Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-09-18
What Does the Anti Monopoly Victory
Mean2
from the 8. F. Alta, Sept 1s.h.1

4 (From the 3. r. AHA, SepL 16th.l
We should like to have . clear state
ment from the Booth organs OF tile
meaning OF their victory. We have
read their articles. but we want some
body to explain their explanations. 1t
Is not enough to tell us that they have
defeated the Railroad Company and
secured the election Of Booth we de-
mand some definite Information Of the
State legislation which they have In
view. They were dissatisfied with the
platforms OF the Republican and Dem
ocratic parties, which favored a repeal
Of the Five Per Cent. Act, and the re-
ductlon of fares and freights to the
lowest figure consistent with justice.
What more do they intend to give US?
Have they any definite idea? Have
their speakers, or any Of their organs
ever laid their Legislative programme
before the public? If any publication
has been made, will not some kind
newspaper send us a copy, so that we
can give the business men OF San Fran
cisco a chance to enjoy IN anticipation
the blessings that are to be conferred
upon them In the new era Of purity,
reform aud anti.monopoly? Is the
election of Booth, who will not take
his seat In the Federal Senate until
December, 1875, sufficient to protect
the property Of the people against tho
pernicious influence Of foreign capt.
tai? II not, what Is to be the charac-
ter of tue State laws that are to fur
nish the needful protection? Is this
glorious victory beyond the compre-
tension Of the common people. and
beyond the explanatory capacities OF
the English language?
What does "anti.monopoly" NEAR?
Is it hostility to all the monopolies IN
the State ? And what are they? Dol all
wealthy corporations belong to that
class? Are all of them to be over
hauled and subjected to strict super
vision, or only q few ; especially those
which Booth dlslikes? Some Of the
anti-monopoly organs demand that the
fares and freights OF the railroads In
California should be limited to the
prices charged In Illinois. But we do
not remember to have read anything
about n similar reduction In the prices
OF telegraph messages, water, gas, and
stage aud steamboat companies mo-
nopolies? Are not the public entitled
to protection against them as much as
against railroad companies?
Consistency being n jewel, even In
the Dolly Vardenites, we may expect
n general onslaught upon the large
corporations, and even upon indivi-
duals who happen to occupy the 20.
sition Of monopollsts. We have heard
numerous charges from different news
papers about mOnopolles In grain-bags,
wheat expectation aud quicksilver.
| The Sacramento Union has for years
denounced the business men Of San
| Francisco as n class Of monopolists.
VIII the Legislature listen to all such
| charges, undertake to reform every
evil. supervise all profits. regulate all
prices, and squelch all monopolies ?
Is there a greater burden upon the
poor than the high rents aud the high
interest charged upon money? Shall
the Legislature permit vicious out
siders'' to buy up deprecated county
bonds and draw twenty or thirty per
cent. annually on their capital stock
invested? What a glorious time We
shall have when the Legislature un-
der,akes to regulate all the monopo-
lies, to fix the commission Of u mer-
chants. the profits OF u banks, the
price OF our gus, water, bread and
meat. aud all those little matters which
members of the Legislature under
stand so much better than mere bus
mess men, who have never experien-
ced the ennobling influences Of being
elected to office as purifiers, friends
OF the poor man. and anti-nonopolists.
A new Golden Age will begin when
the reform Legislature Is sworn In.