The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-02-16
THE LABOR PARTY.
What It Discountenancss and Rec.
ommemds.
Big MEADOWS, Feb. Ii.

uon, lew Items OF interest to the
public. Conversation, among the
better posted of our citizens very
frequently turns to a quiet dis
cussion of
THE POLITICAL ISSUES OF THE TIMES.
People are feeling keenly the effects of
the hard times. They are beginning
to understand the true cause, and i'm
pute it principally to the unwise and
dishonest financial legislation of the
last ten or twelve years. This is the
case throughout the whole country :,
but on this coast we have an additional
cause of hard times amopg the poorer
classes. The Chinaman--the faithful
and effective ally of capital in its en-.
deavor to destroy the independence of
labor--makes 1t hard for those classes
who have to depend on their daily or
monthly earnings for bread, to live at
all. Though much of the cry of OPP
preston, corruption aud fraud that we
hear may be unfounded; yet it cannot
be denied that much of it is too well
founded to admit of doubt. A class
has sprung up in this country, which,
by means of the influence that COM
bined wealth gives them. proposes to
RULE THE INDUSTRIAL CLASSES,
And to dictate to the representatives of
the people what laws they shall or
shall not enact. We cannot doubt that
this is their intentions when the or
gans of this powerful class--the SUBJ
sidized press of our eastern cities--ex-
pressly declare it SO in terms not easily
mistaken. The industrial classes them
selves are, to great extent, to blame
for much of the wrong that has been
done; they take too little interest in the
political affairs of the country; they
have paid too little Or no attention to
the financial transactions of the Gov
eminent, until the scarcity of money,
which produced such terrible effects
amongst them, has opened their eyes
and started them to thinking. They
are now beginning to see the frauds
that have been and are being per.
petrated on the people.
HONEST AND ABLE MEN ARE COMING TO
THE FRONT;
Honest snd able newspaper men are
taking up the cause of the people. and
the fraudulent schemes of the eastern
Shylocks are being showed up pretty
thoroughly. The true intent of those
measures by which the people are
being robbed of the greater part fthe
circulating currency and arctic be COM
PEELED to pay their debts in a currency,
every dollar of which would havethe
full purchasing value of the gold, the
silver or the paper dollar, and this, too,
at the cost of increasing the interest on
the public debt.
THE CURRENT LEGAL TENDER DOLLAR
Is the standard by which the value of
property. produce and labor is meas
ured. and any sudden and dishonest
contraction of the currency lessons the
value of these things, and increases the
value of money in proportion. Ii the
volume of the currency Is lessened one
half or one.third, the value of property.
produce and labor, is proportionately
lessensd; but the salaries of officials,
the principal aud interest of the public
and private debts, also the burden of
taxation on the people, are correspond
ingly increased; and thus the people
are made to pay heavy tribute to sup
port and increase the power OF
A MoNExED ARIsToCRACy.
All this is made plain to the people by
the honest endeavors of those men and
those newspapers. But the evil does
not stop here. The amount of money
in circulation Is inadequate to meet the
requirements of trade and our increased
population. A. greater demand is Gre
ated for it, aud its possessors are in
daced to hold to it with u tighter grip;
none of it can be spared to start new
enterprises, and open out new indus
trias. amnlnymant has become scarce