The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-06

Grafton of those people have had fruit
ton and the relations OF trade between
them and US are wisely adjusted, and
not before, 1T will be safe to consider
their rights to free trade among all
the States.
Still another duty I desire to impose
upon you, in the discharge of which you
will do much to bring about the results
we are now discussing. For. ten years
there has been an organization at work
in this city on lines you are considering
and for the accomplishment Of like re-
suits. I refer to the California State
Board of Trade. The gentlemen who
manage its affairs. except the Secretary
and immediate assistants, have served
and are serving the State without COM
pensation and without reward except as
they find it in the consciousness Of dis
charging patriotic duty. The board
has now permanent habitation in the
State ferry building, paying for the
privilege a reasonable rental. 1t has
maintained an exhibit of the varied
products of California climate and SOIL
and has made itself felt effectively as
a California institution in many ways.
in many States and in foreign lands.
1t Is supported entirely by county and
private subscriptions, receiving no aid
whatever from the State. This board
should have your influence and assist
ance as an important fundamentally
in bringing about what you propose to
aid in doing.
Finally, Mr. President, would coun-
sci closer relations and more unified
action among your members. You
ought to have rule that every news
paper in the association should ex-
change with every other newspapers in
it; and each one of you, as editor or
proprietor, should constitute himself
sort of censor to see that every other
continues to work faithfully to the end
you have this day resolved. (Applause.)
Let us have an end of invidious COM
Parsons between regions. Certainly
your southern brethren may. without
risk to their market, rejoice that the
north now produces and sends abroad
one hundred carloads of oranges annu-
ally. Your northern editor may concede
all the physical charms which existence
has in that lovely country of the south
without in the least diminishing the at
fractions of his own region.
I wish, too, the newspapers would de-
vote more space to the upDuilding OF
California and less to pulling down pri-
vate personal regulations. (Applause.)
It was an augury of wellbeing for CAL
ifornia that the leading editorial, the
morning after the election is one OF our
metropolitan dailies, was an article on
the olive industry.
do not believe we are advancing the
common veal by the method Of attack
we have adopted to cure the alleged
wrongs Of associated or organized capt.
tai in the form of corporations. On the
contrary, I fear the effect is to drive
away and keep capital away. That
there are wrongs may be conceded, for
I find them existing in all forms OF
wealth. whether corporate or private.
But we are being educated 10 believe
that there is something intrinsically
wicked about a corporation; and yet
we all know that 1t would be impossi-
BILE to get on without them and that
the great mass of corporations are as
innocuous as a copartnerslip. We
have been speaking about our mining
industries. They are incapable of
much expansion without capital, and
capital cannot and will not submit it.
self to the risks except under such pro-
lection as the corporation laws give
them. Where there are specific wrongs.
whether they arise in the corporation
operating our railroads, our water lines
of transportation, our street car lines,
our gas, water, telephone, electric light
and other companies, in the public serv-
ice, let these specific wrongs lie pointed
out and the remedies suggested and the
demand be put upon those who have
power to apply the remedies / do not
believe that the caricature of or a per-
sonal attack upon the President of the
Spring Valley Water Works, for exam
pie would be as effective 20 accom-
plish some reduction in rates as a clear,
open and manifestly fair statement of
facts would be. If there be abuses of
corporate power, which I cannot doubt
do exist, affecting the vital interests of
our people, they should be corrected.
But my belief is that they can be better
and more readily remedied by adj
dressing ourselves to the sense of rea-
son and justice in men than by per-
sonal abuse
But, Mr.. President, whatever errors
of judgment may be chargeable to US
as individuals or as representatives of
public interests; however much we may
exaggerate in the wrong direction; there
is one thing that we cannot overdo and
that is the portraying of advantages and
the glories of California. Richly en-
dowed by nature; situated where she
may command tribute from all the
Orient under the new policies of the
government; possessing inherently the
elements of a great commonwealth;
nothing, not even our own ignorance
and folly shall stand in the way of her
proud destiny prolonged applause.]