Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-26
M WELLS, FARGO AND co.,sLrNE
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAINS
FIGURES.

Ed. GoLD HILL NEws:-At me opera
House, last evening, George Francis
Train, By diagrams and figures, made ii
appear very plain that Americans are
unmitigated stupids and that Euglishmen
the soulle,s cormorauts, in consequence OF
which, America pays England Europe? p
SEQ, 600, 900 interest for the loan of her
credit simply. The reason, however, OF
the plainness of his statement was, that
be showed only one side of the case.
Not only has Eugland taken our cotton
and other spare products, but out of
that very cotton, and from other crude
materials, she and France and Germany
and China have manufactured articles
of much greater selling value, which We
have imported. The new values con.
sisted solely in the work or labor be-
slowed upon the crude materials Cotton,
silk, wool, ETC. from which they were
made, and in the real worth Of trans
shipment aud sale, both abroad and at
home, through a whole long line Of
dealers and artisans, till the negro who
raised the cotton at I cents per pound
pays ST per pound for the pants he
wears when r~aising the next crop. The
gold and silver exported from this
country since ls49 does indeed mount
up to the fearful figures which Mr..
Train blocked out. Que great cause,
too, Of that export has been payment Of
interest on money duo (whether oor-
rowed in the shape Of credit, goods or
coin is immaterial) abroad. 1t also
proves not stupidity on tho part of
Americans, but simply lack OF radical
reflection and lack Of that will which We
ougl, all to possess for enaeting into
law our convictions, the best excmpli6-
cation of which l can name is c%onspicu-
Gus in George Francis Train himself.
A long time ago, anonymously, l is.
sued a pamphlet entitled Radical Re-
construction. It treated this subject
truly, even if c~ursorily. 1t was for
sratuitous circulation. No one would
read it. Had | beeh a good actor and
talker like Train) instead Of u very poor
reader, such as I am, should have
forced a consideration Of my views. As
it is, only lie in wait for opportunities
TO bring them before those Of the peo-
pie who have sense enough to weigh
their importance. Permit me to say,
that I believe the manner Of Train is not
simply one which impulse dictates, (f
unfortunate in results, as it certainly is
repuguaut to the common or prevailing
sense Of propriety, it would be a weak
ness If he did not curb and mould it,)
but that it is a natural eccentricity,
studiously and wisely cultivated into a
means Of power, and his doing OF
it merits recognition rs an artistic sue.
cess. If ArtemGs Ward made an artistic
success 10 Gigning stupidity aud fiat
ness, George Francis Train certainly
merits infinitely greater praise rs an
artist in a peculiarly difficult field. He
means, I take it, to raise and keep up a
vast doubt rs to whether he is a phil.
osopher or u luuatic, take advantage OF
all the liberties which good will in hu-
man nature will pardon in a crazy man,
and meantime plant rocks Of fact and
roots of truth wherever he may go, on
which rocks rascals OF dimension must
dash themselves, and from which roots
there must grow in time great green
trees of shade for tho toillng and suffer-
ing family of God-mankind.
CONRAD WIEaASD.