Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-02-14


Comstock ledge prove. that II half the
employed in speculation, and in
prodigal Encouragement, had been used
in legitimate mining by the solid claims
upon this lode, it would have given re-
employment to thousands of
industrious men ; and Virginia and Gold
Hill would have become, to-day, like
Lowell, Pittsburg, and the coal regions Of
Pennsylvania - hives Of industry, thrift
and prosperity. With n Of the richest
silver deposits in the world, we have been
beggared by reversing the essential order
Of things. The measure Of our prosperity
is Just the measure Of our productive de-
velopment. In the essential basis Of sue
cess, this community is without a rival,
save San Francisco, on this coast We
shall now become, what we always should
have been, . community Of producers-
industrious working men-with all and
only the tradesmen and professional citi-
which we can support. III
The fear that our population is now to
into q mere substratum of "de-
graded" laboring men, and every DEPART
ment of business into the hands Of NAM
moth and soulless corporations, is both
and insulting. No such curse has
been the result in any largely producing
community in the free States. Newark.
Paterson. Reading, Scranton, Pottsville,
Pittsburg, Lawrence, P~awtucket,
P~rovidence-in fact. all the largely
cities in the North, without
exception-are centers Of prosperity and
There is nc success-as there
is no basis to any-in any city, that Is not
upon a large productive class.
This fear is insulting to the working
The working men in the free
North are neither slaves MOI serfs-neither
degraded nor ~groveling as the working
of Europe under the oppression Of
lordly aristocracy. Are we never to
have done with the contempt thrown upon
Has this nation. which glories in
being q nation Of working men, not yet
asserted the manliness and respectability
Of free toll, associated with free soil, free
schools, free speech, a free press, and q
free conscience mot even after the bap-
tism Of FIRE through which Il has shown
its supremacy in the overthrow Of q slave
oligarchy Of the most gigantic proportions
of all others on the face Of the earth. and
to the terror Of the oppressors Of man all
over the worlda Every feature Of our
free institutions-every article in u Or
ganic laws, State and National-the whole
working of our constitutional freedom is
to dignity and protect labor against capt.
tal-to dignity and elevate man above
property. What the working men need
is legislation that will avail them Of these
God given and guaranteed rights. Labor
must be protected from the exacting de-
mands of capital, instead of being worked
to death as It nop IS, with no time nor
strength for social. mental or moral i'm
We fling broadcast to the
world the merited disgrace, the shame of
capital in exacting fourteen hours
Of toll from their operatives, because it
the life blood out Of the masses
allowing no time for rest or cultivation
while here, in these cities, our working
men are deprived Of their Sabbath-are
not allowed the exercise Of conscience.
which q slave enjoys, nor n day in seven
worship their Maker-to accompany
heir families and little ones to. the house
If God-not even to relax their weary
limbs by q day Of rest, or enjoy n single
;wenty.four hours Of recreation during
he year. except on independence day and
Christmas, and no voice is raised against
he crying shame!
We have been warning against slavery,
md have washed il out in the blood Of
not less than a million of brave men ; and
ret our representatives, in the halls OF our
allow the foreign capital in
our mines and mills to exact the life-lood
IF our working men by q tyranny over The
right of man, and more essential to
his physical, social, mental and moral inn
provement than any other! Christianity
Is the common Law Of this land. 1t ante
dates all written constitutions. Dur civili-
ration is Christian. The Christian Sabbath
the birth right Of every American, and
the property Of our common humanity.
By what principle, physical, civil, social
Or moral, has capital q right to degrade
men and families, extract the vital ener-
yies from the bones and muscles Of our
Iaboring population, producing premature
old age and imbecility, with poverty, Or
ignorance, degradation and vice.
upon the present demand Of
toll? Do men turn out more work by
compelling them to no rest for their mus.
cular energiesi The proof is Just the re-
verse. Do communities rise in social and
mental cultivation under these 1n6e1disg
Of toils Impossible in the ma
of things, and unheard Of. The mind
,ympathizes with the body. and. both sink
under the unceasing drudgery and mo-
notony Of physical labor. Il it possible
10 attain any moral elevation for man or
The influence and example Of
Sabbath dissertation Is one Of the most de-
n~orslizing known. Why, then, continue
this outrage-this bsrbarism faa II
We appeal to the law-making power for
protection. n there is one duty which
the Legislature owes TO the working men
IF our State. It is protection from this tn-
,ovaHsed ezaction Of foreign capital. There
o an advanced civilization in our
Union where laboring men are not &C.
cured by law In thier right to the Sabbath
Not only 90, but wen the ten-hour sys-
:em is now giving way under the convio-
ion that the employment OF intelligent
md reouperated laborers is the truest
economy for, capital. In fact the duty
md lesson Of the hour is ks,slation for
aqainst property. Wo 70 our coun-
nv, II she does not heed this lessoni Wo
n our lesislators, II they do not heed the