The record-union., 1899-06-18
Outraging the State.

(FrOm the Stockton 1nQ6penOent)
w. H. Mills is endeavoring to secure
q complete exhibit of the products OF
this whole coast for the Paris exposi-
ton next year, and for that purpose
went to Oregon and the sound to ar
range some kind of unity of action be-
tween the parties concerned in Oregon
and Washington ON the one hand and
those of California on the other. To
some extent he was representing the
State Board OF Trade and perhaps in
some degree the Southern Pacific Rail-
road However that may have been,
his efforts should enlist mott only the
hearty approval by the earnest coop
Grafton of every person in this State.
Whatever will benefit the Southern Pa
cific Railroad in securing occupants for
unused lands, or investors to develop
latent resources, or markets to absorb
California products will also benefit
the Santa Fe Railroad, will benefit the
steamship lines, will benefit the farm
ers, the merchants, the laborers, the
cities and towns, the newspapers and
even the politicians and idlers.
But no sooner had Mr. Minis arrived
in Portland on this worthy errand and
one which no inhabitant Of California
is more competent to discharge, than
the San francisco sCall" in pursuance
of that narrow and petty spirit which
has frequently outraged the State, re-
marked that the Southern Pacific de-
signed to exhibit to Firms or other pos
sible European immigrants what might
be raised on the Nevada desert and
along the Sunset" The paper could
not forego the fling. 1t was apparent
ly Impossible for it to publish a pure
ly industrial news item without work
ing in some of its spite against the
railroad It cared not how much
might injure California. nor how much
it belittled itself, so long as it helped
along the Examiners senseless aSl-
tation against the Southern Pacific
1t is a standing wonder that in this
age of supposed intelligence the read
ing public does not get SO thoroughly
disgusted with that kind of silly cam
paigning that it will entirely repudiate
the sickening papers that have kept
this wonderful State back ten years
by their i'll timed, deceitful and unjust
slurs and agitation against the South
ern Pacific Railroad and all who chance
to be connected with it. These tactics
have persuaded people in the East TO
believe that California has no advan-
tages that can offset the burden that
residents have ITO carry because Of the
railroad ogre. It is an outrage on
the State and its people and were the
people awake to their true interests
they would not tolerate such things
nor the papers that seem to live for
the sole purpose of manufacturing rea-
sons why settlers and investors should
not come here.
When a man from abroad enters the
State he picks up a San Francisco
paper to get the news of the world and
there he finds in about every other item
some alleged enormity oppression or
abuse perpetrated by the Southern Pa
cific Railroad No wonder he is willing
to change his plans and go to Wash
ington. to Mexico. to Manila, or even
back East rather than to cast his lot
in such a region We may talk as we
like about the climate of the State and
the resources hut if the papers are to
continue to surround all with an at
mosphere of railroad oppression, of
railroad corruption, of railroad extor-
ton and even of railroad aridfty, what
sane man wants to take up his resi-
dence here?
California should have doubled her
population during the last fifteen years
and might have done so had her ad-
wants ges been set forth free of these
damnable perversions. But before she
can make any unusual strides It will be
necessary to prove that her metropoli-
tan papers are principally false.
They tell me that you half killed
two CT the highwaymen and manned the
third one for life.''
II guess 1 did,
Heavens, man, how did it happeno'
why, the three robbers set upon me
with drawn revolvers. and the big fell
low growled, Throw up your handsp
You can bel. I. threw them up lively. The
big fellow held his revolver against my
breast and the. other two went through
my pockets Everythinl was going
smoothly fors4he rascals when one of
them happened to crowd little hard
against my vaccination"
.Well?" ss-s.1t5
well, the next thing remember two
of the footpads were lying senseless in
'front.' OF me, and the third was .linging
fo q tree and Sr.req ming for mercyi''--