Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-08-23
A CROCODILE TEAR.

was pleased to offer the suggestion that one
reason why coolies were crowding not only
white laborers and mechanics from employ
ment, but girls also, is THAT the girls do not
offer their services cheap enough" that,
where he came from, "girls are glad to obtain
work at one dollar and fifty cents per
week" Mr.. Cowgirl is a Congressman from
Indiana and member of Wright's COM
mittee, and Mr.. Cowgilrs testimony on the
servant girl question is about as good as will
be that of the report of that committee on
labor. Upon this the frebrand of the En-
aminer proceeds to argue that it is all owing
to radicalism, and grows eloquent over the
immense wages of twenty five cents a day,
and takes up some msconstrued saying of
Beechers about bread and water diet for
working men; and a great deal of other slHsh,
with quite as much reason, or truth, or per-
Thence, and wastes an immense deal of elo-
quence and froth for nothing. Where Mr..
Cowgirl came from, it is rather difficult to
obtain good female servants at double the
sum named, and this is exclusive of all other
expenses, such as board washing and lodging.
Even in more eastern regions, where emf
grants come in swarms, the merest green
horn, who would boil melon, or put salt in
ice cream, or blow out a gas light, cannot be
hired for that price, and then after having
taught them something, they Immediately
strike, underthe instructions usually, of some
of their Dimmycratc friends. If any one
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will find that the sums sent by these starved,
meek and lowly females, to their relations at
home, show anything but starvation wages,
and if he will from this investigate Some of
the church savings fund accounts, he will |
find pretty large aggregate sum standing to
the credit of these girls Now if few
cargoes of such servants were shipped to
California, say, tackled to some committee of |
investigation, we'll guarantee that they |
could not be got to work for Chinamen's wages |
longer than it took some workingmans COM
mittee to interview them, and besides, with
Chinese as an alternate, the people of the
coast would not have them at any price, not
outstanding the anti Chinese howl. l: is
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the people at large. They growl about Mon
golians, but they put forth no effort to sup
plant them. neighbor of DR.. Glenns
once said to US; 81 would rather
have white women in my kitchen
to cook for the hands, who are always quar-
relins with my Cinnamon but the fact is, no
white woman could stand the work of cooking
for so many men," 1t never occurred to him
that if one could not, three or four might,
and that he could thus encourage white
labor. Labor is not as we'll paid in the East
ern States as it is on the Pacific. How much
less is it paid harvest hand is worth about
two dollars day in California, where he lives
like hog and works like a mule he is
worth as much in Ohio or Pennsylvania,
where he has not only good table, but
good bed, and works only ten hours daily. 8
miner in Nevada gets from three to four t
dollars coal miner in Pennsylvania can y
earn as much as ten that is what they call 7
90 top wages. A servant girl, worth anything J
always gets from 81 90 to 81 ID week, incud-
ing board and lodging and regular hours out
now mucn wOulu Sne get III Dan Il fanclScO | r
Why do not some of these fellows who always :,
howl about election times as hounds give l.
tongue at the scent of the prey, organize and
drive out the Chinese by shipping white help
to the coast. The poor girls can not reach Il
his land of promise, and must either work 1t
Tor low wages and comfortable homes in the Ii
East, or starve.
Let us further remark on this sentence of
he Examiner: {" Mr. Cowgirl thinks seventy u
wo dollars year all the wages hard work
ng girl should have for her severe labor, q
which saps the vigor from her frame, and i'll "
few years drives her to choice between the IL
old charity Of public institution, crime or u
hame 1t is the Radical idea') that not ~
low wages, there is as little de- :"
endence on charitable institutions by that ~
lass of women in the East, as any where i'll &c
he world, and less lives of shame by q large "
ercentage than there is in California, nOtwith
,anding its enormous wages-paid to China tr
len. Ask the Democratic Chairman of that NJ,
whether he pays any more wages tn
his servants than does Cowgirl who does i'm
OF seem to be much of representative of CO
ny party, and let's hear him speak. ne
STANDING, the PROSECUTING Mormon, who i &c
al killed i'm Gsorpia il il testified by the par Ill