Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-04-10
A Personal View.

giving Jnem tue DSDeit VI tue wv
lowing vigorous article from the
pen of Col. w. r. Olden, of Ana
helm. We find it in the last num-
ber of the Anaheim Gazette. The
ladies, especially, would do well to
ponder those portions of the article
which relate to their right Of
dover:
1t is an old and true saying that
ga man may be judged by the com
pauy he keeps" II he prefers the
society of the honorable, upright
and law-abiding, you naturally In
| fer that he belongs TO that class;
but If he voluntarily selects as his
associates the criminal class; those
who neither respect the law nor the
rights of property, you just as ma
turally infer that he Is "A candidate
for the penltentiary-a man to be
watched rather than trusted.
Now, II we apply the same rule
to the new Consultation, we hnd
that, as a rule, the men who oppose
it are the law-abiding, the enter
prising, the intelligent men of the
State, the men who, by reason of
their industry and economy, have
accumulated property, aud who
don't want that property to be
taken from them under color Of law
either by unequal taxation or other
legalized confiscation. These men
not only oppose the new Constitu-
ton, but are able to give good reas-
ons for so doing. On the other
hand, we find that the class who
favor the new Constitution are the
criminal classes, all of the thieves,
burglars, tramps, the men who
won't work and expect to be sup
ported in idleness, the men who
don't pay taxes, or in other words
the crowd who congregate on the
sand lots and cheer the communis-
tic, law-defying harangues of Kear-
| ney-these men are solidly organ
ized in favor of the
new Constitution. Both of
these classes oppose and advocate
the new Constitution for one and
the same reason-because they
know that it means robbery and
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something to lose desire to retain
what they have got, and those who
have nothing to lose and hope to
gain something in the general
smash which will follow its accept
ance, favor it. These last, 1 am
sorry to say, are aided and abetted
by an honest and well-meaning but
ignorant and prejudiced class,
whose prejudices do not permit
them to listen to any argument
which does not agree with their
preconceived opinions. They favor
the new Constitution, but are ut
terly unable to give any reason for
it, and when you question them
closely you find that in most in
stances they have not read it, and
consequently know nothing about
it. All have to say to these mis-
guided men is that they are in
very bad company, and that il by
their votes the Constitution is car.
ried, and they have their rate of in
terest raised, and their places sold
for the mortgages, they will not be
entitled to any sympathy; those
who aid and abet thieves deserve to
be robbed.
Patrick Rediy, who was a mem
Der of the Constitutional Conven-
ton, says that the worst features of
this most Objectionable document,
originated in what was called the
Constitutional Club, which was
composed of the Kearneyites, aided
and abetted by few of the out.
siders who were bribed to support
their schemes by the promise of Of
| flee. This club was entirely con.
trolled by two or three shyster law
yers in the interest of the sand lot
ters. Reddy says that after Barbour
had voted they knew how oil the
rest would vote. Had the nGn-
partisans remained in the Conven-
ton and attended to their duties,
this club would have been power
less; but as they did not, this COM
pact minority was most of the
time majority, and were able to
dictate most of the features of this
remarkable document, the whole
of which is planned in the interest
of thievery. But the big steal is in
the future charter of San Francis.
CO. Garry that Constitution and
that city will be at the mercy of
Kearney and his gang. By concen-
trating all the tramps in California
in the city 80 days before the cleo.
ton he can carry any election. His
fifteen freeholders will prepare a
thieves charter, and his gang will
carry it; and when 1t Is submitted
to the Legislature the promise of
an interest in the prospective will
carry it through, and then Kear-
ney and his gang will have bigger
Bonanza than Flood g. O'Brian.
The robbery Of New York by Boss
Tweed will be nothing to the plum
der of San Francisco by Boss Kear-
| ney. After capturing San Fran
cisco, the plunder obtained will
enable him to control the whole
State. If any one doubts this, let
him look about him, and he will
see American born ctiz, ans who
ought to be respectable, who bow
submissively to the arbitrary de-
crees of this scum of Ireland, and
who would grovel in the dirt and
lick his feet to obtain office. IF
they will do this now when he is
poor and dirty and has been kicked
for slander, what would they not do
If he was rich and powerful from
the spoils of San Francisco?
There are many important pro-
| visions omitted from the Constitu-
ton that should have been put in
1t. In 1871 an amendment was
added to the present Constitution
preventing any appropriation being
made for more than two years.
This was to prevent thieving, and
of course did not suit the Kearney
gang. consequently it was omitted.
! think it probable that the intend
d omissions are the worst part of
1t, and 1t is only by comparing the
present with the new that they can
be noticed. The presest Constitu-
ton not only protects the separate