Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-05-26
CAUSE ENOUGH.

The Virginia Enterprise uoes nv
in favorable terms OF what it Is pleased
to call the Independent Party oil Cal
ifornia. We are not surprised that 1t
does not. The Enterprise does not like
independence in any form. 1t believes
that people must follow the old, cut ana
dried formulas, or they must be forth
with placed under the ban. In fact not
many days since. the Enterprise went
further than that. and plainly lntimated'
that unless naturalized voters chose to
support and vote for the administration
par,y--pshaw, it does not deserve that
name, say clique, the feud be-
tween portion of native born and nat
uralized citizens would be revived
However. leaving that matter for future
discussion and reverting to a later emu
sion Of the Comstockian Thunderer, we
find that it says in reference to the or
panization of California Independents,
"Its principal war-cry is evidently to be
this year what it was two years-'Ant-
monopoly" Now We would like to
know what more important Issue is there
before the people Of this coast than that
very war-cry Of "Anti-monopoly." In
California and measurably in Nevada,
this expression relates principally to the
ever increasing. never satisfied demands
of the Central Pacific railroad. In CAL
ifornia, it has and justly SO, some appli-
cation to the Absorption Of vast tracts OF
country by millionaire land grabbers, but
principally 1t has reference to the Rail
road company. Since that corporation
BY the aid Of the National. State and
County subsidies, has been able to stand
alone, it has evinced most persistent
determination to compel every citizen in
the country to pay it tribute. 1t ia
eternally asking and with q nav as
capacious as the grave, it is as far from
being satisfied as death. 1t has re
ceived the road, gobbled the subsidies
stolen enormous fortunes for its innel
ring and still its members are not salts
fed. Having made Sacramento its food
it moved on to San Francisco, and it IL
more by good luck than good manage
ment that that city is not mere appan
age of the Central Pacific, and the citi'
zens of the Bay City the born thralls Of
the railroad. The latter has packed con
ventions, controlled Legislatures, had
nay has yet its attorneys in both houses
of Congress. In the latter it is seeking
additional franchises. though it has
never yet fulfilled its obligations to the
Government. Though this has been the
case, this cheek.hardened, swindling
monopoly has lost no occasion to fleece
every citizen that travelled on its line OF
sent pound of freight by its trains. Il
has received everything and given moth
ing, and at the present moment is seek
ing by extending, cutie fish like, it
poisonous death dealing arms through
Southern California, it is endeayoring I,
prevent all hope Of rescue coming to tn
aid Of its chosen prey the people of Cali
fornia. This is and has been the atti
tude of the railroad. Is not then tn
war-cry Of opposition to monopoly time
ly and appropriate? We think it is
For California it is even more appropri
ate. it is struggle for life and death
and the only hope of successful issu
in that conflict is derived from the Iud,
pendent voters, not party, OF that city
This war-cry is still more to the poir
when it is recollected that the railroad
through its attorneys Sargent, Gorhai
and FELTON,, has seized the organization
of the Republican party and seeks
secure its ends under the guise of polit
cal issues that are as dead as Hector. I'll
fact is the railroad company has throw
down the gauntlet, the Republica
and Democratic parties have alread
been debauched by it, and it is only Il
independent voters who dare lift Il
railroads iron-clad gage of defiance, f.
it is ponderous as its owner S engines al
maliciously poisonous az the Virgin
Enterprise. But the people once defit
and defeated this giant with all its trai
Of Republican and Democratic mercer
aries, and We believe they will do
again. Yes, and not only that, but IL
war-cry that will urge them on to Il
conflict will be "anti-monopoly," thou,
the Enterprise does speak of that slog
in such contemptuous terms.