Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-25
wa.hoe IudiciaI "Loans.'
From the Enterprise.

Everybody who has read that great cpl
tome OF human nature, "David Copper6eld,"
must recollect Miss Mowcher's discourse on
the humbuggery Of calling things out Of
their names. She illustrates it BY the null
hilarious titles by which ladies designate
rouge. Says Miss Mowcher: "One dowager,
she calls it lip-salye. Another, she calls it
gloves. Another, she calls it tucker-edging.
Another, she calls it fan. call it what
ever they call it. supply 1t for 'em, but we
keep up tho trick SO to one another, and
make believe with such face, that they as
soon think of laying it on before whole
drawing-room as before me. And when l
wait upon 'em, they'll say to me sometimes
with it on-thick, and no mistake-'How
am l looking, Mowcher? Am ! pale Z
What world Of CANNON and spinnage it is,
though, amt it,"
Observation will suggest to everybody that
dowageIs and hair-dressers are not the only
ones who transact business on this CANNON
and spinnage principle. Many man seeks
to disguise the shameful nature of deed, by
calling it out of its name. 1t was not one
man only who killed the turkey because it
was about to bite him. Millions Of the most
inoffensiye turkeys have been slaughtered in
the name Of self-defeaSe,' The thief who steals
your money is not thief at his own estima-
tom, Ho is merely borrower on indefinite
terms Of payment. And SO, If we might be-
lieve the word OF every purchased wretch, no
man was ever bribed. They seek or accept
'loans," which they live with the hypocriti-
cal intention of paying, and die without hay-
ing paid. whats in named that which
we call a rose by any other name would
smell Us sweet" and theft and bribery,
though eloaked with elegant and honorable
pseudonyms, are theft and bribery still.
The word /" loan," in its judicial aPplica-
ton in Washoe, is just as equivalent to
bribery as the dowagers hp-salye, fan and
gloves were synomous with rouge. Every
one possessed Of sufficient discernmept to
penetrate beyond the mere name Of a thing
must confess this. Take a notable case, for
instance. Judge North's position upon the
Bench was virtually bought for him by the
Potosi Company, or some OF its principal
members, The same parties "loaned" him
money to build a mill, They gave him a
mill,site. They also furnished him with
rich rook--for the managers Of the Potosi
are also managers Of the Gould & Curry
Now, all this was done while they had causes
pending before him-and he knew it. Does
any one suppose that men OF their character,
under those circumstances, loaded him with
such fayors without expecting favors in
return ;-or that he received them with
out intending 10 do them services II so,
Just look ut the result. In every single in
STANCE his decisions have always been favor
able to his patrons-"eyen when they involved
principles contradictory to those maintaiu-
ed BY him In other rulings, Have the Sl5,-
900 hloan.H the purchased Judgeship, the
mill-site, the Gould & Curry rock, had
nothing TO do with this fscts II Judge North
himself should tell US no, we should consider
ms etfrontery less only than his dishonesty.
These transactions purchased Judge North
beyond redemption, in the opinion Of the
community, even II he did not intend 10 sell
himself. But we believe he did. We be-
lieYe that he deliberately made up his mind
to render these parties certain services in
return for their favors; and the only respect
we have for him is that he has evidently full
filled his part of the bargain better than
might have been expected Of man who
would sell the public interest and his own
honor 1t is idle for Judge North and his
friends 20 say that these facts have been rer
futed and explained away, They stand in
shameful force as ever, and never can be done
away with until they are received and rest as
incontestable evidences of his guilt. ., -.
b There is another AFFAIR IN connection with
Judge North which has never been explained
away, notwithstanding assertions to the con-
trary. Here follows a statement Of Hardy's
charge Of bribery in the Burning Moscow
case, ., .,,-...-..
Judge Hardy has never denied this state-
ment, nor his belief that the charges therein
made were true. The best evidence that he
thought and thinks them true, is that he in
vested $40, 900 in Burning Moscow, rs stated,
and that while he was one Of the attorneys OF
the company. In card, which he subse-
oaently published, he merely said that ne
distrusted his informant at the time he made
the statement, and was unable to prove the
charces-at the same time promising at some
future day to give the circumstances of the
affair and the name Of his informant. We
sincerely trust that he is prepared to do itnow.
His own character and the public interest and
honor demand that the matter should as
cleared up, We have never for moment
doubted the truth Of the charges. We be-
iieye it TO have been one Of the mos, corrupt
transactions in our rotten Judicial system,
and thorough investigation Of it will be
likely to throw light upon the true nature OF
Washoe Judicial loans" We call for Judge
Hardy. ~. ~. .