The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-19

rapidly in the minds or the people 10
the discredit of Aguinaldo, and is turn
ing many who have been his adherents
against him. However, this is but one
of several incidents tending to indicate
the early collapse of the rebellion.
THE PAN-AMERICAN' EXPOSITION.
California is to be represented at the
approaching Pan-American Exposition
at Buffalo, N. Y, distinctively and as
any preparation for it, or as a political
body has given the movement any aid.
A San Francisco contemporary assures
the public that there are those who are
sufficiently public spirited, sufficiently
independent of political influences, and
sufficiently interested in CALIFORNIA; OPP
portunities for betterment, to see to it
that we have due Independent repre-
sentation at this important exposition.
1t is gratifying to learn this fact, to
know that California is to appear at
the exposition in a manner to her high
credit, and that will in all probability
result in her material gain. We are
assured that the greater sources of our
wealth are to be shown distinctively
and apart from others such as mineral,
horticulture, viticulture, forest capaci-
ties, and so on, as we'll as in the lesser
detail of soil products peculiar and sug-
gestive.
But of course the assertion that we
will be fairly represented at the Pan
American Exposition in 1901 means
that the expectation of the promoters
of such a California scheme must re-
ceive the cordial assistance of the peo-
pie at large. The first are to point the
way, make the possibilities clear and
open up the opportunity, but the peo-
pie engaged in industr ies and in bust
ness must heartily second the initial
efforts to secure for California share
in the benefits to flow from the expoSi-
ton as a means of still further better
ing our commercial reciprocal relations
can, as is suggested by the San Fran
cisco Post" come to the front at Buff
falo
In manner to attract the atten-
ton of the idle capital of the world to
the large land holdings of the State of
California, and this capital can be in
duced to rescue these holdings from
the semi barbarous, dry-and, field
culture which now retards the growth
tile gardens by the intensive culture to
which the climate and the soil so read
lily lend themselves. California has
everything to hope for in the holding
of this great Pan-American EXPOSE
ton, and it will be fully awakened to
a high appreciation of the opportunity
this great exposition presents.
This is a confident prophecy which
we hope will be fulfilled; which. in
deed, we believe will be realized. The
reasons for this belief are not few,
but chief one is found in the keen
realization Of the American people that
we have been negligent of opportunity
to cultivate trade relations with the
States of this hemisphere. Every Con-
sular report that has come TO hand
from countries on this side the globe
for the last five years has dwelt with
persistent and pleading emphasis up
on the opportunities we have for en-
larging our trade with American States
outside Of our own country. These re-
ports have pointed out wherein we fail,
mainly in not giving the countries re-
ferred to opportunity to know of our
supply capacity; in not manufacturing
to suit local taste and demand; in not
cultivating a taste for our food pro-
ducts; in not packing properly, and
especially in our failure to make ex-
positions of our wares.
The Parl-American Exposition at
Buffalo is to be one means for the cor
rection of much of this neglect on our
part. It is intended to bring us into
closer touch with the peoples of other
American States, and to establish our
reciprocal relations upon broader and
firmer grounds 1t is really to do more
for us in inviting attention to us than
the Paris Worlds Exposition is likely
to do, where our exhibits will be swal
lowed UP in the midst Of the national
exhibit. For it will be a more i'm
mediate exposition, a more direct ap-
peal to the business sentiment, and it
Is to relate us TO peoples more easily
reached than those of Europe, and be-
tween whom and ourselves there
should be more cordial and greater
commercial relations.
1t would seem, therefore, that Cali
fornia's peculiarly favorable relation
TO a large body of American countries
should quicken our interest in the Buff
falo Exposition. Every county and city
in the State ought to feel special in
terest in the matter, therefore, and
without trusting to the possibility of
State aid lend their energies to max
ing California the most prominent, at
least one of the most attractive, of the
distinctive and independent exhibits of
that exposition G%
Oppenheimer, the nTurderous convict,
killed man in Folsom Prison brutally
and cowardly, came upon his victim