The record-union., 1895-10-09
ORGANIZED FOR BUSINESS.
Objects of the Sacramento Valley
Press League.
How the Newspapers of the Valley
May Benefit Themselves
and the State.

At&he meeting of the Sacramento VAL
| ley Press League at Marysville on Mon
day three very excellent papers were
read, among them the following, by S. S..
Boynton OF the Oroville Register:
If anyone imagi inc that this is pleasure
seeking convention, social gathering for
amusement, an organization simply for
| fun and enjoyment and not for down.
right hard work, he il laboring under d
deiusion that we hope time will cure
| him OF.
| We have organized for business, for
self-protection and for mutual encourage
lnent. One object is that there shall be
less friction among ourselves, less pull
ing and hauling. less abuse OF each other
through the press, and in no better way
can this be accomplished than by the
fraternal gatherings You can't take a
man by the hand, look him in the eye,
break bread and eat salt with him, enjoy
his company beneath the glorious sun
and brilliant sky and then go home and
vilify and abuse him in your paper I'M
less you are different from the editors we
have met in this and similar conven-
tions.
We are here to protect each in bust
n ess sense, to better our financial sltua-
lions, TO build up our respective papers,
TO increase their circulation and 10 eX-
terests in common. We are laboring for
the public by our meetings better and
more eifectually than we can do without
organizations or conventions.
When we visit the olive orchards and
vineyards OF Woodland and study her
WOODEN mills, her wineries, her manu-
factories, her rich alfalfa fields and pro-
ductive grain lands. and are the recip-
tents of her generous ana unstinted hos
pitality, do we not go home with q warm
ana lasting love for that town and her
people? Aud Will we not as long as God
gives us power TO utter q kind thought Or
write q word of praise, be ready TO testify
to the wealth, the prosperity and the true
heartedness OF her people?
When we visit uDa city and drive for
miles through hor luXuriant orchards.
her prolific gardens, her well-cultivated
farms and observe her lovely homes, her
| busy stores, her energetic and driving
| people. When, above all, we note the
| su bdi vision OF her land aud mark how
prosperity and success in oil lines has
| followed these, will We not 20 houe and
| labor with untiring zeal 10 SOC the great
| land holdings OF this vast valley subdi-
| yIded? And shall wo not strive 10 i'm
| press our citizens with tho idea that force,
! energy and concentration OF effort AS eX
| emplited in Suttor County viii overy-
| where command success aud prosperity?
| When We SO to sacramento. the Cap
| ital City OF our State. and mark tho vast
! expenditures of her citizens for public
and private purposes; whom We study
| their beautiful homes. their lovely drives,
their handsome walks and streets. think
! OF the force activity, force and vigor dis
! played in conventions, carnivals and
manufacturing enterprises and realize
how much OF that progress, that pros
perity, that success has been brought
| uh hy
| shall we not go home resolved to DO for
| our own towns-in Il small way at least
what the RECORD L MON and the Bee
| have doue for Sacramento?
| We are here to-day to know something
of Marysville and OF a people who pros
| per under taxes that many of us would
deem ruinous. We are here TO know
something of her great and diversified
! Industries, her gigantic cannery that this
year out up three million cans of fruit, of
| her splendid flour mill that ships prod
ucts to both Asia and Europe; OF her
! great WOODEN mill that completes sue
cessfully against all others in our coun-
try, OF her shops and stores, her banks
anu papers or her solid and enduring
! buildings, to study her magnificent re-
sources and to become better acquainted
| with her people while experiencing her
hospitality We are here to know some
! thing OF The draw backs OF this city-for
KNOWING these we can the better ala III
removing them.
Our work of visiting 10 but partially
done. How many OF you have seen Red
ding and know OF her wonderful re-
/ sources? Her vast mountains rich in all
mineral products, her foothills prolific in
all the best fruits the Almighty mas show
cred upon this green earth. How many
of you know Rel Bluff and her vast or
chard CAPABILITIES, her great forests within
easy reach, her proud position when new
railroads open up The territory tributary
to her?