Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09

IOtteIl, causing the QeStructlOn OF the Work,
| SO that if any rich ore body still exists it
( cannot be extracted without inflicting
financial loss. Similar mines have been
| worked about Freiberg, in Saxony, fol. over
400 years, and not worked out yet. How
does 1t stand now with the mines
as far as worked? Most of the
miners have been discharged; few,
If any, can claim much of worldly
goods; but about a dozen men or
iess-some of whom never performed any
labor of that sort--have it safely slowed
gains tilched from the producing class by
stock trickery. Ask yourself if it would
not have been better not only for the local
| lty where the mines are situated, but like
| wise for other localities, if these mines had
been worked upon a slower but safer sys-
| tenn, giving constant employment for a
great number of years? The goose was
killed that lays the golden eggs, and unfor-
| tunately the drones or workers haven't got
any eggs now. In the meantime the I'M
| employed had to find employment some
where else. If miner, make tailor out
of him at once. Apply this to your So
called hydraulic mining system, when car
ried on extensively. Does the company
| who got enriched pension the miner after
| the debris is washed down and the precious
metals are extracted? After devastation to
the surface and the safe putting away of the
treasures, the white hydraulic miner stands
upon no better footing than the Nevada
| fellow, or even Chinaman. That's all
very natural, however. The workman
who finds fault would. if he were one of the
company, do the same thing; for where is
| the MAN who does not want 10 be rich? If
the country tolerates an undertaking why
/ should he not make money at the
| expense of coming generations
| as well as the next man?
| Apply this system of reasoning to other
matters creating disturbances in labor.
| Say man invents a machine by which
the labor of twelve men is performed.
The question arises what shall be done
with the eleven men trained lifetime to
| carry on special work? Oh, they say,
| the displacement is equa.ized by employing
| equally as many men 10 manufacture the
machines. Even if admitted land it is
doubtful), there are still eleven men. if
shoemakers, they cannot be turned into
machinists at once. If the invention
promises to reap heaps of almighty dollars,
| the cranky inventor who was crazy over
| his machine half his life ~ may sell, or
| partly sell his invention to q stock COM
pany fer a song, and after the inventor is
frozen out" on the plan of the mining
| sharps, the organized company makes mill
| ions out 1t by its monopoly. Why not; the
| business is perfectly legitimate and every
| thing is carried on according to law, and
| the country tolerates it In the meantime
| the inventor may have passed to the other
| side and been buried i'll a paupers grave,
| precisely as the man VINO discovered the
| rich mining claim in another locality.
Take our system of agriculture in this
| State, as il was and exists at present The
| large landowner, cultivating but cereals
| resides in the city, and after blowing Dame
Nature looks favorably upon him, and
| consequently large harvest is expected
| instruction is given to employ only
white labor. Many of them are the
so-called tramps, owning their own
| blankets, as no beds are provided as in
| the older States. Fair wages are paid for a
| brief space of time, but the tramps strike
| for higher wages, knowing full well that
| during the time their labor is in demand.
After several unsuccessful attempts to
procure white help the manager is COM
PEELED to finish the work by Chinese labor.
| Can you blame the owner of the ranch
| when next harvest he relies principally
upon Cinnamon On the other hand, Judge
| not your tramps too severely, for society and
our style of doing things made many a
| tramp. One of the striking tramps en-
ployed IN this case ranked equal in inteli-
gence and education 10 the man who en-
| pioyed him, and there was time when in
| wealth the landowner was only his clerk
| Fortune made the change. Man gave the
| downward man parting kicks, while the
one ascending was welcomed by soicita-
tons and caresses. AS 10 agriculture. are
| there not plenty OF farmers who would, if
| they could, IN the space of FIVE years draw
out the product OF ten or twenty at the
risk even of making the land perfectly
valueless? Why not, as long riches is
gained in such short time?
| The company honestly organized to build
| certain railroad may not, when it is COM
| pleted, be in possession of it. The real
| brain worker, too, he who was EMPLOYED
TO carry 1t into execution, or designed the
| road to pass over dangerous-looking preci-
| plces and high mountains, has gone to his
| grave before his time, by overwork. He
was no more than paid mental in the
end-and this land is full of those who do
| the work of the ones whose brains consist
Of plethoric pockets.
| In the meantime the expert Spectator
| got control Of the road. One man holds
| the largest shares OF stock, and becomes
| the controlling force. What took years of
| labor to complete often by trickery one
man acquires much below its value IN a
few hours. Upon his word and signature
now depend thousands of workingmen
with their families; let him be fair with
his fellow man, and some happiness is as
| sured to them. But men who acquired
their great wealth in stock speculation
would not be bothered greatly if so many
men were thrown out of employment, pro
viding so many more millions had been
gained Has not such a man power within
his reach equalling more than any poter-
tate of Europe, excepting the Emperor of
all Russia? And what he (the speculator)
carries out we give him right to do and
most of those he employs would do the
same thing if they were capable. Admit
that such man has been successful, and
in the space of ten Years has heaped to-
gether fifty millions of dollars in this man
ner, might there not be few in this coun-
try who may reason thus, that although
they have worked hard the same time. in
the end OF that time by fair wages, little
has been gained. They need not be Social
ists and yet show envy, for man, like ami
mails. are YET alike. The dog out of dozen
enjoying nice juicy bone will not, even if
he worked hard during the night to watch
his masters property, make the other dogs
particularly happy by his enjoyment. Some
dispute may arise; but give each dog
bone, even little one, and the trouble is
settled for the time. Are we much more?
Ask a hungry man and his family. 4
Now, PROFOUND the question whether
limit should not be set in the future to
speculation and wealth? Whether one
man shall possess 5000, 100000 and over,
and probably not many rods off whole
family is starving. These are questions
that must come up IN the future At present
the middle class fOots the bill, for they
have no facilities to hide millions. The
poor, or those having no taxable property,
escape taxation, although their salary may
equal the income of the man with some
property. In the meantime the non-tax-
payer, should he remove TO another local
ity, is in sixty days permitted to vote upon
matters which directly affects the taxpay-
ers pocket, which the millionaire desires
to carry through for his own financial in
terest Is it fair, in such case, that such