The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-18
a PROFITABLE INVESTMENT.

J*#LHETHER the State appropriation for the Pa
:. M cifc Exposition be made. in lump sum or
in two nstallments is a matter OF minor i'm
portance = The main thing is TO assure AN appropria-
ton sufficient to justify representatives in Con-
gfess in asking from the National Government a
support: equal to that given to other great exposf
.t0n8 held in different parts OF the country
Unless California gives proof OF determination to
make the exposition one OF international importance
and OF the first agnit1de it is not likely Congress
VIII be: inclined To- give aid to the project In no
case has the Government, appropriated money for an
enterprise the kind until the community asking for
has raisedat home sum sufficient to render 1t GER
tain the undertaking would be carried out on grand
scale The rue so good one we can hardly"exPect
tztobe set aside in our favor The first step, there
fore. toward obtaining an appropriation at Wash
iIlgt0n must be taken by granting one at Sacra-
nlefto. -: ?. ~: Ky: =. T.. Z:
There is nothing In this proposition that initiates
against te.policy of economy to which the Leglsla-
the administration are pledged. An appro-
pration for a1lexposition Of the kind proposed will
be not so much ain. expenditure as anvestment- In
tje first place not one dollar OF the amount asked for
viii 90 outside the State It is not to be like the ex
pendituTe for theSta display at Chicago, outlay
abroad, but an Investment at home which will give
employment to home labor and make anew demand
for many kinds Of home products. :: -. -.
The Investment will pay from the start, 1or the
first result of it, even before the exposition opens, will
be an appropriation at Washington Of $500 900 to be
expended in the State That in itself will be con-
siderable addition: 10 the money circulation and
VIII materially aid in stimulating business: and indus
Try bu ii will be but small fraction OF the amount
which Will be drawn into The channels. Of local trade
by the enterprise. H. therefore, were TO take &C
count only Of the sums that will be brought to Cali
fornia from the National Government from the va
rous States and from exhibitors from abroad the
income would be still so large as amply justify the
expenditure asked from the State TO promote the
movement at. the. start. >
The great profit that is to bederiYed from the in
vestment however is the fafreac1ing effect will
have upon California in every part OF her widespread
domain he astonishing change brought about in the
Southern States by the epositions which revealed to
Northern capitalists the RESOURCES of that section OF
the country constitutes the most remarkable feature
Of our industrial history for the last FIVE years There
has been something like a revolution in the South
and what was once strictly agricultural section is
rapidly becoming "a strong competitor OF New Eng
land:in the manufacture of cotton and of Pennsyl-
vania:in the manufacture Clifton.
There never was a time IN our history pro-
pitious for an Investment in exposition than that
which is now approaching. The Paris Exposition Of
1000 will give new stimulus to industrial and com
nercal activity, and energetic men will be looking
for the best channels for trade with the Orient If al
that time California invites the world to consider her
advantages for the Pacific Ocean commerce the profit
is sure to be of incalculable value 1t is then, in
vestrnent and not an expenditure that is asked from
the State government and as such the common sense
of business men will approve it