SEMI-TROPI0 CALIFORNIA. 
Addresses. 
L 
; Wf II, bving ahlo In [my .11 our obligations I localitias in our ilistrict, bolh in am) out of 
I and haring a few hundred dollars left in this county, that do want it, ami who have 
— J the treasury. Hut our patrons were not Infrared us very tempting inducements to 
umu. STORKS BEfO«E THE DISTHICT MM. ' 1 ' jiltaw •* >•'» X««Rlro| tlwy •« M -or bin with them. W. .[!■ I,™ 
CULTURAL ASSOCIATION No 6. | mostly Mrtnger*. Lpon one of our beat | just on the ev« of our second cxhtbtlior 
Ri:rrr>, t-htsiobvt or- rnc association. 
(sENTIBMEN ASP I .A lUKf I — It gives ItlW 
pleasure to inert you this evening. Tilt 
occasion of this meeting i« the opening of 
the first annual exhibition of the Hortinul- 
lurid department of Agricultural Associa¬ 
tion No. n. 
This Association is a Ntaiir insiitution, 
organized under a law passed by the Legis¬ 
lature of the direetom or which hold 
ofli‘>e under Lhu appointruetir of the Gov¬ 
ernor of the State. Hy this law the pur- 
pose* for which (his nsaociatiun was crcatrtJ* 
as also the dilth-N of its direr.Torn, are most 
explicitly defined. The purpose is, for the 
advancement of the agricultural, horticul¬ 
tural and mechanical interests of this dis¬ 
trict, comprising the six Southern counties 
of the State. I, together with my associate 
directors, have endeavored to the best of 
nut ability to carry out this purpose, and 
we trust with your co-operation we may 
establish an institution which will be, fur 
all time, rh honor arid pride to the people j 
ol" Southern California, We have lor Hub 
present fair made nvery exertion to provide 
I'nr you an enUirtniiiim-nt hath instructive 
and Interesting. At tlm I'uik our stables 
and sheds are filled with tleiruughlired 
stock of every description. We have pre¬ 
pared a program of racing, tournaments 
for the lire companies, together with several 
• ther interesting amusement*, and from 
the display you have hyro before- y- 
night you will realize that we have, 
ww neglected onr horticultural ri¬ 
me nt. 
1 have visited all tin- Ians in the northern 
portion of this State, mid 1 am also well 
acquainted with all the principal fair, of 
the Last, and I nm pleated to any, that in 
tny opinion the quality of the stock and 
produce now on exhibition ut the park and 
1,1 Thj^hall is tqualod by but few and 
Hut, my friend*, to nimble us to make 
thin Association an inslrtuiinn of which we 
may nil be proud, and which will be an 
everlasting benefit to us, and to ,.u, ,1,11 
-lrcn, and to this whole community, there 
ili 0,1 ® thing abaolutcly rieUfisaary one 
thing w|,Ml wc must Imre or w- Vm.nol 
Buccvei , and that is your c.i-oper«lfou, 
your assistonce and your help. The .liroct- 
alone have n„t the power t„ c «, rv n to 
a succohs, an-J I am aorry to h* vntnrvnllcd 
to aay to you that J f. Mr there i* o great 
lack ot iiiU-icvt on tin-■ part nf the people 
of your mty. The first Agricultural Fair 
under the directum of this Association was 
lu-.d at the Hark la*. fall, the Horticultural 
department Uiog then exhibited at the 
tavilturi under the charge or the c —<■ 
Gabloroia Horticultural " 
days, for my own satisfaction, I put n man and should the present mate of affair*, < 
to canvass and ascertain how many of the should Fay those of last year, still exist, 1 
persona then present Wi rt- resident* >,( the j fear that we shall hereafter bn compelled to 
ritynf !.<•» Angelc.s and he found less seek a more appreciative eummuntly. Do 
than one hundred persons, or»uy #30 paid nut think that my rrmaiks are prompted 
the gale At Hu's rate, in tho five by any unkind feeling. Far from it. I 
dumppnlnUd. I cun- 
exhibilion we tt-nuld hove 
received #2.10 from the residents of this* 
city, containing, I believe, a population of 
about 15,(100 persona, winch would be not 
quite I } vents apiece in support of an 
Agricultural Association, and that amount 
contributed by a city which is located in 
the very heart of the linrat agricultural and 
horticultural district known to the orvilixed 
woild. Gentlemen, 1 cun nut take ouuragr 
from this showing; it does not impress me 
with the idea that yon are interested in the 
sucres* of Agricultural Alluviations. 
