The record-union., 1891-02-01

they have beautiful homes, beautiful sur
roundings, and get good prices for lands.
find an immense fruit trade. an excel
| lent iobbing trade, immense manufacture
ing, insuring large payroll output. un-
surpassed rail facilities, a good country
| all around you, central location in the
middle of section that think viii have
| great progress Soon-So / can't see WHY
| any one should fail to be eontented here
with wealth and plenty. If poor and
| sick they would be miserable anywhere.
| can't see why Sacramentans should not
| thank Heaven for living III so favored a
spot. thank Heaven your people are
merciful, .too.''
"How is that?" 10
"Why, up north if any man had talked
against his town as that Secretary talked
TO me, the people would have taken him,
inside of an hour, to the edge of town and
told him to depart, never to return
Further over East they might do worse
by him."
81 was in a Pullman car few weeks
ago in Dakota, in the midst of storm of
snow and sleet. 1 happened to say to a
fellow traveller, what country. /
| would not live here for anything Up
jumped a stalwart Dakotan at that and
said, See here, sir, you ought to come
I he opened up in defense of Dakota, and 1
tell you admired that gallant fellow for
| his loyalty to Dakota"
LACKING IN LOYALTY, TOO.
DO we lack loyalty to Sacramento?"
~ on certainly do. / did not want to
say as much, but now it is out, it is true.
Why do you not stand up for Sacramento?
Not by answering complaints, but agress-
lively. / mean?"
loyalty?"
Let me see. Yes, here are three citizens
who learn have given this city beautiful
and costly gifts, and here are other cit
1ZenS abusing them and questioning their
motives. lnever saw any of these donors,
and yet | think from all I can find out.
they are true benefactors of Sacramento
wish we had them in Portland and as
able as they are here to give. / see the
work ofprogressive merchants and build
erS and live men, and / hear others rail
ing, at them because they have push.
nnd stranger putting in his coin to
build you an electrical road, and / am
told that some of your oldest citizens
fought him inch by inch, and even some
officials did all they could to shut the man
Off"
You have electrical overhead wire
roads in Portland?''
Yes, sir. We bid for them. We cult
vate people who build them We glory
III them. We have six overhead wire
''AiNt nav iItNCi Ittl all
We have one cable line, and three horse
car lines, and the last of the latter goes
out OF business inside of three months. in
favor of electricity
well, you think i'll of us then, fear p,
"Oh no; | like the people here. They
are kind, have hearts fail of humanity.
are gracious, and altogether a lovable
people. Oh no, like them, or l would
not come so often. 1t is because love
Sacramento that | deplore the apathy of
your people. Pll tell you the trouble in
word or two. They think of their town
last, and everywhere else on this coast
the people think of their town first. In
the cities of the Northwest every feature
OF interest is known in detail to all citi-
2ens; here, few are known to any. Up
north bitterest enemies clasp hands for
the town, and to interest a stranger in il
before he gets his name on the hotel
register. | do not mean boomer real es-
tate men. Here the stranger is utterly
alone, and no one takes the slightest in
terest in making him acquainted with
the town, its thirty miles OF drives, its
parks, galleries, churches, schools, State
buildings, business, soil products, situa-
ton, homes, manufactures, sights. land
scapes, its sporting grounds, its driving
park, its suburbs, its trade, and so forth.
That is all | complain of. Stand together
for your town, and run out the fellows
who stay here and still abuse the place
by shaming them"