The morning call., 1892-09-28

The Cabriio celebration at San Diego is
an exceedingly interesting commemorattOn
and worthy OF all the ceremonial 1T will re-
ceive. But if il heralds the discovery of
California it is not by any means the indi-
cation of the lines on which this State has
been built One has but TO read Dana's
1.-TWO Years Before the Mast" to learn
what California was long after Cabrillos
time. And a glance at California under
and after Fremont gives contrast enough 10
the reader. The real beg nning of expan-
sive sound government in California came
within our own time. The men still live
who saw the change pass from dreamland
under ancient usage and tradition to the
virilty of self-re lance and severance from
tradition, including independence as to hats
and uniforms. CabrIllO's discovery sum-
beTed in geographical somnoleDcy until the
49-eTs aroused the cupidty of the globe
and when the achievements of the 49-ers
began to pale, the latent poteDtalities Of
the country, minus gold, began to rise
Hundreds and thousands of good people
have since become rich without gold and
without stalking A ten-cent piece upon any
description Of speculation. California has
in fact been discovered in quite modern
sense.
II demonstration lesson were needed on
the seriousness and reform-hke attributes
Of the Non-Partisan ticket it Is to be found
in the food of signatures now being ap-
pended to a petition in favor of this body
having ali the rights and privileges that
other political organizations possess. The
Non Partisaps can not with any decepcy be
kept out OF the name they ask to have
recognized. When that distinction is clear
boss rule will understand something about
the castigation OF the Indignant citizens
b9ot. The signs are ripe for revolt against
corruption.
Wherever he goes Mr.. Huntington, the
astute, drops hints that the Southern Pacific
is equal to all the transportation efforts Cali
fornia wants with the world and that no
other company has a chance to succeed.
Everybody of any sense smiles Of course at
this optimism and makes allowance for the
brigand-like history Of the Central Pacific
and all the branches that have sprung out of
this incubation OF fraud. Mr.. Huntington
is confident that the one pair of rails to
Ogden and the other pair of rails to New
Orleans could do twenty-five times the
amount of business received. Perhaps this
is the fact. But the Central Pacific will not
receive this business. Merchants will insist
upon having some competitive system both
by land and sea. The day has gone by TO
trust the Southern Pacific in anything.
A report goes round that the Kentucky
corporation has devised some means of re-
suming the exaeting of tolls upon merchan-
disc crossing the harbcr line of San Fran
cisco. IL is to be hoped merchants have
considered another plan by which this
fraud can be frustrated. The Harbor Com
missiOners charge so much a ton on mer-
chandise and the company pays that charge
and no more. But each shipper is charged
on fraction of ton the full amount on a
whole ton, and the railway company
pockets 30 cents or more for every cents it
pays over TO the Harbor Commissioners.
Elsewhere this sharp practice would be
termed deliberate robbery. Whatever the
term applied to il ID San Francisco it is
quite time a halt was called TO practice
which pours into the Golfers OF the Southern
Pacific cool million year. 1t would be
twenty times better TO see the money
handed over TO the State for useful pur-
poses.
The hollowness of the Southern Paeific's
pretensions about the protection Of Ameri-
can commerce is shown by two very mate
rial facts. The company has so bampered
and subsidized the Pacific Mail Company
that its steamers are merely tenders on
railroad business. Huntington gives them
the order to load and sail just as much as
he gives the time to a Southern Pdcifc
train. Then the Occidental and Oriental
men of the evasion OF the American nayga-
tion laws. Every steamer in the line is
British. Every one is chartered, and the
whole fleet is maintained, for the express
purpose of defeating independent effort In
the trade with the Orient and Of supplying
The Southern Pacific with freight at through
rates. All is done deliberately to keep San
francisco down. To further show Hunt
ington's friendliness 10 California comes
the statement that he now contemplates
putting on a direct line of steamers from
New Orleans to Europe In that event he
will have further opportunity to dscrimin-
ate against American trade in favor of
Europeans.
This must surely be the big gooseberry
season in the East. albeit it is the year of
the Presidential election. The Prohibit
zionist party ought to have scored grand
triumph over the agonies of four men in
Pennsylvania who laid siege to keg of
beer and were reported to be dying. The
bad effects of beer constituted quite sufli-
eent argument in radiant minds why those
bibnlous desperadocs should have perished