The record-union., 1892-08-27
A HEATED LouRNAL.

The San Francisco CAL. which has
been scolding in an old womanish way
for long time, and laundering about
nearly everything, oftener than not ham
mering away at its friends, is now really
mad. Its anger is at full tide and it is all
due to the RECoRD-UNIoN, which has
prodded the torpid intelligence of the
Cdl into a defensive and offensive atti-
tude, in which it delivers in single issue
three editorials straight at the RECORD
UNION, and over it's shoulders at railway
builders. These ebullitions amuse, how
ever, more than they entertain. The vitu-
perative language in which the Call in
dulges and its, senseIess rawlings that the
people are being ruined by the monstrous
iniquities of the railway system of Califor-
mia, and much such matter, disclose the
feebleness of the ours position relative
10 the carrier and productive interests of
the State. There is no strength in vitu-
peration; on the contrary, it is invaria-
bly, evidence of weakness.
Because the RECoRD-UNIoN com
mended proposed cross-country RAILWAYS
and pointed out that they would make
certain sections independent of San Fran
cisco, the CdU shouts that the declaration
is born of hatred to San Francisco, which
is idiotic raving. We announced sim
pie, commercial truth; an undeniable
fact; made statement neither new nor
original, that wherever road from a
productive interior touches tide water at
good harbor, the supplied area is in a
way to become independent of distant
distributing points. This truism has
been illustrated in the cases of Seattle,
Tacoma and Portland on this coast, and
many other points in the common coun-
try.
The RECoRD-U UNION does not hate San
Francisco; it deplores the pound foolish
policy of some Of its would-be leaders; it
despises the narrowness of many of its
merchants; it applauds every effort of
true commercial worth to free itself from
the thraldom of old-time methods and
narrow and picayunish policies.
In the article upon the cross-country
roads the RECORD UNION warmly COM
mended the press of San Francisco for
approving the new ventures, and ex-
pressed the hope that it meant awakening
TO the truth. And for this the Call is verv
mad, though it oddly goes on to approve
anew precisely that to which the REooRD-
UNION gave an encouraging word or two.
Indeed, it declares that the prosperity of
interior cities contributes to that of the
metropolis, and that the latter therefore
rejoices in their advancement, We trust
that this is so. 1t appears, however, to
have been but recently discovered by the
CdlL-since, indeed, the RECORD UNION
approved the cross-country road from
Fresno to Monterey. 1t is a pity, great
pity, that this declaration by the Call has
not been the uniform San Francisco mol
icy, and that merchants of that CITY ever
gave the lie to the Cars assertion bv ne.
titioning railway carriers to discriminate
against interior towns and cities that
they might be compelled to pay tribute
to San Francisco and her margin of prof
its, regardless of their breadth.
The CdJl insists that the Fundamental
objection of San Francisco is to being
''the tail end of transcontinental rail.
way" There is nothing, be it noted, tc
prevent her becoming the head end if she
wishes. But how many railroads has Sar
Francisco built? To what railway enter.
prises has she established the right tc
headship? What railroad promotion has
her merchant class encouraged? If sht
is a taiI-ender-which is not true, how
ever-San Francisco has only herself tx
blame. She suffers nothing not due tt
her own laches and want of foresight
She is subject to no i'll by reason of com
mercial competition that is not the resul
of natural laws. That she has not ap.
piled remedies, is due to her failure to un