Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-24

California languishing for want OF actual
capital to develop them with the manu-.
featuring interests of the commonwealth
in a state Of almost absolute suspension
with vast acreage Of fertile soil awaiting
profitable cultivation with large terri
torial area sparsely populated our
State exhibits to the world that spiritless
condition, that absence Of energy and
enterprise which is fast making it a by
word and reprcach among the States OF
the Union.
And yet / observe that the partisan
press seeks diligently through the legisla.
tive record, and points with eager avidity
to every manifestation of hostility to asso-
ciated capital in all the varied forms in
which it seeks advantageous relation for
the purpose of profitable activity. The
Examiner desires to say plainly to the pub.
lie that the Democratic party will De
worthy of public support only in proper.
ton to its manifestation Of hostility toward
wealth, and only in proportion as it may
have given the State a strong impetus
toward bankruptcy and impoverishment.
This partisan organ, have noticed, has not
pointed out single instance where enter.
prise has been encouraged, where energy
has been promoted, where capital has been
invited, or population to the State has
been induced by any act of this legislative
representative of its party.
"On the other hand, the San Francisco
Chronicle, ambitious to be in a partisan
vanguard-indeed claiming the leadership
of the Republican party-discuases the
same record and seeks to show the absence
of hostility to the surplus wealth OF the
country. 1t declares that the Legislature
did not sufficiently discourage the associa-
ton of capital for active pursuits that it
did not sufficiently hamper, hinder and
obstruct the profitable employment of
money. That Republican organ has no in
dictment to bring against the Legislature
for absence in it's records of measures cal.
culated to promote the development of the
State. It has no fault to find with the
absence of legislation calculated to invite
capital and population. 1t pretends to see
the absence of hostility to capital. 1t holds
the Legislature up to execration, not for
failure to devise legislation calculated to
promote the material interests of the peo-
pie, to encourage, develop or to invite cap.
ital, but because, as it declares, that body
did not exhibit sufficient degree of mar
row. minded hostility toward accommodations
OF wealth, and was not sufficiently destruc-
tive in it's enactments for the best good of
the people.
"If our people recall and keep in mind
the great fact that industry produces
wealth, and that the presence of capital in
any commonwealth is indispensable to the
prosperity and happiness of labor, and that
thrift, energy and enterprise will sooner or
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the hands of industry, and the enmity man.
Tested towards capital by these papers will
appear in its true light as understandable,
misanthropic, narrow and barbarous.
"The Democratic organ 1 have named
declares that the Legislature did everything
in its power to drive money, enterprise and
processes of associating money for the pro-
motion of enterprise out of the State that
its party did all that could have been, rea.
sonably expected in the way of placing this
commonwealth on the down grade to pow.
erty.
"The Republican organ referred to as
serts with equal confidence that the Legis.
lature could have done much more in this
direction, and that possibly what it has left
undone may leave room for thrift, enter
prise and progress.
"These conclusions are to me irresisti-
BILE, and present the spectacle for your
consideration. Candidly and honestly, do
you think that l have overstated the case?"