Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-10
HIS IDEAS OF LABOR AND TRANSPORTATION.

HIS IDEAS OF LABOR AND TRANSPORTATION.
One Of the leading expenses of transports.
ton Is labor, and if yeu reduce the earnings
OF transportation you must necessarily reduce
the earnings OF labor, and what you are doing
when you reduce the freight rates on mer-
chandise is to increase the profits of the profit.
mongers and decrease the earnings of the Ia.
boring men who assist to operat, the systems
OF transportation, and / will not champion
any movement nor favor any man that will
tend to decrease the wages of labor or lengthen
its hours. But to return to the raw products
OF the State. The price of wheat at any sta.
ton in California is the price 1T Liverpool less
the cost of getting the wheat to that port, and
low rate Of freight makes high rate OF
wheat in this country. A low rats on wool
makes higher price on wool. The freight
charged against the wool for transportation is
the loss of the producer of the wool. 1t is
therefore plain that o low rate of transporta.
| ton on wheat and wool and cattle and live
stock generally will enhance the profit of the
producer of these articles, and by enhancing
the profits of 10 production, will enhance the
value of the property. There are hundreds
Of ANAL farmers throughout this State who
have mortgaged their places, and who are
| struggling to pay for them, who will be better
enabled to do SO if low rates upon the raw
products of the country can be obtained, and
this is the effort that should be made and it
can be accomplished much sooner by bring.
ing about perfectly good undsrstap ding be-
tween the transporter and the producer, and
| it never can be ACCOMPLISHED by keeping these
ts o interests at war. l notice that the freight
from here to Liverpool By water ia about $40
a tor. Now, there are lot of men here who
get up corner on ships, and a
CORNER ON GRAIN, ETC.
If the railroad company could when the
Southern Pacific Railroad is completed to
New Orleans, land wheat at Liverpool at S12
per ton, or about e5, it would be an immense
advantage to the producer Of this State, who
would save by the reduced insurance, etc.,
and have quicker returns for his money, and
it would do away, to a certain extent,
with the middiemen. As it is now, the
grain buyers, and proft-mongers, and wheat
cornerers, and Righteousness ascertain
what the. probable yield Of the country is to
be. They then engage the tonnage for this
port. When the tonnage arrives they put
up the freight rates to reduce the price of the
wheat. They buy in wheat at the reduced
price, and thus make profit on the tonnage
as well as upon the advarcing price of the
wheat.
A direct line of transportation will enable
the farmers to ship in small quantities. AS
it is now, unless a farmer has enough wheat
to furnish full cargo for ship it is i'm
possible for him to engage that much ton.
mage. He must, therefore. depend upon the
engagement OF tonnage made by the specu-
lator. The Spectator is going to engage
tonnage Of course against the interest of the
producer and ia favor of himself, and so the
great staple production of wheat in the
State Of California has been managed 30
that the chief profit derived from that pro-
duction goes into the pocket of the specu.
lator in wheat, and net into the pocket of
the honest farmer, who, by the toll of his
hands, raised it.
HE CONTINUES POOR,
While the Spectator gets rich and builds
lofty mansions, and surrounds himself with
Injuries ard all the re6nements that exalt
and embellish his life, while the wbeat.raiser
lives in social seclusion. in very indifferent
houses, continually drudging for the benefit
of this proft.monger and money-grsbber.
The people, l claim, are always ready and
willing to receive the truth, notwithstanding
the lying fsttery of the twenty-year stump
speaker. The transportation question would
not be so difficult OF solution il the people
had been told the truth from the start. We
are located farthest from the markets for what
We produce, and farther from the centers of
production for what we consume than any
other people in the world. The cost of trans
portation on our products is charged against
us in the price we get and what we consume
costs us more than it costs any other people,
because of the distance it is transported.
WE GET THE LEAST
For what we sell, and pay the most for what
we buy. All this is due to our remote loca-
ton from markets for our products and places
where what we buy is produced. Home man
ufscture is what we want and what we must
have II we are going to be a prosperous peo-
pie. AS it is now, we ship wool and dirt to |
the East and we pay the freight, by reason |
of the low prices we get. Then we import |
wooden goods, which, as a high-priced article, |
bears high freight rate, and we pay that. !
