Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-29

not enapA5u TO 10 SO Oy any act Vi tHe i"ii
carrier, but because Of their natural COM
petitive character. Each of them is
reached by water from ship anchorage in
the Bay of San Francisco at nominal cost
for the transportation of freight. These
towns are therefore independent, not only
of the railroad, but of San Francisco IN
large degree. If the discrimination asked
for by San Francisco at the hands OF the
carrier should be conceded, party also
to take the punishment would be the rail-
road company, and the San Francisco
dealer assumes that the corporation will &C
cept it without murmur. The San Fran
cisco merchants have much greater faith in
the Observation-Disclosures of railroad CON-
panies, if they believe this will be sub.
mitted to, than the city of their location
has, if we are to Judge by the spirit with
which it has met the endeavor to construct
transcontinental lines and to bring the in
terror into close relations with the metrop-
oils
! But the severest sentence of the Man
ayers reply is that in which reference is
made to the constitutional provision-thst
for like quantities and classes of goods
going in the same direction rates shall not
be more for less than greater distance.
And this reminder Of the crusade against
railroads, and its results, is supplemented
| by the suggestion that the intemper.
ate spirit of the age will go to
greater lengths, and by local enactment
abolish even the competitive discrimina-
tons now recognized, and that commercial
laws have in all time recognized and JUST.
fed; that this abolition will certainly
come about unless the commercial in
terests of the country interpose, as
they should, to prevent the con-
Summation of the tendency to level all
rates, regardless of natural advantages.
If this comes to pass San Francisco will find
not only Sacramento and Marysville and
Stockton receiving freights on equality
with her, bat that the most distant noun
tain camps, which have no competitive re-
lations whatever, and are not naturally ad-
vantaged for commercial transactions
will be the recipients of all the favors the
city by the sea now enjoys by reason of
her admirable and unequaled location at
the very gate of the worlds commerce.
1t is scarcely necessary to more than re.
fer to the quiet thrust in the reply given
in the statement that possibly the commu-
mites of the interior commercial cities
might object to the roasting San Francisco
proposes to give them, and would not be
convinced that it was for their benefit to be
singed. Equally pointed is the suggestion
that the future welfare and ultimate great
ness of San Francisco is dependent upon
the prosperity of the interior, and that the
metropolis will but conserve her own in
terests by advancing those of the interior,
since all are tributary in the end to the
commercial capital. 1t is loves labor lost,
however. Neither Mr. Towne nor any
other man, by reason or otherwise, will be
able to convince the average San Fran
ciscan that the city OF his pride is
in any way whatever dependent upon
the prosperity of the whole country.
San Francisco has over and again secuted
that idea, and nothing short of successful
commercial rivalry will open her eyes to
Tho In, hor 1or
bility is assured, and her decadence an i'm.
possibility, Probably this is true but there
is such thing as standing still, and one of
the best evidences that the wheels of San
Francisco trade move with less momentum
than was anticipated, is found in the pro-
test against the growing t.ade Importance
of interior cities. Probably the day will
come when the metropolis will rise supe-
rior to the selfish greed that seems to actu-
ate her now, and realize and act upon the
truth that in the general prosperity of the
interior she will find her own best and
most satisfactory advancement. The time
will come when the San Francisco mer-
Oudut VIII DCSO4lIC 1llNG " bAG LOU GIaL
the reply we are now considering is the ea-
sence of truth, tinged with justifiable sar-
casm, wherein it is said " y our demands
are wholly in the interest Of the iobbing
trade of San Francisco, in total disregard
Of the interests of other communities,
which, for the occasion, we may say, offer
competition for the trade you seek, and,
needless of the interests of the carrier, in
its relations to said communities, the alb.
sence of any proposal of compromising
return to the carrier for all that you ask at
his hands is very conspicuous. 1t will
hardly be credited by any one familiar
with your respective regulations for pru-
| dence and business sagacity, that you have
been influenced by any Other than strictly
business considerations in your patronage
OF the railroad company, while its officers
and agents are keenly sensible of the fact
that such of your number as have contract
ed for the lowest rates, have only been in
duced to do go by the guaranty of terms
which left you scarcely any alternative
where self-interes. was permitted to govern
your choice. Your exclusive patronage was
solicited for the sll-rsil lines. 1t may be
fairly asserted that you dictated the terms
upon which you would give it. 1t cannot
be assumed that you did not exact all that
was necessary to place your goods, all-rail,
in this market at as small an average cost
as you would have been subjected to with
out rail contract.
THE okolona CNss) States says the suffrage
amendment is unconstitutional and that the South
ern people therefore justified in multiplying the
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