Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-05

The Election is at Hand-fhe People TO
recide-The Leyee system Must be Pro-
tected-The Falsehoods Of the Enemies
of Protection
There are some people who proceed in a
campaign upon the principle that a lie well
told and stuck to is as effective as the truth.
This appears to be the theory upon which the
malicious statements srs persisted in regard
ing this paper and the levee exhibits made by
and through it. All these charges we have
over and again branded as UNANIMOUSLY I'M.
true, and as mean falsehood as ever falsiGer
connected.
LET THE PEOPLE REFLECT
Upon the desperation to which the oppo-
merits of city improvement are driven when
they thus deliberately and fer the lowest of
purposes misrepresent and falsfy. Every
fact and figure given to the people by this
journal ia true.
The necessity for leves improvement is
great, and the Citizens Association, a
liberal, representative, non. political unselfsh
body OF business men and mechanics SO de-
clare.
The Republican meeting CT the Fourth
Ward so declared.
Tie Democratic party in Coarention as
sembled has so declared.
The Republican party in COngention as.
sembled has SO declared.
Tie Prohibition party m C0Rreati0n assem-
bled has 90 declared.
The City Engineer has so certified.
The County Surveyor has SO testified.
The best engineering ability in the city SO
advises.
Two hundred and seventy leading business
men have sigIe card to the same effect.
The press abroad epplauds toe proposition
to strengthen our leYee system.
The heaviest taxpayers favor it.
TIE Woriliugmen are for it.
The business men of the city favor it.
Common pEudenc5 advises it.
The nominees ter Mayor urge it.
Old residents and experienced men. such
as Cox and Clarke w. II. Beatty and L. S.
Taylor, Edw. Cadwalader, the Wittenbrocll
brothers, Captain Rodgers, John Talbot, DR..
Nixon, kLr. Hurton, Henry Starr, M. NJ,
Odel, Peter BOIL and hest OF others bear
witness to the necessity and advisabiIity of
the levy.
Every paper in The city, save one, sugtains
the proposition and urges its adoption.
THE PEOPLE
Are about to vote upon It. If they vote no,
they publish to all the State their unwilling
ness to invite investment, labor, business and
increased population TO the city. II they
vote Yes, they say to the world that even the
remoTest threat OF inunGation shall be re-
moved, and Sacramento shall no longer bear
the reputation which sha has borne for two
decades and more, Of imminent liability to
inundation. This city is
NOT TO BE BUILT UP BY ROASTING
And by loud trumpatines of our security, in
the face CT the proven fact that near the
junction OF our legee system with lands on
the east but one foot OF altitude intervenes
between the city and water as high rs that
of 1881, which ives eight feet lower at
Folsom than in the food Of 1862. Trumpet
irgs about the fair fame of this place will
avail nothing TO establish confidence in the
city; works alone convince. Bsllowings
about strong levee5 will not remove fear
when a whole section of the levee, according
to Mr.. Knox and others, needs to be faced
before it will grow grass to form soil to resist
a possible wash under north wind. So,
too, with other defects of the system-they
must be remedied. 1t will take S28 600 to do
work now needed, and the $4,000 regular
levy besides, and even more.
The election is at hand. A tTo-thirds
vote must be had majority viii not secure
The appropriation. Let every ftiend of the
measure labor night and day to secure the
requisite vote and nail the lies that are being
put forth 60 defeat prudent, just, needed
and profitable outlay.