Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-30
MEAN AND PITIFUL ISLANDERS.

The San Francisco Chronicle bemeans
itself to repeat the threadbare SANDER
that the people of Sacramento "have had
SO many Conventions that thev have
brought the art of plucl1ing members to
high perfection" This indulgence in
sneers at the people of the Capital City is
as mean as it is ungenerous, and as false as
1t is vulgar. The truth is, that people
who attend Conventions here are treated
with the same consideration that is ac-
corded like visitors in any reputable city.
With all the liberty taken with the fair
name of our people, no one has
yet filed bill of plucking par
ticulars. The accommodations for Wis
ltors here are regulated by the same
laws Of supply and demand that operate
everywhere else. If the statistics of the
truth were taken, it would be shown that
the libels referred to, upon our people,
are without a particle of foundation. If
any one is "plucked" in Sacramento, it is
because he wants to be, or falls into the
hands of Philistines, who are as common
in one community as another. The visitor
to this city, who keeps clear of dens found
In all cities, who behaves himself ac-
eording to the rules of propriety, and is
content with fair treatment for n fair
price, gets as good accommodations, and at
rs low rate, and receives as much atten-
ton and consideration, as is the due of apy
man. Capitals are, and always have been,
convenient targets for the sharpshooting of
newspaper wits and those pretentious peo
pie who are forever posing as so much bet
ter than their fellows. Sacramento has
done more for the State than the State has
done for her. Her people are as honest.
decent, discreet and cultured as those of
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose
or any other city. Assailing
law-abiding respectable and industrious
people by general SANDER, as is
done by the press regarding the popula-
ton OF the capital, is the lowest manifesto
tlon OF littleness and small-souled selfish
ness. 1t is the commonest of things for
strutting politicians to amble up to politi-
cal gatherings here, and boast about their
patronage to this people, and to loudly
mouth the inquiry, How would YOU get
along up here in Sacramento IL it wasn't
for Conventions, State Fairs and Legisla-
lures ?" No man who propounds the
question, aud thus attempts to humiliate
Sacramento's citizens, deserves any better
treatment than should be accorded the
vulgar egotist and insulting rough
This people claim to be no more virtuous.
honorable or law-abiding than their fellow
citizens Of San Francisco, Los Angeles or
San Jose, but they do claim just as large a
measure of uprightness, gentility, public
spirit and deeency. There is no city in
the State whose people are their superiors,
nor do we claim that any are their inferi
ors. Californians are pretty much alike.
No group of them has mortgage upon all
the virtue, or is possessed of all the vices
OF mankind. sacramento's people have
reason to think that they as fairly MAIN
tain the dignity and honor of the capital
OF this State as the citizens of any other
place could do. In the name of common
decency let these miserable flirts and fins
at this town and that; this vague charging
of the people of this or that city with be-
ing thieves and pilferers, extortioners and
dependents, utterly cease