Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-05
THE ENTERPRISE"

The v;-o;r;s Enterprise. for some days
past, has been lashing and spiuFsins ana
kicking up foam and frOth that REMINDS
one Of the "aurry" of a dying whale.
On the smallest kind of capital of any
thing bu, " size" which size is due to the
INGENIOUS turning of many columns OF
" dead" advertisements, and the liberal
stretching of cheap live ones, it makes
more fuss and pretension than the London
Times. Its shifting, hesitating, time-serv-
ing policy, and its strictly conditional sup
port @ of the Union party in the late
campaign, combined with its political an
tecedents put it under a cloud as party
paper, while its nominal adhesion to the
side of that party destroyed any charac-
ter it might have maintained for neutrality
or independence. Its political character,
therefore, is represented by the sign -.
Despised and disregarded as a political
organ, it arrogates to itself the character
of teacher, or rather dictator, upon the
subject of finance. Upon what food this
financial Caesar hath fed that he hath
grown so great, doth not appear to the
outside world yet he seems to be imbued
with the belief that he, and he alone, is
competent to grapple with the question
now agitating the public mind in the
county of Storey. The opinions fothers
he regards as trash, and matter not to
be consulted by his high mightiness.
Other journals profess to speak advisedly
concerning the subject under considera-
ton, and to have examined both into the
facts and figures and the public sentiment.
Not so the Enterprise. 1t is the Great /
Am, and when its mouth opens let no
mans dog bark. 1t has one idea, original,
borrowed or stolen, it matters not; and
that one idea it insists shall be rammed
down the throat of the people. The ad-
yocates of any other proposition it not
only ridicules, but, like any other big
bully, insults. The outrageous PROPOSE
ton which it advocates is one that not a
single delegate from this county, with
whom we have spoken, endorses, and IS
one that would be condemned by an
unanimous vote in every precinct outside
of Virginia; and we doubt whether a
sufficient number of respectable taxpayers
in that city could be found to form the
nucleus of a party supporting so out
rageous a measure. 1t is the measure of
the Enterprise alone, and that paper will
find that. "big" as it is, it has taken too
heavy job upon its hands. Inasmuch as
the Enterprise sees fit to disregard all
pubic sentiment in the premises, and ap-
pears to be going it alone, thinking that
buster and bullyrag will carry the day, it
is proper that other journals, and the
public generally, should disregard the
rawlings OF the Enterprise. Perhaps itmay
invent some means of carrying its hobby
through the Legislature without the
knowledge and consent of that body-and
perhaps not. If it should fail, 1t can
easily avoid the burthen of taxation over
which it groans so gloomily. Nothing is
easier. Let the proprietOrs of the Enter
prise proceed to the payment of their debts
as far as their property will go, and they
will have nothing to pay taxes on; and
they can sing
A light heart and thin pair of breeches,
% Go glib through the world brave boys"