The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-03-18
The following, from the n. Y. Trib-
une, is respectfully referred to dema-
gogues here. as well as in California:

THE CT CGFsH 1d OF cArjTALAt Il meeting in San
cep dollar day one of the speakers declared that
intended to make the capitalists Some of the cap
o 6 fn0T e g9ng r5dy @ and
tiOn of the Constitution has been rapid enough
process is still TOO slow for the mob, and although
marked hostility TO moneyed corporations has been
satisfied. He told his followers recently that if the
at Sacramento they Would rise eH masse and 70 8p 3
there , and str;angle that lesisiatnre,' & az
more odioGE 10 {ae ayeTae a2itdior han railway
with special bitterness They are accused Of grinding
Of ali e necss of M n np he bo Prize &
merchant and the consumer by eXor0itant rates of
extension of the California TaiEoad system is ar
rested ior no company can afford 20 build new lines
when it is forbidden 10 employ cheap labor. and
threatened besides with legislative reduction of its
men such those who are now marching about the
streets of San Francisco with threats of vague and
pie should not see what an injury they are doing to
h
hs of costly dEd mistake mis- in the
overstocked labor market. Four years ago, when a
the California Legislature, Mr.. Leland Stanford, pres
of the Of @ pa & GS@d
discussion and at the close of made calculation OF
during % @ Years. INF
senger and freight movement between California and
which prevailed before the road was opened the ad-
the people saved by of the railroads. 1t is
tmated that the saving for ten years amounts TO al
least $150.000, 900.
These figures certainly do prove that the present
rates are fair but they that railway corpora
tions not public enemies. The complaint of
and it is not clear that merchants have not themselves
blame in part for the Odium which has been excited
in San Francisco was recently charged s. for child
straw hat the price of which in New York would
have been about 75 cents. In justification of this
orbitant demand The shopkeeper pleaded the eNtor-
tionate freight charges of the railroad. The story
reached officer of the Central Pacific Road and h'
had the curiosity 10 investigate the The shop
found for one box containing many straw hats
it made the freight each hat about twothirds of
of about per cent. excuse for adding 5G6 pei
cent 10 the price of a SiX-shiing hat perhap:
not altogether nsincere in his denunciations of the
graspng railway corporation; he talked so from tht
force of habit. Denunciaion seems 10 be in the air
| the Pacific coast.
| The more we look into the California troubles tht
velOpment of Kearneyism. The real cause of the dis
turbance is found in the reckless and spendthrit hab
and eXtravaSance, and. having reached the unavOida
BILE period of collapse. find it hard now to be saving
and industrious. They lay their embarrassments
10 eXacting corporations, and to the cOmpet
ing Chinese. But there is proof that the corpora
| tions earning anything more than Legitimate
profit on their operations, while they are certainl,
work. And for Chinese competition, it is formida
BILE TO the Sand Lots not because the CeleStiaS ar
cheap but because theyl are steady and reasonable
imagined that the ''mooneyed leper works for fev
cents day. and lives on rice. On the contrary, h
obtains fair Wages-aout as nigh as those OF ordlnar
| laborers and servants at the East-lnd he lays u
money. When the agiiatOrs have driven him out G
the State, they will find that their own condto
end they will be glad to take the pay on which Joh
Chinaman thrives.