion OF knowledge and
devotion to research, and noted for their
prominence in letters, science and art.
From these we viii naturally expect
studious criticism in carefully written
opinions after they shall have been in the
State Il few weeks, for most of them will