The morning call., 1894-05-26

heights to the Southern Pacific. We live
in State, he said, where by our supine-
ness we allowed ourselves to be oppressed
by the railroad for the last twenty years.
When the road was finished the people
were glad. They did not grudge profits
and gain and the railroad might have
bound itself To the hearts of the people,
but IL has done nothing since for the
State. Instead. the net accumulations
since 1869 of The four men in the railroad
management would, be thought, exceed
rhe net receipts of the State. He ar
eaigned the CORPORATION severely. at has
rntered into our politics." he cried, cor
cupted our judiciary and placed our mer-
hhants under an espionage by which they
ave been weighed in the balance. Their
oppression has been unprecedented in the
history of the world. If you do not
seize this opportunity and emancipate
yourself from the thraldom which must
be CALLING 10 every true man you are not
worthy of the name of American citizens.
Cheers. l hail this magnificent express
sion of public opinion and the movement
which has been so successfully inaugu-
rated tonight. and pray you all to unite
and place California where il ought to
have been twenty years ago, attracting
the attention of the world"
Sarah ID. Hamlin was the next speaker.
She confined herself chiefly TO the imme-
date cause Of the meeling-the reduction
of the fare. There were TWO reasons for
the reduction, the first being that all the
other lines charged but a single fare, and
the second was the necessity of opening
the western part of the city. Independent
OF these there was the third reason, that it
should be put into the reach of the poorer
people to go to the beach for cents, and
every facility should be given the people
10 view the beauties of nature displayed at
the Golden Gate, and also TO enjoy the
DleaSnrp9 nToVIIa0 nv the nhiloOfhroniSr
who owned the heights.
John Z. Rogers hkened the Southern
Pacific corporation to the Riff pirates, who
from Tarlfa on the Mediterranean robbed
all who passed, standing, he said, at the
Golden Gate and saying, "Stand and de-
liver" to merchant and man. He advo-
Gated a combination against the railroad.
Nut the CONT lnation of the railway put
ting dollar where ii would do most good,
but through the strong moral force OF the
ballot A vast amount of the evil and
suffering of to-day grew out of the rail
road monopoly, and the people can't put
II down too quick nv the ballot. lie said
II MI. SutrO acceded TO the request of the
Southern Pacific Company in the matter
of transfers and decided his grounds to the
people on those terms, yet he would de-
serve greater thanks for taking UP the gage
of battle and fighting the monopoly. Yes"
concluded the speaker, "Mr. SutrO will be
better remembered for this great reform
in after years than by any other of your
great works in this city"
The speaker ended amid applause and
was followed by James Ii. Barry. 80
long as the people talk and don't act"
sdId Mr.. Barry, 1.-THE railroad will laugh
and say il does not hurt US and amuses
them" The speaker spoke OF the power
of The railroad IN politics. and said that
SutTo's fight was not in the interest alone
Of the Richmond district, but of the whole
people. II Is the entering wedge whereby
the railroad may be defeated 10 an honest
fight.
"When Mr.. Sutro characterized the let
ter OF Charles Z. CrOcker as insolent. d"
said Barry, "be was mild, more than mild,
and more than kind, but l call it the
d-est piece of impotence | ever heard
Of. AS to the gentlemen from whom he
was TO select his trustees, Mr.. Sutro has
said they were all. all honorable men. but
| and you know that il would not be long
| before neither the people would own SutrO
| Heights nor Mr.. SutrO himself. If the
Southern Pacific Railroad of Kentucky DO
not build that cable road in accordance
with the public demand they will be COM
PEELED to build t."
An overflow meeting was held outside
the hall, being addressed by w. j. Simon.
a. j. Burke and Messrs. Toomey and
Lanahan, Both adjourned with prolonged
cheering TOR Sutro. 1t is whispered that
Colonel Barry VIII be sent on to Washing
ton to fight the Central Pacific bill.