Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-19
Burns.

man ecturel : if he were little charity child, humid
his development strictly literal to his Cate
chism and allied by Providence to walk all his days in
station in lie represented festive occasions by OF
warm milk and water and bun! What popgUrs of jokes
have these ears tnged let off him, what asinne
sentiments what mpotent conclusions what spelling book
nrati at ADAPTATIONS the orators insuerable te-
ousness to the level of his UNDERSTANDING If his
ledgehanners his spades and pcaxes, his ard CHS
els, his pantpots and brushes, his orges furnaces and
engines horses that drove at his work. and the
chimes thai drove him at his work. all toys in lit
tie paper box and he the baby who played with them he
could been discoursed impertineny and
asurdy than have heard him discoursed to times nnu
acknowledge his tronage by virtually saying
Let alone. If you unders, md me better than that
say but don't like it, ana won't come here again to
have any more of it. '-lDickens.
1t will be observed that we have, before
yenturing upon what we have to say upon the
subject indicated in the heading, taken the
advantage of such inspiration as is to be found
in the writings of men who, in their time,
came nearer the heart of toiling humanity,
than any authors of whom we have any ac-
count. As we copied Burns's wellworn (bur
not sufficiently heeded) lines, We said If We
we're asked for motto which should be let
tered in gold and wreathed with the most
beautiful colors and forms of vines and leaves,
ArabesQues and lushy frontage, and which
should be placed i'll the most conspicuous posi-
ton upon the walls of any club or meet
ing-hau of working men, we should choose the
lines from. Burnss poem on Honest Poverty,
quoted above. Not that we would glOrify
Poverty or incite men to be proud of being
poor; for the pride of poverty is like the pride
Of humility, mean, grovelling, unmanly and
degrading Every man should strive to at
tain by honest courses, the higher and stronger,
better and more useful places in this toilsome
world But the sentiment worthy of being
aroused by the poets words is that of self
respect This cannot be too assiduously in
culcated for itself will weed out false pride
as it viii forbid self-deprecation and all slav
i.h suhserviency. The words we have quoted
from Dickens are to be found in those best of
delightful sketches which are coated under |
the general head and authority of The Tn
commercial Traveller. The Sketch quoted |.
from is entitled The Boiled Beef Of New Eng |
land # will be observed that o,rr quotation !
commences at the beginning of paragraph |
which seems to have reference to something
which Immediately precedes it, Indeed it is
i'll the way of continuation OF a subject mat
ter Of comment and follows some remarks
upon the character and attributes of English
worilingmen. wherefrom we quote IS follows:
- This instructive revolt of his spirit against
patronage is a quality much to be respected
iii the English workingman. Ii is the base Of
the base of his best qualities. Nor is it sur
prising that he should be unduly suspicious of
patronage and sometimes resentful of it even
where it is not, seeing what flood of washy
talk has been let loose on his devoted head,
IT with what complacent condescension the
same devoted head has been smoothed and
lttted.' Elsewhere the same Incompatible
pen writes that great truth whose words should
also be blazoned upon the walls Of every work
in4neMs place of meeting: "Nhateyer is so
far done for the comfort and advancement of
the workm@nm must be 50 far done by him ;
self, 1t viii he observed that We have also
well-known quotation from Words !
worth, The relevancy Of that quotation Will
be apparent, all in good time
So much by way IF preface Now. as tcrsoly t
as possible to say something upon the general I
question of Labor and Labor Disturbances in
general and of Labor and the A9itations con- {
corning Labor on the Pacific Coast
Last year, when the great lines Of railway
were the scene of unprecedented violence and {
tumult, the MORNING APPEAL expressed the {
opinion that those scenes, alarming as they '
were, were bat the expression Of a people who
we're in revolt against oppression, greed, ava t
ice and cruelty. We said, in effect, that Y
knowing the patience, the high spirit, the con c
,tant patriotism and the intelligence of the t
'ailway employees of the United States-thou- v
lands of whom bear the honorable scars of war t.
were sure that their outbreak was but II
he bursting forth of that natural and honest, c
'ea, manful and generous indignation which o
inds vent when Forbearance has ceased to be Z
Virtue. The Railway Rings, constituted a
lot only so as to to enrich their Directors and Ct
residents but as to cheat the farmer of his il
rain, and the stockholders of his rights had, fc
fterscrewing down the wages Of their employees o.
q starvation rates, the heartlessness to en- C
er INTO a compact to take away from them ten b
'er cent. of their wretched pittance Then d
hose tollers rose; and the MORNING APPEAL n
aid then as it says now, Whenever any com tt
any cOrDOratiOn caDtalist RinC State ar