The record-union., 1891-05-03
THE BETRAYAL OF THE STATE.


ton was formed and commenced its meet
ings, the Commissioners for California
assured it continuously that a collective
exhibit would be allowed. Whenever the
matter was referred to them the answer
was uniformly that California would be
permitted plenty of grounds for building,
this State is decidedly in favor of coll
lective exhibit. The object is to define
California before the world. If the pres
ent situation had been known and under
stood. no appropriation would have been
made by the Legislature. a distributive
exhibit at State expense is simply sub
sire to advertise their wares before the
world. 1t amounts to nothing more than
this. To pay the expense of making all
exhibit in order to advertise an individ-
ual, out of the State Treasury, is nothing
short of gross outrage, and this is what
a distributive exhibit means. Besides
ent departments means the absolute con-
troll of the exhibit by the Commissioners
appointed by the President of the United
States, and not by the Commissioners for
California at all. The $1,000 appropri-
ated by California, under the present con-
dition, have been appropriated for the use
of
directors of the worlds circus at Chicago
have generously permitted the States to
make an exhibit of certain canned goods
produced within their borders. This is a
mere hypocritical pretense; it Is fraud
on its face, and was known to be by the
directors when they devised it. They
promised up TO the time that the appro-
priation was made, that the State should
have its wish in the establishment of a
California exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
They have now simply made an arrange
ment whereby individual exhibitors will
enjoy aid from the State Treasury in
making exhibits of their products in Cali
fornia,
Following this comes the appointment
OF coal dealer from Los Angeles. named
Maxwell, to be the head of the Horticult-
oral Department. California, claiming to
be the first horticultural State in the
Union, secures, through Mr.. De Young,
its Commissioner, the appointment of
man VIGOROUSLY incompetent for the posi-
ton, and this appointment is achieved
over the recommendation of the State
Horticultural Society, the State Viticult-
ural Society, the State Board of Trade,
and the State Worlds Fair Association.
The result of all this is that California
is at the head of the Horticultural Depart
ment of the Worlds Fair with about as
much condensed ignorance on the sub
ject of horticulture as could well have
been compressed into one man. The
men who created the horticultural indus
tries of the State are ignored and left out,
and over their heads is appointed man
totally ignorant-as ignorant of horticult-
The denial to the States of the right of
making a separate exhibit, and thus ac-
complishing for the entire people of the
State the good so earnestly sought is
specimen of self-seeking which will bring
down upon its perpetrators the universal
condemnation ofthis people The people
of the United States have right to COM
plain of the appointment of Maxwell,
and the spirit of that appointment is
amply illustrated in an editorial article
published in the Chronicle of May lst.
That organ of Chicago says: Now that
this department is to be in charge of a
head selected from California. would it
not be unwIse in California to urge the
idea of separate exhibit az Chicago
The meaning of this is that California.
having obtained the head of this depart
ment, will be SO favored in the exhibit
that it certainly has nothing to fear from
competition with the rest of the world !;
California has gained an advantage and
it proposes TO use it unfairly. The edi-
torial proceeds; 1--WE virtually control
Department B." Who are ''we" in this
case? Is the control of Department B by
the State of California inimical to the
rest of the world, and do the people Of
California wish themselves thus pre-