The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-21
San Francisco and California
SAN FRANCISCO, March

pAN CRhNOlSNO, uldiCu O.
Editor of Rutland Globe II have Just
finished reading the communication Of
"W' in your issue of February cath, on
San Francisco and California. Such an
article cannot fail to give the reader most
erroneous ideas of the state of society and
busNess on this coast, and hasten to give
you a few facts on the other side of the
case, and show you that the party styled
"W" must be strongly prejudiced or ut
terly incapable of approaching the good he
sees
Some people naturally ferret out all the
bad that exists, and moving in and among
such corruption cannot fail to become con-
tamnated and view everything through
light more or less obscured. 1t is true bust
ness this winter past has been very dull,
and work for ordinary workmen hard to be
obtained. In this respect California is no
exception. All over the United States the
same drag has been felt upon business, and
from all parts of the state we hear of
business failures, of the impossibiity of
getting employment, of restitution, and of
vicssitudes of all kinds In this respect
then, California is no exception but 1t is
an exception in this, that its climate is such
as to cause little or no discomfort to those
thrown out of work and obliged TO depend
upon chance and their wits for living.
In San Francisco, as in all large cities,
many of all classes of labor are idle and
bemoaning the want of work, but San
Francisco is but speck upon the map of
California, and the many enterprising towns
and the extensive ranches throughout the
state offer a living to all who are willing to
work, while the wages paid labor in this
state are far in advance of those paid in the
eastern states, especially Vermont be-
lleve, however, w. admits this fact in his
article. As to the currency question, |
have nothing to say. am willing to leave
that subject to those people who have the
opportunity Of viewing it in all its lights
and effects. 1t 10 a puzzle to many who
have made such questions life long study.
W., however, gives his opinion with easy
| assurance, the result, | presume, of his
habit of speaking without due thought and
| observation, as his articles show he does
at times. Many people. and eastern people
too, have lived in San Francisco more
months, and even years, than w. had days
| at the time he wrote, and yet have never
seen any such state of affairs ss w. would
have you suppose he has seen. And in
reading his remarks cannot bnt wonder
at the company he must have been thrown
amnng. and BY whom he allowed himself
to be retained. From his remarks one
would Judge they evidently were boon
companions and congenial spirits. His
knowledge of the fines imposed upon that
class of people called "guZzlers" is greater
| than mine, and if he is correct it shows that
| California will not countenance any such
| debasing examples as 'drunks," in which
respect 1t is far ahead of the so-styled tenn
perance states of the east And, by the
way is not that an item for the temperance
people to follow, to punish drunkenness in
stead of furnishing all drinkers, without re-
| gard to the extent they drink. would
make this suggestion, as it has forced itself
upon me as write.
| No! Rum and prostitution are not what
San Francisco is noted fer. If there are
some parts of the city IN which the moral
tone of the inhabitants is not up to the
standard, and is disgusting to the better
feelings and character of all humanity, let
W. remember that all cities are SO af-
ticted, and that the only way to do is to
avoid those localities, to keep entirely away
from them, and not let their sight corrupt
the whole city. Why cannot person
| notice the numerous instances of morality
and virtue that surround him, instead of
| always seeing and speaking of the vice and
immortality that IS to be found As Cas-
telar says of Byron, "why could he not
have written of tho virtues of the women
| of Cadiz, Of which SO many examples
abounded, instead OF speaking only of their
failings ?" l make this remark with no
idea of comparing the writings of w. to
Byron. God forbid but merely to point
out the tendency Of human nature, into
which error W. has undoubtedly fallen.
| No San Francisco is noted for the en-
ergy and enterprise of Its citizens, for the
whole souled generosity of its milionaires,
for wealth and progress San Francisco is
noted tor people who, not only will always
| help you with kindly advice and words of
cheer, but also will put their hands deep
INTO their pockets and bring them forth
laden with more substantial help than
either; people who are not willing to see
| you suffer in any way, who take you by
the hand and make you "one of them
selves and at home" people, no better
than whom cap be found in any city or
state; and they are not the exception, but
the rule W. R.P.
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