The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-07-11
PRICKING A COMPLAINT.

In another column will be found an
article from the Tulare Daily Register,
in which are editorially recited certain
facts relative to efforts made in Tulare to
establish cannery, and to complaints
made against the railroad company in
connection Herewith, on the supposition
that the company had refused to the peo-
pie of Tulare transportation facilities and
rates that would enable them to found
and maintain the industry-that, in
short, the transportation rates gave the
fruit grower of Tulare no option but to
send his fruit to San Francisco to be
canned, unless he chose to dry it.
The article in question is exactly true
in its statements with single exception :;
no application was made to the railroad
authorities, inquiry develops, in the year
1891 for facilities that would enable can
merry to be established at Tulare. Upon
the superstition that an application had
been made and refused all the dis
appointment referred to was based.
Many another case of complaint in this
State has equally as unstable foundation.
But the fact is that the first appeal to
the Southern Pacific Company in the
Tulare case was made in March of this
year, and not in 1891. What then hap
pened, it is learned, was that the Traffic
Department of the Southern Pacific Com
pany, having its attention drawn to the
intention to found the proposed industry
in Tulare, at once lent it all possible aid.
The large vacant shop at Tulare was
offered free for the cannery works.
Timothy Paige followed this up with the
offer of a subsidy of $1,000, in sums of
$1,000 year for five years.
To further encourage the proposed in
dustry the Southern Pacific Company
offered to transport sugar to Tulare at the
desirable rate of S12 ton, tin cans at $50
per carload or S. per ton; pig tin at SI2
per ton, and coal at SIS from Coalinga to
Tulare. OF course. these concessions and
this spirit Of encouragement covered the
whole ground of complaint, made the
establishment of cannery at Tulare
certainty if the people desired it, and dis
closed the fact that the charges INDUCED
in that the railroad was the obstacle to
the erection of cannery were without a
particle of foundation.
1t is entirely improbable, however
that the San Francisco Traffic Association
would see in this encouragement of in
terror industry any virtue whatever.
while in the San Francisco anti-railroad
press any hope of finding reference to it
may be abandoned. Yet instances are
frequent of precisely such ENCOURAGE
ment being given by carrier interests
to the upbuilding of interior industries
And why not? The carrier of Freight
must find in the prosperity and growth
of the country traversed his highest best
good.
Mr.. Pillsbury, the editor of the Tulare
Register, quoted from in another column
was unwilling to take the common
understanding" that the course of the
Southern Pacific Company prevented the
establishment of the cannery at Tulare.
He accordingly took the wise business
course, which the demagogue never does.
he sought for the evidence of verify in
the common understanding" and wrote
the letter to which he refers in his edi-
torial to ascertain why the officials of the
company had done as charged and which
to him sensibly appeared to be m
businesslike.
The result of this direct method we
have already stated. We invite atten-
ton in this connection to the manly
statement of the editor admitting the
error into which the Tulare people had
fallen. There is also meat in this very
frank expression from the article we
quote wherein the Register says:
Any time when it is found that the rates
quoted by the Southern Pacific Company viii
not permit the profitable moving OF any pro
duct all the facts, together with the figures
necessary to support them, should BE- laid De