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and such an account of a murder. The reader in Europe or in 

 the Eastern States does not know where Portland is ; he has read 

 it in a San Francisco paper, and therefore thinks it in Cahfornia. 

 But the zeal and energy of newspaper men does not end here. 

 Some will carefully register all crimes committed, and publish 

 them quarterly, half yearl}'-, or annually. Others go still farther. 

 The divorce cases, lawsuits, names of bankrupts, are summed up 

 and published half yearly or yearly. If this collection of our 

 vices, so carefully collected, which we send broadcast to the world, 

 is intended to scare off emigration, no better method could be in- 

 vented. It is certain that the press does not desire this, but pub- 

 lishes without considering what effect it may have on the other 

 side of the world. I suppose the intention is to chastise, mortify, 

 and expose these crimes to our own people. This would be very 

 well if other countries did the same to their own people ; but, as 

 Napoleon said, when a row was kicked up about an illegitimate 

 child in the family of a noble and the case was brought before 

 him, " The husband of the wife must be the father of the wife's 

 children before the world. Dirty linen must be washed in the 

 family." If, then^ other nations wash their dirty linen in secret, 

 and we do it openly, other nations will have considerable advant- 

 age over us in the eyes of the world. This was by no means the 

 only time while traveling in Europe that I heard mentioned the 

 immense number of crimes which occur in California. In fact, it 

 is only known for its gold and its crimes. 



Why do not the papers chronicle with the same minuteness ac- 

 counts of our material and commercial progress. Give the sta- 

 tistics of our agriculture and manufactures. They would then 

 astonish the civilized world with the unparalleled wealth, pros- 

 perity, industry, and energy of our really wonderful people. If 

 the press will bestow the same labor in statistical reports as they 

 do in reporting crimes, I warrant that, in a short time, California 

 and its great and various wealth will be truly known all over Eu- 

 rope ; and as no country on the face of the globe can really offer 

 the same advantages in so many and various ways to men of in- 

 dustry and of wealth, soon a population will flow in, from all parts, 

 of all professions and occupations, filling our cities, tilling our val- 

 leys, mountains, and plains. Who. has read "Robinson Crusoe," 

 and has not desired to travel and see the world ? Where is the 

 man who has read descriptions of London, Paris, or Rome, and 

 does not desire to visit them ? But how can a man desire to em- 



