Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-19
SENATOR Es ON THE MINER.

Senator Jones is to be admired Tor
his very liberal and comprehensive
views regarding the business of min
ing. His reference to the recommen-
dation of President Lincoln is especi-
ally appropos and timely. We would
like the people of Nevada to contrast
the noble sentiments of Senator Jones
with those entertained by Governor
Bradley and his narrow minded fol-
lowing. We quote the concluding por-
ton of the Senator's recent great
speech:
The prizes in mining are few and the
failures many, but there is always
doubt enough to check undue expan-
sion. A comparatively small number
havo reached the plane OF success,
while many have tainted and fallen by
the way. Shall those who are now
hopefully toiling be punished for the
successes of the few? No PRAYER or
harder men ever courted fortune by
the straightforward road of toll, sacri-
flee and privation. President Lincoln,
In one of his messages to Congress, de-
clared them to be worthy, not merely
of the ordinary protection OF law and
Justice, but of extraordinary measures
of encouragement. The mining re
gions of the country frown with
the most forbidding aspects of ma
ture. In his restless wanderings
In search of the precious met
ais, the miner sees no stately forests,
no smiling lawns, nor luscious fruits
to enchant the senses or soothe the
mind; but it is in torrid valleys, and
on bare, bleak and trackless mountains
that gold and silver are sought and
only occasionally found. In the search
for the precious metals, the miner
leaves behind him every luxury of
life, every convenience OF comfort n
every necessity of growth. The metal
which the silver miner seeks to obtain,
is not, as is usual in gold mining, gath
cred from alluvial sands by unskilled
toll, 1t can only be w~renched from its
embraces of adamant by ~exhausting
labor. 1t can only be separated from
the baser surroundings by expensive
machinery and the efforts of patient
science. No dollar Of or gold silver OBJ.
tanned by mining has eve involved
the robbing of n man by another.
but has been fairly won in a struggle
between the rude forces of Nature and
the dauntless energy OF man, and is
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 l
discharge this duty and exercise
this privilege. Does anybody
doubt that the Senators from
Massachusetts would rise with indig-
nation if anybody should stigmatias
as " blubber gamblers" "whalebone
spectators" and "members OF an oil
ring" the bronzed whalemen OF Nam
tucket and New Beford, who when
fortune has favored, bring safely into
porI he wealth which they have not
obtained by wrecking railroads or by
watering railroad stock, but which
they have created by struggling with
the cold, the darkness, the storms and
the ice. foes of the Arctic seas? And
why should / restrain my indigna-
ton when l hear the stigmatizing cpl
tibet of "bonanza swindlers" applied
to my constituents, who are to-day
toiling in gloomy passages, under K
hausting 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 an average than any other known
to man? / do not shrink from COM