Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-02-03
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great problems Of this time, as it has
been Of all times. Modern regard for
the unit Of humanity has increasedthe
difficulty, and Ihifted a portion ofsthe'
burden from the poor to the rich.
Time was that the poor were consid-
cred as a separate class, and regarded
as born for perjury and deprivation Of
comfort. Their requests for anything
better were regarded as presumption.
And as to a demand for q remedy for
their disabilities, such a thing was
counted rebellion against order. But
now that the unit is regarded as an
individual who will bleed if you prick
him, and starvef he gets no food, the
class necessity Of poverty Is beginning
to be considered an obsolete error.
Especially in this country Is the con-
venient hobby Of old-fashioned .po-
litical economists discarded. The
"caste lines" patent under the old
order of things as the Alps, are with
us almost as difficult to point out as
the imaginary parallels Of latitude or
the isothermal lines. Still VIC have
poor. And, as we have said, modern
philanthropy finds the poor a very
costly burthen. More Is done for the
INDECENT than ever before. And yet
the evil of poverty increases. The
danger grows that while We deny the
caste theory, we have the unfortunate
fact of hereditary poor. Children are
born Of such parentage and reared
amid such surroundings that they can
hardly be otherwise than INDECENT, and
sometimes this inherited poverty forces
its victims into places where theiI
children can hardly escape vicious
habits. Philanthropists in many
places in the United States seem
to accept the situation, and the
utmost they hope is to make increas'
ing provision for an increasing evil
Here, In Washoe, there is very little
excuse for u healthy man or a healthy
woman to plead poverty-for Labor
here is a good capital for both sexes, i
the persons having it are inclined tc
labor ut anything useful, and to prac
tice economy with the earnings
There are a great many different kinds
of work and labor here which can bt
followed if a person is not too prout
to work. Speculation, however, has
kept a great many people poor-th'
desire to get rich suddenly without
work, to get somebody elsc's money
without working for it. Poor people
or people who have a few hundred
dollars laid by for a "rainy day.
should be taught, as many indeed have
been taught, to their bitter experience
that riches and competence arc beS
acquired and enjoyed by a slow, SUR
and honest economy. Of the fruits o
industry. The reason why there art
so many disappointed money-seekcr
in this section Of the country, from TIN
outlet of the waters of Gold Hill can
yon to its top, and from its top to Ce
dar Hill, is because they do not prac
tiee economy and industry enough
When their money is spent-squan'
dered in the majority Of cases disrepu'
tably or by speculating-then they
growl and snarl, and backbite. Some
body is sure to come in for a share o.
their disfavor. Perhaps 1t is the Banl
of California, perhaps the railroad, oil
the Superintendent of our mines, o.
the ae,espapers, or the dominant polit
ical party of the State, or the tax col
lector. Somebody must be growlct
at, for somebody is to blame ; when, IL
fact, the GRowLER himself is only t.
blame for not practicing economy an(
saving his money. Such poor are enti
tied to but little sympathy at the hand
Of any man.