Show A SOULLESS SOUL LESS lesa the people of california aie abc deeply interested in the building f of a new ficaia SAU sail francisco to los All angeles geles to bs be known as the san sail joaquin valley balley road the southern pacific has ion long hail bad a monopoly in of center and southern california and the people have pud paid tribute to its unreasonable demands fur a number of deais tile new roid road is a scheme by which to overthrow the tyrant which has ruled them until it lias has almost ru ruined ineil theria i C P r huntington has controlled legislation not only in the states which the southern pacific extends but in congress as weli he is the wealthy head of a wealthy tion and does in not int t scruple to buy or the peoples tive lives 8 whenever w the occasion demands it yome some time ago ago this corn com piny PIDY took it a notion to some land on hussel plough I ough already settled anti and impi improved oved A law nas v as passed 91 giving ng the land to the railroad and the settlers vicie rie killed or driven away oy by southern pacific fic hirelings it lias has almost lieen been an all aiu possibility I 1 for news newspapers mass meat ings or political parties to fight the powerful adversary senator per kills who was elected reelected re to the U S senate only a few lays days ago 1 by y the publican le ic baity of california is is a representative of southern pacific interests the transactions of cf the I 1 railroads lail ail roads with the newspaper press of of a or of a threatening 7 ale aie naturally seldom su pec tible table of actual proof tile the universal belief in califar Is s that it is induce inducements of some lind kind which liao haie caused most moet of tile the newspapers in the state to lu lie be so friendly as they are to the uil cords cut but this can only be alleged us as opinion two cases have h a special celebrity one is that odthe sf the sacramento union in an uncompromising and influential enemy of the central pacific roid road its end was that a fival paper the recoil nis A as in in the the railroad raili oad and ami was w as pushed ith capital and so 10 much LO lich skill and energy that the clanders union iv IN obliged to sell outto out to the record the capeis bocci as tile alio bee cold union which continued as an all unconditional a supporter and piece of tile railroad and aill remains inaina such the other is ie the more famous 0 us case of the bulletin and the call owned and edited in san frn fria ciocco respectively by george K fitch and lobing pickering these two papers Pal lers which have always been in ili very ver close relations with bieh each other for a long time vigorous vigorous and efficient opponents ot of v the railroad lail road and among other things they n ere decisively indu colial in preventing tile the railroad from roin getting posse s ion of goat island in the attly bay of san sail francisco francico which bould hao hano been of very great value as it ft terminal erin mal point shortly alter tile the failure of the goat island scheme was waa a secret interview between some of the railroad authorities anil and the two extols immediately after this thin interview between t two 0 lays days AS 13 it were the two papers na nent ent tu to the hie I 1 light ight then about t as to railroad mit tors and if they did not become advocates of tile the railroads they lid did become absolutely rilent about aboul thern them and so eo remained until rece recently otly when they have ventured to some disappio dis approvals vals if f railroad policy or action this is tile the trans cletion so gleefully I 1 in the he colton letters by bv I 1 lie he statement ill ih it fitch and pickering have been caned called down the bank tile memorable voids have beccone proverbial in california nia asa as A 11 to describe complete discomfiture the 11 h c san an francico Fian cico examiner in maya ma out sit oil v azain kt the doings of tile the state I 1 1 ilioyd tinli I oid commission Comm CoMmit itHon sion mil ana of the railroad promptly 11 loin aptly at the pd fd of the month tile the exa examiner miner received notice to discontinue its ils inse inser ninn Linn of the time cards of the and southern pacific ro road ad and mr lin charles Ci ceoler oLer came callic to the office and pero personally nally ordered ins his copy of ti 3 piper stopped paying go 65 cell cent ta to balance his account about 1881 a man who liar lierl lipen been one of the califor nia state railroad congimi ed to a of fair standing in sin francisco Franci suu materials for a full and true history of the centini pacific and union pacific railroads Railroad i and then doings the went to ill the moet meet vie althy and powerful ahing house on the pacific c colt coast and asked inthey if they would publish such a book the answer anser was no N 0 vie ve cant venturie to make an all enemy of tile the then lie he i tient ell t to the head of a large book house and said if I 1 will have an of this hook book printed will aou oui bell ellit it the die publisher replied no I 1 dare not the could and would bould seriously injure and pet haps ruin my bubl nebs so the hiiter found that in ill oi older der to get brucha uch a book before the public he be would