Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-16


speeches delivered by Governor
Stanford and Mark Hopkins of the
G. p. Il. Il. Company at Sacramento
On Friday last, as reported, in fall
in Saturday, Rscort'. Those speeches
certainly illustrate The Fact that there
are two sides to this great railway
question as presented to tie people
Of the Pacific Coast. The thing
which strikes Us with the greatest
force, after considering those very
interesting addresses. and learning
from the statements therein fur
nished of the disastrous consequen-
ces attendant upon the violent oppo-
sition engendered in California
by the anti ra;l;oid mov, ment
tics, is the great and irreparable
folly of the Central Pacific Com
pany's active participation in poll
ties. It seems to us that their game
has been played with surprising
maladroitness. They have been con-
spicuous and aggressive when they
should have been inconspicnous and
retiring. Congress did all that any
body could ask to have done for
railway when the acts of 1SCe were
passed giving them bonds and lands.
A wise policy since that time would
have made all opp 0sitioa seem like
persecution. Doubtless the quarrel
with the Sacramento Union might
have easily been avoided. as certain
IL, the bitter opposition which has
grown up amongst the people of
Californa might also have been
avoided. We are merely saying, by
venturing these comments that the
Railway people have made many en-
emies by their successive acts of i'm
policy. If they were to be persist
ent in fighting public sentiment, or
the makers of public sentiment
which is pretty much the same
thlng-they should have stood en-
tirely aloof from politics. Nobody
not even a great and powerful cor
poration-ought to expect to get
more than one great favor from the
people. When the people voted aid
IN money to the company they were
strained as much as they would bear.
It was asking too much to supple
nent this accorded request for aid
With q further request for votes.
Moreover. by allowing themselves to
AXE part in politics the company
have seemed to court the favor of
what they also seemed to defy-the
people. They were obliged to be a
but they weren't obliged
10 attempt the impossible thing of
u catching flies with vinegar" If
Mr.. HOPKINS relation of what trans
pired between Mr.. Huntington and
The Rothschilds' agent be true the
conjured up by the Union
and Bulletin has done very serious
and perhaps irreparablc injury to
The future railway interests OF Cali
fornia. 1t is very disastrous thing
for State which needs cheap and
rapid transportation as much as Cal
fornia does to have all her railway
extension projects thus suddenly
brought to standstiil to have the
money dealing people thus scared
,f from further investments. Cap
tai is as sensitive as its possessors
ire unpopular ; and the condition OF
hin gs in California would seem to {
Indicate disastrous victory dis
defeat and lesson too
ardilv learned for, as these l
peeches present matters to our I'm
Outstanding, the anti-railway triumph =,
as won much less for itself than it
as lost to the State the political
efeat suffered by the company Is
II greater than it was justified IN
skiing and the lesson, to all con- ]
arned, comes like vain and hope