Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-01
VIEWS OF SENATOR STANFORD
Concerning the Political Situation in thi
State.

rs F. Bulletin, October 30th.l
Senator Leland Stanford was interviewed
this afternoon concerning the political stu
alton His answers were substantially as
follows:
"Yes, l think this election is very i'm
portant one, reaching far beyond the bound
aries of our State, and possibly involving
the political character of the United States
Senate. hope to see the Republican State
and Legislative ticket elected. Mr.. Swift,
the nominee for Governor, is an able man,
and, in my Judgment, fit to fill any office.
He is in harmony with the sentiment of
the Republican party, which take it rep
resents the American sentiment-educa-
ton through the free schools, free religion.
deep and earnest appreciation of the
rights of man as expressed in the Declare
ton of Independence, and again in the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, by which the rights of
individuals in their life, liberty and prop
erty are guaranteed. The Republican party
grew into existence because Of thorough
belief in these. principles. 1t is the party
of progress. It is the party which bust
itself in trying to elevate the masses Of
mankind. Aside from maintaining the
integrity of the nation, the great duty
of statesmen is to see how they
The wealthy and educated find their
benefit in the progress of the other class. If
our American laborers are TO have prece-
dent in compensation over the laborers of
other countries, it will be because of their
superior intelligence and the consequent
greater power OF production. The laborer
is worthy of his hire. That means that he
shall be compensated according to his
power of production. In this State we see
the harvester paid 80 day to raise wheat
to be sold in England. The laborer in
India receives cents day, and the man
on the banks of the Nile receives red rad
ish per day for raising the same article to
be sold in the same market. 1t all goes TO
the English market, and England will pay
no more for a kernel of wheat raised in
California by the man who receives 50
day than it will for the wheat raised in
India with the wages at cents, or on the
banks of the Nile, where laborer receives
a red radish worth l cent. The man in
California, however, is able to cut and
trash and put the wheat in the sack for 10
cents per hundred pounds. He can, there
fore, well afford TO pay his laborer 81 day,
even though he must compete with the
cheaper labor Of India and Egypt.
< think this is direct illustration of the
value OF labor depending upon its produc-
tive capacity, and marks the difference in
degree of the intelligent direction and ap-
plication of labor in the three countries.
think, and / believe it is so accepted by
the great body of Republicans, that an i'm
portant aid to the advancement of the well
fare of the laboring man is cooperation.
To maintain cooperation among the peo-
pie requires certain amount of intelli-
gence and the legal provisions necessary to
protect them. Where there is cooperation
the force of the strongest man inures to
the benefit of the weakest. The conse-
quence is, that instead of the strongest man
being brought down to the level of the
weakest, the weakest is elevated to the
Nvel of the strongest. Why l think the
h ecratic party is not the equal of the
Rep -.blican party, SO far as American ideas
are concerned, is the fact that the great bulk
Of the party is in the South. The existence
of slavery in that section forbade the
assertion of the rights of man as laid down
in the Declaration of Independence. Ours
is the only Government, so far as l
know, that is founded distinctly upon
the great moral idea of the rights of
man. All other Governments have
been founded in force and maintained by
force. Hence the people who come from
countries where true freedom has not been
known as we understand it, do not compre-
bend our principles, and therefore there
are Anarchists. There can be no anarchy
where the rights of man arerecognized and
fully believed in. 1t must have struck
every thoughtful person as peculiar that in
the lists of the members of Anarchist socie-
ties the names of no Americans appear 1t
takes time to educate men coming from
foreign countries to comprehend and I'M
derstand the humaniziDg power and the
magnifcence of the ultimate consequences
of Government founded on the moral
ideas to which l have referred. Without
questioning the patriotism of the Demo-
cratic party, find in the reasons which l
have given why desire the success OF the
Republican ticket. 1 think that there is
before the country and the world great
battle between two kinds of government.
We stand alone, not only as q government
but as people, in our appreciation founded
on the great moral ideas before mentioned.