Year: 1876



 There is brood of mal-contents Tn Califor- nia who have cursed the country with their presence for twenty years, ot whom this sea- son Senator Archer appears to be the ''old ne." These old fogies, when envy and jeal- ously become virtues, may be ornaments in society, but for the present t,ieir labor un- ions which prevent an indu.trious man from earning support for his family, unless he can find an employer who IS willing to comply with arbitrary rules of their creation, and who are constantly croaking and finding fault with everything originated or managed by people of progressive ideas, are detri- ment, stumbling block and clog in the way of advancement. The interior of Cali fornia, both North and South has for long time been paying tribute to San Francisco, in which operation the people in the remote portions of the State have grown poor, while those of the clty and its envirous have be- come rich on the labor and enterprise of the interior farmers and miners. The Central Pacific K. R. Co, having cons ucted branches of their road into these out of the way pla- ces. conceived the idea of increasing their own profits by encouraging the farmers of these distant valleys by discrimination in their favor in the rates of freight per mile on grain and other products of the soil, so that they could have some show in the market with those whose farms are near the bay, and whose milage on freight is comparatively small. Under this arrangement large quan- titles of interior grain have been landed in San Francisco by the trains, and the produ- cers have been enabled tocompete somewhat with the farmer kings and land monopolists of the bay country. This has alarmed the peoples friends" and year after year much of the time of the Legislature is taken up with the discussion of freight and fare bills, by which it is sought to take away from the Railroad Co. the right to discriminate in fa- vor of distanl iJrmers, thus giving those near the bay practical monopoly of the grain business. Freeman's bill of two years ago, and Archer's of the present session, had and have no other meaning than this, and yet the poor dolts, many of whose entire depen- dence is upon cheap freights from distance, vote for, and believe in the honesty of, these pretended friends of the people,"

 We mention these things now because railroads are rapidly pushing towards Ari- zona and we may reasonably expect brood of poor mans friends to spring up here ere long, Every politician or leader of society whether secular or spiritual, it will be ob- served, endeavors to have as large band of followers as possible, and the "poor mans friend" is no exception to the rule It is his interest to keep as many people poor as possible, for he lives off of their labor and credulity What would General Vim do if it were not for the poor laborers: of San Francisco2 When man seeks your favor or influence by preaching to you of the dignity l of labor, be sure he is not laborer, but a pretender, those of our readers who are or have ever been laborers will agree with us when we say, in the light of experience, "thcre is no dignity in it." And even minis ters who inculcate the idea and duty of christians to 'eat bread in the sweat of their brows" are not apt to sweat much themselves and seem to forget that labor was entailed upon man as curse and not as blessing. Having devoted lifetimeto labor, not from choice, but from necessity, we should be pleased to see all our friends able to live at their ease as our foreparents did before they sinned.