The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-09-13
THEORY vs.. PRACTICE.

eHhcS AotAioIAo VI 1Lc people are Up
posed to Chinese immigration, fos
terlng monopolies, and railroad
subsidies yeta large majority of the
people voted in favor of all these
measures when they elected Mr..
Booth and the Republican Legisla
tive ticket. The Republican party
in Congress and in the halls of the
State Legislatures is always the
champion of railroads. Look at the
immense domain given by Congress
to such corporations Look at the
subsidies granted by the States to
similar corporations Any other
course would be opposed to the ge-
MUS of the Republican party. Its
policy has been to make the rich
richer and the poor poorer. As an
organization it merits the admiration
of those who venerate the maxim
that the end juStities the means
By appealing to the worst passions
and prejudices of human nature it
arrays section against section, nu-
tionalitv against nationality and
creed against creed :; while to the
weak and base (charitably called
men of practical ideas it gives gold
for apostacy. While protesting the
greatest regard for the masses it has
exempted the b~ondholder from taxa
ton madea high tariff for the bene-
fit of manufacturers, and has taxed
most GENEROUSLY the necessaries of
life and every article of consumption
from the hat the artisan wear to the
smallest article ofhis wife's apparel.
His babe is dressed in taxed clothes,
rocked in a taxed cradle. and buried
in a taxed coffin. Like DR.. San
grade, the Republican party cries
"bleed, bleed" and it will be for
tunate if the policy of the latter is
not as fatal to national prosperity as
the treatment of the former was to
his patients. While protesting a
love for liberty, that party enacted
the Infamous Ku Klux Bill, only ex-
ceeded in infamy by the recent cleo
ton law of Congress which places
at once the lives and liberties of the
people of the South, and the inhabi-
tants of large cities at the mercy of a
single man clothed with more power
than was ever arrogated by the most
absolute despot. Protesting friend
ship for republican institutions, it
has reared despotisms /; claiming to
be progressive, it shouted hosannas
at the suecess Of progress when Will
liam of Prussia, going into the war
a King. emerged an Emperor. Cen
t~ralization of power is the Republic
can idea of progress. In order to
achieve success, it inverts the teach
ings of Christianity. Hence, pos
sessing such lax morality. it is not
surprising that the Radical party
has but little regard for such a
virtue as truth.
If the people of California are not
as cruelty deceived As were the peo-
pie of this State in the election of
1868, we will be ~agreeably disap-
pointed. Then, not only the Repub-
lican platform of this State, but
every Republican speaker, de-
nounced the Fifteenth Amendment
and negro suffrage. On that issue
the party rode into power. Did they
keep the pledges made to the people?
Let the advanced Radical who
claims, as the record shows, that
Nevada gained the u~nenviable noto-
riety or equivocal fame of being the
first State in the Union to ratify that
Amendment, answer. If the Repub-
lican platform had favored negro
suffrage, not one man out of every
ten would have voted for the meas
ure. The people were deceived,
duped. The Enterprise laughed at
them, and excused the regeneration