The record-union., 1894-03-06
some SAMPLE LIES NAILED.
How Country ScrbbIer LibeIs the
Capital City,
He Displays His Dense Ignorance and
Makes Himself a General
Laughing-Stock.
The Calaveras Proapeet saws:

Liz SuldFSIdS TUSDGct says.
| 1t was noticeable that the Sacramento
papers had very little to say about the recent
high water and its effect on that city.
They said all there was to say. There
was no exceeding high water-not by
| fifteen feet-and such as was in the river
had no effect whatever upon the city.
The Bee did have a little item in one issue
| that there was likely to be about two hundred
| feet OF the new ieNee washed away but the
next paper had nothing 10 say about it, and
| the RECoRD-USIoN had not Il word.
| The lie in the above is in the statement
that nothing more was said about the
matter. So far as the RECoRD-U UNION
was concerned it stated the exact facts
and without any concealment or reserve
whatever, and whenever the news de-
mand called for 1.-THE charge that it did
not, is, on the part OF the Prospect, an
unblushing talsehood.
The truth is simply this: Last summer,
| in order to embrace and bring into indus
! trial use a tract of outside land on the
north of the city, as we'll as TO secure
eventually the filling OF it. line cf en-
| bankment OF SAND was thrown up on the
old bed of the American River from one
point in the levee detenses outward and
around to another point of the levee de-
! fenSeS.
The work was done too late in the sea-
| son, was not properly protected, and the
| winter rains and the unusual rise OF the
American carried away a couple of
hundred feet Of this semi-circular out
| work lying outside OF the IeVee de-
| fenses that have protected the city so
many years and which are impregnable.
That is to say, that happened which
good many observers of the pile of sand
| prophesied would happen. The effect
| 1nnn thn aifU nhonl,1falvy h
ing; it left the levees and the old-bed
lands just as they were before and have
! been for twenty years, except that in that
! time the levee itself has been greatly i'm
proved and enlarged. The Prospect con-
tinues;
But how they did give it to Stockton and
| other cities thst We're unfortunate. x
| 1t can hardly be presumed that the fear of
Capital removal closed their lips. Perhaps it
was because the whole city, being built on
! stilts, II little high water was not considered
out OF course, and therefore not worthy of
comment.
! Every comment was and is made that
weather, high water and the cussedness
of such exchanges as the Prospect de-
| manded or demands. Stockton was not
abused by the Sacramento press, nor
were other cities. There was no occasion
| for closing lips, and none were closed.
| The Prospects lies are clumsy and un-
graceful, but the time has gone by when
| Sacramento proposes to sit silent and
suffer even such TO gain currency. There
| is no truth in any letter or line Of the
Prospects item, and if it has any regard
| for its own reputation, or any sense of
manliness. it will correct its libel.
Such statements grow in viciousness as
they age and travel, and hence it is inn
portant that truth should throttle them
| in their birth For instance, there came
to this office few days ago far Eastern
! journal marked, referring US to an article
| in that paper which proceeded to describe
how Sacramento had just been flooded;
and was all under water, owing to her
levee defenses having given way.
| 1t was a lie out OF the whole cloth, of
course, and probably grew out OF some
such silly item as that printed by the
! Prospect. Just how California is to be
benefited and the State aided to prosper
ity by this system of domestic lying and
back biting passes comprehension. We
| possess, evidently, remarkable aptitude
for doing ourselves more injury than our
most determined enemies can wish us.
There was slogging match at Folsom
on Saturday night between George Hicks
and Jack Depue. which the latter won in
! e..