Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-21
THE REASONS AceuHuLAr1yE.

SerhIng the London market-It Is not
merely local to England. On the con-
trary, II is the radiant center whose rays
reach and influence the markets of all
Europe and of India, and largely those
of Asia. That is to say, London's
brand" is found, either original or that
of passage, upon the choice products that
reach the consumers of the East Indies
and the tables of Asiatics and Europeans
alike.
The enormous current of London trade
flows in all directions FROM that center,
and from all directions through it flow
the currents of trade Whoever succeeds
in gaining foothold in the London mar
kets, gains not only the attention of the
worlds people, but will find his products
departing thence to nearly all quarters of
tie old world and to the islands of the sea.
There is not, after all, so much of ro-
nlance as Of fact in the boast of the Lon
doners that their city is, as a RECORD
UNION London correspondent puts it, the
political, moral, physical, intellectual, ar
Isle, literary, commercial and social ecu
ter of the universe" Our correspondent
adds: These views do not seem unreason-
able to visitor when he sees the mass of
humanity that is constantly passing
through its Streets The population of
London and its immediate suburbs ex-
ceeds five millions Of people, and the
estimate is made by the American Ex-
change that the transient current reaches
fully 100000 per day The production of
the soil in England is declining, central
lzation of population is the order, and the
farmer class is abandoning its vocation at
every opportunity, because it cannot sue
cessfuily compete with foreign producers,
and least of all, with American producers.
We are assured by our correspondent,
Sacramentan Of English nativity a man
clear-headed and observant, that if Cali
fornia viii put her products prominently
to view in London, none more than the
English themselves will be pleased. He
assures US that great and favorable
change is going on in that country regard
Ing the United States, and that it ex-
tends throughout the English Isles, which
he has just visited. They want our
products, in short, and confess their su
periority and are anxious to see proofs of
orr claims for California. But the great
currents of London trade are not easily in.
vaded, and still less easily diverted We
can best enter the swim by strong, bold
plunge, just such 3 one the Permanent
California Exhibition will be. Without
some such an effort it will take a decade
or more to bring our products to the Eu-
ropean notice of which they are worthy.
Our correspondent declares that whoever
visits London, and examines into trade
Conditions there, will be convinced that
California will reap immense benefit by
iairly and squarely" exhibiting to the
English on their own soil the products of
Ours But it must be done attractively, as
was accomplished by the Italians, the Span
ISL, the French and the Danes. In these mat
tiers the English, and Europeans generally,
are very critical judges; they go to such
exhibitions as no other people do, and they
combine business aud pleasure as do few
Others
What we need to do, and TO be about it
al cnee, is to place in London, to remain
for two full years, an attractive exhibition
OF orr green fruits grains, vegetables,
woods, marbles, cured fruits aud vegetables
OF al kinds, grasses and manufactures.
We shonld supplement them by object
lessons of the amount Of our metal pro-
duct:on, by comparative exhibits that will
SHOW 10 the eye at glance the aggregate
o. our production, and also the capacity
Per acre compared with other producing
sessions. We should prove our climatic
cl"ims by the irrefutable testimony of
examples of semi-tropic production. The
to2ouraphy of the country by relief
rnodels should be made plain; the pic
turesque scenery Of the State by paintings
anu photographs; the inventive genius of
our people by examples Of our mining ma
chiHery; our natural curiosities by models
and by specimens. BY such means we will
be able to turn the tourist current in this
direction to expend here It's means, and at
the same time create a demand for our
products by disseminating knowledge con-
corning them Moreover, we can thus
prove that because our producers are di-
rest owners of their lands, they are capa-
bic Of competing even at such great dis
lance, with the European system of indi-
rect ownership which handicaps produc-
tion. We will conserve still another great
end by charging the demand for Califor-
nis products-we will hasten the subdi-
vision of our lands among our own people,
and inaugurate the system of small and
diversified farming that must underlie any
permanent prosperity.
But these ends cannot be attained by
tie practice of any narrow economy II we
are 10 have London California Exhibi-
ton which, by the way, has no relation
wia,ever 20 any worlds fair or inferno,
t,onai or competitive expositions. but pro.
ceeds upon distinct and wholly different
idea-it must be by wise expenditure OF q
large sum distributed over two years at
least To that end the amount asked in
the bill now before tie Legislature is not
mere than sufficient. II is but small
figure indeed, compared 20 what in reason
AMI by experience already gained, We
know the benefits will be- Without such
an effort the danger already pointed out in
the RECORD UNION, Of sudden and par
alyzing check to California productions for
want of outiets, is inevitable.
WHO is BLAMEwORTHYl