Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-03

roads undertaken until the foreign money
lender can have assurance thst the railroad
builders will be permitted to administer rail-
road properties without the interference Of
political parties. The money y-lenders Of Lon
don, Frankfort and Amsterdam are thor.
oughly posted in reference to these matters,
and within three years there has been no inn
portant negotiation of bonds upon roads sub
jsct to California legislation. This is a mat.
ter which ought to be understood and fully
considered by the business men of California
before they allow, through their carelessness
or indifference, this anti-rsilroad feeling to
crystslsizs itself into constitutional legisla-
ton. The people of this State will
be guilty OF criminal neglect if, by
their action, they DO not give some
trmstivs expressions of their opinions
before this session shsll much further pro
csed 1t is true, and the fact is o most sig
uihcAnt one, that there has been from no
prominent person or from no class any ex-
preston OF opinion for this extra session
movement except from 8 few Democratic
politicians of the lower order. The ArgoHGut
challenges the Examiner or CfrJHic'e to
mans scOro OF prominent men iu this State
who favor the extra session. We challenge
them to name ten persons who-not having
hsen 10 office, nor seeking Office, uot having
personal quarrel with railroad corporations,
and paying .l -por respectable sssess-
ment-srs willing t. be considered SIS approx
iug this movement. We challenge them to
name five prominent, honOrshle business
men in all the State who are against tde rail-
rOsds. It will be curious for US Go observe
the coCrse of Representatives from those
counties in the State which are needing rail
roads and have none. and from those locali-
ties which have been coufessedly benefited by
railroad building. What cush; TO be the posi-
tion Of the Representatives Of Alpine Modac.
Sierrs, Humboldt, Lasstn, Piumas, Lake,
Del NoTte, Trinity, Mendociuo Iuyo. Santa
Bsrhsrs, San lgis ObispC, Ventura, and
those from parts Of San Bernaldtuo and
other counties not yet suffering under the up-
pressious of railroad management. Do the
people Of the counties named desire to ne
brought into connection with the railroad
system, CT do they wish to hsve railroad
building arrested. VIII the Democrats
Senators and Representatives permit them.
selves TO be used by q set of very
worthless city politicians 80 destroy the
greatest industry of this State. IL order that
George Hearst or Judge Wallace shall drive
The Hon. James 4. Farley Cut Of the Senate
of the United S5at,s or that the hangers
on Of Chris. Buckley liquor.ssloon may Sc
cure otfice in San Fgsncisc,g VIII the aver
sac country Democratic farmer, living eI
tirely away from railroads, who desires. as
every farmer does that road shall be built
30 his part Of tho State. knowing, ss every
farmer in the world knows, that q road will
advance tho value OF his lsnd, and, by re-
ducing the transportation Of his produce,
give it value that i: does not now possess
will these farmers, who do not love to pay
unnecessary taxes, favor the expenditure of
half million of dollars from the State treas
my, simply 10 whoop up a boom FOR lot #
ulsavory chiv politicians and 6 lot of bad
smelling curbstone city loaiers? Perhaps so.
We shall tee when this Legislature sdjourns.
We declare, without fear of successful con-
tradichon, that a pceponderating mGj ority Of
the intelligent property-owning Glass of re-
spectacle Democrats do not favor this extra
session movement; aud we further prophesy
that it will form the cIemstiHg furnace Of
every ambitious politician who has not the
nerve honestly and boldly to declare himself
in opposition to it.
This question is important to ell those
parts of our State not yet accommodated by
railroads. 1t is not to the counties above
named o question OF fares and freishts it is
o question whether they will have railroads
az all or not. To the people Of the extreme
north-Alpine. Humboldt and Sierra-it is
presented as an alternative of railroads, with
their not insupportsble tariffs and mule nsvi-
cation; wagon transportation over mount
aims. OF roads of broad or narrow gauge.
winding along hill side canyons and mount
ain passes to their fruitful valleys; rsil
coaches for passengers, with comfortable
seats, making twenty miles an hour, or
bouncing mudwsgons as passenger coaches,
crawling along at five miles an hour There
ia not a valley of considerable size in this
State which cannot and ought not 70 have a
railroad built to it. The world is full of
money, and money is cheap; and this is the
sge OF railroad building. To arrest it here is
to arrest the progress of the State. The man
who throws himself in front of the engine is q
narrow. minded idiot. Either he is killed by
the engine running over him, or he throws it
eff the track and arrests the train. In either
case he is an ass, and ought, if killed, to be
buried heels up, or, if left alive, to have his
ears cut eff. because he is reproach to the
whole assassin family. There is not q local
ity in the State of Califoruis to which rail-
road will not be speedily constructed,
as soon as the railroad cspitsliat can
come into friendly relations with the
political power of the State. This is not
o question between those localities now hav-
ing roads and the men who own them. 1t is
not tine people of the valleys of Sacramento,
San Joaquin, Los Angeles and San Berrar-
dino against Stanford & Co.; nor the people
# Sonuma and MendOcino against Colonel
Donst us nor of Marin sgainst William
Walker and his English sssociates; nor Of
Alameda, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz
against Mr.. A. L. Davis and his associates
nor MIR. Anybody, anywhere, against the
owners OF existing rosds-but il is a question
affecting the interest of oil those people in
the State who have no railroads and want
them. The people Of the valley of San
Joaquio, uumindtul Of and ungrateful for,
the building of roads which have made them
al. lrfn -, fhaSv
ton to their towns, and cheap transportation
for themselves and thsir produce, have a
right to quarrel with railroad companies, and
to fight for reduced fares and low freights;
but now that they have roads they have no
right to say to the remaining portions Of the
State that it shall not also have them. They
have no business to play dog in the msnger,
and, in their greed for cheap transportation,
refuse to give other parts of the State any
transportation at all. Now that they have
rosds. they insist upon the adoption of con-
stitutional provisions which shall make the
building of additional roads forever impos.
sible. These are the manners and the atti.
tude OF the hog which stapos with sll
his feet lengthWise in the trough
and allows none to eat, except I'M
der his well-hlled belly. 1t is a narrow,
near, and selfish policy; it is e greedy and
disgusting exhibition for the property owners
IN lOc3iltles where roads exist TO eucOursg5
this conspiracy of political mendicsnts and
thieves TO blackInail existing roads. The
sensible people of this State are beginning to
awake to realization Of the conspiracy. 70
those members OF tho Legislature represent
ing constituencies which in the future will
demand tho use of foreign capital and Inc
energy of railroad builders, we commend this
line of It II 9ction. When some noisy Demo-
crat from a country cross-road complains that
his calves have been run over, or, ike Cen
eral Nsglee, that it costs too much to get his
pigs to market, al k him if he has not been
benefited by railroad building?-if his land
has not decreased in value ?-if he and his
produce are not carried cheaper than before
railroads were built? In word, ask him if
he would like to have the roads torn Up? It
would serve the grumblers along the railroad
lines right, ii, by flood or other casualty, the
good God would, say for six months, arrest
the turning of railroad wheel. Half that
time would bring the demagogues to their
knees, and so test the efficacy of prayer as to
determine of what avail are the supplications
OF tbs altogether ungodly.
We understand that the agents of the Els.
dmaner have been securing this State TO get
together the Democratic county committees.
to induce them to pass resolutions approving
the couree of Governor Stoneman IN calling
tie extra session, So fsr there have been
three counties, out of fifty-tRo, which have
responded. The result Of this extra session
is important, not only to the Democratic
party, but to sundry persons If it fails,
and fail IL uili tho firS+ Eh,nr- = A. -.