Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-12-18
THE TRINITY JOURNAL.
Calvin B. Mcdonald, Editor.
WEAV WILLIE:
Saturday Morning, December rS, IS5S.

CRY OF THE WoRKMEN.-An Orovile cores
pondent of the Portland, (Me) Transcript, AYERS
that ilunIing companies on Feather river have
been in the habit of advertising for more hands
than they can employ. The company keeps q
boarding house, and penniless work hunters are
kept from day to day on promise of employment
until they are considerably in debt, then others
are discharged to make room for the debtors to
work out their boarding house indebtedness, at
low wages, after which they are discharged, with
out dollar left, to be succeeded by other vic
tins of deception. Thus, the company get their
labor performed at half price. The writer fur
ther asserts that of the 2,80O men thus employed,
at intervals many subsist by stealing and beg
ging.
We suppose that a great deal of the foregoing
is untrue the begging and stealing assertions
are certainly embellishments. The Transcript,
for some reason unknown to us, has never lost an
opportunity of dsparagng California or Of pub
fishing the most un(ounded falsehoods in regard
to her people. But parts of the letter writer's
complaints are most just he warns his eastern
brethren that there are enough of people here
more than can get employment ; he advises them
to stay at home, if they can make living there
n vast addition was made to the population of
California by the Fraser river swndlc multi
tudes started from The East for Western British
America, and al San Francisco were made aware
that they were victims of damnable lie. They
could not get back, but were forced to land in
California and work for what they could get I;
they are involuntary immigrants, held on our
shores by the close -grasping hand of poverty
Fool fellows, with pens in their hands, are not
wanting, to make joyful strepor at this "cheer-
ing accession to our hard isted population."-
The lying knaves +! They should have their
necks wrung by the hard hands which their du-
plcity has brought here to wait in vain for work.
The San Francisco Alta, BulIetin and others of
less capacity TO contain falsehood, but with equal
disposition to mislead, and with equally itching
palms for the hire of ship companies and specu-
ators are accountable for this The thin, vast
ed hand of want every where points to each of
these mscreants and says in the bitterness OF dis
appointment "Tbou art the man Curse you
with the perditon of poor mans curse ~ Let
it be known, wherever these presents may come,
that for less than the hire of a harlot, or price
of dog" men protesting to be moral reformers,
have, in the full consciousness of falsehood, de-
coyed fathers, sons and brothers from abodes of
eastern poor, to founder through the rigorous
SHOWS of California at season when "no man
can work" Let not the sin be written against
"the Press of California, for all the watchmen
on the mountains gave warning of the lie to the
extent of their feeble voices. But write it
against those unknown, facile instruments of de-
ception who have grown fat and saucy on the
wages of infamy. Let their names be searched
out and given an Immortality of infamy let
honorable men OF the press who arc forced to
share, in the Atlantic States, the ignominy of
their baseness, scourge them from profession
which they have disgraced, and thrust them into
that "outer darkness" deserved by the knave
who would misead the eager hands OF honest
labor.