The San Francisco call., 1896-04-05

the Union League Club stands for nearly all of
these, and at least for some of them.
At least it stands for the principles of the
republican party and good government. The
Union League Club as we have il organized is
the representative of no faction OF the partv
OF no machine which controls the principles of
the party, and of no boss. 1t stands every
where for the principles which since the war
have made ii what it is to-day, and which
makes 1t impossible for the party to secure the
nomination of man unworthy TO bear the
banner OF the party.
Turning then to clubs IN general. Mr.
Depew remarked that Americans had now
become what he termed "a clubable peo-
pie" Continuing, he said:
It speaks for the advance of civilization that
We have more clubs, in proportion to our popu-
latlon, than any other country in the world
We are also Nation OF dramatic people, and
certainly there is no more dramatic country in
our land-one that the great Irving might envy
for its magnificent stage properties-than Cali
fornia. But, while you have here a sort of val
ley of paradise, you mpel a visitor TO get to
you through worse desert than any by which
any other land is approached
After describing the physical inconven-
fences suffered in crossing the Mojave
desert, he continued:
But when, at last, emerged into the coun-
Try where the verdure was upon the fields
where the leaves were upon the trees md where
the mowers were in bloom in every bone of my
body felt as il | had Il California boulder
which was not gold, and then,to open the pores
of the skin, which had become clogged during
our desert journey, California mosquito got
IN his work. But when | finally had become
clean and in my right mind, then understood
what none in the East yet understands-what
California is.
He paid a glowing tribute to California.
Its present and its future, and then refer
ring to the course of interviews to which
he was subjected, saiG:
tried to rise to the local situation with such
possibilities as the English language affords.
and then for the first time realized that there
are occasions where language is too poor and
wholly unequal to what a man wishes to
express.
Under the principles of government, that
as well as the Union League believe in Cali
fornla would drive Italy, Spain, Sicily, Algiers,
Africa, Asia and Europe out of prunes, lemons
oranges, lines, olives, raisins and wine. And
1t would do more than that, if would bring the
people who are worn out with the climate of
the East. and the nervous prostration of the
East back to health and vigor with its ozone
producing air. And more than that YOU would
eliminate one OF the great dangers that the
medical profession most fear-by your seedless
navel oranges you have removed the possibil-
ity of appendicitis. [Laughter.l
AS have said, California is unknown to the
rest OF the Nation. You are terra incognita
use that language for the benefit of my old
Yale friend, General Barnes. He says he talks
nothing else here. We know nothing about
you except your big trees, your big oranges
big punches OF grapes, big areas of land held
by some big men, big beets [Great luughter1
and deadbeats. But no one wfo comes
within your State and sees what you have done
can do so without appreciating more than ever
the remark of Archimides, the great math-
ematician: "If could find a fulcrum 1 could
The realization of that remark is probably
being demonstrated to-day in the vast forces
being gathered from the air and water in the
shape of steam and electricity Yet as Arch
imides understood it, it was fruitless re-
mark. But the Californian can proudly saw,
by paraphrasing the idea of Archimldes,
"Give me water and can feed and drink the
world"
never in my life have been anything but a
prohibitionist [laughterl in preaching and in
drinking from his glass.I 1 never before SO
thoroughly appreciated the resurrecting pow
ers OF good water, The land that you have re-
blossom and the. hillsides that you
have brought into production by
the simple power, of irrigation shows
ciples of government under proper protec-
ton [applausel and liberal appreciation at
home. [Applause.l Here you are as large as
France, which is the richest nation in the
world to-day. notwithstanding her vast debt,
and which has $4,000. 600 of people, while
California has only 100000. AS l think
what you can be and look at what you are nv
should be in this State any man with intelli-
gence enough to be out of doors who is not
red hot Republican. [Applause.]
1t is singular how we not only roll around as
an earth, but how there are always cycles in
the affairs of nations and peoples and that the
remark is both trite and true that history re-
peats itself about every so often. 1t is given
TO few people to make in proportion to their
ability in that line - fools of themselves
would not have used that remark except that
know you are all readers of Doestick.
Now, with us, we grow SO fast and our accu-
mutations are so great that the experiences
OF one gener alton are useless for the next, for
the next know so much more than the one
which preceded it. And so it is that we have
twice in our history had business experience
with the Government which would have
ruined any firm and disgraced any manager
beyond the possibility Of another job.
The speaker then reviewed the financial
history of the country under the free trade
policy of the Democratic party in 1860 and
again in 1893, when, during periods of pro-
found peace, the Democratic administra-