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144 MAY 11, 1879 GRASS VALLEY UNION
Wages Cut Down.
The Superintendent of the Derbec mine has informed the miners employed there that
their wages will be immediately reduced from $3 to $2 50 per day. On receipt of the
intelligence they struck, refusing to work at the proposed rate. It was finally arranged
that they should resume their places at $3 per day until the Board of Directors, who had
authorized the reduction to be made, could be communicated with. —Nevada Transcript.
The Eastern Press on the Result in California.
Thu expression of the great journals of the Eastern cities is almost universally deprecatory of
the decision of the people of California in adopting the New Constitution:
The N. Y. World of the 9th says: “As we before pointed out, this must be regarded as a calamity
to the State and to the nation.”
A NOVEL EXPERIMENT.
N.Y. Sun: “It is a novel experiment in the science of self-government, and as such it will be
watched in its workings with deep interest by the people in every part of the civilized world. Its
provisions are so directly opposed to established methods, and in several particulars, as we think,
to the spirit of the Federal Constitution, that it is certain to raise many questions which will give
employment to the courts for some time to come. The best teat of good law, and the surest death for
bad law, is its faithful execution.”
A MILD FORM OF SOCIALISM.
The Times says of the election: “A mild form of Socialism is now about to be tried in one of the
States of the Republic. Perhaps it is just as well that it should be tried in a distant part of the country,
and in a State that always makes much of its own griefs, as well as of its own advantages. Many
requirements of the new Constitution are impossible of execution; others will be evaded by corrupt
officers, but enough will remain to bring disaster and financial distress upon the people.”
IT WILL NOT STAND.
The Tribune says; “This result is wholly unexpected, quite as much so in California as
throughout the country. All decent prophets of the Pacific coast are discomfited, and the political
devil is loose. It is not likely that the new Constitution will stand. It can hardly be that a civilized
people will be content to live under it.”
THE RELATION OF CAPITAL AND LABOR CHANGED.
The Herald says: “The influence of this decision on the future of the State cannot fail to be
highly important, because at a stroke it changes the conditions which have controlled the relations
of capital and labor in California since the admission of that prolific Territory as a State. The Chinese
by the new Constitution arc virtually excluded from employment. If they do not go they can stay
and starve. California says citizens from 8,000 to 10,000 majority. Now the world will see how the
communistic idea works in practice.”
THE MOB IN POWER.
The State Zeitung has a long article which is mainly an explanation of the provisions of the new
Constitution. Surprise is expressed on account of the large majority cast in its favor, and pity that the
State was virtually at the mercy of mobocracy and demagogism.
“A BLIND OUTBURST OF DEMAGOGISM.”
The Commercial Bulletin, under the head of “Alas for California,” concludes an editorial review
of the new Constitution: “There can be no doubt that the Pacific coast will suffer a very severe
retardation of progress from this blind outburst of demagogism, but those to suffer most quickly and
most severely will be the very class that have made the revolution.”
Lawrence Barrett at Nevada.
This celebrated tragedian will appear at the Nevada Theater to-morrow evening in his masterly
rendition of the character of “Richelieu,” supported by a strong company from the California