The Placer herald., 1873-08-02

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Address
VOTERS OF FLACER COUNTY,
CALL FOR A CONVENTION
OPPOSED TO MONOPOLIES, RINGS, COR.
EUPTIcN ANDLXTRAyAGAN(EI IN OF.
FiCE.
We, the undersigned members of the Demo
cratic and Liberal Republican County Commit
ees, respectfully submit, that the time has fully
come when if we would be free, and enjoy our
sacred rights and the fruits of our own toll,
under laws made by and for us, and executed
by our own chosen officials must organize
and work as one man, and demand and en-
force these rights by every lawful means Sc
cured to us. The long and patient suffering of
the people of this county under ring and mo-
nopoly exections marks a page in local history
that can scarce find an equal i'll free government.
Our taxation, State, county, township, and dis
tTlCt though uOuDlt Wnut we SllOulu pHN, ID
but 1.-THE OF the burthens we bear from tn,
monster monopoly that bleeds us all from every
source of our labor, for itself, for its lesser
nopoly adluncts, for Its newspapers, Its lobby
lists, nnd its evil swarms Of stlpendlaIies am
| lead-heads all over the county and country
| These are the constant drops that wear tn
| SOLID rock away; these are the outgvngs tha
Increase each aborer's tolls; that deplete oacl
merchants, miners, farmers and mechanic ;
tecepts; these are the eXactioEs that yon mus,
pay on all You buy and on all Iou SELL ano
ihese they demand with the arrogance of Euro
pean lords. These eyactions draw from youl
earnings tens of thousands of dollars annual
" and leave yon as poor at the end OF eacl
year when you began it. 1t is the disease
that wastes the fruits of your toll, til,
ever wastes your strength and flesh. You
md feel the effects, but YOU can scarcely tell
where your earnings are gone. And while this
monster and It's malarious diuncts putting
your substance in their pockets, they, owning
more than one-half the value of all the property
in the county, ly fair valuation, refuse TO pay
their just portion of the taxes, while they prac
tcaly own the officers YOU are compelled to
support, and make them do their bidding.
rhey corrupt or cause your officials to cowel
md obey them. Point to the official, eithO
'ounty or legislative, that tie Court House Rinf
has furnished you for the last six years. that has
had the manhood, courage, or disposition tC
stand up and openly fight yonribattles aeains'
tn great corrupting depicting incubus y feN
! vent into office boastny what they wottid do
| but they all came out covering ,cravens, workinl
| or self and the monopoly tlone and Will now
undoubtedly. receive the hearty support of tn
| ailroad and its tlunkits for Office again. Ihtr
| vas given and loaned to the railroad company
! by the General Governmt mt, State, ant
| Placer County Sl3 eco. to construct and
| t)ck ninetv-two miles of railroad in this coun-
| V, and it claims it took the whole sum- anG
| now when its net receipts are about S13, 90 n
mile, 81 1876, 600 for the ninety y-two miles per
year, it impudently refuses to pay taxes on even
the net income of the road when it should pay
on the whole $13, GOO eco. Taxed as You are il
would have paid into the County Treasury OF
Placer $l20, eco last year, and relieved you of
more than twothilds of your taxes. The peo-
pie gave it Sal GOO mile to construct ana
equip the road, and now it refuses to pay taxes
on twentieth of this amount.
Out of their own mouths we will now prove
all this Early in May 1868, when the compan,
was asking the taxpayers of Placer to vote
ihem $3.50, 900 in gold bonds, with $400,0 900 in
crest on them for twenty years, making $GlO,
900, it issued address and scattered it broad
East all over the county. We here insert tn,
following extracts stipulating with the voters OF
Placer County
CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD.
''To The roters Of Placer County:
| You are called upon to vote your assistance
n the construction of the Pacific Railroad, ana
che company in this manner desire to present to
,ou some of the resons why you should render
'uch assistance.
This work, when completed will he the great.
st of any age or country-the great highway OF
the richest commerce and most extensive travel
of the world. And, citizens of Placer ne arly one
| hundred miles of it will be within your county
| md will pass directly through your county seat
In the construction of the road there will be eX.
| pended in your county not much if any less
| han nine millions of dollars, and about tco
| million of it within the trading and traffic dis
| lance of your county seat. The whole of this
vast sum- when expended, will Immediately en-.
.er into all the transactions of business conduct
ID within the county, and into the permanent
| md substantial wealth of the country, and viii
hen be subject and Liable to tdrdti0n in the
same manner as other accumulated wealth, an6
II addition to that the Railroad itself, as it rs
constructed, from year to year, is subject to the
same taxation as all other property
You are asked to assist us to the extent o.
| $3.50 00O-let us make upan account of the co 81
4 such assistance. You give $3.50, 600 in bonds
| It eight per cent. interest for twenty years
You will then have to provide 800. 00O yearly t.
meet interest and to meet principal at the end o.
| hat time. Your rate of taxation for count,
purposes this year is unusually small, thirty
ents on the one hundred dollars
| Yes, we were then ont of debt and had SAC, ,0Ot
n gold in our County Treasury. and taxes wer,
| ,nly three dollars on the thousand but our tax
ayers have paid from fifteen to thirty evel
since, and will until the ring and railroad pow
RS are whipped at the polls.
Suppose tho railroad alone, withou
| lding any increased value Of other property
II adding any property accumulated from thu
! expenditures Of building the road, were taxed a