The record-union., 1895-06-24
4 PROPOSED LEAGUE OF PROGRESS.
Its Purpose is to Advertise the States
Resources,
How the Local Newspaper May be
Made the Promoter of
Good Things.

G. B. Putnam, State Organizer of the
California League Of Progress, came TO the
| city on Saturday for the purpose OF or
ganizing council here. After confer
! ring with some of the citizens, however,
who are just now interested in organic
| ing Chamber Of Commerce, Mr.. Put
nam concluded to postpoue the matter,
so far as Sacramento is concerned, unLli
after the proposed electrical carnival.
In an interview with Woodland NAL
reporter Mr.. Putnam thus explained the
aims and workings of the League oi
Progress:
when our league shall have half
million mem bership ROLL" says DR.. Put
man, ''as is sure to be the case, owing to
| the universal interests ana general good
To our people, the extreme low dues,
every member pledged TO send at least
one copy week of his or her home paper
to some friend, relative, or acquaintance
in the East or South, and to say only
what is good and advantageous of his
own town, county and neighborhood, 1t
Will be only short time then until all
California will be listening to the foot
steps of millions yet to come We may
rest assured that at least three or four
people will see that paper from Calitor-
MA There is magic in the name which
draws like loadstone, and the sinteresL
and attraction will grow greater as the
paper continues to come to them week
after week and become a part OF their
very lives.
And how about the good editor who
is carrying q greater burden than any one
man should bear already? Think ye that
it will reflect no encouragement and
benefit upon him? All! be will then be
able TO snatch few hours OF sleep out Of
the twenty-four and not be trou bIed with
the nightmare of thought that although
he is devoting the best energies OF his
life to promote the interest OF his neigh
bors and their welfare the only encour-
agement they give him Is to pay their
subscription fee and some perhaps not
even that. The California League of
Progress proposes to work out its own
salvation on the grounds that II COM
munity will give its moral as Well as
financial encouragement TO the news
papers, the newspapers will 'be the
making of the place.
There can be no question OF doubt
about this fact Show a stranger who
may be a thousand miles away your
local papers and he will tell what your
town or community is. Our people are
willing enough to do all they can TO pro-
mote the general good and welfare Of the
State and Incidentally themselves. Why
should they not be? Ii not, why don't
they get off the earth? OF course they
are willing. We are all of us ready TO
do so.
What the people want Is simply a
suggestion about how and what to do,
and with only the slightest direction
these efforts will become Niagara OF
forceful success; for is not the mighty
| force of those awe-inspiring works made
up of little drops of water and little
grains of sand or particles of the earth?
| In conclusion l will say that it is The
little, easy and apparently insignificant
efforts of thousands of individuals, which
the California League of Progress pro-
pose to create into d colossal and stupend-
GUS giant harnessed to the chariot pro-
gress. upon which shall appear in letters
of gold this ominous advice: Onward
and Upward Together