Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-02-06
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Ma. EDl1oa d I bope you will allow a
ttizena snail ipace Id the columns Of
your yllusbls psper, : express a few ideas
Oh tho Bill iowPendlns bsfOre the Senate
Of this states granting the right to all who
think it advisable to build telegraph lines
through this State. I do not believe the
principle of making the Slater rich BY
making the citizen poor a sound one !; nor
do believe it 70 be good policy to inn
poverish the citizen to enrich a corpora
ton. The Legislature is, or ousht'to be.
the deliberative Assembly Of State, with
one aim and object-the interest Of the
whole people,. Locslinesrsstss local Pre-,
JUDGES, and personal friendships, ought to
give way before The wGnts ofrthe entire
people. a0nsrnmanalaf not Organized
for the purpose Of ,checking the enter
prise, Of its people, which isA the great
cause Of the prosperity. Of 2 State. Il
was the recognition OF this principle
that saved England, in her thirty years
war, from the horrors Of Austerlitz,
when europe at large was a iprovince
Of Gaul," and was the motive power at
| Waterloo. It was the same principal that
created the power that drove the armies OF
Lee from Gettysburg and annihilated them
before the Notifications ct Richmond, n
gave to man one asylum at least where ne
can exercise his reason and his enterprise
fearlessly andaproEtably, independent OF
birth or color, fulfilling the poet Cowper's
idea of freedom-"A land where slaves
cannot breathe. II their lungs receive our
air, that moment they are free. They
touch our country and their shackles fall"
Must we reverse this wise policy, and
foster grinding %monopliesi I hope not.
Blu. the remarks of our Hon. Senator, Mr.
Winton, on the Telegraph bill, as reported
in the Enterprise, carries the mind back to
the days Of the Stewards, when monoPo-
lies were granted by the wholesale to their
fawning s~ycophants which for years
ground down and retarded the general
prosperity of the people Of the British Isl.
and. Must the teachings Of Locke and all
political philosophers be forgotten, and
the statute books be again disgraced BY
the passage of those foolish, futile and
onerous laws in favor Of usury and mo-
nopoly which the wisdom Of years has
demonstrated to be an unmitigated nuis-
ance and as foolish and absurd as laws
against witchcraft. I humbly ask the
honorable Senator, as one of his constitu-
ents' and political admirers, il il is not the
interest Of his constituents at large and
particularly his immediate constituents.
to have cheap telegraphing facilities: l
ask him If that desirable object can be ac-
complished without competition think
not. But some of our Solons say that
vested rights are in jeopardy. I would
like to ask II the Constitution has not
created a tribunal to protect the vested
rights of the citizen, and tribunal whom
every man believes administers justice.
In accordance with the maxim BE justice
done though the Heavens in ruins fall"
Our Senator is a man of fine ability, and
it is TO be hoped he will use his eloquent
tongue and great influence on the side OF
his constituents and against monopolies OF
every kind. His constituents do not be-
licve that the great array Of aspiring talent
outside the Bar would influence his vote
on a measure so vital to his constituents.
Telegraph Companies, I apprehend, are
able to take care Of themselves. ~
A CITIZEN.