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Show I Poor San Francisco. The workingmen are drawing from San Francisco Fran-cisco half a million dollars daily, quite $3,000,000 every week. They are not earning more than half that amount. The sorrows of the men who nearly wrecked in fortune are trying to build little lit-tle places of business and to get a start, ai-e nothing noth-ing to them. They are charging GO per cent higher waes than are paid for the same work anywhere else and they are shirking at every turn. They are making a mistake, Californians have direct ways of doing things and when they once get started on a determined course they are very liable to carry through their plans. California Cali-fornia has always paid generous wages and been most considerate of employees. Now that old cordial cor-dial leelins between -employers and employees Is all gone. On tile one side the thought seems to be that the workers ai-e indifferent to the welfare of those who pay the wagos, on the other that "We have got the capitalists on the hip and we will make them dance." That will mean a riot one of these daytf and vhen it is ver the workingmen work-ingmen will be refused common justice. It is a most unfortunate state of affairs and one result is that the true empire builders in California are nearer in despair than the morning after the earthquake and fire. |