The Placer herald., 1870-01-08
Subsidies to Railroads.

Many schemes are being cooked up for
swlndling lbs psopls Of various counties
out Of largo sums of money in the shape Of
loaning their credit or donating their bonds
TO aid in tho construction Of railroads
through these counties. When Daniel Web
ser said, "Of all the schemes for fertilzug
the rich mans field with the sweat of the
poor mans brow, the banking system is the
most perfect" he had never dreamed OF
the SO latter day Railroad schemes.
Let the members from these counties pro-
posed to be sviDdled consult the Placer
delegation before acting hastily. Plscer
has been there and her Representatives can
speak from the record. Placer bad the
best thing in the world. She became a
heavy stockholder, and handed over her bonds
like little man, to what is now the wealth,
lest company in the country. Our compa-
ny (none Of your little side track feeder ar
raogement') was granted The right to CON
s'ruct the best paying Railroad in tho world,
furnished the means to build and equip il, and
given from six to sixteen million dollars extra
pocket change. We (.psskiug for the com
pany Placer is in witty have built tho road,
that is, Placer and her associates,- Placer
putting her money against the cunning Of
her associates and il is now yielding US
about four hundred thousand dollars net Der
month, outside of The vas, body of land. we
have, and are acquiring as the survey. pro-
gre., much of Which contains vastly valua.
BILE mines, thanks to tho ignorance and stu
pldlty of The miners, and our ability to Sc
cure the best Of talent to look after our in
tere'ts. In fact, seriously, Placer has made
a couple of million Of dollars, but the officers
of the Company don't pay over The money.
Remembsr, before you vote dollar or
bond that it goes into the hands OF corpor.
alton that has neither a body to b kicked
or sou! to be damned, and that it will bs
used for your oppression and mpovsrsh-
ment. Remember Mr. Legislator before you
sanction bill allowing the people Of your
county to vote for or against railroad do
nation, that every rascal in the county will
be bought to work for the bill and that 9th
ers will be imported for that purpose, that
all the loafers will be bought and vote for
the bill, that all your grog shops, that can,
will be bought and furnished money to buv
Others, that all the drunkards will be fur.
nisbsd free whisky, made drunk and voted
for tho bill, that farmers will be told quiet
ly, I'VE will have depot on your plac. and
you can make fortune selling town lots"
that stone masons and quarry owners will bs
hunted up and told you shall have big con.
tracts on our culver,s and abutments," that
carpenters will be told they shall have bip
contracts on the depo,s, supsrstruc,urss, s,o.,
that nearly every other man will BE- an 90.
ginser. conductor, brakeman, switch tender
etc. Should Kern county. for instance. vote
for or against donating 500, 900 10 bonds.
remsmber that the company will spend one
or Two hundred thousand dollars 10 carry
the election. tciN carry 1t, and then make
the taxpayers pay it all back, and hundreds
Of thousands more BY sx,or,iou. This
is all so plain that fool need 40. err
therein