The Placer herald., 1873-02-08
JOHN T.. JONES.

Senate by the Legislature of Nevada, Hon.
j. =. Jones made a speech, which he had
written down maturely. We make the fol-
lowing extract, which suits us:
GRAsPING CORPORATIONS AND SUBSIDIES.
The public doman-the freehold of the
peoples lavishly given over to graspine
corporations; the public treasure-the COM
mon property Of all-is donated them in
more than princely subsid es. BY charters
framed to their bidding they are empowered
to extort, monopolze and discriminate at
will. Their graspi is upon every community,
restricting the healthful current of trade,
paralyzing the action OF industry and thwart
ing the popular will in the choice of Repre-
rentaiives. Is it to hc wondered that such a
state of affairs should excite the alarm, in
dignation and resentment Of people every
one of whom believes that he has an equal
interest in the commonwealth, an equal claim
to its consideration and equal right to pursue
his avocaiions unmoested and to make his
political choice heard The farmer, who
from his seanty savings, pays for his modest
quarter section of land, fails to discover a
just reason why thousand times as much
of the public domain should be gratuitously
ceded to those thousand fold more able to
pay for it; the humble tax payer, who, year
after year, pays over to the Government the
tithes OF his earnings without hope of any
other return than protection to his person and
property, fails to discover just reason VIII,
his hard earned dollars should he taken from
the public treasury and given in subsidy TO
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pared TO his own. The tradesman, mechanic
and laboycr can discover 10 just reason why
Government should empower men TO dis
criminate against them-lhe masses-no jus
reason their voice in the election of represen-
lation should be overrued by wealth and
power unjustly wrung from themselves.
| These 'njustces were not ioreseen nor con
templated when our Government was or
dained and will not be endured by IA people
having the power to rectify them. In the
presence Of the rebellion, when every nerve
and sinew was strung topreserve the national
life and unity, and during the subsequent
years while the Government walked unslead-
Ily over ground upturned by the fiery plough
share of revolution, the lesser evils were suf.
tered to tester and ripen unhecded. But the
tine has now come TO remedy them. ! mis-
take the significance Of the murmurs which
hear arising with ever increasing vo.ume
from every quarter of the Republic. | i'm
peach my heart of msinterpretation Of
the popular voice if do not discover in
them the foresoundings of solemn, univer-
sal declaration which shall reverberaie
throughout the commonwealth: We, the
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and treasure shall not be squandeled in sub
sides; that the public lands shall be donated
to actual settlers, and in limited quantities,
and that the residue not so entered upon
shall be held by us in trust, as legacy for
those who may come after us; that the citi-
zen be taxed for no purpose but protection
to his person and property; that the channels
of communication and highways of commerce
shall be the property of the nation or the
States respectively, in order that the dis
ribuling forces of the country, which are in
dspensabe to the civilization of the age, and
to the welfare, happiness and prosperity OF
the hands Of the few, but that they he prac-
lically, as well as legally, accessible to all
and free from any discrimination and par
tialiiy. In that declaration no voice will
join more heartily than mine. No public
ervant will make that mandate more abso-
luiely his rule of conduct than myself AS
IA Senator of the nation will not vote for
the appropriation of dollar out of the public
treasury, except for the maintenance of the
public faith and credit, and for purely gov
emmental purposes, and for the attainment
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created. | will not vote for a subsidy of
land, money, bonds or credit to either indi
viduals or corporations. | will not vote for
any hoibed scheme for the development of
cur resources, because | believe their devel.
opment to be more healthy when made sol
idly by private enterprise, under the sufficient
stimulus of p 'ivate interest, and that such
propositions are not generally made for the
public good but in the interest of public plum
derers.
AMNESTY, FREIGHTs AND FARES.
| will vote, if opportunity offer, for cx-
tending universal amnesty to all engaged i'll
the late rebellion. In the plentitude of its
power the Government can afford TO be mag
unanimous. | will vote for any bill to regu-
late, equalize and reduce freights and fares
on any and all roads Especially those built
in whole or II part by Government subsidy
that seem to me just, equitable and eifectual.
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+ The married ladies of Hannibal, Missouri
have formed ''Come Home Husband
Club" 1t is about four feet long and has a
rush on the end of it,
The heroic soul does not sell its justice