Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-22
: THE NIGER IN THE FENCE AGAIN

The San Francisco Chronicle is seeking
diligently to create the impression that
in the disagreement among the fruit-grow-
ers of California relative to the methods
OF disposing of California products east of
the Missouri river, the railway company is
in secret collision with the agency selected
by the State Fruit Growers Union, and
desires to give such agency monopoly of
the entire business, and under such terms
and conditions as to place California fruit
interests at the mercy of the agent. 1t is
intimated by the same journal that this
and other things are being done to secure
to the railway company some profitable
advantage, to the disadvantage of home in
terests.
We think we know the spirit that actu-
ates the Sacramento fruit-growers, who are
supposed to be the chief directors to some
of the domestic arrangements of the Cali
fornia Fruit Union. Both the organized
influences named are, we assume, striving
to obtain the best terms possible for fruit
transportation. 1t must be accepted as
true that their aims are common-they dis
agree only as to methods But it is the
sublimity of absurdity to suppose for an
instant that the railway company has any
thing whatever to do with these internal
matters. 1t is insulting to common intel
hgence to suggest that the railroad people
would engage, in any way whatever, to
cripple fruit-growing, or collide or agree
with any particular agency or organization
to give such influence special advantages
to the injury Of fruit interests. Railway
managers are not idiots, and it would be
idiocy for them to do as the Chronicle in
Inmates they have done. Whoever has in
telligence enough to think on the subject
at all, must realize that the supreme in
terest of the railway company is in the
prosperity of the fruit-growers, their null
DUPLICATION and the conservation of small
fruit-growing and small farming generally.
What makes railway business profit
able is the close settlement of the country.
the occupancy and cultivation of lands and
the raising Of produce for export. The
more that can be sent out to market of
demand, the better railway managers are
pleased. Indeed, it would be equivalent
to clubbing them asses, to hold that they
prefer small shipments at high rates, and
hence small product, instead of large shin
ments at lower rates and consequent great
product Of many orchards and farms and
many people to whom supplies must be
brought in by the rail lines of transporta-
ton. 1t has come to pass that no question
OF development can be debated without
the anti-railroad maniacs, of which the
Chronicle is an abnormal example, discov-
ing "the railroad" in some involvement in
lmical to the interests Of the people, and
consequently occupying suicidal attitude.
The paper referred to has its labor for its
pains, for if there is one thing more than
another of which this people have no
doubt, 1t is that the interests of the trans
continental carriers reside in the rapid and
complete development OF the resources of
California and the coast, and the settle
ment and cultivation of California lands to
the full limit of their capacity, and the
profitable disposition of their products.
The attempt to drag the railroad company
into every matter before the people, and
to induce them to believe it monster
seeking to devour them is purile and
insults the intelligence of the masses.