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Beer is now consumed to the extent of over six hundred million gallons, 

 and no word of over-production; spirits are, however, over-produced, as is 

 shown by the attempts of distillers to combine to restrict productions and 

 to export. Fermented drinks are gaining the day surely against spirits, 

 and producers of wine and beer should not be forced to defend themselves 

 against unjust attacks. 



Education and industrious habits and family pride are doing more to 

 promote temperate habits than intemperate zeal of reformers. Society 

 always saves itself on the Darwinian principle, by inward growth, and not 

 by outward control. 



The inability of the world to produce enough wine is shown by the extra- 

 ordinary efforts to supplement it through falsification. AVith such protec- 

 tion and facilities for honest trade as are struggled for now, there can be no 

 over-production. 



Please pardon my haste in writing; if there is still time when I return, 

 I will try to send you more material for reflection. 



Yours sincerely, 



CHAS. A. WETMORE. 



EXHIBIT "D. 



POPULATION. 



(From the Riverside Press.) 



California is rapidly increasing in population as a State, but the increase 

 is not general — it is confined to Southern California mostly, and to sections 

 of the San Joaquin Valley, and to San Francisco and Oakland, in Alameda 

 County. 



In the year 1880 the Federal census showed a population in California 

 of 864,686, and the same year the school census report showed 201,283 

 children of school age. This gave a population of 4:3 to each school child 

 in the State. There has been no general census taken since, but a school 

 census is taken every year, and by applying this average of 4.3 persons 

 to each school child, according to the school census of 1886 we find the 

 population of the State at the present time to be 1,117,982. This basis of 

 work we consider to be as nearly accurate as anything we can get at in 

 the absence of an actual census. Applying this rule to the various coun- 

 ties of the State, we are able to present the following table, showing by 

 counties the population in 1880, the population in 1886, together with a 

 column showing the gains of population and another column showing the 

 counties Avhich have suffered in loss in the past six years: 



