Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-04-12
NUMEROUS GOOD REASONS.

YDOu lllZSns 10 oppose lhe fallncAllOn OF
! the new constitution for II great mum Der
of seasons, a very few otwhich may be
/ here enumerated.
Al 2. II proposes shcilyfa complete and
radical change in the form and policy Of
our Government, as will tend TO still fur
ther separate capital and labor, the in
terests Of which are mutual and should be
( closely linked. TX ,1 ta4.
3. II strikes blow at our public
! school system, which has been built up
after years OF expenditure and legislation,
and proposes to make IL n political ma
chine, by throwing its control into the
hands OF County Superv isors, opening
every county in the State To text book
wranges, and dissolving the central au-
4 thority which now superyises the entire
system.
4. 1t abSlishes the High School, and
forces the poor man who desires to Sc
cure for his children the best educational
/ advantages, to forego this proper am BIZ
zion, or submi.t TO increased local taxation
to maintain the higher schools. ~'.
s. II erects the State University into
AN independency, over the door Of which
1t writes, . \ poor mans child admitted
/ here"
6. 1t abolishes the present and pre-
tends to give US n new lein law, which
proves to be cheat and deception,
giving lein only upon the building, and
preventing the enactmeIt of dssira BILE lein
laws, which the present Constitution per-
mits.
Z. IT utterly destroys the building and
loan societies, the workingmen's mutual
aids, by which hundreds 0fthem annually
secure homes without waiting for years
to accumulate the cost thereof, and mean
while exhausting their resources in pay
ing high rents to landlords,
8. 1t fails utterly to attack the out.
rageous land monopoly system in this
State, and though plans were proposed
in the Con vention to limit this blighting
band holding, they were crushed by the
/ power OF the land monopolists.
8 For railroad regulation it proposes
an experimental monarchy in the shape Of
n Commission. with powers superior to
those OF any and all the departments OF
the State. and which hands over the whole
subject to three men, who are accountable
to no one.
10. II provides such restrictions upon
associated labor and capita, invested in
mining as viii paralyze that industry and
( throw thousands oil our fellow workers out
Of employment.
II. We are assured by underwriters,
| in whose Judgment we have con idence,
that it will prevent outside competition
I in insurance on oar homes, aud thus in
crease the rates upon and depreciate the
vIaue Of our possessions as available secur
ities.
u. 1t insults the intelligence OF our
/ thinking workingmen by attempting to
make Us believe that (as the address Of
the committee of is says it "cempletely
closes the door against Chinese ever be
coming entitled to vote in this State" IA
statement We know to be false aud puer-
/ lie.
Is. 1t ooliges the State TO work all
conycts for Its gain, and thus throw them
all into competition with free labor.
II Its declarations against the Chinese
/ evil which curses our State are meanings
less, Intellectual, and will tend to retard
/ the movement ~ rid tie State Of the Mon
golan hGrdes.
IS. 1t erecs San Francisco into prin
! cipalty, but gives her all her old power
! over the State, while it robs us of repre-
| seutatioE by decreasing the basis thereof
at the very time when we need our rep
resentatives IN the councils OF this State.
I6. 1t deprives every worker of a vote
who has not resided 80 days in the county
though our labor often requires US to move
from county TO county.
II. 1t deprives us Of liberty by pro-
| viding tor the arrest and confinement OF
/ citizens on information instead of by Il
! Grand Jury process. As one of the dele
gates decaled, thov %anted this provision
Vndt they might more easily catch up the
Tower" classes. Every intelligent work
inenlan knows that information is relic
OI the Star Chamber,a a legacy from the
fearful power of the French Kings. 1t is
u means OF persecution, OF revenge and
oppression, against which the Grand Jury
was raised to protect free men.
l8. 1t provides for double and treble
taxation which, while the rich may fee
from, Will crus every taxpayer Of mod
crate means. In tho attempt TO force
capital to pay largely to the public reve-
hue 1t gives tia weapon by which it can
wiring The addiliona tax from the poor
Who must borrow Of the rich.
10. Il is n-American in that it re-.
cognizes classes and draws the line be-
tween citizens who shoud be and are
equal before the law, endowed with equal
rights and privileges.
20. III an 0ttemp; 10 make Directors
1 personally esponsi6le foI mnlfeasance OF
corporate officials, it opens the Director
iss To irresponsible men, gives no new
protection. 10 those dealing with them, and
forever bars the sons OF the rch who can
give security for their behavior, while it
viii make every Board OF Directors set
of dummies. ty which the people will be
robbed IN daylight us we'll as in the dark.
q. II robs the orphans in the State OF
the due the State owes all such wards, by
80 diluting the aid to begven that no or
phan asylum can eXhist under its opera
tlan except by The contributions of the
clii1sns who may be pleased to aid it..
%. 1t provides for the possibility of a
party perpetuating its power by appoint
lag county and munirips officers, through
The medium OF the Legislature, and at
the expense OF the dearest right of Amer
lean freelnen-tho right to elect their Of
tcers.
l3. It deprives us Of the right we have
under the present Constitution, and for
when our ioreiathers lought-the right
to elect our own Assessors and Tax Col>
lectors, and gives the power 20 the Legis-
lature to name them over us.
24. In many other ways it is danger
Gus, un American, destructive of mate-
llal Interest IS aud threatening to the wei.
fare of tho State, experimental, vague
and lncoherent, and is an instrument con.
cerning which lawyers, Judges, journal
isis, 80rkingmen, farmers and business
men 80 disagree az TO lis meaning, that
, we can see nothing. in case of its adoption,
bat many years Of litigation and wrangle
during Which industry viii angush and
the worlNngnen OF the State will be driv.
en- out and be supplemented by the CHEAP
vile Chinese labor element which already
curses us.
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