Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-14
TIE CURSE OF CALIFORNIA.

knavish demagogues have been distributed
between Journalism and politics. Their
motives for action have been, ID the case
of the newspapers, sordid greed IN the
case of the politicians, sordid greed. To
recommend themselves to the ignorant and
uuthinking, and to acquire the reputation
OF public spirit, these rascals have pursued
destructive policy, striking at every.
thing that helped to build up the State,
denouncing and viilfying every important
industry and enterprise, and giving Cali
fornis go bad name all over the world
that immigration has been prevented, set
Element retarded, capital frightened away,
and the public welfare most seriously and
generally injured. Kearneyism, which
has cost the State from first to last not less
than $50 DOC, 600, was the direct creation
OF these mischievous agencies. They care
fully fostered it, nursed it into Importance,
famed the flame of discomfort. San Fran.
cisco journals deliberately and with malice
prepense bounded on hall. crazy mob to
riot, arson and murder. They kept that
city for nearly two years in state of ner.
vous apprehension. They drove its trade
away, they deprecated its real estate, they
struck it a blow from which it has never
recovered. And now the same men and
journals are impudently endeavoring to
cover up their tracks by accusing the rail-
road of being the cause of these misfor-
tunes the railroad, which has brought
hundreds of millions of new values to the
State, which has advanced it fifty years in
| growth, which has extended its markets,
developed its resources in every direction,
and induced the investment of scores of
millions of capital.
The knayish demagogues who produced
kearneyism, who produced the calamitous,
communistic new Constitution, who have
been the curse of California for the past
fifteen years, are now engaged in the co.
called anti-monopoly movement. True to
their sinister instincts, they have under.
taken to create enmity between the peo-
PIE of the State and the interest which is
most intimately bound up with them.
Not content with having proclaimed Cali
tornia for years as a good place to keep out
of, not content with having given it COM
muuistic notoriety which will retard its
growth ten or twenty years, not content
with disseminating mischievous lies about
the complete monopoly of all the land,
|
ing every enterprise undertaken with
view to increase the population and
wealth Of the country, these public enc.
mics have now flung themselves into a
desperate effort to create and consolidate
chronic state of ili-feeling between the rail-
roads and the people. In doing this they
have il jured the State in a double way.
Ia the first place they have given it bad
name abroad. In the second place they
have caused the people to squander their
time and money in the enactment of ma
liguant and discriminative measures which
cannot stand. All that will survive from
this unwholesome agitation viii be bad
feeling and the consciousness of wasted
malice.
These knavish demagogues ore at the
present moment clamoring to have enemies
of the railroad elected as Railroad Com
missioners. Yet they are fully aware that
they are firing blank cartridges, inasmuch
as the Railroad Commission has already
been declared an unconstitutional tribunal,
by implication, in the recent decision of
the United States Circuit Court. Indeed
John I. Doyle, who has just accepted the
nomination of the whisky seller Harrison,
has himself declared, in published inter.
| view, that he does not believe the Railroad
Commission can stand in the Federal
Courts. Lawyers have long been aware of
this. The RECORD UNION pointed out the
| fatal defects OF the Commission before the
| Constitution was adopted. But the knaves
and the fools together undertook to enact
it, and now the two classes can comfort
one another when it is pronounced invalid
by the United States Supreme Court. In
the face of these facts, however, the public
|
their malice can be made effective or not
seems to trouble them very little, so long
as they can stir up i'll feeling, and set the
people against their best friends. II they
can succeed in driving capital out of the
State they are more than satisfied, and the
more harm they do the more mischievous
become their inclinatioas
If California has not prospered of late
years it is the fault of these malignant ras-
calls. For they have done all in their
power to build Chinese wall round the
State. They have attacked and calum-
mated every important interest. They
have raised the cry of land monopoly, of
railroad monopoly; they have bounded on
the poor against the rich; they have adj
vocated confscation under the thin dis
guise of taxation they have procured the
incorporation to the Constitution of provi-
sions which would disgrace community of
brigands they have impudently defended
the most shameless and barefacsd discrim-
nation in taxation they have taught that
| it is right to rob corporations and to NAL
treat them; they have Endorsed the adop-
tiou of Communism iato the organic law
they have created the impression all
| over the world that California is in
| the hands of a conscienceless mob
which Furnishes enterprise by the confsca.
ton of surplus property, and which marks
down for destruction every under.
taking which becomes important. The
work of these knavish demagogues has
been wholly evil, in fact. They have in.
jured the State from the beginning. 1t is
to their sinister policy that the dearth
of immigration is attributable, and to moth
ing else. They are the i'll birds that foul
their own nest. California cannot lay the
blame of her backwardness upon outsiders.
She owes it ali to her own citizens She
owes it to campaigns like the present, in
which two sets of mendacious impostors
are travelling over the State, maintaining
false issues, and grossly tradueing the most
important and benefcent interest in the