Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-02-27
MORNING APPEAL.
MINOR EDITORIALS.


:alled Chinese Question. As an elaboration
Of the platitude8 which are the yet remaining
sediment Of threadbare tissue of weak and
malignant sophistries this 'Report is fitting
result of the prolonged labors of hopeless me-
diocrity seeking to express itself in the Ian
guage of political cant and partisan dema-
soguery For example, we find the Report
carrying the following amazing proof of pro-
found aud complacent idiocy: They (the
Chineso), are separated from us by compar
aaiyelv narrow ocean, which is pacific in spirit
IS well as in name. Compared with what
ocean is the Pacific marrow the Atlantic
the Indian, the Northern, the Arctic or the
Antarctic! Pacific in spirit: what bosh is
this. Such line would be absurd even in one
of the wretchod poems of The Open Letter.
1t is possible that the assembled Ignorant who
dished up this report are so hopelessly litter
ate and possess so poor an opinion of the in
teIligence of the people Of the country as to
venture ''know nothing, fear nothing to
enuncate such poor trash as this There is
not boy or a girl in the Carson public school
big or little, who does not know better than
TO speak of tho Pacific ocean as comparatively
narrow; and none but they who still believe
H. the AIelstrom, Robinson Crusoe and he
stories Of Sinbad the Sailor, still linger under
the delusion that the Pacific ocean, save near
the lee OF its western shores is any more free
from storm and tempest, lashing fury and re-
siStloss wrath than even the fierce Atlantic.
There are capes along the China seas as terri
bic as Hatteras; the cyclones of the Tong Hal
and the Hoang Hal, otherwise known as the
Eastern Sea and the Yellow Sea) are the most
terrible and the most dreaded known to mari
ners; and Hong Kong lying within the Tropic
Of Cancer, cannot be left astern by the Chi
nese emigrant ship without passing the stormy
and cruel headlsnds and wind breeding bays
of Formosa. Indeed this entire Report is
shallow, puerie and trashy-doing quite as
much injustice TO the anti Chinese side as to
the opposite. It is not at all refreshing to be
informed that Wggngton is going to address
the Committee on the "legal aspects of this
question He should be followed by Luttrell
and both OF en- with shotgun or stuffed
club
\ telegr,2bic report of Washington matters
says that b. Democrats have been having a
caucus VITA d view to selecting President
pro tenn of the Senate and that they have Sc
lected Thurman. They certainly could not
have conferred that honor upon more capa-
hle or more deserving member of their party
The Republican party being sufficiently be-
traycd by the malecontents, self seekers, sore
heads and destructives who found their way
into its camp contemporaneously with Hayes,
Cox of Ohio, Booth, Matthews and the rest
of the "Reformers" must necessarily retire
before the advancing hosts of the United De-
mocracy and the Solid South. We suspect
that there may be Democrats in and out of
the Senate who still cherish the hope and be-
lief that the time is not far distant when the
incarceration Of Anderson i'll the Louisiana
Penitentiary VIII be followed by the logical
corolary to that procedure, the summary Gust
ing of Hays from the White House,
Another dreadful wreck has occurred off
Hatteras. l. was that of a German bark named
4 EIii' 80 ltClCiI All lidiuS are ItpOICeu |
lost. Th,". seems TO be direful inadequacy
of life ST, u. stations along that part of our
coast.
A terrible tidal wave swept to destruction
nearly everything on the water front at Callao
Oh the 9th and 28th of January ult The
loss of life was. considerable, that OF property
almost beyond calculation.
The Russians will enter Constantinople
Mother Shirtcu is quoted at an advancing
figure.
There seems to have arisen probability
that at lst Justice may overtake certain
very great and frequent offender. We note
by he T,scarorl Times Review that w. Fl.
Pierce. tn murderer of George Wilson in
Carson and Of another man in Tuscarora, has
been indicted the Grand Jury of Elko
county for murder in the first degree, and is
now in Jail, withou. bail, awaiting his trial
upon that very serious charge. Pierce is a
very bad, dangerous man, feeble in intellect,
pitiably ignorant, but e1 edingly cunning
His self delivery fro'a the u' at Genoa shows
him to be a desperate. h%r'' chance taking
scamp; and it will be well ioc G authorities
vi Elko county to keep an eye ut for breaks.
The final trials in Douglas County illustrated
the fact that there were some mbers of the
sporting fraternity (who welc all very much