Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-01
Chicsgo's Tough Weather.
DIPLOMATIC CONoUESTs.
VIII the United States Build Up a Com
mercfaI Rival
from the S. F. Cau.

From the S. F. Cau.1
The New York Suf charges that the
principal of the two Canadian railway lines
has taken alarm at the evidence taken be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Committee
and has hastenei to Washington to secure
the roads in their profitable traffic by the
methods which accomplished the Canadian
reciprocity treaty and the treaty of Wash
ington." The San adds: These easy di-
plomatic cOnQuests, to our shame be il
said, were won with money and the unin-
terrupted flow of champage" The treaty
just concluded with Germany on the Sa-
moan difficulty indicates that the present
Administration is less susceptible 10 such
influence than some former administra-
tions have been. If the principal of the
two Canadian railroads thinks to carry his
points by opening a few bottles of cham
pagne he will most certainly be diSap-
pointed. The Sun has received what it
considers trustworthy information that on
the 18th of this month the Canadian Pacific
Railway was to apply to the Treasury De-
partInent in Washington to be desig-
mated q common carrier between any
and all parts of the United States
by rail or water. This application
the Sun asserts, received the support
of the United States Collector of Revenue
at Portland, Me. 1t is intimated also that
Mr.. Blaine does not look upon the appli-
cation with disfavor. In the absence of
positive information about Mr.. Blaine's pO-
sitlon on this important matter it will be
well to accord MIN the general considera-
tion OF being neither q knave nor a fool
The State of Maine may have special rea-
sons why the Canadian roads should be
given the position of common carrier, but
Mr.. Blaine knows very well that he is not
the Secretary of the State OF Maine but of
the United States. OF all our statesmen he
has been the least subject to near sighted
ness. Years ago, when he was a Repre-
sentative from the State of Maine, he could
see the Pacific Coast and appreciate the pc
culiarities of its position. He will hardly
be less far sighted now when he holds a
national office and is especially bound to
take into consideration the interests of the
whole country. The Sun, while disposed
TO give credence to the report that Blaine
may help the Canadian railway in this
matter, gives the following conclusive rea-
sons why he should not:
The Canadian Pacific road is a military high.
way, planned and built for the swift movement
of brgades and divisions of a British army 10
strateglcal points on our cOuutryS northern
boundary, from Maine to Washington Territory.
Thrae-quarterS of its line is in wilderness. It's
local traihc does not pay the cost OF running its
trains. 1t must have full participation with the
American transcOntinental roads in the internal
and coastwise commerce of the United States tO
earn money enough to pay running expenses
and avoid bankruptcy that will rot its ties
and bridges and wash down its track with rain
and wind. To help this hostile British military
railway steal from the American railroads
American traffic and travel in quantities sui:
fcieDt to maintain in effective order and con.
fare against the United States is crime of the
grade that made Benedict Arnold infamous.