The morning call., 1892-07-24

joaquin Miller as an ssricuturist
and returned TO his little country town.
Cheronea. NAY, remain with me.
Cheronea is but small place" pleaded
Augustus.
"Cheronea is but small place, my En-
peror. truly; but it would be smaller still
should leave it,"
And through all history you find that all
men Of weight and worth desolsed cities.
1t is children only that run 10 the circus as
a rule.
More than that, no man was ever yet born
in city. True, some were born near by
They show YOU tablet in the wall of a
brick house in London which rectes that
Byron was born there; ana over on the
Camberwell side of the Thames they point
out the house in which Browning was born;
both houses in the heart Of London almost
now. But bear in mind when Byron came
into the world his home lay three miles out
Of town, in the midst OF fields and woods.
Browning was I'm eight miles out OF town.
Carlyle Mill, all men of mental weight, as
rule, IN England were born and bred IN the
country; and their one wish always was to
get back there, like Shakespeare, and die
at home.
So don't be ashamed OF the country.
Thank your stars rather IL the country be
not ashamed If yOu for going TO town aud
Joining the daily procession OF all the gypsy
tramps whose l0fticst ambition IS 60 wait
on the table or wash dishes. Out with such
seXless imbeeillty. my man! How pretty
the villages now that nestle along the foot
hills Of the California Sierras under their
canopies OF sreenl How beautiful and how
| lofty They were built by the great men OF
the good old days who sleep on the billsdes.
But they are not growing much. For the
new men of the new days have gone to the
! city to be clerks, Scribes-anything but MEN.
! Now and then you find 4 man along there
| who loves his home and despIses the dust
! and lies and roguery of the city like Cen
! eral Bidwell OF Chico. Now and then you
| find a country editor, like Green CT the
| Cousa sun, who swings his hat for home
! and country, and blows such a ringing.
| healthful bugle blast as 70 make the city
| ashamed Of its foolish vanity for month.
| But rs a rule the world is going TO town
and bowlng down before the wooden
| Injun by the door of the eigarette-shop,
| and there is no help in US.
Let IL be fully admitted that this going 10
| town aud hanging on there by the eyelids
| is not confined TO California at all, although
my business is entirely with California,
| and if she should fall in line for reform my
purpose would be attained.
| New York is probably the very worst
place for IramUs in the world. Ia fact she
| draws on us for nearly all our wealth, men
tai, moral or monetary. New York is a
| maelstrum.
And the press is to blame There is not
| a newspaper In San Francisco but must
| have column after column, and day after
day, about the doings of the dirty town OF
|
moneyed men, ignorant pigs mostly: the
| misfOriunes OF some. the miSadYentures OF
| some, and every single account greatly
| maguihed; some OF them fabrIcations with
| ont shred Of truth And all for what?
Fol- the immediate purpose of "the largest
circulation" but with the ultimate result
of driving off TO New York every possible
fly that can possibly fly to that glorified
mixture OF gall and honey. Not word
about the c0ol sweet country; not a line
| or Wnr6 md fnr
man and-wOmau.
And the pitiful part OF It all is the coun-
try editor, as a rule, is hardly comfortably
seated at his city desk, after arriving and
finding employment in San Francisco or
New York, till he begins throwing paper
wads right back In the face of the country.
This is pitiful pltiful fact and fact that
almost makes US despair OF man. Oh, the
e0wardice and the treason of the quill
A few years ago / was chosen To deliver
the poem at the annual meeting OF the press
of New York. And you should have read
the comments of the city papers on the ar
rival and appearance of the rurals ''The
hayseedS." The knock knees" Back
mum bers," squash reviews" etc.
As We sat on the stage of the Madison
square Theater awaiting the rise OF the cur
tain, asked Chauncey Depew. who was 10
deliver the Grafton. what the city scr hes
meant by jumping on the heads Of their
country brothers.
'Ah, you see," laughed Chauncey. "the
city fellows, most of them, only left the
rural regions last year. aud they seem to be
afraid somebody will find it out"
So i say burTah for the rural editor; for
the true, frank fellow who loves his home
his babies, his brothers and sisters and the
simpe-hearted neighbors born at his side.
He is a mailman all through. And that is
why his paper is better than any paper in
the city. All, want to take issue with me,
you say, ray dear young Mr.. Fresh, who saw
the city last June for the first time? Well.
L don't care 10 answer. But | appeal to
every earnest, thoughtful man or woman to
stop moment right here and answer for
NE. There Is not one but will say that the
quiet country paper, when 1t is a paper, has
more truth IN III. more sincerity, more sense.
more manliness, more OF all that is good To
read aud useful to read and pleasant to read
that 1t Is harder to lay down that quiet.
sincere and truthful little country paper than
1t is to put aside the whole pack and de,uge
OF papers in the city.
OIL How to make a fOTtunei | had al
most forgotten. But now that l have you
out In the country will try to make you con-
tent with It, There Is only one more thing to
do to get the fortune; oUly one thing moro to
do, on my honor; and you will be not only
rich. but respected. prosperous and happy.
Go TO wOrkl
Go to work. and 60 to work at once, and
60 TO work at whatever you can hnd 20 do.
But IL you Can begin where Adam began,
tackle mother earth. With her millions of
brown and empty acres waiting, she will not
despise your appeal 10 her for home aud
happiness IL only made in earnest
Go to Shasta get section of railroad Ian q,
as did; 50 TO $40 an acre on time; half a
mile o. mile from station, tumbling, foam
ing cool brooks full of trout; plenty Of rich
land on the bllsdes; not much to look at.
but more than you will ever live TO till.
though you live a century, as you surely
ought to In that sweet air; aud then raise
graz es. figs and fruit of all sorts for the new
| States In the cold. near north
Or go 10 Arizona; get sections of land.
a lot OF you together; lead the wnter on il
| from the booming Colorado or Gila and
RAISE bananas, raise anything and every
thing under the sun. Go anywhere, any
where under the Pacific sun. But go tC
work. That il all there is to do.