California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Wheat.— It is estimated that there 

 will be l,(IUO,nOO tons of wheat produced iu 

 Ciiliforiiin tliis Bcasou, and that 750,000 tons 

 tan l;e spared' for export. Tbia, al only S30 

 per ton, will amount to $22,.500,000. 



Wanted.— A Pet Stock and Poultry 

 Ansociatiuu on the P.icific Coast. This is 

 soniething that every breeder of line poultry 

 here desires. Poultry breeders will please 

 communicate with the Editor of the Cal. 

 AiiHicui.TURiST their ideas on this question, 

 and decide at what rime and place they will 

 hold a meeting for organizing. 



We have been reijuested to examine 



a iiiecc of luacliinery, report upon it, and send 

 111 our bill— this by a prominent bufiness 

 house. It means, give it a favorable notice 

 for coin. We shan't do it. It may be a very 

 good thing, but our poor opinion is not for 

 sale. If you want it advertised, do it in a 

 square manner in our advcrtixing columns. 

 No humbug bribery here. 



Is Our Civilization a F.iilure?— We 



leuru that there are women— while women 

 au.l grown girhs—in San Francisco actually 

 working for twenty cents a day and boarding 

 themselves. This 13 the result of scarcity of 

 money and abundance of Chinese labor. 'On 

 the other hand, there is more aristocia'ic ex- 

 travagance among the rich women there than 

 under any monarchy. We ai'e fast gelling to 

 be a nation of lords and surfs, masters and 

 slaves. What wonder that thousands arc 

 yearly driven to desperation, to crime, despair 

 ami suicide ? 



The '' Temperance Champion" is 



now owned by a Sun Jo.se jirinter, Mr. Alex. 

 Miirgotten, who is malsing a good paper of it. 

 Send to him for a sample copy and you will 

 say so, too. 



Patriotic. — We have devoted our poe- 

 try page to patriotic rhymes this July, 187G, 

 for " Uncle Sam's a hundred," and, like every 

 American, we feel like rejoicing for every 

 step that has been taken toward a better con- 

 dition of things. The Editor "sacrificed a 

 grandfather" in the revolution for indepen- 

 dence, and straddled a horse three years iu 

 the Union army during the rebellion, and feels 

 brave for his country, so must cheer the old 

 fiiig in American fashion. 



Hot Days in June. — Our hot weather 

 in June commenced a week earlier than usual 

 and was a scorcher. It ripened off the grain 

 and prevented the rust from doing serious 

 damage. Late sown grain, on heavy lands 

 near the bay, which had not filled, was 

 blighted some. Late sown grain will grow 

 as well as early sown, but two years in three 

 it gets caught in the hot days of June and is 

 blighted. Early sowing, as a rule, is the best 

 for'grain, as has been proved over and over 

 again, whether in dry or wet seasons. In our 

 office the therm ometer indicated 90^ five days 

 in succession. 



Our Immigrants. — When the Chi- 

 nese arrive in California the organized Com- 

 panies take them in charge and provide them 

 with employment. When American and Eu- 

 ropean immigrants arrive overland, they find 

 themselves at the mercy of wharf-rats, hotel- 

 runners and "employment" agents. No way 

 is provided by which they can he sure of good 

 treatment or work. They find themselves at 

 midnight on the wharf of a great city, with- 

 out friends or advisers, and at the mercy of 

 thieves and tricksters. Why cannot the citi- 

 zens of San Francisco and California provide 

 a proper reception for immigrants, and estab- 

 lish a bureau of informatiou for theii benefit? 

 Are we less civilized than the Chinese whom 

 we wish to discourage ? And must we dis- 

 gust the very immigrants we should encour- 

 age, and see them return to escape from 

 "Californians"? What are our Anti Coolie 

 clubs doing iu this matter ? What are our 

 humanitarian societies and our Granges doing 

 to encourage the employment and settlement 

 of immigrants from the Eastern States? These 

 are serious questions and should be heeded. 



What About the Wheat Market? 



