Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-13
4 PROPOSAL TO ASSAULT INTERIOR
TRADE CEETERS.

With remarkable, not to say amusing
regularity, The San Francisco press puts an
old-tilne and tlIrcad-barc complaint against
the interior through its PAGES. Last year
it was the Bulletin that bitterly complained
because commercial laws are not set aside
and the usages OF trade reversed to prevent
Sacramento merchants and the dealers Of
Stockton, Marysviile and Los Angeles from
selling 81 rates level with those of the San
Francisco merchant and thus secure 10 San
Francisco a monopoly OF her interior trade
Nothing more prepo5tcrous was ever
seriously advanced At the time the fall
lacy Of the claim was laid bare by the
RECORD MON, and such testimony in favor
of the interior wa7 the BmIct;n5 complaint
deemed, that it was published and circula-
ted by valley merchants as an advertise
nent Of their trade advantages. Now
comes the San Francisco Chronicle in q side
article embodying interviews with San
Francisco manufacturers and dealers in
San Francisco, i'll which the old complaint
is, III a feeble way. renewed. II reads be
tween the lines of the interview that the
plea IS " San Francisco is trade center and
is therefore the only one-the really old and
reliable original Jacobs and no prctcndcTs
should be couptenanced." The burden OF
the complaint Is that Sacramento, Marys-
vile, Stockton and Los Angeles and San
Jose receive goods from the East at the
same rates charged to San francisco MGR
chants and consequently she loses some
thing Of her commercial Importance as q
trade center As the cities named are
located near lhc interior sources Of de-
mand they can, therefore, sell within
their districts At q saving to the buyer of
the back haul between san Francisco and
the point of purchase in the interior. To
this San Francisco has always objected.
fatty saying: notwithstanding we have
Justify discaimcd against determinations,
have insisted upon uniformity OF charges
for freight carriage and all that, still we
claim for SAN Francisco the right, and the
sole right TO supply the interior Not
withdrawing that tho cities Of the interior
ere nearer TO the Eastern markets that the
actual haul Of goods 10 them is less in
mileage than il San Francisco, VIC insist
Cha: they shall he handicapped by dis
eliminating chargr' In other words it is
every now and then advanced that for =
lesser distance 10 a competitive point
higher charge shall be made than for
greater distance 10 n competitive point.
One merchant is represented as saying that
system is desirable that will practically
permit the san Francisco jobber to ship
goods 10 the interior free that have come
over the line Of transportation by which
the new supply is 10 be returned-iu other
words. as We understand him, 10 order
from the East goods deliverable at interior
points without local haul charges though
the identity of original invoice is yiolsted-
that is, though bulk be broken
We assume that there is nothing under
the sun 20 prevent any trade center iobber
from receiving orders and directing them
70 be filed at the East and shipped 20 any
address whatsoever. Certainly there can
be no impediment to such shipments being
made TO any competitive point at any ones
order, at competitive or through rates
But how system can be set up in
Justice TO interior dealers to permit San
Francisco or any other merchants the ex-
elusive right TO peddle goods along lines Of
transportation free of local charges is
problem the mcrchant interviewed does not
deign to explain. II is conceivable, how
ever, that San Francisco merchants. real
ilng, as one Of the interviewed says. that
San Francisco is losing her prestige as
trade center supplying All immense area Of
country, should mako the effort to secure
any exclusive privilege whatever that will
clip the wings of the interior trade, and
make all consumers tributary directly to
the metropolis, or as the merchant quoted
puts il discourage purchasers at any
other point than San Francisco" 1t is said
By one of the merchants interviewed that
q combination is being made ct San Fran
cisco with a view Of presenting alleged
grievances TO the proper authority, aud