Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-10-05
SENSIBLE VIEWS FROM SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA.

The Chino Valley Champion of San
Bernardino county, for Southern Cali
fornia newspaper manifests in its issue OF
September 9th the possession of sound
sense-unimpalred by local preiudice-in
the matter Of sectional advertising. The
proposition has been advanced to have a
Southern California on Wheels" sent out,
after the manner Of the exhibition that
has been so successful in the past eight
months, known as " California on Wheels"
At Southern California meetings recently
held, the proposition was endorsed. OF
course, every body except Southern Cali
fornia people realized from the outset
that sectional exhibiting was not the best; !;
that, indeed, it is provocative of harm
that it leads the Eastern people to believe
Californians are divided in the scheme OF
promoting the settlement of their State
that the localism Of that kind of advertis-
ing carries with it, to the stranger, the
doubt as to its reliability and awakens in
his mind the suspicion that sectional
rivalry involves misrepresentation and
"booming."
The Champion, referringsto the PROPOSE
tion under notice, and the offer of the
State Board of Trade to attach the South
ern" car to its regular train of "Califor-
mir on Wheels" sensibly says:
This is a most uuwise proposition Even If in
good faith it should not receive moments
consideration. II carried out, the idea rivalry
which could but have bad results would be
everywhere present. such show could not be
conducted without friction OF damaging ma
ture. Two such shows, under distiuctively
southern and Northern names, would be better
than single one with divided exhibits and
separate managers. II seems as if every true
Californian would prefer to have one establish
ment filed with exhibits from ali parts of the
State, with a well-inform6d, broad-minded
flrm man from each end of the State in the cars
not in one car, but in all parts of the exhibit
cars-and clothed with equal rights and duties.
With such men in charge there would be no
friction and no Partially. Such a show would
do much to kill of the sectional jealousy which
appears 10 be on the decline. If our Central
and Northern neighbors wish 10 be fair they
viii say amen to such au arrangement and
any southern Californian that would refuse TO
Join 1t is unworthy the name of Californian
Whatever few narrow.minded, or Jealous or
poorly informed men in either end of the State
may say, II IS about certain that the great mass
of the people are disposed to be fair toward the
interests of each other. Let us have a fair deal
and, as most excellent Congregational minis
ter once said in Oakland Gin an unguarded mo-
ment, perhaps). the deyil take the hindmost."
Let our contemporary rest assured of
the correctness of this statement, that
there is not even the shadow of a sugges-
tion of localism and sectional jealousy in
the center and north; the Central and
Northern neighbors" referred to by the
Champion, not Only wish to be fair, but
always have been, since they uniformly
held that California should be presented
10 the East as unit, II there have been
Central and Northern exhibitions sent on
distinctively, it has been because the
south has steadily refused to unite in gem
eral displays. 1t has withheld its hand
uniformly from all purely State advertis-
ing schemes; it rarely, if ever, Is repre-
sented at the State Fair; it sent on and
set up in Chicago California fruit
exhibition, in which all the other parts of
the State were ignored; for time it was