The record-union., 1894-09-20
saoP THE IMMIGRATION OF FOREIGN
LABORERS.

nave brought foreign paupers mere that
have taken the bread from the mouths of
the American workingmen. These re-
forms, a protective tariff which protects
the manufacturers and the farmers by re-
ducing the cost of transportation, pro-
tects the American laborers from unfair
competition, have always been done and
will be done through the Republican
party. 1t will surely remove hard times,
and restore prosperity and happiness to
all, and it is your duty, therefore, and
mine, to vote the Republican ticket
[Loud applause.
upon these topics of protection to all
such interests and not TO the few, Mr..
Johnson enlarged, and then proceeded as
folIowsl:
RELATION OF FARMER TO MINER.
Our Congressional District particularly,
and our State generally, is interested in
another matter that is surely to come be-
fore Congress, that is the relation of the
farmer TO the miner. Both interests
should be fostered, both interests should
pull together. and thus advance Califor-
MIA. l have labored to bring about
cessation of hostilities between the farmer
and miner, and rejoice at the success of
per; both can prosper without injury TO
the other, and l hope 20 see the day soon
come when every mining camp in Cali
tornia shall be lively and booming as in
the days of '49 and 80. Legislation in
Congress should follow the road already
taken by Congress, which would enable
the miner to acquire title to his land, to
enable thaminer to work the land with
out injury to the farmer.
A FAIR LAW FOR MINING.
The law prepared by the Miners Asso-
citation in this regard, SO far as it regards
miners, it seems 10 me is no more than fair,
that the mining region should be deemed
.pTdntG face mining lands, and that should
the land adjoining mining land be deemed
by presumptive evidence as minersl
land, it should be taken up and claimed
as mining land. The rules that have al
ready been adopted and carried out for so
many years providing for the taking of
testimony should be maintained and not
changed by each administration. When
the courts have once decided the charac-
ter ofthe land. that decision should be con-
sldered final, and that land should always
be deemed To be mineral in character. l see
no objection to that. 1t simply enables
miner to get title to his land, and puts
him in position to do no wrong to us,
and in position that we know the man
we want TO sue.
PUT THE MINER TO WORK.
If elected / shall sustain these points.
/ should give the miner all possible
chances. | would set him at work with
pick. shovel, water and with all reason
able appliances, provided he does no
damage to the farmer. The Government
has taken hold of this great work and it
must continue. The laws OF Congress
are sufficient to that end if properly ell
forced. If L am elected, and l have no
doubt on that point, l will add my labor
in seeing it properly enforced. l favor
the miner, and am in favor of the work
going on as it should be done. AS we
have had the splendid genius of America
that has built the great railroads; as we
have had an Edison who gave US the tele-
phone and phonograph, and a Morse who
gave US the telegraph, and the country
that gave us men to scale the mountains
with railroads, that country should pro-
duce the men who can get the gold now
lying in the bowels of the earth, still
hidden in the mountains of California,
and give it to the people to use without
injuring the farmers of Sacramento
County. The United States Government
should keep it up; the United States Gov
ernment should pay all expenses and pay
all the damages but inasmuch as that is
The law, and inasmuch as the farmer
and miner have agreed to go together in
~l,,e~
ling antagnonism. but every reason to
further carry on the good work so that
both industries shall prosper.
AS very necessary adjunct to this we
must secure
ADEQUATE APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
To clear the Sacramento and San Joaquin
Rivers, to redeem the fertile lands ada
cent thereto. Our party is pledged to this
end, and my constant, unceasing labor
shall be given TO that end. l would not
be content with paltry ten thousand
dollars. l shall demand our full rights.
and 1 shall insist upon the National Gov
ernment doing its full duty to us. 1 be-
lieve that l can show that the commerce
of these rivers is better than the COM
except the Ohio and the Mississippi, and
that we can derive great benefits for the
State and Nation if they are cleared They
are in natural competition to the rail-
roads, and why it was destroyed by the
National Government, for what reason. I
know not and care not; but l am content
to let the dead past bury its dead For
some aeason these rivers have been
neglected. If elected, will see that duty
to them is done, as / will knock on every
desk in Congress; l will knock at the
door OF every committee-room; l will
talk TO every Congressman, and l will
get what want or will make life a bur-
den to every member of the next House
of Representatives. Applause This
work must be done. 1t can be done. The
Supervisors of this county and the Super
visors OF other counties have done noble
work, and have done their duty by max
ing liberal appropriations to our river
and harbor conventions, and you must
second them, every one of them, and you
must help and l must, too, to aid them
TO succeed.
THE FUNDING BILL.
Fellow-cltlZens, inasmuch as | am
Californian, as l favor my own people, as
/ wish TO tighten our burdens and not to
increase them, am unalterably opposed
to the passage of the so-called Reilly
funding bill. [Applause.J l have it with
me. L have examined it carefully. 1
have studied it in detail. 1t is mortpape
on California. 1t provides for the pay
ment by you and by me and by our chill