. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock and the sons of Erin in their usual propor- tion. Now that these hardy, enterprising and industrious, but needy, people have come to our shores, at our bidding, the great question arises, "What shall we do with ; As the great land-grabbers and capitalists were the first and loudest callers for this in- flux of population, let them first open their hearts and purses at the same time, and pro- vide t
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock and the sons of Erin in their usual propor- tion. Now that these hardy, enterprising and industrious, but needy, people have come to our shores, at our bidding, the great question arises, "What shall we do with ; As the great land-grabbers and capitalists were the first and loudest callers for this in- flux of population, let them first open their hearts and purses at the same time, and pro- vide these people with homes on their broad acres on liberal terms, supply them with tools and animals, and provisions for a year, and our word for it, they will make a fair interest on their money, besides doing a righteous deed. Others who have the capital might invest it in manufacturing enterprises that would em- ploy thousands of these people to the great advantage of all parties. There are hundreds of articles imported into this State at a heavy cost of time and freight that could be profita- ably manufactured here. In the article of wool alone it is certainly a suicidal policy to ship it East in the raw state, and then import it in the manufactured article, paying doulile freight, when we might manufacture it here and command the markets of the world. We haven't half the sense of our forefathers who separated from the mother country because England attempted to impose this very policy on the infant colonies. Every farmer, too, throughout the length and breadth of the land, should look kinilly upon these immigrants,and employ them upon every possible occasionâas you would your brother, instead of a Chinaman. Our next Legislature might inaugurate a general system of irrigationâthe vital want of the Stateâbefore all the water, too, was gobbled up, and thus give employment to thousands of immigrants who will seek our shores in the future. The waters in our mountains would irrig
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