Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-02
SOUTHERN LABORERS.
The Men and Women Who Propose to
Develop California.


In his remarks in the Assembly Cham
Der Tuesday evening Mr.. Earle, President
of the American Horticultural Association,
said 1.-THE immense grain fields of your
valley do not require many laborers to
handle them. A man can handle 1000
acres CT wheat with fifteen or twenty men.
When this is put into orchards and vine
yards or berry gardens, he will need ten,
twenty or fifty times as many laborers to
carry on that work. Where will you get
those laborers? We cannot spare them.
SOME are coming over here now, but they
come as employers of labor, and not as Ia
borers Where will you get the requisite
help is a question of serious moment"
This, indeed, is a great question, but gen.
tleman, who called at the RECORD UNION
office yesterday, said its solution was not
difficult. His name is Marcus Langly, an
intelligent colored citizen, who arrived in
this city short time since from the east
ern portion of North Carolina. He is de-
| lighted with California his people are OPP
| pressed and starving in their Carolina
homes; they are an industrious, hard
working class they have heard of Califor-
| MIA, and are DESTROYS of immigrating to the
| Golden West He came to spy out the
| land" and secure positions for his people,
NC Is tue MUSES. ll4at IL " lGdO tnSiu OUT bl
bondage. He has with him credentials
which read as follows:
| CoXvILLE, PITT COUNTY, y. c.,
November 25, 1887. (
| To all those who are interested in the i'm
| prove0ent OF the laboring classes of men these
| letters are addressed, TO inform them that the
| many friends of Marcus Lapgly have reposed
| confidence in him to go on a mission to Califor-
MIA to view the situation and report back to them.
| We see newspaper reports that wages are higher
| in California than in any other State in the
| Union and that colored labor is preferable to
Chinese labor. This is big thing for the labor
| ing class of men who believe that Americans
should rule America, should ameliorate her
| lab orers, and CHOSE Marcus Langly to aid
| in the work by telling the truth on Califor-
| ma. 1t may prove more ability for him to
| say that he is a Primitive Baptist preacher
with such familiarity and power of speech to
| disseminate correct Information to his fellow
| man.
Signed by William NJ. King, Sheriff of Pitt
county J. d. Murphy, Henry Sheppard, J. j.
| Perkins, F. J. Johnson, Ryant Redding, ].
| Latham.
The document was Endorsed by f. A.
Move, Clerk of the Superior Court of Cox
county, who testified to the integrity of
| Mr.. Langly and the signers of the paper,
and had the seal of the county attached.
Mr.. Langly has written TO his people
| since his arrival here and has received
| many answers. He is ready to contract
with anyone to furnish them with labor,
male or female, stout. active, sober and in
dustrious. All that is required is the ad-
vancement of small sum to pay their pas
| sage on an emigrant car to this
| section, which can be retained
| from their wages He can make
arrangements for cooks, walters, farm
| hands, horse-men, agriculturists. in
| fact, any kind of labor; at wages that will
make it an object. Here is an opportunity
for fruit-raisers TO get in and supply them
selves with competent and reliable help
Here is an opportunity to get colored
women to do your laundrying, and colored
| girls for chambermaids. Here, in short, is
a solution of the Chinese problem. A
man or woman who now employs an
! opium smoking Chinese servant, a race of
people that is said to be all thieves, can no
longer say, I" l employ them because can
get no one else" Here is an opportunity
for the proprietors of the Natoma Vineyard
to clean out their Chinese help. The hop
pickers need no longer dicker with Chi
nese striking highbinders, nor import the
Piute children of Nevada. Give your or
ders to Mr.. Langly, and get better cheap
| help than has ever worked in the fields of
California. This is a proper solution of
| the Chinese problem. 1t is also humane
and he who sends in his orders for colored
labor from the South will profit by it.