Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-08-21

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Who Is the true friend Of the poor
man. Of the working man. Of the people
Of this section? Is il Adolph Sutrol
Not to any sslf-sacrincing extent. He
ostsntatiously asserts, with a luxurious
smack Of his Assyrian lip, that he Is q
"poor man. not worth a cent In the
world" and most earnestly does he work
and argue in his own behalf. His efforts
are all solely In his own behalf and for
his own selnsh interest alone. II he
really Is a. poor . man rs he represents
himself 70 be land which nobody be-
Isvss), he Is certainly the poor man
sutro's friend. He hi capital ~inancier
in his own personal behalf. He has
tried hard TO help himself to the whole
Comstock Lode. a. we'll rs the numerous
contiguous mining claims belonging to
poor men. ~ well as their homes. and IL
perfectly willing 10 take all and give
nothing. He believes in charity toward
all poor men and himself first, on the
principle that CHARITY begins at home"
and elf you meet . poor man without
mo.sy don't give him any" That obi
Gus "Bangk Wing" about which he
pirates 50 necessarily and m~onotonously
obliged him 10 stick to the sstab-
lishsd rate Of wages. and pay the
miners he employed in his tunnel four
dollars per day. but he tried hard to get
around doing so, and even now miners
employed there hnd considerable difh-
Guilty in getting their pay in coin. As
We have often represented. Just let him
carry out his present tunnel scheme ac-
cording to his original ideas, he would
monopolinnsly control the whole Com
stock lode. and being perfect master OF
the situation. he would not hesitate 10
cut down wages to the European stand
ard. The only reason why he would
not then employ Chinese cheap labor
would be because he nor anybody els,
can GET . Chinaman to work under
grsund-their well known superstition
and fear OF the devil will not allow Of 1t,
The Carson Tribune Of yesterday, in 4
well written editorial. thus hits Of thi'
blatant friend OF the poor man:
We have in our hands figures, unmis
taxable documents, that will prove tina
Mr.. Adolph Sutro. the great anti-mo-
nopolisf, Is, or would be. the worst op-
pressor Of the laboring class (if he could,
that the people Of the State Of Nsvads
ever knew Of. We dare Mr.. Sutro AMI
the conductors Of his daily paper to re
flute what we assert. In the year 1871,
the men working in the tunnel wer,
hired nj the rate OF four dollars a day,
the same being the rate Of wages de.
mandcd BY the members OF the Miners
Union. At the end Of every month they
received AZ their wages three dollars in
coin. and the remainder in tunnel stock
ut Ave dollars per share. The stock be-
ing OF no use to the vorkmen, the Di-
rectors OF the Company kindly bought II
at 81 per share; thus cheating the work.
men out Of 81 in ever share given TO them
~ pay for work. Does this show Mr..
Sutro to be the poor mans friend? Some
time in the year 1871 an attempt wa
made TO lower the mems wages TO three
dollars a day. IL va rscollect Alright,
the former Superintendent. himself 4
member OF the Miners Union. threat
ened to throw up his situation II the pro
posed reduction was made. AT any rat,
va are willing to prove our assertion b,
said superintendent. W. much doub
IL Mr.. Sutro could get two votes in towi
OF Dayton. Tn people don't believe il
him. for the reason that they know hin
too well. We have data by which we in
tend to prove Mr.. Sutro to DO the work
ing mans enemy. rather than his friend
and so more on this subject o