Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-03-11
THE SAN FRANCISCO VIGILACNE
COMMITTEE

The old time Vigilance Committee Is form
ing in San Francisco for the ostenslbls pr
pose of stamping out Kearneyism. That
Kearney and his idle and shftless constitu-
ENJOY should be stamped out, no one denies;
bat in State as old as California, commit
tee of private citz,ns is taking good deal
upon itself when it essays to grasp the rens of
government without going through the proper
forms laid down by tho law. That there are
at present large numbers of men in San Fran
cisco who ought to be hung, there can be no
doubt. So long as the right men are strung up,
no one will complain. The committee now
forming to exterisnats kaarney and his fol
lowers are reused to action because the agita
ton has affected their pockets. They are a
class of men, who, SO long finances are easy
care but little about law and order. They do
not object to Ksarney half so nach as they de-
plore the fact that his agitation has made
times hard. For years past there has been a
class of men who system t;ically plundered the
city Of San Francisco by jobs, rings and steals
of all descriptions, but no one complained, be-
cause they spent the money freely which they
acquired dishonesty and all WAS well. Flood
is charged with robbing the people of the city
unfortunately and he has become unpopu
lar; not because ne was calculating, mercsn
ary and dishonest, but because he declined to
spend his money in proportion to his vast in
come Hence the howl San Francisco has
abouaded with brokers, who, year after year
swindled their customers oy means of a hun
drsd and one petty devices known only to the
few, and there has never been any talk of
hanging them nor has any committee of citi-
Zsas essayed To- regulate them. SO long as
times were good and m oney plenty, there was
no growing from any source. Mea may Sc i
out their constituents for coin, and so long as
they spsnd the money" with the boys" there
will be no special obi ecti on. The kearney
ties seeing that they were getting poorer and
poorer every year vowed that they would make
money tight with everybody else. Everything
ran along smoothly untll capital began to grasp
money with a closer grip; everybody began to
feel the striHgency and now it is proposed to
form q vigilance committee to stop it. The
trouble down Ia San Francisco rests in the
fact that there isn't money enough to satisfy
everybody. Each man wants it all instead of
being content with little or enough. The
poorer classes have long felt the gripings of
hard times and nobody got interested in their
troubles. Now the higher classes are made
To fua1 hat n ia m he StIp tad nd Va han
have been obliged to substitute California
claret on their tables instead of Burgundy,
they realize that the country is going to the
dogs, and vigilance committee is necessary
to right their wrongs. They do not realize
that part of their wealth has been absorbed by
a Weather class than themselves. The best
way to ssttle the present diff is for the
rich to begin to spend the money they have
been boarding ups and adopt broader and more
liberal basis upon which to deal with the labor
ing classes. Let the newspapers stop report
ing the doings of Kearney, and in few weeks
the clouds which over shadow the bu mess in
terests would desolve, and prosperity and
good times would follow the present business
stagnation. There is need of all this fuss
over the threats of Kearney. There has
been law passed compelling corporations to
employ nothing but white labor, and the
ksarnsyites at present are only asking that
the law he enforced Now let the Committee
of Safety see that the law is enforced, after
which there Will be no excuse for kearney or
his agtations.