The morning call., 1892-04-01

The picture drawn Of rural life By a writer
in the Charities Review is gloomy and sad
for those who have INDUCED the dream that
contentment and health are promoted with
ideal fullness by agricultural pursuits. A
farmer has day that lasts from sunrise to
shutdown. His labor extends far beyond
night hours If he Is industrious, and, unless
he is industrious, farewell prosperity But
farmer has at least heart in toiling on his
own land. 1t is otherwise with the farm
labOrer, who has hard work and $40
month with food. AS wages run in various
countries this may be considered high COM
pensation, and it will probably fall rather
than rise in the United States. The laborer
Is not able TO marry on that income; he is
economical If he can save IA little English,
French and Germ n labOrers receive much
less pay, and somehow they contrive TO
marry and are renowned for large families.
The plane of life is presumably higher for
the American laborer, and. II he cannot in
dulge in matrimony when in bondage lie
may look forward To the time when he can
plow his own land and set In order his own
household. So the laborer is not to be
pitied too much.
In the San Joaquin Valley what are called
rabbit-drlves take place and more lack
asses" are Knocked on the head than the
cooks can deal with in the hunter style OF
cuisine. The example Of the farmers of this
region might be commended TO the New
South Wales agriculturist. but it would
doubtless be secuted as utterly inadequate
to mitigate plague. II would resemble
Mrs. Partington's broom in keeping out the
Atlantic. In New South Wales the rate of
increase almost deiies enumeration. In a
small district million year represents the
progeny, but what the propagation may be
over an area of 50 million acres, where the
rodent now abounds, nobody but ma,hemat-
lclan can estimate Despair must reign in
the colony, for effective remedy there is
none. IL may be immoral, according to the
notions OF the straitlaced, to kill of the rab-
bit by spreading disease, but in their pres
ent desperate situation the Antipodean
farmers would not hesitate about tue man
Ber ia which this pest could ba dispatched
All the gunp0wder in the fighting countries
Of Europe would be blaZ-d away in vain 10
conquer the h0bbling hordeS. Sheep will
eventually be robbed of their heritage, for
bali the colony IS now infested.
Moralists who dream that the world is
getting better with the advance of civilza-
tion, so called, have some very forbidding
facts 10 reconcile with their optimism. The
deeds of the monster Deeming, although ap-
plently beyond parallel in England or the
United States, seem TO be OF moderate
Nervousness when compared with revela-
tons that occasionally crop out in Austria
Hungary and Russia. The use of poison
TO get rid Of husbands who cumbeT the earth
in the eyes Of their wives has been heard of
with painful frequency. In Austria. a vile
beast, who Is scarcely human, has gone to
his account for cOld-bOOded assasSinations
OF servants for tie sake of their clothes. In
Russia. two brothers are in the hands of the
police on charges OF numbering peasants ar
irving on the frontier. Tney are said to
have butchered no fewer than for6y victims
Society is supposed 10 be highly organized,
and Il has many agencies at command in
furtheTance of order which were un-
known in the past, yet Ii is demonstrably
possible to commit many murders aud evade
detection. In America detection is much
easier than the securing OF conviction and
punishment.
It is pretty spectacle to behold great
railroad company interfering with excur-
sions down the bay 10 Baden and forbid
ding the use Of steamers chartered from
other companies. The invasion OF the do
main of the Southern Pacific cannot be toll
Grated, for the whole State is in bond TO it
aud must pay toll. The net with which 1t
is won't 10 fish for business is too fine in the
mesh to permit anything to escape. The
feeblest opposition to its Will becomes an
offense. and ii persisted in leads to war.
Long ago, when the Whipple was put on
as an opposition steamer up the bay. the
railroad company would have carried pas
sengers for nothing rather than see it sue
coed. Ultimately the Whipple had to stop
its paddles and its excruciating musical
solos as well Corporations are said to be
without soul. 1t must be this defect that
fits them for the comprehensive grasp they
display ia business.