The record-union., 1893-01-27

terior roint. What a reversal Of conditionsl
Tins at once operated against the san Fran
CISCO man ulactuTer.
Here the complaint is again put for
ward, with some confusion of the truth,
however, that there is done to San Fran
cisco a great wrong because rates to inte-
rior points for supplies from the East are
such that the people of the interior may
buy and receive at as low arate as can the
buyers of san Francisco.
1t Will not be necessary to elaborate the
argument to make clear to the intelligent
man precisely what this leads to, and
how fully, emphatically and remarkably
it confirms the recitals made by the
RECoRD-UNIoN yesterday.
For long time we have called atten-
ton TO the fact that the policy of the East,
with its cheap labor. immense popula-
ton, large area to supply, great volume
Of manufacture, enormous capital in
vested, nearness to raw materials, con-
tent with narrow margin of profits, was
and is to crush out incipient manufacture
ing in California.
We have, in and out Of season, pointed
out that the san Francisco merchants, as
agents for Eastern manufacturers, have
obstructed home manufacturing, and that
this, coupled with the insane policy of
adherence to high prices simply because
'this is California" has operated badly
for manufacturing and commercial de-
velopment. Now we have the Manufact-
urers' Association declaring that new
campaign is about to be opened. High
prices, which Mr.. Williams declares are
the result of "a bad habit into which Cal
ifornia has grown" are to be abandoned;
manufacturers and dealers are to cease
fighting each other and are to combine
against the common enemy, Eastern
competition"
The army of drummers the East has
poured into the State is to be met and
out-generaled by grand army of Cali
tornia drummers who are to educate the
people up to the idea that they should
buy Of California manufacturers only.
Old 1ogyism is to be buried, and snap,
vigor, and broad policy are to supplant
it; the one great thing to be accomplished,
however, over all others, says the official
of the association, is to eradicate the idea
''that exists in the minds Of the retailer
and consumer that better prices can be
obtained in the East"
just how all this is to be done is not
stated-in fact the details of the plan of
campaign are not yet perfected; only this
we know: San Francisco manufacturers
are resolved to fight Eastern competitors
for the trade Of the people of California.
1t will remain, however, that there is no
sentiment in trade; men will buy where
and when they can buy to best advantage
here, and all the world over.
In the meantime while this battle royal
is incubating we repeat that the sober fact
is that san Francisco is determined to
crush out, if it can; the agencies which
enable the interior to declare its inde-
pendence OF her. She is determined
through the Leeds Traffic Association,
which is the instrument Of the importer
ald not Of the exporter of our products.
to restore and maintain the supremacy of
that city as a distributing center, an ad-
vantage it enjoyed when the Golden Gate
was the entrepot of the entire commerce,
and the gate through which the export
trade must necessarily pass.
The Manufacturers Association may
run atoul Of the Traffic Association. dis
covering that wise policy does not lie in
that direction; or it may join hands with
it in the attempt now being made to sever
railroading within the State from its
trunk or continental relations, and
thus in a conspiracy against the highest
interests of the producing classes, so bur-
den incoming freight and advance rates
upon outgoing freight over long and
non-productive bridge-like lines, as to
destroy the Independence of the interior
and make it surrender to the San Fran
cisco claim that the metropolis alone
shOuld be the distri butiDrr cantar