The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-18

minimize the cost or the rnlnS pro-
duced without sacrifice of labor
There are some who will deny this, but
1t is true, nevertheless, that trust
that cannot cheaper the article pro-
duced must sooner or later go to the
wall. In proof of the theory that trusts
cheaper articles produced we have only
to point to the Standard Oil Company,
the type trust, and to every department
store in the land, which are nothing if
not trusts, as the word is understood"
AN UNTRUTHFUL CHARGE.
Stockton Independent: Such an
accident as generally attends an at
tempt on the part of the Southern Pa
cif1c to handle crowd Of travellers oc-
CURED early yesterday morning at
Newman, in Stanislaus County, to one
OF the specials fastening westward to
the National Teachers Convention at
+; Los Angeles. AS a result two persons
are dead-both wonderland nine are
injured
The above is the opening paragraph
in the Chronicles" account of the
Newman tragedy. Is it any wonder
that the public of California loses faith
in the metropolitan newspapers, and that
the public of the East loses faith in
California? That is shameless as
sertion for one of the leading papers Of
the State to make while 10000 teach
erS from abroad are assembled at Los
Angeles. Does the Chronicle" wish to
convey the impression that it is dan
gerous for a convention to meet in
California? Was it not the "Chroni
cle'' that urged the selection of San
Francisco for a Republican national
convention, when the Southern Pacific
was the only railroad in the country
that could carry the delegates? Did
1t urge that convention in order to pre-
cipitate railroad tragedy?
Did not the Chronicle argue for
San Francisco as rendezvous for the
troops en- route to Manila? Was it
done with a knowledge and wish that a
train wreck on the Southern Pacific
would kill some of the troops? AS a
matter of fact $4,000 troops were sent
via San Francisco without an accident
on the single railroad that handled
them, while half a dozen accidents oc-
CURED on the great Eastern railroads
in handling troops, and a number of
lives We're lost.
In the great Endeavor convention at
San Francisco several years ago the
one railroad handled all the passen-
gers and there was no worse accident
than blockade of baggage. The Mid
winter Fair, which was gotten up by
the Chronicle" and managed ably by
the proprietor of the Chronicle"
brought great crowds over the South
ern Pacific without accident.
But just to vent its political spite or
it's personal pique, the Chronicle" now
consents to throw this out as the most
prominent paragraph in an account of
a tragedy. 1t is a blow at the State,
and as unworthy of the paper in which
it appears as it is untrue and unjust.
There is not resident of the State who
does not feel the utmost safety in trav-
cling over the Southern Pacific, what
ever the crowds, with as much safety
as would be felt on any railroad in the
land. And there is not an intelligent
person connected with the Chronicle"
from the proprietor down, who in pri-
vate conversation with outside people
| would not assure them that the rail-
road facilities for handling a crowd
in California are remarkable, the care
extraordinary, and safety the main
feature of the traffic. And yet this
great paper is willing to injure the
State, to give an untruthful warning to
all national associations that it is un-
safe for them to meet in California.
The accident at Newman was dep1or-
able Some fearful blunder may have
been made, as fearful blunders have
been made on other roads in other
States, East and West. But no acct
dent could injure the State so much as
the disposition of it's papers to make
the world believe that railroad travel
is attended with unusual dangers. The
charge is untrue in every particular
TI-SOCIALISTIC.
Alameda Argus: The most brilliant
and perhaps strongest anti-socialistie
writer of our day is W. H. Mallock.
His last book, "Aristocracy and Evolu-
tion," is study of the rights, the
origin and the functions of the wealthy
classes. He claims that society is not
composed of approximate equal units.
but that native facilities exist and are
highly beneficial. He contends that
the sole cause of progress is the man
above the average, the man OF superior
endowments, of inventive genius or
great executive ability; and that it is
but just that such men should receive
an enormously large share of the
wealth which but for them would not
exist. He points, out their matchless
services to society and seeks to show
that no check whatever should be
put upon their activity. He is a repre-
sentative of the great man theory"
of history in it's extreme form. The
closing chapters are much the weakest
The author is not happy in his effort
to show that inequalities of wealth
have no natural tendency to create un-
IA pnineSS and that UNIVERSAL edllca-