Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-06-20
P1 ID, AND SHOVEL.

The generations Of he past, and few
old fogies of to-day, may talk Of the
plough, the loom, the anvil, as types Of
supreme productive or manufacturing
labor; within the past fifteen years the
staple employment on this coast has
changed the ranking coat-of-arms for
labor to the implements whose honored
names head this writing. Not less than
FIVE hundred thousand millions added d.
rectly to the worlds wealth. by California
and Nevada; without considering the
contribution Of Oregon and Of Washing
ton Territory, and Fraser" Sometimes,
when working men were forming protec-
tive associations, We have wondered why
they did not establish a society somewhat
after the model Of Masonry-as did the
builders Of King Solomon's Temple-and
call it, most appropriately, BY the title
given above. Its lack Of euphony would
be compensated by its utter hteralness Of
Specification; and the words would in
their compound pronunciation be popular
and attractive in themselves. Verify,
what great deeds have been done, of
times history for the past ten years, at
least, that cannot be read as traceable
consequence of the produced bullion Of
the Pacific Statess The credit of all the
European powers has been maintained by
this yield, this finding and furnishing at
the stroke of the pick and heave Of the
shovel. This is looking only to the gold
developments of portion Of our coast.
But in considering the dignity of the en-
blems of labor, the pick and shovel, re-
member the minerals of other descrip-
tons found here and elsewhere in the
United States and then take the infor-
nation you have of gold and other min
ersl yield IN the part Of the globe so I'M
fortunate as not to belong under the do
minion of Uncle Sam. And this, too,
means positive, sweating work. Ma
chinery cannot replace or be substituted
for the toll of the individual miner-as
has been the case in other departments Of
labor. The real, personal, manual toll is
here required, demanded inexorably. for
ever, beyond the cunning Of invention to
do away with in any great measure.
Nowadays, HOMEWORK is the exercised
muscle Of insensate apparatus; even the
rocky farms of New England, as well as
the prairie fields of the West, are plowed,
planted and reaped by steam. It seems as
if every other species of manual service
could be or had been brought into the ap-
piled capacity Of engine power. Not so,
and never the digging, the stopping
of the mines. Efforts made in
the direction of large tunnel-boring
have proved abortiye. where not reduced
to the amount Of work, in attendance, still
required of the miner. Ard the business
of gathering Is evidently to be left alto
gether to the human hand, welding sepa-
rately the pick and shovel. Whether this
be matter for congratulation or regret, it
is so; and hence the types of actual labor
are now and are likely to remain most
6tly with the chief tools Of the cropping
prospeceor. When painting and sculp-
ture can be executed by unthinking and
remorseless steam, than together with the
easel and chisel of elegant culture and
skill, the pick and shovel shall pass from
the world of sure symbol for labor. Not
until then. 1t is said that there are in
New York city, to-day, ten thousand
shoddyTich men, rolling in their fine car
riages and dressed in purple and fine
linen. The canker of remorse, if they
have any conscience at all, must be prey
ing on their minds. What should their
door and coach panel be adorned within
The picture of diseased and dying SOL
dier-a portrait Of the one out Of thou
sands that have shivered into fevers for
lack of sufficient clothing, owing to the
frauds of the naughty millionaire. But
we know there must be In this Union
more than ten thousand rich men who
honestly found their "pile" in the plaesrs
Of California. And there are tens Of thou
sands who owe their sudden acquisition
of immense wealth more or less immedi-
ately to the product Of gold fields on the
Pacific coast. And the hardy pioneer of
40 and Of later years, the "dead broke"
himself. imagines with pride that he
recognizes as the common heraldry of his
more fortunate comrades and Of himself,
the republican shield of FURNISHED gold,
on which is engraved the PIcK AND
SHOVEL. .....