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Show OALIFORNIANS ARE BOOSTERS. Calif ornians are "boosters." A trip to the Coast will convince any one of the truth of that statement. The people of the "land of flowers and sunshine," as they call their state, are tireless in their praise of their homes and tho glories of the Pacific slope. One of the speakers, at the reception in honor of tho newspaper men and railroad officials who went out on the Western Pacific inaugural in-augural train, exclaimed, in a moment of enthusiasm: "Oakland, where God Almighty stood when he made the rest of the world!" That expresses every Calif ornian's exalted idea of his stato. The spirit is all-pervading, so much so that the average native son does not understand vhy any one should desire to live beyond the Sierra Nevada mountains. While this conceit is a source of amusement to many outsiders, yet it is one of the most powerful influences making for the upbuilding upbuild-ing of the Golden Stato as it impels the great majority of strangers to become imbued with the same faith in the future of the country. We would be pleased to note the development of some of that same pride in this state and a little of that boom and boost spirit, but we would discourage anything approaching that extreme of self-laudation self-laudation which is in evidence everywhere in California. |