. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. i'-!s^-<5%:- California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OJJK IMMIGRANTS? The questiou " Wlint Hhall we do -n-ith our immigrauts?" is forciug itself iipon us as the thousands are coming overland this sea- son. A dry year and short crops will not make the matter any easier of solution. If this country was open to settlement—in other words, if our lands now held as grants and that have been gobbled up in large tracts by spec
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. i'-!s^-<5%:- California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OJJK IMMIGRANTS? The questiou " Wlint Hhall we do -n-ith our immigrauts?" is forciug itself iipon us as the thousands are coming overland this sea- son. A dry year and short crops will not make the matter any easier of solution. If this country was open to settlement—in other words, if our lands now held as grants and that have been gobbled up in large tracts by speculating land pirates, were open to preemp- tion—there would be a chance for poor people to help themselves. But as it now is they are virtually "fenced out," and left to starve on the highways and byways of our State. The country is broad and beautiful, the climate is genial, the soil prolific, and only needs the hand of industry to make it yield abundantly for aU. There is plenty of room for many thousands of homes. But the selfish greed of dishonest men, under a system that allows robbery to run riot, and that protects villainy against right in our free country, has brought about such a condition of afl'airs as gives no encouragement to individual en- terprise unless backed up by money enough to buy out somebody that holds titles to the lands. Then again, the State is flooded by Chinese menials who can live upon very little, and who labor for less wages and board them- selves than any other mortals upon the earth. There is little demand for intelligent men and women at remunerative wages, to woi-k for those who employ labor. The immigrant is doubly barred out. The broad lands are not accessible Nvithout a toll that a poor man can nof pay, and his labor cannot be readily sold at a remunerative price in competition with the Chinese. Capital has no soul, and only seeks to aggregate to itself, at the expense of human effort, evorythiug possible. There se
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