The record-union., 1897-02-18

!! one of a large number of counties. She
has but ore citizen who holds State
office, and not even his deputies are
Sacramentans.
There is less expended for State pur-
poses in Sacramento TO maintain the
| Capital than is spent in almost any
| other county where a State institution
| is located and State officials have their
| homes. The expenditure necessary to
maintain the Capital is largely distrib-
Eted in other communities. We sub
| NIT that While it is absolutely false and
vicious and mean allegation that any
such assumption is entertained by the
! people Of Sacramento as is charged by
| our contemporaries, aside from the
projection of such expression it is in
| furious to the State, cultivates feel
| ing of jealousy and localism and sug-
| gests that we are not one people but
| parcel of greedy beasts cOrral1ed in
| pens, the boundaries of which form the
| horizon of our interest in the splendid
| heritage that California is to all of us.
! Indeed, it has been complained that
| Sacramantans have net manifested
have not concerned themselves suffi
| cently in the care and betterment of
| State property If there is any SEM
! blance of truth in that charge it is due
to the fact that if any of them gave
special evidence of such becoming pub
| lie spirit, they would be liable TO pre-
cisely such assault as our contempo-
raries the Argus" and the .'Sentinel'
| indulge in, and that very fact is de-
| terrent.
| The latter journal adds to its charge
that Sacramentans only, and no others
profit by the State Fair. That is un-
true also; but We submit that wherever
a State Fair is held it will be impossi-
| bic to wholly delocalize it; that it is a
! State institution, and that it conserves
State interest largely, and has far more
than repaid all it has ever cost.
| Undoubtedly Sacramento benefits in
natural and rational course by the
holding of the fair here, and so would
any other city where it might be To-
| Gated. Il is also true a fact which our
| contemporaries wholly ignore if they
| know it, that Sacramento gave out of
| hand the splendid property, the origi-
| nal Capitol Park, in which the Capitol
building stands, worth at the time hum
| dreds of thousands of dollars, and like
wise gave to the State that other splen-
| did property worth other hundreds of
thousands of dollars, known as Agri-
| cultural Fark, and which the State has
just ordered sold, that there may be
| relocation, thus cutting off all possi-
bility Of the property ever reverting to
the donors.
Besides all that, Sacramentans, with
unexampled liberalfty paid one-half
the entire cost Of building the present
Pavilion, on State property, and prior
to that built and paid the entire cost Of
the Pavilion which the State for so
| many years occupied for it's annual ex-
position. Yet Sacramentans are so lit
tie accustomed to speak of these things
that the facts are scarcely known to
the traducers of this city.
However, referring to the charge
| quoted in the outset, we repeat that
| it is an unvarnished falsehood, an un-
| warranted assumption; there is no
foundation in fact, in thought or in
fancy, that Sacramentans entertain the
| idea that the Capital is maintain ed
| largely for the benefit of this city. Sac
ramento takes that natural pride in be-
| ing the Capital City that ought to be
expected Of it, and for failure of which
none would sooner or more sharply re-
| buke us than our Alameda and Santa
| Cruz contemporaries.