Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-16

Kearney-Yes, 1 intend to keep up the
sand-lot meetings every Sunday. | look
| upon the sand-lot as the only place in this
State where the truth is spoken. The mo-
ment the sand-lot is abolished, that moment.
contend, liberty dies in this State / have
| taken up this water fight because the Super
visors that the people elected at the last
| election pledged themselves to reduce rates
and instead of doing this they increased rates.
| Here is corporation that is indeed bad
corporation. They are very urscrupulous.
| There is no evidence to show that they ever
invested over three million, or three and one
| half million dollars at most, in their works,
and now they compel the people of this city
| to pay them 8 per cent. interest on eighteen
or twenty million dollars. In order TO do
this they are forced to buy conventions who
! nominate men, as well as the men nominated
by such conventions. They are also COM
PEELED to pay newspapers. They have also a
great many strikers at their beck and call.
In fact. it is rumored that they expend be-
tween $500, 600 and $500, 900 annually as q
corporation fund to corrupt legislation. Any
corporation having large corruption fund at
its disposal, as has this company, must be
crushed out if the politics of the community
are to be purified. and 1 think the time has
arrived now for the citizens of this city to
crush out this corporation.
CRUSHING SPRING VALLEY.
Rep.-But how do you propose to crush it
out?
Kearney-Oh, propose, as far as 1 am con-
cerned, to treat them fairly. Fix rate so as
to reduce their income, and give them fair
interest upon the money invested /; then the
city can step in and buy the works at a
reasonable figure
Rsp.-Then you are in favor of the city
buying the works
Kearney-I am, at a fair valuation. /
think the city ought to own its own water
works and gas works, the same as l think the
State ought to own its own railroad and tele
graph wires but 1 am opposed to
the city paying four prices for any
to me, ought to do something for their own
protection. l think they will. suppose
the people of this State know by this time
that / am an agitator and an organizer,
lahoring in their interests. l am not an
offics-seeker or politician. My mission is
to break the shackles of party slavery from
off the limbs of the people and try to make
them do little thinking on their own &C.
count as claim that the man who is en-
titled to vote ought to be thinker. He
ought to do his own thinking and his own
voting, and not allow himself to be dictated
to by anybody. Political bosses and politi
cal monopolies must take back seat. If
the people of this State want prosperity they
must help me to force these political bosses
out of the way. The actions of the present
Legislature have killed the Democratic and
Republican parties. The sand-lot had no
voice in this legislation, unfortunately tor the
people of the State, and in short time /
will again take tour of the State, organ
izing
ANTIMoNoPoLY LEAGUES,
A.. q Il, L., 20
the State. Under the new national appor-
tionment bill, California will be entitled to
six Congressman, and it seems to me that the
anti monopolists in State like ours, so much
cursed by monopoly, should be able to elect
| five out of six to represent the Anti Mopop-
oily party. / know of no better way of get.
ting the people together than by having two
parties-the one named Anti Monopoly,
which of course would give the other side
the name Monopoly, and as nine-tenths of
our people are anti-monopolists, why, we
could sweep everything before us. 1t is abb
J solutely necessary that change should take
place. The people cannot long submit to the
manner in which they are being crowded to
the wall.
Machinery and electricity have revolution
lied society, and in order to conform to the
change, society must accommodate itself to
the new position, otherwise everything will
be in state of anarchy and chaos. 1t was
only last week that / noticed in the dis
| patches from the East the report of a lect-
ure that was delivered by J. w. Simonton,
agent of the Associated Press, in Philadelphia.
| By the use of an instrument which he had
upon the platform he talked to his audience
from London in one breath, San Francisco in
the next, while he related what was taking
place in New Orleans and few days later
the same dispatches brought the news what
shabbily- dressed man did in Russia. 1t said
that this man was standing on the outskirts
of a crowd of armed soldiers, and that the
Gar was being driven to his palace in a
closed carriage, when this man pulled out of
his pocket glass ball and blew up the car
riage that the Gar was in, thereby dumping
its occupants in the roadway, while another
bali, which he carried in the left pocket of his
breaches,
HURLED THE GEAR INTO ETERNITY.
| These two exhibitions of science speak vol
| umes for the times in which we live. But
the thief politician does not progress any in
the right direction. The only progress that
the average public servant has made in the
past 30 years is that when he stole one dollar
so years ago to-day he steals $1,000. But by
the invention of glass balls the people are be-
ginning to see the light.
Rep.-Do you mean to say that the average
Office. holder may fear the fate of the Gar of
Russia?
Kearney-Yes, that is just exactly what I
mean. As soon as these glass-ball manufac.
turers visit California the oppressed taxpayer
can expend a few extra dollars in purchasing
glass ball, and some day when the tax-eaters
are making raid upon his property and his
pocket instead of having purse in his pocket
he can have one of these glass balls and use
it with good effect.
Rep.-What do you consider that you have
accomplished during your agitation?
Kearney-I consider that | have accom-
plished great deal. have set the people
to thinking. I have made the Chinese ques-
ton national question. | have given Cali
fornia Constitution that is of immense
benefit to her, and as soon as the people
wake up to the benefits of this document
they will erect monument to my memory,
in comparison to which Cleopatra's needle
will sink into insignifcance. L have been
instrumental in electing a Supreme Court,
the best that this or any other State has ever
known.
Rep.-What good do you think has yet
been accomplished by your agitation of the
Chinese question!
in our Constitution has been declared uncon.
stitutional by the Federal Courts, it took
such hold upon the national legislators that
they passed a bill limiting the immigration
to fifteen upon ship. President Hayes, as
usual, vetoed the bill. Subsequently he Sc.
lected a Commission of three to go to China,
and this Commission negotiated treaty
which removed all of the obstacles raised by
President Hayes in his veto message. 1t
also gives Congress the power to limit
or suspend the bringing of Chinese
immigrants to our State or country.
This treaty is now awaiting the action of the
Senate and when acted upon by that body
Congress can pass a law under it giving Cali
fornia the power to regulate the incoming of
Chinese laborers Besides all this L claim
that our agitation has prevented the landing
of at least 70, 900 Chinese in San Francisco,
as they were coming here at the rate OF %. GOO
year when the agitation commenced, but
now there are more go than come. ] look,
therefore, upon
THE CHINESE QUESTION
AS being practically settled-that is, as far
as we are concerned as State. The Federal
Courts having declared the clause in our Con-
stitution unconstitutional, of course by en-
acting wise sanitary measures locally, we can
compel the Chinese to live as civilized be-
ings ought to live, which they would find to
be rather expensive, which would also dis
courage their coming. Taking it all in all,
the Chinese question is in fair way of being
settled very soon. Besides, have demon
strated that whenever a people feel like