The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-03
THE LABOR QUESTION IN NEVADA

extracting the remaining sap from the
sugar tree of the Pacific Coast. Ii
may be that those of US who have Sc,
ourselves up, IN a bullying way, a. the
rightful mouopolists of what is LETT,
after all the past pleasant profigacy
are right in opposing ourselves in as
formidable q way As may be TO the en-
croacbment of these new corners from
the East aud West-these poor spirited
Yankees and degraded Cbinamen who
come here with their weak notions Of
wages and manual capacities for labor.
But il is also to be taken into cOnsidera.
ton whether we cannot fall into aud
form part of a revolution in the labor
question which looks out upon some.
thing better than the mere expenditure
Of what little capital we have some
thing no, carelessly suggested BE gen
erous disregard of all questions OF in
come, saving. and thrift; something
il a reasonable way, in short some
thing in earnest.
This Pacific Coas, of ours must either
be occupied by those of us who are
here now and our descendants; or We
must give way to the Indians or an
other emigration-or the continuous
-az,e frou, Gano. 10 C.cr,ma,,o .,d
the other wide evidences of exhaustion
from Yreka down to the Valley and
from the Valley up through every d.
fection which leads to the old mining
camps of the flush times, must remain
q. it is. Let Us try and bring back the
good old times of Downieville, Shasta,
Yankee Jim's, Sonora, Mokelumne Hill,
Goodyears Bar, Oroville, and all those
active old camps which date back to
tie era which has gone. We can bring
them back in memory no further
They won't resurrect a, our bidding.
They are q part of the civilization and
possibility of the past. We can only
make them valuable as relics. 1t is
Bourbonism to insist upon it that the
people Of the present age must abandon
the active l,s-permanen,ly-ro
fall down and worship our seedy OLD
M.mmon. They wont do 1t. Or, if the,
DO they will merely fall into the idle
and proftless business of worshipping
a, diiapidated shrine-and one mus
eat after be says grace-or the prayer
is a mockery.
We are mixed up in the figures of a
problem which involves deeper soln-
tion than anything that ever occurred |
10 Nr. Euclid or any other theoretical
encient. The dozen or two rich men of
the Pacific Coast can afford TO laugh |
at this; but those of US who are forced |
into the scramble for a square living |
must take long look at these Incl.
dents OF our Condition or blind our
selves 10 consequences and facts. We
may be willing to die here, poor or in
easy circumstances but
what is to become of the children and |
the countIy, bye an by?
IL seems to Us that there are enough |
OF US here to seriously consider what
We, at any rate, will attempt to do.
1t is among the signs of the times
,La, an era of cheaper prices for labor.
for goods, for newspapers and for all
The matters ard things that We have to
dispose of, is a, hand. The proprietors
Of re B-eoklyn Ferry make more money
at two cents apiece for passengers than
v DO in oEr limited sale of the APPEaL
~ four bits week, on two bits apiece
fur cig4rs and the like, and our other
liz !e self exhaustive ways and notions.
Let Us try and induce something
better. We cant burt ourselves much by
accepting something broader for !.
platform than the motto Stand and
Deliver" Ii seems to be true that an
ihdaiance of cheap labor, whether a: