Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-03
STATE DIVISION.

1here is no longer any doubt about the
effort to bring the question of division Of
the State prominently to attention as an
issue. The Southern California press APP
pears to have agreed upon that policy, 50
far as newspapers are concerned. We may
anticipate, therefore, during the next year
something of vigor in the bringing of the
subject before the public The RECORD
UNION has heretofore expressed its non-
concurrence in the division proposition,
and not because of its location or its rela-
ton to the interests of Northern Califor-
MIA, but because of the profound interest
it has in the whole State
Division might have leg to stand upon
were it true that any insuperable difficult
ties in administering public affairs existed
by reason of the geographical extent Of
our territory. But such is not true; the
people of the extreme south and the ex-
IRENE north have enjoyed, so far as the
State Government is concerned, equal
rights and conveniences. If it is said that
the public institutions have until recently
been located in the heart of the State, it
is to be said in reply that these institu-
lions were located in the midst of the
greater population at time when such
location conserved the economy of the
greatest number of the people. But in
recent years there has been inaugurated a
policy of wide distribution of the public
institutions, and as rapidly as State needs
have grown they have been met in this di-
rection
The Importance California occupies in
the national eye to-day is because of its
magnificent spread of territory, and the
infinite variety OF its climates, resources
and capabilities. To erect dividing line
will shear the people, as community, Of
a chief source of State pride, and cannot
conserve any great good as compensation
We must look to the future of California
as presenting magnificent empire OF
territory, wealth and prosperity; but di-
vision into two small States will clip the
wings of anticipation in this respect and
diminish our importance in the estimation
of all the world
If there obtains at the South any idea
that the people of the central and north
ern sections are not as proud of the South
as they ought to be the thought should be
dismissed at once. It's because there is
not any sectional sentiment north of the
Tehachapi range worthy the name, that
the center and the north will oppose d.
vision, is because the people are for
the State in its present form as a means OF
advancing all interests and building up all
sections; hence the great mass of the voters
Of the State are opposed to dismember-
ment. Economically, neither end of the
State has anything to gain by division,
both have much to lose. The erection of
two State governments will augment the
cost to the people in each section OF the
maintenance of State system, by Just
twice, without any compensatory return in
the way of convenience or the distribution
of public patronage
But there is another unanswerable OBJ
lection to division that must not be
lost sight of-in the National legisla-
ture the two CALIFORNIA; would have less
legislative strength and influence than the
one whole. They would occupy not only the
position Of rivals for National favor and
assistance, but would divide a strength
that as unit is now potent in securing
for California whatever she receives from
the Federal Government. This one OBJ
lection in itself is sufficient to overthrow
any and all reasons that can be advanced
in advocacy Of division-that is, to repeat,
two CALIFORNIA; in Congress will have less
strength, command less respect, have less
capacity to accomplish, than the one
united and undivided magnificent State
which, as we have said, because of its en-
pire of territory and interests, is Just be-
ginning to receive that recognition at the
East that it deserves.