The record-union., 1895-01-05
METROPOLIS AND INTERIOR.
A San Francisco Journal on the Metro
pOlitan and the Interior Press

San Francisco Journal on the Metro
politan and the Interior Press.
[San Francisco News Letter.l
The city dailies condescend to notice
the Convention of the State Editorial
Association held at Sacramento this week,
and to mention the titles of some of the
addresses made there. The interior
papers are no doubt duly grateful. 1t is
fact, however, that in seeking real abil-
lty. intelligence and devotion to high
principle among the editors of California,
one must leave the dailies of San Fran
CISCO out of view and look to few OF the
metropolitan weeklies and the great body
OF the interior press. Fot the least of the
evidences OF interiority on the part OF the
San Francisco dailies is the insulting
GOODNESS with which they practically ig-
more the tremendous force which tue
State organization of interior paper rep
resent. By means OF this organization
the publishers and editors Of the interior
decide the course of some OF the vital in
tereStS that affect the State, and their
harmony OF action is all the more re-
nlarkable from the fact that there must
naturally be very wide divergence of
opinion among them.
OF course there are some matters on
which they wisely make no attempt to
agree, for in ordinary political and a few
other concerns, agreement would partake
OF the character OF conspiracy; but in de-
crying sectional jealousies, in working
for the good of the whole Stale, in secur-
ing and disseminating the best informa-
ton of the ways in which the wonderful
resources of the State may be DEVELOPED.
III giving instruction and encouragement
i'll the prosecution OF industries, both
new and old, in inducing immigration,
in inspiring all Californians to be in
dustrlous, painstaking, thoughtful, enter
a N nffIn
having means to employ their resources
Tor the general good, and in many ways
they form ulate and adhere 10 plans that
display the highest intelligence and the
truest patriotism. The good which they
thus accomplish is immeasurably greater
than that secured by any other single or
organized force in CALIFORNIA;; and it is
all the more powerful because OF it's har-
monious purpose and its silence and per-
sistency.
The daily papers of San Francisco, on
the other hand, which exhibit SO much
disdain for the interior press, are unor-
ganized, inspired by mutual jeaIousies
and Well-founded dlstrust, and can agree
on no policy that does not concern their
advertising space: and then they become
freebooters OF the most valiant type. Let
an lndlYlQual or corporation appear
above the dead level of incompetency''
which affects the State, and they at once
proceed to sound the depths of his pocket,
damning him if he refuse to be black
mailed. They are menace to
every man who dares to show
spirit of enterprise, and because of
their meanness and greed are the one
potent influence against the progress
of the Stale. In all good ways their
course is exactly opposite to that of
the interior publishers. 1t is probably
consciousness of their inferiority
that causes the publishers and editors of
the city dailies to Withhold even the civili-
ties of genllemanly intercourse from the
editors of the interior who visit the city.
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