The record-union., 1891-05-09

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entire fair grounds and buildings.
Again this State, as SUCH cannot enter
into competition in the various depart
mentS. The State raises no wheat, nor
fruit, and is not engaged in various in
dustries as business. 1t farms some in
an experimental way; it makes some
Jute bags; but 1t would hardly compete
with its own citizens. What then must
we do with the $500, COO? What must the
counties do with their appropriations?
Are they to go to help along private ex-
hlbitors in the various departments?
Clearly not. Is all this money to be used
in the construction of building, and
nothing go into it? Is one-third Of it to
go into building and the balance to be
used in making a display of the limited
articles suggested i'll the proposed regula-
tions of the Board of Control? If so, what
will the producers of other articles
i'll this State say about it? Why should
you spend $500, 600 to eXalt the fruit
growing interests and leave out our min
ing products and our cereals, and our
vegetables, and our manufactures, our
timber products and our wool, and many
other things, TO provide for themselves in
the wilderness of a worlds exhibit?
California claims to be unique in this
that within her boundaries are to be
found a greater range of products, con-
tributing to the happiness and necessities
of man. than can be found in any State of
the Union or any one country OH the
globe. She demands an opportunity to
make good this claim, and TO make it
effectively. Upon this she bases her in
VitatiOn TO the millions to come here to
reside. She protests against any rules or
regulations that will destroy her oppor-
tunity. She asks this opportunity be-
cause it cannot be asked by others, and
can hurt no others; because no others are
like her IN this claim of uniqueness.
How, let me ask, can our advantages of
climate, and our varied products and in
dustries, be adequately shown, except
by an aggregated exhibit Of what that
climate will produce, and is producing!
Look at it, We exhibit apples with Rus
sia and Michigan; oranges with Florida
and Tahiti; raisins with Spain; pruncs
with France; olives and olive oil with
/ Italy; wheat, corn, oats, barley with the
great West and Canada, and al the world,
for that matter; beet sugar with Ger
many; figs with Smyrna; dates and pine
| apples and bananas with the Tropics; al
mOndS and walnuts with the Continent Of
Europe; wool with Australia; cotton with
| the South; silks with india and Japan:
| petroleum with Pennsylvania; the price
less redwood, not TO be found outside Of
our State, and the sugar pine, the substi-
| tute for the rapidly diminishing white
! pine Of the Northwest; silver and gold
! from mines, scarcely yet begun to unfold
| their riches, although they have made
our State famous.
What country, or what State of the
Union, can aspire to all this? None.
Must we divide this splendid army of
cOnquest-mlghty and uncOnquerable
when massed, but tame and harmless
when scattered over wide area?
What to the State, as a whole, will be
the advantages OF a premium here and
there, picked up in that immense con-
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the ineradicable and etfaceless impression
of our State and its products that can be
made under one roof, if we array all
these where such an impression alone is
possible?
1t will be long before we shall have this
opportunity again. Shall we now throw
it away?
do not underestimate the prestige of
having the headship Of the Department
of Horticulture, but how futile to sup
pose, as has been suggested, that Califor-
mia can control that great department
! to the disadvantage Of any State or any
! country competing. Its importance to
our State is insignificant compared with
! the importance of the work in yOur
hands; you have the right and the power
| to represent the State-the chief of De
| partment "B'' is the servant Of the world
for the time. The moment he extends
an unfair advantage to California or to
! any exhibitor, that moment he will be
| checked, and if he persists, he will be,
and he ought to be, removed. But Cali
fornia is something more than a fruit
| growing State.
You stand for the State, and to your
board alone we must look for the realiZa-
tion of our hopes at the fair.
l am not speaking of competitive ex-
| hibitS. AS to these, exhibitors will 90
with their manufactures and products
I into Wbataypf Il m pntS Hiracfad o,,J
| take their chances with the world. What
| | am contending for is such use Of the
! 100000 appropriated by the State as shall
! bring to us the largest measure of practi-
| cal benefit.
In this connection I beg you to con-
! slider the anticipated county appropria-
/ tiOnS. What / have said Of the State is
| true of the counties. They viii want
! space in our building where they can
! help to augment the grand effects of our
| full display. How can they else spend
! their money, and where? They cannot
compete as counties, but they can exhibit
| their attractions, and the whole under
! your wise and impartial direction will
make the States display one OF the dis
! tinctiYe, and ever to be remembered,
features of the coming Worlds Exposi-
{ ton.
/ Some regions Of the State may not pre-
| pare and send exhibits. 1t will be your
/ duty to see that these are represented so
/ far as possible in your building and Won
/ can do this nowhere else. They con-
! tributed to your fund. The State, as a
| whole, will expect at your hands fair
! treatment. It is the State rs n whole that
! you are to present in miniature at the
/ Worlds Fair. [ can see no way for YOU
/ to do this by a distributiye and COMPETE
! tive exhibit alone, II viii he q miserable
and lamcntable failure il SO done, and
! our generous appropriation viii avail US
! nothing.
1 think I do not misunderstood the
scope of this great exposition.
The Act OF Congress sanctioning the
! fair provides: THAT an exhibition of
ART, Industries, manufactures and pro-
ducts of the soil, mine and sea, shall lie
inaugurated in the year 1892, in the city
Of Chicago" etc.
The preamble declares: Whereas 1t
is fit and appropriate that the 40Gth ami
versary of the discovery of America be
commemorated by an exhibition of the
resources ofthe United States of America,
their development, and OF the progress Of
civilization in the new world; therefore,
be it enacted" etc.
The Act provides for an exhibit to be
made by the Government of the United
| States, and appropriates money for that
purpose. But the whole purpose of the
Act seems to imply that the several States
and Territories will make an exhibition
of their resources as sovereign States of
this Union. / claim that each State Of
the Union should be permitted to indi-
Vidualize its exhibits, so far as consistent
and possible, with regulations adapted to
countries and regions. | claim that Cali
tornia, or any other State Of the Union
should be permitted to enter with her
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