The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-23
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.
TURLoCK; Stanislaus Co., Cal,
June 8. 1882.

June 8, 1882.
DEAR FRTEND-As my 65th birthday
will be here in 10 days, l shall write
you a letter just for a birthday present,
But I suppose YOU are so proud OF y our
new Court House that California news
would be a stencil in your nostrlls.
was pleased with the advice u. y.
S. gave You about making money, ana
if there was no hereafter | would advise
you to take it. If you get no help here
in life's trials, you may get to De door
keeper in the house of the Lord, which
David thinks is better than to revel in
the tents of wickedness, like the leaders
of the Republican party are now doing
in Washington, ID. g. You are not
alone. however, in your misfoTtunes.
In our county one l. d. Spencer has run
a Democratic paper for IA years, when
times were hard and the country new.
Now, that the people are in a more pros
porous condition, a gorilla from new
Zealand starts a Democratic paper and
some of the Democrats are willing to
support it in preference to the regular
organ. Happily he has no more influ-
ence with the masses than a tit bird
would have on the back or an elephant.
When there are any loaves and fishes for
the Republicans to divide, the printers
get their full share but when the Dem
ocrats get a few surplus crumbs, the
man who sets mp at night and sets type
to keep the party together in time of
trial is ignored, and some scalawag
steps-in and gets the best of the crumbs.
What fine arrangement it is that there
is heaven and hades in the hereafter.
There never was a time when the
Democratic party had better prospects
for obtaining the control of the Nation,
State and County than at present, yet
the Devil steps in and divides them
Just when they should be united, | hear
of division and discOrd everywhere, and
Pennsylvania it not an exception Now
that the Republicans are divided, it is
the best time for the Democracy to be
united, but false ambition rules the
hour. Such is political life, which, like
the fragile flower, blooms but to fade
and die, no matter how rich the soil
which prOpagates 1T.
The wheat crop in our State is a dis
appointment and delusion. Up to the
first of May there were strong hopes
that the year would equal 1880, when
this State raised more wheat than it ev-
er did in any one year before or since.
But on the 4th, 5th, 9th, 7th and Sth
days of May a frightful northern gale
blew great guns and dried up 75 per
cent. of all the moisture IL the earth and
air and chilled the wheat, little of which
has recovered from the effects. Our
wheat was late, and fine rain on the
25th day of May saturated the ground
in this neighborhood, and here we will
have a fine crop. But the shower did
not extend any great distance. We and
a few neighbors were in luck, while 9TH
ers will not be able to make even good
pay out of their crops, which promised
so we'll month before.
l am pleased to read of the general
prosperity of Cambria and Westmore-
land counties. | was born in the latter
and spent half my life in the former.
and these evidences of prosperity cheers
my dOwn-hill life. / read daily of some
friend or acquaintance striking a bonan'
"a. and hope, sincerely, that your turn
may come soon and solid.
We used to say here that the "ChiLese
must 60" but now it seems that the
/ ''Chinese must cOme.'' They are com
ing a thousand a week. and will come
/ till the middle of August, and even at
/ ter that, for there is nothing to hinder
/ them from coming according to the lat'
/ bill passed by Congress, bEt the PreSi
dent, and he will not hinder them muci
''yOu bet"
( How does it come that our race fall:
/ in love with every race, while it doe
really degrade its own The poor whit
/ girls in the East who obtain living b.
/ making shifts at five cents piece, ant
( shoes at but little more than that, hav
no sympathy from Gabobs and shoddy
ties, while the lOusiest negro, or Mongo
lian, or Indian in the land is taken u
and petted like an only begOtten son. L
other races ''like loves like" but ou
race seems to love contrast, and tn
greater the contrast the greater the love
How long our honest farmers and me
chanics will permit the officials at Wash
ington city to plunder the nation Will
they work hard at home for mere sui
sistence, is a question that has not ye
been answered. ROB Roy.