The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-12-06

The impression has somehow become
general that Flood, Sanford, Mills
Reese, Luning, Latham and Others
whose names ] might mention, are the
wealthiest men in California.
This is an error, although do mo-
wish to injure their credit; but the fac
is, they are among our poorest men
They are compelled to daily toll, and
for it receive but their daily bread.
They are all Of them under a salary
Reese and Luning are at work for theil
board and clothes; Stanford, Latham
and Mills are, as an additional compen
sation, provided with comfortable
homes, and furnished with pictures and
works of art.
For these things, in lieu Of salaries,
they are required to toll from one years
end to another.
Flood is q mine-manager, Stanford is
building railroads, Mills is broker,
Latham is railroading, Luning and
Reese keep pawnbrokers' shops, and
they are all sentenced to hard labor for
the term Of their natural lives.
They have no prospect of being re-
lieved from their burdens; they have
no hope of increase of salary; they can
not get out Of the country to travel
they have no leisure to read, and very
little time for social intercourse.
Their condition in this world is a
painful and laborious one, and they are
entirely cut off from the hope of Clio.
rious immortality through their utter
inability to wriggle through the eye Of
q needle.
Yet they seem happy, and we pre-
sumo they are. Content, doubtless, to
fill to the best of their ability the limit
ed spheres to which they have been
assigned.
Gov. Stanford is proud of his position
as President of the Central Pacific Rail
road, and ambitious to own two contin-
uous lines of roads across the CONT
nent, from San Francisco to New York
from Golden Gate to He'll Gate.
When he has accomplished this, he
will desire to combine all the lateral
roads, monopolize the Mississippi
River, the Gulf of Mexico, the Northern
Lakes, the Erie Canal, have toll-e ate
at the entrance of New York and San
Francisco harbors, in order that he may
better develop the resources of the
country and promote its general well
fare by transporting all the people and
all their goods.
When Mr.. Latham has completed
his North Coast Railroad to the Pole,
all the ice-fields, fur
islands and fisheries, secured all the
forests and saw-mills, he will extend
his enterprise southwark to Patagonia.
When Flood is weather. than Roths-
child, and has more money than Monte
Christie. When Mills has made the
Bank of California to Outrank the Bank
of England. When Reese and Luning
have sweated the last ducats. When
Lux & Miller have acquired all the
pastures that the Devil pointed out to
Christ, and all the cattle upon thou
sand hills. When Haggin shall have
absorbed the dry land, and Sharon the
waters of the earth. When they shall
have accomplished all of these things
Then-well then!
They will crawl humbly away into
their little tombs, over them will be
said, each in turn, a short PRAYER, and
over them (paid out of their own earn
ings) we will erect monumental
shaft of marble, bronze, or granite.
and on it will inscrfbe their virtues
and this the only reward for life of
toll.
sometimes think we are not suffi-
GENTLY grateful to these orr servants
for their faithful and unpaid labors
am surprised that any reasonable