The Empire County argus., 1855-02-24
WOODS G FORBES, Publishers.

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.,,s MIR Flint of San Francisco, on the 18th inst
introduced into the Senate a bill for the better
protection Of the mines of California 1t excludes
all persons not eligible to citizenship from the min
cral lands, and provides FOR penalty of not less
than $50 nor more than 5000, for each offence
Then provision is made for the collection of the
fine, by the sale OF claims and tools
II Who are eligible to citizenship? A person may
be citizen of the United States, and not citizen
Of California. Again, person may lie citizen of
a State, and not citizen of the United States
eligible to cizcnship in the State Of California
The Indians Of California Ineligible citizens
i6but can not be excluded from the mines by State
legislation; nor can they be employed on the high
ways as contemplated in MIR Flints bill Admit
that Cinnamon and Negroes are ineligible eiti
zens, then Sec. of MIR Flints bill becomes impor
especially to miners 1t is in The words fol-
lowing
at shall be lawful Tor any citizen or citizens or
such person or persons as shall be eligible to cit
zenslip, and who shall have declared their intcn
ton according to law in any of the courts of the
State Of becoming citizens by naturalization, toI
employ under contract or hire, persons not eligible
to citizenship to take gold from the mineral lands
of the State: pr0Uded, such persons be employed
on bona fde claims which have been properly made
and recorded in the district whore each claim has
been located: and f1tbcr Procded, that such claim
or claims do not interfere or conflict with the reg
ulations of the district where such claim claims
have been located; dad At IS further PJ0Uded, that
the person or persons so employing persons not eli
gible to citizenship shall have taken out license
for each and every person so employed, which IL
cense shall be paid in the manner and amount, and
into tho fund as already provided for by law"
aaaIn this section we have the +" Cooley Bill re-
vampcd, and under it thousands of Chinamen and
Negroes may be employed in the mines by men Of
capital. This is fine protection for miners, and
the mineral lands, surely. Drive all Cinnamon
from the mines into starvation, and then permit
wealthy companies and capitalists to hire them for
an amount barely sufficient to support life, and
take them in hords to the mines, and employ them
there extracting gold upon payment Of four dol
lars per month. Not only Cinnamon be thus
employed, but any persons not eligible to citizen
shp--Negroes FIottentots, Malays, Japanese, Ka-
nakas and every other people under the sun, who
through misfortune, fraud or otherwise, may be
found among US without his papers Of citizenship
ANY person. too who has declared his intention to
become a citizen, may employ swarm of China
men to work in TIE mines. Truly this is mag
nifccnt scheme for the better protection Of the
mines of California; A scheme which, if passed
by the Legislature, ought to sink that body to etcr
nal perdtion, aud will, if enacted into Law,
bring upon The heads Of this Legislature the hearty
curse of every minor in this State Miners can
deal with Cinnamon, with ease but combine cap
ital monopoly and Wholesale swindling--the trio
generally found travelling togetherin the employ
ment of all the refuse Of God creation, Cinnamon
included, and sanctioned by legislative enactment
then, miners will have hard road to travel over
Jordan. This bill is one of the boldest, and most
outrageous attempts to destroy honest industry
among the mining population Of this State, We
have seen. Miners should rouse up, and
shake the capitol with protest. and tell men who
concoct such folly as we have quoted, that the less
they dahblc with miners and the mineral lands
the better for all parties.
The miners of this State desire no Cooleyism, )"
or Cooley Bills" and, they will have
none. The Legislature will do well to understand
this.
This bill is first presented, in garb with the os-
tensible object of driving foreigners from the mines
Then it openes wide the door to take them all
back, and import thousands more and employ the
whole in digging gold. Any man from the mining
region, voting for a scheme of this kind. will be
killed so dead, politically, that the second resurrec
ton will hardly wake Kim.