Address to the Voters of the 6th Congressional District of California on the Ownership of the Pacific Railroads by the Government and the Location of a Deep Sea Harbor at San Pedro

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Excerpt from Address to the Voters of the 6th Congressional District of California Fellow Citizens: The Republican press and speakers assert that there is no railroad issue in California this year. To make this appear they vociferously declare, although their platform is altogether silent upon the subject, that they, as well as the Democrats, are infavor of compelling payment of the Government debt by the Pacific Railroad Companies, and hence, they would have you infer, notwithstanding the significant silence of their platform, that they are at one with the Democratic party in their adverse attitude towards the Pacific Railroad companies, and especially the Southern Pacific. That this is undoubtedly true of the voting masses of the Republican party, and that they, like their Democratic fellow citizens, are opposed to the further domination of the State by the Railroad corporation, is freely admitted. But the voice of this element has been stifled by the unscrupulous political "boss" now in control of the party, and finds no utterance in the platform put forth as the declaration of party principles - an omission which the press and candidates of that party seek to remedy by deluding their hearers with the glittering generalities to which I have alluded. How far these declarations fall short of the necessities of the case, and of the bold and radical stand taken by the Democratic party, I shall endeavor to show. But to do this it will be necessary first, to recount briefly, the history of the construction and financial management of the Pacific Railroads, which, as known to all, has resulted on the one hand in the apparent insolvency of the railroad companies and their consequent inability to pay their immense indebtedness to the Government, and on the other in the unprecedented enrichment of the individual directors. The story is given at length in the report of "the United States Railway Commission, " appointed under the Act of March, 1887, to investigate the subject, and, as there told must be accepted by all as authentic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.