The record-union., 1899-07-23

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quence whatever. They are bent on
achieving notoriety, and, like Creelman
they are willing in achieving it to make
a reputation for mendacity."
THE PAN-AMERIcAN EXPOSITION.
| The interest in the Pan-American Ex-
position planned to be held in the city
of Buffalo, is greatly increasing
throughout the North and South Amer
lean states. 1t should have broader con-
sideration in California than it now
receives, and it will have it. 1t will be
an opportunity of which we should take
full advantage. The pledge has al
ready been given by the diplomatic rep
resentatives of the Central American
and South American states to the Unit
ed States, that their governments and
people are fully awake to the value of
the exposition and that the showing
from those states will far surpass any
thing they have before undertaken in
that line.
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in the summer of 1901 will differ radi-
cally from any ever held, in that it
will be wholly Pan n-American. In this
affair there will be represented no
to be school Of exchange, commercial
study and Of practical education, con-
corning common needs, and how far we
can supply them to each other without
injurious competition. We are to as
certain at this exposition as one of the
means to such knowledge, how far it
is possible to help each other and and
thereby to help ourselves.
| AS a single instance of ilIustration-in
many American states to the south of
US certain lines of manufactured goods
are sold from Europe, which in every
respect are inferior to the similar man
ufactures of the United States, because
we have not learned how to manufact-
ure to the taste of the people, how to
pack safely and how to cater to local
prejudices and tradition.
While European manufacturers main
tain in cities of other states perma.
nent expositions of manufactured pro.
duce, the United States has none in
any of the South or Central American
states. While we are close to these
people of the other Americas, it is a
fact that detailed knowledge Of their
commerce, products and manufacture is
confined to very limited class among
us, and even that class is in many re-
spects ill-informed on these subjects.
There will not be lacking in the COM
ing exposition. picturesque features
however. Art, history, archaeological
remains. native tribes, ETC.; will be
made features. Architecture, customs
and dress of the peoples of our sister
Americas will have illustration.
Methods in business life will be ex-
empliied, the mineral and productive
characteristics of the south lands will
will be presented, and so on, as the
ready imagination will suggest, there
will be a vast line of features COM
binng the practical, the commercial and
the picturesque made. parts of the ex-
position attractions and concerns of in
terest, instruction and even of enter
| tainment.
California's interest in this great eff
fort is easily seen. The chief State of
the Union upon the Pacific Coast, with
the new promise of Oriental markets
opening up to US; with direct and close
communication by the ocean pathway
as we'll as by lines Of rail that will
presently give us continuous land con-
nections to the fartherest of South
American states we occupy a position
of unquestioned advantage, full of op
portunities that we should not be slow
to embrace. The exposition therefore
is a means to better acquaintance with
the needs of the people to the south of
us, a means of suggesting commercial
possibilities which we must improve.
| California therefore should occupy
very prominent place in the Pan-Amer-
lean Fair, and it will. 1t will be quite
| too late to act satisfactorily after the
next Legislature shall have assembled; !;
indeed it may be doubted whether State