Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-14

rid valleys and on bare, bleak, and trxckless
mountains that gold and silver are sought ana
only occssio' ally 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 10
obtain is not is usual in gold mining gath
cred from the alluvial sands by unskilled toll :;
it can only be wrenched from its embraces of
adamsnt by exhausting labor II can only be
separated from its baser surroundings by ex-
pensive machinery and the efforts Of patient
science. No d"llar of gold or silver obtained
by mining has ever involv. the robbing Of
one man by another. but has been fairly won
in q struggle between the rude forces Of Ms
tnre and the dsuntless energy of man, and
WIS an addition to the wealth of the human
race.
MY CONSTITUENTS HAVE RIGHTS AS SACRED As
THOSE OF THE NATIONAL CREDITOR.
It is my high duty and privilege to de-
fend tn m on this floor, Fnd shall make no
apology for the ard"r and persistency with
which discharge this duty and exercise this
privilege.
Does anybody doubt that the Senators from
Massachusetts, would rise with indignation IL
anybody should stign atize ss blubber-gam.
blers, neutrality-suspicious., and members Of
an coil ring" the bronzed whalemeu
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. foes Of Arctic seas.
And why should l restrain my indignation
when hear the stigmatizihg epithet Of " bo-
nanZa swindlers" applied to my constituents
who are to-day toiling in gloomy passages
under exhausttng heats, 1900 feet below the
surface of the earth, away from the cheering
light of day, in an industry which Ia believed
to psy less profit upon the average than any
other known to man do not shrink from tbs
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 signih-
canoe of a reduction of the money incomes Of
the wage-earning classes by one-hslf? Have
they sounded the depths? Have they gagged
the proportions of a calamity like that, With
all the mitigations Of which it admits, IL Isl
protrscted and corroding misery. The money
cost of the things which workmen buy may be
reduced, but not at all in proportion TO the re-
iuction in their incomes. There is no reduc-
lion, however, in individual debts, nor In that
mass Of public debts-national, state,
county, municipal-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 .
with the portion which must be 81.
lcted from the future earnings of the people
The interest on the mortgage 10 paid not In
money drawn from boards, bus from the snnusl
productions OF the country.--SpeecA. Pe6rEdr
4, 1873.