That there will be a great wheat harvest is 

 certain. The very uncertain thing is about 

 the market. Without doubt there will be 

 plenty of consumers, as the European crops 

 cannot supply the demand, and the prospects 

 appear favorable for fair prices in Europe. 

 Hut, as to the prices, it will make $0,000,000 

 difference to the farmers of this State whether 

 the get one and a half or two cents for their 

 wheat. The wheat speculators are all inter- 

 ested iu getting as much of this immense pro- 

 fit as possible. This we can set down as cer- 

 tain. And they are so combined as to prettv 

 nearly dictate terms, if not quite. The 

 Grangers seem to have made no combination 

 for ahipping since Morgan & Sons failed, and 

 the buyers are bound to make a good thing 

 this season sure. The terrible scarcity of coin 

 is going to give still greater power to buyers 

 iu hearing the markets. Tiiey will not only 

 control market reports and prices, but almost 

 compel farmers to sell at such figures as they 

 please to give. This is the way the lay of 

 the land luoks'to us at any rate. 



Honey Prospects for 1876.— Mr. J. 



p. Gowr, of San Diego, writes as follows: 



Bee men in this section are much disheart- 

 ened. The bees swarmed but poorly, and 

 now the sage is drying up ; all the vitality 

 seems gone out of it, and but liitle of it will 

 bloom. As a consequence we shall have but 

 little pure white honey, and the niarket_ is al- 

 leady flooded with the dark and inferior ar- 

 ticle. 



In harmony with other land transac- 

 tions are the Mexican fraudulent laud grants 

 tolerated by our Government. Money influ- 

 ence at Washington will carry through al- 

 most anything. A dirty greaser's name, an 

 oath, a soiled bribery record from Mexican 

 archives, gotten up for the purposes, and a 

 few lawyers who manage to get the settlers' 

 money while the grant is being launched on 

 greased ways by some American gentlemen 

 of high-sounding name, and the thing is ac- 

 complished. Money does it, and rascals take 

 the laud. Settlers who have held lands be- 

 lieving them clear, find this grant flo.ated 

 upon them, aud must submit to be despoiled. 

 Individual rights are laughed at, aud honest 

 men are treated as though they were villians. 

 Another grant has been confirmed in our 

 county. The people know it is a swindle, 

 but have no power to protect themselves. 

 How can they when money rules ? It mat- 

 ters not whether that money come from the 

 grave of the old Adams Express Co. or not, 

 nor how many men were robbed to get it. Of 

 course it must be all right, or how could such 

 a thing occur in our enlightened community 

 and under a people's government ! It is about 

 time to celebrate the Fourth of July with 

 something else than blank cartridges, or to 

 emigrate to some heathen country, where 

 laws are made to protect honest men and 

 punish rascality. 



Have pre-emptors of lands any 



rights that Government is hound to respect ? 

 According to several rulings of the Secretary 

 of the Interior, of the Supreme Court and of 

 Congress, they have not. We used to think, 

 in our innocent, youthful ignorance, that 

 when a man squatted on unoccupied public 

 land, and declared his intention of purchasing 

 when it came into market, and occupied the 

 same, fulfilling all requirements of law, his 

 claim was good against any party who might 

 attempt to purchase from the Government. 

 But it has been ruled otherwise in 6ever.al 

 cases. In fact, the poor settler has no rights 

 that Government is bound to respect. Lands 

 are surveyed and thrown intn market at the 

 convenience of speculators aud monopolists, 

 script holders, etc.. who are apparently in 

 collusion with land offices to gobble it up. For 

 some years past it has looked as though the 

 Government was anxious to dispose of the 

 public lands in large bodies at any price. 

 Large gifts of lands to railroads, and any 

 iinmher of grants to institutions of pretended 

 use to the people, scripts, etc., e'c. — any way 

 to prevent settlers from getting lands except- 

 ing from land sharks, at land-sharks' prices. 

