The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-10-21
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ADVICE To YOUNG NEN--sTICH To INF OLD
HOME.
The San Francisco Nail says: 10 the
young man with his hair parted in the
middle, who is about TO put his college
education and his sole leather trunk on a
California bound traia We say-stop, To
the clever artizan and the honest mechan.
&c who thinks he will fly from hard times
in the east to imaginary well paid employ.
ment in the .'Gelden City" Sc also say
stop. TO the adventurous rustic who
wishes to leave hoeing the turnips OF some
New y ork farm TO delge for gold In the
mountains of this land Of the pioneers We
emphatically repeat-stay where you are
We. would we inhabited the early Ely.
stun the Alta and such vague sheets say
we do, but we are afraid We don't. From
the bottom OF our hearts We shorld b.
glad to think that there was plenty and
prosperity for every one who seeks TO set
| tie among us-but, all the same, there
isn't. We do possess something of an
| approach TO the eternal summer anu the
| gigantic strawberries the East is go tired
| OF hearing us brag about, but that is
about all. Sooth - say, double eagles
do net grow upon trees in Frisco; all the
new eager arrivals 10 the contrary not
withstanding. In plain English, the
paper that speaks OF the magnificent OPP
q 70 &c m, he
conner, lies, and lies IN very gratuitously
criminal way indeed. The unyarnished
truth is that our labor market Is stocked TO
oyerfowing, and every fresh arriving
| train but adds 10 the miserable multitude
in our midst that waits, suffers, staryes.
and finally fights its desperate way back
East again. Before the door of every
| employment Office In this city to-day,
| stands hollow-eyed swarm that would
sadden the heart of satyr. Men OF
brains and culture, good clerks, o4,Ucllcnt
| accountants, business men of undenia5le
energy, mechanics Of ability. walk the
streets in dumb despair, and finally take
those that lead to the bay and the morgue.
II Is truly said that San Francisco is Cal
ifornia, and here all the misery and suffer
ing OF those who have journeyed from
altar to grasp in monotOnOus repetition the
glittering mirage Of fortune are seen. The
writer OF this cannot remember one even.
ing for very many, that he has not been
asked tor coin 70 buy a meal or bed, by
men who would have sooner died on the
rack than have asked aims in the light of
day. And some OF them do die on the
rack-the rack OF continued disappoint-
ment and bitter misery. Every train
that leaves Oakland is crowded with
East going emigrants, who seven times
repeal their unhappy story to the West
coming daily addition to the army OF real
martyrs they have left behind them here.
Yet still the Alta and its ilk calmly sing
the same old siren song, and still this
over-crowded, over-traded and financially
Frustrated community Is held up with
fatal persistence as the proper Mecca Of
the American youth.
We beg the journals in the East that so
frequently copy the Mail, to copy this
article above all Others. We ask that the
truth and the whole truth be told there
as simple duty to humanity. In the
name of the distress we see around us and
are powerless TO relieve, in the name OF
the interminable list of suicides that fill
our papers, we selemnly warn intending
immigrants Of all classes that we are
overstocked IN all kinds of labor, and
will be for the next four or five years.
Though his ticket he purchased and his
trunk packed. we say to the Eastern man
looking hither for employmcnt-Go
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