Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-30
Popular Discomfort.

have been very extensively employed from
the earliest history of mankind. Sacred
history, as we'll as profane, gives US exam
pies of notable grumblers, among whom
may be named the prophets jeremiah and
Ezekiel. From those early days to the
present, men have grumbled. and probably
will to the end of time, and if some theo-
ries are true, there are those who Will
have occasion to growl through all eter-
nity. There are, and probably always
have been. people whose idiosyncrasy isto
srowl at all times and places, and at all
things, with reason and without reason
GROWERS about little things and every pet
ty annoyance. 1t is not Of this style OF
grumblng that we now propose to speak.
1t is of more serious character; popu-
lar discomfort finding a low and smother
I'd utterance which each day and hour
grows louder and BODYBUILDING fair
ere long to break out into fierce clamor.
1t manifestS itself among all classes of
community, and in all places where men
assemble together, and discuss matters
connected with the administration of JUS
ticc. Vague hints and inuendoes OF brib-
erv, embracery, subornation OF perjury,
and all that goes to constitute corruption
in Courts, and defeat the ends of right
and Justice, are freely and plentifully
mingled with any illusions to the law
and its ministers. 1t seems to be fixed
and settled belief in the minds of the great
mass of the community, that the decision
of any suit at law will be given not in ia
vor of the party having the law and JUS
tice on its side, but of that one which has
the most money. That opinion prevails
not alone among the ignorant and unedu-
eated-a class that everywhere associates
the idea of law with that of fraud-but
among the better informed and less pre-
iudiced classes. How much of truth
there is in such charges, or what founda-
ton in actual facts there is for them, We
have no means of knowing. We are COM
paratively strange in the land, and have
no personal experience to guide us to
conclusion in the premises. But this dis
content is and has been for some time ap-
parent to US, and the grumbling alluded
to strikes our ears wherever and when
ever we chance to mingle with our fellow
citizens. Is heard in saloons, in offices, in
streets, in every place of public resort, in
the public press, has forced itself upon the
ears of the courts and has been alluded to
even from the bench itself. Heavy suits
have been tried, or are still upon the
calendar of the District Court, involving
the title of contending parties to the rich
mines of this and neighborhood districts.
Certain wealthy companies have instituted
suits againsta great number Of lesser ones,
setting up claims, which, if allowed, would
throw, this vast mining region, or at all
events, all the most valuable portion Of it,
into the hands of few individuals, and
the labor of thousands of men and years
of time and untold thousands of dollars,
will prove to have been expended in vain,
or only to the aggrandisement of the pow
erful few. OF the merits of these contro-
versies we know nothing; as we have re-
marked, we are lately arrived in the land
and of these things have no knowledge.
We only hear the universal grumble, and
we could understand that if We had not
been here an hour.
Again: The past few months have been
season of murders and other heinous
crimes, almost without parallel in the ex-
perience Of even the blood-accustomed
people of California, who form the great
mass of our community. This bloodshed
and enormity reigns here with an impunity
that gives it almost the appearance of
having received the tacit, if not the direct,
sanction of law. Men witness these
crimes, they hear the rumors of the cool
assassination in broad daylight they see
their daily local press gradually converted
into a chronicle of crime but they see and
hear Of no punishment following its COM
mission-and the people are discontinued
and they grumble. Have they cause, or
have they not: This is an evil state Of
things. When a people lose confidence in
their courts, when they look upon the
law as mere screen for crime, and upon
courts as mere machinery, whereby the
rich are enabled to crush the poor, that
people are upon the brink Of great calami-
ty. 1t is easy to see this evil staring this
people in the face, but it is not so easy to
see and point out remedy. We can only
do our duty in calling the attention of
those with whom this fault is found, to
the existence Of such public sentiment,
and let them govern themselves as to
themselves seems advisable. ~
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