The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-23
WHAT SAN FRANCISCO THINKS OF
ITSELF AND WHAT Is THOUGHT OF
SAN FRANCISCO.

In an article In the san FRANCISCO
Times of Thursday, headed "Our Rela-
lions with the Interior" we find what
may be regarded as an effort by one of
that ei.y's advocates to speak San
Franeiseo's opinion Of herself and to
give our readers an idea of what is thus
said We make the following extracts
from the article in question. Opening
i's case that paper says:
Certain of the interior papers have
been for some time engaged in abusing
San Francisco. They have amused
themselves by characterizing this city
50 cormoraut, leech, a blood-sScker,
and have used such other illustrations
as their vivid imagiuations suggested.
II il a somewhat singular business for
the interior towns of a State to make
war against the metropolis, and to de-
nounce it as an enemy, the obvious
idea being that these same interior
towns derive their vitality from the
metropolis, as the more distant members
of the human body derive their vitality
from the heart. We read in the fable
that the several members of the body
once quarreled with the stomach, and
: accused that useful organ of laying
back and doing nothing, while the
mouth, and the hands, and the feet, aud
tie brain, were all working assiduously
aud 10 their thinking, with no better
object than the purveying of food to
the apathetic and inactive stomach; but
the stomach finally managed to satisfy
the members that they could not carry
tie theory of secession into successful
practice.
Going from this to a recital of some
facts and some fancies, the Times pro-
ceeds, in its way, "to examine the
question, whether our interior traders
can really better themselves 6y apply
Tag to Eastern instead of San Francisco
houses" 1t then goes on to say:
With them (,he Eastern houses it
is merely a question of dollars and
cents. With our merchants it is also
E question of the future prosperity Of
the State. 1t is really the difference
between separate persons and q COM
nunity bound together by common
interests. Those who are engaged in
commerce in this city are very sure to
recognize those common interests
which bind the whole State together /;
but whether the enterprisiug citizens
of Chicago and New York interest them
selves in the same degree, is an alto
gether different question. Illinois and |
New York may manage to get along
we'll enough, whether California is
prosperous or the reverse. They do |
not rely upon the prosperity of this
State, and they can afford to ignore it.
Bat every trader in San Francisco is
directly interested in the prosperity of
every section of California, and his
own prosperity depends, in no small
degree, upon the condition of the int
Tior.
Now it seems to rs that these appeal.
ing tones will cause smile upon many
an old Californian's face. Many man
who bit too forcibly recollects the
times when his goods were sent to him
by mule trains and his Dill By Express
will laugh at this allusion to the ner
chants Of San Francisco as the prayer
f1l guardians of the prosperity of the
State One may well retori upon the
Times employment Of the old fable OF
'.The Belly ana the members" by quot
iag, as applying TO San Francisco, that
other one of -Esop's fables The man
VITO killed the goose that laid the
golden eggs" Our co;emporary further
says:
The common-ssnse view of the situa-
ton is this: the Interior of California
must depend upon San Francisco, and /.
San Francisco must depend upon the /.
interior. But for the resources OF the
interior this city could never have 90.
tanned the prominence it at present pos :
sesses. San Francisco is zoe sd0U case ..
Of the State of California, and it would
be as reasonable to suggest the aboli-
ton of show cases in other mercantile
establishments, as in this. But San
Francisco is more than the showcase !
OF Californis. Ste is the market of
the State. She is such by geographic
cal position, by custom, and by enter Z.
prize. For the interior towns to at
tempt to dispute this position is mere