Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-14
THE DEBRIS QUESTION.

EDS. RECORD UNION It has been said
that in a multitude of counselors there is
safety" If the old proverb is exactly true in
every instance, then Marysvile seemingly has
little to fear. Since the question as to
whether or not she would commence an nc.
tion against the miners was first mooted. Door
Marysville has been beset with advisers.
They have talked to her at her own door
step; they have talked to her from the
neighboring yards and housetops dinpipp
their advice into her ears at all times. as
stridulous-voiced as Cassandra, as strenuous
and insistent as Thersites, always counseling
"yet little sleep, little slumber;' like
Thersites, advising little more complacency.
little further delay and when thew could
not get to talk with her they have written
letters to her from abroad, one of which an.
peared in your paper OF January 8, 1880, and
many. of which have appeared in the San
Francisco Stock Report, notably one commu-
nication shortly after the decision of our Su.
preme Court in the Keyes case
Marysyille has been complacent too long:
too long has she been content with bare
promises, and too long apathetic as to her
prospects and future. But if her thoughts
have been purposeless in the past, she has at
length awakened to a realization of her danger.
to realization that if the ruinous plans Of
the miners are ever to be checked; if the
compact that Nature has made with one of
her strongest elements, aided by the miners
industry, to ruin her, is ever to be resisted
and broken, it behooves her to be up and
doing, and to be doing that she has to do
right speedily.
The miners would stipulate with us now.
saying, "Well legislate" Does any one
know what the Legislature will do! Can anv
one answer that it will certainly do anything
that will benefit us or the farmers, or tend to
effectually remedy this great evil (sicl or
avert the. great calamity that certainly
awaits us II remedy is not had? Can the
promises OF the miners be relied upon now
with any greater certainty that they will be
kept than heretofore
Heretofore the miner has always pleaded
for . time, time" and " time, time has been
given him, and "t time, time" coupled with
his enterprise, has wrought us all our sorrow.
Is this last promise to legislate anything more
than another demand for sc time, time -? And
if legislation is sought will the miners gold
be less effectual than other gold has been to
procure partisan legislation and Intellectual
enactments
Since the citys action against the miners
was first spoken OF great number of critics
have sprung up-fruit of the dragons teeth
all equally ready to pick flaw or carp at a
mistake, and all unanimous that a mistake
was made; first, in not accepting the money of
fered by the miners to prevent the commence
ment of an action against them second, in
commencing an action against the miners at
all and, third lin view of the fact that the
miners promise that legislation shall be had),
in not dismissing the action that has been
commenced. Inquiry discloses that nearly
all of these self constituted advisers are
interested in some way or another in mining
property. The proper criticism, therefore,
to be passed upon their advice in the premises,
is obvious-an old lawyer would characterize
every such advice Janus in legibus. To be
sure, some of those who advised that the city
accept the money offered by the miners, ad-
vised in good faith. Their good faith is not
questioned, but we think that all such advisers
have had the good taste not to make an ep-
portunity of every stump, rostrum and mar
ket place, and place where there were hearers
that would hear, to lament the city's policy
on the one hand, and extol the miners mag
nanimity, or munihcence-as you please-on
the other. We rather effect to believe that
all such-having common interest in the
city's welfare-are now heartily interested
to see the city successful in its action and let-
ting bygones be bygones), taking an active,
hopeful and helpful part therein.
1t is true that there is no desire upon the
part of the citizens of Marysville to stop hy-
draulic mining-we have no quarrels with the
miners simply for their vocation's sake; but
we do insist that the miner, in getting bis
gold, shall not destroy us We know that it
is an excellent thing for brethren to dwell
together in unity, and we feel that interest
RepublieG ut sat .tnis iHium-that our inter-
ests, as well as those of the State at large,
would be best su0served by a speedy settle
ment of this question. Yet so long as our
happiness, our prosperity, our very lives are
at stake, depending upon the .discontinuance
of the miners industry, so long shall we be
at war with that industry; so long, and as
long as there is a Court to go to, shall we de-
mand at the bar of public justice the right
which the miners deny to us the right to
exist. ANOTHER TAXPAYER.
lIarysville, January 8, 1880.