The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-04
ADMISSION DAY.

With the campaign, the State Fair at
| Sacramento and the home-iDdustry e1-
hibit at Mechanics Pavilion, Californians
| it would seem, have about as much as they
can attend to with any marked degree Of
interest or energy. There is, however,
another call upon their attention and
activities. Admission day is near at hand,
| Stockton is preparing festival that will
! eclipse all celebrations of the kin and
native sons and daughters are getting
ready to lay aside party spirit for time
to rejoice in the exultation of mutual
patriotism and Californian pride.
With each recurring celebration OF Adj
mission day the native youth of the State
| finds itself more and more potent and in-
fiuential in all departments of California
life. Business, society, politics, art and
literature are. all passing more or less into
the control of young men and women who
were born in California and naturally feel
for it a devotion even more intense than
that of pioneers and argonauts, who love
1t for the services they have rendered it
and the rewards it has given. With the
growing power of the children of her soil,
/ California will of course find an increase
! OF civic and State patriotism among her
people. There will be lessening of the
comparative influence of those who come
to the State simply to make fortune for
themselves aud an increasing Influence of
those who seek the welfare of the whole
commonwea 18th and desire to make it the
foremost State in the Union.
When we consider the rapid growth of
the native element in our population it
must be accounted a most fortunate thing
that the young men and women who are
so soon TO manage the affairs of the State
are not growing up in ignorance OF It's
wide variety of soil and climate and re-
sources. The annual celebrations OF the
Native Sons and Native Daughters lead
them TO visit ell parts of the State. They
see the north, the center and the south
the mountains, the interior valleys and
the seashore; they learn by direct obser-
walton more or less about all sections of
California, and come into contact and in
tercourse with the people of all sections.
Through these meetings they learn to
know their State, 10 know one another
and to know how to act together. Thus
they acquire an intelligence BETTING their
devotion, and when in the natural order
OF things the management of California
affairs passes almost wholly into their
hands there can be no question but it will
be conducted with a greater knowledge of
what Is best as well as with a more patri-
otto desire to do what is best.
We have said before 1t is a fortunate
thing the celebration this year is to be
held at Stockton. In certain sense we
have reached what may be called the era
of new development in the San Joaquin
Valley. That wide region, of which
Stockton is one of the foremost industrial
and commercial centers. promises to go
forward in the next few years with a more
rapid and more wide-spreading movement
than any similar area in the State, or per-
haps il the Union. 1t is well that the
Native Sons and Daughters should go
there and study the conditions on the
spot. There will be profit for them in
all they learn, if they apply it WE'LL