will admit that la 
rider myself one of you. ' ‘l have n 
home amongst you, and I fnkn un intrust 
in everything affecting the well-being of 
Lns Angeles and its surrounding*; but ns 
the President of this Association, I feel it 
my duty to you, to the Directors and stuck- 
luildors of this 1 Association, to express to 
you, frankly and plainly, vvlial in my 
opinion ia ibo great difficulty. My friends, 
there is not a oily un tfie lane of the 
earth, with any pretentious whatever 
uf being in an agricultural district, that 
No iiiHtitutiun in the world esn thrive, 
even exist, without the patronage of the 
public. Ynu all know that. You are all 
practical Imsinex* men, and you know llinl 
we, us well as yourjM-lves, depend upon 
public patronage for success. This is not 
the first Agricultural Association you have 
htul among vou. When I t-nme here, five 
urns ago, there was the Southern District 
Agricultural Association, and shortly aftcr- 
wiudh the Horticultural Society was organ- faring laetr. In Stockton they put up 
tze.l, The origin of the first of these iinti- ♦20,000 every year in premiums and pur- 
tntiot s 1 know but little, ol, it. having been set, ami they draw crowrla of profile, and 
started, I believe, several yearn previously; outside money is brought in anti left there 
but I did km w it during the last three Btiil their merchant* nml hotel* reap the 
u ar- of iib existence, and J can most benefit, Hut how i* tkiti done, you will 
truthfully any it wan a well-conducted in- **k, I will tell vou. The San Jn«m,ln 
i* not willing and jirottd to do their 
pan toward* the support of their Agricul¬ 
tural Associations. It is so throughout the 
Eastern Slate*, from Maine to Wisconsin; 
but I need not lake you to Maine or Wis¬ 
consin to prove |o you the truth of my 
aster! ion. do tp the northern part of your 
own State—go for instance to Stockton 
"I attend the Sun Joaquin Valley Dis- 
iet Fair, and then tell me if 1 am not 
dilution, managed by able men, who need 
iln-ir heat endeavor, to maintain an Agri¬ 
cultural Association which would have 
b< <m a benefit to this county. Of the Hor¬ 
ticultural Society it is useless for me to 
*-iy one word. It in or recent -late; you 
all know of its organization, of the labor* 
of it* director*, evurv one of them good 
and faithful men, I know well that these 
gentlemen l.uvo done their heat to maintain 
iimoitgai you an institution which, if prop, 
erly patmnued by this city, would huvo 
been an ornament, nml an untold worker of 
g-od throughout the entire breadth of i ’nl,. 
furnin. lint, what Ims been the end of 
‘heso two Aasuoiatioit*? | will tell y 0n 
wbat ha* been their end, For luck of 
mlereal taken in them, un apathy which j„ 
<ny opinion i* unpardonalile, they havo 
be.-,, allowed, after u I'.-w years ot Drug 
V 1 *. 1,1 1] J 10 **- The Srin Joaquin 
'alley District Agricultural Association is 
no better oil than wc are; they receive 
from the State the same as vve receive hut 
their people realize the importance of’their 
Association and the benefit* it bring* to 
them and to their city, and they do, each 
one of them, what he can to HBHisi. in the 
advancement and in the support of this in 
ablution. Suppose you w„lk through the 
»Irecl* of Stockton on one, 1 think two 
nriornooiiH ^'ng Kair Week, ami you wont 
find a store open not even n barber's shop. 
And why? Hecm.se it , s F„i r vve-k-it U „ 
holiday, ’.and the merchants, clerks, lawyers, 
and every body have gone to the Fair, 
b- i don t lose by it; they mako their 
«" a success, »nd strangers arc attracted 
" h.-ir oily, and each grinds hi* money, 
nd ‘her city reaps a rich harvest. Sow 
mu lo ask, have 
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pmporty which by hard labor they Imd 
ar.Tumulnicd b.n. I, ...... .■ ... , 
aceumulatod I,ns been saurifmud 
sWici, * alnr, an everlasting, 
d lost 
iebtdo blot upon the history sheet 0 f the 
a. lamed city ot Los Angdc*. And, 
Ucmen a „d ladms, with tin* U, k of i„, CIt -*t 
*till cxistinc, jf the director* of this A**i 
elation will quietly permit, it, they, too, will 
:.1 <■“'». If the city Of Lob 
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any afternoon during a Fair 
haw, au-l jf you | l!t 
tell me of It, 
wish y 
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