Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1849-02-24

we'll enough off, if you only think so. Keep
f1oving along the even tenor OF your way
steady and straight forward and you VIII be
happy but if you had all the gold IN Cali
fornia, We. would think there was more
somewhere else and not be satisfied until!
YOU had beat your Grains out against gold
wall. then die an avaricious fool-kill your
self for gold, and make every body around
Won unhappy and miserable-and lost and
foreotten-lost his soul and gained nothing,
so il is. and will be with thousands. Before
would lay out on the cold ground among
the wolves, Indians, snakes and lizards,
haIf-starved for something to eat, furnished
for water three or four months, and dig, dig
IN the dirt and mud day after day, three
thousand miles from home, for three or four
months more, for a few gttering sands,
away from domestic happiness, friends and
earthly comforts, with competence for life;
before would quit father, mother, brothers,
sisters, wife, children and friends and tray
Ell two thousand miles over dreary desert
earth, among wild beasts and more than
savage Indians tn get a handful Of gold,
suffer sickness, fevers, diseases and all the
evils this life is heir to, | would turn into
white dog and hire somebody to kill me-
Fool!
Once more, tell me how all have come
out that went into the diggings. We hear
that {, 900 persons are employed, and make
fromSS to $50 per day. Who gets the
money? Not those who dig and toll, but
the trader, speculator, and he who hires
hands and shows them where to dig, fur
nishes tools and the means of living. The
laborer, as in this country. brrely makes
his living. You hear flaming account Of
how one Mr.. A. or b. has made in one week
81 800. He might have gambled among the
laborers, traded with them, and thousand
other ways, TO ostain the fruit of their la
Dor, but the particulars are not given that
he stripped Oft coat and jacket, with spade
and pick in hand, waded into the earth hat
band deep, into deep hole, and dug out
the pure stuff. How was it in Peru, one
of the richest mining countries on the face
of the globei In the lead mines and every
other mining operation throughout the
known world! Does every one come out
rich--ful Of gold? Does every tenth man,
every fiitielh or hundreth man, better his
condition, and become wealthy after years
Of toll, fatigue and trouble? just look at
the Galena lead mines and surrounding
country, in 1897, where there were $4,000
men at work. How many came out wells
Not one half not even the quarter or hun
drcdth man. SO with the Potosi mines and
so with all others. This is humbuggary-
an I" air castlc"--" great cry and little wool"
Nevertheless, 90 il boots, while you are
young--try your luck help the spectators
and arch knaycs out they are interested
in your going they have their ends to ac-
compish--soll you their goods, get your
earnings, fairly if they can, unfairly if you
viii. Their motto Is, "get money, get
money still and let virtue follow follow II
she will" lfyou desire to know how you
would test your ability to perform the dig
ging opperaton-luinp into coal wagon,
go with il to the diggins, there try weeks
labor. You will come back saying /" can't
come il it's no 60" Neither is it all gold
that glttcrs. Nonsense.
BY the time you reach the gold region in
California. you have expended some two
hundred dollars, worn out all your clothes
become weary from the long march, eat up
all you carried with you, had all your tools
stolen from you, weak, sick and unable to
work without friends to administer To your
wants without comfortable house or
home--thrown in among thousands of idle
! dissipated, unieeling brutcs, intent on gain
penuyless, poor, and without strength or
means, or friends To assist yon surrounded
by vulgar, rough and uncouth rowdies, all
i cngrossed in searching after gold--tattered
ragged and cross-without law, discipline
or control-evory one is his own master
stealing hero and lying there-inyenting
/ schemes to deprive the unsuspectiug of their
prospects and lcads--laying hands on every
thing palatablc, wearable, OF useful where
might and strength determine right, though
wrong " coward guilt to shcltering cavorns
/ n.y." until sickness, disease and death close
the scene. Then you may easily Imagine
worse than this pciure--human yultures
/ preying upon your carcaso like cannibals
gormandizing, in their hoarse laugh over
! fallen yictimsl Ii is, nevertheless, truer
than fictinu-the pure and certain results OF
rash and premature enterprise. With these
naked truths staring each in the face, ifyou
/ ~, you must take a copy OF these broken
sentences along with you; and it you live
n come back, prove or disapproye the say
/ ings and warnings of ELL.