The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-02-08
Letter from California,
TURIoCK, Stanisiaus Co., Cal,

TURLOCK, Stanisiaus Co., CAL,
.DRAR FREEMANI have been wPiting for the
blessing os good rain before writing, so that
tressed country and the long looked for rain
did finally come. Aftera drought of near eigh-
teen hs, the parched earth mas again been
saturated, the crops assured, and the farmer
assured. To your people rain is a thing of
every day recurrence and consequently you do
not realize how blessed thing it is to have
rain; but to the genial showers come like
the Centennial epochs of the nations birthday,
few and far between, and hence we welcome
the rain as we would an angels visit. 1t would
be almost impossible for you to picture in your
mind the great transformation caused here by
the autumn showers, When the first rain falls
it finds everything parched and dry by the COLI
tinuai heat Of an eight months torrid sun, aud
when the first drops fall the steam rises from
the earth as it would arise from water thrown
into a hot Kettle. Two months ago not a green
blade or leaf was to be seeh for miles and miles
around; now the earth is again clad in a carpet
of yerdure, variegated by clusters of wild How
do not know the names OF these flowers,
Sat ana snhs snnber onH Is "der prmns sped biooma.
At any rate they are all beautiful flowers and
make terra frma shine as II a thousand rain
upon earth's verdurc. The failure OF the crops
last year made times as hard here In the Golden
State as in the States east. Banks that had
loaned money on mortgages foreclosed them
and refused TO make further loans, as many
had TO buy In lands they did not want. Mer-
chants refused credit. Debts were collected
with a relenriessness CHARACTERISTIC OF hard
times. Men were throw out OF employment Dy
thousands Live stock suffe red and died. The
mines couldn't operate In many sections for
round. Like volume of water, the hard times
pressed in every.direction. Idle men became
which was infinitely worse Riotous demon
strations were frequently made, and still con-
labor supply and demand, seemed nullifed
disregarded. Civil and municipal institutions
have been menaced. The basis of society has
been shocked as an internal vulson OF
ture would shake the earth. And the end is not
spirits that now agitate the surface of society
will forbear, and that we may escape the curse
future If people can endure the pressure for
a few months more, there will be work for all,
be postponed. But the cloud of popular hatred
for the pig tail Celestial Will eventually burst.
and when the storm comes there will be tLun-
der and iphtning. Congress should do some
thing TO ward OF the impending danger, and
save us from total absorption by this heather
element. There Is an intense feeling of hatred
r, kindled in the breasts of the eau ssia
the arrival of every new ship load of these
highbinders, but still they come, and will con-
tinue to arrive unless their immigration Is re-
pressed by national authority: II does seem
strange that while Americans in China are re-
stricted to few free Cities the Chinese here
can traverse the entire area of the United States
AS the receipts and expenditures OF your
county will soon appear. l must not draw too
much upon your space In the columns of the
FREEMAN; yet, as my hand is In may as well
say something more. There were eighty four
| year. to say nothing oq the other portions OF
the Staee. The chief cause o. these suicides Is
poverty, brought about by the stock brokers,
bankers and other swindIers in our cities. Al
most every Immigrant is hutton-h hOied as soon
as he arrives and solicited to purchase some
wildcat stock or he is drawn with some one of
| the thousand snares that are laid for the an
wary, and robbed OF all he has. He fails to
make money as easily as he lost 1t, and hence
! seeks oblivion's repose: TO be or not 10 be
that is the question: Whether 'twere better to
endure the lille we have, or fly to others that
wot not OF TO cni them, seems to be the
! soliloquy of thousands just now, and many ter
inmate the soliloquy and their mortal career
| together, Then there were sixty homtoides in
! the great city of the occident during the same
] hs sfon CnA t,x-
| hardship, leads men to seek their fortunes Mt
! the gambling table, and where there is gamb-
key there are firearms and desperate characters.
| Nearly all of these crimes have their origin in
disappointment. Men flock hither from every
part OF :the world TO seek fortunes, and find,
when they arrive. that they are as fur removed
! spend their money and then become desperate.
They meet in mortal combat, which culmina ties
and pistols are not trumps. There is a great
amount of poverty in our State just now. par
era of places mining in this State, when oover-
! ~ was unknown. such ts not the case now.
! for nI"ces and manv nronose to worI for tbeir
boa rd, at most for half wages. But there is
| found In the east One good crop, that would
be as general over the state as the late rain hi g
tone of business Forty millions % of bushels .1' off
! wheat is eqCal to forty millions of dollars, and
State. among the people, will work wonderful
transfOrmuti On in their condition. Your hard
times In the east are not so easily mended. Our
State still retains its metallic currency. There
| is volume enough, too, of the circulating medi-
um. A II that is wanted is Il power of attrac-
! tion that will bring il to the surface-an eiec-
! trio current that will shake 1T up. Confidence
| is that current. Faith will remove mountains.
Hope Will reassure the saddest heart. Hence
we look FOR and await the good time coming
MY only hope is that 1t may extend to the east
also. and that as one result, the empty Golfers
/ of the CAMBRIA FREEMAN-the best week y
! paper extant-Tar be replenished, and:t hat It's
! editor and publisher and his family may spread
and flourish like the green bay tree; that their
! lives may be long and happy and that hard
! times may never come again while they occupy
place OIL this mundane sphere. Ron Roy.