The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-28

will be built, factories set up, irrigation
plans and schemes for reclamation will be
put under way. With an influx Of capital
and enterprise will come the greater deve-
opment of CALIFORNIA; mineral resources.
Ores containing precious metals will be
worked at lower grades of yield; other
metals. precious in their utility to man.
will be sought and found where now the
expense of working deters; new indus
tries of civilization will start up on all
sides. ard until it reaches its inevitable
limit the labor market may boom.
But this is not so at present. There is
not boom, but a steady growth in the
conditions that make life favorable TO the
lab0rer. He has the reputation of being
high-priced ON this coast, and to that eX-
:eut is special factor in the calculations
of the promoter of enterprises. But it is
doubtful whether labor is any higher
priced on this coast than elsewhere when
the comparative number of working DAYS
is taken into account.
The capitalist has to remember that
owing TO the openness of the winters in
California and the general genlality of
the climate all the year round heavy dis
count must be deducted from the seemingly
high total OF his labor bill The work can
be pushed on to a. conclusion without
interruption from the inclemency Of the
elements. No special housing is needed
for the men or animals such as is impera-
lively demanded in the East to protect
them against the excessive rgOr of the
winter, rainy, snow or cyclone seasons
Owing to special conditions, too, among
which is prominently natural selection"
a better class of men is available in Cali
fornia for the employers purpose. Prob
ably the principle that intelligent labor is
worth one hundred times more than me-
cbanical labor may one day receive scien-
tifc demonstration. 1t is certainly cspable
of it, according TO intelligent California
employers.
1t is in receiving reasonably high price
for labor that the hope of the California
toiler lies 1t affords him an opportunity
10 practice thrift and become an employer
himself. Unless he insists on Joining the
crowds in the great cities and living TO the
extent of his wage he finds in California
his chance. If be will work and save
money he can obtain strip of land and
"set it out'' in fruit Then, in time, if he
will still continue TO work faithfully, put
tlDR IN DIS OUu llnle on his own land and
| haply helped by wife or child. he will ex-
tend operations. From shanty his abode
will grow to cottage. his truck garden to
| ranch. He has left the ranks of the
pr0letarat and is on the upward grade.
His future is In his own hand, subject
always to external accidents and excep-
tons. But even should misfortune over.
take him the lesson and practice of thrift
and the taste of independence have not
been lost and may serve as capital for a
new start.
The dangers to the laborer in California
consist largely of existing misunderstood
ing. There exists in certain sections a
prejudice against the individual who sells
himself to work out his salvation" His
! action seems reproach to the easy-going,
Indifferent resident with no particular pur-
pose in life except 10 get through it with
| out more trouble than is absolutely re.
quired. A freemasoury of laziness. to be
truthful, seems to have infected certain
| districts in the past, and in such district: