The record-union., 1892-04-29


Inc county making the most effective ex-
mott September Sd, two days prior to
the opening of the State Fair, and $3.50 to
the county making an exhibit of widest
range September Sd, or in all s., 600 extra,
ana III addition to regular premiums. to
induce counties to place their exhibits in
San Francisco before the State Fair
opens.
ct 1t is publicly and officially an
nounced. First, that the Mechanics In
stitute Fair is abandoned and has nothing
to do with the dress parade; second, in the
same breath, that "the Mechanics In
stitute Fair is to pay the expenses out of
the receipts; third, that no State money
is to be used for the dress parade; fourth,
IN the next breath, by official
| bulletin, that ''the commission
gives $1,000 in extra premiums above
and beyond regular premiums to
counties that will have exhibits in place
two days before the State Fair opens
fifth, that the dress parade is not in oppo-
sition to the State Fair or district fairs,
yet in the same breath the dates for the
! dress parade are fixed for opening just
before the opening of the State Fair,
when there would be ample time before
the Worlds Fair opens for the parade
without conflict with State or district
fairs. If there can be any explanation of
these inconsistent statements we shall be
more than surprised. The truth is, it is
a direct and wholly inexcusable attempt
to use the Worlds Fair Commission.
This is action altogether reprehensi-
BILE, bad and impolitic. It has already
antagonized the central and northern
counties, and it will solidify them against
what should be generous, broad and
unselfish effort to make the California
exhibit at Chicago chief feature of the
! Worlds Fair. There is no reason what
ever why the proposed dress parade
should not first take place in the
State Fair and thereafter, if desired, in
San Francisco. There is time enough
and to spare for it, and no reason worthy
of consideration can be assigned for
temporary State institution, using State
money and begging counties to give
freely more of the peoples money, to set
up local show for the benefit of pri-
vate concern, on the very date long prior
fixed for the exposition by law required,
by another and continuing State in
stitutlon. 1t was uncalled for, ungener-
Gus, unpatriotic and most impolitic.
The State Board of Agriculture has for
twenty years been engaged in collecting
and stimulating county exhibits. 1t has
complete organization for that work; its
experience in that line is of great value,
and all these things ought to be availed of
and improved by the Worlds Fair Com
mission. In addition, the State society
has offered heavy money rewards to
stimulate large and representative county
exhibits of products, to be reserved for
exposition at Chicago, and has agreed to
use its agencies without cost to the COM
mission to aid in collecting exhibits of
products for the Worlds Fair.
| But if this new antagonism and sense
less conflict of dates is not abandoned, all
this helpfulness will be lost; contention,
bitterness and friction will usurp har-
mony and unity of purpose, and Califor-
MIA and her taxpayers will take the pun
! ishment. And here let it be understood
that there is no localization in this mat
| ter. That the State Fair is held at the
State Capital makes no sort of difference.
Were it held in any other city or town
| the issue would be precisely the same,
namely, that the Worlds Fair Commits
sion is attempting to run an unnecessary
and wholly unfair opposition to it, and
resolutions of disclaimer are no more
| than thin air, in the face of the fact of
distinct bid for the county exhibits, the
| Commissioners well knowing that the
counties cannot make two exhibits on
! the same date.
| The feeling of resentment throughout
! the central and northern sections of the
State against the action of the Commits
sioners is rapidly extending southwark,
and bids to plunge the whole State into
turmoil, so far as such an affair can affect
the peace Of mind of the people.
Already it is charged that the workers
of the Mechanics Institute Fair scheme
have used the commission 10 the extent
of giving it to be understood through it's
county boomer that counties that stand
in with the San Francisco dress parade
affair will be more likely to receive favors
at Chicago. We warn the commission
that it has formed compact that will re-
dound to its injury, possibly plunge it
into litigation, threats of which are heard,
and viii certainly cripple its resources.
Let it take the back track in manly
way, and say to the people, ''We will not
be placed in antagonism to the State
Board of Agriculture or the District
Boards Exhibit at the State Fair, and
we will render you all encouragement to
! do So" If, then, the commission wishes
the dress parade repeated in San Francisco
it can have it, and save money, since the
| transportation of exhibits to San Fran
cisco from Sacramento will be infinitely
! less than it proposes to now pay.
THE REVOLT OF COLORADO.
1t was scarcely to be expected that the