The record-union., 1893-04-19
THE LETTER.
Sacramento Citizens Answer to the
Attack Made on Their City.

sacramento Citizens Answer to the
Attack Made on Their City.
SACRAMENTO, Cal, March 3Oth.
Editor Of the Tribune: From the high
standing of the Tribune in journalism
its reputation for fair dealing and its
sense of justice, the undersigned, repre-
senting the citizens of Sacramento, Cal.
ask most respectfully for publication O.
this paper.
For the standing of the undersigned
commercially and socially,we refer you to
any persons having knowledge of this
city and to any one of several men whom
we have asked to call upon you and vouch
for US. If the exigencies of business OF
failure to receive our communications
should prevent, we refer you to II. NJ
IaRue, Chief Niticultural Officer for the
Worlds Columbian Exposition; to W. S
Booth, Board of Trade building, whom
we have requested to present this paper
to the house of Porter Bros, to Armour
81 Co., and likewise to Mr.. Silverman, {
prominent banker of your city.
In common justice we ask at YOU
hands the same publicity for this paper
through the same avenue that the article
regarding this city had which appeared
in your columns of March Goth.
We are impressed with the belief thai
the Tribune can have no luminosity to this
city; that it would not willingly do al
injustice to this people; that it has been
imposed upon in the publication of the
article referred to under the guise o.
news; and that If 1t goes unrefuted the
article will do irreparable injury to this
city and lower our people in the esteem
of the citizens of the United States.
We dislike to review the article in de-
tail, since it is purely home affair, but
as its authorship is unknown to us and is
not given, it bears in a sense the indorse-
ment of the Tribune, which gives it inn
portance. Yet we are conscious that you
have not immediate concern in this city.
and therefore could have no motive in do
ing it an injury. Assuming that it came
to you through news channels we invite
your attention TO the fact, apparent on
its face, that 1t was dictated by unfriend-
illness, and not written from an impartial
standpoint. Should a similar article be
submitted to you relating to an Illinois
city, it would suggest to you the fact that
it lack ed the essential element of dispas-
sionate judgment.
CIRCULAR SAID TO BE ANONYMOUS.
We might content ourselves with q
general denial and an indignant desipna-
ton of the article, but we prefer to be-
lieve that there is no strength in yitupera-
ton. Accept our assurance that the ''cir-
culaT cOHldlueu III Ine DOuy OF the artl-
Gle, and which so grossly libeled this CITY
and its people, was an anonymous paper
when given circulation here, that il was
subsequently asceriained to be the work
of clerk temporarily employed in this
city, but a citizen of San Jose. and that
when the press and people of the latter
city heard OF it, they at once and indig-
nantly repudiated the infamous libel. and
declared that they were not privy to II.
That alone should suffice to damn it
Anonymity in such matter is of the
assassin character, and cannot have your
respect.
This city is not the unhealthful place
that the article of March 10Th asserted.
The records of the State Board of Health
show it to stand second on the list of ali
cities and towns of the State, its mortality
rate being higher only than that of the
town of Vallejo. If il were the malarial
hole that is represented by our libeler
the fact should be established by the med
ical faculty of the city, it should be appa-
rent in the countenances of our children.
who, on the contrary, bear the undis-
puted reputation of being among the
most robust, healthful, vigorous and
weil-conditioned in the United States. 1t
should be apparent in the youth, and
manhood and womanhood of the city,
which for vigor. healthfulness and come
illness we say, without Boosting, compare
with the best in the State.
our people are not, as represented by
the libeler, extortioners, grasping, selfish
and cold, nor are they morally below the
plane of the best citizenship of the State,
Such an affirmative, you Will see, we