The record-union., 1891-07-13
Let Enterprise and Canital Come,

Let Enterprise and Capital Come.
Eds. RECORD UNION: Go where YOU
will throughout the length and breadth
of this city and you Will find groups OF
men and women discussing the one all
important subject Shall capital and en-
terprise be shut out from us, and are we
to remain a backwood village of the past,
simply by the acts of three men whom
the people III their confidence exalted to
the management OF her affairs?"
Our people are aroused to-day as never
before. Capital and enterprise are now
Knocking at our doors tor admittance,
and the question now rests with this peo-
pie, shall we with outstretched arms in
vite it here?
Our City Fathers have met and
answered this question. They, by their
action, positively say, no; and they in
whom the citizens and taxpayers have re-
posed all confidence, with whom they
rested the powers OF our city government,
and Who by their oath OF ndelity sub
scrlbed to perform and discharge their
sworn duty TO al this city irrespective of
wards or localities, have announced to
the citizens OF this city that they are
either incompetent and wholly unit to
govern respectable ard progressive peo-
pie, OK they have, by their naughty in
peoples wishes, diSregarded the almost
unanimous voice OF the qualified electors
and property holders OF this common
wealth This they have done, and this they
cannot deny. They have slurred and
judged with utter contempt the wishes of
nlne-tenths OF our whole people, because,
as they claim, by admitting an enterprise
into our city which Will In round num-
DerS lay out in the next three months
over SlU0050 i'll the way of building and
eqWpping an electric railroad on Z street,
which viii not only build up the south
eastern part Of this city, but VIII give
employment to hundreds of men and
their families, it may injure competing
line. What an excuse this is from three
intelligent men. 1t IS enough to make
every citizen who has the interest Of this
city at heart bow his head in shame.
1t is very evident our Trustees have
given but little thought to the past his
tory OF Sacramento, but it would be well
for them to refer 10 the time when Baker
q Hamilton asked for a few blocks of
ground on Front street to erect agricul-
tural works. The powers that were told
them, as did our present city officials J
ii. Henry, that we did not want them.
Baker Il Hamilton were men of enter
prise. They did notwant to locate where
they were not wanted and they went to
Benlcla and locltcd their works where
they now employ 1900 men. Again a
large nail factory wanted to locate here.
They asked our citizens to subscribe to
some stock and donate them pround
whereon to build, but the same kind of
silurians were in control of our city
affairs and OF couTSe5we lost it. To-day
that same enterprise is located in Oak
land and gives employment to some 400
men of families
L could name numerous other enter
prlseS Ill the past years that wished to
come here and help To build up this Capi-
tai City of the State, but they all met the
same fate. One with ordinary Judgment
surely would suppose that these fatal
errors OF the past would teach our Trus-
tees lesson. But has it done so? Let
our people answer. 1t is fact that this
city is belittled and abused in every way
possible from jealousy or some other
cause, and why in the name of common
sense her own people don't stick together
| and try TO build her up and increase her
population l can't understand.
Now | wish to say that personally 7
have every respect for Mayor Comstock.
Mclaughlin and Conklin, but as to their
acts in denying capital to enter this CITY
! vigorously protest and ] say, Gentle
men, this city and her people hold YOU
personally responsible for the black eve
you have given herin the past week, but
there is one hope left, and that is for Won
at your meeting tomorrow to grant Mr..
Henry his franchise on p street, and also
grant Mr.. Carey's on Third street. Our
city to-day is on the eve Of an era of great
prosperity. Let gailroads run to the
right and the left OF us. Invite EVERYONE
to come and invest here. You, gen le-
men, have but year or so to serve. and
when you come back to the common
walks of life and are one of us, you can
point with pride to your official acts"
j. G. MARITIME.
Sacramento, July Il, 1891.