The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-05-01
PIXLEY, TIE DENAG0GUE.

from Frank Pixley at workingman'
meeting in San Francisco. A Sar
Francisco dispatch, of April 90, says
The Anti Chinese Eight-Hcur meeting a
the Pavilion last night vas addressed by A
NJ, wmn, p. A. Roach, C. C. TerTill ant
Frank Pixley. The latter made the mos
violent anti Chinese speech Of the evening
He compared the Chinese immigration and
its probable results to the African slave trade
and advised voters to send men to Congress
who would oppose striking the word white
from the Constitution and labor for the pas
sage of laws prohibiting Chinese immigra-
ton. He said there were steamers subsidized
BY Government, and their Owners, besides
bringing men on every trip, landed hundreds
Of prostitutes on our shores. Were there
any other means of Kidding this country OF
these, he himself would take the torch in
hand and burn them-acccrding to the Calls
version. The Alta says he said the Govern
mert gives a subsidy Of 81, 5OO, 900 for a line
Of steamers to China. and every steamer
brings from 100 to 40 prostitutes. He felt at
this time as though he could take with his
right arm a torch and burn the vessels lying
at the mail wharf. 1t was idle to saw that
there was no las to prevent it there vas no
condition of things ~hich the Law could not
correct if the force of public opinion was
brought to bear on the law-making power.
He next referred TO the appropriation to the
Southern Pacihe Railroad, and urged his
hearers to vote for it if the managers promi-
sed to give employment to white men; if
they would not. not to vote for it.
All tn,s means that PiIi.y looks upon
the workingmen' movement as q tidal
wave upon which be may be hoat-d into
Congress. His self-pros,it0,ion will
avail him rorhing for the Republicans
will not trust bin, the Democrats wili
not touch bin and while the working
men are as much divided in politics as
any other body of citizens they will
exhibit their preferences as between par
ties aud not in favor of charlatans Who
are bidding for their votes
Some time since Pixley was an aspi-
rant to the position OF United States
District Attorney for the Northern Dis
trict Of California. This incendiary
speech and no less incend,ary menace
of his illustrate the wisdom Of the Sen
ate in refusing him q confirmation. He
IS an unscrupulous, dangerous, violen,
man and unworthy of any position of
public trust.
The uneasiness 50 apparent among the
of San Francisco is one of
the M st discouraging signs of the times
As developed in that city. Agitations
Of so violent and unreasooable } ma
tare are not at all usual, if possible,
u here society is 10 healthy and sound
state. The causes which justify the
of large masses of laboring
uen in other large cities do not exist in
San Francisco. The financial policy so
oug in vogue :hera has put wealth into
he hands of the few. Unlike other
there is NO large middle
lass there. The rich are either Insurers
): spec uiasors. The middle class, few
n numbers, are tenants. Usurers and I,
'psculators create but few opportunities
or the laboring mans employment. A ,
mall middle class-mainly of retail
raiders aud mechanice-cannot command I
he means 10 embark in such enterprises
> furnish employment to unskilled
snds. Capital has usurped the place .
{ labor as the standard of values and
n immense surplusage Of labor causes
n alarming multiplicity of idle hands.
md idle hands are but too apt TO find
'orse than useless employment; and
hen SO glib ,ongued . demagogue as
rank Pixley gets up in . public meet
,g aud gives the hint to discontinued
,en to go violently to work to redress
heir real and faucied wrongs, he CON- :,
its a crime-a palpable, penal offense
) well as q moral crime.
The monster which the laboring men b
T San Francisco should unite in tearing q
own is that aggregate of venality, u
llsehood and hypocrisy known Is the b
ienius of Demagoguery. Any man of s.
osition aud influence who counsels the
of the laboring class into an
grarian element is simply q mouthing.
,sincere, selfish agitator. That public u