Show ON THE RIGHT TRACK We Ve notice with pardonable ble pride b by a dispa dispatch teh of yesterday cst d Yf that California is at hH last t moving en on the lines ines laid down clown b by r fIlE THE TELEGRAM 1 to prep prepare pre pre- p pare parc rc for thy inrush of people which is expected on tl th the c completion of thc the Panama canal carial The Thc first st steps p rc being taken t subdivide the gre great great- t- t tr tracts and and to get water available vaila lc for rOl irrigation for those tracts i iTHE i. i S THE TELEGRAM I charges nothing for the suggestion sug sug- rc ion and w we are arc glad to see that while tho the sug suggestions of THE rIlE TELEGRAM were not taken in good form while a la protest was uttered tIttered fiercely aga against t insinuating th t California was not ahead already prel prepared red their leading men ar are taking the le legitimate legitimate mate steps to begin that preparation We Vi like Eke th that t spirit When crossed in any pet scheme most men are disposed to swear or if they arc are t too o good to swear swear out loud to swear to them- them but if they have the true truc spirit in them and the unpleasant suggestion carries with it a truth they even while they arc are mad at being criticised go to work rk to make good And that it seems Cali Cali- California fo fornia nia is now If she will ill get gt her two great gleat valleys the he Sacramento and San Joaquin provided so that each small farmer can enn get water to irrigate his land the valley of the Nile which has been famous famous famous fa fa- fa- fa ever since those especial seven years of great crops which is told about in the Good Book will be nothing lothing compared with those two valleys be be- ev everything will grow glOW there and the a amount that th the two the two valleys can produce will be almost beyo beyond be be- yo yond el computation There is plenty of water there for both t too to O. O Look at that l long ng array o of rivers I IThe The Sacramento starts at the base jase of Mount l Shasta and we suspect its ns first flow was from th the melting glaciers on that old mountain Th Then n it takes on the three Fe Feather rivers the Yuba the Bear and the American meri an from the east cast and many many other large streams ms from both west and east cast When that wa water is utilized on that land the amount of stuff that hat ca can b be raised will be something tremendous Then heI- heI heIthe the San Joaquin which is no slouch of a river itself has for tributaries the Merced the Tuolumne the Stanislaus and several other rivers and so much e land that n that land is worked there there- thereas as asit asit asit it i is in southern Europe it will make pretty nearly a continuous city for miles mires It is a little warm down there in the summer but men do not mind it a and aud 4 it is that pal particular warmth that brings the grape to maturity and then dries it into raisins Itis It is a shame that California imports millions of dollars worth of butt butter r and eggs and other simple 1018 household I foods ever every year She has land enough ter no H nough h and ought to lo ha have labor enough to top stop that nt TJ reminds s us JIS of f an another r thing i h is the proneness apparent passion of or the American peo I to buy outside what they ari just as as' as aswell well vell I produce at home It runs through th the w whole ole nation Half we buy from the th old ld world ey every ry year might be produced in this country in ip equally qually as fine form We Ve read the other day in a P Paris ris letter how a lady foUne in a Paris high class elass store an article of wearing wearing wear wear- ing lug apparel which she bought for br some ome 60 and thought she had the prize o of the world She reached her home and produced this article for the admiration admiration admiration admira admira- tion of some callers when one of f them turned it over and found a trade mark where the thc article was made about thirty miles from the ladys lady's own O home and sold there for just half what she pa paid d for i it in m Paris The lady was not to blame She had h her r example example ex ex- ex- ex ample from our government go it itself elf Let Det a proposition proposition proposition tion come up in congress to start a steamship line to save freights and fares now nosy now paid to foreigners an and l moi more e than half of congress is ready to spring to its feet and declare that they will not be a party to making some rich people in New York or Boston Doston Bos Dos ton top or some som other American city eity richer and sit down with a consciousness of pride that when their neighbors read that in the report they will congratulate late themselves that they have for congressmen men who look out for their own interests But if one of those congressmen decides to go to Europe with his hs f family mily for the summer r he goes to New York and buys tickets on an English steamer That money goes to some rich men in London to make them richer If the family go to England and then continental continental con con- Europe and ang spend a summer and in the course of the summer S buy of foreign merchants a thousand dollars worth of goods and then pay the duties on those goods to this country the congressman congress congress- man mn finds that he lie is out at least 2000 on the trip and that ev every ry dollar donar of it has gone to make some men in the old world richer And when he brings his his' plunder home if he lie examines it closely y he is liable find that it made in to was some unpretentious unpretentious little shop in New Jersey or r New York or New England and sold in that shop for just about half what he lic paid for it I IThe The result of it all is that while apparently on the books of the nation we have a surplus of 1 a year it is is so to speak but a figure of speech because it takes all that surplus to pay fares and freights to foreign steamships and to pay the interest which America owes in the old world with the result that our country is always drained of pf money We Ve never realized d it so well as as' in 1907 There we had been drawing as we all thought from tb the wealth of the world to ourselves ourselves ourselves our- our selves J annually for ten years When that panic pani panic c came i e the bankers of New York had to rush frantically frantically fran- fran to o Europe to borrow a paltry hundred milion mil mil- lion ion of dollars to tide over the great great catastrophe Our country is very rich but if we could trade it ii all it its av available wealth for what we have paid foreigners for for- eigners s 's in the last hundred years in vin fares and a and 1 t the e purchase of unnecessary go goods we e suspect w we would all be gainers by the tr trans trans- ns action |