The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-01

pie that has been carried on to the present day.
Among the results are the general destruction
of prosperity in California, the failure OF the
farmers, the decrease and almost cessation of
our manufactures and the ruin OF jobbing-
houses and merchants
This is not all. The evil influences of these
INSCRIPTIONS men have brought about con-
dition of social affairs which has probably
never been seen in any other State of the
Union. Corruption and bribery have welded
high hand, and the example set by these men,
rolling in their ill-gotten wealth, has been de-
structive OF honor and honesty in the rising
generation. They have corrupted our jul
dietary, they have corrupted our municipal
councils, they have corrupted our Legislatures
snd they have corrupted Congress. They have,
by espionage, intimidated and made towards
OF our merchants. They have, by the power of
money, managed to control public opinion, and
they have lowered our standards as citizens of
the United States.
All this evil has been brought about by the
Southern Pacific of Kentucky's monopoly of the
carrying trade. Its constant aim has been to
extort for freights and fares all that the traffic
can bear. In order to maintain their monopoly
they managed to kill all incipient projects for
competing railroads; they also subsidized for
many years the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
psny, and they grasped the control OF even the
sailing ships round Cape Horn. The Southern
Pacific magnates stripped the Central Pacific
Railroad of everything it possessed, turned it
to their own uses and put the proceeds into
their own pockets. AS security TO the United
States Government they have, TO use their own
language, left nothing behind but two streaks
of rust from the Missouri TO the Pacltc. And
now ey have the herdihood to ask Tor fifty
go years. extension to pay their debts, their
real purpose being to get release from thelr
4l,a"r only frflV-
eminent possesses.
The people of California protest, and the pro-
test has been signed by over 100000 voters
agains; any kind of refunding bill. Driven TO
the wall, almost in despair, our people have
appealed to Congress to spare them from TINS
fatal blow. If the Reilly or any similar fund
ing bill becomes law it means despotlsm ana
slavery for the people of this coast and an
Inhalation of their well-being for it Will put
into the hands OF C. p. Huntington and his
crew the power OF destroying competition, and
will deliver California to their brutal rapacity.
This man, Huntington, has spent his life in
bribing and corrupting Boards of Supervisors,
State Legislatures and Congress. He is now
in Washington, determined and boastful, that
the United States Congress shall pass this fund-
ing bill, which will release him and his part
ners from the personal liability TO which, under
the constitution of California they are clearly
subject.
If Congress passes this bill it wrests from the
United States Government the only security III
now has in the private fortunes OF the four rail-
road magnates. 1t seems incredible that such
q measure can be passed by almost open bribery
and corruption, and the men who vote for it
should be held up to the scorn of the whole
United States, as in California they will be
deemed infamous for ever.
ADoLPH SUTRo, Mayor of San Francisco.