Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-09
STANFoRD's VIEWS.
EXPRESSED JUST PRIOR 10 LEAY-
ING FOR EUROPE.
" Gath Interviews the Senator Upon
Leading Topics now Before
tho American People.

cisco Examiner, appears the foEowing upon
leading topics now before tile American
people. Mr.. Stanford being asked II he
felt that there wss necessity for foftifca-
tions and defenses along the Pacific coast,
replied:
PACIFIC COAST bEFENsEs.
There is only one point thers, l think,
which requires Notifications or batteries of
some kind, ard that is San Francisco. That
city lies very near the sea, and forts at the
Golden Gate would hardly answer all the
conditions. A bar'makes out and affords
anchorage for coed many R,iles for bomb
vessels and even war ships. l think that
some kind of a floating battery, which can
be moved from point to point, taken out to
sea and brought in again is what may be
required there; but SO zar as the Pacific
coast and the general far West are con-
cerned, they have remarkable protection
in the new lines of railroad. From New
Orleans there runs close to our boundary:
line g continuous railroad to the Pacific.
and up the coast, defended by a wall OF
mountains and vet nearer the sea we have
a railroad to San Francisco, and if that
place should ever be occupied we have
line of rail which goes 10 the rear of it by
way of Stockton. The new Oregon line
ascends by the aid O. the Northern Pacific
railroad to the Canadian Pacific frontier.
and then the Union Pacific and Northern
lie close within the northern boundary
clear back to the lakes. The fact is, by our
railroad system we could assemble a
millien of men in ten days from this now
populcus country.
THE CO LIFoRNIA BOOM.
Inreply to question concerning TIE boom
int tho tota IL Stamford caiI
Ees: there have been large additions to
the population, and many passengers
carried. However, the newcomers have
made most Of the money, since they
bought from the old people at small prices
and uuloaded upon newer arrivals. | have
been apprehensive, however, that the spec
ulative passion of our people would get
real estate too high and result in some dis
enlargement or disaster. The best portion
of the State ! consider to be in the north.
but there the property is held in large tracts,
and II 2C0 acres or so were sold to a new
settler, the old settler would have to begin
to fence, and that would cost him money.
Those who so to Los Angeles and there
abouts have their chief concern in q fire
climate, aud they get it. A good many,
toe, have Been prospectus in their orange
groves, from which in several cases thew
have received about $3.50 an acre for the
fruit alone-a marvellous percentage Up
to the present time our orange production
is within the line Of the home consump-
ton. I have always been an advocate OF
bringing people to the coast. 1t is q long
way, and those who come first ought to
have the best chances. To that end. / have
said l would rather bring 10000 passengers
out for nothing than charge an excessive
rate. Unfortunately, the different corpora
tons which break the continuous journey
fromsthe East to the West have been indif-
ferent about sending passengers over the
next extension. We have great expanse of
country between cur coast and the Missouri
river. The rate now from Chicago to Cal
ifornia is about $50, second-class, and the
facilities are quite fair for sleeping as well
as travelling. TO come to the coast and get
settled is matter perhaps of $500 to $500,
the accumulations of plain mans years.
The fares therefore should be kept low and
the real estate not be maintained at merely
speculative figures if we are TO continue to
derive that benefit"
PACIFIC COAST PRoTEcTIewsTs.
Gam to understand that protection is
more popular on the Pacific coast than in
some other parts of the country"
Well, yes almost everybody out there
is protectionist. 1t is generally recog-
niZed that our fruit industry is to be the
basis of our prosperity in the future. This,
by the new tariff bill, is assailed. Our
prunes are menaced from France and else
where. The people think they ere entitled
to at least that safeguard which existed
when they planted. Wine, also, or the
grape and dry raisins, make one of our
great features. Then lead is menaced al
ready by the terms of its admission in con-
junction with silver from Mexico. If the
value of the silver exceeds that of the lead
in the bar it comes in free. Some of our
strongest mines have great excess of lead.
The coal interest on the Pacific feels the
need CT some protection. We use an enor-
mous.2mount of coal, and there is tariff
OF 10 cents ton. Hence these enterprises,
which are hardly of age, are sensitive, and
into DER market everybody wants to press,
l have been conservative on the question of
commercial intercourse, but it is plain to
me that our people have so many interests.
such az expanse of country, and so much
anxiety and pride in what they are doing,
that tie tariff lies very near their hearts,
THE DUTY ON WOOL
What is to be said On the subject Of
wool and The tariff p
" l am considerably the largest owner in
the Mission Mills, OF San Francisco, which
have reputation for fine blankets. Ill
were te consult my own interests I would
probably favor the admission of Australian
wool, whose long staple is required in con-
junction with our own wool for that blan-
ket work. But 1t is incompatible with the
protection OF our own sheep. Indeed nv
friend, the students and doctors have got
to appreheBd this great fact in existing
civilization, that intercourse is so close and
universal that hardly single branch of
manufacture in America could be main
flNarsa oh ~,
freedom Take those very mills / tell YOU
of. We pay Cinnamon who work in them
81 30 per day !; we could take the machin-
cry out of the mill and ship it over 10
China, ald there get the same or better la
Dor for ten cents a day. No man would
want better opportunity than this to
achieve the greatest fortune of modern
tlraes. But no man who has consideration
for his country, and his country people,
would like to see any such step taken.
Therefore we shall be brought, think, to
face the problem of our own country and
its une1anipled freedom of trade between
ocean and ocean and zone and zone. Ap-
plying the free trade system to the problem I
OF cheap labor in Asia and other parts of
the world, aAd the peculiar experiences of
those Asiatios, L say that you have only 70
go far enough to shut, Up every mill in this
country. The people have already closed
the Chlnese oct, and are demanding more
legislation. The bill now before Congress
exactlng more care about readmissions on }
certificates will, 1 have no doubt, pass. \
Yet, suppose that the Chinese should see
their great opportunity and call upon the
manufacturers Of the world under free
trade conditions TO merely move their
mills across the ocean, matter of very
little time and of very little money.
Therefore, think that the next Presiden.
tiai election in tkis country is apt to be
close one, and | think the Republicans, if
they can unite, have the opportunity 10
carry the day through tie intelligence and
anxiety of the wage-earners. No doubt any
approach TO free trade would be the quickest
feit IN the vicinity c. labor Vita regard
to tie question of wool. il seems to me
like this; The wool you cut from your
mutton is the profit y0z get out of keeping |
sheep. The mutton itseif does not Weld a |
prolific the herder, but il oheapens Good !
Keeping these herds for the I
purpose OF getting their ssooi makes meat |
plentiin, near the mines, The cities and tie |
mills. SO think that, WIFE the far island, /
OF the sea raising sheep IN sarplus, we had |
better go SOW before we destroy orr herds. |!
as would &c the case, / think, with free
WOOL
FRBE COINAGE OF sILSER.
What abop. silver and It's future stand
ng in currency
Silver" SAID Mr.. Stanford 5, is ,o--