have first to nitie I 1 tie itchen to pay the expenses of publishing shill I 1 it it an anil I 1 then to take charo charge 0 of selling 9 it himself all in apposition to th the e greatest and mos most t perv pervading arling power of any kind to he be found on the pacific coast A retry floal fiaui oakland an fn tot ran an francisco was in I 1 and 1893 in opposition to the laic lail road ferry I 1 llie tie railroad men cut their fare to half calf that of the nen ilen viz f to two and a half cents all and d both it ways alq 11 fair e cents ahei e the former late had been 15 cents acet and 25 clonts after a time the new ferry company was wag firmed farced into failure at a meeting of creditors it was that a should be appointed not one creditor would serve for the avowed reason that they dared not risk being blacklisted bv br the railroad aug 2 1894 a resolution was introduced into the salt lake city chamber of commerce opposing the reilly keilly funding bill A banket 0 of f the city was al out to give I 1 1 cating casting vote in faor of the re alu tion nhen mien the chairman a well known railroad mail addressed him openly and aloud as follon fol foll loi oiNk mr I 1 want to iemand you that yours is the deciding vote just juit now I 1 lie he house of winch which banks bank with you ships in lots of tuff from california and some out to there the th pacific is a pretty big concern to lenoid a vote vole ag against aga inet aalst if the raton rates be chan changed ed mr banker meekly voted to postpone action so extensively did tins this reeling feeling or of fear pervade the state that ex ja chov ov Pat in his big powerful minority report as one of tile the of IW said no man dared engage ili any business into which drioli largely cn CIA without fiat skill anil obtaining the permission ol 01 a 9 railroad manager such a late fhate of thingly is slavery one reason biby by it ila hais becia s si difficult to inter eRt the money cil nien and institutions of sin san fran fan caco in in the proposed railroad rail raili todd oad in the san joaquin valley li is that the fear to endanger dluger en then holdings in railroad securities it is s computed that some enche tile e or fourteen millions of railroads rail I 1 roada stocks and bonds are held in san pan francisco with aich the railroad managers mau mana ageia geis have been diligently filling up the city for a number of years if the proposed pio posed competing n road should be built and should succeed it would lower and baisi bly destroy the value of these be curi ties enough liaa has been recorded to prove that the policy of the central pacific IA CiCic railroad and southern pa ad cefic railroad company CoLo nany in california has always been one or of monopoly exalus exclusion jun corn intimidation discrimination ro re pres preshion bion favoritism and extortion mr leeds surnamed up the freight rato rate operation i of tile railroad lor fur a monopoly of california tran iranE spot poi ti ta lion as bollons first the local ale unreasonably liili high iC cond onu the law novel ieng the fuestion stion of rats rata and fares in ili california californi Califor nm lias has been almost wholly bolly inird alie acci can lera to nod lioni this i aas have been beida d or ise control led letl for litany anany nears ears bourth an all Lin ambiro bargo his has heel upon tile import trado of the i ith particular leturc nee nce to this port pon of entry I 1 1 0 an california measured liy by census statistics i doing than some states slates and boiler better than others ol liere her of product im iq i bo be ini mense hot ebe his has the strangling burden of tin tile railroad lail rond w phout fatal bilal iriny 1111 tily rut put sail kail eo holds about it a quartee of 01 liei let population and about one lidid of hei bei wealth andthil ind this centre e anil al d heart of tile lie material life 0 f the state i well knortz to have re tro graded in ili bus business ineis poso enty as compared with will the other large binns of the coast for the last atif years or mole moie san in francisco fran CISCO all and d the state tile me neither dead nor ruined but any liones l man mail familiar nith ith their recent history w will ill admit that they would now be f ar a r more than they llie file lad bad the raili clad been managed so 0 o as to help tile the city cita a ind the state instead of if subjugating them the for tile the one laii tail road rowl combination of four pi avato estat estates es A city like san sail francico Fian Fiane cico iAcca cannot reasonably be expected to flourish no when its tr routes both by sea and ami land are systematically ati cally ally worked to destroy its trade I 1 and commerce its tea trade I 1 8 pone gone its cotton trade is gone Us its coree co nee fiade is 13 going goin its general export trade ia going with its 1 single I agle land transportation 7 outlet controlled by an all iron monopoly san I 1 all francisco iner increased eased 27 pcr per cent in the ten tell years from 1882 to 1892 1992 Pirt lanil ore milli inith competing roads increased in tile the same time per cent and los angeles 37 per cent tile the furuie of sun sin francisco depends upon another railroad or tin ano 0 we hope she will get them thein |