The herald., 1894-03-22

est. part of which has found vent in
numerous letters to the HERALD. The
following will serve to show the trend
and variety of public opinion in this
matter:
Taborsrs should Board Themselves.
EprroRs HERALD About 800 unem-
Moved workingmen lett Los Angeles the
other day en- route to Washington.
They claim to want work, and the pro-
iessed object OF their movement on
Washington is to ask work of the gov
ernmenC. II is to be presumed that
should remunerative employment stare
them in the face while on their way 1t
might tempt them to tarry by the way
aide.
AT last accounts this small army was
moving through a country where there
is every reason to believe work is plenty.
IL is reported that q number OF orange
orchards along the line of march have
been stripped OF fruit by this hungry
band of pilgrims. 1t is not unlikely
that in some of these orchards, and in
hundreds of Others throughout the sec
tion of country where these men now
are, there are many Cinnamon at work,
blowing, cultivating, irrlgatinR, picking
and packing fruit and doing any and all
BORIS of work that could just as well be
done by white men. The wages earned
by these Cinnamon is at least a dollar
day, probably more.
The reason fruit growers and others
employ Chinese is because the Chinese
"board Themselves" and do their work
just as they are told to do it. Ii white
men would do as much, SO out OF 100 OF
those who now employ Chinese would
dispense with that sort of labor. If q
man has lot OF oranges to pick and
pack he must have the work done right
or he will suffer heavy loss when his
fruit is offered for sale. He cannot
afford to have the work done improper
ly. And again, when lot of fruit is to
be picked for shipment large force OF
men is required at one time, and there
are very few farmers who are fixed to
board a whole raft OF men. 1t would
come too hard on the poor wife, already
overburdened with household work,
chickene, butter, ETC., to look after.
Now it has been, in the past at least,
the hardest thing in the world to
get white men to board themselves.
Why this should be 30 is hard to say.
We all know that the pioneers of Cali
fornia, many Of them Rlllionaires today.
had to board themseives, camp together
and take turns at cooking. A coffee
not, frying pan, some tin cups and
plates constituted their outfit and come
coffee, beans, bacon and -four their
grub. For that matter, men by the
tens of thousands are doing their own
cooking in this country today, and they
get along very we'll at it too. A man,
nowadays, can anywhere buy bread,
eggs, milk, fresh meat, and all sorts Of
iarinaceoua.G and canned foods, 30 that he
can live like prince for 20 cents day.
A big able bodied man who hasn't
Gumptlon enough to board himself,
when by so doing he can get a job at
good wages, ia not of the sort to receive
employment anywhere very long, and is
apt to remain unemployed" most of
his time.
Let these unemployed go to those who
are employing Chinese, and if they are
of the right sort and really want work
they will, in nine cases out of ten. be
received in the proper spirit and put to
work in the places of the Cbinamen.
The employer will, no doubt, gladly
furnish sleeping place, and if neces-
cary, the cooking utensils and supply
OF grub to start on. Those who are de-
serving will prove it by the way their
work is done. There is plenty OF work
in Southern California for workers, but
nightly little for "hnhN- " W.
solve the @
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