The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-12
OPPOSED TO THE BOSSES

strong Resolutions Adopted by a Dis
trict Republican Club.
The executive committee of the Thirty
fourth District Republican Club (ant-
Kelly and Crimmins) held a meeting
Wednesday evening a Meyers Hall, corner
OF Sixteenth and Mission streets, J. j. Mo-
ran in the chair aud ID. c. Van Nostrand
Jr. acting as secretary. The minutes Of the
previous meeting were approved, and after
a spirited discussion the following resolu-
tions were adopted:
WHEREAS, The policy OF the great CORPORA
tions and giant monopolles OF this country in
Selling upon all he avenues 10 power win a
view OF controlling legislation, state and ma.
tiOnaI, is one OF The most alarming signs OF The
times; aud whereas, monopoly has been made
King In California through the bosses and a few
men control eyeTything-tbey have annhilated
competliion-lheie is not a farmer not a pro-
duceT. between the Rocky Mountains and the
Paeinc Ocean who does not pay them a heavier
tribute than conquered people ever paid
10 their condueTOrs; ana whereas, they
fix the values OF the farm the minr and the
forest. they decide year by year whether
The producer shall make a profit or a
loss, whether his children snail travel toward
the academy or the pOorhOuse; and whereas,
they name legislators ana judges they own the
Railroad Commissioners anu all necessary As
SCISSORS they have bound the State OF California
In letters UI Iron as fatal as death, as unyisId-
lug the grave: and whereas. TevIving CON-
merce, which covers her sister States with The
sunshine on prosperity, cannot pierce The walls
within which she is imprisoned. while her soil
may bring forth golden grain, her mines yield a
golden harvest, her people do not profit thereby
her constitution declares thai a repetition OF
The acts which had destroyed competition should
benceforth be crimes ana hose who committed
them be punished as felons. these meBopoists
nullifed the constitution and continue 10 make
contracts 1t prohibited; and whereas. a few men
exercise power which neither Congress nor any
OF The Slate legislatures would dare 10 exert,
powers which If exercised In Great Britain
would shake the throne TO its very
foundation, and since these men may
al any time and for reasons salts
factory 10 themselves, by The stroke OF a pen re-
duce the value of pr operty by hundt eds OF mil
lions ana at their own will and pleasure dis.
arrange and rmbarrass business. depress one
city OF locality and build up another, enrich one
individual and ruin his competitors; aud wber re-
as. the arbitrary and despOtic power exercised
by these combined corporations which are but
the creature of statute law. deriving all their
place the farmers. merchants, business men as
supplicants al their feet, often compelling them
to choose between Injury aud submission, Is In
derOgaIion OF the true principles of republican
liberty aud calls upon the people To devise some
immediate means against this injustice and
wrong; therefore be IL
Resotred, That we call upon all patriotic citi-
zens OF whatever party they may be TO organize
al once and resist the entertainments OF this
threatening and dangerous power upon the rights
and liberties of the people.
After reading the report of the commit
tees on hall and finance, Dawson
Nichols introduced resolution commend.
ing the action of the Registrar in refusing
to employ clerks In his office appointed by
a committee of irresponsible Democrats,
which was unanimously adopted.