Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-28
THE CRISES IN SAN FRANCISCO.

hours the streets may De s"arlhlhS WIFI soi
disrs and insurgents If San Francisco were
to have such an affair ON its hands, it would
find itself graphing with three distinct classes
of people. There would be an idle, dissolute,
non producing class, made up solely from
the criminal element, who can always be
counted in as ready to take sides against law
and order Most of them to day constit-
tents of Kearney, and the sand-lotters, and
with the first note of riot would swarm up into
the streets from the dives, gin mills and dead
falls and kill every man found with clean
shirt or shaven face Their aim would be
blood and plumber and settling cd scores with
the police.
The next class to assume antagonistic Q a
tions against the authorities would be the hon
est laborers and mechanics who would be glad
to see peaceful solution of the present diff
culties, yet believe that any solution is better
than none, and if worse came to worst, and
fighting began. they would gradually drift into
the ranks of riot and fight to the bitter end.
These are msn who have worked hard all their
lives for their daily bread and have wives and
families to support, and would be glad to work
ten hours a day for one of the many million
dollars now stored away in the vaults of the
banking houses and brokers' Offices No won
der these men feel discontinued. Their wives
and children are shivering while thousands of
Cinnamon are working for wealthy ranchers
and railroad owners, and growing fat They
are starving while vast tracts of land belong
ing to capitalists throughout the State are ly-
ing idle because the owners refuse to sell less
than a thousand acres at time or lease sin
gle acre on any terms They see brokers max,
ing thousand dollars day in flush markets
and taking their coin to the East to spend and
invest They e. millionaires year after year
blister their lips with deliberate perjuriss re-
garding their incomes, evading the burdens of
taxations by official eonnivance, and going
UNPUBLISHED They zee the rich depressing
the middle classes with pitiless litigation while
they purchase the jury in the box and the
Judge upon the bench with coin. They see
the State and City government given over
wholly to jobs and swindles which burden the
poor with more taxes, while the trusted ser
wants of the people are twisted by the hand of
capital into scourgea to lash the power which
first created them, and torment the voters who
lifted them from obscurity to position. They
see the corporations grasping and grabbing ev-
erything, and fraud, dishonesty and corruption
triumphing ON every side. In the midst of
these reflections they look out and view the |
fires of incsndiarism faring in the sky, hear
the yell of communism in the streets and feel |
the tread of war shaking their very homes.
They take another look at their famished |
households and go out into the streets to
fight.
Thesnext class to give trouble to the author
tiles are those who occupy well-to-de position
i'll life and believe that it is not the sole mis-
sion of man to over-reach and despoil his fell
lows. They are people who, while law abid,
ing and respectable, feel that the lower classes
have wrongs which ought to be righted and
they have waited for ,ars to see them righted
in the proper way. They sympathize with the
poor and the unemployed and would secretly
rejoice to see the grip of communism placed
upon the throat of capital to choke it into a
decent submission to the laws of humanity and
justice. These people have warm hearts and
cautious lips and while saying little, think
good deal. If ten thousand men were needed
to put down a riot, these people would never
lend hand against the rieters and by their {
refusal would give the insurgents moral
support worth FIVE thousand stands of arms
with men to use them. |
1t is useless to throw all of the blame Of the
present state of affairs upon the working class
es. Capital has acted dishonesty, corruptly .
and inhumanly with the masses of the people
It complains of paralyzed industries and hard .
lines. The wealthy men of California might r
nave had the State blossoming like the rose
md supporting in good circumstances a hun \
ired thousand people more than it does to day. I
Capital wants all the laws, all the wealth and c
I'll the power on Its side, while the poor pay .
axes and do the work. The law has declar red Z
chinatown a nuisance, and the law has issued
IN edict that corporations must not employ
chinese. Capital, considering such laws in l
mieable to its interests, opposes the execu- c;
ion of them, and the men who demand their b.
Increment are called Communists. 81
Riot and blood are by no means wished for f.
and neither side will precipitate
rouble if it can be avoided If capital but