Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-19
THE UNEMPLOYED.
How Their Wants May Be Relieved-What
Has Already Been Done.
The following communication appeared

The following communication appeared
in the San Francisco Bulletin of February
18th
Editor Bulletin Probably the greatest number,
certainly the most demonstrative, Of all who are
now suffering for want .f employment are Of Irish
parentage.
In contrast with this we find an Irishman the chief
actor in grain corner with the object of increasing
the price of breadstus necessary for the suffer
ing poor.
In California the men who have the largest amount
Of ready money are Irishmen On the other hand,
the oudest sufferers for want Of money are IRISH
men. The occupation most suited TO the ability OF
the larger proportion of those who ask for employ
ment is the construction of houses, the filling in or
excavation OF lots, the making of roadways, etc.
Following and depending upon these enterprises are
activity among lumbermen, brickmakers, stonecut-
tiers and others who supply the material.
The charitable qualities of the Irish capitalists
among us have not assumed the proportion OF an
enterprise rs VET A considerable number of these
buildings on them which are not in consonance with
the wealth OF their owners Flood and Mackey
have property Market street, the noblest avenue
OF our city, with miserable structures upon them.
How easily they could give occupation to few hun
dred of their countrymen. James Phelan has $50
feet of low shanties, with wooden sidewalk main
tanned in defiance Of law, on the same street. With
the half million OF dollars he Is ready TO lend at 1n-
countrymen.
We might mention twenty other Irish landholders
or oney.lenders In the city OF San Francisco
who could rise above IS sand lot" procllvites and
build up instead OF aiding in tearing down the city
to which they owe their ALL
These men lend money on interest or buy bonds ;
they neither build dwellings, stores nor nlanufac.
ries unless immediate return OF large preft is
demonstrated.
Sherwood built monumental block on Market
street. thus spending his money where he made it,
giving employment to several hundred men ut a
time when they most needed it.
Stanford, Croker & Co. have used all their money,
not sending out of the State in the purchase of
bonds not in pawnbroking money lending, but in
extending lines of railroad to distant arts Of this
State and to the adjacent Territories. 81.
Without these railroads how much of value would
pertain to the lots in the city OF San Francisco
Every mile of railroad built by them opens new
district If country in which towns, villages and
pleasant homes are rendered possible Without
such railroads the interior OF the State and the
neghboring States would still be pastoral country.
Without railroads the city of San francisco would
have no tribute paid to her except what might be
brought by water or by wagon With railroads ex-
tended to every fertile valley and rich mining dis
trct of this and the adjoining States and Territories
centering at the city of San Francisco-this city
has near future Of over million of inhabitants.
Without railroads centerng at San Francisco every
port on the Pacific coast would be rival to the
tent of the resources OF the country behind such
port. With railroads centering at San Francisco
there can be no other seaport town on the Pacific
1t will be for the future inhabitants OF San Fran
cisco to fully appreciate the great works accom-
Dlished by Stanford and his associates. Then the
fraternity of blood which riots on the sand-lot be-
cause of poverty, and which shuts up its millions
because of the lack Of proper energy and enter
prise to use their money for their kinsman will
have passed away.
Why sandot leaders should make such demon
STATIONS against Stanford & Co., who the cause
directly and indirectly Of people having COM
Portable homes than all the capitalists of California
is hard to conceive.
The variation to their senseess ratings should be
toward their countrymen. their own blood, who
have the means and will not give EN- work.
Manufactures are in competition with the like
kind in other countries, and higher wages can be
safely paid i'll California than in other countries
The building OF houses have such competition,
and can be at this time cheaply done. During the
Fraser river times many could not foresee that san
Fra cisco would become as large city as it is, and
the short-sghted cannot imagine this city
as increasing to million inhabitants.
Shanties drive trade to the better built portions
of a city, as all know who look at the old buildings
in certain parts of our city. Capital is begging in
this city investment at lower rate than ever be-
starving railroads pointing from every direc
ton towards this city. And with the greatest
promise Of great future that was ever presented
to city, find capitalists unwilling to make
effort 10 benefit themselves and their poorer fellow
citizens. W. NJ. RIVER.
San Francisco, February 49, 1850.