The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-04-07
A FEW PLAIN WORDS.


There has been and is a complaint
against Sacramentans, and we find itnow
reflected in the interior press, that they
start in on enterprises well, but do not
pull together in the harness.
There is sufficient truth in this charge
to make it important. In one sense it is a
tribute to our people; for the pulling apart
has never been retrogressive, but simply
conflict of splendid progressive ideas.
Unfortunately, however, the result too
often is that for want of concessions
some of our enterprises fail.
First and last, then, we must yield to
each other. Take the factories PROPOSE
tion-here we have men indorsing it,
willing to aid it, anxious indeed to do so,
but who wish to do it only with an sip
attached. These Ifs" represent as many
ideas as there are men proposing them.
OF course, they cannot all be adopted; in
deed, none can be. The factory PROPOSE
ton must go forward on the basis the
Sacramento Industrial Improvement AS
sociation has laid.
Human trust must be reposed some
where. In this case it is. impossible to
repose it, save in the association that pre-
sents the scheme. 1t is corporation; it
is pledged by honor and good citizenship;
it is bound by its articles; it cannot
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be impossible to put in the 'ifs," PRO
visos," "buts" and conditions" sug-
gested here and there.
If men will but pause to think they
will see that the sure way to kill the
whole thing is to load it down with con-
ditional subscriptions that are impossi-
BILE of assimilation.
citizen writes to US, 81 will sign if
etc. Another writes, at is a good
scheme, but" Another, in a long let,
ter, Endorses it all, but adds, However
it must be arranged" etc., etc. Still an
other says, "I am assessed on $4,000 o
values. I will sign if the factories arr
put on land on this side of the town
only" But suppose five acres are wanted
on the "this side" and can be had only b.
expenditure of the whole purse, Will
five acres on the "other side" can be haC
for nothing, will that $50, 200 citizen there
fore Iprefer to have the factory offer re
jected2
Then, as to to the hotel, A says, 81 vii
take stock if-' and B adds, 81 will in
vest, but" and c supplements both b.
saying, 81 will take stock if it is located,
etc. Still others cry, ''Yes, it is a goo
thing, but it should not be put upon tn
Plaza" while his neighbor exclaims
''The Plaza only, or won't subscribe |
the stock"
Nearly all great successes by communt
ties are results of great concession.
Partners in business could not run COZ
ner grocery a week if they did not defer t
each other, yield personal ground to met
on common ground.
But here we have citizen exclaimin!
al think hotel is the greater need, an
this factory scheme ought not to /
pushed now" while still another write
"This hotel idea will sap our factor
scheme, which is worth more to the tow
than a dozen such hotels" All thes
good people are wrong; both enterprise
are needed and the city is equal to boil
and a great deal more. A people that hi
expended in the last four years 81, l55, OF
in public affairs, as they have in tn
city. and are not a dollar poorer for j
can surely expend in the four years ne1
TO come $500, 600, and by so doing will /
not only not poorer but richer. TIL
sum will give us both enterprises.
No! We must pull together or ia
apart utterly and take the consequence
Men with ideas, however good. mu
WELD: stubbornness now means retr
oression; concession means victor
strings cannot be attached to any publ
enterprise now unless they all lead o
an one direction. If we are as loyal
our city and its material interests as
balieve we are, let US put our person
ideas aside and shoulder to should