The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-07
MISREPRESENTATION.

hardly know how to meet the editor
of that journal, as we are quite unable
TO determine the motives that induce
him tO the paths of Misrepresentation
In the issue of May Both we find the
following words in a leading article:
The Reno Crescent j~u>tifies Stewart and
Congress for virtually granting the
swamp and overfiowed lands 10 the rail
road instead OF the State.
Now, i'll the first place, the Reno
Crescent has never by word, act oil
thought, directly or by implication,
favored land subsidies Il the Central
Pacific Railroad, or to any other cor
pOratiOn. On the contrary, We look
upon this granting OF lands in large
bodies to corporations or individuals
As an evil of the first magnitude-an
evil that calls loudly for legislative
action that looks directly to its abate-
laent. In fact we think that the en-
tire management OF government lands
Is radically wrong and works more of
evil than Of gOOd.-LReno Crescent.
June 81.
The editor of the Crescent is very
much mistaken in his estimate OF the
~''perversity' or misrepresentation"
manifested by us respecting the opin-
ions of that paper on the subject al
luded 10, or any other. We have no
disposition to misrepresent the editor
of the Crescent. and if we have done
so the fault lies i'll the Crescent's own
defective logic, in which heapparently
shrinks from the legitimate and neces-
sary sequence of his own reasoning.
We are we'll aware that the Crescent
has never favored land subsidies to
the Central Pacific Railroad or any
other co~rporation;" We We're there
lore all the more surprised at the ex-
traofdinary position assumed by the
Crescent in lis Endorsement of the ac-
ton by which Nevada has been de
pEIved OF the swamp ana overtlowcd
lands within its borders. The Ores
cents objection j. that We asserted
tia. the editor Of tia. PAPER '.ju>tifes
Stewart and Congress for Virtually
granting The swamp and overlooked
lands Ia the railroad instead OF the
state In this statement we fail %
see how the Crescent IS mi>rcpre>cnted
oil does thai paper justify the act but
not the ar;o-? Whose spcech"s and
acts deprived Nevada of these lands?
Were they not the speeches of Stewart
and the act Of Congress? In justify
lGg the Withholding of these lands.
how does the Crescent withhold its
Justification OF the men by whom it
was brought about.
FOR virtually granting the swamp
and oycrtiowed lands to the railroad
instead of tho State" Has not this
been the effect OF the coarse pursued
lay Stewart anil Congress? The larger
portion OF these lands lie along the
banks Of the Humboldt river. Had
these lands been conveyed TO Nevada,
BY supplemental legislation, as the
LAMBS Of Minnesota and Oregon We're
conveyed othose States. at the proDcr
time, this State would have taken title
prior to The railroad. The State of Ne
vada would now have been the owner
of the most valuable lands within its
jurisdiction before the railroad COM
lany had filed its survey wiki the
Secretary OF the Interior. Why the
proper action was not taken on behalf
OF the Statc-who was to be Laxieftted
is Eaw apparent to the most obtuse
intellect. The people of this State.
and Of this entire coast, have too H.uch
evidence ofthc devotion of Nevada's
10 the great corporations, to
i'll arriving ut the correct cOnclu-
sion OIL this point. We DO not believe
there is Il MAJ in estate who doubts
that Nevada las been deprived OF
these lands in order that the railroad
company should have them.
The States loss has been the rail
gain. The measure of II has
been the measure of the other. One :
followed the other a. naturally as the
lay follows the night. i was Il single
act, and must be Judged as s!IciI. II
seems to us that the Crescent, and not
he State Register. is the real party
misrepresents the actual views .
If the editor of that paper It's error :
: in looking at Only II side of the
question. and in attempting to divide !,
hat which is i'll fact indivi>IbIe. III .
rstifving the Withholding Of these ]
andS from the State it logically justl- :
les the act of those who brought it !
Ibout-and that is Stewart and Con, c