The Placer herald., 1871-01-21
TWO CENTS SQUANDERED.


Crocker & Co., has sent us a pamphlet of
thity-one pages, entitled "The Railway
Subsidy Question and the, Democratic Par
ty," and Crocker IL Co., had actually 1--WE
suppose it was them paid the postage by
stiixing two cent stamp to the authorizes
thing. From the fact of its coarseness in
character, malignancy of language, pettifog-
ging, special pleading and begging of the
question throughout its impotent pages, we
suppose the thing was written by some one
of the numerous retained lawyers or editors
Of the monopoly; indeed, if it had been draft
ed by any other person than one of the paid
tools Of the Company, the author would
have allowed his name to 60 out to the
world with his miserable progeny. 1t was
also printed by one of the suborned and sub
sdised presses of the monopoly, we infer
from the fact that the office was ashamed to
put its imprint upon It. 1t is indeed the
legitimate offspring of crime, and goes to the
world without the name of its parent or ac-
coucher, and should be denounced and re-
ceived as bastard and lie by the whole
public. The document should have beer
signed "C.P.R.R. Company and borne the
imprint of the Sacramento Record office, il
such an establishment exists. There is no
danger of being wrong in asserting that this
purile, superficial, whining pamphlet emen-
ated from the Central Pacific Railroad mon
! opoly-was written and published at its die
tation and paid for by its money,-at least
that will be the verdict of the whole country
The sin of ingratitude is the basest and most
lamning that human nature is heir to, and
in this sin this corporate monopoly IS more
deeply immersed than any creature we can
call to mind in history. Composed of men
that were comparatively poor and unknown,
bitter, bigotcd Black Republicans, they,
through the influence of I. d. Judah, q
practical engineer, were induced to enter into
the formation Of the Dutch Flat and Donnel
Lake Turnpike Company, and subsequent,
the Central Pacific Railroad Company OF
California. At that time the combined
wealth of the whole seven men would not
have built seven m les of mountain Railroad
through T. ID. Judah and General Jas. A.
McDougal, then Senator in Congress and
Democrat, aided by the whole Pacific
coast delegation and the Southern Rebellion,
Congress granted this, then paper corpora
ton untold wealth in bonds and lands to aid
in the construction of the road Added to
this, California gave these men SO 900 per
mile to the State line, San Francisco gave
them S400, GOO; Sacramento $500 ,000 and
Placer county $3.50 900. This placed these
poor men on their legs and the road was
commenced. In 1864, Congress granted
them 6,4OO acres of land more per mile and
the right to issue first mortgage bonds for
some S25 900 900 on he road--the total sum
amounting to enough to build two such
roads. And now the adder has been warm
ed into life and it turns and tries to sting it,
benefactors to death. Is not this ungrateful?
Now this corporation is rolling in wealth
wealth given to it by the public, and it uses
! he same money to crush all who refuse to
| give it more or oppose its schemes for plund-
ering the people of the counties of this State
At this time when the road is completed ant
is yielding profit unparalleled, this same cor
poration is drawing from the people of this
state $l2O, 900 per year in coin as interes
on bonds loaned by the State, and yet, there
are few but believe that it is using this same
money to publish such pamphlets as this one
abusing and villifying the best friends the
poor taxpayers have. We accept this pam
| phlet as bold declaration that Stanford
Crocker d Co., every one of them the viles'
of Black Republicans, are going into the
Democratic Convention by their tools and
retainers to try and control its tions. The,
wish to control both Conventions but are
laying their pipes and marshaling their forces
for an assault on the Democracy first, know
ing the members of that party and its doc
trines to be hostile to groveling, graspine
tyrannical monopolies, at all times and every
where. The success of Democratic candi-
date selected or supported by this schemine
mongrel monopoly would cost the taxpayer,
of this State from ten to hcenty millions OF
dollars and be the end OF the power and rep
utation of the party, as it should be, forev-
er in California. Schemers, lie Democracy
+ california can carry no such a load
en- bear no such Odium. nor associate aUiH.
no such company. No Democrat holds to
the doctrine that one man has the right or
power to vote away another mans property
for the benefit of a private corporation Cor
him and his lobby and his Western Pacific
Railroad scheme cost the Republican party