Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-09-16
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN AT
oMAHA-HE MAKES A SPEECH,
AND LIES TERRIBLY ABOUT
THE PACIFIC COAST.

contains a speech made iu that place
by that arrant humbug, George Francis
Train, who bamboozled the. people Of
this n~eighborhood for several days aud
nights, toward the latter part Of last
month. We denounced him as a con-
summate falsi6er aud humbug before
be came, and after listening to one OF
his pompous TRADES of self-concsis and
abuse OF everybody and everything on
the Pacific Coast, we did not alter our
Judgment Of the fellow. As he has now
got back to Omaha, he continues his
abuse of our Coast, and TO simply show
what he says, we mako a few extracts
from his speech at Omaha, September
18th. Read them:
According to all the laws Of health,
and according to all the laws OF public
debate, l ought to be very sick tonight,
I ought to be very hoarse, because this
is the lS9th lecture, Of two hours each,
that | have delivered in this country
since the time | called for three groans
for England, and three mighty cheers
for Ireland, at Cork, when | escaped
from the British bastile-one hundred
and el~ghty-niue nights! v They feel
toward greenback champions in Califor-
MIA as they did toward abolitionists in
South Carolina before the a They
said ukill bimIn They didn't know
| the man. l am not so easily killed.
You eanno. kill a man of destiny. = y
When people thought had money they
stopped calling me names. They
thought l had money. They were mis-
taken. "Come away frsm that hole;
there is no rat there" "No, but he
thinks there is" CLaughter.l When
they thought I had money it changed
me entirely. y n l spoke in San Fran
cisco 81 times, to $500 and 5000 audi
euces, aud they have not sold a single
| foot Of real estate there since, and they
can't. daughter and applause. They
sav I am o madman. : l can deliver
\ coherent, or an incohersut lecture.
All those in favor of an incoherent
lecture say aye. Applause and cries
of aye, aye.1 All opposed say no, IA
voice, "no."] Only one, and he is an
Englisbmau. daughter like his
Individuality. 4 Poor fellows who
have been working for 20 years in the
mines and have not got 10 cents a day
for their labor! 1t is the most heart
reudiug sight | ever saw-the poverty
that there is in that country. never
saw so many well dressed people beg.
Sing for four bits as | saw in San Fran
cisco. Here is where you are. In as
| you commenced with your gold. sent
you my ships, aud am not aware thai
I got 10 cents on a dollar. You say
what do you mean? want to show you
now where California is to-day. Hell
towns first cheated US by the music OIL
their Spanish names. remember how
| they delighted me. How I sang them
out in the woods, and how they would
| ringl Sacramento San Francisco
Los Angeles Ell Dorado (Applsuse
and laughter.l All these sounds were
magnificent All these names had such
a ring that it seemed as if there wa:
nothing but gold in the land. 1t wa:
simply the Spanish names. When go
to San Francisco they told me it had
population Of $50, 900. l got up one
morning and counted every man, woman
and child, and there was not loo, 900 IL
the city. [Laughter.1 intend to show
il off as n Of the most perfect delu'
sions in modern times. They cheat you
in everything. Ten cents is a short bi'
aud fifteen cents is o long bit. That il
all. That i, a fair sample Of California
cheating. | want a hackmau. | say
" drive me to the Occidental" have
to pay him two dollars in coin. car
20 to any city in the East, except New
York, order a hack aud be driven to any
hotel I please for half a dollar in green
backs. Iu California they charge you
three aud a half dollars in greenbacks'
I paid six dollars for that hat in gold
| can buy such a one in Omaha for four
dollars. All this comes out Of the poor
workingmen. This is the natural result
Of that internal policy of Bou,wslPs, o.
selling gold to raise the credit OF the
nation. l found everything in Sar
Francisco was a show, except the Mer'
camille Library, Starr Kings Church,
the Chronicle newspaper, the big seals,
the Occidental Hotel and the working
mea. TApplause.1 They said there
were SOC, 900 people in California.
said there is nothing Of the kind you
haven't $50, 900. found that the Pa
ci6c Coast had been sucked, and that
San Francisco was the sucker. They
have a ine market, 6ne hotels, hne
churches. Their fruit is good but II
there is au absolutely foolish thing, il
is bringing fruit from San Francisco to
Omaha, when you could raise this fruit
at your own doors if you only bad en-
ergy enough "a try. Again, to carry
this fruit to Chicago, is the hight oil
sbsurdity.
California is governed by twelve men
who have corraled the whole Pacific
coast. Their system Is so perfect that
they fasten to any man who has money,
and manage to get it out of him. They
find his weak point. II he likes women,
cards, or wine, they show him the way
to them. If he like, this, or that, they
arc euCc W bct ~ iOk uius ASuS'y
and does he want society? They find il
for him. In less than twenty-four hours
they have his money invested in home.
steads or bogus speculstions, and the
poor fellow is I" cleaned out" That is
tho way they deal with the poor labor
ing man who happens to have twenty
| dollars in San Francisco. You can i'm
agine the desperation when showed up
this. They bissed they yelled. X =
You can imagine their desperation when
| showed them the progress Of green.
backs in New York, Buffalo, Chicago
and San Francisco.
Brigham Young is the only man who
has been always loyal-the only man
who has been loyal throughout, on
greeabscks-the only man who has been
modest and long-suferisg. Ifyou have
got any spite against religion tear down
the Methodists, E~piscopalians, Catho-
lies, aud the Presbyteriaus, as we'll as
the Mormons. They have q right to
their own religion, provided they do not
break a national law. Brigham Young,
from the a,art adonted preanbacka n