The record-union., 1893-08-18
MIDWINTER FAIR AND THE IN
TERROR.

The Midwinter Fair people have asked
Sacramento County for $4,000. 1t is not
at all likely that they win get it. Sacra-
mento will respond as has Fresno and
Los Angeles: I'VE will see that our
county has exhibits in place, but have no
money to contribute"
At the very outset the RECoRD-UNIoN
said that the expense of the fair neces-
sarily and properly fell upon San Fran
cisco, and that the most that could be ex-
pected of the interior would be to make
exhibition of the products of the counties
and to stand the expense of fitting up the
space in which to exhibit the goods.
If there is any expectation that Sacra-
mento will pay to the Midwinter Fair
$4,000, or any other sum, those who en-
tertain such hopes are to be doomed to
certain disappointment. And in refusing
to meet such expectation, this community
will not be anenable to the charge of
penuriOusness or of want of public spirit
The same response that Sacramento
County will make will be received, and is
now coming in, from the various sections
Of the State generally.
The only benefit the interior of Cali
fornia could receive from the Midwinter
Fair would be the presence of visitors
who would come into the interior and ex-
anime its claims for desirable population,
for capital and its investment.
The thing that most of all else inter-
ested the people of the interior was that
made by the transportation companies to
have cheap excursions run from San
Francisco during the fair into all sections
of the State. But, beyond that propo-
sition having been laid before the Execu-
tive Committee, it has received no atten-
ton by the Midwinter Fair management.
1t is not evident that the proposition has
had even so much as a thought by that
management, though nothing would so
much influence the interior kindly to-
ward the fair as some manifestation of
interest in that direction.
The idea was that excursions should be
run, that by reason of their cheapness
and frequency, and the attractiveness of
the trips, would induce the visitors at the
fair to go into the interior before leaving
the State. San Francisco's highest inter-
est would be found in the encouragement
of just such a scheme as the railroads pro-
posed to the committee, but that body
has not had the common wisdom to use
it as means of interesting the interior,
wherefore it is reasonable to conclude
that the committee look upon the pro-
posed visitations to the interior with dis
favor.
Let it be understood that we are not
opposed to the fair. The RECORD
UNION approved it at once when pro-
posed. 1t wants it to go on and to be an
exposition as originally intended. 1t
wants the interior to be fully represented
and that the occasion be made, to the full,
an opportunity of introducing California
TO the largest possible number of visitors
and in the best possible manner. What
ever is to forward State development is to
advance metropolitan interest. Let san
Francisco rise to the level of the concep-
ton of that truth. and it will proceed
properly. Let it, as it should, provide
the buildings for the fair and all tie local
detail, since it is to be the local and i'm,
mediate beneficiary. Let the interior aid
San Francisco to the extent of making
county and district exhibits of State
products and capabilities-and that will
be fully enough for it to do, besides going
to San Francisco and buying admission
to the fair.