The record-union., 1891-11-05
SAN FRANoIsCo.s POSITION.
How She Has Treated the Interior in
the Past.

ltfalt Gazette, October 31st.1
The San Francisco merchant, called so
by stretch OF courtesy, looks upon the
interior OF the State as his ''Injun''; as a
DlfQ TO be plucked; as something that
holdS the same relation to him that the
haySeed is supposed to hold to the bunco
man.
The object of this association is to bring
ABOUT renewal Of the old regime when
san francisco was the only terminal, and
consequently the only distributing point
III the State, to force state of affairs for
winch there may have been some excuse
III the lnclpIency of transcontinental rail-
roads, but which at this day would be
abnormal, unnatural and deSpotic.
When such condition existed and the
aim and duty in life with the mercantile
community IN San San Francisco was to
cInch the country producer and con-
sumner, the San Francisco merchant bit
the hand that was feeding him, and set
up howl against monopoly" This
cry, as we all know, resulted in the Cen
tral Pacific Railroad being paralleled
both north and south. The clamor and
the rights of natural terminal points
were recognized, and then the pawn
brokers and ShylOcks who pass for mer-
chants in San Francisco had a new
grievance. This was, and is, that such
points as Stockton, Sacramento, Los An
geles, San Diego and others having access
to the rest of the world must perforce be
made tributary to San Francisco, and
that the Interior must pay freight from
the point of supply to San Francisco and
back to the point through which the
goods had once passed by rail in order to
ENJOY the blessed privilege of having
them distributed from San Francisco
San Francisco is a great big pawnshop;
Its bankers are pawnbrokers; It's capital
lists are Shylocks and it's merchants are
peddlers. 1t is a Stagnant pool into
which the clear waters of the commerce.
the enterprise and the industry of the
Pacific Slope once flowed, and still flows
to certain extent. The narrow-minded
and llllberal policy ofthe San Francisco
mercantile community is alone RESPONSE
bic tor the loss of its trade. Some of it's
more tar-sighted members have met the
situation by establishing branches at
stockton, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Port
land and other terminal points, but those
who got in the rut and settled down on
their poSteriors content with the incre-
ment that came to them are still in it
that Is, in the rut, and all the resolutions
and preambles of Chambers of Commerce
and formations of associations won't pull
them out of ii. To make San Francisco
truly mercantile center there must be
new generation of Notwithstanding
in the true sense of the term.
"The devil was sick, the devil a saint
would be; the devil got we'll, the devil
saint was he." San Francisco, with her
trade shattered through her own mis-
treatment of the COW counties, :" is now
expressing a crocodile sympathy with
the cow she has SO judiciously and un-
mercifully MIXED, and is asking the in
terror to make common cause with her
in the display of her sore toe.
The interior should let the metropolis
do its own walking the floor, and win be
greater fool than the fly was when it
walked into the spiders parlor if it con-
sents to play second fiddle to San Fran
cisco in this matter.