The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-11-01
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

i is of no use for any person to deceive
himself as 20 the kind of a contest which
the inhabitants of San Francisco are fight
ing at the present time 1t is one to see if
Stanford, Huntington and their associates
shall strangle San Francisco by hiring men
to plunder us. These men have for years
been robbing us outright. They have wrung
money from San Francisco and used por-
ton of it to hire men who have debauehed
nearly every depar iment of the city and
State government Can we live and prosper
if we permit our enemies to hire profligates
10 put in Office men who know no masters
but our enemies? The managers of the
Central and Southern Pacific Railroad COM
panies have cheated the Government out of
at least fifty or sixty millions OF
dollars. How much they have cheated
San Francisco and the State of Cal
ifornia out of there is no telling, for it
has been going on for years. This city has
submitted TO the hiring of railroads, steam
ships and even sailing vessels to keep away
from our port or not to take our frslghts in
order that they might the more effectively
plumber Us. What is this but robbery? II
an indvidG hires another To debauch an
official it is crime and he can be punished,
but here are men, who use money by mill
a great city and control Legislatures, and it
is but trick. They may hire men who
plumber our citizens, and what OF it? They
may use money to elevate TO judgeships, 10
senatorships the ylest material, but who
shall say aught against such outrage? The
man WHO indorses the vilesi of acts will be
patted upon the back aud be raised to the
highest position; but should a man OPP
pose the men who have cheated the
Inhabitants of this city, State and
the General Government out of more
than one hundred millions of dollars he will
he set upon and ruined if possible. Should
merchant raise his hands against the IN
holy organization his business Will be broken
/ do wn by combination against him. He
cannot ship his merchandise on q railroad
which has been built by the people, for it
discriminates against him. Consider the
enOrmity of the offense Of 4 company
which has been pampered into existence by
the generosity Of a people being ground
into the dust by men who place these mis-
creants in judgeships, in United States
senatorships, etc. Should a people endure
such wrongs as we have submitted to for
years? Ought we TO go on permitting hire
liDgs Of the railroad company to rob US, for
such is the name of what they have
been dong Tor long time past? THE
CALL Is convinced that this people have
endured the wrongs Of the railroad mana
gers much longer than they ought TO have
done, aud that the plundering will not 90 on
indefinitely. Our city has been held in
check by as vile acts as have ever been
elsewhere in the world. The struggle now
with the bosses is simply one TO see who
shall get the most money from the Genital
and Southern Pacific Railroad companies.
which in the end comes out of the public.
Villains have leagued themselves with the
managers Of the railroad TO deprive US of
our wealth. Our citizens will not be ruled
over by such instruments as the railroad has
employed in the past. This. we take ii. is
quite certain.