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A Sojourn With Royalty (October 26, 1865) (13 pages)
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Page: of 13
by a slight alliteration they render it " "Money makes the people go." Who doubts that
California has its aristocracy--a peacock order of nobility--small brains and showy tails,
an itch to be great, to show off, to be exclusive: to lead in affairs of State, for which they
are as well qualified as a pig is to dance a hornpipe, or. a parson to run a steamboat.
These second editions of the Gwins, the Masons, the Maximilians, forget that’ “rank is
but. The guinea's stamp, and man's the gowd for a’ that.
Their creed is
-Dimes and dollars, dollars and dimes!
An empty pocket's the worst of crimes
If a man is down, give him a thrust ;
Trample the beggar into the dust;
Presumptuous poverty is quite appalling;
Knock him, over! kick him for falling.
If a man’ is up, oh lift. him higher
Your soul's for sale, and he's the buyer.
Dimes add dollars, dollars and dimes’!
An empty pocket's the worst of crimes.
With them, money makes the man, brains are at a discount, while royalty and its
adjuncts only are to be worshiped.
Now, beloved reader, as love of distinction is natural to mankind--I mean womankind
also; God bless the women; I wouldn't slight them—I, too, am anxious to present my
claims for the consideration of good society, with a distant hope that. they may be
recognized, and I be allowed to squeeze through, even if I havn't got a quartz mill or a
gold mine. Why, bless my soul, I have rubbed against royalty. I have ate with it, drank
with it, slept with it, danced with it, rode with it, jested with it, snubbed it, swore at it,
phyysicked it, and all but kicked it; so I think that our fashionable entertainments would not, be
particularly disgraced by the presence of this friend of a King. And thereby hangs a tale.
In that part of beautiful California which, since the occupation of the country by the inevitable
Yankee, has been marked by the lines of the surveyor as Nevada county, there once existed a
numerous people, who, adopting the conventionalities of modern aristocracy, were ruled by a
great man who was clothed with almost despotic power, clothed generally with nothing else,