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Show sumption of work. Austin Keveille. DON'T CO TO CALIFORNIA. To the young man with his hair parted in the middle who is about to put hia college education and bis sole leather truuk on a California-bound train, wo say stop! To the clever artizau and the honest mechanic, who thinks be will fly from hard times in the east to imaginary well-paid em ployment in the "Golden City," we also say stop! To the adventurous rustic, who wishes to leave hoeing the turnips of some New York farm to delve for guld in ihe mouutains ol th:s land ot the pioneers, we emphatically emphati-cally repeat stay where you are! We should be gl id to think that thcro was plenty aud prosperity for everyone who seeks to settle among ua but, all the same there isn't. We do possess something of an ap p roach to Ihe eternal summer and the gigantic strawberries the east is bo tired ol hearing us brag about, bul that is about all. Sooth to Bay, double eagles do not grow upon trees in 'Frisco; all the new eager arrivals to the contrary notwithstanding. In plain English, the paper that speaks of the magnificent opportunities lhit? s'atc presents to the new-comer, lien, and lies in a very gratuitously criminal crimi-nal way indeed. The unvarnished truth is that our labor market i stocked to overllowing, and evi-r fresh arriving traiu but adds to the miserable multitude in our midt thai awaits, stilTers, elarveH, and finally lights its desperate way back east again. Before the door of every employment em-ployment office in this city today, stands a hollow-eyed swarm thai would sadden the heart of n sutvr. Men of brains und culture, cnod clerks, excellent accountants, business busi-ness men of undeniable energy, mechanics of ability, walk the streets in dumb despair, and finally take those that lead to the bay and the morgue. It is truly said that S,in Francisco if California, and here all the misery und sullering of those who journeyed from afar to grasp in monotonous mon-otonous repetition the glittering mi-rate mi-rate of fortuuc are seen. The writer of this cannot rememljor one evening for many that bo has not been asked for coin 10 buy a meal or abed, by men who wotiid have sooner died on the rack than have asked alma in the light of day. And some of them do die on the rack ihe rack of continued contin-ued dis.ippoimuif :it .ind biltermisery. Every train mat leavci Oakland i? crowded with east going emigrants, who several limes repent their unhappy un-happy story lo the we?L coming daily addition to the army of rtul martyrs they have left behind them. here. Yet still tho Alta and its ilk calmly sing the same old siren song, mid still this over crowded, over-lr aJed, and financially prostrated community is held up with fatal pon-istenco a tho proper Mecca of the American youth. Ban Francisco Mail. ' |