Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-12
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A New Society, in Opposition t, the PiouseTs
From the Virginia Chronicle !

from the Virginia Chronicle
For some weeks past a movement
has been on foot among a certain
class Of young men on the Com
stock to organize an association in
opposition TO the Society Of Pacific
Coast Pioneers. A preliminary
meeting was held last evening in
the office of young lawyer in the
Marys building. A reporter Of the
Chronicle was present, but he was
earnestly requested to publish no
names, the agitators fearing assas-
sination. When the society is fully
organized and possessed of means
to hire fighters and prosecute the
murderers of the members, the
fullest publicity will be courted.
A young gentleman in high
collar and wearing eye glasses
arose and said he wished to state
clearly the object which had drawn
together two score of the most in
telligent and high toned young
men 1t had ever been his good for.
tune to see collected in one apart.
ment at the same time.
II should like" he said, "to have
this organisation known as the So
ciety for the Suppression Of Old
Frauds. That would we'll express
the object of this meeting. There
is not a man here who has not
been repeatedly tainted with the
fact that he did not arrive on this
coast in '49 or the spring of $50
tainted for this, gentlemen, when
as u matter of fact 1t was a physi-
cal IN. possibility for US to be here
or IN any other country, for the
reason that we had not yet been
born. We want to organize this
Club in order to create q public
sentiment that it will not only be
no disgrace not to have been born
half century ago, but which, in
deed, will make a man bag his
head who is so unfortunate as to be
more than thirty years old. 1hem's
the sentiments / am willing to
break leg for" (Applause.
A delicate young man, with eye
glasses and thin voice, arose and
said:
cpd like to know why man
should be made to feel like o Grim.
inal because he never had to fight
starvation with shovel and had
to cover his nakedness with a pick.
[ Kisses. never was lousy in my
iife, but [ don't think I should be
looked down upon for that reason
by every old Pioneer l meet.
[Cheers. Neither have I ever
been confined exclusively to bacon
aud beans, for six months at a
stretch, but nevertheless I think
that my morals should not be blast
ed on that account. I can't see
why man who walked beside q
bull.team across the plains in 40
should think himself superior to
me, just because I only got here
three years ago, and rode all the
way from New York In palace
car. He wouldn't have walked
across the plains If there had been
any palace cars, would be?
A vOice-You bet your button
hole bouquet he wouldn't. [ Laugh.
ter
"Now, to my mind [laughterl. I
deserve a good deal more credit for
coming to this coast than any Of
these rheumatic old pioneers, and
I'll tell you why. Every one Of
these old fellows believed that as
soon as be got to California he was
going to dig q fortune out of the
ground in o few weeks or months,
aud that then he was going home
to cut swell. Now, when left
New York for this coast, 1 hadn't
any such ideas. Islmply hoped
that I'd be able to earn my living
by bookkeeping, and I've doue 1t.
It cost me about as much tOoget
here as 1t did any Of the Pioneers,
and I'd have been In q worse fix
than any of them ever was If I'd
slipped up on my expectations, for
I'm not strong enough TO do MAUI
ual labor. They were all big,
healthy, and could shovel for their
board if they couldn't fluid any
thing to do. Pm a pluc kier man
than the best Of lem, and I've
proved It,"
This speaker seated himself amid
cutuusiastlo applause, anu MS place
on the floor was taken by a tele-
graph operator with q small mus
tache, who said:
1--WE attended several meetings
of the Pioneers, and I must say
that more ridiculous exhibitions of
senile vanity / have not seen. AS
the gentleman who has just preced-
cd me justly observed, every one Of
these Pioneers expected to dig up a
fortune In very few months.
Therefore, / say, every one Of them
who is not rich man is failure.
The Society OF Pacific Pioneers is
an aggregation of failure. IRE.
mendous applause. Yet there
they meet, week after week, and
blow their feeble old horps, and
seem to think that they deserve
special credit for having begun to-