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

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devil would be in big luck if he even got the
straps at his journeys end. These people have
no more idea OF building an opposition road
than nave. 1t takes money TO build q rail-
road. They haven't much. They would like
10 bond the people 10 the Rothchilds for
money ana bring in 10000 japanese slaves
10 build IT. After it was completed they
would pool with the other roads; then we
would nave two monopolieS to feed, beside
paying interest on S50,00O,o0O Of bonds.
Il am not opposed to the building of an OPP
position railroad.
Il want our Government to build it with
american money and American labor, then
control and operate it in the interest of the
people. This thing of building an opposition
railroad with foreign money and Japanese
labor would be a curse instead of q blessing to
our State and its citizens.
why do / say foreign money? Because the
Snylock money-lenders control the worlds
supply of gold. They have the money we
nave simply values. They also take fine care
70 Keep their money locked up behind the
EngllshLnan's hundred-ton gun. This money
so locked up we are paying interest on at
the rate OF forty dollars for every one-that is
70 say, they have the dollar and we are pay
ing Interest on the thirty-nine that do not
exist.
WANT CHEAP LABOR.
THESE land barons, spectators and middle
men who have formed this Traffic Associa-
llon, tell us in an address issued last week
that they are going into politics. They are in
tefested IN cheap freights, and being large en-
want us 10 help them change the Consti-
tuition, turn out the Railroad Commissioners,
and put the intricate question of fixing fares
anu anu Ieights back into the Legislature,
without giving US any guarantee that they
| Will help us to stop Japanese immigration.
AS Worklngmen we have no interests IN com
mon with land barons and wealthy specula-
tors. SO far as | am individually concerned
Qon,t want freights lowered. / want them
raised on the fruit that is being shipped out OF
tIie state so as the owner viii find it more
prontaDIe 10 ship IL to San Francisco and give
US poor men chance to eat something with
out being compelled to pay three prices for it
as we now have. and then only get the cheap
est grade. L have only bought two boxes OF
strawberries this season, and shabby ones
they were at that, because the price was too
hlgh-5O cents box. was told that all the
good ones were shipped East. Cherries and
box
THE TOP ROW
Is all there is to it. The small and the rotten
ones are carefully slowed away in the bottom
and middle of the box.
MIR. Muir, a shoe manufactures, testified be-
fore the Labor Commission in San Francisco
last week that he moved his boot and shoe
manufacturing plant to Lynn, Mass, and
that he shipped the leather from here
there. This leather manufactured into boots
and shoes he again shipped back and under
soid-after paying freight both ways-boots
and shoes made here. If / were shoemaker
and belonged TO the Shoemakers' Union
would vote and use my influence to have the
freight on boots and shoes raised so high that
Mr. Muir would have to bring his plant back
here again and do his manufacturing here.
Il would go still further. / would see to it
that the freight on boots and shoes from LYNN
to San Francisco was so high that Mr., MUIR
could well afford TO pay me So q day and then
make bigger profit than the man who i'm
ports from Lynn.
What applies TO the shoemaker in this case
would also apply to the men who work at
| other trades.
Il did not come up here to talk fares and
! freiShts. What l have so far said is thrown
| out as hint TO remind workingmen that this
Traffic Association and its members have no
! interest in common with workingmen. They
are all Tor sell, ana each one OF its members is
trying TO Danish hard times from himself bv
trying to get his
FREIGHTS A LITTLE CHEAPER
Than anybody else. He don't care whether
the man who loads and unloads the ears is a
Chinaman or q Jap, or what pay he gets His
motto is low freights and big profits This
would be good times for him and hard times
for US. He is not against the Jap, so l am
against him We have still another organiza-
ton in San Francisco. 1t is composed of
young bloods well fed and well clothed. There
are not many of them, but they make big
splurge IN the papers. They cali themselyeS
The League of Progress They meet in
secret so as to hide their numbers. The organ
lzer or this league thinks the only sure and
safe way TO drive out the hard times from the
State, and bring about the progress which we
all desire, is to have himself elected County
Clerk OF my city. If elected, of course he
would appoint all the other young fellows as
his deputies. This would bring progress to
them for at least two years, at the expense of
the taxpayers of San Francisco. Their cleo
ton upon an anti-railroad hobby to fat
offices would be the first and last spike in q
transcontinental railroad till the next election
comes around, when we will be sure to hear of
theiT starting IN with pick and shoyels to
build the same old road.
Neither the Traffic Association nor the
League OF Progress, nor any of its members
are opposed to japanese immigration. There
is not word nor a line, SO far as have seen.
in either their constitution or bylaws against
the importation of these inferior races on
| the contrary, they encourage them here and
employ them when they come. Who is il
that turns fully developed man into a cham
bermaid to make the beds and smooth the
pillows and attend to the bathrooms 1t is
not the poor. They have all they can do to
! get work for themselves. 1t is the rich and
the well-to-do. Our plain duty is to hold our
selves aloot from these two parties until such
| time as they put an anti-Japanese plank in
/ their platforms. Let us force them to do it,
I'm conclusion, friends, the curse of our
State and the cause OF the hard times is the
absentee Shylock and his twin brother, the
! imported slave. Strange the one and the
other will have to go. Our railroad is all labor
and the money paid to its skilled mechanics
! here. What makes the State
SWEAT BLOOD
| Is the interest this corporation has to nav To
! the absentee Shylock-the bondholder who
lives behind a hundred-ton gun abroad and
| pays no taxes to people that he has sucked
almost dry. The bondholder's interest is paid
! in gold; gold is his god that is What
| he worships. Gold is his mathis and
| his vespers. This railroad corporation OF
ours pays about S1o,0OO,OOo in gold to
/ this absentee Shylock every year in inter
est. This immense amount of money has
/ TO be pumped out OF our people. Shylock will
not take a locomotive, nor freight car nor a
| schooner load Of sleepers. Gold is what he
must get no matter where it comes from. On
! the first of January last we had, according to
! the sworn statements of the bank presidents
| in their report made to the Bank Commission.
I ers, less than S20,000.000 in the whole State
! Up to the first of last month we lost about
! So, 100000 of that as follows: China
| 81, 100000; Japan $4,000 London, $40.
100000. There is but little left. ANY wonder
we have hard times? Americans who want to
| be free and live like freeman will not permit
/ this immense drain much longer. They can.
not do it. Hence the blood-sucker in order ia
| keep up his gorged appetite, demands slave
! labor. 1t must and shall be stopped. The