The Empire County argus., 1855-12-15
Coloma. Saturday Morning, Dec. Is, 1855.

There is, from some unaccountable cause, a pre-
iudice in the Interior and Mountain Counties,
against the city of San Francisco San Francisco
men, San Francisco measures, and San Francisco
capital-S. F. Sun.
The Sun speaks truly in regard to the prejudice
existing against San Francisco. men, measures, and
capital. That this prejudice arises from unac-
countable causes we do not believe The press of
the Bay city has for long time heralded forth in
the public the corruption fraud, crime, infamy
and degradation, of San Francisco. Her officials
are charged with peculation, her courts disclose
enormous frauds, her press chronicles of un-
punished murders and teens with accounts of
nfamy in her midst, until if the half is believed,
San Francisco is cesspool of niquity Unfortu-
nately, these representations are confirmed in too
many instances by facts. Her own press has dis
closed the shame of the commercial capital of Cal
ifornia Is it strange, then, that the ''nterior'
looks with distrust upon the city and its people?
especially when the people of this county have
been swindled out of s25OOOO by l. C. Woods,
representing Adams & Co. We are daily told that
schemes of fraud and swindling, in political circles,
constantly being concocted in that city and is
there not too much truth in this declaration
With huge Bank failures and monopolizng
schemes of speculation staring us in the face, we
are told that
'San Francisco is the controlling fountain head
of the Pacific Coast. Our city is the radatng
point from whence enterprise spreads in all drec-
tions"
The good Lord deliver us from San Francisco
enterprise" Municipal Corporation on the
brink of bankruptcy, her courts furnishing an un-
paraeled number of bankrupts and schedules as
tonshing every beholder. We are not inclined to
find fault with the Bay city, we only echo their
own admitted folly. San Francisco has done much,
her citizens have struggled and conended success
fully with repeated fires. She has risen Phenix
like from the ashes several times, and presents
fair and comely proportions to the eye of the casu
al observer 1t is not yet time, however, for her to
indulge in boasting better record should be first
presented The people of the ''ntcror' believe
that they have contributed largely to the growth of
San Francisco and that without the perqusites
derived from their unceasing toll, San Francisco
would make sorry appearance among California
towns. Because Col. Baker and Wilson Flint have
engaged in mining the Sun sezes the circumstance
and takes occasion tauntingly to tell we are
unable, lack the ability to develope resources
and says:
sThe fact is our interior friends cannot develope
the rich resources Of the mountains of California
without the aid of San Francisco enterprise"
We have done it hitherto to the tune of five mil
lions per month, and can continue to do it. The
'interor' will rejoice to see San Francisco capital
invested in mining, and we promise you a rich re-
turn but we desire of your enterprise" late
ly SO prevalent and common. Men of the 'inte-
rior" work for their bread and meet their enjoy
ments; they do not live on free lunches provided
at the expense of those who do labor, neither do
they swinde their neighbors out of millions of
hard earned money. Invest your capital and with
it enterprise, but save us at all times from "San
Francisco enterprise" The reciprocal relations of
city and country should be not only source of
profit, but of pride. In this respect San Francisco
has poorly performed her part The "interior has
done noby, as her numerous towns villages, canals
and rich productions abundantly testify San
Francisco has been recreant in her duty Her cit
izens have despoied us of many thousands of hard
earned gold and if we can believe her press, now
stands monument of shame and disgrace to the
people of the State.
Her measures in politics are schemes of public
plunder, her measures of finance schemes Of
plunder within her own limits, and her "men,n too
many of them inordinate oiice seekers, free lunch
loafers, idlers and gamblers. Numbers of good
men reside in San Francisco, hardly enough, how
ever to ''leaven the whole lump" for whom the
'interior" entertains great respect All the others
nusances, and until radical reform reigns su-
preme over that city there need be surprise that
prejudice in the interior exists against San Fran
cisco. Until the press give better account of
San Francisco than at present. Dragging about that
city, its capital, enterprise and leading citizens it
will be received with many grains of allowance in
the interior.
COMPANY FOR NICARAGUA. Captain Quay of this