Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-15
THE LONDON EXHIBITION.

.SXnlDlLlOn IN London Will be considered
with view to settling upon ways and
means at convention of County Commit
tees called by the State Board of Trade,
to be held in San Francisco on Tuesday
next. The people generally appear to
have responded to the proposition of the
originator, Mr.. Lubin of this city, with
cordial approval From the outset the
scheme has appeared to US feasible, and
the belief in its practicability and great
usefulness has kept pace with the enthusi-
asm and public-spirited activity, in the
matter, Of the author of the idea. This
State must gain and maintain very much
OF It's Importance as 4 tourist State;
country supremely inviting in products,
natural scenery and climatic equability, to
the vast class. constantly augmenting, of
well-equipped people who travel aud avail
themselves Of the wonderful means of rapid
transportation to all parts of the civilized
world, to search out the choice spots most
conducive to physical comfort and most
delighting to the senses. As London is a
great center from which travellers in the
Old World take up their routes, and as at
that point converge nearly all the tourist
streams of the world, it is eminently wise
to advertise in that place the claims of this
State.
While the exhibition will tend to turn
this way that large and rapidly enlarging
current of tourist travel which leaves
something of wealth wherever it touches,
the display Of California products, besides
demonstrating the claims preferred regard
ing the climatic mildness of California,
will operate to introduce to European
tastes and demands our fruits, wines and
other products, and to give place upon
European tables to many of the choice
food supplies that distinguish our produc-
ton. Two great ends are, therefore, to be
conserved by the exhibition-to increase
the volume of the current of travel to us,
and to augment the output of our products
by stimulating a demand for them.
In the Italian exhibition maintained in
London, the first is the chief object and
less stress is placed upon the latter though
Italy makes an exhibition of her products
Denmark, with her London exhibition,
lays stress only upon her historic attrac-
ton; she has nothing of production to
which to invite special attention The
French exhibit, outside of art and exquis-
lite workmanship in the finer mechanical
products, shows nothing that California
cannot parallel or eclipse. California will,
therefore, be able to place in London an
xhibition-though devoid of works of art,
fine mechanism and rare textile fabrics
richer than any other in objects illustra-
tive of natural wonders, picturesque and
majestic scenery, climate exquisitely in
viting and products of an order appetiz-
ingly stimulant, and viii preach louder
and more truly of the character of the
country where they are possible than any
chapters that can be written. Upon pre-
cis ly similar plan the Rolling Exhibi-
zion" of California products, to be sent
East next week, is projected, though ad
dressed more directly to the element that
it is desired to have come to us and re-
main with us.
of course the London exhibition plan
can be carried out successfully only by
very careful and discreet business manage
ment and under compact organization
The promoters of the enterprise must be a
unit in purpose and in action. All local
pride and prejudice must be laid aside
the stroke is for California and all of it;
whatever comes to one part will operate
benefcially to all the State. In this con-
nection ii is understood that some idea is
being entertained of attaching to the exhi-
bition an outside show, something after
the sWild West" order, of Indians of vac
queros and mustangs of pioneer eras, and
of old-time types and the relics of dead
and gone California. Such scheme is not
wise. Any exhibition of that order will
but cultivate an erroneous idea concerning
California that is altogether too prominent
now. We have never believed that Bret
Harte, and the writer's who have made
California the scene of their romances,
have been otherwise than injurious to this
State. Their characters have been excep-
tions, not types. We don't want to culti-
vate in Europe the idea that this is rude,
rough section, with civilization in the
shell and savagery as yet but partly
eliminated 1t may be taken for
granted also that Buffalo Bill has
sufficiently impressed Europeans with the
thought that the whole region west OF the
Missouri is in semi-barbarous state,
where enc carries his life in his palm. On
the other hand, it will be entirely proper
to have an outside exhibition, illustrative
of our natural scenery, of our giants Of the
forest, of our mine products and methods,
of our antiquities, etc. Even comparison
of the Mission era with the present by
architecture and modes of cultivation
would be well advised, as also the contrast
of primitive methods of mining with the
agencies of the present. as the arastra and
the quartz mill. etc.
The San Francisco Bulletin proposes
that if the s254, ,oo0 due from the Federal
Government to this State on the Direct
Tax claim is paid over, that the whole
sum shall be placed in the State School
Fund. 1t would be better to let the rev.
enues of that fund flow in through the
channels already provided. Let the State,
.,,t;cb must back the London Exhibition.