Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-22
THE sPEo1F1o icoNrRAcr LAW.

LEE SFGS4F4S CONfhACT Law.
If there was evera strong and unani-
nous expression ofpupular sentiment up
on any measure Of public policy, such an
expression has been manifested in this
State in favor of the passage of Specific
Contract Law. As the prospect of the
passage of such law becomes imminent
We find an effort made to throw obstacles
in its way. This effort comes from Cah-
fornia. We have been addressed on the
subject from that source; and we perceive
from the leading article in this mornings
Enterprise, that that paper has oeeh
similarly favored. The Enterprise very
properly answers that "we will attend 10
our own business" We have been con-
strained to make the same curt and not
over-courteous remark on variety OF &C.
casions. There is an amount Of PATRONS
ing, gratuitous counsel furnished by the
people and press of California concerning
the affairs of Nevada, that amounts, IN
some instances, to attempted dictation.
To say that this character Of advice is I'M
thankfully received but feebly expresses
our feelings. 1t is absolutely irritating.
Few of our citizens, other than editors
who daily read some dozens of California
i e
exchanges, from the commercial dalhes OF
the cities down to the beggarly seventy
nine week.-Mrs., have any idea of the extent
to which the patronising advice to US
benighed Nevadans is carried. 1t seems
70 be a foregone conclusion with these
wise men of California, that the popula-
ton of Nevada is composed of inexperi-
ence boys or uneducated bacAwoodsmen'
totally incapable of self-government.
We're such, even the case, the manner in
which Californians have controlled their
own public affairs, would not recommend
them to the world as competent teachers
in matters of public policy. We but
avoid shoal covered with wrecks, when
we disregard teachings which come from
west of the Sierra Nevada. So far as this
Specific Contract Law is concerned, we
have the evidence before our eyes Of its
absolute necessity, and we shall act upon
that evidence, regardless of California
warnings. The argument adduced by the
correspondent of the Enterprise about the
influx of paper money being a benefit
to this State, amounts to nothing
Anything and everything that the people
or the Legislature of Nevada might or
could do in the premises, could not
change the relative value of gold and
paper. The paper money will always be
worth its market price here in every cha
racter of business transaction; in fact it
has always been worth more here than
anywhere else on the globe. Persons
blessed with superabundance of green
backs and DESTROYS of an investment, can
get more for them here than elsewhere,
and our citizens will joyfully hail their
advent. The Specific Contract Law will
not depreciate greenbacks, not drive them
out of circulation in Nevada. The sole
object of the law is to compel men to per-
form contracts made with open eyes and
in good faith. 1t is to compel men to
the faithful performance of their solemn
agreements, that laws are made and
courts instituted; and it is to prevent their
dishonest evasion of such agreements, du-
ring the existence OF two kinds of cur
rency of unequal value, that the Specific
Contract Law is made. There can be
neither injustice nor impolicy in compel
ling a man to the strict performance OF
that tc which he has solemnly contracted
while in sound mind and of his own free
will, when that contract is not " contrary
to good morals" Our legislators know
the sentiments of their constituents upon
this subject, and will be very likely to
govern themselves accordingly.