Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-25

rid valleys and on bare, bleak and trsckless
mountains that gold and silver are sought ana
only occasionally found. In this search the
miner leaves behind him every luxury OF life,
every convenience of comfort, and every neces-
sity of growth.
The metal which the silver miner seeks to
obtain is not is usual in gold mining gath
cred from the alluvial sands by uDskilled toll
it can only be wrenched from its embraces of
adamant by exhausting labor. It only be
separated from its baser surroundings by ex-
pensive machinery and the efforts of patient
science. No dollar of gold or silver obtained
by mining has ever involved the robbing of
one man by another, but has been fairly won
in struggle between the rude forces of ma
ture and the dsuntless energy of man, and
was an addition to the wealth of the human
race.
MY CONSTITUENTS HAVE RIGHTS AS SACRED AS
THOSE OF THE NATIONAL CREDITOR.
1t is my high duty and privilege to de-
fend them on this floor, and shall make no
apology for the ardor and persistency with
which 1 discharge this duty and exercise this
privilege.
Does anybody doubt that the Senators from
Massachusetts, would rise with indignation if
anybody should stign atize as blubber-gam
bIers whalebone-spe culators, and members of
an 'oil ring" the bronzed whslemen
of Nantucket and New Bedford who,
when fortune has favored, bring safely
into port the wealth which they have not
obtained by wrecking railroads, or by watering
railroad stocks, or by puts and calls and short
corners in stocks, but which they have created
by struggling with the cold, the darkness, the
storms and the crushing ice-hOes Of Arctic seas.
And why should l restrain my indignation
when l hear the stigmstizing epithet of "bo-
nanZa swindlers" applied to my constituents
who are to-day toiiing in gloomy passages
under eXhsusting heats, 1000 feet below the
surface of the earth, away from the cheering
light of day, in an industry which is believed
to pay less profit upon the average than any
other known to man? do not shrink from the
of the ways and methods of the
acquisition of wealth IN the mining industry
on the Pacific Coast with the ways and methods
of its acquisition anywhere on earth, and least
Of all with the ways and methods of Wall street,
where these attacks upon my constituents
originate.
WHO BEARS THE BURDEN OF PUBLIC DEBT.
Have Senators considered the true signif-
canoe of q reduction Of the money incomes of
the wsge-earning classes by one-hslf? Have
hey sounded the depths? Have they gagged
he proportions of calamity like that? With
Ill the mitigations of which it admits, 1t is q
orotracted and corroding misery. The money
cost of the things which workmen buy may be
'educed, but not at all in proportion to the re-
iuction in their incomes. There is no reduc-
ion, however, in individual debts, nor in that
mass of public debts-nstional, state,
county, municipsl-the burden of which rests
srgely upon the always overloaded back of
abor. When this Government pledges its
redit, the property in existence bears but
mall part of the burden OF its redemption,
compared with the portion which must be e1-
cted from the future earnings of the people.
The interest on the mortgage is paid not in
money drawn from boards, but from the annual
productions of the country.-Speech, February
4, 1878.