Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-01
A NEW HAND AT TEE BELLows.


San Francisco Call has suddenly become |
the opponent of the London exhibition |
bill, and rs new kand at the bellows,
blows recklessly. We do not descend to |
the meanness to suggest, as do others, that )
its opposition is Influenced by the differ
ent position taken by business rivals but
it is susceptible of proof that the Cal mis-
states the proposition concerning the Lon
don exhibition. When it talks OF it as
show with brass bard in front and bar
IN the rear it descends to the meaner levels
of debate, precisely as it does when it
speaks of the proposition for the exhibit
ton as the creation of men who are fixing
up junketing trip at State expense. The
Call knows that to be untrue-it is
fully aware that the implication of its
statement is as baseless as it is vulgar,
and it knows also that the sneer in argu-
ment is confession of weakness. 1t de-
clares that an outfit of California produc-
tons for the Paris Exposition would be
advisable at State expense, but seems to
be insensible to the logical application of
its own sneer to that scheme, that
whoever might be sent to care for the
Paris ''outft" would be also open to the
mean and baseless charge of "junketing
at State expense.
Our San Francisco contemporary, which
is strong only when it is fair, and which
masquerades, blunderingly, in the at
tempt to create excuses for opposing the
London Exhibition, knows perfectly well
that no amount of money can be now used
for the Paris Exposition except the State
rents outside ground, not now possible to
secure in the Partisan Exposition reserve,
and sets up separate and distinct exposi-
ton. The Call knows that the Federal
Commissioners who are salaried by the
General Government, have gathered to-
gether a meager carload of products of
California, mainly raisins and wines, and
have already shipped them East, utterly
ready named. These exhibits, as the
REcoRD-UNIoN some weeks ago said, can
not, under the rules of the Exposition, be
shown together, even few as they are For
the plan of the Paris Exposition is to d.
vide the worlds industry into nine gen.
eral classifications; to suffer no State or
country to make collective exhibition
embracing in the collection the nine sub
divisions of the great Exposition. And
the Commissioners appointed by the Sow
ernor have so reported, and that no more
space can be given to California or any
other State. When the California exhibit
already collected arrives in Paris, there
fore, it will be distributed into nine small
portions. If it were collected equally
from each of the leading industries-in
short, if each leading industry of the State
has had its due representation in the col
lection-one-ninth of this part of carload
will be allotted to each of the nine CLASH
fications, and since California is one
thirty -eighth of the Union, and since, per-
haps, as far as manufacturing industry is
concerned, she is less than one-hundredth,
the outlook promises that in every depart
ment of human industry where California
may be found at all she will be
classified with the whole of the United
States, in each separate division
represented by one-ninth of her exhibit,
and relating to the whole as one-hundreth.
Therefore the production which will rep
resent her, automatically expressed, is
one nine-hundredths. There is further
attenuation to be found in the fact that the
United States does not relate to the rest of
the world as one to fifty. Among the
places represented, the United States will
hold the relation of one-hftieth. When,
therefore, the California production comes
to be measured up against the world, it
will be one nine-hundredth of one-fiftieih.
Let as be understood as not desiring to
throw any obstacles in the way Of repre-
scntation in behalf of California at the
Paris exposition, if the rule can be broken
forbidding a collective exhibit, but that
fair should not, on the other hand, be
thrown up as barrier against the London
exhibition plan. The two are distinct, in
nowise related, have entirely dissimilar
ends in view, and proceed upon widely
separated but not conflicting planes OF
action
The Csa says:
1t is no part OF the business of the State Legis
lature to convince the English that our raisins
are equal to Malagas, or that they would live
longer, have clearer heads and better cigestions
II they drank Zinfandel in preference to vile
decoctions made in the London docks
But that is precisely the prerogative
and the duty Of the Legislature, not only
towards the English, but any other and
all other people whom we can induce tc
buy our products in preference to those o.
our rivals; for by such inducement We
viii conserve small land-hoiding by max.
ing diversified farming more profitable
enlarge the opportunities for labor, aug
ment the volume OF production, increas,
the population by desirable additions L
our industrial numbers, benefit every legit
innate business and vocation in the State
by swelling the demand for its output; and
strange as it may seem, actually enlarge
the demand for good newspapers, of which
the Cal, despite the sheer that sits so i'll
upon its countenanee just now, is, gen
orally, a fair representative
MERE PRETENSE.
1t is officially announced that German,
has declared war upon Samoa to vindicat,
the honor of the empire and protect il
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