The record-union., 1896-01-14
the territory naturally tributary to our

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city as another
In response to a spirit of enterprise
which is inseparable from the character
of it's people, the southern part of the
State has witnessed a marvellous
growth. When it became evident that
the southern portion of this State was
on the eve of great advancement, there
was much maifestation of jealous alarm
in many localities The alarm was due
to the circumscribed view which those
entertaining it had of the relation of
things. Less than fifteen years ago Los
Angeles was city of 1000. It claims
100000 to-day Every part of the Pa
cific territory has been benefited by that
growth Portland and also Tacoma
have been benefited. But San Fran
cisco has been the chief beneficiary.
Our one great need is a re-enforce-
ment of our population, and what is
more, a reinforcement of enterprising
capital We received both in the
growth of Southern California. 1t would
be to the infinite advantage of all por-
tions of the Pacific Coast territory if
Los Angeles possessed a population of
half a million to-day.
ket and natural support for local manu-
factures. If we could double the popu-
lation of every city in Oregon, Wash
ington, Utah. Nevada and all other
States and Territories of the Pacific
Coast, San Francisco as the natural
commercial and manufacturing center
of all this territory, would be incalcu-
lably. the gamer. Our city is the chief
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seacoast On the commercial geography
of the world, therefore, it possesses a
relation with the South Sea Islands and
with Alaska 1t is an expression of the
most circumscribed provincialism on
the part of any one claiming to be a
leader of public opinion in San Fran
cisco to manifest jealousy of the growth
of any part of the Pacific Coast terri
tory
For the sake of perspicuity repeat:
San Francisco'S claim as the chief
metropolitan center of Pacific territory
in the United States and the chief sea-
port of Pacific Ocean commerce is en-
phasized and honored by the suggestion
of a unified exhibit of all the objects of
culture, all the raw material on which
industry may be expended, and all the
articles of commerce in which merchan-
dising is interested.
1t was not proposed to admit these
States and Territories to free exhibit
tion, nor was it conspiracy against
the growth of California. California
owes debt of gratitude to all the States
and Territories contiguous to it, and
in an especial manner does it owe this
debt of gratitude to the State of Ne
vada
The commercial center of any terri
tory is the point at which the surplus
capital generated by the commercial
and industrial activities of that terri
tory is reservoired. In a larger way
capital is reservoired in the CONNER
cial capital of a nation or an empire.
London is the reservoir of all the sur
plus capital of the British Empire. Paris
performs the same office for France
and New York for America. In a
smaller way there are subdivisions of
the territory of nations which have
their subordinate centers. The Pacific
Coast is natural geographical ex-
preston.
1t is geographically a subdivision of
the territory of the United States. and
Aho -OPO5A pAilSet1 features give Jn1S COM
mercial territory distinctive boundary
lines. 1t ought not to be necessary now
to say that San Francisco is the me-
tropolis of this natural geographical
and typographical subdivision of our
country. That fact ought to be under
stood. Beyond this its commercial and
industrial significance should be under
stood, and still further its obligations
to the territory which supports it ought
to be fully recognized.
That these things are not as fully
apprehended as they should be is evi-
denced by series of interviews pub
lished in your contemporary, the "Ex-
aminer," this morning l have looked
in vain for an expression in these in
terviews worthy of metropolitan city.
but have not found it. Your contempo-
rary says that 'the State Board of
Trade was originally intended to pop
ulate and develop California. and
sneeringly says that now that this
State is overpopulous with prosperous
colonists it is to be devoted to the der
velopment of all the Pacific States and
Territories.
One of the gentlemen interviewed
declared that he did not approve of
making the State Board of Trade an ad-
vertising bureau for other States and
Territories. To quote his own language