The record-union., 1893-09-08
WHAT IS SUCCESS q?
Where the Hope Of the Country
Lies.
The Center OF Population Must be
Changed From Cities to the
Country-Important Figures.

Changed From Cities to the
Country-Important Figures.
Last evening, at the Pavilion, Hon.
John Boggs, President of the State Board
of Agriculture, delivered the following
thoughtful address:
Ladies and Gentlemen: 1t IS with pride that,
on behalf OF the society, l welcome you to
this, the fortieth annual exposition of the
State Agricultural Society. The financial
condition of the country did not seem favor
able this year for a successful exposition OF
the INDUSTRIES OF the State, yet we do not per-
celve any diminution either in the scope or
varieties OF the exhibits or in the number OF
the attendants.
The year 1893 is a phenomenal one in the
history of the State. 1t has been full of alarms,
yet no panic has enSued; traffic has been, TO
some extent, suspended, yet there have been
rev insolyencies There has been bountiful
harvest of wheat, which has had to be stored
While awaiting better prices, and the products
OF the orchards, though abundant have not
been SO profitable as in the past, yet there has
been no wide or manifest distress.
In the midst of a stringency In the money
market, the people of San Francisco are max
Ing a stupendous effort TO hold Mldwinter
Fair. Nearly half million dollars has been
subscribed In that city alone, while nearly
every county Is preparing TO exhibit the pro-
uucts OF Its soil and manufactures, When
De open to receive the contributions of this
and other States and OF foreign countries,
There VIII have been expended one million of
dollars. The fair viii be successful and will
be remembered as an exponent of the mar
Vicious energy and constant courage of the
people OF the state.
The calm considerateness of the people in
the past few months testify to the stability
OF character of the people and is a lasting
hostage TO confidence in our future per-
manent progress. The sudden cessation OF
DQSlneSS throughout the limited States
nay, over the known industrial world
has been surprise, and many are the reasons
ascribed therefor. l will not undertake to
discuss the question. For my purpose it is
eQmclent to point out that the apparent stop
page OF business in California is due more to
sympathy with the rest of the United States
than TO our own conditions. The close of the
year 1892 found us in prosperous condi-
ton. On the 1st of January, 1898, there was
n the savings and commercial banks OF the
Suate IN 9ood money S29,22S,2O9 40, and in
the national banks S3,673,1S4 Sc, a total of
$50, ,901 ,394 %. On the first of last July
there was total of S23, Ale, ,652 80. In the
course OF the year only four banks have finally
had TO suspend payment Property valUa-
tlons have not decreased. In 1892, the
assessors assessed the property of the State at
S1,157 ,2Ye, S61, and in 1898 the assessment
was Sligo, ,673,43 In 1892 we raised
$685. 5000 bushels of wheat. The Agri-
cultural Department of the United States
bushels. The fruit interest in 1892
was signally prosperous. According to the
annual InaQG Dy General N. +. CllD-
man TO the California State Board of Trade,
there was exported from the State in S92
Inc Following amount OF fruit:
By Rail. Pounds
Fresh fruit deciduous..............1 Ill, ,6SS 800
III T;5 o. oo0
1Tieu OS,IoO
53,113,32
y NutS..: 4,O1I, gao
Canned fruits......................... 77,555.S2O
Total. ................... 374, ,s26,o5o
BY 35,091,2l6
Total by sea and rail.............. 409, ,917, 200
Reduced to carloads, the amount would
make 20,495 carloads. There was no specu-
latiOn in these products. The total wheat and
nult crops must have returned TO the growers
OF the State not less than $780, 100000.
In 1893, when the crops of wheat and fruit
were ready for sale, we were met with con-
dition in the East which prevented the usual
profits from these crops. But we are not dis
couraged. Nurserymen inform me that the
demand for trees for the planting of 1891 ex-
Deeds their expectations. Confidence Will soon
be restored in the East. 1t is inevitable. There
is no reason for the depression in business IN
the United states except distruSt, and that
dIstrust was not based upon any reasonable
grounds. California occupies the vantage
ground over every State in the Union in times
OF peril. She is an agricultural and horticult-
ural state, and her productions must be con-
sumed. They are not luXures which may be
dispensed with, but are the actual necessities
OF life. Whether fortunate or not, she is not a
manufacturing State, where large bodies OF
men are employed in single industries, which
feel the immediate influence of restrictions OF
trade, and who are liable to be discharged and
feel the pinchings OF poverty. Seed time and
harvest will never fail here, and the harmo-
Nous relation between the different industries
will never be disturbed.
The tillage of the soil for many years to
come will be the principal industry OF this
State, and am thankful to Providence that
1t Is so. In general way we all join in the
praise of the pursuit OF agriculture We read
occasionally poem praising the plow, and
listen to a speech about the dewy morn and
the waving grain, or gaze with delight upon
painting OF rural life and assent to all that is
said; but fear that little thought is given to
the question how important the vocation of
agriculture is in the formation of character,
and what an important field it offers for the
exhibition OF skill and enterprise. l once
read book whose opening sentence was: u
love to look upon boy" and il made a last
ing impression upon my mind. The author
saw in every boy the possibility OF u friend or
Nh enemy of his race. When | look upon the
boys meet now, that sentence OTTER occurs to
me. and ask: "What are you going to do or
be ?" sometimes ask boy the question. but
alas ! he cannot tell. He walks up TO a door
that formerly opened into the domain of me-
chanical skill and he finds it closed. Closed
here and closed there. Machinery. though It
has provided labor for thousands, ana multi
plled the avenues OF industry, has, in large
measure, prevented the education of the
skilled mechanic, as we once knew him in
the past. But there is q stronger force than
steam that prevents the boy from learning a
trade. 1t is the unreasoning and unjust rule
of the labor union, which restricts the en-
ployers in the employment of apprentices
The boy has right to live, a right to choose
his vocation, right to exercise the genius and
brain with which God blessed him, and no
men or set of men have the right to deny him
these rights.
In an address delivered last Saturday night
before the Worlds Labor Congress, Arch
bishop Ireland states the labor question in
fitting terms. He says: AT the very founda-
tion OF the labor question lies the proper ap-
probation of the individual man. Here is
the whole germ of all social rights and duty
Labor is not and cannot be an article of COM
merce, a merchantable commodity, such as
bread or meat entirely subject to the laws of
demand and supply. The right of each man
to obtain from his labor sufficient wherewith
TO live in reasonable and frugal comfort i'm
plies antecedent right TO the opportunity to
work" Every labOring man must assent to
the truth of the above statement, and yet,
with strange inconsistency, he binds himself
by a VOW to deny to even his own son ''the
right to the opportunity to work"
There is no law that forbids the young man
of this State from earning his daily bread by
the sweat OF his brow out OF the generous and
kindly soil. Nature is kinder than man and
will return his careSses with atlluent bounty
The carly and the latter rains fall upon the
rich and poor, and the sun sheds his rays
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