Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-11-27

. now stationed along the border, PEG
pie enough will settle along the lin
to protect themselves. 1t will per
manently settle the Indian question
saving the people millions each year
1t will effectually destroy the pres
emit monopoly, and in this way great
ly increase production and consump
ton. 1t will double our trade will
China and Japan, and with the Pa
cific States as-well. 1t will settle
the Southern question by filling the
Southern States with immigrants, di'
versifyiug the industries of that sec
ton, changing and rebuilding the
commercial and social fabric; will
| do away with the conservatism of re-
fgret and the prejudice born of iso.
d lation. twill transmute to wealth
the unemployed muscle of the coun.
try. 1t will rescue California from
the control of a single corporation,
from the Government of an oligarchy
united, watchful, despotic, and win.
] dictive. It will liberate the farmers,
the merchants, and even the poll
| ticians of the Pacific coast. Besides,
it must not be forgotten to so frame
the laws and charters that Congress
shall forever have the control OF
fares and freights. In this way the
public will be perfectly protected
and the Government perfectly Sc
cured.
Look at the map, and you will see
the immense advantages its construc-
ton will give to the entire country,
not only to the South, but to the
East and West as we'll. 1t is ono
hundred and fifty miles nearer from
Chicago to San Diego than to San
Francisco. You will see that the
whole of Texas, State containing
two hundred and ten thousand square
miles; . State four times as large as
Illinois, i've times as large as New
York, capable of supporting a popu-
lation of twenty millions of people,
is put in direct and immediate COM
munication with the whole country.
Territory to the extent of nearly a
million square miles will be given
to agriculture, trade, commerce, and
mining, by the construction OF this
line. fiI4sgB gg 5q..l
Let this road be built, and we will
feel again the enthusiasm born of
enterprise. In the vast stagnation
there will be at last current. Some
thing besides waiting is necessary to
secure, or even hasten the return OF
prosperity. Secure the completion
Of this line and extend the time for
building the Northern Pacific, and
confidence and employment will re.
turn together.
More men must cultivate the soil.
In the older States lands are too
high. It requires too much capital
to commence. There are too many
failures in business; so many mer-
chants. traders, and manufactures
have been wrecked and stranded
upon the barren shores of bankrupt
cy, that the people are beginning to
prefer the small but certain profits
Of agriculture to the false and splen-
did promises Of speculation. We
must open new territories; we must
give the mechanics now out of en-
ployment an opportunity to cultivate
the soil-not as day laborers, but as
owners; not as tenants, but as farm.
ers. Something must be done to de-
velop the resources of this country.
With the best lands of the world !;
with population Intellectual, ener-
getic, and ingenious far beyond the
average of mankind; with the rich
est mines OF the globe; with plenty
of capital; with surplus of labor
with thousands of arms folded in en-
forced idleness; with billions of gold
asking to be dug; with millions of
acres waiting for the pillow, thousands
upon thousands are in absolute want.
New avenues must be opened. All
our territory must be given to emf
grafton. Greater facilities must be
offered. Obstacles that cannot lie
overcome by individual enterprise
must be conquered by the Govern
mcnt for the good Of all. Every
man out of employment is impover-
ishing the country. Labor trans.
mutes muscle into wealth. Idleness
is a rust that devours even gold. For
five years we have been wasting the
labor of millions-wasting it for lack
of something to do. Prosperity has
changed to want and discomfort. On
every hand the poor are asking for
work. That is wretched govern
ment where the honest and indus
trious beg, unsuccessfully, for the
right to toll; where those who are
willing, anxious, and able to work,
cannot get bread. If everything is
to be left to the blind and heartless
working of the laws Of supply and
demand, why have the governmental
| If the nation leaves the poor to
starve, and the weak and unfortu.
nate to perish, it is hard to see fol-
what purpose the nation should be
| preserved. If our statesmen are moi
wise enough to foster great enter
prises, and to adopt a policy thai
will give US prosperity, it may b.