Why, Thousands of tons of st. Louis and Nil. |
waukee beer are imported into this State at |
high rates. We rsise the barley and hops |
and ship them East, and the fellows in st. |
Louis and Milwaukee add water, and we pay |
transportation on that back again-at least |
the asses who drink the slop do. And yet we |
have water power running to waste. Ii we
wove and spun our own wool,
ALL THE NONSENSE
About freight on that article would be ierked
right out Of it. If we haven't got men in
this State with sense enough to spin our own
wool and make beer from our own hops and
barley, let's import them. Let st. Louis or
Milwaukee serd us beer-making missionary
to teach us the fine art of making that kind
Of rotgut, and we could quit whining over the
freight rate on St. Louis water. This, nv
friends, is question the discussion and solu
ton of which must not be left to the selfish
proft-mongers nor shyster lawyers. The pro-
ducers and transporters must solve this Ques.
ton. Stanford 4 Co. are not running rail-
road for the fun of the thing. On the con.
trary, they are running a railroad to make
money. Their lot is no easy one. l would
not change positions with Leland Stanford
<O-da 7 he kba i
man in this State. The clothes that he wears
are not much better than mine. He does not
digest the food that he eats as good az you
and digest what we eat. He will net live
many years longer; in fact, none of these
men will. Then all of their accumu,
lations will be scattered to the four winds
of heaven. These are truths that will not
hurt anybody to tell them. The man who
wants to get into position so as to be able
to sell his influence to Stanford & Co., will
turn up his nose at this kind of talk. He sees
nothing in it for him, and he will say, "D-n
that fellow Kearney I wish he weuld give
Stanford h, and help to elect me then l
could sell to Stanford" as you know nearly
all of them do. For the blackmailer have
nothing but contempt I will not join in
with the pack and yelp at Stanford IF
were to tell you that the turning out Of Com.
missioner Smith and the electing of Commits
sioner Jones will settle the railroad question,
I WOULD TILL YOU LIE,
And 1t would react on myself. Experience
has convinced me that there is but one solu-
ton to the railroad question, and that ia gov
eminent control. | would not take the
position of Railroad Commissioner for twenty
Thousand dollars per year, although if / were
Commissioner / would make the profit,
mongsr sweat at the expense of the producer.
1t amuses me to see the various characters
who pose as anti-monopolists. The speaker
here related an anecdote where he alleged
that one of the men refused to experience
sudden conversion under peculiar circum.
stances. He then resumed as follows: After
the adoption of the new Constitution, 1 was
invited to join in
BLAcKMAIL SCHEME,
And because l refused. the stink pot batteries
of that vile pscurrilous publication, the
Chronicle. was opened on me which resulted
in the Honorable Blk movement. The
biacsmailers were beaten at the polls. 1t did
not however, prevent them from masuuerad.
ing as reformers. You all remember how
solicitious John H. Burke, the Secretary of
the III. BE-, felt about the pretended wrongs
of the poor Con Virginia and California
stockholders. He worried, too, over the I'M
equal burdens of taxation. He lectured be-
fore the Changers and with other subjects
battled with the Courts. Ali of o sudden
they disappeared from the public gaze, and
left for parts unknown.
Kearney here gave his reasons for bis belief
as to the motive that led to this silence, and
they were hard hits" He also called at.
tention to the sudden silence of A. A. Cohen,
aud gave what he believed to be the reasons
therefor. But tina. which makes most people
scream with laughter is
THE LATE ACCESSION
To the ranks of the anti-monopolists in the
persons of Tevis, Hagein and Hearst, and
their mouth-piece. the Examiner. Teyis, we
all know, is the President of Wells, Fargo L
Co. We also know that he has contract
with Stanford. which gives him the exclusive
right to carry express matter on Stsnford's
cars besides, he has monopoly Of all the