Year: 1872

The Sacramento Union having had a
great deal to say about the enormity of
the Goat Island bill and making it pre-
text for opposing two of the Republican
nominees in this State, was asked, not
long ago, by the Marysville Appeal
whether the Union would publish the
bill, so that its readers might judge for
themselves. The reply of the Union will
and ought to convince all unprejudiced
persons of the unlairness Of that paper.


We copy verdatim ct hteratim:


"The Union is not in the habit Of re-
printing as reading matter the paid ad
vertisements of the monopoly in the
chckadee prints. That is sharp prac-
-tce which can't be successfully played
upon us. However, we shall oblge the
appeal so far as to give the substance Of
that long bill, which will save us the
cost of printing ana publishing column
or so, and the reader the unremuneratlve
trouble of going over great deal of dis
Stimulating verbage. The Goat Island
Bill is contrivance to take from the peo-
pie of the United States $4,000, 900 worth
of real estate and give it to the Central
Pacific Railroad Company. incidentally,
the purpose of it is to give Stanford and
five others the power to break down the
whole shipping interest Of San Francisco,
and transfer that business to their own
wharves and warehouses at Goat Island
and the Oakland water front, and to en-
able them to eXtort without limit from
the farmers of the whole Southern part Of
the State. This is a fair and concise
synopsis, more readable and giving far
more truthful understanding Of the mat
ter than the bill itself gives to the aver
age reader. We should add, however,
that the corporation Will have to pay
small sum, say ,000 to cover the ex-
penses of the transfer. Their clear direct
profit will therefore be only S4,9S0,OO0."


The first thing that will strike the mind
Of =" the average reader" as being very
singular indeed, is the the fact that the
monopoly pays for advertising the coat
Isidnd bill in the " CHickddee Prints."
II that measure was the montrosity the
Union would have the people believe,
why would the monopoly" advertise it
all over the land so that all could read
and understand. The next thing that will
strike the mind OF "the average reader"
is the egotistical and insulting assumption
of the Union that its readers would not
be able to understand the bill, even if
printed in its columns. For this reason,
the Union gives synopsis Of it. The
JOURNAL differs widely with the Union
upon this question. We believe in and
are ready at all times to appeal to the in
teligence Of the American people. When
they become so ignorant and obtuse as
the Union represents, there is an end to
political freedom on this continent. In
order that the recklessness of the Sacra-
mento Union may be fully understood,
we this week publish the Goat Island bill
in full, and have no doubt that the read
ers Of the JOURNAL will understand it
and the position of the Union without
difficulty. 1t will be seen at once that
the Central Pacific were not given any
portion OF Goat Island and that their oc-
cupancy Of it was not exclusive. Next,
it itappears that the Company We're express
lyprohibted from from practicing any ex-
tortions upon farmers or anybody else.
The only injury inflicted upon anybody
would be the grain ring, together with
the commission and storage sharks of
San Francisco, who could no longer con-
troll every ton Of freight to pay them trib-
ute.