The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-12-13
Letter from California.
Editor HOlna journal

100 ~
the columns Of your psper'
have many friends ~ ffa''R''h
county. and at sone future da, ! nove
to he with them again.
California 10 not the country tor III"
o,or man it used to be. In this res
v.ct its gioly has departed. Th"
quantity Of labor here. both skilled and
uuskill~l, is largely in excess OF the
demand, and hence thrle is much dis
tress. No one eau get an adequate
idea of the situation Of affairs unless ne
lands in San Francisco with very niue
money am! then trees to o"taln ch'p'"'
mcut. am informed that u yeuhS
gentleman from South Cslollna, a
member al one OF the most noted fam
lilies of that chivalrous State, wa. drlv-
en- by necessity TO work on the pubic
streets of Oakland, and cOnsiiered
him. eIf fortunate III getting even this
TO do LA yrrs, merchants. aud bust
ness men generally, complain OF "''ard
%,incs." and the dlscOnlent among The
workin. people i, deep aud threaten
ing. The latter class intend to have n
araad procession on Thanksgiving
Day. to show the inliahilant. nf this
city what 4 multitude Of lnboring men
ore out Of employment. There is evi
dcn,ly = vital distraction between "the
rim, of lahoring' and "tls tight I" la
hor.' N, one questions the poor
msn's right of lab"rinK, but his ri2ht
to labor is practically denied in the
United States 1t the present time. ID"
met, too, by the Federal AMI Stat
Governments. which arr nrthlng tut
the ela.e. of the rich and the lvrhnls
OF the poor, Pro'xhly yon ar" A.
uuninled with the '"ok pulli4'"d b'
N, cher. the celebrated faanrial minis
ter Of France. which concluded With
these profound words:
1t might I've said that IL Few men
after having divided he earth among
them, made law, oi nnibn AM, gnainn-
tee against the multitude, "a they
would have erected palisades in til,
woods against wilh beasts. W"n;'
ANY one, however, dare to say, li,,t At
ter having rslanlislIel the lnws %
property, justice and Iir,ril, there was
nothing vet L. do Tor The most gunner
Gus class Of the r~it,z"ns? WHAT hI
your laws nI property ih"y might say,
.concrrn u-i W. own nothing your
n WIZ OF justice? We have mtlinl To-
defend; vonr laws ut lr,ert, 7 II We
do not labor III. morrow We shall die.
Something more must DO done, sa's
Ncvher, hest les establishing the Law
OF property, justice and lincIty. AMI
that something, We npl'rcl'end, ~ to
abolish Interest hearing public debts
reduce taxation to the lowest p~ossipl'
point, and make the q.antity OF cur
rrncy equal To the demand.
Look at France! Win = teriitor,
twenty times smaller an'l II population
ten millions less than that OF the Unilr,
States, she has between sixteen AM
seventeen hundred million dollars il
actual circulation, while mr have Unl,
about lwn hundred and fhly million
and even this smull amount Is drcrens-
Ing e'cry day.
The si'ual ON Of affairs il appalling
Bankruptcy is stiriny Thousand, IN In,
face. and po,crl, iS iII'ing mrn ano
women into the a',ys. at CRIME an'
vet. the demons who cnutrol the Sh,l
Of State nre singing songs 1T praise t.
Mamm"n. and jecring'y tell us that II
would ,e ,lslon"rablc to chang" III,
vessels course
But let u, ~
What authority did Congress hs,,
IT, convert greeibacks into bOnis nn'I
give capitalists n mortgage upon all The
property and labor of the country
None whoksver! This was one OF the.
most -tupcndous crimes against man-
kind winch has ever been p '%rprtratrt,
and It those men who voted for the
measure had their deserts, they wnul'|
he in the pen,tentiary t~"-'iav, Will,
their hrxis shs,ed, wearing striped
,reeciieS, AMI serving Ou, IA term Of Il
years Imprisonment At hard la'"r. IN
stead al living IN inXnr, upon tie pro
cee,ls of public %p,unIer, AMI pralinl
abnn, The faith AMI honor nnri cre,iit ~
'hr Nation. Democratic mem ers %
Congress should talk very plan IL
these i,yrocr,trs AMI rosucs. As IN,
iricnd, jim. Comfy, would sN, warn
help out III them, ani make them sen
siblr Oi the tact that II they had hal
~ much conscience xf Ju las lsrarln
possessed they would go and ham,
themselves. Aud ~ far ~ the honh,
are coucern.h, l wOuld like to see p.
titions going to Congress rom al
pats OF the country. reriling uI"'
their face the fact that the c%Onv"rSlD,
Of g%reenhacks into bonds. after ll,,
81 ,sr of the war, tor the benefit Of :
set of sharks, was q crime and an out