Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-13
THE LOGIC OF INTOLERANCE.


The San Francisco Argonaut has discov-
cred that the era of intolerance is by no
means one Of the past. It's chief weapon
always was white.heated denunciation,
and it is welded to-day against those
who refuse to bend the knee to sick
ening demagogy, quite as freely as in the
days when they crucifed for opinions sake,
and butchered men in the name of holy
things. The Argonam discovered that
"Frieudly free discussion, calling forth
From the fair jewel truth its latent ray,
is thing not TO be permitted, so far, at
least, as the consideration Of transporta-
ton questions is concerned, That is, it is
not to be tolerated by the railroad.
hating press, which seeks to cover its own
shortcomings by infaming the people
against their own interests. After re.
citing scraps of regretful history concern
ing railroad construction in this State, and
the unressoning aAimosity and selfish as
saults against it on the part Of certain of
the people of San Francisco-which they
would now fain have forgotten-and of GER
tain scheming politicians, whose chief aim
has been personal sggrandizement and the
lining of their own pockets with shekels
filched from corporation purses, our
contemporary, in view of the fact
that even the wisdom of Solomon
would be spurned by the contumacious
and self.appointed custodians of the pub
lie interests, is forced to exclaim, for the
sake of the argument, that if only these
howlers for railroad bones and blood will
open their ears to reason, and hear that
they may be convinced, it, the Argona,d,
will admit to please them, that it is a rail-
road organ, hired and paid by railroad
magnates to voice their opinions and fur
ther their ends is willing to admit that it
wears broad and locked collar, the key
to which is in railroad vault it will ad.
NIT, indeed. any and all things that the
intolerance of hate can devise, if only the
so-styled ansi-railroad priests will heed
the truth, for, after all, insists our
contemporary, the truth still remains.
But that journal counts without it's host.
Ii the srchsngel Gabriel, clad in all the
glorious majesty of the upper heavens,
should proclaim truth in the streets of
the city wherein the Argonaut breaches.
and that truth II, the slightest degree con-
cerned the question of transportation by
rail which did not accord with the
views and ends OF this same clan
of demagogues, the winged hierarch
would be branded with contemptuous
epithets and denounced as wearing rail-
road collar. In the present era of passion,
infsmmed prejudice and inconsistent hate,
spurred on to insolerant denunciation by
greedy envy and jealous rage, there is no
hope of compelling these ranters to heed
the truth or to dispassionately discuss the
simplest propositions By logical processes,
if they involve railroads or railroad men.
In the logic of these intolerant persons
whom our contemporary sppeals to so
earnestly, even to admitting, to oonciliate
them, that it is al they choose to call it,
the three propositions of the syllogism, the
major and the minor premise, and the con-
clusiOn are alike one and tie same, "rail.
road organ, railroad collar. railroad hire.
ling" These three terms, interchangeable
at will. enable them in their own estima.
ton to answer all reasoning, respond to all
truth, and put 70 flight all proof. So the
Argona'a's beseeching admission will not
serve the purpose-the intolerant press
will still deal in question-begging epishets,
and expect like return. It is the only
reasoning" il will heed.