Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-28
SAN FRANCISCO AND ITS TWO MODS
THE SANS CULOTTES AND THE
RETRO SERED

San Francisco IS queer place, Nobody
ever saw the like of it, It's population is
divided into two kinds of banditti-the hood
luns or as the French name them the sans Gu
lottcs the breechless), and the broadcloth mob
who make the adroit, systematic, high hand
ed Claude Duval robberies Of California street
possibility As it takes thief TO catch a
thief, 50 it takes California and Battery street
to squech Tar Flat and the Barbary Coast.
The well dressed mob being the most numer-
Gus, most intelligent, most influential and the
best armed, also being in league with the
police and the rub-a-dubs Of the target eI
cursions, are i'll fair way to keep the hood
lums from getting the upper hand. We are
glad of this. It is vastly pleasan;er to be
plundered, heeced and stripped down to the
buff by genial, well clothed, pleasant
smelling scamp WHO performs his clever
despolings on California street, than to be
kuoc,.ed down and walked upon, garroted
and robbed Of your watch and pocket money
hv gang of ill-favored tattcrdemalions on
Pacific street or the Oakland Ferry Slip We
prefer things done secundem artem. Your
first principles involve a black eye and
thumbish sensation about the throat. So we
are much inclined to side with the Cassimere's
against the Dungarees; and we declare our
Sympathies to be with the banks and brokers
shops and against the dead falls and beats Of
her quarters. As to what the boiled shirt
mob have been doing to get themselves in
condition to fight the other rabble, the
Bulletin of Thursday evening informs US as
follows
The city is now fully able to cope with any
disorderly element that may present itself
There are 2o2 policemen, used to the work i'll
hand, 200 militia, 5000 organized citizens;
the force of mariners and sailors in the Pen
sacola, and some troops III the tOrtlhcatlons
There are besides four Parrot guns, Cat
ding gun, and 4, 900 stand of arms ready, and
any number that may be necessary behind.
The spirit Of order, which with but few OF
these accessories. in former times faced
worse social disorders than those which now
confront us, 10 thoroughly aroused. San
Francisco, from tradition, habit and ex
perience IS about the worst city i'll the world
for mob 1t has faculty of organizing its
reserve power which Is observable nowhere
else. The battalions of determined citizens,
club in hand issuing last evening from
Horticultural Hall, were sufficient lndi-
cation that the men who brought order out of
the choas Of the gold excitement had lost
none OF their old vigor. Their steady silent
tramp through the streets recalled the scenes
OF twenty-one years ago with great vlvldness.
1t seemed TO demonstrate now, as 1t demon
strated then, that 4 love OF order is the pre-
vading sentiment of the community.
The preparations which our people have
made to suppress riOtous proceedings are in
sharp contrast with those elsewhere. In the
older cities there seems TO be lack OF self
relance-a leaning on the official arm, which
is sign OF Hstlessness, ii not feebleness
There are proclamatlons IN plenty; appeals to
citizens generally to come forward for the pro
lection OF property; anxious and earnest de !
mands for Governors TO come on the scene; !
appealing looks to Washington. But among |
US it has got to be a cardinal tenet OF our
social belief shat the Lord helps those |
who help themselves Ii there be lawless !
ness developed among US, We know no other |
way than 10 organize promptly and put it |
own. We know full we'll that our local gov |
euIment is only strong enough to deal with |
the ordinary course OF events, and that crises
sometimes come when the whole community |
LL4I5U SLttI!u ~ HIS CuI CttS d. tIio lLOlCS
is better prepared TO deal with disorder than
any other city in the United States. Its
power of REFRESHING will increase i'll hundred
fold greater ratio than that of the disafected.
1t has not gCC mad nor passionate yet. But
woe betide the evil doors when il does.
We have passed through three nights Of
great excitement. Our citizens everywhere
nave been watchful and nervous The in
dications are strong that they are not going to
stand much more of it. The citizens pretty
soon viii march with other appliances than
clubs to the scenes where disorder may be in
progress. 1t is beginning to.be apparent that
an example must be mus; which, if sufficient
ly broad, may be enough to carry US along
for another t"cnty Years. There is no lack
If strength Or power. If the the thousands
already organized are not sufficient, fifty
thousand more can be obtained. The
ncendiarism that is prevalent, burns a hole
n every mans pocket. The city of San
Francisco will have to pay for all the losses
which have already been sustained, and that
which it collects from business property and
FIGHTING THE COLORADO BEETLE IN Ell
ROPE simultaneously with the passage of
he Danube by the Russians, it is announced
hat Sir Wilfrid Lawson favorite dread, the
Colorado beetle, has succeeded Ill etfecting the
passage of the Atlantic, and has landed on
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