The record-union., 1896-03-05
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions of Interior California
Newspapers.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, Theoret-
ical and Current.

Bakersfield Californian: And now we
are to have another six-months' jaw
| ing match, all for a minute and a half
slugging contest.-Los Angeles Times.
If the newspapers would stop giving
so much space to these 'pugs," or
charge full advertising rates for what
is nothing but rank advertising, the
public would have surcease from the
nauseating rot.
WITH THE WIND OUT.
MarysviIle Appeal: The ignominious
defeat of the repeal bill in Kentucky
effectually disposes of one of the many
skyrocket attempts to embarrass the
Southern Pacific Company. On coming
to the issue only eight voters could be
counted in its favor. The opposition
to the funding proposition now before
Congress will probably simmer down
to about the same showing when finally
put to the test. Owing to the strong
ombination of Eastern capital, as evil
denced by the Vanderbilt syndi-
cate, which aspires to the purchase of
the Pacific Railroads, a possibly
stronger showing may be made, but in
| the windup we venture to assert that
the business sense of the legislators
will prevail, and the taxpayers of the
United States will be protected in the
sums that they have advanced to build
these Pacific Railroads. Just why q.
present of fifty millions of dollars
should be poured into the Golfers of the
Goulds and Vanderbilts we are not
clearly informed. We do know, however,
that it will be a sorry day for California
when this syndicate of Eastern capital
lists, with their Eastern methods, come
into possession of the Pacific Rail-
roads. With their ascendancy will come
an era of $40 a month brakemen, $65
conductors and $50 agents at places the
size of Marysville. While their owner
ship might be a trifle better than the
operations of q road under the direc-
tion of receivers in that they would
pay some cash, still a material reduc-
ton in the purchasing power of every
railroad employee would inevitably fol-
low. Eastern manufacturers will re-
joice when the Gould-V Vanderbilt syndi-
cate acquires the Pacific Railroads.
The interests of this combine are inter
ntnably interviewer with those of the
industrial interests of the East and
when they mount the throne of owner
ship it will be a game of East versus
West, with all the rebates in the game
extended to the Fastener.
NOT WEARING BRISTLES.
CoIusa Sun: Somehow the Sun"
does not relish the continued assertion
that we of the valley are disposed to
be contrary on the subject of hydraulic
mining, and certainly feels like ex-
Claiming, And you, too, Brutus," when
Charley Montgomery of the Antioch
Ledger intimates that it is our fault
that mining is not prospecting as it
should. He says: IF the two elements
mutually strive to solve the problem
the difficulty can certainly be adjusted
and mining can be carried on without
despoiling the farmer But nothing
can be accomplished SO long as the
farmer continues to wear uncompro-
missing bristles and inspired by pref
udice that will not yield to reason. We
think mining could be carried on with
out doing any harm to the farmer, pro-
viding there was determination on
both sides to promote mining"
Now the farmers do not wear uncom-
promising bristles. The valley people
are willing that men shall run all the
mines they can find that will pay ten
cents a day to the hand so they do not
make dumping place of their lands
and the rivers, to the destruction of
BOTH Is there any pig-headedness
about that? No mine can be stopped
that can show that it is doing no harm.
Then are we asked to stand the harm
in order that the foreign capital' OF
vUl oh no ode rcY.,5 he 1,a
made happy? This land, these rivers,
are here for the benefit of generations
yet unborn, but the old river beds of
the hydraulic mining fields can be
worked out by this same foreign cap
itaP' in few years, and then we would
have few big holes up in the mount
aims no rivers, no bay no land. And
the children born to look upon such
desolation would wonder what manner
of people inhabited this country about
the close of the nineteenth century!
No man in the valley wants to hinder
hydraulic mining everyone would be
most glad to see some way provided
for it to go on, but no way has yet been
suggested that will not bring ruin to
the valley interests. If any way can be
invented the consent of the valley people
LlCGQ uOL DG dSkSu, 1Ol, DIS SdlO DelOT6s
no mine that is not doing harm can be
stopped. The valley is most patient,
most enduring
A PLAIN STATEMENT.
Folsom Telegraph: The statement of
c. P. Huntington before the Senate
Committee on Pacific Railroads is in
teresting, and we regret that we are
unable to publish the same. In a con-
else and interesting manner he told the
history of the road from start to finish.
The great financial and other risks in
volved are intelligently and truthfully
set forth, and there are many men liv-
ing who can verify them all. The need
of a transcontinental road was urgent
and everybody wanted it, the Govern
ment and everyone else, but no one
would invest in the same, as there was
too great a risk. Labor and material
was hard to get and came high. Every
thing had to be paid for in gold, for
which 81 20 in currency had to be paid
for every dollar. All the capitalists in
the country refused to invest, as the
risk was too great and the possibility
of profit too remote. In the face of the
most discouraging circumstances a few
men undertook the task and succeeded
amid the plaudits of the nation. But
their task was not completed then. The
elements had to be fought and over
100000 were spent to do SO. Every