The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-04-05

din's lamp would not sui. some fellows
and make them stay behind. Go they
will, and continue 30 until there's no 60 in
them. Like the rolling stone, they gather
no moss. 1T is not oil gold that glit,crs;r
il is not oil men that are born lucky The
lucky planet was not out at your birth
rather tho unlucky. You might ss well
say because Jake drew S5O, 900 in the lot
terry, you can do the same This is non
sense. Stay at home don't be catching n,
straws; you are we'll enough oil, If you only
think SO. Keep moving along the even
tenor Of YOU way. stendy aud straight Tor
ward. md YOU will be happy, bu. il you had
all the gold in California, you would think
there WINS more somewhere else, and no,
be satisfied until you had beat YOUR brains
out against gold wall, then die an nvari-
cious focl-kill yourself for gold, and make
everybody around you unhappy and miscr-
able--aCd lost and forgottcn--lost his soul
and gained nothing; SO il ia, and will he
with thousands. Before would lay on the
cold ground among the wolves, Indians,
snakes and lizards, half starved for some
thing to cat, famishcd for water three or
four months, and dig, dig in the dir, aud
mud day after day, three thousand miles
from home, for thrce or four months more,
Tor few glittering sands, AWAY from do
nestle happiness, friends and earthly com.
forts, with competence for life; before |
would quit father, mother, brothers, sisters,
wife, children and friends, and travel two
thousand miles over dreary desert earth,
among wild beasts and more than savage
Indians, to get handful Of gold, suffer sick
ness, fevcrs. diseases and all the evils this
life is heir 10, 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 6,OtO persons, are employed, aud
make from So to S32 per day. Who gets
the money? Not those who dig and toll,
but the trader, speculntor, and he who hires
hands aud shows them where TO dig, fur
nishes tools and the means Of living. The
laborcr, rs in this country. barely makes
his living. You hear flaming accoun, Of
how ono Mr.. A. or b. has made in one
week $1,000. lie might have gambled
among the laborcrs, traded with them, and
thousand other ways, to obtain the fruit
Of their labor, but tho particulars are no,
given TINT he stripped of cont and jacket,
with spade and pick in hand, wnded into the
earth hnt-band deep. into deep hole, and
dug up the pure stuff. How WINS il in Pc
ri, one Of the richest mining countries on
the face Of the globe? In the lead mines,
and every other mining operation through
out the known world? Does every one
come out ,ich-fnll Of gold? Does every
tenth man, every fiftieth or hundsedth man.
better his condition, and become wealthy
after years Of toll, fatigue and trouble p
just lonk at the Galena lead mines aud sur
rounding country, in 1897, where there
were 10000 men nj work. How many
came out we'll? Not one half, not even
the quarter or hundrcdlh man. So with
the Potosi mines; and SO with oil others.
This is no humbuggery-an "air cns-
tle"-"great cry aud little WOOL" Never
theless, 90 il boots, while you arc young
try your luck; help the spectators aud
arch knaves out; they arc interested in
your going; they have their ends 10 accom-
plish--sell you their goods. get your earn
ings, fairly if they can, unfairly if ye will.
Their motto is, 'sget money, get money
still, and let Virtue follow il she will" II
you desire to know how YOU would test
your ability to perform the digging opera
,ion-jump into coal wagon, 90 with i,
10 its digcings, there try a weeks labor.
You will come back soying. II can't come
il; it's no CO." Neither is i, .saIl gold tina,
glittcrs" Nonsense.
By the time you reach the gold region
in California, you have expended some two
hundred dollars, worn out al Your clothes.
become weary from tho long march, eat up
all you carried with you, had NIL your tools
stolen from you, weak and sick aud unsblc
To work, without friends 70 administer 20
your wants; without . comfortable house
or home--thrown in among thousands Of
idle, dissipnted, unfecling hruics, intent on
gain; pennies, poor, and without strength
or means. or friends to assisi you: surround
ed BY vulgar, rough mud uncon,h rowdies,
all engrossed in searching after goId--tat-
tered, ragged and cross--without law, dis.
cipline or consrol-every one bis own mas
ter-stcaling here and lying thcrc--in-
venting schemes to deprive the unsuspec.-
ing Of their prospects and leads--lnying
hands on everything palatahle, wesrable
or useful; where might and strength deter
mine right. though wrong and "coward
guilt 10 sheltcring caverns Ay." until sick
ness, disease and desth close The scene.
Then you may easily imagine woree than
this picture--hnman vuItures proving upon
your carcase like canniba.s Rorma ndizinR.
in their hoarse laugh over fallen victims!
Il is, nevertheless, tFucr than fction--the