Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-09-01
ANSWER TO PROPERTY OWNER.

EDS. RECORD UNION: The pig.headed i'm
beetle whose protest against the proposed
health ordinance appeared over the alias Of
Property Owner in yesterdays Record
UNION ought no longer to be allowed to run
at large, but should be caught up, have a
weight put on his tail. have his ears trimmed
and be placed on exhibition at the State Fair
as CALIFORNIA; prizs Improvement on an i'm
ported j,ckass. The idea of calling on prop
erty owners, landlords and contractors to
oppose measures calculated to prevent the
Judgment Of an epidemic that would, by
death and enforced emigration, render pop.
erty vslueless, make vacant all tenements and
stop all building for month";, years or forever,
is only worthy of the driveling idiot who
g. lost two brothers from cholera and three
children with diphtheIia," and yet does not
see any cause to be frightened by the Board
f Health. and continues 70 cucumber the
earth with his filthy carcass. That Chinese
coolies, who by the death of the weaker, and
the child murders praoticed in China have for
centuries Inherited a resistance to the effects
OF iusaiubrious surroundings, should b. urged
as examples lit for a Christian people VINO
boast OF civilization. of q religion. Of mar
rage, Of children, of frssiies and Of schools,
is Only al Other lamsna1able instance
Of the curse Of greed on he.
rsditary and acquired, low and selfish
nature. He would hve his white tensnts
herded together Ike the slaves and prostitu -es
of Chinatown, and then ask the authorities
20 compel them TO renoyate his property or
endure the bad smells he loves 50 well. The
man WHO will msinrail filthy premises to the
injury of the health Of his neighbors or
the community, is no better than a murderer,
whom ,t would be piety to execrate. H5ll is
grooming With mullitudes Of better men who
ought TO be removed to cooler quarters Ia order
TO allow this Neutrality-suspicious. old Paleothar-
ium charce for thorough fumigation By fee
and birthstone. # tdis language is deemed
incorporate, consider the provocation. China
slough on the north, infested With Mongolian
tanemeuts, with all that this implies, and on
the south several sloughs and sluggish
drainage canal that would stink dog out of
q glue factory and knock 8 Louisiana buzz}rd
out of time il one round, then the 6elunct
carcas7es OF our deceased departed are covered
with only a few inches of earth and left to
smell to haven in complaint Of the so,did
i1decsucy Of man. In addition the city is
pi.ted with unventilated cesspools and privY
vaul :, some in the mi die Of the streets an IN
der sidewalks, the contents of which have been
allowed TO accumulate for years and sstuTste
aud poison the soil, breeding diph.heria and
fevers, and making the conditions favorable
for any epidenics to gain foothold, and
scourge with death the young and Innocent,
as well as those who are culpable. Wac can
estimate the losses and ruin of those who
would be compelled TO snatch up their val.
usbles and their loved ones and fee to re-
mote place. Oae week after the first death
there would not be 5000 people remsining in
the city. Everything would be given up to
the plague and Property own-r, and if
the devil did not get his own it would not be
from a want Of sympathy from the under.
signed, but because the sulphUsous old gentle
man didn'5 want to lower the standard Of
and stupidity in his douinious.
"CLEAN UP.n