Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-25
ELOQUENT DEFENSE 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, as some
! persons absurdly suppose, by a few million
aires, but for the most part by vast number of
! persons. with no other resources than their in
| telligent minds and willing hands who work
in the mines for daily bread, and by q scarcely
| less
NUMEROUS CLASS OF SMALL PROPRIEToRs,
Themselves also workmen who hold each a few
shares in the mines in which they are en-
plCyed.
stslwart and spirited yeOmen in the world.
They are Injured to danger and toll, and are
brave, strong, intelligent and self-reliant. In
weary professions across alkaline deserts under
equatorial and blistering suns, across mountain
and valley desert and plain; amid the attacks
of ssvages and the fever5 of tropical swamps
they marked the path and blszed the trail of
Western Empire. They OVerCame every hos
tile condition and builded, on foundations of
liberty and justice, three great States in your
Western border.
THEY CONQUERED THE GENIUS OF sTERILrTY
In its stronghold, built cities 10 900 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 |
exactness and thOroughness of science and in |
this respect placed this country in the vanguard |
Of the nations. They have neither avoided
your taX-Satherers, sought your subsidies nor
demanded Your protective legislation. Nor do
they do SO now. They only ask that you shall
legisIate in respect OF this great question in
view of the history of the world, the Constitu-
ton of the country and the facts that 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bill, Senator Jones repealed Indignantly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:
But denying as do that 1 am personally in
terested in the reconciliation of silver, wish
to have it distinctly understood that 1 do not
even by implication admit that my right to leg
lSate on the subject would be lost or in any way
impaired if the reverse were true. A fastidious-
ness of this delicate order would be more nice
than wise. 1t has never been required of any
one here except
THE ALLEGED OWNERS OF SILVER MINES.
Has it ever been regarded as dishonorable for ]
legislators, VINO may nave 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 against tariffs
md other laws directly affecting those inter
.sts Has this gauZy virtue restrained owners
If stock in national banks from voting in con. q
rolling numbers for laws directly beneftting f
hose institutions? Has the metropolitan press {
demanded that persons so interested should alb 4
tain from voting here such questions? If n
UGH q rule We're insisted upon might it not h
cave one or both branches of Congress without h
quorum Might not the strict enforcement +
f such a rule render necessary the creation of n
n idle and privileged class to legislate for the
ountry? r
THE SILVER MINERS OF THE UNITED STATES o
lave ehirked no duty either in pesce or war -
hey demand neither protective legislation nor II
from their full share in the burden
f taxes, nor special privileges of any kind but
hey have special interests in the production of
liver, and it is task equally easy and CRATE Q,
al to me to vindfcate them. They are engaged 81
I a lawful and honest industry, and who be- n,
Veen the two oceans better entitled to fair a,
-eatment than they? IL
The people of Nevada do not shrink from any oil
)mpArisOns to which they can be subjected. ri
was because they were known to be loyal and Ar
atriOtic that Nevada was admitted as a State av
Ito the Union. 1t admitted during the | dI
isis of the civil war, as an added bulwark to il
le defense and liberty Of the country. If or
leir numbers were and are few w
THEY HAVE MAINTAINED GOOD GOVERNMENT,
fficiently protected life and property, literally
ldowed institutions of education and benef- ID
snce, and have SO we'll ordered their finances a
lat their Governor has been recently urged to Nj
,nvene the Legislature in extra session to re- sc
ice taxes in order to prevent the accumuls- NJ
on of an inconvenient surplus in the treasury. ia
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IL nlE'i'' - fho"H vi
18th the most forbidding aspects of nature In af
q restless wander1ngs In search Of the pre- of
Gus metals the miner sees no stately forests M
smiling lawns nor luscious fruits to enchant CT
e senses or soothe the mind but 1t is IN tor tn