The herald., 1894-12-17
Ths Road wnl Be Built.

From Arthur McEwens Letier1
Rescne will come through comp ,tition, and
rescue IL not far of now Our merchants,
our people, habituatea to the robbery, the spy
ing, the bdllyng, the punishments OF the
monopoly, have not lef. within them the
courage 10 rise and strike the blow for their
own freedom, but even the Ir I'll association
will be b.ave enough TO follow and fight with
an invading deliyeIer. \ railroad will be built
through tine San Joaquin valley, and built
soon. In the nature of thiogs that rien field
cannot much lon ger be left solely TO Hunting
ton. Our mas is not SO terrible to others as
he is to US. Men o. large capital in the east
know that he has drif.ed into dangerous finan-
tia waters and that his wreck is at hand
VII hin year look to railroad buii Il srs
backed by eastern money, attacking Hunting
tons monopoly at more than one point. And
the Southern Pacific has no fight III it. Sutro
has demonstrated that. So did Dave before
sutro, with one little tub OF a bay steamer. The
imposing Southern Pacific can be humbled
as easily as little Japan walked through colo.-
sal China. When these eastern men cone, as
come they must, they Sill have larger minds
and longer sight than the Traffic association,
which dreams oniy OF making The san Joaq ain
triD AIRY TO san Frauciscl. } hey will have he
kind OF brains to under5tabd thai the prosper.
ity of other coast C. .ti4s is no; detrimental TO
this, aud 10 promote the goo Of the metrop ,lls
by stimulating industry and incre tsiHg oJu-
lation throughout the SLOPE they will not BE-
OF the 4liber to assume asa Sc f-evitent pro-
position that san Francisco's int,re.ts viii b,
protected by keeping Los Angeles olt Of the
San Joaq uin, avoiding n southern overland con
nectio discrimi mating against the insetior by
compelling the purchaser to follow hither
oods that pass mis- door and forcing him to
psy way freight on tnen back again. They will
Sc. 10 wisdom in maintaining the decree
against Nevada's development. in short, they
VIII not BE- dominated by the de.uiol ei
the protection.st. who cannot believ, him
self to be Irosperou. unless his neighbors
who should be purchasers from him, are in
penury. These eastern railroad build rs will
not come to this fie of enterprise az philan-
thropists, but to make money, and having the
sense to cone they will have the wit to under
stand what the small men who direct the
Southern Pacific nave never under stood, tn 1t
to despoi community of the last sejzable
dollar is not good busiuess policy for railroads.
Between a railroad legitimstely managed and
the Southern Pacific there is the same dltie.-
ence as exists between merchant and pirate.
In San Francisco there is ample money await
ing investment in railsoad projects whose tuc
cess shall have the assurance OF outside capital
behind them Let one such project be laid be-
fore the public here and tn . men of the Traffic
sssociation--who now button their own pocket
against their own scheme, and make faint
hearted appeals to others to do what they dare
not venture upon them selves--would come to
the front with their check books eagerly. The
blacks of the south made brave fighters when
white men led them.