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Show B1CAVE 1IOOIII. X I'arllsao Speech Eulogized New York, 9. The Times prints a lOLg editorial eulc-gizing Bjctj und pruieiDg hia recent Epe-.cti. It enya bid Bpeech iu tiuii Fraociaco amply jtidlilita bib reputation aa a carelai thinker, acd an houest and iiiiuly politician;. Jd what may be cailtd local lo-cal iastiea, upon wuicb Booth's spoech daahee, eastern people are not grc.ttly concerned. The Cbinece qaeetion and the claime and qualilicatioua o( caodidaies, to thojo who heard the speech, have BpeciaLimerest. Booth's re erdnsea to the railroad queetijr, one of tho burning iai-tieB in California, were ao statesmanlike that they runlly coyor all the relatione ol corporaiions to the general public. The Central Pacific railroad repreEenta to the mind of the average Calilornian, a typical mcnater, which, for want of a more accurate title he calia a "corporation." The new constitution constitu-tion of tho state, adopted in tLe whirl, of popular excitement and pasaion la a protest against corporations. Under it corporations are to be restricted (squeezed if need be) and the foremost of all tbeae corporations cor-porations ia the Central Pacific railroad, rail-road, which ia eaid to control legislatures, legisla-tures, newspapers nod public men, ai.d cvf!ii the fountains ol the popular will. The Times continues: There waa a time in California when the genera feeling was that all that waa wanted to complete the prosperity of the state waa railroad connection with the Atlantic states. To secure thiB no aacrifice was too great, no taxation too severe. Counties and communities wero bidding against each other for branches and connection. There waa a mad rush of persona and municipal and county corporations for the fore-meat fore-meat place in subsidizing the railway company. It was only as tho evils of the Byetem of building a railroad by grants, and subsidies, developed themselves them-selves that corruption, wastefulness, and extrav3ganco were made manifest, mani-fest, and people Blowly awoke to the oonviction that this waa wrong. Not at once, but by degrees, did the people come lo the conclusion that if anyone wanted a railroad he ought to build it; that any community that furnished money to build a railroad ought to own it, and that no man baa tbo right to voto away any other man's property lor the benefit of a third. The people of California were clamorous for railroad. They would give it national, Btate, municipal muni-cipal and county subsidies. When the road is finished and in- working order, they denounce it as a creature of diabolical origin. It ia a Fraukin-stein Fraukin-stein Those movements they cannot control. No unprejudiced person pretends to any that railroad rates at present are not oppressive and extortionate. extor-tionate. The Central Pacific Railroad Rail-road Company, it is charged, discriminates dis-criminates tyrannically ngaioBt com- ita rates of freight a8 the price of articles advances, and makes itself a partner with the manutacturer and producer. As a special guard against this sort of oppression by the corpora- 1 tion which baa built its road and en richtd ifs partners beyond all computation, compu-tation, solely by subsidies, California baa provided a railroad commission, to whom is to bo committed the absolute Bupervision of this particular Bpecies of incorporated capital. Booth, speaking for anti monopoliata, declares that the people will not tolerate discrimination in favor of persona or places. They want right, nut favor, under the law, and these shall be obtained; not in auger, or paebion, or revenge, but in a spirit of .fairness and justice, and those things, bo thinks, can be best accomplished through the success of tho republican party. |