The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-04-03
LIFE, LIBERTY. PROPERTY.

thoughts with which he is inseparably
connected, and wrongs or rights which
he must personally share. We have
been taught to believe that under the
aegis of a written constitution life was
sacred, liberty secure, and the rights
of property inviolable. While the
written constitution itself was revered,
and its grants and Limitations of power
faithfully accepted and executed, then
indeed all was well. Our matchless
advance to greatness, Il diversified
unity, and united diversity in pros
perity, commanded the admiration, or
excited the envyofthe civilized world.
How stands the case to-day? Is all
we'll? Are Americans really exempt
from the frailties and crimes of hu-
manity? Are we not, to day, made To
feel that ''the price of liberty is eternal
vigilance?" The lessons of history,
through all its pages, warn us that bad
men, from the promptings o fambition
or the groveling love of luxury, are
ever seeking to dominate our noble
people. Nenophon (a%nabasisl tells us
the Greek troops o tCyrus were starved
and robbed by their commanders and
commissaries, that their own pockets
might be filled. DemOsthenes de
nounced, before the Athenians, the
public plunderers who were enriching
themselves, wore costly robes and
built luxurious palaces, while the
State was being beggared to supply
them with added wealth. Macauley
records of the period in England sue
ceeding the Restoration, that honOrs
and public trusts. peerages. baronet-
cies, regiments. embassies, commits
>ionerships, Leases of crown-lands,
contracts for clothing, for provisions,
for ammunition, pardons for murder,
for robbery, for arsou, were sold at
Whitehall scarcely less openly than
behring's at Billingsgate. Brokers
were constantly plying for custom III
the purlieus- of the court. From the
palace, which was the chief seat of this
pestiIence, the faint had diffUsed itself
through every office andthrough every
rank in every office, and had every
where produced feebleness and disor-
ga~niza,ion.
If dates and names were adapted to
our times, Nenophon, Demosthenes,
and Macauley would be denounced as
so~reheaded Republicans, and these
fearful and significant truths would be
tlippantly thrust aside as the babbIings
OF Greeley, Schurz, and TrumbuIl.
pay the reckoning, have begun and
will continue to investigate the trans
actions of their They Will
no longer permit themselves to be
treated as subalterns by their own en-
ployes. They know that their wisely
constructed system ofself government
is. being wickedly prevented, and
with rapid strides is rushing on to sub
version. They know that their in
or else traitOrous agents,
have, in effect, re enacted the law OF
primogeniture, and are insidiously
paving the way to the teudalism OF the
middle ages. Let US devoted moment
consideration of the last propo-
Our fathers ~intercededt to protect this
against the dangers OF a mon
eyed a~ristocracy, by rejecting the
law of primogenitence, and
adopting our safe and more equitable
system of deeents and distributions.
the existing policy of creating col
lossaL corporations capable of holding
property, the safeguard which our
system of decents was intended to
give is nullified. When a stakeholder
lies. another takes his place, but the
corporation knows no change,
goes on accumulating wealth and
power ad minimum. This soulleSs ar
is, for obvious reasons, much
more potent for evil, and less under
he restraints Of reaaon and JUSTICE,
han that which we sought to prevent.
The browning outrage is the bestOwal
If barOnial estates upon this shOddy
Millions of acres of American soil set