SEMI-TROPIC CALIFORNIA. 
1G7 
tlio wise men directly in charge of the no¬ 
tional affairs. They ponder long mul seri¬ 
ously, tn 11c political economy, immgurate 
wonderful schemes in national finance, 
banking systems, the nrmy and navy, for¬ 
eign policy, tariff, mid God knows not 
wiiut; forgetting, if they ever knew, that 
each new furrow turned up in virgin, gen- 
crons soil, and inndu to yield up its latent 
wealth has more to do in solving these in¬ 
tricate problems than the statesmanship or 
genius of a million such men. 
A dictionary setting forth the needs of 
si hie to represent in Ggi 
wo struggled, faithfully 
lion represents thousands of nrres of wheat, I terest. alone we have a wenltl 
barley, oats, and rye, all of which have 
produced magnificent yields—second tom. 
other county or counties in this State 
Two large Homing mills, constructed in 
the last two years, ate running night and 
day on home-grown wheat, furnishing mb 
excellent flour ns represented hy any Iirnud 
in the Stale Vessels arc loading at Wil¬ 
mington, on foreign account, and nil our 
warehouses ate groaning under the weight 
of accumulating grain. So much for the 
Cow Counties." Will our friends from 
to place this grape interest 
day, and now comes onr w 
for thn future have pass 
wine trade is as limity a 
wan in Franco and ft*-i 
ihe ilu\ 
i scarcely pos- 
i. Long have 
iave we worked. 
non 
the fanning class should he the only one the metropolis note what I have said, and Mu-. , m \-, tin < d.i, 
necessary for the statesman; the ordinary then drop from their vocabulary this •• cow ..-tiual in ih.v.u uml u 
Congressman might, however, use to ml- comity " talk forever V ' I sincerely hope U 
We have bo long and deservedly enjoyed 
tliu reputation of being tbe best corn 
county in California, that all I think nee- 
vantage oftentimes the common spelling 
book. 
A nation where t.ho great majority de¬ 
pends upon the soil directly for a living; 
where an easy and sure competency fol¬ 
lows, as a matter of course, honest labor 
performed on tho soil, requires little of the . . . . 
iiiukors or administrators of I ho law; and world, with less work and with'less ex- 
but little space in the way of peuitentia-, pause. To tell the truth of our -quash 
ries, houses of correction, or insane asy¬ 
lums. 
Agriculture called into existence tho 
first organized form of government, and 
the farming class therefore gavo to civiliza¬ 
tion its first great impulse; and they have 
been and w ill continue to be the great con¬ 
servative oli ment of nil goveriuuunlal au¬ 
thority. 
Wages, the product of labor, is the real 
capital of the country, and it is that capi¬ 
tal which depends our future and the all. 
perpetuity of American inslilu'ious. Where Hero you tn ay see oranges, though ripe 
wages arc derived principally from the soil, nud ready for market in Jan miry last, hum 
remained upon their trees in all their 
beauty and perfection, nud can bo ns sue 
and more especially from tin- fnrni owned 
bv the man who has ramie the wages, you 
can consider that country .safe—free of ceasfully transported now to mu Eastern 
communism, tree of internal levululipu, markets as when first ripe in dammiv. 
ami in but little danger of foreign invasion, 
And now leaving generalities, the results 
accomplished by agricultural success, 1 dr- 
.sirc to call your attention to the mngniti 
cent exhibition of what labor expended on 
our soil lias accomplished for us of South¬ 
ern California. 
Verily, *' a land of com and wine, a land 
of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive 
and of honey," is in our possession. 
Here arc brought together in magnificent, 
profusion the most, perfect specimens of 
nearly all (ho productions of the temperate 
zones, with equally as perfect ones of the 
semi-tropic and tropic, grown side hy side 
within the inelosuro of a single homestead. 
Does not this assertion, proved by tho «vi- 
dmieos before you, convoy in itself a vol¬ 
ume of meaning? Do you know of any 
other country that is capable of growing 
side by side equally well the orange, 
lime, lemon, and olive; with tho np- 
ple, peach, apricot, aud lieotlil’ino; whore 
the yield of wheat is up to the highest 
standard, and in coin HurpaHaos the world? 
Look at the Corea exhibition behind me, 
it is to¬ 
ward. All fears 
M'd away. Our 
nttnlilished ns it 
ny in 1875; amt 
, * cheap grapes bus passed away 
never to be known nguiu. A few years 
mure, Hint on the iiupertnl tabba of Europe 
will wo find, side by side with Jolmnuig- 
hui’ger, l'okay, and Chateau Lntilte or 
•min brands of wines, 
high in priae. 
good results of this 
fair, fur surpassing anything of tho kind 
heretofore held in Southern California, 
Hi nay lust inng lifter to-oi 1 liopo Ilia 
canary to any regarding this great wealth- exhibition will -tiimilnte . „,-,ou- rivalry 
producing grain, is that Wo tlii3 year sur- between the different. COlillUr^ wjtliiu tlilS 
|inss mi rsel yen. Wc produce more corn to district, and that ..vill return to your 
the acre than any other country iii llm|l.. • i. ■ • .I tlml labor 
.ml earc shall enable yon io produce and 
exhibit production:-! even hitler, if that 
were possible, than at tins fair. 
