Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-09-13
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A NRw POLITICAL ISsUR-
DOWN WITH THE sMELT.
ING WORKS.
From tho White Pine News,

If the Republican party Is 10 uesce'iu
from its high position OIL national ques-
lions, and allow itself to be made n bob
for the tnil of somebody's kite, we de-
mand OIL strictly geographical grounds
hat the interests of 1.-The great East
shall b. consulted. and that we be per-
United to supply the kite. we Insist
that every candidate for State and
county office shall define his position
upon the question Of Governor Matte
sons Smelling Works. Speak up, gen.
tlemen, and inform an anxious people.
Are YOU for or against those works?
Their furnaces are higher OH the hill
than our Office; their flag insolently
floats above us their proprietors nave
more money than we have ; they Will
not lend us any without security; they
arc Il bloated monopoly we are OPP
poscd to them; we demand that oppo-
sitlon to Governor Matteson's Smelling
Works lie made an issue i'll this CALL
pairn; and we have Just as good a
right To make such an ISSUE rs has the
Reno Crescent to ride Its little hobby
horse. Opposition to the Bank OF Cal
ifornia."
Tho Bank does not trouble us here
abouts. especially. 1t has not crushed
us. IA I, crushed poor Sntro, by refusing
to help him to money for tunnel puI-
poses, to be expended ut the rate OF 50
for picks to $50 for champagne. 1t has
not robbed us, rs 1t has those outraged
owners Of tile COm.tock. who live In
and abont the Crescent Office ut Keno.
The wicked Sharon his never paralyzed
and ruined White Plners, rs he has
Virginians. by c~orruptly reducing the
rate Of interest Oh money from five per
cent. to two per cent. per month; but
Governor Mattcson's Smelling Works
Is a soulless corporation, which pro-
pose, to melt our valuable ores In its
greedy furnace, and tako the silver
therefrom, and ship that silver out OF
the country, leaving to this outraged
land only the slug and the Valueless
lead.
We tell the Republican party very
plainly that, unless 1t declares Top
position to the Smelling Works for
its platform. and nominates for Office
In Nevada only men who nrc known
to be opposed to the Smelling Works,
It's career Is ended for 1.-THE people
feel that they stand OIL the very edge
of burning, bottomless heli."'-lVide
Reno Crescent.
If YOU ask us what we propose to do,
provided we carry the State Conver-
ton and the election for some en-
ployc OF the smelling Works, upon the
basis of undying hostility to the Smelt-
Ing Works, we cannot tell yoi,, any
more than can those who shrek "op-
pnSition to the Bank OF California"
tell O what they will do il they sue
coed. Both the Bank and the Smelling
Works are foreign interpretations,
doing business In this State, ana arc
mea tl,rably ont Of the reach OF our
Legislature. Neither of these bloated
monopolies Is soliciting any legislation
nor other action ut tie hands OF our
officials. We think 1t very likely that
Sharon does not intend to force the
next Governor of Nevada to discount
his salary scrip at his shop, In place Of
~patronizlng Hanak; aud We suppose
that Governor Matteson will not conf
mel our honest miners to sell him their
ore, but will allow them to ship 1t to
San Francisco or Newark, and spend
the rest Of their days waiting for
returns" rs usual. Nevertheless, al
issue Is demanded for the coming Con-
vention, and we insist that the Sinelt-
Ing Works shall be the Issue. Economy
In public expenditures, reduction of
taxation, protection to public credit,
acoulesccnce In the results Of the war,
opposition to Aslatic iInportation-all
these matters, upon which It was sup
posed we would make the canvass, are
trifles compared with the other and
more important "smeltlng Works
question:"
How will 1t do to consolidate and 20
into the fight with the motto upon Il
banners, Opposition to both Bank
and Smelling Works Let the Bank
be forced to withdraw It's capital, aud
take Its hideos presence from among
us-or, better yet, divide its ill-gotteii
gains with the undersigned, and then
20. Let the machinery and buildings
Of the Smelling Works be torn down
kicked over tile line into Utah; and
let a pastoral, peaceful people be freed
forever from these wicked, wicked
monopoliei.