Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-02
"LEF TIE RAILROAD COME RIGHT
Sun Diego Union. Ianuarr s5th !

San Diego Union, January :5th.l
We have read with interest the exhaus-
tive report OF Chairman Cobb, of the House
Public Lands Committee, accompanying
his bill TO forfeit the land grant to the
Texas and Pacific Railway Company, now
claimed by the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company as the assignee of the Texas and
Pacific. We have. we say. read it with
interest, as it reviews the history of rail.
road war in which San Diego bore no small
part, and, though defeated, left the field
with honor.
In the words of the eloquent Ingersoll.
1.-The past rises before US. The elabo.
rate argument o. Mr.. Cobb the burning
indignation of the anti.monopoly" poll
ticians and newspapers the strong espou-
sal of the cause of wronged San Diego bv
the Chronicle and other California Jour.
nals-all these bring very wildly to mem.
vehemently at Washington between the
armies OF Huntington and Scott. 1t was a
real war, in which blows were dealt in
earnest, and there was no compromise.
Where, in that day of battle, were the
men whose outcry is now so clsmorous {?
Where, among all OF Mr.. Cobbs commit
teemen, was the man who in that day
lifted his voice for a competing road Z?
Where, in all California, was the news.
paper that had one word Of cheer for San
Diego in her contest for q terminal posi-
ton? Did we get any help from the Sac.
ramento UNION? Were we encouraged
By the Chronicle Surely the rights Of
San Diego were just as real then, when she
was fighting, single. handed, for them, as
they are now, long after her defeat in the
contest.
What utterly base and contemplate hy-
pocrisy is all this present clamor There
was a sine when we needed help; when,
as the records now published abundantly
disclose, we were very near success when
even one friendly hand-now valiant u
strike-would have counted for thousand
men; when but one word of encourage.
ment from the press-now blazing with
valorous rage-would have cheered our
way to victory. But the friendly hand
was withheld and the word Of cheer I'M
spoken. Nay, more. The hand was up
lifted against US, and the voice of the press
was one of derision and scorn.
Knowing, as we do, every detail of that
fight remembering who were our enemies
and who our friends, we say to-day that
we place more faith in the honor and fair
dealing of the great California corporation
that was opposed to us than in ell of the
anti-monopoly howlers on the cont.
nent east and west. We made gallant
fight and lost it. And we know it. Bet
ter, far, rely upon the business common
sense of the railroad men of California to
recognize and avail themselves Of the ad-
yantages presented by cur port than &C.
cept the hypocritical coincidence OF the
pack of cowardly demagogues whose yelp.
ings, like those of the coyote OF the hills,
are inspired by an unappeassble hanger.
We have had cur little fight for com.
peting road. We made it alone, and were
whipped Now let those fellows that are
sorry for San Diego get out of the way.
We have no use for them Let the South
ern Pacific come right along and put us in
connection with the California system.