The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-01-12
ARRA1GNING PoLIrIcAL PARTIES
The Charges Preferred Against them
by the Big Meadows Anti-Chtnese
7 society,
BIG MEADOWS, Jan. z.


EDITOR SILVER STATE:-In answer to
an editorial article in your issue of
December oath. referring to COMMUNE
cation from the Big Meadows Labor
and Anti. Chinese Organization, pub
lished in the same issue, in which you
say, But the preface to the resolu-
tons which. in all probability, give
only the views Of one Individual, in
stead of those of the whole organiza-
tion." we would say that the views set
forth in the preface to those resolutions
are the views of not only all the mem
bers of our organization. but we think
they are
THE VIEWS OF MAJORITY OF THE
Throughout the entire country at the
present time. The truth of the state
inent that both the Republican and
Democratic parties have equally failed
to effect legislation favoring the masses
of the people," we think is evident
from the condition in which the masses
find themselves to-day legislated out of
their just rights; the currency of the
country contracted at the bidding of the
moneyed classes to less than one fifth
of what the people require, and their
labor and produce correspondingly
lessened in value. Taxed, we might
say. almost exclusively to support a
Government that ought to guard the
lives, the industry and the property of
the whole people without distinction
as to class or condition: but which has
been SO far perverted by the dazzling
and binding Iuster of gold as to run
only IN the interests of moneyed cor
porations, and wealthy bondholders.
and goldholders.
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, THE PROPERTY OF
THE AMERICAN LABoRER,
Which he had right to appropriate
and to reclaim for the purpose of max.
ing himself home and means of
support when old age and infrmity
would render him otherwise unable to
procure an Independent livelihood. was
given away to swindling corporations,
aud allowed to be appropriated by dis.
honest monopolles. and now the labor
er, the citizen it most directly affects,
must pay for that which belongs, or
ought to belong to him by right, as an
actual settler, at just whatever figure
the greedy capitalist may choose to
name. Throughout the entire land.
go where you may. you sec a marked
decay in every branch of industry.
You will hear every body say that the
times are becoming more duii;a money
is becoming more source. and business
depressions becoming more universal.
You will see the factories that once
gave employment 60 thousands of men
and women now in idieness, and the
mills, that but lately sent forth the
songs of business end industry, lying
silent and still. You will lee mines
that might be made to
YIELD MILLIONS OF WEALTH
To the nation, unworked. because
there is not capital enough outside the
monopolies to develop them. You
will hear the voice of million men
and women begging work. that they
may earn food for themselves and little
ones. You will hear of thousands of
our poor young women. who might
otherwise have become the atfectionate
wives and loving mothers of many
happy home. that are driven to lives of
inhDy; to- fate hundred TIMES
worse than death, because they could
bot obtain any other means of living;
they could not find employ ment; they
could not get bread. aud it is hard to
| starve. Sons men and women have
less patience than the majority Of their
kind under the load of oppression they
had to bear,
AROSE IN DESPERATION
Clamoring for bread; but the Govern.
ment was prompt enough iaa'suppress.