Show AN COMPANY the pacific mail steamship company stands ina position of defiance toward the government if ifwers dotso tich and powerful it might bo in danger of a prompt and vigorous rebuke its refusal to car ry the mails from san franc escoto southern ports at the critical moment when that refusal waa made known was less than an outrage upon the past odice department and upon american 1 commerce and its final rejection f the mail sas freight even when a clerk offered to purchase a ticket and accompany them was a violation of the law governing common camera the direct results of this autocratic proceeding upon the part of an insolent monopoly will be to involve cant in great difficulty the colima which was the steamer upon which were refused a passage carried vast quantities of freight for some of tho lower pacific ports butin but in many of these it is a governmental regulation that the invoices shall lie exhibited with all importations since the invoices a could not go by the same vessel they will not reach the ports ozithe southern republics until date considerably sider ably subsequent to the arrival of the goods and serious lions undoubtedly arise the pacific mail wants subsidies and in order that the country may be forced to bestow vast extra financial benefits upon the ocean mail carriers it is ready to fling public interest to the wind it is a corporation of mighty wealth and influence but it should be taught a very emphatic at this time by a democratic reform administration |