Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-10-15
" Great fleas have lesser aeas,
And these have ileas to bite 'em
These feaS have lesser feas
And so ad mGiitum. -

" Great heas have lesser Aeas,
And these have ieas to bite 'em;
These heaS have lesser leas
And so ad m.Gditum."
But aside from the grinder question, there are
several reasons which consplre to make me rather
jolly at the present time. In the first place Ive
got new house-madc out of old hen-honse
and if Plato was correct in his theory that
man is but a bird without feathers, the nature
of the inhabitants of the domicile will not be
changed. That old cync, Diogcnes, however,
threw n little cold water on the theory by peelng
the feathers from an old Shanghai and throwing
him into the arena with the inquiry, " Is that
Plato's man?" Then the house has a rock
chimney, which makes the property real estate,
and having no neighbors nearer than mile,
am, like Alexander Selhirk, monarch of all
survey" To be sure, there are some twenty or
more Chinamen scattered along the river, but
Democracy rules supreme in this State and the
copper-coored Celestials have no rights which
noble, Christian Caucasian is bound to respect,
S o | count them chaps nix.
Now touching this question of Chinese immi-
grafton, it looks to me that there can be but one
how it can be checked most quickly and effect
lively The Democrats have made great prom
ises in the last State elections and-that's all.
The first year they could do nothing they said,
because the Senate was against them, but only
give us the next Legislature, and you'll see
what we can do. Well, they got it, sixteen ma
j0rity in the upper branch, and hfty-elGht IN the
| Assembly, and-that's all. The great Demo-
cratic panacea, seemed to be taxation. When
the grand Sanhedrim met. each member seemed
| to have some pet schemes by which money
could be transferred from Celestial to Democratic
oflice-holdcrs pockets. First, they were to be
taxed a round sum for coming to the State, next
they must pay ten dollars each to keep them in
good health while in the State in order that they
might be the better able to pay the ten dollars
month while staying here, and still have another
ten dollars left to pay for the privilege of having
their bones taken back to their own country, if
they should be fortunate enough to die In a
multitude of counsellors there is safety, says The
old provcrb, and the Chinese found their safety
in the multitude of plans for fleeing them.
believe that they did get through one measure
the last day but one of the session, and his Dem
ocratic EXcelencv stuck it quietly in his pocket.
But you bet the Cinnamon will be their staple
article in the election next Summer, and they
will promise more than ever. The valiant Demo
Gratis of the first Supervisor District however,
don seem to put much faith in coming Legisla-
| lures, and are going to take the thing in their
own hands. That is, they resolve the way the
pjgtails shall 90 auking over Trinity mountain,
will be a caution to heavenly bodies in general,
the moment the Black Republicans prevent "our
worthy and efficient etc, etc, etc" | wonder
when the army will march.
All forms of governments have their weakness.
| A few years ago when our country emerged so
grandly from her struggle with the rebellion,
we should have excepted Repnbicarism Now,
we cannot help asking ourselves If the o6Jec-
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not proving only too valid. ga Republican
Government is necessarily mobocratc It's Off
GERS are elected, not always by the thoughtful,
| conservative position of the community, but fire.
quenty by turbulent minority, through the in
fuence of some temporary but injurious excite
ment That owing to these facts politicians are
led to foment this very turbulence and ponder to
these very caprices in order to attain the posi-
! iOns they covet. That by these means dema-
gogues are elected to occupy the most important
offices, and bad men cOuntenanced in violations
of the laws" These are grave objections yet
We need not search outside of the limits of our
own State to see them verified. We see the
Democratic party, rising from the pitful hand
! full which cung to it in its treason, to become
! the dominant party of the State, by pandering
to every caprice and prejudice, which promised
it an accession of strength. Not two months
| have passed. since in political convention of
our chief city, the claims of one candidate were
! gravely urged because Z" he had countenanced
men in their refractions of the law, by prOmis-
ing to furnish provisions to their families, while
they serving out their sentences" Again.
| in that same body, n candidate was tdbooed
chiefly because he had used the power Of his Of
fee 10 preserve the peace, when another officer
might have been called upon, if he had chosen,
to shrk the duty. We need not look back far
to the time when the Legislature Of this State
botted the Sunday law from our statutes to full
! fill promises made TO one class of voters, and
when it passed a law funding public money over
to the support of sectaran school, TO obtain
the undivided support of that one sect. The
laundering haste in which the bill was passed.
defeated the desired end it is trne, but the mo-
tive is the same. We might multiply these ex-
amples almost without limit, but those cited are
sufficient to show to what lengths Democracy is
prepared to go, to retain its grasp upon power.
Well ! must draw this long letter to close,
! I did not intend to mention politics when COM
menced, bnt like the proyerbia Irishman at
Donnabrook Fair, when / see Democratic head
] want to 61t it. There is no mining news to
chronicle around Douglas that is of Importance
Messrs. Marshall & Reed running u tunnel
in their claim on Union Hill to test the ground
They are back now, about one hundred and fifty
feet, and the pay continues. On Poker Bar
Messrs. Butts & Hunter have fitted up the old
ditch used last in ga, and have been sluicng
! some three weeks, without much results as yet
Poker Bar is a very large bar, and has had some
rich spots which were not all worked, and which
| hope the boys may strike again. Vale.
IMpREsoR.