Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-27
TIE CASE or TIE SAN FRANCISCO
MERCHANTS.

On Saturday last we treated in detail
the remarkable article in the San Francisco
Bulletin OF the 10Th instant in which the
financial reviewer of that prominent bust
ness journal, complaining in behalf
of the jobbers of that city that
interior cities receive freight by rail at
rates not higher than those charged to San
Francisco, unwittingly admitted all that
has ever been claimed for Sacramento in a
business way. The logic of the San Francisco
merchant, ii strictly applied, would give
him the monopoly of the business of the
coast and Fill his Golfers at the expense of
the people of the interior. What the San
Francisco merchant Ashland he has in a
representative capacity recently set
forth his claims IN protesting document
addressed 20 the Central Pacific Railroad
Company-is nothing more nor less than
this, stripped of all formal phrasing and
solemn business asseverations " Oars is
the chief mart we must live upon the inte-
rior we claim that as q right because We
do business in the metropolis of the coast
We would, therefore, have goods delivered
70 us by your company at rates so much
less than those charged to the interior
merchants at competitive points that they
VIII be driven to come to us and buy, and
suffer the penalty Of tae back haul, cart
age, wharfage and loss of time. This is
our prerogative, and we claim that dis.
elimination to that effect shall be made in
our favor, notwshs anding the fact that
none more than we have protested al these
years against determinations of all kinds
even those justified by reason and com
mercial principles" It is selfish plant,
the uuwisdom and intolerant character of
which We have already clearly made mani
fest.
This journal for many years has in each
OF its annual reviews Of the business OF
this city, set forth the advantages of this
market over San Francisco for many
things The article in the Bulletin and the
letter Of protest OF the San Francisco mer-
chants TO the railroad company are confess
stems OF the truth and soundness Of all
these claims. These are, in brief, nearness
OF this city to interior points north, east,
and to Al extent south and west of it the
small necessity for heavy investment in
real estate or rentals, or in other words the
smallness of fixed capital TO be rewarded
by profts; the absence of carriage fees and
wharfage dues; nstursl climatic advan-
tSges for the storage Of many classes OF
supplies rapidity with which orders may
be filled cortiguity of the railroad depots
aud river landings to the wholesale houses ;
saving to the buyer of the difference in
freight between San Francisco and Sacra.
mento; time economical in carriage be.
tween San Francisco and Sacramento.
Now these claims are legitimate, honest,
natural, and should not justify such bust
ness rivalry as to lead any one to seek to
interpose artificial obstacles to prevent the
city doing the business its location com
mands. Yet what the San Francisco mer-
oh .nts have asked, if acceded to, would be
nothing short Of injustice. If the Central
Pacific Railroad Company should yield to
the demand Of the San Francisco merchant,
and discriminate in his favor, it must be
against the Sacramento merchant, and
against natural advantages. 1t would,
therefore, be in the nature of punishment
for locality, and as such would be unjusti-
fable. A place not fortified by the natural