The San Francisco call., 1898-06-10
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TYRANNY.


 HERE is no more dsagreeable thing with which to come in contact than person of a
 low order of intelligence yet by accident the folly of favortsm invested with little authority, which he does not know how to use By some eccen- tricty of nature the smaller such man is the bigger he thinks he IS and the more detestabe he becomes when, through any freak of fortune this authority is thrust upon him. He may have been only petty nuisance; on the instant he rises almost to the pro portions of calamity. He is changed to bully, and his inherent boorshness comes to the surface.
 This line of thought leads inevitably to considera ton of individual who has decreed that only such newspaper representatives he shall elect to be permitted on the Pacific Mail dock place where his orders sometimes obeyed and his unwo-th always mathematical. For while he is himself an employe he looks upon himself as monarch, and exacts de- ference from the unlucky employees under his thumb To kow-tow in his presence is part of the duty of each. This individual does own the front even portion of it. He simply occupies position into which he shunted by the grace of C. P Huntington who is under the inconvenience of being relative by marriage and would rather have the suffering public support his dependent than to sup port him himself.
 Possibly Huntington did not realize what bur den he was unloading on the community when he snatched this fellow from the fate of being court martaled and gave to him the privilege of bulging with pomp he dictates orders his betters. Hun tingon is the head body and appetite of the Southern Pacific and of the Pacific Mail The two concerns are so interwoven that there is possibility of separating them. Therefore the retention of misht official at the headquarters of the Pacific Mail is much railroad trick though the official had some other title He IS part of the long standing mposi ticn noxious addition to the long list of wrongs from which San Francisco has suffered by the acts of the Southern Pacific. Yet this creature of the company is as thoroughly hated by associates by the public. Faced by of courage who not forced for livelihood to humble themselves before him he is craven. Before all others he is buster ing braggart making an unpleasant spectacle and ex- citing disgust of degree of which these few remarks are intended to be expression.
 This paper does not propose that its representa- tves shall be excluded from any place to which rep resentatives of other papers have access does 1t believe that merely by swelling up after the o toad chursh official stand in its path with out danger of sustaining puncture followed by col lapse The matter will be appealed to the highest authority There should be no occasion for appeal ing higher than to the Southern Pacific itself for this annoying triae, practically kicked out of the navy is part of its paraphernaa for the subdung of happi ness After the first kick he alighed in an easy chair but second kick IS overdue now and should be ad- nristered without regard to where he shall alight Huntington could win much gratitude by taking his relative away Here the fellow expends his energies in insulting patrons He is not adapted to the real d ties of the place He lacks the instincts of the gen. tlenan and so gentlemen do not like to meet him. The effect of his presence is to make enemy for the Southern Pacific at every opportunity While not officially engaged in doing this, he manages to make himself unbearable that the glare of publicity uray falls him. and by the light of it appears clearly the brand of the ass while the listening ear detects the sound of bray