San Andreas independent., 1857-09-26

tread, who viii so shamefully sell theil
blrth-right (bought with the blood of oul
national patriots) for a small sum of GOLD
Another plea for tolerating and cncour
aging them to remain in the mines. By
our oAice-holders and expectants in oul
county and State, is financial embarrass-
ments; as there are SO many gentlemen
residing in our county seats who would
be dlsgraced by donning the miners
garb and shouldering pick and shovel,
| (Which their delicate hands are unsuited
to, and striking out into some mining
district where the ground has already
been worked number of times over,
probably by Chinese, it would be decided
/ ly too bad for those genteel persons, -
s'likcwise" the safe-keeping and disburs-
ing of the Foreign Miners tax, together
with all the public money, affords fine
field for our County and State officers to
exercise their financial abilities the
funds can be made subject to 50 many
lnetamorphosis from scrip to coin and
from coin to scrip an indefinite number
of times, and at every transmutation will
''stand clipping sometimes at both
ends-untll these financicrs can have
clippings enough to reward their faithful
friends who helped them into office and
do not like to soil and abuse themselves at
hard work.
After our county officials have submit
ed the funds to "a thorough process which
reduces it to legal standard for State
operations, then it goes through another
and final process on a magnificent SC lie.
Ii the State Treasurer cannot convenient
ly take care Of the State funds, there is
always some accommodating Banking or
Express Company ready to give their as
sistance by throwing open their capacious
vaults and rendering their great financial
services.
1t requires a large outlay of capital to
keep safely our State Prison covicts, many
of whom have been convicted OF Grand
Larceny for stealing to the amount of
500, whilst our Public Defaulters. who
have swindled the community out of
got clear by system of hocus
pocus. Now, the lord of St. Quentin
must be well-rcmunerated for taking care
of these small offenders, for fear they
might injure the business of the larger
operators by too much competition.
California presents an uncertain future
to disinterested spectator Those who
are endeavoring to make their fortunes at
mining, and other kinds of labor, appear
to be entirely unconcerned about the pre-
sent and future condition of the State, in
tending to leave the country as soon as
they have accumulated sufficiency to
suit their desires Whilst the designing
demagogue, by taking advantage Of their
apathy, manages to obtain all the fat Off
ccs, thereby not only securing all the
emoluments of office, but by every spe-
cles of fraud, manage to swindlc the State
out of her revenues.
4Esop, in one of his inimitable Fables,
has described the situation of our State,
in the case of a countryman who had
goose which every day laid golden egg,
that 50 excited his avariee he killed. the
= !. salllfiui bird, but on examination, to his
horror and disappointment, found no
So our incompetent and dis
henest State and County Officers, assisted
by their sab-offieials, have sacrificed eur
prosperity il thin saspatarkSS become
rich an the publidKexpense; theireSn-
aacf5 5ias 20 ci7HfA Pgr Irth2es ~ Sgsdit /,
nat our gldlg5aCssg VIII BE- beIadbNie Iadbie toiprodace
Bot tSifttIe golden fruit, datIie the people
taker hcrEIi4tos their immediate custody
and shoh has time to recuperate her lost
energies.
As sure as effects succeed causes, so
sure i, a degraded peoples residence
amongst US bound to produce certain eff
fects, which will be found to consist in
exhausted mines, reduced wages for COM
mon laborcrs; and when placer mining
shall have become inlpracticable to the
Chinese, they will turn their attention to
all other branches of labor; and agricul-
tural work will, probably, next to mining,