The morning call., 1892-04-11
THE CALL CALENDAR,
APRIL 1892.
ARE WE "FHEBLE-MINDED?"
In an interview MI Hungtington is made
n t,ftar +ha fnIIo,viDC wards.

In an interview Mr.. Hungtington is made
to utter the following words:
The sturdy farmer who comes West with his
family and puts $4,000 into a ranch, fails OF
adequate moral support in California The
people don't meet him half way. They should
do more 10 get good men 10 settle down among
them and TO build up trade
To the above the Argopaut adds the fol-
lowing comments:
While this IS true as it reads we should like 10
have Mr. Huntington explain what encourage
ment or fnducement can be offered to the West
ern farmer, with $1,000 TO come here and settle
under tie prevailing conditions IF uansporta-
ton. Not only would II make serious inroad
upon his $4,000 TO transport himself aud family
and their belongings to this State, but when be
has ben g.t his ranch ana settled Gown 10 "buid
up trade" he finds he Is simply working for the
Southern Pacific Company, which levies exorbl-
tant toll ON all lie buys and all he sells. That
company meets him bali way" and makes him
stand and deliver, graduating its tariff not by
any system or plan, but by Tie good CID rule OF
grabbing everything In sight and letting the
Talchsr get along as best he can.
Mr.. huntngton'S arguments. whenever he
comes here are of so extraordinary nature that
itwOuld almost seem as IL he looked Upon CaIfor-
Ma as a vast home OF The feeble-minded. And
lie may be more than half right.
THE CALL does not believe that California
is "a vast home for the feeble-minded. >" but
there are doubtless tens Of thousands of
persons in the Atlantic cities and States who
are inclined TO l0ok upon California in much
the same light as does Mr.. P.xley. They
naturally ask Why il is that our citizens
ear after year consent to have their sub
stance eaten I'D By three or four men, who
have, by hook or crook, got hold OF he rail-
roads which our citizens and the General
E,v- Il.
build. They also see that We permit the
same men who manage cur railroads to i'm
poYerish the city and State and that we
scarcely lift our hands to relieve ourselves.
California in early days, all admit, con-
tanned an energetic people. They did not
permit wholesale plumber to 90 on ill.,
definitely, and oar State and city affairs were
not all corrupt. Now even Buckley sends Us
words which sound very much like those
uttered by our friend Pixley, saying in sub
stance that we are at fault for allowing the
State to be controlled by misereants like
himself who have been given vitality and
life through railroad money. 1t will not be
very surprising if the inhabitants Of the
Eastern States should come TO the conclu-
sion that we are feeble-miuded Intelligent
persons here know that when convention
assemblies TO nominate candidates for Office,
from a constable UP TO candidate for Gov
evn0r in either party, few creatures
Of tie raihoad enter the convention, and
through what they term a compromise most
(of The important offices are secured by the
corporation. California has now reached
that period in her history, however, when
her citizens have something to do be-
sides allowing themselves to be sold BY our
Buckleys, or By the smooth-faced individuals
who do not care much what becomes of the
State providing they can make money
thereby