The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-05-18


and Silver in the hills and foot hills. But,
a farm less than from 600 to 1000 acres
won't support any family. There are no
vegetables, potatoes, cab5ages, onions,
&C.. except those that grow near the
ocean, say in Hum boldt and other mari
tine regions, and farmers have to buy
everything they eat except wheat. No
corn grows here, except brown corn on
swamp lands, and from April to Decem-
Der the whole face of the country, save
near the ocean, is covered over with
dust two feet deep at least Every man
has to eat, they say here, "a couple of
bushels Of dust ere he gets acclimated.
| often attempted to travel ten or twenty
m les of road, say from M to Orville,
with a spanking team and light buggy,
could not do it for the life of me. l
could not see the horses heads, with the
clouds OF dust. and if team should come
in an opposite direction, you could not
SEQ the horses until their noses would
collide. SO, that in the whole of the
summer and tall. when all other regions
in this continent are pleasant and when
az the Mantuan Bard wrote, tn, 'Asmus
tornaos .ysi,nues," makes its appearance,
California. as its name indicates, "Cal-.
idatornir," is burning region of dust,
sickness, distress and stagnation, Dor
dering on death or worse.
But is the winter pleasant, you will
ask? Yes, in some few places, such as
San Francisco, Oakland, &c. But there
can be nothing more horrible, more cal
culated to cause man to swear and ut
ter loud oaths, than the state OF the coun-
try in winter. In the cities it is tolera-
bic, especially in the few large cities of
this state; but in the country there is no
such thing as travelling in winter, save
by railroads. From the first Of Decem
Der to the first OF May, it takes at least
eight large horses or mules 10 draw an
empty wagon in all parts OF California.
often spent hours travelling Is miles
with i light buggy, and powerful pair
of Aorses, and in spite OF my experience
Of 30 years at driving my own horses, l
got upset more than once, and had some
bones broken. When then is the pleas
ant season in California? l never saw
it. We have only two seasons, summer
and winter, or the dusty and rainy sea-
sons and these two are simply aoomina-
ble
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selling at lbs lor cent, and the wine
at 25c gallon. But though the grapes
are large, luscious and sweet, yet the
use of them induces fever, while the
wine is very injurious to those who use
it, on account OF its nauseatipg qualities.
caused by the quantity OF fusll oil and
other poisonous qualities which it con-
tains. Hence the Californians seldom
or ever use any native wine or brandy,
but consume instead vast quantities OF
bad French claret and whiskey OF the
most fiery kind, all manufactured to suit
the palate OF our cosmopolitan popula
tion. Well, but have we not the hard
cash very abundant? | answer some
times we have and some times we have
not. Like Tommy the Mule" OF Tur-
nip prairie in your neiyhboring state
across the river, "whose nose was burnt
off by the sun aud whose toes were burnt
bv the irost," so sometimes we get our
fingers burned by too much and again
by too little Of the coin. Last fall when
the banks broke here the money disap-
peared as if by magic, and seemed to re-
turn to the entrails OF the earth from
which it was purged out by dint of pow
der and steel, and we had, Tor instance,
to pay ten cents premium on every silver
trade dollar we fought to take with us
10 the East. But now silver is drug,
stun that everybody wants to get rid OF,
for it is ut ten per cent. discount. The
rich men buy it ut loor II per cent. dis
count and then pay it out At par 10 their
men and in their stores. But if you &C
to pay u bill with the same stuff the,
won't touch it, You must pay the gold
SO that now we suffer more from a sur
plus or too much money, than We suffer
ed last Fail when money WAS scarce
This tricSery OF the Christian Jews, " b
are the great men Of this state. Will IL
! us,ra.e the general conduct oil men here
have no hesitation in saying that Their,
is more knavery, deception, fraud. an,
oareiaced robbery, "a Ia mode" Belknap
in California, than in all the eastern
; teachers here are appointed by men VIII,
, carry on a profitable brokerage business
: in this department OF knayery. Ii ;
young man or lady wants a school t.
teach, he or she must apply At the offic'
Z. of some male or female oroke: who. 10
: a hundred or two in gold, will procur
> the situation from the superintendent
: who gets one half the "swag" which i
e extracted from the slim purse oil the ap
! plieaut. Ii man has real estate to b
: assessed. he approaches the assessor
!. and. By '.gteasing his fist he can get,
d ne be rich, from $4,000 to 100000 de
i Quoted from the value of his property il
: the assessment. Hence man who i'm
: migrates to these parts must be prepares
: 70 meet aud eyade. il he can. the mos
i, accomplished swinilers and successful
n impo>;ors in the world. And the wors
: feature in the whole business is that thes
: frauds aud enormous robberies Of publ
: wealth do not seem TO render the me
!, convicted OF them less popular; they ar
i rather elevated, like Beecher, in publ
Y estimation. rs ii the people all SAID. a
= many Of them do say. such q rogue di
5 well. she was a smart man" III weg
{ in his place or had the same chance.
Il would DO the same" think ii Grant