Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-12-15
A STURDY BEGGAR.

And now comes jay Gould with his
little scheme for making another grand
steal out of the national treasury. Any
project with which such a man as Jay |
Gould is concerned, or is the promoter, |
may well be looked upon with suspicion. |
A man that will boldly and defantly at
tempt to steal great railroad like the
Erie, may well be regarded with distrusf
when he comes before the people (no,
not the people, but before a moriband,
demorslized and disgraced Congressl for
a grant of public money amounting to
twenty million of dollars. In the his
tory of celebrated highwsymen and burg
lars, we are often astonished at the i'm
puience and sang froid with which their
depredations are carried out. Seldom
cspturing booty of more than a few
thousands, these fellows run the risk Of
their lives and liberty with GOODNESS
and nerve that would be remarkable
under any circumstances aud causing
establishment often to be expressed, that
men could &C, with such deliberate con-
6iencs when they know they are CON-
hitting an audscious robbery. Under
such circumstances such conduct is
wonderful. That being the case, is il,
not ten times more astonishing tha, men
supposed 10 be decent members of soci.
et!, OF, however, they may have deserved
State Prison, should go to Washington,
and with all the cheek" in the world,
ask Congress to assist in robbing the
people of twenty millions of dollars and
not be booted down the steps of the
Capitol. They certainly ought to be, for
they must set down the members Of Con-
grss as either a set OF idiotic fools or en-
grained rascsls. Who is jay Gould and
what has be done that he should ask
the nation to present him with twenty
millions. The answer is, that he is q
gold and stock gambler. and his two
most celebrated actions are an attempt
TO steal the Erie and to ruin every CON-
mercial house in the country by the
scheme which eliminated on the mem.
orable Black Friday" Who was the
confederate of Fisk, with neither the
brains or the heart of the latter. That
is who Jay Gould is, aud he is the man
who only wants $50, 600, 600 to help him
run the Pacific mail steamers off the
ocean. At this present moment in New
York and the Atlantic States generally
there are thousands Of men, women and
children in want and misery, and abso-
lutely dying of hunger and privation.
Twenty million dollars wisely distributed
would during the present Winter, save
hundreds Of lives, rescue thousands of
families from intolerable hardships, and
prevent many, many unfortunate, TN
happy girls from sacrificing their hopes
in this world and the next for food and
raiment. II Congress has $4,000, 900
of the nations money to give away,
there is noble bene6cent and blessed
purpose to apply it, The recipients Of
such bounty, every individual of them,
have as much, nay better right to it,
then Jay Gould, for they never injured
their country or their fellow man, but be
has. He lives like all gamblers by other
peoples loss. The only recommends
ton that could be plead in his favor is
that he is rich. For no other reason, if
that be one, can the present flag end of q
salary grabbing, press-gagging, thor
oughly corrupt Congress give him twenty
millions of money that has been wrung
dollar by dollar from the toiling masses
of the American Republic.