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because so many of your problems here are the same problems we have 

 to contend with. The problems of your University will largely influ- 

 ence the entire world. I am quite sure you are not going to mind that, 

 and that you are going to do your best to help out on the problems of 

 the world, because — noblesse oblige — you are so much better off here than 

 other places in the world. I would like a few words on two questions 

 which have been touched upon in the address of Dr. Hunt. He spoke 

 of the importance of the Mediterranean races that will come to Cali- 

 fornia and what will happen when they do come here. As a Jew, I 

 belong surely to one of the oldest races of the Mediterranean, and as I 

 have had good knowledge of all the agricultural and horticultural pur- 

 suits of the Mediterranean basin, I can imagine what importance it 

 may have for California for the Mediterranean races to come here. I 

 am sure that, no matter how large and how great a civilization you have 

 developed here in America, the land would have had much greater 

 influence from America if the beginning of American civilization in 

 America had started on this side of America — the Pacific coast, instead 

 of being on the Atlantic coast. I do not know if you here in California 

 have read Avith as much attention as we have in my country a small 

 pamphlet by one of your men on California, which we consider as being 

 a good thing; it is by Dr. Jordan. I refer to the pamphlet called 

 "California and Californians. " When w^e Mediterraneans read the 

 things as Dr. Jordan describes them, of the climatic conditions of Cali- 

 fornia on the Californians, we understand better the influence of our 

 climate on the Palestinians, and we can not understand how it happens 

 that such a small country as you have heard that Palestine is, which is 

 only a twentieth part the size of California, how it could happen such 

 a remote country, such an old country, that two thousand years ago was 

 interested in agriculture and even now is thoroughly interested and 

 looking after the interests of human civilization. Well, you are twenty 

 times as large as Palestine is, and we will hope that these people who 

 come out to California will benefit humanity twenty times, even much 

 more, and will bring benefit to the whole world. I hope that we will 

 all be happy, not only because I want to be complimentary to Cali- 

 fornia, but, as a Jcav and belonging to the human race, I wish it for the 

 human race all over the world. 



I would like to say some few words on another point which has 

 been made by Dr. Hunt of the study of the introduction of new indus- 

 tries in California. I am sure that these studies are of the highest 

 importance for you, and that knowledge and the thorough study of 

 new industries, even though you do not introduce them here, is 

 absolutely necessary in order to make a success ; and in order to illus- 

 trate what I mean by that I will give you a few instances of the failures 

 you have had here in California, and which could have been avoided 

 if you had known before what the conditions of the new industry you 

 were trying to introduce into California were. Here in Fresno county, 

 as every one now knows, what trouble you had in trying to introduce 

 the Smyrna fig culture into California. Of course now I have just 



