Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-19

which seem to be like, but are different,
with those which are like; and becaure it
viii lead the people by deduction to find
ont what will be true, If something else is
true; or, in other words, to get some fur
ther knowledge from other knowledge. On
the contrary, dogmatism is the stock in
trade Of the men and journals obviously
prosecuting the present crusade, for politi-
cal as well as selfish ends, and their arbi-
trary assertions they vainly seek to bolster
up by the bitterest personal assaults and
lowest forms of vituperation, and by ap.
peals to passions and prejadices, in the
hope to terrorize ard overawe, or disgust
and repulse by the mere hinging of verbal
offensiveness in an epithetieal warfare Of
indiscriminate clamor.
Thus we find no assumed arguments for
hasty and arbitrary reduction of rates that
are not accompanied by the coarsess abuse
of men who have official or property rela-
tions with carrying interests. 1t ia all but
impossible 70 discover an article in ore of
the "agitating press on the subject Of
rate adjustment that is not OVERLOOKING
with verbose scurrility. The denunci-
alton of railroad promoters and managers
as "oppressors, " thieves and "ty.
rants has latterly became altogether too
mild in character to serve the purposes of
4hoco 5.,Ia-s - oaIrr,n1 a,d Lo-oo .ro
find the vocabularies of slang have been
searched to their borders, and the very
dregs of indecency dredged out Of the
CUTTERS of low English and imported into
columns Of print for application to
their victims, and in this we do not ex-
tend our remarks to the full limit Of
fact. One has gone SO far as to
applaud mob violence, another to violently
denounee and basely stigmatize allwho dare
to differ with these intolerant reformers,
and to "psrsecnte for opinions sake,
while another, in the violence that is
not durable" demands that railroad
owners be forthwith cent to the peuiten-
tiary, bag and baggage, and their prop
erty confscated and distributed among
adventurous spirits that shall accomplish
the task. If any have the courage to
suggest that there are two sides to this
railroad question, and that the best in.
terests of the people demand cool iudg-
ment, Just action and dispassionate con-
sideration. the epithetic battery is opened
upon him, eliminating in that most com.
mon assault upon motive. which finds ex-
preston in the charge OF wearing a "cor-
poration collar, and this it is assumed is
sufficient to put quietus upon all such as
dare to call halt in the war Of intoler.
ance.
Bat there are men who view this
storm of abuse with patience, belev-
ing, with Horace, that anger is a short
madness, and that passions uncontrolled
by men, soon control them. There are
those who adhere to the maxim, "No
abuse invalidates right" and who have
read the worlds history to the learning of
the truth that vituperatiye and intolerant
crusades have invariably resulted in the
discontinue Of their promoters. Passion
awakens but short-lived enthusiasm. The
judgment of the people sooner or later dis
cover the attempt Of the selfish to use
them. Froshy denunciation in lieu of per.
suasive argument betrays the weakness
and insincerity behind it, and none sooner
uncover the designs OF schemers who in
dulge in it than the people. The engineers
of The political agencies now so dilligent
in making party capital and advancing
personal ends are simply borne along by
the violence of an assumed rage, forgetful
of the truisms that no reform ever attained
success by such methods; that the men
who are thoroughly assured of the right
eousness of their cause seldom lose their
temper, and that it is reason and proof
alone that finally leone home to mems
business aud bosoms."