The record-union., 1892-04-25

| DIgl! with desire TO test the truth of
! this, the purchaser had the frame weighed.
and it was ascertained that the actual
freight paid on the same was five eighths
of one per cent.
| The need of California to-day is more
people to do practical things-people who
realize that fortunes are not made in
| day. and that there is nothing like the
pront IN tearing down that there is in
! building up. Let the trades people of
means organize so as to pay the producer
the largest price that they can for his
product, instead of the smallest living
price, thus encouraging him to better and
greater efforts; then manipulate the pro-
! duce IN such way as to give it the
worlds market, not sending it out as
perishable goods to be sold in day as it
were. that being better than the total loss
] that would follow by decay. Almost
| everything raised in California can, if
properly treated, be sold widespread so
as to give it the world market. and there
shall then be no just complaint of the
carrying companies for not aiding in its
VIDE distribution. Ii the people CT San
FRANCISCO would organize To send ships
over the seas to gather the products of
Eastern Asia and at the way stations, the
islands, which will give them more ton
| mage than the way stations on the rail-
road in the dry, high lands in the center
of the continent through which it has
/
them nothing, as the taxgatherer cannot
| follow them over the trackless seas.
| = know that some complaint is made
against the builders of the railroads, be-
cause they did not pay par for their
shares; but ii there never had been any
gambling element in railway shares [ do
not believe there would have been 90 coo
miles OF railroad in the United States to-
day; but that speculative element has
caused vast number of people to pay
their money for constructing roads for
Which they have never received any re-
turns, and what they did pay to create
such properties was all lost to them The
builders of the California roads have paid
all their money In such works, used
much of their credit and sold all of their
i bonds, except so many of them as would
be necessary to pay the Indebtedness
created by the. building, and have such
money in the shares, for which, with the
exception of one road, they have re-
ceived nothing; but they are willing to
wait until population-and what follows
increased tonnage-wili be sufficient to
bring them some returns without raising
the rates as now fixed. With few excep-
! tions we have no manufactures in Cali
| fornia, when so many are needed, and
with our beautiful aiId healthful climate
and cheap food we could come very near
supplying the world market with many
things if they would give all people an
equal chance.
1.-The Mongolians came here for more
than thirty years-came and went as free
as the tides come in and go out-and
never more than 10000 stayed with us. /
| believe to-day that it California pursued
the same policy that prevailed before the
Exclusion Act the prosperity of the State
would be much greater than it is, and
there would be work for many more of
the Caucasian race than there is or ever
will be without such labor. All men
should be equal before the law, and all
should have an opportunity to work, and
receive fair wages for it, and no people
will prosper when they give less than
justice to all. The Chinese were a civil
lied people before the Pyramids were
built, and l believe will hold their own
in the race of the nations. Some that
have come here have not been of their
best and may be the worst; yet with the
police doing their duty there are not
enough among us to cause any alarm, and
doing injustice to the larger number be-
cause of the faults of the few will in time
bring retribution. We can afford to do
right though the heavens fall; but the
wrongs that we infiict will sooner or later
react upon us, and will have to be righted
some time. China can wait. In the words
of her great statesman and philosopher:
| The world is not so near It's end, nor the
1 cycles of the sun so nearly run, that
| ShiIt w III uOI udN6 tllll6 W TlSub IuG
wrongs that she has received from the
| nations
'What California, and you, as a portion
of her people, need to do to-day is to treat
all men justly, doing no harm to any; to
| build up every legitimate interest in the
State, and to do all those things that it is
possible for you to do to fairly reduce the
price of transportation, SO as to scatter
the products of the State to the widest
possible extent.
Gentlemen, what I have said is per-
| haps ill-titted to the spirit which should
animate social occasion like this; but l
have said it with purpose. 1t is only
my occasional good fortune to gather
around me the men upon whom depends
the sagacious and economical manage
ment OF these great properties for which
we are responsible. To those who are
more gifted than / am in the arts of wit
and oratory-and who, L might add, are
blessed with entire composure when on
their feet-I shall have to leave the happi-
ness of delighting you with their well
come speeches; but L can, by reason of
my years and experience of life, very ap-
propriately speak to you seriously upon
the significance Of the events that are
Transporting around us, and call your
earnest attention to the history that we
are all helping to make. To men like
yourselves, who deal with questions of
importance to the general public, life is
not play. Upon you and your actions
with respect to that public depend much
| the future OF California, as well as that
of the railroad interest. The questions
upon which you have to reflect and
| largely decide are broader than the ques-
! tions of temporary advantage and profit
that may accrue to the interest you so di-
rectly represent. There is significance
in them which will well repay your care
full study, for they touch the very well
fare of your State. AS a corporate inter-
est we are by no means independent of
parcel OF its development and OF its fu-
| ture. / want you all, gentlemen, to re-
member that in the prosperity of Califor-
MIA itself lies the secret of our own sue
cess. For that prosperity l have ever
/ had continuing desire. OF its realiza-
ton | may say in truth that have never
| had doubt.
.'If in the past the shadows of political
intrigue have shot across our path and
| made it dark and uncertain at times, l am
confident that the way is growing stead
! lily brighter and clearer. 1t cannot help
| being so with such allies as l see around
these tables tonight. You were loyal
officers and you waited for the word and
the word had to come. You do not need
| to ask me if I gave it gladly when the
time to speak had arrived; for you have
assured me of it in more ways than one
! Nor do need to ask you II 1t Is welcome
| for / have seen it in your faces You
know to-day that while you are Southern
| Pacific officials. you are at the same time
citizens of California; that your vote is
not only your own, bat your own openly:
that your political conviction is matter
of your own conscience and not thing
/ to be nursed in secret. / have no fear
that entire independence of thought in
these directions will result in anything
but good to the company and the State