The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-06-17
a FIGHT FOR SACRAMENTO AND
THE VALLEY.


The Marysville Democrat asks the
RECORD UNION If it favors the repeal of
the Caminetti bill. If that bill is to
create menace of destruction to Sacra-
mento City and the property of its peo-
pie, then the RECORD UNION will favor
the repeal of the bill.
This journal is making fight for Sac
famento and the Sacramento Valley.
Here its interests are conferred. The peo-
pie of the city and the valley are it's
friends, and with them is its home; it
will do battle for the interests OF that
home and it's own interests. which are
Identical with those of the community Of
the city and valley.
A journal situated az is the RECORD
UNION is like the watchman on the top
of the tower; its duty is to view the field
afar to warn OF approaching danger. and
to continue at its post of watchfulness,
even though those below may manifest
Indifference to the menace espied.
The RECoRD-UNIoN, we repeat. stands
for the best interests of its home city and
its home valley, and will not be deferred
from duty to them by any lack of moral
courage. IF the Democrat occupies any
other attitude than this towards Marys-
vile 1t is recreant to its trust and the
duty that every honest journal assumes
when it stands forward as an informing
intelligence. II hydraulic mining had
continued without check, Marysville
would have been destroyed, and no one
rary. Indeed, as it was, Marysville was
In the last ditch at the critical moment,
when the cessation OF hydraulic mining
saved 1t from impending ruin.
The RECoRD-UNIoN will favor the re-
peal of any measure which permits hy
draulio mining, if the experiment of its
assumption results disastrously to the
interests of the people of the Sacramento
Valley, and is menace to the future Of
this city. The Democrat should be able
30 see that the present effort of the Rec
oRD-UNIoN is not one of mere antago-
nism and blind contention. but that it is
directed to the holding of the Debris
Commission closely to it's work; that its
purpose is to prevent the construction of
any dam that does not restrain the detri-
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made of brush material, which, in time,
must necessarily rot and leave the accu-
mulated matter from hydraulic mining
free to come down the channels of the
streams to the impairment of navigation
and of the valley and the sitting up of the
beds of the streams to the destruction of
the cities and villages and lands of the
valley.
It ought to be discoversble by the
Democrat that the course of the RECORD
UNION is that of wisdom and prudence.
and tends to perpetuate rather than
work the repeal of the bill more than a
course of liberation and unprotesting &C.
oeptance which will result in destruction
of the highest and foremost interests OF
the valley of the Sacramento. The fact
that the Debris Commission has refused
permits to five mines is proof that the
commission sees that 1t is to be held to a
strict accountability that the work it is
doing is under intelligent examination
and will be subject to fearless criticism.
The very fact that the commission finds
q hydraulic mine willing to surrepti-
tiously run the tailings from the mine
into the channels of the streams, proves
that unrestrained mining without re-
straining works will be resumed when
ever vigilance is relaxed.
So we repeat that the RECORD UNION
will favor the repeal of the Caminetti bill
unless it can be made absolutely certain
that the taking of gold, which is the prop
erty of the miner, does not infiict injury
upon the property Of the people of the
lowing only. 1t has no sacred right,
whereas the tilling Of the soil and the
peopling of the valley and the building to
a permanent civilization is the highest
form of human activity for human good,
and is at once duty and the exercise OF
the Hottest functions of being.
One orchard ia worth more than any