Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-05-29
Yourselves. There is not a million

OF auVerstly MS days OF trial, power
erty and hard labor. Those who
came to California in tile carly times
endured its hardships. Some fell
under the burden and filed early
graves; some prospered, all toiled,
all struggled; and now you, most Of
You either late-comers or men of I'M
thrifty, idle, and dissolute habits.
what do you demand?
That zoe diUide nth you.
Not much We will see you col.
lectively and individually damned
first. You must work as we did.
and if you won't work, you shall
have no beer, nor whisky, nor sspitch
seven up" You shall not help your
selves by threats nor by violence.
You shall not bring about agrarian-
ism, and division Of property, by
politics or constitutional tricks.
You have every political privilege
in this State for which revolutions
have been stirred and dynasties
overthrcwn. There is not a princi-
pie for which martyrs ever died or
heroes contended that you do not
enjoy. You are free in your con-
science, free in your persons, free of
speech, with perfect freedom OF &C.
ton within the law. You are not
serfs to lords, nor villeins to the soil.
You owe no military service feudal
chieftains, nor are you drafted to the
armies of the State. You are not
subjected TO exactions.
1t you cannot prosper in this
country, it must be for one of two
causes either God has given you no
sense, or it is because you are idle
and unenterprising. II God has not
given you the proper modicum of
brains, it is His fault, and not the
fault of the American nation or it's
laws. If you are idle and unenter-
prlsing, it is your own fault We
did not create you and we cannot
recreate you.
If you do not like this country.
then, in the name of Heaven, why
don't you go back to that you came
from? Ifwages are inadequate here,
return to your peasant home in Ger.
many, where women are yoked with
steers to plow; go back to Belgium,
where women drag carts with dogs
go back to Ireland, to France, to
Scandinavia, to the plains of Loms
bardo, where women WELD the mat
took; to Portugal, where women
hold wooden plows, and where you
are liable to do military duty. Go
back and tell your countrymen and
countrywomen that in land of mex.
haustible fertility, where farms were
free, where religion was honored,
where education was within the
reach of all, where mines and forests
and fisheries were open to the world,
where the law protected all, and
where you were clothed with the
sovereignty of citizenship-that you
could not make living. Go back
and starve and die and rot. Be
cremated, be damned, be anything,
and give us rest from this insuffer.
able, never ending din of beer drink
ing, whisky-euzzling pitch-seven.up
politicians.
As Americans We are tired of IL.
and you; we are wearied of your
winning and mendicancy. We
question the fact that you cannot
get work. We believe you do not
try. If no one supplies you with
LABOR go and make labor for your.
selves. Land is plenty and free;
game is free in field and forest; fish
abound 10 stream and ocean; the
mines, the forests, the quarries, the
broad range of pasture lands are
open to your enterprise Do as we
did who crossed the continent on
foot and mule-back, toiled in the
mines, baked our own beans and
cooked our own slapjacks Do as
your fathers did who pioneered the
western wilderness, snbduing the
savage beasts and nature, To make
the homes where we were born.
Fish for CLAIMS upon the seashore; dig
roots; live on acorns and pine nuts;
hire a sow and raise pork, but for
Gods sake stop your whining. The
Digger Indian could live in Califor-
MIA. Are you less enterprisiug? The
early Californian could live. Have
you less capacity? IF everything
fails and in this land Of broad op
portunity you cannot earn living
then 60 hang yourselves Abra.
hams bosom is never full.
Again, we are angry at the inso-
lence of your public demands. You
are accustomed to the arguments of
kings and in your ignorance, you
are unfit to be freemen. Therefore
we ask the respectable, the prosper
GUS, the contented, the reasonable
of your country men 20 unite with
US 10 order that we may silence
your clamor and relegate you 10
your proper positions. Youl an
unwashed mob of foreigners would
teach Americans their political du-
ties. You ! propertyless mass of
unskilled laborers, who are too idle
and too vicious to earn your beer
and whiskey-you demand a divi-
sion of our earnings and call it COM
munism. You would overthrow our
laws and style it nihilism. You
would level all barriers of society
and break down all distinctions of
class, and this is the sand lots idea
of socialism. You would steal mon.
ey yon have not earned and call it
agrsriauism. You have the impu-
dence of bandits with the courage
of panel thieves.
You claim to want labor. The
sand-lot is not the place to find 1T.
You have the sense to know, and if
not the sense, you have had the ex.
perience to demonstrate that your
present mode of angry agitation is
making labor lees and reducing
wages. Capital and labor are mu-
tuslly dependent on each other. If
you intimidate capital it is timid
and hides ITSELF While it is hiding
you are starving. 1t never comes
forth at threats. 1t never circu-
lates 10 times of violation and dam
ger. Before this agitation com.
menced you were prosperous. The
real estate associates built hundreds