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VOL. XXV.
AN UNOSTEN-
TATIOUS
BUT SACRIFICIAL CHARITY.
The univérsal ireneroiity with which the country ha* responded to the need of San Francisco has made all human iry rejoice that the soul ol man is not absorbed in its con guests for gold, nor his con icience dead to the persuasive appeal of want. .A cataitrophe which can do that, however i
diw«, by experienc. ‘hey set about repairing the disaster without hesitation. Pne of them, the Gulf, Colo ratio & Santa Fe. reconstruct ed its outlet to the mainland before the smoke from the fu neral pyres of the dead on the island had ceased to float out to sea. All <of them carried the homeless survivor* of the Galveston disaster to friends and relative* in the interior, a* far a* their line* extended, and then stil other lines picked the refugees up in free and welcoming cars and hurried them forward to their destination. Meantime, these rail-
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r.p.ciool la deirucl.op ol I broilehl ™ the miliary.
■ property pld bowerer merci "nd ,nd •"PPlre. to the le» or acribce ol humin lile.| ™'d v“d is not altogether without com pensation.
We have seen the famous sod the obscure, the opulent and the poor, give freely of what they possessed that the hungry and homeless of Fris co might be apeedily and plenteouely auecorred in an hour of supreme ordeal- And 1 these we have applauded. I just a* men, yielding to that h ia God-like in them, ever applauded a charity h comee from the heart and in which there is no lea ren of Phariseeism
We have made no distinction* in awarding our praise of all this outpouring of fine charity, although now and then the munificence of an individual gift hat halted and held our Admiration for a moment. Nor do we intend now to note the I charity of one man above that of another, but we do intend ¡ to call attention to a charity, on behalf ol otrirken and ' trembling Friaco, which has been so complete and bound le« that it rise* to the superb quality of a aacrihce. About this charity there ha* been little said, nor has it sought notoriety. It is a dhtingnish-log quality of the charity we _iind that it is never kcl*morons for public attention.
This same charity came to I ‘he reseñe ot Galveston when ‘he State aneaked behind an •rcheicConstitutionand whin-that it could not come to relief of it* own stricken desolate city- The self-rificing charity to which we fer was that of the railroad* American railroads, if yuu
. i'land who had begun the task of rehabilitation And all this without one dollar of compen-, sation. and without the hope , of reward of any kind-
Whosoever says this was not a superb and sacrificial । charity is an ingrate, and would not himself give charity unless he knew beforehand that the deed would be paraded in the market places with vulgar ostentation. But the railroads said nothing about it. It is not their way. Even when Galveston had set its face with courage to the future, and had buckled its faith to it* sea wall proyect, the railroads came to the re* cue with heavy purchaees of bond*, which backed up hesitant confidence and made the enterprise one of the most ' conspicuous engineering 1 triumphs of the age. And about this they said nothing Afterward, when the State । harassed them with barra । irons damage suit and sought 1 in flagrant disregard of the । Constitution and the rights of । property to make them carry an unequal and excessive part ’ of the burdens of government. । they did not remind the State ; of their charities. They took ¡ their medicine and relied upon , the law to protect them from , inappreciation. ingratitude < and confiscation. It is their
I he twin devil of hurricane and tidal w»ve, that demolish
tbe railroads
At San Francisco there has been a disaster that in pro perty loss is greater and more diffuse than was that of Galveston. There was no such loss of life as at Galveston.
But that fact has made San Francis:oa greater charge on charity. The sea swallowed up most of the dead at Galveston. and the dead the sea spared were confumed by fire It is the living poor, not the dead poor, that taxes humani ty and it* charity- It is so at San Francisco, where are more than 200.000 homeless.
It is coincidental, or reiher kielnry «¡wltMtf. that two of the great railroad* that suffered ati j contributed most at Gal-
Island
ihev i‘ *• 1 verificitton that history _____________if that two of the
veston should be the greatest sufferers and readiest and most generous contributors at San Francisco. These are the Atchison, Topeka & -anta Fe and the Southern Pacific systems- The horror of the situation at San Francisco had scarcely dawned upon the country before these great systems had placed their pas senger and freight service, and their thousands of em-t’loyes, at the free comand of the staNfpeded victims of the catastrophe,
These great syitems traver se miles and miles of unpro ductive territory on their way
■	to the Pacific. Their cost of : operation is terrific; and these
■	lines represent the best daring ; and the most engaging opti-1 mism that have ever been ma
" nifested in railway construe-! lion. When they turned over their trains, equipment and
1 employes to San Francisco. I they displayed a charity be-i side which individual charity is almost inconsequential, as fine and laudable at it ha*
Nor can this sacrificial cha-rity'oe decried on the idea or the fact that in time they will make the money back. Mo ney swallowed up in catastrp-ohe is not made back. It N lest forever. The railroads will get back to conditions that will enable them to earn as much as before, but the money and time and service they have given to San Fran- I cisco will not be restored them in dollars and cents- The very conditions that will bring them rewards in the prosperity of the future will be as much of their making, if not more, than that of any other agency that stands for perpetuity and development.
Are railroad corporations soulless? We summon but two witneMes; and they are all sufficient to this inquiry . Stand up. Galveston! Stand up. San Francisco! You can make naught but negative ans wers Make them, and silence, if you may, these puny pes simitts and detractors with whom to sneer at virtue is a habit and ingratitude a constitutional quality.—“Th* Currenfriasue. Austin, Texas."
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