Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-13
claim that Californians had right to b
proud of their State.
SENATOR srANFoRD's REMARKS.

and was responded TO By United States
Senator Leland Stanford Mr.. Stanford
spoke in very low tone of voice and was
heard very imperfectly by the reporters.
He said that il was impossible for him to
do justice to such subject on an occasion
like this. They were assembled in city
| which was situated about midway between
the extreme east and the extreme west of
our country. He felt rejoiced that while he
ives Californian, dweller upon the
| Pacific coast, he belonged to a
country bounded on one side
by the Atlantic and on the other by the
Pacific, and he hoped in time to see it ex-
tending from the Equator to the North
| Pole He did not wish to be circumscribed
| by State lines, but to see one country as
broad as it was long. California was not
really Granger State. SheEhad less than
| 10000 people-men, women and children
engaged in agricultural pursuits. OF that
| 10000 not more than 10000 adult males
cultivate the soil, and the women and
children do not work i'll the fields
but that 10000 raise food enough
for all the people of the State
and a large surplus. While planting
trees and vines, and making many perma-
nent Improvements, they have raised a
million tons of wheat a year, enough to
| furnish bread for ten millions of people,
and have land enough to raise wheat for
twelve millions more. Not a very large
part of our people were engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits, and the great labor of the
| future would not be in agriculture. I'M
provemeEts in machinery made it easy to
furnish the necessaries of life, and
| the occupation of the future would
| be to develop and supply wants
of an intellectual character. Practically
the men who labor to furnish the
necessities of life were on a par with the
! wealthiest men of the country. They had
| all the comforts and many of the luxuries
| of life, were well.fed and wellclothed and
| comfortably housed. There are many to-
day who have luxuries where few years
| since only the necessities were satisfied
| In the field of education there are great
opportunities. and the wealthy men of the
| land are beginning to recognize this fact.
| In closing Senator Stanford welcomed the
visitors cordially, referring to the neighbors
of the East, and characterized the world,
| now, as one great neighborhood, for the
fruits and blessings of one part of the
world are easily accessible for every other
part.
MICHIGANs GOVERNOR.
The next sentiment was ''Our Visiting
Governors" aud Governor Luce of Michi-
! speaker said the Grangers had come here
under unfavorable circumstances to appre-
ciate the good things of California. They
| had crossed barren deserts and rugged
mountains for days, and huDgered to see
something green (green grass he meanO,
| and early this morning, as they came down
the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada,
their eyes were greeted with verdure-clad
| fields. He paid a glowing tribute to the
early pioneers of California, and coDgratu-
lated the people of California upon the
grand developments that had been achieved
since the days when the first rush of
the gold-seekers occurred. The visitors
were thankful for the grand
reception they had received at the hands of
the people of Sacramento. California, they
had learned, was grand all through, and
they were prepared for almost anything
wonderful. He then switched off upon
the subject of his own State, and said that
as an all-round one he believed Michigan
To be the greatest State in the Union.
Laughter The various resources of
Michigan were then dwelt upon-her agri-
culture, her mines of iron and gold, and
her lumber and other interests. But the
grandest productions of Michigan are her
men, her women, her girls and her boys.
The speaker closed with an eloquent
therein.
THE LADIES TOASTED.
Hon. Elwood Bruner was then called
upon to respond to the sentiment of "0ur
Lady Visitors" He said he was not going
to follow his fellow-Sacramentaus by talk
ing of California. He had heard nothing
but brag all the evening. II was all Cali
fornia and Sacramento. He was glad to
have better subject-"0ur Lady Visitors"
There was an organization represented here
that gives to woman that which no other
had onceded-equal rights with the men
in its councils. He did not brsg of the
women of California, but of the nation.
Applause There were women present,
he understood from every State in the Union
but four. There were present those who
had borne with their husbands the trials
and responsibilities of pioneer life. Where
what they should be.
MRS. HALE.
Mayor Gregory then called upon Mrs
Addie II. Hale, of Connecticut, to respond
to Mr.. Bruner. Unfortunately the lady
was too far away to be heard by the re-
porter.
''oUR COUNTRY"
Senator Hearst was called upon to respond
Senator was quite sarcastic at the expense
of the other speakers, who had been so
boastful of their respective sections of coun-
try. He referred to the early operations of
the miners in the rivers and gulches of the
State, and told the visitors from the East
that they hardly realized ss they came
down the slopes of the Sierra Nevadas and
gazed down into the depths of the American
river at Cape Horn, that the gold that was
sent from California in early days was dug
from that and other rivers they had crossed
in their journey. The gold distributed by
California throughout the Union had revo-
lutionized the business of the country. To
the miners the farmers were indebted for
the means that enabled them to cultivate
the soil and develop its grand resources, as
represented before them.
GEORGIA GRANGER
"The Patrons of the South" was the next
toast, and was responded to by 2. w.
Kimbrough, OF Georgia. He said the
South is now new South; that she was
developing manufactures and other in
terests and industries, and extended the
hand of fellowship to all portions Of the
Union. New ideas and new principles have
been imbibed by the people of the South,
and that section was marching OIL to pros
perity. They would take home kind re-
mem brances of the treatment they had re-
ceived here al the hands of Sacramentans
ALI that he asked was that next year the
National Grange be held in the South.
CALIFORNIA PATRONS.
'The Patrons of the Vest was then
offered, and the Mayor called upon Master
E. W. Davis, of the California State Grange,
to respond. Mr.. Davis paid an eloquent
tribute to the California Grangers and to
the members of the Order throughout the
Union. Its principles were of the high
est and most ennob ling character.
CONGRESSMAN M'KENNA's REMARKS.
The next sentiment proposed was The
Federal Government" Congressman Jo-
seph McKenna was called upon to respond.
He said he had understood that this was to
be reception to Grangers. If the spread
| he saw before him was a specimen of the
| way in which Grangers were treated he
| didn't know but he should reinquish his
profession and become a Granger He
might have chosen a different subject on
which to speak, had he been consulted.
| For instance he could have taken Califor-
MIA for his text, that he might have had
something easy to enlarge upon and brag
of. He might have liked to talk about
Michigan. but he did not know what to
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