The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23
THE GOLDEN JUBILEE.

T ALlFORNlA IS the only State which cee- brates, with proper pomp and circumstance its admission into the Union. It may be truly said to be the only State whose acquisition should be cee- brated by the Union No other brought with 1t such srmptuous natural resources such enduring capacities such soil and sky. The beginning of the develop nent of all ths of the noblest uses of the soil and of getting proht out of our enduring sunshine, the discovery of gold, fifty years ago.
 That stirred in all the old States and thrilled them in far countries. It caused to turn toward Cali lorna the most reputable and remarkable emigra- ton that ever sought any land The real argonauts were, it is true law unto themselves. but that was law of absolute justice and honor. and the force behind 1t, as force must be behind all law was the clea1est courage. The knights of the Crusades were not as taultless as these modern men who met here during the hrst few years after the discovery of gold
 Inc volume ot romance, of adventure, of unswerv- ing honor, of fidelity and fellowship gained more pages from the personal careers and achievements of these men than it had accumulated from the begin ming of human history.
 What they wrought of more consequence to the world than all the campaigns since Alexander II they changed the course of human history it not by destroying, but by building up The stream of gold they set flowing through the world added to its shelter and its food The waters of that new Pac-
 VI and there followed expansion of opportunity in crease in the wages of labor more food and fire for the poor and better chance After they had ex- plotted the placers and taken out their gold every child Tn every civilized country was born to better inheritance and men whose lives began long before that day closed their eyes on better world than that upon which they had opened.
 The men who toiled on the bars of California streams added stars to the national flag What they did here broke virgin soil and brought fresh fields into production; 1t dug canals and built long lines of railway and shortened the time between the pro- ducer and his final market adding to the profits of his toll and giving its results more cheaply to the consumer; 1t stirred every beating pulse and filled every heart with better ambtons broadened liberal culture and caused education be more sought for it became higher prize than before
 These men. who doubled the Horn or marched across the isthmus in deathdeying ranks or took the long trail overland beset by strange terrors of thirst and famine and proving savages, passed the final test of maniness, and when they rested from their journey and began their labors they were better soned in all the requirements of manhood and citi- zenshp than the ten thousand Greeks who followed Xenophon from Asia to the Aegean It is well that California puts out her garlands and to-day cele- brates the Golden Jubilee of her heroic age. No other State nation has such event among its holidays, and say truthully that what she in that age did for herself she did also for the world
 The Call halls the hosts that come to set the seal Of pride and approval upon an event that had no companion in the annals of man to the day of its happening, and that stands in solitary eminence in the history of the world for the half century since.