Show A BIG COUNTRY THIS As Admiral Almiral Evans was coming coining up San an Francisco c bay hay he noticed the thousands and tens of thousands t- t I of people who blackened all the hills and he ho said Look at them Had llad been we returning g victorious from a great battle hattle our reception could not have been grander No 10 other officer in time of peace ever eyer received such an ovation o A gentleman who lives i J in inthis this city eity went out to the Clift Clif t house to see the fleet come through the Golden Ga Gate e. e He said the cars that day earned carried people and the they estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated that more were carried that day without without without with with- out pa paying ing fares This gentleman went out in it a car carto carto carto to the Clift house but had haa to walk in reaching San Francisco between 10 to 11 at night Another remark that the admiral made was that the coming of the fleet to the west coast would have havethe havethe havethe the effect of impressing upon the minds of eastern people that there was a Pacific as well as an Atlantic coast to our country r. r A good many of them did no not know it That reminds us that the Pacific coast wilbe will wil willbe willbe be more and more in evidence in national affairs in inthe inthe inthe the next few years The day is coming when the commerce of the Pacific will be as much greater than that of the Atlantic as the Pacific is bigger than the Atlantic The west coast is vastly richer by bJ nature than the cast and then just off across the sea an ai eighteen da days days' s sail carries the passenger from San Francisco to where quite half of the people of th the earth arc are congregated And that hive is beginning to swarm It is unlike our own country too Only about half of our own people arc are workers while in those countries beyond the Pacific 95 per cent arc are workers and when the they all become engaged when the mines o of China are arc open and manufactories are arc perfected the commerce of the Pacific will be soine- soine some something thing majestic to contemplate The Panama canal will help When TIen ships can leave New York anal ana reach San Francisco in fifteen days the coasts will be im so to speak anc and there will be no more debate where warships should be bc It will be generally understood that they wilbe will wil willbe willbe be where the they are arc most needed Ours is getting to tobe tobo be bo pretty much of a country I Ibe |