Wo Imvn a glutiou* country, my friends, 
one of such wondrous wealth aud possi- 
laltltes tlmt if we hut do our part, and 
supply tho only element Wanting, and 
that w woik, work nil the lime, wo are 
sure to achieve a prosperity greater than 
over before known, aud upon that pros¬ 
perity build a glorious civilization as blond 
ns our mountains’ bases and euduimg aa 
turn*. 
This is no idle prophecy, made to plcnrm 
> ■ ai for the while; it m predicated on historic 
i cm 1 1 Is, nccomphsln d by other nations nud 
countries who have bud but a tithe of our 
advantages. Examine a* you may tlrisas- 
s. r'ion; consult history; rend the statistic# 
"f other places; talk with winiiii you limy; 
select any authorities 
will thou ho ready to 
plumy. The delti 
and pumpkin# would jeopardize any man' 
reputation fur veracity, and hence I with¬ 
hold it. Our root crops, together with 
tobacco, hemp, flax, sorghum curie, and 
sugar beet, rival the cereals in their per¬ 
fection. 
In our horticultural wealth, in our vili- 
cultuml productions. I believe I nn haz¬ 
arding no successful challenge when I 
unqualifiedly assert that wc to-day surpass 
flic world in our variety and excellence of 
Such being tho great peculiarity of our 
orange interest., why lull; of, or for a mo¬ 
ment consider, any danger of over-prodne 
tion? We never fan or will be able to 
)ll 
and 
b> 
rinks into iimigiiifit'aii 
oi 
tli 
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supply the demand awaiting na, (111 the lliin country; and \ cl E;:s pi 1 
completion of the Southern Fneilic Rail-1 
road, for oranges, lemons, and limes In 
Miqliiiu me in this 
Nile 
I Hired to 
IStlllllCil 
iself oil its productioni for a period of 
Ul’l 
i‘W*. 
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with its shafts of golden grain, radmting perfect. Thi- st iggvrs belief in the c\i 
rom the coutrnl figure us tlm glorious lays 'donees of our own senses; and yet Imre is 
O ight from tlm hutting «un of the west- the proof, from which HU can not 
olive# and olive oils, we have (lie nation* I fu'dlv govci uiimnt. 
of the world ns consumers. They are Wllul we will make of thin llnd-fatorcd 
already appreciating our olive production, brail di p. mis upon om . 1\. * Nature's 
which should bo now a thousand fold G" l him lavished tlm gient b!« 
greater than it. is to supply tho demand soil and elimab upon us, has 
created. Wind 1 have claimed f..r oui mme udv until • - than any -'he 
other productions applies equally tn | in this wide wm Id p. - . - • . ami 
peaches, jietuu, quinces, apricot#, nud jn&la of UK to do our duri ; to con 
small berries. - 
When 1 oomo to consider tho apple e\ 
hibition, 1 am absolutely at a loss what *> 
say. I can not realize how it is pohaibl* 
hero in Southern California, solo hy aid. 
with tlm orange and citrus family inti l-*, 
should he produced tlm best apples of every 
variety known tn politologists, common to 
the northern, middle, western, and south 
ern States. Jn u.ze, firmness, keeping| 
qualities, and flavor, all the varieties seem 
C I 1 # 
Work. You will pardon 
'quoting myself when l r 
you to venmmbt-r that at 
huccOs#, ami liuppum-ci u 
pend# more on the propi 
of the iokoui cca that mil's, 
eivill/titiou and progr* *s 
ihuiHluiicc of tlm resource! 
ili 
111 . 
sing* or 
jiveu us 
country 
low only 
etc tlm 
pc, for 
beg of 
gh ry, 
people de- 
ij they moke 
l lie ends of 
u upon tho 
l" 
the 
qm 
de 
Owino to the luttiue 
dnto for holding tho 
Horticultural I’uvili. 
tlm week coinuienen 
and eliding Saturdav 
is of I ll 
Citrus 
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M.un 
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. .. ° 1 ' -i hi# m nut nu exhibition bug. Out wine, brandy, and raisin inii-icsm. 
g - i c on \ of om' future poKsibilitii-H in are daily growing into magnificent pu.por- Now i* tlm 
v giuiu-pioaucing line, but the oojlee- lions uud world wide favor, aud in this in- Nr.ni Icoi'icb'u 
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