 It is high time for the people to demand a dif- 

 feient condition of things. Every foot of 

 public lands should be held sacred to the set- 

 tler, iu limited quantities, and obtiiinable in 

 no other way than by actual settlement, un- 

 der certain restrictions and requirements that 

 will prevent tiickery. The Government can 

 raise revenue withiuit forcing sales of large 

 tracts of lands to speculators. We desire to 

 see this (Jovernment become what its found- 

 ers proposed — a gtivernment of the people, by 

 the people, aud for the people— instead of 

 seeing it run by and for a cla.-is of swindling 

 thieves aud monoiudists. It is a proper time 

 to comprehend this matter and declare for 



Ho&e Manufactured.— Mr. Joseph 



Enright has sold the twenty straw-burner en- 

 gines that he has made, and is turning off two 

 more to order, which is all he can supply this 

 season. These thresher engines are all made 

 entirely at his foundry and machine shop, in 

 San Jose. He regrets that he is unable to 

 make several more that he has calls for, and 

 so do we, for we verily believe that no bet 

 ter engiues — in fact, noce so good — are made 

 elsewhere Mr. E. is a thorough mechanic of 

 many years' experience, and knows what is 

 wanted, and does his level best, which is not 

 second to anybody. 



Money Scarce. — There is a great 

 scarcity of money throughout the Pacific 

 Coast country just now. Nearly every sub- 

 scription we receive is on time, with promise 

 to pay in a few months. We do not complain 

 of our friends, only mention this fact to show 

 the general drouth of coin. The question is, 

 will money be plenty after harvest ? The 

 masses of the people seem to think it will, 

 but we believe that it will not be. Money is 

 one thing, and property is another. There is 

 plenty of property, aud while bankers are 

 studying how to lake advantage of big crops 

 aud get big rates of interest, we cannot un- 

 derstand how, under our present financial 

 management, money can be very plenty, un- 

 less the people bleed liber,illy for it. That is 

 how the matter looks to us. 



Vested Eights.— When monopolists, 

 of whatever description, who, by intrigue, 

 have obtained power through the generosity 

 of the people, come to use that power against 

 the interests of individuals and the people, 

 said monopolists invariably make a strong 

 point of "vested rights." There are inherent 

 personal rights inferior to none granted by 

 men, among which are "life and liberty," the 

 right to "religious conviction according to the 

 dictates of one's own conscience," and "to 

 pursue happiness" without injury to another. 

 But when it comes to granting perpetuity to 

 a wrong, that is contrary to the principles of 

 a free and enlightened government. All 

 rights. In a public sense, rest with the people, 

 or else this Government of ours is a stupeud 

 ous failure. And the people are vested with 

 power to undo that which they have done 

 when they discover that a wrong is resulting 

 from such creation. We concur with the fol- 

 lowing ideas of the Memphis (Tenn.) "South- 

 ern Farmer" to this point: 



Those corporations aud their champions 

 who prate of "vested rights," alul all that, iu 

 opposition to the best interests of the great 

 mass of the people, should remember that the 

 po'vrer which has given can lake away, aud 

 therefore it uuiy not ju-ove wise to claim too 

 many privileges. All jnivileges covered by 

 charters were given for the public benefit. 

 That was the ground on which they were 

 granted. If it were otherwise, then they were 

 frauds perpetrated on sociely by the faithless- 

 ness of the peo|de's agiMits. The natunil 

 rights of the many are greater than the "vest- 

 ed rights" of thoVew, especially when these 

 last are employed against public policy and 

 to the injury of those who only could grant 

 them legally. Let every human being have 

 his just rights, and let "vested right*" so 

 called, be enjoyed in sub,irdinatioii to those 

 rights, and the best inleresle of all classes 

 may be promoted. But "vested rights," so 

 called, will h;ivc a hard road to ti'avel w-ben 

 they are sought to be enforced in opposition 

 to tile greatest good to the largest nuuiher. 



TnE Califoknh Aoricitltcrist and 

 Live Stock Jouknal for June is on our 

 table, replete with interesting matter to 

 the farmer and stock raiser. Subscribe 

 for it aud you will perform an act which 

 will greatly enhance your interests. — 

 tSolano Republican, June 15. 



