St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-26

minds me that the women OF the coast
seem to be more in love with the cock
eyed pagan chan even the men. They
employ them as chambermaldS, cooks,
maids OF all work, nurse girls. washer
women, walters, ladies' maids, to button
their shoes, do up their back HAIR, etc.;
and | am credibly informed that
some of the ladies are even talk
ing of utilizing healthy Cinnamon
as wet nurses. All the gardening.
taking care of fine private grounds and
the, like. is done by the pigtail gentry.
Oakland aboundS in fine private
grounds, many of them requiring Two
or three men to care for them, ana L
have yet to see other than Chinaman
engaged in such work. There II but
one kind OF work here that L have not
seen them engaged in, and that is black
! ing boots. That is entirely too pleDelan
| to suit his royal cOck-eyed nibS.
| Now. as to the stopping OF Cnlnese
immigration. 1t will never be. done
with the consent of the employing
classes on the Pacific coast. Tney are
as much welded to this peculiar instl-
tuton' as ever the, people OF the South
were TO slavery, and it will be
equally as hard to root out. The
farce is gone though with. here
| almost daily of arreSting lncom-
ing Chinese, but after a few silly
| questions and answers they are lnvaria.
| bly, turned loose to swell the horde OF
suairming filth and rottenneSS that has
| too long held high carnival in the very
center of the fair city of San Francisco,
and from which it radiateS in all direc-
tionS, like the arms of an octopus. until
the whole great state of California is
embraced within its blighting clutch.
But so long as the moneyed classes
here want cheap Chinese labor. just so
| long will it be good state for the poor
man to stay away from. The posslbili-
ties of California are incalculable, but
| it is fast falling into the same groove in.
which the Southern states were held SO
| long by the iron heel of slavery. 1t has
| become to be considereda disgrace here
! for white man to work, while for
woman it is a positive crime. With.
such strained and jaundiced idea with
regard to the nobility of labor, is 1t any
wonder that block after block, and
street after street in San francisco are
| flied to overfoWing with fallen and
! abandoned women, who boldly hing
| out their banners on the outer walls"
and blazon their names and occupation
| to the public on golden door plates and
finely painted windows? This is no
ideal word fancy, but stubborn fact,
traceable in large degree to Chinese
cheap labor. But what are we going
to do about it?
Now as to climate. That the salu-
brity Of the California climate has been
greatly exaggerated few weeks resi-
dence here will convince any one.
From observation and much. patient in
vestigation and inquiry am led to be-
lieve that this is not good climate for
those suffering from lung or throat dis
eases. Asthma is very prevalent mere,
catarrh is almost universal. and mala-
ria is not wanting. Still the climate is
very equable and very pleasant as a
rule, but as a panacea for all the Ills
that flesh is heir to it won't do to bet on.
There is peculiar dampness and chilli
! ness here. even on the WarmeSt day,
! that seems to penetrate even to the mar
row i'm ones bones, and makes stran-
ger sigh occasionally for the familiar
landmarks of his hatlye heath. Yet
| there are doubtless much worse eli
mates in the world than this, for have
we not roses in December and strawber-
ries all the year round? Many invalidS
come here from all parts of the country.
Some are benefited, but a large proper
ton either die OF leave.
UNFINISHED rooms are almost impoS-
sible to obtain. either here III Oakland
or in San Francisco, which is said by
some to be an indication Oh the great
| influx of tourists and healtfl-SeekerS
here from all parts of the country,
though think it is rather attributable
to an overgrowth of the native popula-
ton and to lack of business enter
prise Oh the part of capitalists and real
! estate owners. Furnished rooms, on
the other hand, are so plentiful that
the signs would lead stranger to sus-
pect that all the inhabitants had moved
out, and were trying to rent their
! houses in order TO raise money with
which to pay their way at some fash
| ionable out-of-toWn resort. There is no
building at all to speak of going Oh in
| Oakland. but it is not for want of va
! cant ground, and there is no very great
amount of building being done in San
| Francisco. Oakland seems TO be par
alyzed with the dry rot, so to speak.
| Many will pay % cents for their fare
over to 1.-The city," as they call it, to
buy nickel's worth of gum OF five
cent lead pencil, rather than patroniZea
small trader here at home, within a
block of their own doors. 1t is tony,
| YOU know, to 90 over to ''the city, to
/ trade There is only one thing that
| they don't go ever the bay to buy, and
that is coal. The railroads and coal
barons have just eyerlastingy knocked
| the stufiing out Of the people, to use a
slang expression. and they are obliged
| to buy their coal here of the big corpora
| tions. and also have to pay whatever
price is demanded. There is some con-
ISOLATION in that, if there isn't any com
pensation. The two or three railroads
| coming into the state seem to have q
| mortgage on everything in sight, and
when they combine with some other
monopoly, something has got to come,
you ber: and they way they do pile it
! on to the unfortunate shipper IS a terror
| to the weak-kneed. Monopoly is the
order of the day in California, and il a
man is not mOnopoliSt. OF the son OF a
monopoliSt, he is nothing.
loualres of st. Paul stop and ponder
over 80 cents q gallon for kerosene Oil,
| and a very ''Snide' article at that; but
| then Strawberries are cheap, Which is
| some conversation. Eggs, warranted
| three good ones to the dozen, are 40
| cents. but potatoes are a cent pound;
| butter is 40 and 45 cents, Minnesota
creamery As cents; but then grapes are
only 8 to 5 cents; porterhouse steak is
90 cents, but you can get all the onions
you can carry home for 10 cents; sweet
potatoes are to 6 cents a pound, but
pears are three for cents. The much
| praised California wheat is q dclusion
and a snare. l haven't had any bread
fit to eat since leaving the No. l hard
wheat belt, but then we have excellent
| fish as an Offset to the poor bread.
The fruits and vegetables here are all
very dry and insipid to the taste, some
thing after the apple of Sodom style as
| ing grown by means of irrigation, which
| does not furnish any moisture to plants
above ground, except what they are
! LII, "a al,corl, throumh the roots Xot