Year: 1872

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mon enemy to combat and one common
duty to perform. We understand full
well that hereafter the Sacramento Union
will be the head and front of the factous
opposition to Republican ascendency in
this part of the State. Made rich and
powerful by the Republican party, as the
personal organ of James Anthony & Co.
it has put aside all honesty and decency
in politics and journalism, and for what Z?
to crafty the envy and malice Of Anthony
& Morrill,. Contempt is said to have the
property of descending, but it falls far
short of reaching the depths to which the


Union has descended in this matter.
The course we should pursue needs no
pointing out, and it is no middle course.
I" He that is not for US is against US" If
the Union can defeat the Republican par
ty in this State it will do so, and it de-
wolves upon us to prevent this result.
We must fully unmask the traitor, and
we must wage a united, concerted, per-
sistent warfare upon him, demanding
and accepting no other terms than uncon-
ditional surrender. That fine feathers
don't make fine birds, was known as far
back as Esops time, and the borrowed
plumage we plucked from the Sacramento
bird this year disclosed the fact that it
was but a common fowl, and of not
species at that. We have
learned the Sacramento Union that the
Chickadees have sharp and rending beaks
and talons and can use them to good pur-
pose, and we would now tell that concern
that if it persists in the course it has
marked out, that its only immunity in
,he future from being devoured alive by
-he Chickadees lies in the fact that the
is respectable bird and will
not feed on carrion. Woodruff & Claf-
Inns hlackmail sheet has lately come to
grief, and it will be our fault if its COM
petitor for public contempt, issued by
Anthony & Morrill,, is not shown up be-
lore the people in its true light and de-
spised. We know much Of the men who
own and control it, and of those who edit
it. A pure and healthful stream cannot
flow from an impure, poisoned source,
and it is moral impossbiity that the


Union as now owned and conducted can
be an honest or truthful journal. That
paper, as we know, misrepresents from
habit when the truth would answer better.
Let us show this to the people.


Its daily, mean, treacherous and malig-
nant ISLANDERS upon men with whom, when
in all that dignifes and adorns
the Union owners and their
hired defamers are like pigmies to a giant,
are familiar to us. Let us keep this be-
fore the the people. The Union prates of
and overcharges. We know
that the Union owes its present wealth
and circulation to its partnership in the
most oppressive monopoly that can be
fastened upon a reading people, and the
high prices it was thereby enabled to ex-
act. Let us keep this before the people.
The Uni0n is an opponent of monopoly
professedly. Let us see. 1t began by
combining to obtain absolute control of
the telegraph news over the only line
the Atlantic with the Pacific
Coast. 1t was thereby enabled to crush
out all opposition, and it did it. When
the Union talks of overcharges, does it
that during the Vigilance
Committee excitement in San Francisco
it suppressed the news in Sacramento and
only furnished it in the shape of extras
at the extremely moderate sam of fue
dollars apiece! We know and remem-
Der these things and let us keep it be-
fore the people," When did the Union
begin to oppose monopoly and champion
the rights of the people? Was it when
the Pacific Mail Company, Oregon and
California Stage Company, Steam Navi-
cation Company, and various San Fran
cisco rings held undisputed sway? Not
then. "a fellow feeling makes us won
drous kind" and the Union being cheek
by jowl with the rest in fleeing the peo-
pie was utterly mute. Let us keep this


before the people. That the Central Pa
cific railroad is the greatest achievement
of this century, not even the Sacramento


Union will have the hardihood to deny.


The CentrdL Pucifc RdilrOod is the onlv
monopoly Withia the State that has eUer
benefited the State. 1t has reduced the
cost Of tranporting freight, the cost of
travelling so far as dollars and cents are


concerned, and the difference in time is


still greater. We know this, everybody


who has shipped or received goods knows


it, and everybody who visited the East


ern States before and since the compile


ton of the Central Pacific knows it. Let


us keep this before the people. A quick


silver monopoly compels the mining in


terest to pay three times what the article


is really worth. Friedlander & Co., put


down the price of wheat in California


when the price is going up in Liverpool.


San Francisco racks its ingenuity in


squeezing the last dollar out ofthe remain


der of the State, and the Union "roars


you as gently as any sucking dove"


Let us keep this before the people. The


building of the Central Pacific brought


millions of dollars to the State to be ex-


pended here and added millions to our


wealth. 1t increased the purchasing pow


er of every quarter Of a dollar and twice


the business can now be done with the


same capital. Who ever saw these truths


in the Union. The Sacramento Unio,


undertook to black-mail Stanford & Co


and failed, and hence its opposition. Lei


us keep this before the peonle.