The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-21
NATIONAL UNION REPUBLICAN
BULLION VS.. BRAINS.

BULLION VS.. BRAINS.
Usage and venerable authority justify tn.
assertion that things have an eternal fitness
and that there is fitting and suitable time
and place for everything. Having resusci
tated this time-henored maxim, We will ven
ture to renew the apparently irrelevant but
really pertinent inquiry, g What constitutes
State To answer this question com.
prehensively the State must be named and its
eternal fitness carefully considered. Should
there ever be State of Utah, poligamy,
fecundity and illimitable propagation of the
species will be its chief constituents. "Pap'
Prices army is the chief constituent of the
"regenerated State of Oregon. Gold,
grapevines, the Pacific Railroad and Hoag's
five million mulberry trees are essential cons
tituents of the State OF California. In some
States diversity of elements which it would
be impossible to numbe: or catalogue is ne
cessary, while in others single element
makes, while its absence would unmake the
State. For instance, the State of Massachu-
sets would become fifth-rate nonenity and
sink into hopeless oblivion without brains.
And what would our own State of Nevada be
scithout bnlHon Without bullion the State
of Nevada would have long ago been a
demnitiou iptangibility," and it might have
been ages before the Silver Star" would
have graced the American constellation. If
there had been no bullion hidden in her rock
ribbed hills, the brains that would have been
doomed to nose around her clumps of sage
brush might have envied Nebuchadnezzar,
while Daniel in the lions den were Supremacy
favored in comparison with brains at the
Bullion Company's lower level. With ever
SO much brains, but without bullion, Nevada
would not now be State; therefore mark
is!-,cih erer so much brains, but ,cithoaa
Z,.yE H., bar II
suffrage an the Senate of the United States
Bullion, not brains, makes us a State. Bull
lion, not brains, entities us to representation
in the Senate. Then what, according
TO the eternal fitness of things, should be
our chief consideration in selecting our
Unhed States Senators Brains: Absurd.
No, bullion as matter Of course. Let
brains plod along. take no gambling risks,
devote itself to merchandising, manufacture
ing, invention or the learned professions, but
select that lucky he for your Senator who can
most successfully buy on a margin, sell short
and accumulate the greatest store of bullion.
We have said it.
The above is from Friday evenings
God Hill News. What may it mean ?
j. would seem to be hint that some
body with more coin than intellect pro-
posed taking the field for the Senate.
OF course it cannot mean Winters, for
that gentleman has proven that his
brains are still in active operation not
outstanding the plethoric condition of
his purse for be has shown sagacity
enough to withdraw from the contest |
and VOW a VOW to devote himself to the
reformation of the party. Is it possible
hat this sarcasm of our neighhor is
directed against the Trespass' " S,ran-
,er?" Has the object of an applica-
ion Of "the plan of the Executive
Committee been found out by our
hrewed and enterprising contemporary
Mystery of mysteries! What does it
mean? Who is it that can be accused
# having Senatorial aspirations, great
'ags of money, cubic feet of bullion and
inadequate cerebral development Tom
itch don't come under that charge
either does belong besides, they are
9th already too sufficiently known as
andidates fer the Senate TO be made ,
be subjects of such mysterious a!lu- i
ion. And it is impossible that Gov {
rnor Blasdel can be thus irrevereutly {
lluded to for is he not commonly re-
uted "poor but honest?" and being
nch, it cannot be said with charity that T
: has more money than brains. That G
,siauatiou would be too maliciously s
-uel even for the caustic editor of the il
ews to indulge in. Don't plague US b
it'll this narrowing mystery any longer; o
ut tell US, without further evasion, who il
lis ambitious Dives is. q
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