Weekly Calaveras chronicle. (Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, Cal.) 18??-1874, 1867-12-14
SECRET HISTORY OF QUE PAPER
CONFIDENTIAL.

CONFIDENTIAL.
The Dutch Flat Enquirer, in its
issue of Saturday last, announces it as
on dit that the establishment of new
Union paper in Auburn is contemplated.
Our own experience prompts asanguine
belief that such an enterprise would be
handsomely remunerative. The field is
so broad and the harvest so abundant
that our only doubt is, whether two
Union papers will be sufficient. 1t is
less than year since we assumed the
management of this paper, and yet in
even a period so brief. we have accu-
nlulated so largely in excess Of our most
sanguine expectations that we can (and
probably shalI shortly retire with
ample pecuniary means for the future
support of ourself and family in ease
and af1uence Lest our readers, ig-
norant Of the secret resources of par
tisan country paper, should doubt the
above statement, we propose to be can
did with them and submit facts which
will fully verify what we have said. In
doing SO We may lay ourself liable to the
charge of exposing private condolences
and relations, but we have the example
of the Chief Executive of our nation to
justify US even in that course, to which
we may add the further plea, that we
are furnishing valuable information to
the general public.
To a paper as influential as the Stars
and Stripes payment for subscriptions
or advertisements is mere bagatelle,
and the manifestation of uneasiness on
that score is but feint of publishers,
designed to throw dust in the eyes of
their patrons. The labors of Editorship
are also grossly overstated, as will ap-
pear by our financial erpoSe. To con-
vince the most incredulous that what
we have asserted is true, it is only nee
essary to state that the money-kings,
great monopolists, rich grant-holders,
bond holders and stockholders are all
leagued in a secret association and act
in perfect harmony, entirely regardless
of politics. This association has tested
and appreciates the mighty power of
that great lever, the Press. 70 control
the Press and dictate its utterances is,
with this association sine qua non.
The estimation in which we as an editor
and the Stars and Stripes as news
paper are held by this association, the
following statement will show. Super
intendent Croker, of the c. p r. r.
Co., either writes or dictates nearly or
quite one-half of our editorial NJ after.
To this labor he devotes fully one third
Of his time, to the exclusion of the per-
formance of his duty as uperintendent
Hence, and only On this account, the
necessity for the employment of an
Assistant Superintendent at a large
salary. Our articles on finance are all
either written or supervised by the
Directors of the Bank of California.
Those On Navigation and kindred sub
jects are written by numerous corps
of University graduates, employed at
great expense by the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, the North Ameri-
can Steamship Company, and the Cali
fornia Steam Navigation Company. In
the same way political items are written
and furnished by politicians interested
in their publication Even local items
concerning mining, agriculture or SIM
liar subjects are also written or prepared
by the parties interested or brought into
notice, 1t is only dog fights and hits at
the Herald that are written under home
inspiration and without dictation. Green
les may suppose that high prices are
charged for all this labor In the re-
verse of that supposition is the nub of
the joke, So far from charging for the
tavOrS conferred by them, these parties
only require to know our price for the
priuilege granted By US. For the space
controlled and filed by Croker & Co.,
we are dead headed over the road, all
Of our goods are freighted free, special
trains are at our command, to convey
ourself and friends wherever We may
wish to 90, at all hours of the day and
night and in utter contempt of time
tables or other technicaities. We are
not at liberty to state the amount of full
paid stock we have received from the
rail road company, Suffice it that bar
monous action between ourself and the
representatives of the stock held by
Placer County would control or '.bust"
the institution. The California Steam
Navigation Company fare and freight US
free and have been very liberal, but we
have not yet acquired controlling in
terest in the stock. Before we had
fairly warmed the Stars and Stripes
"chair editorial" we received from the
bank of California a check book bank
book and carte blanche for unlimited
drafts. For publishing the articles
eulogistic Of himself, written by Gorham,
and which are the only notices of that
gentleman that have ever appeared 10
our columns, that bloated little aristo-
crat and millionaire gave US free access
to his plethoric purse. 1t has been re-
ported that the State Central Committee
collected and disbursed only $40, 900 |
for the gubernatorial campaign. We
cannot credit this statement, for our
mocesty forbids US to suppose that we
alone could have received four-sevenths |
of their entire disbursements. Between |
ourself and the Steamship Companies
transactions are on "private terms" but |
they are insufficient. For home pat |