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

TIE sons of the rich of this genera
tim NAV be the poor of the next; so
thst, after all, the rich fear and the
poor hope.
II is the glory of the United States
that the poor man can take his boy
upon his knee and say, "My son, all
thu avenues to distinction are open
to YOU. You can rise. There is no
station, no position to which You may
net aspire. The poverty Of your
father will not be milestone about
your neck. The public schools are
open to you For you there are edu-
cation, honor, fame, and prosperity"
These thoughts render holy every
drop of sweat that rolls down the
face of honest toll.
| 1 sympathize with the wanderers,
with the Migrants out Of employ
ment; with the sad and weary men
who are seeking for work.
When see one of these men, poor
and friendless-no matter how bad
be isl think that somebody loved
him once; that he was once held in
arms by a mother; that he slept be-
meath her loving eyes, and wakened
in the light of her smile. l see him
in the cradle, listening to lullabies
sung soft and low, and his little face
is dimpled as though touched by the
rosy fingers of Joy. And then l
think of the strange and winding
paths, the weary roads he has trav-
eled from that mothers arms to
vagrancy and want.
CONCLUSION.
There should be labor and food for
all. We invent; we take advantage
of the forces of nature: we enslave
the winds and waves; we put shackles
upon the unseen powers and chain
the energy that wheels the world.
These slaves should release from
bondage all the children of men.
By invention, by labor-that is to
say, by working and thinking-we
will compel prosperity to dwell with
US.
DO not imagine that wealth can be
created by law. Do not for mo-
ment believe that paper can be
changed to gold by the fiat of Con-
gress. 'Hf .t1@
Do not preach the heresy that you
can keep promise by making an
other one in its place that is never to
be kept. Do not teach the poor that
the rich have conspired to trample
them into the dust. ufH
Tell the working men that they are
in the majority; that they can make
and execute the laws.
Tell them that since 1878 the en-
ployers have suffered about as much
as the employed.
Tell them that the people who
have the power to make the laws
should never resort to violence. Tell
them never to envy the successful.
Tell the rich to be extravagant and
the poor to be economical.
Tell every man to use his best
efforts to get him home. Without
a home, without some one to love,
life and country are meaningless
words. Upon the face Of the patriot
must have fallen the freight of home.
Tell the people that they must
have honest money, so that when a
man has little laid by for wife and
child, it will comfort him even in
death; so that he will feel that he
leaves something for bread, something
that, in some faint degree, will take
his place; that he has left the coined
tot; of his hands to work for the
loved when he is dust.
Tell your representatives in Con-
gress to improve our rivers and har-
bors; to release our transcontinental
commerce from the grasp of monop.
oily; to open all our territories. and
to build up our trade with the
whole world.
Tell them not to issue dollar of
fat paper, but to redeem every prom
Use the nation has made.
If fiat money is ever issued it will
be worthless, for the folly that would
issue has not the honor to pay when
the experiment fails.
Tell them to put their trust in work.
Debts can be created by law, but
they must be paid by labor.
Tell them that "fiat money" is
madness and Reputation is death.
"A pAKER in Yreka. Cal.