, 1880-05-24
The Good Time Coming.

The Good Time Coming.
The San Francis Board of Trade have
issued Il circular. setting forth in glowing
c"lors the mighty tide of prosperity to
flow through the lsthmus Canal to the
Pacific Coast. Among the principal adj
van,sges specified are the following:
THE people of Europe will continue
in increasn. numbers to flee from the
intolerable burdens of military proscrip-
ton. The rivers of emigration must
swell until their rulers cease to keep eight
millions of idle soldiers absorbing the
savings OF the masses"
I'VE shall export wheat ana import
wheat producers, and they will rapidly
increase the value of every acre of agri-
cultural land in the State"
"Farmers will be astonished Mt their
swift prosperity when skilled European
lnhorers can reach us as cheaply as the
Chinese and pour in upon us to make
homes, rear families and become Ameri-
cans"
How different California will look
when croaods of M6orers glad to engage by
the gear for a hundred dollars and board
enable every farmer TO diversity his crops,
to keep few sheep, and pigs, and poul-
try, and vegetable garden, to dry and
preserve his irui;, to uourish his farm and
bcautify his home"
What glorious prospect this presents
to the future free laborers of the country!
TIE question of coolie labor will he solv
ed when skilled European laborers can
reach US rs cheaply as the Chinese" and
"be glad to engage by the year for a
hundred dollars"-3O cents = day; s.
mOnth-which is far below Chinaman's
WI ges, and less than the cost of slave
labor to those who had the cosr of rais-
ing, and care and risk of keeping the
slave. What Chance does 1t offer to the
man compelled to labor for hundred
dollars year to make home, rear q
family and become an independent Amcr>
ican citizen; especially in California,
where the land is monopolized fer specu-
lation and the price would be greatly ad-
vancsd by the proposed system Of cheap
lahore No greater curse can befall any
people living under popular government
than prosperity based upon cheap labor;
it means suhjugated labor, the prosperity
of the few vt the expense of the many,
manuring the rich mans suil by the poor
mans sweat.
III fares the land. to fastening ills prey,
Where commerce flOurishes and men deca
Irresponsible wages slavery, which Can
coerce the lsborer through his necessiti .
to the largest amount of toll for the least
compensation adequate to his necessities,
is more onereus and demoralizing than
responsible cnattel slavery. where the
master is bound by Law and constrained
by selfinterest Tor the support and pre-
per care of the slave, in sickness as we'll
as in health, through the helplessness OF
infancy and the infi.mities of old age,
while the slave of necessity has no alter
native but to become a tramp, a beggar
or public pauper, whenever the interests
of the employers stop the demand for his
laOor or physical disability intervenes.
Whenever the prosperous times pre-
dicted by the Board of Trade come
which may God iorbid-when skilled
European labor will gladly seek employ
ment at less than Chinamen's wages, Mr..
KeArney may put our name down as a
volunteer to fight under his banner. This
official manifesto of the organized capi>
talists of San Francisco foreshadows their
designs and admonishes the lsboring men
of this coast that "eternal vigilance is
the p.ice of liberty"