Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-04
nIore about steamboat Opposi,Ian

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EDITOR DEMOCRAT In one of your issues
IA few days ago l see you advocating and
setting forth the real advantage to be de-
rived by this city from the construction Of a
turnpike road from Marysville to Downievile.
The necessity of such a road cannot fail to
be obvious to every business man of this
community, and | sincerely hope that steps
to this end will be taken Immediately.
| have further seen in your paper a letter
advocating new merchants's steamboat line
from San Francisco to this city-both enter
prises being SO nearly connected, that if ex-
ecuted together, it certainly would not fail
Oimpart new impulse to our slumbery busi
ness, actively and chiefly help us to recover
that portion of business which is about lost
to US, for our business connections wsth San
Juan, Nevada, Downie9ille, DC, must to-day
be considered as entirely annihilated
But believe that in order ITO avail our
selves Of all these advantages which the first
mentioned enterpri offers to our communi-
ty, We must have lower freight from San
Francisco to this city. I, therefore, will try
to explain the necessity and even the feast
biIity of the latter enterprise.
The writer # the letter have alluded to,
urges our leading business men to start a
new enterprise, and sets forth that the freight
could be reduced to IS per ton. l. myself,
am of this opinion, but before starting new
enterprise think all should be tried in order
to seeif the administration of the old COM
Pany will or cannot reduce their rates and
change their tariff. Some of the sharehold-
ssOf this company ore amongst us and must,
Meve do, feel the imperative necessity of
@mmediate reduction. The freight must
be reduced to at least Sc per ton, and their
elastic, if not tyrannical, tariff for goods
taken by measurement must undergo almost
serious and effective change, for the average
freight we pay to-day, we may well admit,
Is not IS, but nearly $50 per ton. Let,
therefore, our leading business men have a
private meeting and appoint a committee for
the purpose, putting themselves in commu.
nication with the administration of the Cal.
ifOrnia Steam Navigation Co. let them try
toconvince this company of the necessity of
sueil change. and should they then fail in
their efforts, aet us act at enee and DO what
must Zoe done.
Our rleading business men are certainly not
wanting in Intelligence and wealth They
can say like others the world over do, eve
need and must have it, because it can be
done"
Intelligent editors of public papers do not,
or should not lower their writings to the
level of all their readers. By their daily
AOors they must acquire more refined taste
and should try to impart it to Others and
uus guide and refine the taste of their read
eis In the same way it becomes the duty
VI leading business men to control all mate
Ual interests of a business community
nO!hlng should be done without their par
uclPaton and consent, and all necessary it44-
j FoVements should be set forth and insisted
upon by them. Each in his sphere has to
tsrlorm his duty if community, shall at
am the prosperity it deserves or has right
"eApect. COMMON SENSE