Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-17
NONE so BLIND AS THOSE WHO
WILL NOT SEE.

Il seems to be the policy Of the RECORD UNION
10 luli the people TO feeling of indifference as
their share of the responsibility while il calls
for outside forces to come and help them ere
they sink. Outside help is all well enough. but
~ oOS tln II We must PUT our own shoulders TO
me wheel, and push with earnestneSs.-tSutte
Farmer.
1t seems to be the policy" of the Farmer
TO testify to its own obtuseness and its
ability to be unfair and vulgarly mean.
We have once testified to its ability to be
iair, which makes It's present assault upon
motives all the more contemplate
The RDcoRD-USIoN has no defense to
make. Its statements have been and are
clear and mmistakable. 1t believes in
putting our own shoulders to the wheel"
and at the same time hallooing for help at
the top Of our collective lungs, to get the
wheel all the sooner out Of the mud. and
in continuing to shout for such aid as shall
prevent any moro mud
Is this the same Sutcr Farmer that on
the 9TH Of August said
Il is necessary to push every means at hand
that is honorable and for an honOrab HE r,,ir,oSe
ana leave no stone uDtuTned TO free this valley
from impending danger. In these efforts we
would include an appeal 10 the Federal and
olate governments in terms which would not
OhiS engage thelr attention, but also that of the
world al large. plain and concise statement
should be written, describing the process and lis
results the legal status, citing the various de-
cislops upon the subject, and such other matters
properly belonging to q memorial Such a paDer
should be presented to every inhabitant of Inc
valley that has reached the age of discretion for
ms OF heF signature. Then IL should be carried
before the Executive Departments of the Coy
ernment-both state and nationality a com
inluee OF leading citizens whose presence and
petition could not be ignored. and which would
elcit reply of some kind. II must be remen-
'oereo that governments do not redress griey-
ahces Gnless they ave made known; and when
made known in the manner indicated some
steps VIC are certain. would be taken to redress
the wrongs " -
These are expressions III which we CON
cur fully. In the same article the Farmer
regretted that in discussing the question,
impounding dams should be thrown into
the discussion. Thi. or any other remedy
is wholly out Of order until the cause il
removed. Here arc two separate and dis
tiTict issues that are foreign to each other,
and DO not deserve to be mentioned in the
same connection" An expression emil
nentiy sound in Judgment, and which the
REcoRD-UNIoN has frequently used in
slightly different language. And this af-
fords Us the opportunity to say that any
insinuation that the record UNIONS dc
mand for governmental interference is in
tended to secure the erection by the Gov
eminent Of dams that shall enable the hy-
dransic miners TO continue to pour their
debris and sliekens into the tributaries of
the river above or below such dams, are
cantemptibly false and pitifully base, and
born either of innate rnalignaney or unpar-
donable stupidity. SO much for position
taken. and that has the concurrence of the
orosd-nlinded and thoughtful.
1t is certainly true, as the Farmer puts
it, with this slickens disease, as xith all
Others, the cause must he removed
There is only the difference of opinion ex-
pressed in the following question, after all,
between honest disputants in the valley:
q Shall We wait until litigation has ended
the nuisance defined in the Gold Run case.
before We ask Government to aid the recla-
nation of the river, or shall we invoke the
attention of the Government now, in
order that when the moment arrives for
It's action, so much oftime as must be con-
surned in preliminaries shall not have been
lost7 And is it not possible, just and right