Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-18
Ioox Hnnr,X MOMENT.

fornia is, to say the mildest, threatened
with serious d%issension. Regard it as
lightly as we can, this is the tenderest
phrase the situation in California
will bear. Now, inquire into the grand
cause, assigned to-day, for the boiling
advocates of the Union, Of Sacramento,
and the Bulletin, of San Francisco
What is it? The assertion in support
or justification of the "bolt' is, that
George G. Gorham was an active lobby
list at Sacramento, during the Legisla-
tive session Of 1866, in favor Of certain
appropriations for railroad building pur-
poses, which appropriations, if they had
not been vetoed, would liz is said have
come down upon the taxpayers for 3d.
900, 900 in 20 years. Now, here is the
great cry against George c. Gorham.
We do no, propose now to consider
whether it is in all respects true, or in
view Of all the circumstances, a shout
really to his discredit. We want to
bring your attention right down TO this
point: C~alifo.niaus, taxpayers who are
rich in that rich State, protest nightly
against a three million tax, to be levied
on all property in the State at a ratio
for return Of the ABOVE amount in twen-
" years; aud are enabled ON this sub
stantive plea alone, to greatly disturb
the harmony of the once and recently
compact Union organization. S3,ooo,-
900 to be edueed in twenty years from
all California; and to be appropriated
directly to the building of important
Railroad lines in that State, that other
wise will not be built. A Convention
is sitting in Sacramento to-day, which
has been gathered to oppose the ticket
on which George c. Gorham's name is
the head, for no other plausible, and
popularity j~ussifyiug reason, than be-
cause George G. Gorham favored a bill
levyiug a Railroad Ia mot a Dutch
Flat levy Of So, 900, 900, to be collected
from a general California pro rata as
sessment during the period Of twenty
years.
Now, then, leaving other considera-
tons temporarily at one side: what is a
So, 900, 900 twenty year tax in Califor-
MIA to a $500, 900 tax lat the very least)
in Nevada, every year, on the single
staple interest of the Commonwealth
They re bowling abouta twenty year tax
to cover three millions, when Bias bill
Imposes a quarter of a million dollars
tax per anuum, on the proceeds Of the
mines in this portion Of our poor sage
brush State! Leading California pa
pers literally yelling about the suggest
ed twenty year tax, for raising S3,oo0,-
900 to help completing Railroad pro-
iects in California, and 10 able to FIRE
the popular heart to some extent
against George c. Gorham. while HIS
In,elligeucy aud cabal have secured the
passage and are now begging for the
permitted enforcement ofa bill, which,
if impartially acted out, will take a two
millions mine tax in the aggregate, in
this State, 10 the course OF four years!
Never a people so outraged, never a
great business interest so imposed upon
as is COW involved in the attempt OF
,ax~-e1tortion, by the Executive Of this
State and his clique OF counsellors. The
more you look at it, the more clear and
the more enormous are the disclosed
proportions Of the mine-tax iniquity.
We need not say, it is unparalleled; it
has never been approached.
California journals a get up a split
10 the Union party in that State, induce
the summoning and gathering Of q Sec
| oud State Convention, n~ominally for
the Union party, on no other open res-
son, on no other actually rallyiug call,
than q note Of warning against a
So, oo0, 900 tax for twenty years pay
meut by all of rich California; even
though the money to be so raised is to
be directly applied to the best Of new
internal improvements. But for no
other object than to raise a huge cor
ruptiou fund, from Nevada mines-from
Storey county mines, we might say, for
this years levy (,bough other counties
would s'howl" soou)-a tremendous tax
is sough, to be run down upon the busi-
ness operations Of the State.
Mediate upon these things.