Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-05-04

Those who have the best means of
knowing are most likely the men in
tercsted in the profits Of the Central
Pacific Railroad. Certain land mo-
nopolists may also be in position to
give authentic information ON this
head. They calculated last year be-
forehand very closely upon the prob
able number that would come, and
they were not far from the mark.
Their means of information was
through agents sent Eas, to lay be-
fore the gullible people of the gran
ger districts very overdrawn and
highly chromatic pictures of the
land by the western sea. The peo-
pie came in the numbers predicted.
and what was the consequence? They
were on the verge of starvation, hun
dreds of them, and all. or nearly all.
were dissatisfied with the change.
The railway company made money.
and some virgin land, Just about pro-
ductive cnorgh to keep the tillcr
poor, was sold. The State at large
was not benefited. This may seem
unreasonable, but It is true. Had
those who came brought funds suf-
ticient with them to purchase homes,
the result would be different. Such
is the immigration that California
needs. She has no need for poor
laboring men. There is more human
muscle now in the State, and has
been for few years past, than there
is legitimate employment for. Every
journalist there who knows anything
at all knows that. The harvest soon
to be reaped viii! require all the
available help to take il in, fer har-
vesting cannot be delayed. But when
that work is over the laborer must go
abegging for employment. There Is
nothing else to do uatil seeding time
comes on. California as an agri"ul-
tural country is peculiar in this re-
spect. There is little or nothing
done on the farm between times, as
it were. Very few men compared
with the whole number who work
out on farms are hired by the year.
Men are now in every town in the
State by the score looking for work
and waiting for the coming harvest
season 10 obtain it. The receat reign
of burglars aud midnight footpads
in San Francisco can be traced, We
believe, to the great surplus of labor
ing men on the coast, Some of the
papers took cognizance of this, and
preached somnolent sermons tn the
unemployed, advising them to ''be
men of pluck" and go out and build
up homes on 1.-THE most inviting do
main in the world when the poor
devils were struggling for enough t.
get meals vietuals or 10 pay
weeks board. This was the state of
Affairs all last winter, and is in great
measure the condition of things to-
day. Yet, in the light of these facts.
the press is beginning to send broad
cast unqualified invitations for all to
come. If the invitations be accept
ed, San Francisco will have to pro-
vide soup houses next winter, and
there will be more poverty and suffer
ing than ever before. What Calitor
MIA wants is an immigration with a
monetary capability of purchasing
pieces Of land from the large farms
and tilling the soil after the custom
of thickly settled countries. Her
present system Of agriculture is
nothing less than robbing the soil.
More farmers and smaller farms
would remedy this. but an immigra-
ton of the labor element. unaccom-
panied by couaterbalaneing amount
of distributed capital, would make
matters no viii, better II such u
fiood-tide be induced by any of the
Vaccinations Of capita lists, we shall
take time 10y the fore ock and tell the
newcomers there is no room for them
here that is especially inviting, I'M
less they can equip themselves with
pick and pan and 90 abroad among
the hills in quest of bonanzas. II the
press of California will be as frank
and say that none need come in the
hope of doing unusually we'll unless
they bring money enough TO 50 into
farming on small scale for them
selves, much suffering may be avert
ted and the reputation Of the State
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