To the Californian, -however, 75 years is a long time. He looks back and sees that one of the most favoured lands in the world has been transformed into a paradise, and much of the desert land has been, through modern irrigation, made to produce some of the finest goods for man the whole {world over. California is looking forward. It is nothing to California that Rome celebrated its 1000th birthday 1677 years ago, during the reign of Phillipus the Arabian, and incidentally might have celebrated its 2000th under the fugitive Pope Innocent IV, and the excommunicated Emperor Fred. erick IL if it had not been too busy with the civil wars of Guelpha and Gibellines. How will it be 2000 years from now, when Rome perhaps will be' numbered with Nineveh and Tyre—what will be doing in California? The great time of Rome was the era of the Mediterranean. The modern age, fast changing, has been the era of the Atlantic, dominated by London and later also by New York. The future belongs to the Pacific, of prosperity through an economic, salvation which moost people agree alone can save her from herself.
Then, in the changes we cannot see exactly what will come to India, but we may be assured of this that the British will continue to uphold a forward policy. Nor in Japan do we know what trend things will take during the next five decades which will witness these Pacific changes. Nor in other countries of the great ocean are we able to tell. But we certainly must expect the clash or the joining of races. We must expect the interaction of old civilizations in new contacts, such as we are witnessing in China and other countries today. We shall witness daring the next 50 years the awakening of half the world, with all the unexpected scenes that must accompany it, In this great human movement bigger things than have ever taken place before will be recovered, for the simple reason that they will affect more peopl inhabiting greater lands.
These great changes have already begun.
And California faces the Pacific.
She is, so to speak, the very eye of the United States looking over the vast expanses of the Pacific upon peoples of all colours and creeds, philosophies and aspirations With California are Oregon, Was) ington and British Columbia a: coadjutors; Europe and America form its back country; the thickly-populated Orient, with all its opening opportunities, will look towards California as' to no other place on the other side of the Pagific.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.