The record-union., 1897-12-03

quired amount, believing that the mon
ey could not be used in a better cause
or to better promote the interests of the
| State"
Mr.. Stephens said that what he
wanted was moral support. Mr.. Filcher,
the director for California at the ex.
position. said that it had resulted in a
largely increased demand for our dried
Ifult, resulting in a raise of at least d
cent pound for the various kinds. He
also stated that many persons in Europe
mad earnestly asked Mr.. F'ilcher if a
more permanent exhibit could not be
made. that the people might be better
enabled to know what our products are.
Ihere are many persons who are not
Irult-growers who are also equally in
terested and who should give substan-
tlal aid to the proposed fund.
The resolutions We're adopted.
FOLSOM ROAD.
c. A. Luhrs spoke in relation to the
Folsom road matter saying that all the
wholesale grocers had agreed to close
in order to give their men a chance to
vote and he hoped the others would. The
matter is one of vital imoortance to
Sacramento County and the proposition
two to one to carry it, and if it is de-
feated it will be a very serious thing for
Sacramento. What will the Legislature
think? If we go in future to ask for
anything for the city or county we will
be told that when we received what we
asked for We threw it away. Every firm
should get its employees to vote and
work for it. We should not forget that
our Capital was once in danger and
may be again if we show ourselves to be
nom progressive. We should take
warning by that fact.
Mr.. Stephens said Mr.. Luhrs was un-
doubtedly right. There is no question
of greater interest to the people of Sac.
ramento 1t would be better that it had
never been offered than to have it voted
down. He did not know of any other
community that would vote it down.
| We will be branded as silurians if it is
defeated, and will be known as sucn
throughout the State.
The amount of taxation is nominal to
each man. The tax for interest will be
only 10 cents on property assessed for
| 81 900 for the first ten years, and when
/ payments on principal are made at the
| end of that time it will only be 81 cents
on $1,000.
| There will, Mr.. Stephens said, be a
| saving on the Folsom road as stand
off, equal to the yearly interest to be
| paid on the bonds. 1t takes S3,OOU a
year to pay the interest and it takes the
same amount now to sprinkle the road.
This comes out of the general road fund,
| which all the citizens of Sacramento
City and County have to pay taxes for.
| Ii will therefore be a saving TO tax
payers. The road will be the property
of the State when built and the State
will maintain it for all time at Its
| own expense. the citizens of the whole
State bearing the expense. Such prop
ostion is seldom offered to a community
and if we refuse to accept it Sacramento
Will be called q jay town and county,
and deservedly so, too. The friends OF
the road must work, for the opposition
will be at the polls, and every advocate
of the road should see that he takes
one or more friends with him to vote for
it so that active opposition may not win
through the Indifference of voters.
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
T. B. Hall said there was another
thing that should be spoken of. Fe
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refinery and met Senator Perkins who
was called on to speak on the subject OF
Hawaiian annexation The Senator
said that, if he did vote for it, it would
be because of the Indifference of the
people here on the subject.
He thought the Chamber should ex-
press itself on the subject and draw up
resolutions in opposition TO annexation.
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here.
j. w Todd said we had made no mis-
take, If he read history Alright, in eX-
tending our territory in the past. He
I had never thought that the United
States had made any mistake in the
I purchase of Louisiana, or Florida. or
| Alaska, or the extension of its terri
| tory in these directions. He did not
/ think there would be any mistake in
annexing Hawaii.
! r. T. Devlin said he totally disagreed
with Mr. Hall. Our trade can only go
! westward, as the fields East are taken
/ by others. If Hawaii is annexed, she
will trade with California Many Of
our products go there already. a
| large brewery in this town is shipping
| beer there The only objection seems
to be the question of beet sugar. Ha-
waiian sugar has been free for years
and none of the beet raisers here have
suffered from it, and the refinery own
ers have prospered and become rich.
/ There is not enough sugar raised in this
country to supply the demand and
many millions Of dollars worth
are imported yearly The re-
| fineries, he was told. are max
! ing large dividends. The Ell Dorado
| last year had dividend of 80 per cent,
| the Watsonville refinery 120 per cent.
and the Chino refinery so per cent. If
/ this is So why put up barrier and
| shut out other things. Sugar will
come to us free anyhow, through recip-
| rocity, but it has never hurt anybody.
! California should keep the trade of
| these islands and he thought it would
| be bad policy in this Chamber TO pro-
| test The only harm annexation will
| do TO sugar will be to diminish the
/ profits of the refineries, which are
! large. as is shown by the fact that
4 their owners will not let any one else
/ own stock. Most of those who own
! plantations in Hawai- live in Califor-
MIA and spend their money here He
! thought il was a bad plan for the Di-
rectors to pass on questions of national
| Importance, which always have two
sides to them, and before doing so,
they should call a meeting OF all the
members and not express personal ideas
! as those of all.
! a. A. Van Voorhies said he fully in
dorsed all that had been said by Messrs.
/ Todd and Devlin.
! Messrs Coleman and I.indley said