Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-19
A MATTER OF MANLINEss.

There is one thing about the mountain
press that has always excited our admira-
tion-its bigheartedness and ability to
recognize merit above the head of self-in-
terest. Perhaps it is the freedom of the
mountain life; the buoyancy of the
pure atmosphere of the eternal hills
the chivalry and manlinesS begot of
dwelling in the lofty attitudes, where the
waters are born, and the resinous aroma of
the piney woods stimulates the lungs to
deepest draughts of the inspiring air of the
mighty mountains-these and other things.
their methods of life, the broad hospitality
begat of their roughing it in the days gone
by, make the men of the Sierras generous
and just and fair to an opponent A noun
tain editor will fight you to the death on
any Issue on which you may lock horns :"
his paper will return blows worthy of all
given, but because there is difference of
opinion between it and contemporary as
to public question, it does not therefore
look upon the latter as Vandal and an
enemy to be killed at sight The RECORD
UNION has never uttered hard words of its
mountain contemporaries, while opposing
with its best efforts the methods of inter
ests they deem essential to their very
existence, and standing firmly for
the agricultural industry, ard free,
unimpeded river commerce, and its own
estimate of the right It does not believe
in assailing motives nor questioning APP
parent honesty of purpose in an opponent,
simply because it cannot agree with it in
sentiment. It is time enough to assail
motive when it is clear that dishonesty
OF purpose underlies apparent limo
cence. 1t has striven 10 be so fair and
generous and Just and true lin its debates
as toretain its own self-respect as well as
that Of those whose paths it may cross
We have been led to these remarks by
note in the Nevada City Daily Transcript,
in which, referring to the presence of the
REcoRD-UNIoY business agents in that
city, SAYS: "The RECORD UNION has a
large constituency in this part of the State.
No journal that eirculates here is more re-
spected for ability and fairness, and in the
amount of news given it has no superior
and but few equals among the representa-
tive papers of the COAST Here is a repre-
sentative Journal that stings when it
strikes, that strikes when it does,
with vigor, and which those incapable of
approaching the chiyalric spirit would say
had every reason TO score the RECORD
UNIoN at every point ard spare no spot
Fortunately for the world there is such a
thing as rising superior to selfish interest
The RECoRD-UNIoN having striyen to be
Just to the valley without being vitupera-
tive against the mountains; having done
its best for the integrity of navigation and
the salvation of agricultural interests-the
foremost Of all others-haS yet no reproach
for itself regarding the mining regions,
since it has al no time willfully or know
insly done the people thereof wrong,
assailed them with bitterness or been in
spired in its position regarding them by
any other feeling than that of profoundest
sympathy for misfortunes and earnest de-
sire for their best welfare. 1t believes the
occasion Will never arise that will lead it
to change this policy. That the Nevada
City Transcript finds it in its heart, as have
SO many of its mountain contemporaries,
to recognize the fairness of this paper, con-
firms us in the conscientious view we take
of duty and honorable conduct, in all this
yexatious and deplorabIe debate concern
ing navigable rivers and gold-bearing
mountains.