Show MARMALADE 1 The New York Sun ftas this pleasant editorial under the above lllle They say that California Is sending oranges to Rochester N Y and taking them back again In tho form of marina lade Tire question Is asked why Call fornia does not make her marmalade ut homo and save transportation of the raw material and tho manufactured product 1 tllo Tho iciison is because California has not been able to do everything ina half century She builds 08 line ships as the world turns out she makcit her own lum ber flour rcadymodo clothing wine und many other things By and by she will make marmalade She may sweeten It with California beet sugar and thus need not go abroad lot any of Its Ingredients Less than ulxiy years ago tho Mexican settlors In California had nothing to sell except hides and tallow Hides that they sent round Cape Horn to Boston cAm back round the Horn again in the shape of boots and shoes They raised the lino grapes that grow In California valleys but drank very bad wliyj Imported from Boston Mexican silver and hides wore the circulating medium and 4alf skins were known to sailors as California bank notes Tho settlers paid three tunes as much for every commodity they bought as Uio goods were retailed for in our At Inn lie ports Mon who were babies In thoso primitive days are not very old yet but California Is almost Molfsutllclng now Her manu factures have grown with tho vast In crcaso In population and servo not only tho utilities of life hut the refinements and luxuries an well That glided State makes pianos and Jewelry and ono may confidently predict that California mar malado will be devoured In the near fu ture tureThe The Sun might have gone on a llltle farther It might have said that while California was raising her fruit and building her clllcs and converting a primitive paradise Into an enlightened one she found time likewise to send to the East the gold thai began to change all that country from a acv Tlth or eighthrate power to the first place among the nations And now that she Is rounded Into form she expects to lake a commanding place In the commerce com-merce of the Pacific and hopes before anolher sixty years lo see more ships sail from her great port off across the Pacific than sail now fFom New York olf across the Atlantic The East would do el1to cultivate a closer I walk with tho west coast because it is I as true now as It was In Bentons day that the real empire of the country Is the great Went |