Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-24

cation at supposed triumph over por-
ton of their constituency. That city
fondly imagines that she has communica-
ton, all sufficient, by sea. This is the
gravest of her many mistakes. The men
of the north are Just as wise in their day,
and greatly more far-seeing. Retail mer-
chants will buy in Portland hereafter, In
preference to the risks and discomforts of
voyage by sea to San Francisco. All
southern Oregon, which might have been
made tributary to the marts of this State,
will face the other way The people of
the Yreka region are already teaming
their freight from Roseburg. Chicago will
now be the wholesale market of supply for
all the fertile region that has desired close
relations with our own marts. Portland
will be subsidiary wholesale market, but
that city will eventually become the me-
tropolitan center of all that rich region.
Had the California and Oregon road
been put through, the retail merchants of
Oregon and Washington Territory could
have come to San Francisco to make their
purchases, even if they choose to ship by
sea. But there was a city by the way, the
prosperity of which can but reflect the I'D
vance and business supremacy of the city
by the Golden Gate In her narrow
jealousy of Sacramento and the interior,
San Francisco consented that the knife
should be put to her own throat.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company
was in negotiation with the Oregon Cen
trail Company for the purchase of that
road in its entirety to Portland. The
financial embarrassment of the Northern
Pacific Company enabled these negotia-
tons to be opened and prosecuted to a
point where success was all but assured.
But there was to their conSummation a
factor precedent and necessary to be clearly
ascertained-could the securities be had
to complete the road from Redding to
Roseburg? Obviously the Central Pacific
could do nothing with a line from Port
land to Roseburg, unless it could make a
through connection with the California
system.
That connection cannot be made. 1t is
among the remotest and barest possibilities
only, and so far from being at all probable
not one dollar of capital can be induced to
make the venture 1t is simple, cold,
frozen truth, that the baseless call issued
by the Governor of California in servile
obedience to political ring-masters that
his equally subseryient message to the
Legislature that assembled that the hol-
low mockery of the resolutions of Mr..
Wallace-made the more offensive to
reason, law and the dictates of justice from
the fact that they resulted from the har
lotry of brains with the libertineism Of po-
litical ambition-that the manifestoes of
assumed journalistic opponents of public
opinion, and the persistent preaching OF
anti-railroad sentiments in the name of a
people who have not given the authority
for this prostitution of their sovereignty
all these and similar influences and
agencies have done their work
1t will be replied glibly that the suspen-
sion of work at the north, and the compile
ton of the isolation of California from
northern trade by rail, is but scheme of
retaliation. But that charge will be sim
ply and wholly untrue. The financial
world knows that California railroad Sc
curities are now discredited in the markets
of the world, and that the fact is due
wholly and only to the spirit of the sa-
tanic press, and the demagogic action of a
weak and vacillating Governor.
By such manifestations of communistic
sentiment as the last few months have wit
messed; by such declarations of confisca-
ton, and such perversion of natural justice
as the Wallace resolutions typify, grevious
injury has been done to California, and a
portion of her fairest heritage has been set
over to the stranger, who henceforth will
exact tribute and spoil her of its wealth.
We have declared by acts of those in
authority that there is no truth in the
proven doctrine that the profit of Califor-
MIA is in having her railroad system con-
trolled by those whose interests are bound
up in her prosperity. The scattered senti-
ment OF communism is beginning to take
form and have substance. The voice of its
advocates already echo in the halls of leg
islation. lncompetency assumes to grasp
the rcins of commercial interests that yield
obedience only to profound knowledge of
economic laws and the craven DEGREES of
trade Malignant hatred of industrial cor
porations blind disregard of the mutually
Of the interests Of capital, production, labor
and trade; reckless assaults upon institu-
tons the wreck Of which, but for the sense
of justice of the people, would bring with
il the very pillars Of state in common
ruin-thcSc are the manifestations of the
day, and in the name of a people who have
not themselves complained, who, now on
the highway to a prosperous future are to
be turned backward upon their path, that
political medioority, unholy ambition, ig-
norant spleen, and unbounded greed may
have their day.
SETTLED.
The Republican County Convention yes