The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-28

domain of small, happy and prosperous
homes, with a sehoolkeuse and the American
Nag on every crossroad.
San Francisco must become at once the
manufacturing we'll as the commeclal CEN
merce of the Orient must find its natural route
OF travel through the Golden Gate.
The Hafmillion Club is on the right road
Let it persevere in its glorious work and may
God speed its cause Let there be no laggards.
Let capital and labor join hands and move
forward with common purpose and with
Pacific, the energies OF man shall find their
fullest fruition and their highest reward.
| United States Senator Perkins made
| strong speech. He grew eloquent in pic
| turing the resources, beauty and greatness
| of California. The Senator received an
ovation. He said:
| am Californian I came here to-day as a
! spectator, but am glad of the privilege OF adj
| dressing you. What you require most is action,
! not words. You want to resolve that you are
| going to support home manufacture, home In
! dustry, home interests. few weeks ago c1u-
zens met and raised several hundred thousand
dollars to build a railroad down the valley.
| That Is action.
! advances the interests of the whole State. san
| Francisco is not jealous OF Oakland, Sacra-
mento, Fresno or Los Angeles. Therefore, this
movement to build up San Francisco should re-
| ceive the cooperation of other cities.
Contrast the climate in this city with that at
Washington or Chicago. Here, you can work
| ing from inclement weather, as in those East
ern cities. Chicago is wonderful city, built
up by the enterprise OF its citizens. But some
day San Francisco will equal it. Here We have
| the finest harbor in the world, and should con-
troll the trade OF Asia and the Orient.
Your representatives in Congress have no
politics after leaving California. They are all
Californians. They work together in the inter
| ests of the State. While they have not sue
eeeded in getting appropriations which the
State is entitled to, yet much has been accom-.
plished We will have new postoffice one of
these days. Work on the foundation will be
begun shortly giving employment n to hun T5e
Presidio as beautiful as the park.
San Francisco must move forward. 1t is to-
day the fifth city in the Union in point of ex-
ports and third or fourth in its imports. We
must wake up and not leave all the work for
Jones or Smith to do. We must work together.
California last year o Pr odn ooo 10000 600
| raisins 1t can produce anything that grows
on the face of the earth. We must encourage
the farmer and the manufacturer- Let us not
send to London for a suit of clothes, but buy
them here in California. Let us buy home
made clothing, home made shoes drink home
made wines, and smoke homemade cigars
and beautify our homes with the works of our
| home artists and home talent.
California has progressed. Our fathers have
left us splendid heritage. In point OF educa-
ton we have great State university, where
the son of the humblest citizen can receive an
education without price, and we have the Lee
land Stanford Jr. University, where rich and
fountains of learning.
/ congratulate you on this step in the right
direction. May God speed you in your labor.
Henry E. Highton read the following
report from the committee on promotion
which was adopted:
1. That the results OF their practical work
speak for themselves and the details would bt
| tedious.
2. That they nd an enthusiastic sentiment
! in all classes of the community in favor of the
| Half-million Club.
| This last is the salient point upon which
they make a few observations.
| In many respects a great building is like
great city. 1t combines strength with beauty
1t is at once massive and symmetrical 1t il
diversified in its parts, but harmonious as
whole. 1t unites the intelligence the specia
training, the industry of men, to the products o
the mine, the quarry, the forest, the manu-
factory, the studio. 1t depends upon the
world, and particularly its own situation
and surroundings, for its existence and it
maintenance, and yet in true sense it is com
plete in itself.
These fundamental and suggestive facts
joined to the aspiration for solid and attractive
growth and development, are taking deep roo
in San Francisco. The separated and Otter
conflicting sections OF population are rapid
blending. Heterogeneousness is changing t
homogeneousness, and there is steady ap
proGch TO genuine cosmopolitanism, whicl
is the vital element in vigorous and permanen
cities.
Upon these lines the Half-million Club wa
established, and, in these directions, the labor
gratifed to observe the extraordinary success
which has attended their initial movements
| From the manual worker TO the millionaire
through all the phases which represent labo
and capital, they observe spontaneous mani
= festation of that form OF patriotism which ha
# not inaptly been christened-"Ciyic Pride"
s This sentiments broad and yet concen ted
n 1t includes vital sympathy with the State an
a | with all its parts and with the country a
large, aud also just appreciation of our rels
+ ton, present and prospective, TO the bushes
s of the world. 1t grasps opportunity in ever
# quarter. 1t estimates, without exaggeration
r our local advantages and recognizes all the re
: sources that contribute to civic prosperity
= And, in this wide range OF thought, effort an
I | sympathy, the upbuilding and the expansio
i of San Francisco are the supreme objects.
i Sound government, equality before the Law
improved education, diversified and core
+ lated industries the multiplication of homes
4 clean and orderly society attractive recreation
. and amuse ments-in brief, the right condition.
t | intelligently conveyed 10 every part of tn
world are the means through which
, | is clearly discerned, the kind OF population W
u require can be secured and the purposes of tn
: Half-million Club speedily attained. Henry
s Highton, w. NJ. Bunker, II. Z. Sonntag, Stewal
0 Menzies, L. c. McAfee.
e The movement to bring the National Re
publican Convention to San Francisco wa
n indorsed, and the Knights Templar wer
asked to make an effort to bring their cor
: clave here in 1893
q John H. Marble, ]. II. Bartlett and EC
t gar Biggs delivered brief addresses.