The Placer herald., 1868-02-22
WHATS THE MATTER?"

WHAT'S THE MATTER
We were panied to read an article in the
State Capital Reporter of Wednesday last,
on der the above caption, and are constrained
to ask the Reporter, " What's the matter "
The Reporters article is in favor OF monopo'
lies, an apology for grasping. bloated,
purse-proud corporation, and therefore anti
Democratic in every sense OF the word.
The Reporter occupies delicate position
on this question of fare and freights on this
road. It's chief editor is one Of the commits
sioners appointed by the President 10 exam
inc and report upon the character Of the
road as it is being Observation-Disclosures il is
frstclass railroad or not before the Com
pany can draw their United States bonds.
This official position has necessarily subjected
him to being todied to, todled by, and
sand wiched between the fat corporators, at
sundry and divers times, and doubts bave
arisen as to whether his spinal column has
not weakened from this pressure. What can
the matter be! Why does the Reporter, in
its leading column. iu the face OF all the
free trains and vast sums that the Company
spent in the late contest to defeat Governor
uaioht and our whole State ticket, utter
such bare-faced and silly implied falsehoods
and proceed to comment upon them 40
though they were truths! Echo answers
why!l
"Because thousands Of residents Of the
eastern States are anxious TO emigrate to
California" "As soon as completed bun.
dreds of thousands Of good men and their
families will avail themselves of the speedy
and comfortable means oftravel which It will
afford to seek homes in California."-Re
porter
Can it be possible that the venerable
che scribe Of the Reporter wrote these silly,
sickenng, false statements?
Now we will ask the Reporter two or three
questions and if its editor has been misled or
is honestly ignorant Of the subject under
consideration, be will answer or try TO ans.
wer them. II is over 5000 miles from San
Francisco.t to New York and at the present
rates Of fare, ten cents per mile. for two
thousand miles and three cents per mile for
one thousand miles, it will take $3.50 TO buy
the naked ticket; it will take sepen days to
make the trip and the comfortable " pas.
senger will have to pay S2l for meals; the
comfortable passenger must have sleeping
car every night which will cost him not less
than $35. This sums up the tritling sum of
$3.50. Now, at these figures, and you are
contending against reduction, how many
"bundred thousand" poor laboring men will
come to California to develop our mighty
resourcesl"
How siekening to read such silly twaddle 7
But the families" are also coming. The
estimate is five TO each head of families.
Then these "hundreds Of thousands of
families will, in order to make this speedy
and comfortable trip, each pay the iusig.
iicant sum Of $l,430 before they com.
mence developing T. our mighty resources"
Mr.. Reporter about how many hundred
thousand families will come t. California at
these figures! We are anxious to know be.
cause we have some uncultivated lands that
we wish to sell !! The poor laboring man
can now come from New York for $25, by
steam. and he can bring his family with him
for Sl25, boarded, lodged and doctored free
of charge. True he will be fourteen days
longer on the route, but then he will land
here with l,305 in money to commence
business with. Don't you see! The Er
aminer and other Democratic exchanges
are right on this question, and We had hoped
the Reporter would also be sound. We
have encouraged the circulation of the Re-
porter, both through our columns and by
our individual exerIions, but it is truth,
and we are panied to write it, that its Dsm-
ocra,ic readers, and it has no others, in Pla
Ger county, are cbagriped, grieved. and dis.
gusted With the article under discussion.
PENDLEroN FOR Ohio, Indi
ana. West Virginia aud Nebraska have all
held their State Conventions and instructed
their delegates to the National Democratic
Convention to vote for George Ii. Psndls'
ton for President.