The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-01-29
THE ELKO INDEPENDENT
SATURDAY, JANUARY as. 1870.
The Bank Of California. v, he People

The Bank Of California VI. me People.
1t Is palpable that the intensity Of the feel
ing in the western portion of the State agains,
the Bank Of California, and other monopo-
LIKING institutions, is about to reyolutionize
the State, politically. All accounts from Sto-
rey and Washoe counties represent state OF
things which argues no good for the continued
mastery Of those heartless monopolies over
the people. They have ground their heels
into the faces Of the poor until they have
aroused spirit which will not douen at their
bidding. The reign Of this tyranny has been
so long and oppressive that it has aroused the
passions of all classes of the people. No party
lines will control them hereafter If the Rad
ical party is to continue the mere tool of the
Bank of California, there is no power on earth
which can sustain il through another wears
campaign. Western Nevada is about TO
throw of this incubus at any cost, and it will
throw of any party which runs in its interest.
The Radical party cannot carry these ineopo-
rations any further. A correspondent of the
Reno Crescent, Republican paper, writing
from Carson, January 18th, confirms the state
ment of our correspondent, published last
week. He SAYS:
Il want your solution of these matters, be-
cause they are becoming the dl-1Lsorbinq topic
among all classes. l tell YOU sir, because I
know, that this same corporation has done
and is doing more injury to the Republican
party than can be conceived: and will be the
means OF thousands jumping TIE ticket they have
so long supported, in he present year. And
should the Democrats carry the State il will
surely be owing TO this same horrible monop-
W hn hnN Ngal-
polite, but left such matters to dema1oor,es
and hacks, and merely voted the straight tick
et, are now talking and acting on their own
responsibility, each considering himself COM
mittee of one to fight the giant evil.
Money is powerful in controlling votes. but
when the masses come to see State and county
as well as individual bankruptcy, staring them
In the face, they are not apt to sell themselves
10 the enemy they are compelled to fear No
sir, the public mind Is aroused, and among ali
classes fear, mingled with hate, reigns against
the encrnachments of the Bank of California:
for the best friends of the corporation can
show no case where the public has been bene-
fitted by it,
1t is evident that the older portion of the
State Is rising in rebellion against the exac-
tons and brutal selishness of the Bank. Of
the Railroad, OF the cormorants which have
settled on the line of the Comstock. They
may bride, gag, and threaten, but old Storey
county will not ride much further with the
Bank on her back and its spurs in her sides.
We, here IN the east, known; something
about this oppression. We have felt il and
suffered from it. Every miner in White Pine
last Spring and Summer had cause TO remem-
Der it. The Bank virtually owned the conn.
try. Its agents, spies, and infamous tools
swarmed through the district, and no mans
claims were safe from their rapacity. Its cor
ruphons, intimidations and combinations
ruled the district with heartless rigor, para
lying business of every kind. If the Bank
had confined its operations to legitimate
business, it might have been of inestimable ad-
vantage to the country; but every one knows
that it has not. Like the hideous monster of
the sea, described by Victor Hugo, it's thou
sand arms and suckers have peryaded all its
surroundings. draining life from all, and Civ
ing life to none. If the Bank depends upon
Eastern Nevada to restore it in the next cleo
ton against the rebellion of Western Nevada,
1t will find wretched comfort in this quarter.