The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-10-09
DISCREDITED CREDIT
California Suffering From an
Unprincipled Press.
Her Rich Valleys Under q Curse and
the Hectic Flush Of Death on
Her Cheek.


valleys, rich with fat alluvial soil; her
foothills, kindly nurseries for the vine;
her mountains, inlaid with gold and seam
ed with webs and precious metal-all tes-
tify that ere the hand OF Mature had
ceased her work upon this Western Hem
isphere, she had with rfpened skilfulness,
here shcped and wrought her masterpiece.
A single rich endowment, like unto any
one of these so multiplied with us, II
heaped with hand as lavish upon another
land, would justify the building of an
empire; and spread content and happiness
among thrifty people. Here.
Though every prospect pieases,
And only man Is VILE
Poor California; The damhsk in her
cheek. which stimulates the flush OF
health, is more akin to the hasty and
overwhelming blush that mounts the
cheek OF maid discovered of her shame
Within our most beloved state dwells
that which Is at once her undoing, yet
feeds and fattens on the very strength
and beauty 1t destroys. The smoke which
floats with lazy speed from the apex OF
Vesuvious adds interest to the scene,
and draws the curious traveller from
afar, but 1t likewise tells OF slumbering
fires below, that, feeding on the core,
threaten destruction to the very thing
that gives 1t life.
A citizen of California, a man OF wealth
and high repute, just returned from the
money markets of Europe, tells us that
the reputation and credit of the state
has never been in a more deplorable con-
dition than today; that be the financial
prospect ever so pleasing, and the secur-
ity offered most promising OF rich re-
wards, to be Californian Is to damn It,
He tells us, and though we know 1t well
before, the repetition Of the story adds
the strength that repetition brings-that
in London and on Wall street the men
of money refuse to even discuss a Cali
fornian enterprise. They tel him that
in California we have a press to which
the public seems to lend adherence and
support and which recognizes no right Of
property, no rule Of justice. They charge
this press with being mercenary and
devoid of principle, and claim that 1t
expounds, as living truths, sentiments
most DANGEROUS and anarchistic. They
take the existence and continued prosper
ity OF such press as an index to the
sentiments of the community, and argue
that our condition Is akin to that OF
Mexico, where no stranger may feel Sc
cure in his property rights, and where
success invites the rapacious onslaughts
of the thief; If not as a brigand, then as
conflscating rascal, who robs under COW
er Of elastic laws. There is not an en-
terprise Of any magnitude in California
but what is at the mercy of the boodling
legislature and the iunspeakable press;
there Is not a stock or bond which does
not suffer in value and in security from
the attacks Of these two enemies OF
progress; there rs not an lhsuIanSe &c conis
pany' not waiter company uliaL mas hol
palu tripute To liie IasoaiS ~ nc - s
anu pesis!auure, 10 opsaiii u. llriIu'y IN
unJuou demanus anu "eeiessions tra' tr,a'
tnreatened tner very eMs.s'e ts ho tho
Whoie state AnowS uno 'ISeii. - n.s s
clups' IN tne cares, anu mneieve. ans'
meet rhey oiscuss these lhihss' yet' IN
fessing ana uePiorlne .neir eAistenee, 'nsS NY
move neluner hano nor IooI 10 cure rne
evn, Last week we wrose vi MT 'oIi
L. Doyle anu MS Pupilsheu a'taeA oi
some Callrornla ponus' eInce then sen-
tleman mas caIleu our aIteHtion " SIN
llar une OF conuuct on tne part ol MI,
Doyle toward seVerau oener eh.elprises
OF locaI interest anu uec4areu sueh W
zen to pe oetrrment 10 une suale. Du'
we nave many Doyles, anu many IAa,iin- s
ers 10 puDplsH theH Iuouhia.ioiis' s.. thueu,
the daily papers regard ~ as Leae oi
1ournaIasm worthy OF une hishest apprvOa- Nr, a.
tlon II tney can put SCOOP rNaa III
some slcKenihg sehsatoh unal VIII plaen
en- the reputation on cltlzeh OF impaH
the credit OF nome corporation. Alllons
them there is no enort at upDulluins' no
thought OF strengrnening local creult' no
idea OF sondi1ylng the interests vi the
commonwealth Tnat tne spate inay oiier
a united front against lts neignporlng r.
vals, VINO seek TO INVADE our territory
and wrest rom us our traue anu COM
merce, Is matter OF smal interest," 10
the press. They are more concerned az
nursing devilish spirit or hatred toward
the successful and catering to the depraved
appetites OF the deDased.
1t Is one OF the ironies OF life that the
shTieking, complaining, anti-monopoly
press does Itself enjoy about the only
monopoly known within the state. To-
gether the newspapers form the most
heartless and impregnable OF trusts. Yet
they declare 1t to be a crime to own the
only line of railway traverstng valley
miles in width, when for few beggarly
dof1ars any five citizens OF the state
held by the monopoly" and may build