Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-24

sham OF demagOgy ana uhholy pohtlcaI
ambition. They will be slow to believe the
truth, in view of past agitation, that instead
of being slaves to the carrying interests,
the farmers of California are really the
most independent of our classes, and freer
from any manner Of coercion than any
people in the United States That they
really dictate the power of the State, and
that, in fact, their interests are in
separable from those Of the car
riers, and that the two interests
conserve each the other No doubt demo-
gogv and the unfortunate and unnecessary
agitation of the railroad question has seri-
ously injured us in popular estimation
abroad and been the chief cause in check
ing the development of the Statet These
ill-effects must be overcome and the hol
lowness Of the late agitation exposed, and
reason take the place of prejudice and I'M
thinkable theories about transportation.
We cannot expect immigration or capital
to come TO us so long as we say to the one
you will be crippled, and to the other you
will be enslaved We must, rs the Times
suggests, give to those people accurate in
formation embracing the average yield per
acre of cereals, Of grapes, peaches, prmes
apricots, hops, nuts, olives, small fruits
and all our products. Then by the test
of series of years the average price
fetched per acre by each, the cost of pro
ducing them, and the present rates Of
freight to market Every farmer there
knows about the cost Of transporting the
product Of an acre to market and the pro-
portion it bears TO the profit on an acres
crop Put before him the same sort of in
formation for his enlightenment upon the
situation in California Let some immi-
grafton association or Board of Trade, or
Chamber Of Commerce take upon itself
this work, so that it shall come by authori-
" and more good will be done for us than
by any other thing that can be devised.
Let the showing embrace routes of 100, 200,
800 and 100 miles, so that in selecting his
location the settler may have data on which
to estimate his profits and the cost of his
business Mr. Mershon, of Newton, Iowa,
. large farmer and capitalist, who spent
his winter in this State, travelled very ex-
tcnsiycly and posted himself upon this line
ofinquiry and he is now organizing an eX-
tcnsiye excursion and immigration scheme
to direct attention to what he happily calls
our Winterless land" and is giving to his
clients information which cnlightcns them
thoroughly as to the one great question Of
transportation"
THE dispatches have for some days retailed
the story Of an insult to the Austro-Hunga-
riau flag by the Chief of Police Of the city Of
Pittsburg. The true story of this tempest
in the teapot is that the Austrian jIinister
complained to the State Department at
Washington that the Chief of Police had
pulled down the flag of Austria from over
the Austrian Consulate in Pittsburg There
upon the Secretary of State forwarded to
the Governor of Pennsylvania long letter,
in which he recited the provisions Of the
treaty with Austria by which that country
is permitted to give her flag to the en-
braces Of the American brcezcs that blow
over any Austrian Consulate headquarters.
The Secretary notified the Governor that
the insuI! must be apoIogi2ed for, and at
once. Thcrcupon the Governor issued &
proclamation TO the municipal Council of
riltsbGrE and directing it to have the Chief
Of Police at once make the amcnde honor
able. The Council sent the whole matter
20 its Police Committee, with orders to see
that the Chief apologizcd humbly, in
order to avert war between Austro-
Hungary and the city of Pittsburg"
The Chief then began 10 think the matter
serious, though every one else regarded it
as very amusing. and bit of red tape per
formance OF the primc.t order He there
fore SET forth the full facts in detail to the
Mayor; the Mayor communicated them to
the Governor; the Governor, under the
broad seal Of State, explained the whole
affair to the Secretary of State; he in turn
conveyed the regrets and apology 10 the
ed the official batch to the Foreign Bureau
Of Austro-Hungary. And here is thereof
and bottom Of all the fuss and official agi-
tauon. The City Council Of Pittsburg
passed an order directing the police to re
move all signs oyerhanging the street. The
Chief Of Police, in the prosecution Of his
duty, tore down the floating sign Of shop
man. Thcrcupon the retailer and the Chief
had a wordy war, and the former plotted 20
entrap the official When the birthday of
the Austrian Emperor came around the
shopman ran out the Austrian flag where
before his unlawful sign had swung, he
being though the fact was not generally
know Consul of Austro-Hungary. The
Chief, not beinswell informed as to the flag
of the Empire, with its peculiar insignia,
mistooI, it for defiance on the part Of his
foe, and q new style Of advertising sign,
and brought it to the earth in quick time
hence these tears.