The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-21

| ant foreigners. You ought 10 De aSnaneC
of yourselves. There is not milionair,
nor prosperous business man in California
that has not had his days of adversity-hi,
days of trial, poverty and hard labor
Those who came to California in the early
time endured its hardships Some fel
under the burden and filled early graves
some prospered, all toiled, all struggled;
and now you, most of you late corners OF
men of unthrifty, idle aud dissolute habits
what do you demand?
That ace djoide acih you!
Not much! We will see you collectively
and individually damned first You must
work as we did, and if you won't work,
you shall have no beer, nor whisky, nor
''pitch seven-up.n You shall not help
yourselves by threats nor by violence.
You shall not bring about agrarianism and
division of property by politics or constitu-
| tional tricks
You have every political privilege in this
State for which revolutions have been stir
red and dynasties overthrown There is
not principle for which martyrs ever died
or heroes contended that you do not enjoy.
You are free in your persons, free of
speech, with perfect freedom of action
within the law You are not serfs to lords,
nor villeins to the soil. You owe no mills
tary service to feudal chieftains nor are
you drafted to the armies of the State
You are not subjected to exactions.
If you cannot prosper in this country, it
must be for one of two causes; either God
has given you no sense, or 1t is because you
are idle and unenterprising If God has
not given you the proper modlcum of brains,
it is His fault, and not the fault of the
American nation or its laws If you are
idle and unenterprising, it is your own
fault. We did mid not create you and we
can not re-create you.
If you do not like this country, then
in the name of heaven why don't you go
back to that you came from? If wages are
inadequate here return to your peasant
homes in Germany, where women are
yoked with steers to plow; ge back to Bel
guim, where women drag carts with dogs;
20 back to Ireland to France, to Scandina-
via, to the plains of Lombardy, where wo-
men hold wooden plows and where you are
liable to do military duty. Go back and
tell your countrymen and countrywomen
that in land of inexhaustible fertility,
where farms were free, where religion was
honored, where education was within the
reach of all, where mines and forests and
fisheries were open to the world, where the
law protected all, and where you were
clothed with the sovereignty of citizenship
that you could not make living. Go
back and starve and die and rot. Be Gre
mated, be damned, be anything, and give
us q rest from this insutferable, reverend
ing din of beer-drinking, whisky -guzzling,
pitch politicians.
As Americans we are sick and tired OF 1t
and you; we are wearied of your whining
mendlcancy. We question the fact that
you can not get work. We believe you do
not try If no one supplies you with la
Dor, 60 and make labor for yourselves.
Land Is plenty and free; game is free In
field and forest; fish aboand in stream and
ocean; the mines, the forests, the quarries,
the broad range ofSpasture lands are open
to your enterprise. Do as We did who
crossed the continent on foot and mule
back, toiled in the mines, baked our own
beans, and cooked our own slapjacks. Do
as your fathers did, who pioneered the
western wilderness, subduing savage beasts
and nature, to make the homes where we
were born. Fish for CLAIMS and crabs upon
the seashore dig roots; live on acorns and
pine nuts; hire a SOW and raisese pork, but,
for Gods sake, stop your whining. The
Digger Indians could live in California.
Are you less enterprising? The early Cali
fornian could live. Have you less capacity?
If everything fails, and in this land of
broad opportunity you can not earn your
living, then go hang yourselves Abra-
hams bosom is never full.
Again, we are angry at the lnsolence OF
your political demands. You are accustom-
ed to the argument of kings, and IN your
ignorance you are unfit to be freemen.
Therefore we ask the respectable, the pros
porous, the contented, tie reasonable OF
your own countrymen to unite with us, in
order that we may silence your clamor and
relegate you to your proper positions. You.
an ignorant mob of unwashed foreigners,
would teach Americans their political ddtles
You. n propertyless mass of unsklIled Las
borers, who are too idle and too vicious to
earn your beer and whtsky-you demand OF
US division of our earnings, and call 1t
You would overthrow oar
laws and style it nihlllsn. You would
level all barriers of society, break down ali
of class, and this Is the sand
lots idea of socialism. You would steal
the money you have n)t earned, and call 1t .
agrariauism You have the impudence of .
bandits with the courage of panel thieves.
You claim to want labor. The sand-lot
is not the place to iud it. You have the
sense to know, if not the sense, you have
lad the experience to demonstrate, that
your present mode of angry agitation is
making labor less. and is reducing wages
Capital and labor are mutually dependant
IN each other. If you lntimidate capital,
t is timid and hides itself. While 1t is
hiding, you are starving, 1t never comes
forth at threats. 1t never circulates III
lines of violence and danger. Before this
agitation commenced you were prosperous.
The real estate associates built hundreds of
houses in year. Since the agitation, times
have been hard Real estate values have
deprecated, enterprise is arrested, and you
ire the first to feel the blow. If there are
10 bricks laid, there is no money for carry
ng the hod AS soop as you cease agltatlng,
confidence will be restored. Money was
never more abundant New enterprises
will be inaugurated, new industries stm-
Hated. Money will again circulate freely,
md you will get some. 1t is your own fault
hat this period Of stagnation has come,
Zen years ago this was the happiest, most
hopeful community in the world. Every
BODY was elastic and houyant; everybody
vas industrious and economical, and nearly
al had their own homes. Nou gamblcd in
stocks, went into politics, lost your grip,
ave way TO the Chinese, began to drink
whisky and beer, and to play pitch seven
lp' at the corner groceries. Your bad ex-
mple made hoodlums of you, hoUdiums
# your children, and now you meet on
he sand>lot. blaspheme God, and denounce
he laws of the American Republic because
'ou have reaped the consequences of your
,wn crimes and follies, and because you
lave been the contrivers of your own ruin.
Now, take the advice of sober-minded
mule, one who came early to the country,
worked hard and ate thistles. Abandon
he leadership of the good-for-nothing,
ong cared, leather. .lunged, asinine prayers