The Placer herald., 1873-08-02

| of twenty V, arS being nearly Sunclent 10 Pay
the original bonds. Your whole taxable proper
ty for the last current year was only the sum OF
50, ,600 900. with the road completed it Will DC
S12 0O0, 600"
Here they pledged the company to pay taxes
in this county on nine millions of dollars, and
now if YOU talk of taxing at even one million
the whole Company, from its President down to
its lowest menia is in arms and ready to sweai
it is not worth even half that sum. 1t pays
them to have ring officials that save the
800, 600 year taxes, and they have managed to
do it so far, and it is for you to say if the ring
| is to be continued in power.
at is the history of every raiload enterprise
| that along its line and in its neighborhood, pop
lation is very largely increased and it is reason
able calculation that when the road is completed
the population of your county will be quadru-
pied"
This road has been finished the whole length
of the county for five years; and has it paid
taxes according to the above stipulation on 3d.
900, 900 each year? Had it done 80, youwould
yet have retained in your pockets two-thircs OF
all the taxes you have paid in these five years.
How did they escape paying taxes on this S9-
600, O0J through all these years? Through the
weakness or corruption of Placer County Off
cials is the only answer that can be gwen. The
monster evidently found it cheaper to overreach
mentally or corrupt your ring officials than tic
pay their jnst taxes Charity leads us to 'hope
it was mental weakness and nothing more that
caused all this. but to your property and money
the result was the same.
Do you doubt but that the railroad COM
pany will labor hard and spend much money
to keep these ring officers or those they nam'
and control in power-as well doubt the exist
ence of yourselves. These ring leecf"s will be
all violent anti-monoposts this Fall, and the
company will tell them to promise, and even
swear, to do everything the people want and
when the election is over will shrive a-d make
it all right with them ont of taxes saved and
enormous fares and freiehts collected.
Remember, voters of Placer, that while the
railroad is refusing to pay one dollar out OF
twenty of its Just taxes, it is charging you three
prices for every pound of freight it carries for
you, and three prices for every mile you ride on
its cars and that your officers and representa-
tves for the last six years, the Auburn Ring.
have covered to or connived with this monster
and dared not or,would not speak word in
your favor while this, your cold premeditattd d
swindling, was gong on.
Your County affairs are under the control of
secret ring and no man can tell the extent of the
rottenness and corruption that exists and has
existed for the last six years in this regard 1t l.
tmatter of public notoriety that the sroils go t.
iavoritcs, and that no man, not n ere aure of tn,
ring, can do or supply anything for the county
When this ring condesce nds to receive bids fol
printing for hospital services, it Tets the con
tracts to the higheG. bidders. Even the supplying
Of the charity institution for care of the poor sici
is made to do duty in aid of the ring perpetuation
power, and the institution itself to cost thrlb
ble what it ought In word, they fix youl
taxes, force you to pay. and divide your money
among themselves and their creatures. And
may we openly tell you the only mod,
by which You may escape the further plunder,
robbery and tyranny of this monster and its aid
ers in Placer county, the Auburn ring. To start
you must have some of the ner,e, grit, selfdt
nial and manhood that threw the tea overboaro
Boston harbor in 1775. You must discard
very organization in power, every man who has
oeen the alder and apolosist for the ring or rail
road monopoly and evely man that has been th,
oblyist ee, itneGer or willing dure of these
.Hut,s. Your associates in the great local re-
solm should be mon over whom III; ring or rail
road hold no power. National and sectiona
questions should not enter your councils foi
lis ousson, ror should anything foreign TO the
great vital issues of ti-iing ,ant-monoroly and
lnti-corruption and extravaganza be discussed
These should be your only watch words in the
campaign, and when you have got over the rv,I
you can then talk about swapping horses. No
man past politics should be questioned if he is
honest and his past monopoly record is good
The fields are white and ready for the sickle
the golden grain stands ready to be garnered,
and we earnestly ask you to cooperate with us
now in this Grand Reform Movement. For il
seems to US as clear as sunbeam, that if We
would be more than Sdres to the tyrant that
wields the 5cepter with Il ore than kingly power
and haughtiness, we must as a people unite an'
act dettrminedy and earnestly upon the vital
questions foreshadowed in this address. Serfs
and slaves to the railroad power we may easily
b come, but if we would be free and enjoy q
freeman's rights, we mnst buckle on the ,chob
at7ncr for this fight and all the friends of Re
form must 20 forth to battle together with Spar
tan zeal and courage determined that il We fall
we will fall with our faces toward the foe. Uni
ted we can win a victory that will be priceless il
its benefits. Divided, all our toll will be fruit
less, and our best endeavors will be stepped IL
the wormwood and gall Of n total route and fail
ure, sprinked with the ashes of defeat. Let
then unite, stand firm, and make a gallant fghi
for ourselves and those who are to come ifter MS
We, therefore, fix Saturday the twenty -siXtl
(2G)day OF July, for the election of delegates, and
Monday following, at ] clock P. M, for til,
holding of a County Convention, to nominate
Legislative County and District candidates The
Primary precinct polls will be kept open from
| to O'Clock P. NJ
The following is the .epportionment of dele
gates to each precinct
Aliens. ..............2 2 Faith ............Z 2
Roseville. .....,...... Michigan Bluff .. 4
| Virginia ....,.......3 Iowa Hill ......... 5
Ophir. .............. 4 Damascus. ..........2 z
Auburn ......... Deadwool &