The Placer herald., 1872-02-17
ATTEMPTING To SWINDLE PLACER.

On Thursday Of last week Maclay, Of
Santa Clara, introduced bill in the Senate
which for audacity and mendacity has never,
to our knowledge, been equaled. The OBJ
ject Of the bill is to secure from the tax
payers of this county $3.50, 900 in gold
bonds, bearing interest at eight per cent Ter
annum, in like gold coin, for ten years.
Add $50 900 for expenses which this bill
would entail on our people, and we have the
round sum of half a million dollars to
be taken from the taxpayers Of Placer
county. And this is to be a donatio..-a
present to pauper corporation Of beggars
who are to monopolize the waters Of Lake
Tahoe and the American river for purposes
Of private speculation. We have no doubt
bu. the election TO be held on the Sd Monday
in June next, under this law, and the SUBJ
sequcnt crimes that would be committed un-
der it If it should carry, would send thous-
and souls to he'll, But this is not now the
point for our people to consider. The bare
introduction of this bill should alarm and
fill our people with fear, as does the clang
Of the lire-bell in the night. The first thing
is to prevent the passage of the bll-crush
and s!rangle the foul thing in its inception.
The proceedings had on the bill on its
introduction, as reported, shows that it was
not even printed, but was intended as a sly
job. The proceedings as reported may do
our Senators injustice. They may have had
it ordered printed, and may have sent copies
Of it all over the county to warn our peo-
pie Of the impending danger, and cause
them to call meetings and denounce it, and
send petitions that it he at once indefinitely
postponed. If they have overlooked the
Importance Of such action, We do hope
that they will now ask for the printing of
the bill, and send copies to all leading men
in the county, and that they have time to
hear from their constituents before reporting
on it. We have no doubt but our delcga-
ton in both Houses will bitterly oppose this
bill at every stage, knowing that they will
have the universal voice Of all their constt-
uents to back them in such action, but had
they not now better seek this voice of their
constituency, that all the members Of both
Houses may at once know that the whole
people Of Placer demand the strangling Of
this monstrosity. The mere election would
cost the county fully $4,000; tie effort to
carry it would cost thousands in corruption
money, and the honest taxpayers would
feel bound to beat the bill at cost they are
lily prepared to spend. Our neighbor treats
the matter in sort Of banter, braggadocio
manner, which we do not exactly feel. We
hope that he is correct and safe in saying
that $3.50, 900 cannot corrupt or buy five
hundred votes in the county. We thought
as our neighbor now does when the $780,
600 was voted on us TO aid the c. p. X. r. !,
but we have got bravely over that now.
After we saw them buy the purchasablc
men and their influence then, and carry that
election, we wish no further contests of this
kind. Whether our authorized agents in
the Legislature will start this opposition to
to this dirty, thieving scheme or not, we
hope that the taxpayers of the county will
at once move in the matter. Public meet
ings should be held. and petitions sent out
without delay, and signed by all, demanding
that no such election shall be held in the
county, and no such thieving bill shall be
passed. Placer, after having paid fully
500 900 for her experience in this subsidy
business, should feel like the burnt child,
and dread with fear such another ordeal.
Placer has paid dearly for the subsidy wbs
tie, and it behooves her people to move, and
move determinedly, at once in this matter.
N~>~<-
The EXCURSION. Stamford took his soiled
Legislators, with other blowers and strikers,
on an excursion to Truckee OH Friday, the
9th inst. If the reporters who accompanied
the party tell the truth, every honorable,
honest man, if such there were aboard, who
was on the train must feel both his shame
and disgrace keenly. The Chiarmen Of the