The record-union., 1899-02-16

world to San francisco, to its CONNER
which is just dawning for the people
who occupy the countries having their
shores on the Pacific Ocean.
There is a personal equation con-
trolling the action of capital. This
must be educated, and it needs educa-
ton in commercial geography as much
az anything else. If We will illustrate
the vast possibilities of the commerce
of the Pacific Ocean we will attract the
attention of capital, which is controlled
by human ambition and personal opin-
ion the same as every other department
of human activity.
The most important matter to the
people of. California and to the people
of San Francisco is the assertion of
San Francisco's relation to the future
commerce of the Pacific Ocean. This
assertion wants to be reinforced by an
illustration which will educate the
world on the subject, and this can be
done in no more effective way than by
holding a grand international exposi-
ton.
"A still more important matter I'M
DERIVING the proposition is the develop
ment here of commercial enterprise and
the elimination of that provincialism
which has tended heretofore to retard
the growth of this city. Opportunity
for growth may exist without limit,
but 1T is the personal enterprise of the
people occupying any locality which de-
termines the question as to whether
their advantages and opportunities
shall be developed or whether they shall
be relegated to oblivion.
The soils and climate of California
possessed all their present qualities
when the country was occupied by the
Indians and also later when the same
region was under Spanish dominion.
The difference betweeni what the visitor
sees in California to-day in commercial
and industrial greatness and what he
would have seen if he visited California
during the Indian occupation is notsre-
ferable to changed physical conditions
the development of the industrial and
commercial capacities of the people &C.
cupying the territory.
An international and industrial ex-
position carried to a. successful issue
by the people of San Francisco will
vastly enhance the spirit of enterprise.
1t alone can be depended on to assert
end maintain the important relation of
San Francisco with the commerce Of
the Pacific Ocean
When DIRECTORS say that there are
many things which ought to be done
the friends of the International Expo
sition find themselves in hearty agree
ment with them, but it does not follow
because we ought to subsidize steam
ship lines between San Francisco and
other Pacific ports that we should fore
go an Internationl Exposition, with all
the benefit that will accrue from that
undertaking. The provincialism which
has retarded the growth of San Fran
cisco once broken down, all future ben
eficial enterprises will be easier of
achievement
Whatever our geographical advan-
tages may be, our future greatness will
still depend upon the energy, inteili-
gence, enterprise and civilized eff
cheney of our citizens. The growth of
any locality begins with the people who
occupy it. The work of holding here
great exposition is worthy to be I'M
dertaken in the interest of it's influence
upon the character OF our citizens for
enterprise and for their capacity to get
together in an undertaking.
THE people of California have suf-
fered from divided counsels as to what
shall be done because they are unac-
customed to lce-operation in great en-
terprises. Let those who object to the
holding of an international exposition
bring forward their proposition anu
they will find a divided sentiment to
obstruct the successful prosecution of
what they propose. But let something
once be done by the people of San
Francisco with the cooperation of the
people Of the State of California and let
them carry their project to a success
full issue. The precedent will be CT
inestimable value in all subsequent I'M
dertakings of whatever character
1T is easy to perceive that an exbi-
bition here in 1901 in celebration of the
semi centennial year of Californias
Statehood can be SO conducted as TO
attract the attention of the world 1t is
planned to carry it out on a scale ade-
quate to the complete Illustration of the
future possibilities of the COM
merce Of the Pacific Ocean, and it will
attract large number of visitors whose
expenditures will greatly reinforce the
effective working capital of our people.
1T is within reasonable probability
that the people of California expended
from five to ten millions of dollars in
visiting the Columbian Exposition held
in Chicago in 1893: Let the smaller
figures be accepted as the true ones,
the exhibition at Chicago took from US
five millions of dollars. An exhibition
adequately planned and the plan COM
progressively executed, can, without ex-
aggeration and fully within the bounds
of reasonable probability, attract here
visitors who will expend during their
stay some twenty millions of gold. The
output of gold of the State for 1893 has
been placed at $1S,00000O. Suppose
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