The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-03
BREAD-sEEKlNG IN CALIFORNIA.

a class OF immigrants not covered by the
exclusion act or the contract labor act
consists of young Europeans of education
and respectable family who come to this
country in the hope of finding employment
which they cannot discover at home. A
London correspondent of the New York
Herald says:
The season for the expectation to America OF
younger sons is in full blast. California Is
great rounding up place for them. They get
that far and can't go any further because of the
sea.
There is at this moment an unusual pro-
portion of young Euglshmen in this coun-
try, and in this part of the country, look
ing around for something to turn up and
in many cases not finding it.
That they should come is no wonder
The prospects OF Young Englishmen at
home are dark. Even those who have
been well educated and have influential
friends may have to wait for years before
they can secure desirable berths that will
support them. A junior clerk in an Eng
fish merchants Office gets no salary; his
parents pay from $3.50 to $500 for the
privilege OF placing him in warehouse
where he can learn the business. When he
rises to be boOkkeeper or salesman he gets
a salary so small that he cannot marry on
il. The professions are full TO repletioD.
A young man who proposes to earn his
living as a doctor. lawyer. architect, en-
gineeT. or writer, must be prepared TO
stand ten-year siege. Of course, young
men of the highest order of ability will
fight their way to the front in any calling;
but they are a fraction of the whole. In
ir ho Iieh 70 "a
ings to his son. and exports him to the
United States or Australia or South Africa.
In the two frst-named countries be finds
himself faced by difficulties scarcely less
formidable than those which handicapped
him at home. There is no present de-
mand for labor of any kind in Australia.
In this country the newcomer has to COM
pete with young natives, who are as eager
for work as he is, and who have the ad-
vantage to be among friends.
In this State, which has been in times
past an elysum for honest workers, there
is at present hardly any demand at all for
the kind of labor which well-educated
young men are prepared to undertake. A
bright young fellow. seeking a clerkshp.
may spend months IN idleness, sickening
from disappointment There is no demand
for his kind OF work beyond what can be
met by the local supply of young men. All
o:her things being equal, consumers of
labor give the preference to their country
men, who know the lay of the land, over
foreigners to whom everything is new. 1t
is remarked of young Englshmen that
they stand in their own light by adver-
Using their foreign nationality. Their
loyalty TO the Queen is to their credit, but
it does not help them in business. Nor do
they further their own interests by osten-
tatiously avowing their determination
never to be naturalized. For those who
are fixed in their determination to remain
subjects of Queen Victoria rather than
citizens of the United States. surely Eng
land is a better country than this to live in.
Nearly all of the young Englisbmen who
have come here TO seek living are honest,
worthy fellows. who deserve a better fate
than the one which has befalen many of
them. If they can hold out they will pres
emily find holes into which they win fit.
But before that happy day comes more
than one OF them will regret that he left
the old country. The young men to whom
California offers the greatest inducements
are those who, instead of waiting for
something to turn up, will go out into the
country and turn up something for them
selves; who have the energy, industry and
small means required to made them indie
pendent settlers and producers. Such
young fellows can always do we'll in a
new country OF good natural resources.