The San Francisco call., 1908-11-02
CHANGE BENEFICIAL TO
TAX PAYERS And STATE
Needless Expenditure of Money and Time Forced
Upon Citizens-MOral and Refining
Influence of Berkeley


Election day will bring before the people question deepest interest
question of grave importance the individual well gov
and that has special bearing upon residents
the San Francisco bay counties
government founded upon principle of the greatest good to
the numbeat the should rule Today California
million people bound by the legislators who nearly
three generations oehew the will of the of the
Fg years popular election placed capital at Val
lo -Four years later l654 the legislature capital to Sacra-
For half century California has been forced great ncon-
and result of that decision and the majority taxpayers
have been deprived privileges money has purchased for very
small minority.
When Sacramento made the capital 1854 the popu-
aon of the of city, the nearby counties
crowded with The counties around San bay
$4,000 inhabitants Today there are nearly one million
people the counties bordering the bay and the population most of the
mining sections has hunk lesser figures
Sacramento png city, capable thriving on its own energy
and opportunities independent the possession capital Today the
oeners of population far from it and long ago the
the capital properly placed officially recognized The
forced locate of its important San Francisco
Today there eighteen such bay city, proving the
of should be where the business of the conducted
Vast of yearly by the officials travelling
and from Sacramento Hundreds thousands dollars spent annually
by who obliged
the officials
The transfer of the capital Berkeley would waste
Of To the majority the residents of the bay
and thirty Berkeley Compare the time
and money expended in making trip Sacramentol
Capital removal material advantages that the people
bay counties should heed capitol would ong
pleasure seekers, assembags which would patronage
for hotels and other industries This
money would all filter into the hands of.he people
Labor would be directly change would mean the con-
of building residences officials
sidewalks sewer fact every branch of the building
and contracting trades would share in fortune
feature of capital removal from all other
University Berkeley weigh heavily favor of the change
where capitol and university located the nothing
mutual advantage has resulted Better legislatures
laws made and better taken of the by the Legislators
California sorey need of modern capitol building capable Of
the demands of the On the beautiful Berkeley hills hand
capitol would be full of round million people and
visible the hundreds of thousands of who through the Golden
Gate from all of the world The advertising value the
capitol such surroundings incacuabl splendid forty
has been offered to the state for such building.
Many of the favor of capital removal definitely
adjoining column. but public project that
but good
has been firmly innhed people
the capital Numerous asions favor of moving the
government elsewhere recorded and 1893 the plan change
frustrated by legal echncay after
by overwhelming submit
the people
for capital removal for progress Remember that
long this year. Look your ballot until you locate capital
near of the amendments entitled An change
government from Sacramento Berkeley. Then Yes"