Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-06-18
A Lesson I'd woRKINGMEN.

4 Lesson To WORkINGhEN.
The Congress Of these United States
has now been in continuous session
since the inst Monday in December.
1877. 4 period Of very nearly seven iuii
months, and during that entire time
thousands Of the w~orkingmen OF this
nation have been actually starving Tor
wan Of work. During that time the
mu,tsrings Of communism have srada'
ally increased in volume. until public
attention has been aroused. and to-day
hundreds OF honest and well meaning
laborers have heen driven by very des.
pair, to Join hands with the reckless
agitators. and ally themselves to the
enemies Of organized government. This
action is not unnatural ; 1t Is not to be
wondered at. You cannot reason with
u man whose children are crying for
bread. upon tho abstract principles of
governmental science. The man who
cannot earn q living by honest work Is
prompted by instinct to seize the food
which his nature Graves. and . nation
which takes no pains to provide its citi-
tens with the means OF procuring the
necessities Of life. must expect to see
those citizens array themselves against 1t.
The seven months during which Con-
gress has been in session have been
passed by that body in political warfare.
aud the interests, the crying needs. OF
the great mass Of the people. have been
utterly ignored until the last day Of the
session. The Democratic House has
devoted itsel: to two ~objects-frst, to
add to its party majority by u~nssaing
elected Republicans. and. second, to
pave the way for n revolution in favor
Of Sam Tilden. by institutins the Potter
investigation. which. fortunately. has
been transformed from the tragedy ON.
templated to a wretched farce. It Is a
farce. however. which will cost the
Treasury in the nsighborhood Of a hun
dred thousand dollars. and this reckless
expenditure OF the peoples money is
made at u time when our poor men are
literally starving in the streets Of our
great cities. 1t reads a terrible lesson
TO the wo~rkingmen. whose champion
the Democratic party aspires to DO. and
IL we mistake not they will show the
country that they have learned the les
son by their votes next Fall.
In the prosecution Of these party
measures. the Democrats have neglect
ed all legislation which would have ben
Gifted the nation. and especially that
for which the workingmsn are crying
to-day. In the present deplorablo con-
dition OF the working classes. the first
and imperative duty Of the House was
to attend to the appropriation bills, to
authorize the performance Of work
which is necessary to be done on pub
lie buildings. and thus feed the hungry
aud make glad the hearts OF tho poor.
Instead Of doing this. they have raked
over the accounts Of Secretary Robeson
and made a party report. declaring that
his expenditures were =" extravagant."
It is very possible that the poor labor.
ers whom Robson kept busily at work
will applaud the "eltravaganco which
gave them the bread Of life. AMI con.
denim the economy" which starvss
them in order that funds for Demo.
cratic campaign may be made available
in the Treasury.
To-day Congress adjourns, and the
appropriation bills will 10 rushed
through at a broak.neck pace. Last
night. as a sop to the w~orkingmen. and
q bid for their votes, the two Houses
passed resolutions appointing commit.
tees 10 investigate the LABOR question:
aud report next session as to what les's-
lation Is necessary to benefit the work
ing classes. For seven months OF I'M
told misery. the w~orkingmen have been
left to shift for themselves. Now their
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