Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-18

until the people make up their minds to aban-
don republican Institutions utterly and sub
NIT without murmuring to an absolute des-
potism. The enemies of liberty on both sides
Of the water have offered many excuses for
maintaining large armies in the time of peace,
but never anything so weak as that they set
up now. Hundreds Of thousands of labOrers
find themselves unable to protect themselves
and their families from starvation, and they
become turbulent, as every other people has
done under the same circumstances. 10
maintain standing army for the purpose OF
keeping them in order is the worst remedy
that could be devised for the evil. This re-
duces the workingman to a state of mere
slavery, where the bullet and bayonet cf the
soldier come in place of the overseer's lash.
If they submit, they will be fit instruments to
make slaves of lis ALL If they resist, civil
war will become the chronic condition of the
country The United States have no right to
intermeddle with this business except in GER
tain contingencies, well defined and carefully
provided for in the Constitution. The old
excuse that these limits ought to be dlsre-
garded because they confine the powers OF
certain persons within limits incOnvenlenty
narrow, is not one which ought to find accep-
lance in the Judgment of free people. But
II Cne general government must SeILIe Cut
controversies between the railroad corpor-
atoms and their laborers, let its interference
take any shape but that of a standing army;
for that would not only be cruel and dangerous,
but the most expensive that cOuldbe adopted.
believe none of these corporations think
that less than hundred thousand men would
serve their purpose; and that is gross mis-
calculation, for three times that number
would hardly be sufficient. 1t would be ma Oh
better, easier and cheaper to take out of the
Federal Treasury as much money as will pay
the railroad employees fair wages and let the
corporations have the fruit of their labor as
clear gain.
l reproduce these editorials of mine to let
it be known that [ have not always failed to
side with the workingmen, and to show that
my sympathies, awakened by a life which has
never been free from the embarrassments OF a
pinched wallet or exempt from the conditions
which compel man to work for his livelihood,
are neixhW4 haAambed nor vitiated III regard
of my fellow toilers.
As to some loose statements to the effect
that l took part against the revolving axmen
when they were arrested in Carson in 1876
for "unlawful assembly," need only to say
that was at Cincinnati attending the Con
vention at the time of the trial of Hone and
Cade, and that did not enter the State until
some three weeks after the said trial. 1t may
be remembered that that was the Centennial
year, and that was a sort of vagabond cor
of the Enterprise from Washing
ton and Philadelphia during those eventful
weeks.
But writing for a newspaper is one thing.
Official acts are another.
In the winter of 1877 I was member of
the House of Assembly. introduced a res
olution amending the Constitution by strik
ing out the word "white." Here follows a
copy of the said resolution:
Resolved, By the Assembly, conformity with
the Senate, that Section l of Article 2 Of the
Constitution of this State shall be amended
by the elimination therefrom of the word
white, and the effect of such elimination
shall be that no male citizen of the United
States shall be excluded from the rights of
suffrage and Office holding by reason of race,
color or previous condition of servltude; |
that this amendment shall not be |
Construed as cOnterrlng the rights or natural |
zltion, suffrage and office holding upon any |
native of the Chinese Empire.
l submit that this is the only practical |
piece of legislation ever attempted in this
State with reference to excluding the Chinese
rom participation in our affairs.
All this is prepared and presented in much
haste. put it forth in order that may not
,e entirely misunderstood by the working
men, in whose ears an industrious and crit
cal opposition seeks to whisper away my
light Of fair consideration at their hands. l
IN not afraid of the consequences, be what
hey may. The people are sure to be right,
whatever they choose to do concerning my
andidacy. HENRY r. MIGHELs.
He MEETING ON MONDAY NIGHT.
Once moro we remind the readers of the