Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-28
THE STATE BOARD OF TRA0E ARD
THE SOUTH.

II there is any seriousness IN the alleged
scheme to establish in the seuth part Of
the State a Board in opposition to the
State Board Of Trade, it represents FOXY
and disloyalty to State prosperity. The
idea that the State Board is local in any
sense is simply absurd. Whoever has
given any particular attention to the work
of that body has been convinced that it
is an organization having the whole State
for its field of operations, and that II is not
devoted more to the advancement of one
section than that of another. 1t is, in our
opinion, the most benefcent business effort
that has been inaugurated in the State.
Very naturally its proceedings will most
reflect the sentiment of its individual con-
stituent parts. But its arms are open to
all counties; there are none in the State
that have not been besought to affiliate
with it. If any of the south have failed to
do SO, it is their own fault and can be
Instantly remedied. 1t is poor encourage
ment to the broad-minded and public
spirited business men who have for many
months given their time and their best
energies freely in forwarding the labors of
the Board, to find, at this late day, the
charge laid at their doors that they are
localized in their schemes and circum-
scribed in their ideas concerning State
progression and development
We are, however, impressed with belief
that the rumored opposition is not repre-
sentative Of any considerable sentiment in
the southern sections. II emanates, prob
ably, from a few of the narrow-minded,
whose conception Of Statehood is bounded
by the horizon of their own locality
These men can never be made to under
stand that California must be unit in
efforts to develop; that her interests are
indivisible, and that all attempts to create
internal contention are direct assaults
upon the whole State and every industry
in it,
The RECoRD-UNIoN makes no apology
for referring in this connection to its own
course in aiding in the development of the
resources of the State, and its advancement
generally. Its aim has been to cultivate
the sentiment of oneness and unity among
Californians. 1t has, it is true, interposed
to defend sections against unjust assault,
but with equal promptness it has rebuked
all attempts to make capital for one sec
ton at the expense of any other In the
rapid development and populating of the
southern counties it saw, not the prosperity
OF section SO much as the conservation
of the interests of the whole State. In
the feverishness of boom excitement and
the abnormal rise of values it gave warn
ing of injury not to one locality so much,
as to the whole State, and the outcome has
justified it, In short, it is for the State
of California, every legitimate interest
and the remotest as well as the nearest.
1t is because of this sentiment of LOYALTY
to the whole State and its hostility to
local efforts to rise upon the necks of
others that this journal has warmly COM
mended the manly and broad spirit of
which the State Board of Trade was born.
and from which it draws vitality. 1t is
because it cannot tolerate sectionalism and
believes in the one State of California and
the whole Of ii, and not because of It's own
locality that the RECORD UNION lately
denounced the folly of attempted division of
the commonwealth, and more recently adj
vocated such distribution of State institu-
tions as will give new ones to counties not
now having any, and that in such locating
the economy and justice of placing GER
tain of them in the southern part of the
State should be keptin view The RECORD
UNION knows that in all these matters its
course has but reflected the sober and
material sentiment of the people of Cen
trail and Northern California; and it has
had but one regret, that there should be
in the south any CGlifornians whatever so
localized andshort-sighted as TO look upon
their fellow citizens more northerly To-
Gated as hostile 90 them or their favored
section.