Year: 1874

IL ndS COiue W De ~ COL1uOIi TeuldIk n


that the Associated Press dispatches


sent from the East and printed in the


columns of the San Francisco Bulletin


and Call and the Sacramento Union,


are always bitterly and often unrea-


sonably antagonistic to the Central
Pacific Railroad Company. So marked,
vindictive, and, not unfrequently, un-
truthful are these attacks, that news


paper readers not familiar with the


history of California are at loss to


account for them, and being without


the true reason are liable to fall into


the error of believing that the individ-


ual who complies these reports


is telling the truth, and that the


railroad management is as black


as it is painted. Such a conclusion


would be as far from correct as the


motive of the man who manufactures


these dispatches and of the newspapers


that print them, is base and contempt


ible. When it is known that one mo.
nopoly attacks another monopoly for
no other reason than the attacked
monopoly broke up the monopoly of
the attacking monopoly, the rant
and rave, cant and nonsense about
the expressions ofmonopoly are accept
ed at just their real weight which is
less than nothing. The Union, BulIe-
tin and Call held monopoly of the
telegraphic news on the Pacific Coast.
1t was valuable. 1t enabled the
owners of the Union and bulletin
to sell their papers at just double
the amount they are now asking for
them. With the exception of those
papers, not another journal on the Pa
cific Coast could obtain a line of
eastern telegraphic news report. The
telegraphic wires of the Central Paci-
fic Railroad broke up this monopoly
and placed eastern dispatches within
the reach of fifty newspapers. This is
the true secret of the Associate Press
journals hatred of the railroad COM
pany. 1t is we'll understood that if
STANFORD, CROKER & Co. would
lease their telegraph lines to the
Western Union or refuse the trans
mission of news dispatches over them,
the daily attacks of the Union, Bulte-
tim and Call would cease at once, and
we should hear no more about the
grinding monopoly" About the same
time we should hear of an advance in
the subscription price of those jour-
nails, and learn to our sorrow that the
old news monopoly was again in full
force. 1t may be asked, What has
this to do with the making up of these
dispatches on the other side of the
continent? We answer: A great deal,
and in this way: J. w. SIMoNToN, the
Associate Press agent, who resides in
Washington and New York and super
vises in person the dispatches sent to
this coast, is part owner of both the
Bulletin and Call. He lost money by
the breaking up of the Associated
Press monopoly and he takes advan-
tage of his position as news agent to
distort and fabricate dispatches for
the purpose Of attacking and misrep-
resenting the Central Pacific Railroad
Company, which has committed the
offense of breaking up
his news monopoly. These facts ex-
plain why the dispatches of the Asso-
ciated Press and the editorials of those
papers that publish the dispatches are
always against the Central Pacific
Railroad Company. The people of the
State are indebted to the railroad
company for breaking up the news
monopoly, and it is matter of aston
ishment that the many newspapers
that now receive telegraphic dispatches
they never could have received over
the Western Union lines, join in the
senseless crusade against company
that has done more to give them the
name of newspaper than they could
have done for themselves in life
time.