The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-04-06

TaE WANT OF EMPLOYMENT among The
San Francisco labOrers amounts TO a
very serious matter. No donbt abou'
that. 1t is said there are from four to
six thousand men there who depend upor
unskiIled l.bor for a livelihood who ar.
cutie out Of work. Hence the recent
disturbances The San Francisco pa.
pers profess TO be at a loss for reason
for this sad state of affairs. Those evil
geniuses of the lsboring man, the dem
sgoeues who rail agains, the Chinese AMI
hold them amenahle for these misfor
tunes. neither state the cause thereof
nor a remedy. The cause has = deep-r
and more serious origin than that I
lies within the narrow Limits of bust
ness policy and habit which haze rec
ognized two per cent. per month as The
lowest value of money which has ad-
hered to fancy prices for staples and
which 6ods parallel in the fable about
the man who killed the goose that lay
the golden eggs. Conducted upon the
plan which has been characteristic of
San Francisco business in general, that
* claim is worked out" The business
Of that city has been checked in its false
and anomalous career by the opening OF
the Pacific Rsilway and with that check
the growth Of the city and the relaxa
ton of its enterprises have come; aud
the lsborer suffers. San Francisco has
been a prOfigate and . gambler. She
is reaping her reward. Those of her
Business men who can, will continue to
conduct their transactions upon the |
high pressure system Of big percenrs
and twenty dollar gold pieces. The big
fish have eaten the little ones, and there
is no healthy vitality in the place.
Those who can neither brace up against
high pressure nor adapt themselves to
the inevitable new order of things
money At its value and
living credi, syssem-must give wav TO
the coming men of the East for San
Francisco is yet an inviting field for men
IF enterprise and adap,ibiiity to the
customs and necessities imposed in the
great business centers Of the East; and
these must supersede, like . new and
fresh generation, the present occupants
before the radical evils, now so severely
'elt, are cured. Labor at cheap rates is
better than no labor and when money I
. to be borrowed at the rates which .
Prevail ON the Atlantic sea board
vhen prices are adapted to suit the
popular demands when the high press Z
are is taken of aud false notions are ,
'sbjugated and poor men and women
segin to count their Eve cent pieces and
,ennies and not throw them away-as
hey do now-for the shopkeepers to
lick up in the way Of change /; when, in 4
hort, San Francisco gets sober and
eases to play the boastful, senseless .
'roa,gate aud goes TO work With thrift
n view and frugallty in practice, then il
ope will come, and with hope, the
awning of better days. But she must S
umble herself to Low prices in every. ?
aing-lower than exist at the Eas, a
nd snch are entirely justi6able under $
,e acknowledgements u . very few =
all the productions of the il
arth are better and cheaper here than !; !,
,ere /; and rents, staples, professional
ersices, salaries, labor end all else : :
1ould come down to their actual values p
or tie grinding ,imes will last until 5. 9
,e startling poverty of tie metropolis of el
,e Pacific brings starvation and awful ! I.
lisery. San Francisco's old Forty mine o
,ree must end and no longer be Wanted, g
she would be relieved of the startling T
amor Of her hungry laborers. o.
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