Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-14
TAXATION.

The bearing of the burden of their own
ssit-sustainment by people is always heavy
and heavy enough. 1t seems to be that the
world itself won't wag for nothing! We,
(who are very sel6sh), think the world ought
70 wag ON an imaginary axis for the fun of
being world! Then, when the world has a
cloud burst or an earthquake, you curse the
World and, like the lesser gods, put your scr-
rows and misfortunes upon the Infinite. How
selfish this is! Suppose we reason awhile
God made the great cleaning stars; the earth
(smong lesser and larger matter), was also
swung into matter. Look at the toiling bees
and the building ants, yea, and tbs beavers
and the fish (who follow after their kind, and
see the blades of grass: How they toll not,
neither do they spin. There are great dan
gers to be encountered and great lives to live.
There be drones within the hive; there are
ants and grasshoppers; there are the indus
trious and the idle: And the trail of
the mean, designing man runs over it all !!
There are red shirts in this border country of
ours-they are like to contain men who dig
the gold where they fine it." They do fine
and fud it Look how they toll and Sweat
lnder this weary load 1t costs EN-. unless
they walk (Which they most always do), about
al they can make in month to pay for one
days travel behind 4 pair of mules-mules
eed on the barley which grew for nothing in
the priceless ground with the help of the
air and the water-whioh, like Indians, are
not taxed The penalty of enterprise is
eoIls. He who travels DER road pays the
y,,an for having dug the earth out of its place
aad asserted the rocks to make his way more
accessible. But why should the highway
viewed out by come bright -eyed man. be
made to rob the barley of its fruitfulness and
destroy the value of the potatoe2 Why should
che oficeholder strip his flock forever and aye;
Why should not land be as free So arr Why
should not the untaxed water (which IS under
sentieman's property? What business mas
water to flow, anyhow Shakespeare says,
with his queer grammar, "The earth hath
bubbles a. the water has. But, men and
-
and impotent conclusion as that which starts
out with the postulate that the tree should be
eaten by the worm! But at the same time,
there are multitudes of strange things hap
pening: -and worm is as apt to eat tree
As tree IL a worm. Meantime, let US re-
member that women must work tho men
must weep tho the harbor bar be moaning.
Let them toDi But never waste your sub
stance IN the payment of extravagant GUS
sons dues-unless you have TO. Meantime
the railway carriage in our State Is exceed
ingiy reasonable. Wood is cut, corded and
carried with great reasonabeness. Also
charcoal. Aud it is quite right that they
should do so--the carriers, we mean. The
sxpressmen, the bankers, the stage drivers,
the pack mule men and all that class of ser
wants have taken their chances with the pros
pectors, merchants and mechanics. The rail
roads have always shown a disposition, thro'
their managers, to do the same thing 1t is
a proud thing to think Of That the MORNING
APpHAL, true to the instincts of it's founders, |
has always been sound on this question. In
The meantime taxation is a question Of the |
most paramount Importance. In the scheme
Of government the taxes, direct aud indirect |
should be reduced; the hand of greed should |
be relaxed from its clutch VI BON the throat of
industry; the servants should serve their |
masters with more honesty and faithfulness
The tariff ought to be immediately revised (if |
not abolished); the prospector should be
helped and not hindered; and the next Legis-
sture, rising to the grandeur of the occasion,
ike the earth as it gllnts back the rays of the
uprising sun; the Pleiades, the Belt of
Orion, Cassiopieas' Chair and all should think
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RICH Oes.-The &lrsr State of the 18th
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