The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-08-12
No Chance for . Poor Man in
California.

To Wilmington (Del.) rap-r: !
wish - state a lew facts abDut Cslii"r
mia, and my aim in doing Sd will have
been served IL you deem them g.snl
text from which Ia warn you readers
against all haphazand emigration hiih-
erwart. Thouoh specifically refer
ring "a San Francisco, the remarks
apply equally u all other portions oi
the State. in which my Observations
have extended from Crescent City Ia
San Diego, and from the metropolis
of the Pacific To Truckee.
There are more people in the State
than can find employment, however
mental or ponrly paid. The "employ-
ment Offices" Of this city are always
crowded. and the stores in their
vicinity frequently ols,ructed by the
swarms IF unemployed men. Most Of
them have absolutely no means they
have to he led somehow, to sleep
somewhere. ami they sOOn degenerate
into tramps. The country everywhere
teens with blanket laden pedestrians
in search of work, and tramps, with
out anything but the scanty clothing
upon their persons, on the same quest.
On any walk from nv hume tO the
Post-ofice am sure Of being several
times accosted by stout men, neither
drunkards nor presenting the sp-
pearance Of drink, who are actually
hungry, and various householders
have assured me that the calls upon
them and their neighbon by men in
need of something to eat are daily and
constant. When tell that some
weeks since q written announcement
was p'~,e.l in one of these "Intelli.
gence Offices" calling for 120 men to
work on the sugar plantations j" the
Sandwich Islands, it may s,mewhat
surprise you to learn that the lis, WIS
filled in TWO days. and that hundreds
applied who were either too late or
had not the sum necessary ~ pay
the fee OF the ''Agencv." But your
establishment will he still greater when
I tell you that these men had to euter
. written engagement, binding tbem-
selves for three year,; that their psy
Was to be $12 per month, they fur
nishing their own clothing; that the
price of passage (25 was to be deduct
ed from their pay, and that for
this muni6cent opening to enterprise
they had each to pay the ''agrnts"
%. SO cash. / sav eli and converse.l
with some Of these men, and the &C
counts they gave Of the condition Of
those who needed employment
throughout the State, amply corrobai-
ed by my own observations. were
painful to hear, from the large mum.
hers that they revealed as in q state
Of absolute desiiiuti"n.
If an advertisement ever appeared
in the papers for "a men" It Is almost
invariably for one that can lend his
500 or 500. Merchants
and dealers universally assure me
hat business of every kind never VISA
10 the history of California, % utterly
stagnant. Large numbers Of ware
houses and eligibly located business
stands are uDoccupied. very many
dwelling houses to let, and . German
q ranchman and . road-
,ide tavern-keePer) has ffequeeuy -
,erted 70 me that things now ass
much worse in this State than be
.ver saw them in the ''old couptsy."
neither say that these things are
he causes Of kearneyism (at present
nor that Kearneyism il
heir cause. But the facts are - Il,
i've them. and / esteemed il . duty
o tell you the condition Of a0airs
,ere. hoping you will warn the ci,isens
4 Wilmington and the people Of the
Peninsula, that foe poor man there /,
. hero no piace at Oh. and that tbnas
rho have accumulated some mean
Nd better look tvice hsloes they
eap to the coocles;oo of enigsaiisgl ,
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