The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-02-11
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Id. REGIsrEE: In "A recent number
OF your paper. under the head of
The Laborer Worthy Of his IIiro,''
your Gold Hill correspondent .'D,''
writing on that important subject, al
iuded to a letier of mine that appeared
IN the Enterprise some time ago. and
| wish to make = few remarks in re-
ply.
lie seems TO favor an Act TO exempt
thirty days labor from attachment, in
order TO prevent the '.milkman, the
butcher and the grocer from coming
along" in succession with their bills,
and thus depriving his family of the
necessaries Of life.
Now, it is hardly reasonable that
those men, who trusted him when he
wa idle, are going to heap cost on him
when he goes to work if he shows any
disposition to pay. 1t is a well known
fact that nine-tenths of the wages at
tached ethose OF single men, who pre-
fer TO spend their money in gambling
or dissipation than in paying their
lawful debts.
With the exemption law in force.
how would the miner be situated?
suppose he Is idle Tor 1--WE or six
weeks, and has not money TO purchase
food or other necesSaries. lie goes "a
the ''milkman, the butcher and the
grocer and they, who before would
trust him, very wisely refuse to let
him nave their goods without cash.
having no power left to collect their
money ii they did. l. not his family
then placed in want of the ''nece>saries
of life' much sooner than as the law
now stands, and become All object OF
public charity?
lie says the tcamster has two horses
and 4 ranch worth 5000, exempt, and
the miner has nothing. | do not think
the miner l. excluded from the bene-
its OF tic homestead law any more
than any other man. lie asserts that
an Act making miners preferred cred
itors i in conflict with an Ace of Con.
gre>s. True, where a company be-
comes in>olvent the hankrup; law dis.
poses OF the case, aud the sooner tina,
law Is amended the better for tho la,
borers throughout the land; but in
NANf~ u bhAltA dAtstGtiilifiiiN. X - per
iec,lv reasonable and lawful as a me.
chanics' or other lien. lie saws the
miner * sensitive to his interests. and
cites the result OF the last election in
proof thereof, which j. true, Is they
nave already taken measures TO have
that matter attended 20.
Your correspondent ID" saws he
thinks | am not 4 miner, a. ii tina;
would strengthen his argument. lie
- mistaken; | am. and / know he j.
no, unless he belongs 10 that class OF
miners Ia few OF whom are in Gold
Hilll who have not the moral coura-e
To- defend their rights, but who are
base enough To receive thai they never
helped 10 Observation-Disclosures he would
have known what action the miners
have taken with regard Il those bills.
He can hardly claim 10 be the miners
friend who would thus endeavor 10
deprive them OF a beneficial law and
substitute a worthless or rather inju
I rious ~ Such counsel could only
spring from those who live 10y ode
frauding the laborer of his wages. :
the operations OF whom Mr.. BARRIERS
bill i intended to prevent, and who,
when il becomes a law (a~ | am sure il
viii. will be known by the classic
name OF dead beat corresponding
with mis- present initials.
Pardon me for trespassing on vour
space, ami please insert this in the in
terest OF the MINER.