The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-06-02

California may yet become 4 reaSonaoiy
prosperous and populOus state without
first reSortinc to the extreme measure oil
dspopulsting her cities and counties of
The perverse and foolish generation
which now Possesses them to the exclu-
SIGN OF u wiser and more useful class OF
property holders. We kill off the lndi'
ans because we must have :heir lands,
and killing is the cheapest process. 1t
would be pity if toe goodly land OF
California were only 10 be opened TO &C.
cupancy through a Wholesale system OF
slaughter among the big ranch men and
land srabbers who possess her broad
acres. 1t is to be hoped, however, that
starvation or something equally effective
nav sooner or later bring them to terms.
The San Francisco Bulletin Of Tuesday
last contains an astonishing editorial.
I: actually goes so far as to character
ile the present land policy of California
as "absurt." The astonishing feature
OF this declaration is that it should but
Just now, in 1870, be made for the hrs,
time by the leading business paper of
tSa. State. What has for years been
evident to every impartial observer has
ouly now become apparent to news
paper which has been treating of Cali
io-nia land matters for over fourteen
years. 1t has taken ell these long years
for they have all elapsed since the
flush ,imes-for the Bulletin to discover
.hat land system which is based upon
floating Spanish grants and prices which |
are simply ex,ortiouate and speculative |
can work no other result than the i'm
poverishmeat of the State and the re-
yulsion of INN igration. During all
these years California could not have
kep, immigrants from her borders SO eff
rec,uaIly with q Constitutional enact.
n,ent PROHIBITING the influx of new set
tiers as she has done by her uniform
sys;em of high prices of land and her
worse than stupid financial policy
California is youth with an old, worn
Oh; body. 4 gray haired STRIPPING.
Taere Is but one chance for her redemp
,ion. She must, il she can, begin all
o.er anew She must put her desirable
lands into the market at lower prices
per acre than are demanded 10 Kansas,
Nebraska and Iowa She must put her
price OF money down as low or lower
,aaa i, is held in the States at the east
e-a end CT tie railway. SIZE must DO
al this and then fall into some sort OF Ii
i=csut credit system. When all this
comes 10 be accomplished aud farmers
cease to cuy their smoked meats in
Chicago, their eggs from Cincinnati,
aai their butter and cheese from
New York; whea California ceases
~ be a prodigal fool, keeping her :
rose down 10 borrowed grind.
stone for the glory of the Traditional
- I'd times - when that State which
boasts of the = grandest natural resour-
ces of any State in the Union 4" ceases
TO be tie most absurily and uuthrif,ily 4,
dependent of the States, and prudent {
men ard women are not frightened from
her borders by her seedy boastings /.
aai silly prohigacy. then there will come ,
a chance for better times-immigratiou. I
ricayunes, respectable frugali,y and
modest thrift. A country where all the ,
desirable land is either held under the {
Tenure of the wastefll system of Span
ish land grants, or owned ia meagre
parcels by men who bought their little
farms at prices which consigned them 10
perpetual bankruptcy; where the noun
tain counties are 8 waste of deserted
- cities and VIGOROUSLY insoirent
where the same coins pass round from c
hand TO band, all the time growing /
smaller and never, never, increasing in {
and where such financial con :
,;i,ion is the subject of the sickly boas, q
that il is Z" a specie basis" no general I
Can be, and none ever will be,
80 long as prudent farmers and mechs- ,
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