The Boston Herald concludes an editorial review of California thus: “The spirit of business enterprise there has never been favorable to individual development. Every movement has been controlled by rings. Men have not sought for new undertakings on account of the legitimate profits to be made therefrom, but for the purpose of establishing a monopoly which will allow them to tax the rest of the community. There has been monopoly in land, grain, meat, and in fact of about everything into which monopoly could enter. The salvation of the State has been its prodigious wheat harvests, but even in these the gain has been much less than it might have been if shipments could have been made from San Francisco, with the small port charges that obtain in this city, for example. As it is, San Francisco is the most expensive port in the world to ship-owners, and in consequence of this same tendency toward monopoly. How this thing will end it is hard to say. With greater natural advantages than any other part of our country, California is not now making the progress that many other States are. Its opportunities have been wasted, and considered as a whole, its people are poor and dissatisfied, when they should have been well-to-do and contented. That under these circumstances it is a tempting field for investment of Eastern capital, is an assertion open to grave doubts.”