Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-26

lection of the laws, we have never heard of
| it. The regulative measures which regards
the rights of the carrier as equally sacred
with those of the shipper, is in itself con-
sentative and unobjectionable because such
regulation would have for its object the pro-
lection of private capital invested in rail-
roads equally with the protection of the
| equities ofthe shipper. Hence it certainly
| cannot be claimed that the Convention de-
clared, in the adjustment of equities be-
tween the shipper and the carrier, that the
shipper is the only party having rights
which Governments are bound to respect.
These considerations of political convic-
ton and purposes are as widely at variance
with what the Chronicle pretends to see in
them as may well be imagined. That pub
lie control which will secure to the rail
roads protection in their rights equal to the
protection accorded to the people; that sys-
TEN of taxation which will secure the trans
portation interests against an unjust and
oppressive exercise of the taxing power,
but which will subject it to burdens of
taxation no greater than those imposed
upon all other property; that principle of
legislative regulation which has for its OBJ
ject solely the correction or prevention of
abuses; in short, the legislative and Judi
cial policy which makes the rights and in
terests of corporations equal to the rights
of all other property and all other inter
estS, is all the railroads have ever at any
time, in any place, or in any way claimed
at the hands of Legislatures or Courts. To
be equally treated, equally protected, and in
every legislative and judicial aspect con-
templated as having equal right with every
prosperity or property interests, necessarily
involves equal protection with equal re-
sponsibility, equal encouragement with
equal accountability, equal rights as well as
equal obligations. All these things are
plainly declared in the platform of the Re
publican party, and they are far removed
from the doctrine of the right of confisca-
ton, under the disguise Of regulation. here
tDAO4S duNd4lCSu ny lIIe JItFoHtCtc- III All
these matters we find ourselves in perfect
accord with the platform adopted by the
State Republican Convention, and COM
mend its work as eminently wise and con-
sentative
We do not, however, agree with the mis- !
apprehension or the denunciation of Gov
erpor Clevelands veto of the elevated
street railway bill. Cleveland did not de-
clare in his veto message that there was no
constitutional power in one Legislature to |
regulate and abridge the privileges granted |
by a former Legislature to public agency, |
as charged in the Republican platform. |
What he did declare in effect, was, that |
that which was dishonorable in an indi-
vidual could not be honorable in State;
that the obligations of contract which
would be binding upon the conscience of
an individual would be binding upon the |
of the commonwealth and, as
against the doctrine that the things which |
in an individual would mark him as |
are honorable in a State, we pre-
fer the more elevated and honorable view
adopted by Governor Cleveland