Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-14
DFFE%SE OF THE
SILVER MINERS.

! In his first speech, delivered April "a.
1876, in support of the double-standard
and of silver remonetization-a speech
whose great ability is familiar to his con.
stituents Senator Jones paid the follow
| ing glowing tribute to the men from
whose ranks he came and of class with
| whom in every sense he is still one:
And here let me say that the mining interests
! of this country are represented not, asa some
persons absurdly suppose, by few million
aires, but for the most part by a vast number of
persons, with no other resources than their in
teligent minds and willing hands, VINO work
in the mines for daily bread, and by a scarcely
less
NUMEROUS CLASS OF SMALL PRoPRIEToRs,
Themselves also workmen, who hold each few
shares in the mines in which they are EN-.
ployed.
The miners of the West are among the most
stalwart and spirited yeomen in the world.
Thev are Injured to danger and toll, and are
brave, strong, intelligent and self-relisnt. In
weary processi ms across alkaline deserts, under
equatorial and blstering suns across mountain
and valley. desert and plain; amid the attacks
of savages and the fevers of tropical swsmps
they marked the path and blaZed the trail of
Western Empire. They Overcame every hos
tile condition and builded, on foundations of
liberty and justice. three great States iuN your
Western border.
THEY CONQUERED THE GENIUS OF sTERILITY
In its stronghold. built cities 10000 feet above
the level of the sea, and heWed out thrifty
workshops $500 feet below the surface of the
earth They have organized mining with the
exsctness and thorOughness of science, and in
this re pect placed this country in the vanguard
of the nations. They have neither avoided
your taX-gatherers, sought your subsidies nor
demanded 'ur protective legislation Nor do
they do SO now TheV only ask that you shall |
legislate in respect of this great question in |
view of the history of the world, the Con THU
ton of the country and the facts hat surround |
you.
Again, in his last speech on the Silver |
bill, Senator Jones repealed Indignantly |
the charge that personal interest dictated
his own course or influenced the support
he received from his State. He then pro-
ceeded to define in eloquent words those
interests:
terested i'll the RECOMMENDATION of silver wish
to have 1t distinctly understood that / do not
even by implication admit that my right to leg.
slate on the subject would be lost or in any way
impaired If the reverse were true. fsstdious-
ness of this delicate order would b. more nice
Than wise. 1t has never been required Of any
)ne here except
THE ALLEGED OWNERS OF SILVER MINES.
Has it ever been regarded as dishonorable for
egislat RS, who may have personal interests in
ron, copper, lead and salt Mines in cotton fac
ories, or in any other manufacturing industry,
,r in wool growing. to vote for or against tariffs
md other laws directly affecting these inter-
sts? Has this gsuZy vi-tue restrained owners
# stock in national ba0ks fr m voting in con |
rolling hunters for laws directly bene6tting
hose institutions? Has the metropolitan pres |
that persons so interested should alb |
tain fir I'M voting here on such questions? If {
UGH rule were insisted upon might 1t not
cave one or both branches of Congress without ,
quorum Might not the strict enforcement ,
f such a rule render necessary the "restion of :
n idle and privileged class to legislste for the
ountry? ,
THE SILVER MINERS OF THE UNITED STATES q
lave shirked no duty either in peace or war :
hey demand neither protective legislation I
zemptions from their full share in the burden
taxes, nor special privileges of any kind but
ley have special interests In the production of s
liver, and it is task equally easy and CRATE | q
IL to me to vindicate them. They are engaged n
lawful and honest industry, and who be- n
veen the two oceans are better entitled to fair a.
eatment than they? =,
The people of Nevada do not shrink from any a
,mparisons to which they can be subjected. q
was because they were known to be loyal and a
ltriotic that Nevada was admitted as a State o,
ito the Union. 1t was admitted during the =
isis of the civil war, an added bulwark TO :.
e defense and liberty of the country. II -
eir numbers were and are few NJ
THEY HAVE MAINTAINED GOOD GOVERNMENT,
pr tected life and property literally
ldowed institutions Of education and beneh- ID
nee, and have we'll ordered their f1n qnces .
at their Governor has been recently urged to n
nvene the Legislature in extra session t. re- 20
Ice taxes IN order t. prevent the &C umuls- n
III of an inc nvenient surplus in the treasury. II
lie MINING REGIONS OF THIS COUNTRY FRowN "
it'll the most forbidding aspects Of nature. In a.
9 restless w-nderings in search of the pre- OF
BUS metals the miner sees no stately forests, u
smiling lawns nor luscious fruits to enchant cr
q senses or soothe the mind but II 10 in tor. II