The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-07-26
A PLEDGE THAT MUST BE KEPT.

A PLEDGE THAT MUST BE KEPT.
The Cotton States Exposition opens at
Atlanta October 18th next. 1t was con-
ceived as Cotton States Exhibition, but
it has grown away beyond that. and is
now to be properly styled another Inter
national Exposition in one sense, and
certainly United States exhibition of
products and manufactures in the broad
sense.
ALI the States are taking interest IN is.
Foreign countries have taken it up and
will be represented. The Good Roads
people, advised and encouraged by the
United States Road Inquiry Bureau
OF. Washington, have resolved to hold
Good Roads Parliament at the exposi-
ton. The Pan-American States have
come into the scheme of the great bazsr
and SO have our neighbors of British Co
lumbia and the Dominion.
Already buildings are planned by the
management the value of which exceeds
million of dollars. In short. this is 60
Ing to be, from the present outlook, the
most practical and valuable exposition
ever held in the United States. not even
excepting the recent one at Chicago. for
there will be more of real utility and
common sense and genuine education
concerning our resources in and about it.
Now, it is very desirable that Califor-
MIA should be represented at that exposi-
tion-in fact, we cannot afford to stay
out. We can put on view there far bet
ter exhibition Of our products than we
had at the Midwinter Fair. With the
exhibits of the State Board of Trade and
what the counties and individuals will
add we can eclipse the showing made at
San Francisco by far.
The Legislature adjourned before the
idea fully possessed US that we ought to
be in at the Atlanta show. It Ia now con-
ceded that had we known then what we
given 1t official recognition and fnan-
oial aid. The Governor Is of the opinion
that as it is the State will return to coun-
ties what they must now advance if the
State Ia to be known at Atlanta in Octo-
Der.
The State Board of Trade has, with
commendable enterprise, undertaken to
zee that California Is properly repre-
scented at Atlanta; the Southern Pacific
Company has volunteered to transport
she goods the State Board may COLLECT to
forward. But some thousands OF dollars
are needed to forward the work and put
California to the front in this matter, and
convince the people OF the East who will
be at Atlanta that California Is all it
claims TO be In capacity as q producing
State.
The Supervisors of the counties have
held convention in San Francisco on
this subject, and with enthusiasm have
resolved to stand in. That is well; it is
most commendable and 1t stands to the
high credit of the Supervisors. Our Su-
psryisorial delegation at the convention
agreed that $500 would be the fair proper
ton for this county to contribute towards
the expense of the exhibit, Its main
tenanoe and safe return. But the immi-
grafton fund from which the board could
give that sum is exhausted for this year.
The delegates. however, pledged our
people TO raise the money.
That was pledge well made, aud our
citizens must see TO it that Sacramento
does not suffer a fall in this matter. We
can, we believe. take the blue ribbon at
the exposition. 1t means great deal for
Sacramento. 1t promises to be the best
missionary effort ever made in her behalf.
Just now she is the most talked-of city in
the Union among manufacturers, scien-
lists and investors, because of the sue
cess attained in the transmission of cleo
trical energy. Now is the time 10 strike
this hot iron, and we must hit it hard.
The $500 must be raised, and at once.
Local pride, if nothing else, impels u.s.
But there is more than that: there is
money and prosperity in it for US, and
advertising value worth untold sums to
California, and to no part OF it more than
70 Sacramento County.