Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-26
RETURNING EMIGRATION.
rrrom tho sacramento Record.I

this time is 75-say upwards OF 2,ooo
permon:h. equal to i,ro-thirds Of the car
reH. immigration. There Is fact to
ST. liz, the State. Two emigrant cars,
filed, leave daily, and about twice
week a third car has to be added. An
other fact: Ont of the daily average OF
100 now arriving-say 5. 600 per month
barely three-fourths. or 40 per day, are
destined for California; the remaining
one-fourth is bound for Oregon and
Washington Territory. The lectufinS
emicrants are, in the main. the same
men. with their families, whose arrival
as immigrants We have been eXultlng
over these past few months. In brief,
the return tide of emigration from Cali
fornia at this moment is equal to the
flow inward to California, and of this
8 200 per month who are now arriving
10 seek homes among US, We are not re-
tanning 800. This is fact to be looked
at right in the face 1t Is a fact for land
monopolis.s to look at, withai. Why Is
il? These men are not drones, they are
not the shiftless, the helpless, the IN.
competent. We have been saying all
along that they were the right sort; they
were the immigrants We wanted; men
with families; the bone and sinew,
and all that. So they are. Farmers,
mechanics - three-fourths of them.
Where are they from? Iowa. Minnesota,
the Lake States-three-fourth Of them.
Why did they leave their homes? Those
who recall the frishtful story OF the WIN
ter of 1928 have the answer; the story
of stock perishing on every prairie, OF
hurricane that wrecked the homestead,
of freezing men and women. These
people fled the rigors Of climate that
made existence comfortless and threat
ened health and life itself. They have
sought the genial cline of California
the land of wheat and oil and wlne-to
make themselves homes. How much
have We calculated the capitalized value
to the State of an immigrant Of this sort:
Call it 81 COO, though We can prove 1t
more than twice that sum. Wealth,
then-capital in its best form-was flow
in upon the State tat the rate OF three
million dollars per month. This was
good showing. And behold now 1t IS
flowing out of the State at the rate OF
three millions per month. How Is this
for = showing? Such as it is, it is a
showing not to be paltered with. 1t calls
for action, and that action ought to be
swift and stern and thorough. We had
a Legislature the other day-represen-
tatives of the people-chosen to deal
with this, as with other things. How it
dealt with it is not forgotten. How it
got evidence than enough for it
and showed it into desk and turned the
key on it; all this is fresh in remem-
brance, and also who did it. A pretty,
brand new, patent reform Legislature 1t
was-with an extra-purity brand on it
suits Own Bourbon, If we rsnem-
Der. But that body is dead now and
can neither help nor hurt; We must look
elsewhere. There is work to be done
that must be done right now-or 1t can
never be done at all. Two thousand
Apostles monthly are going out from
among us to preach throughout the land
q gospel of damnation unto our State.
They came to California for homes and
thew find them not. Is it not enough
to saw that the land monopolists offer
them lands at reasonable figures. Who
decides what figures are reasonable"'
If the buyer will not buy, but goes else
where, then the figures are not reason
able. If he can do better elsewhere.
again the figures are not reasonable. 1t
NAV be said that holders will reduce
their demands when they find that they
are too high. We ask: Is the progress
of the State to be stopped-is she to be
robbed of capital in its best form to the
amount of three million dollars per
month-to double the amount as We
maintain-while the monopolists are
arranging their price-lists? By what
right are they claiming these lands at
allo By what right are they turning
away the settler vino seeks that equal
heritage in the public domain that oul
Government gave them? Are these
principalities held as the righteous accu-
mutations of honest thrift-of toll-o1
labor of any kind-of enterprise of any
kind? Have the men who claim them,
and who claim to receive from our dis
appointed immigrants millions of money
as q bonus for the privilege OF going
upon these lands, given anything to the
State, to the public, as an equivalent fol
the right they now try to enforce? Do
they hold under the law? or in the fraud
of the lar2 The testimony locked up
by the last Legislature, now IN the Capt.
toll, contains the answer to these ques-
tons That body betrayed the people,
betrayed the State, betrayed itself, but ii
left another body that has the power
power moral and physical-to do the
work the other left undOue, That body