Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-19

| Oregon, she had no need to foster an inter
nal line of transportation to that State.
Yet, before us is letter from a prominent
coast steamship agency bemoaning the de
preston in the transportation business,
/ and declaring that the completion of the
| Northern Pacific has so circumscribed the
outgoing trade of San Francisco as to seri-
ously affect the business of the carriers by
water and driven them to the most rigid
| economy.
These same San Francisco business men
aud merchants that tip-tilted their COM
| mercial noses at Northern California less
than year ago, and declared their indie
pendence of it, and of theSouthern Oregon
trade, are now openly, through their Cham
| bers of Commerce and Boards of Trade,
| petitioning the internal transporters 10 cut
OFF Sacramento, Marysville, Stockton and
all other interior points from the right to
receive goods from the East at the same rate
| mot less as is charged for delivery to that
more distant point, San Francisco.
| The reason advanced is so unblushinglv
impudent, so brazenly hardened, and so su-
! premely audacious, as to challenge the adj
| miration of all admirers of case hardened
cheek-if one of the vulgarisms of slang
may be pardoned. It is fatty stated, and
with no concealment: The trade of the
north and interior belongs to San Francis
co. 1t is our metropolitan prerogative to
sell to the people of the interior at our own
rates, and they should be deprived of conf
! petitive advantages and driven over to us,
for it is our necessity, and without it we
must sink
This is the long and short of the whole
business. A line drawn across the State at
Tehachapi eastward to the mountain tops,
northward to the meridianal parallel of
| Delta, where the California and oregon
road was blocked in its progress by the
apathy and open opposition of the San
Francisco business men, merchants and
journals, and thence eastward to the coast
| incloses all that remains to San Francisco of
trade once stretching over an area limited
only by the plains beyond the Rocky
mountains, and the entire stretch of the
Pacific coast.
A large portion of this now restricted
area is legitimately contributive to San
Jose, Stockton, Sacramento and Marys-
vile, and the growing market towns Of the
great valleys. These the San Francisco
business men coolly ask, shall be stripped
of their rights, and turned over TO the
tender mercles of San Francisco jobbers,
and all the people of the interior made to
do obeisance TO the new Gessler.
When San Francisco business men and
merchants cut loose from political dema-
gogy when they throttle ignoramuses who
now pour hogwash about the interior trade
into the commercial columns ola vaccilating
press when they recognize in the pros
perity and growth of the whole State their
own best interests, and cease to throw
obstacles in the way of its Development;
when they arrive at the conclusion that the
relation Of a metropolis to a State is pater-
nal, and not that OF an absorbent then
it will be time enough for them TO
ask the aid of the interior transporters
to save their commerce from the dry
rot that now atIlicts il And this
IS neither hyperbole nor wrath, but cold
fact, which, in the privacy Of his conf
denccs, more than one San Francisco mer-
chant has confessed. We are strongly in
chned to believe that the sackcIoth and
ashes business on the part Of the giant may
be somewhat prolonged for his own good
We have no idea what the intentions of
the California and Oregon Company are
relative TO the completion of its line But
we do know that the north interior, recog- |
nizing the great necessity for the road, OPP
posed the clamor for the forfeiture of its |
grant and Will continue to do so that the |
railroad company did honestly and earn
estly strive to build the line; that it was
hindered and resisted at every step by San |
Francisco, and that if the road is still car
ried on il viii be grave undertaking, fun /
of risks, at great cost, and with the knowl- |
edge that that it cannot repay it in a long |
period Sacramento certainly desires the |
road completed. Her interests will be |
greatly conserved by its construction; but
build or not, she has no record with which |
TO reproach herself, since her business !
men and merchants, her Board Of Trade
her municipal officers, and her citizens
generally, with marked unanimity, stood
forward in favor of its completion at
time when it might have been attained.
while San Francisco did all in her power
70 thwart it.