Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-30
an uNrENABLE POSITION.

Tho people Of Sacramento will learn
with surprise that their State Senator has
taken position in opposition to the mea-
sure proposing London California Exhi-
bition. While it is not intended for an
instant to impugn the Senator's motive, or
question his sincerity in reaching the con-
clusion at which he has arrived, we cannot
understand how he can justify the position
he assumes. His constituency favors the
measure; by its commercial bodies, its
business and agricultural organizations by
its press, and by petition representative
of business interests of all grades, and the
varied industries of the county, he has
been asked to support the measure By
declining to do so, and arraying himself in
opposition to it, he makes the admission
that he does not in this matter represent
the expressed will of his constituents.
We can understand how representative
IN whom important trusts are reposed can
justify himself in opposing measures asked
for by his constituents, where approval
involves invasion of morals to which his
conscience refuses to submit; or where the
proposition, in his Judgment, is vicious or
yiolative of principle he is sworn to
maintain. But upon a measure that in
wolves simply and only business policy,
which the people have affirmed-the
best method of advancing the general
interest of all the community by en-
larging the market for its products
the legislative representative Of the people
must be considered as in duty bound to re-
fleet the known and expressed wishes of his
constituency. We take it that the people
of Sacramento have settled for themselves
the simple question of what should be the
State policy in this matter. They have
been heard from in direct manner in the
affirmative, and no considerable body of
them nor any special number OF the indi-
yidual units of the community have risen
in protest against the London Exhibition
proposition.
1t is said that the Senator holds the
scheme to be promotive of but a few inter-
ests, those of grape and fruit-growers and
possibly few others. We prefer to believe
that he has not committed himself to so
obvious an absurdity. Whatever promotes
the industries Of varied production is in
the immediate interest of every other in
dustry, trade, business or calling within
the State. We can no more enlarge the
market for California products without
beneiiting directly every material interest
of all the people than we can injure agri-
cultural industry without visiting the i'll
results upon all Others That there can be
any soundness in the argument that gem
erai exhibition of California products in
the center of the worlds market is limited
IN its beneficial effects to the producers i'm
mediately represented, is proposition too
indefensible and too directly opposed to the
teachings Of experience and to the observa-
ton of State development, TO be worthy OF
serious consideration. The intelligence
that has risen 90 no higher conception of
the London Exhibition proposition than is
bounded by the horizon of specific and lin
tied interests, has failed to grasp the
central thought ofthe idea and is not we'll
informed of the commercial principles
upon which the scheme is based. Such
conceptions are not State wide and do not.
we submit, come up to the level of State
craft