The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-03-15

what q workinRmam Has 60 Say
About IL.


couses which produced II, as well as the
reliable and rational remedy to be ap.
piled, seems to receive but little serious
consideration by those who assume to
pilot the movement. Wien an evil ex-
lists it is not only customary, bat abso.
lutely necessary, to make diiigent in.
quiry as to its source before having re.
course to remedies. For over eighty
years of the first century Of DOR exist
I ence this country Was the happy
HOME OF THE OPPRESSED AND DESTITUTE,
Of all Europe. Not only were the
doors of native hospitality opened, bat
the right hand of friendship was
cordially extended to them. Nor did
sympathy and charity was opened not
only to those who came here, but the
poor. helpless and fsmine stricken in.
habitants of other countries who were
unable to migrate, were generously re.
lieved. Every adult, whether male or
female. willing to work. was furnished
1t upon application. The employe and
his family lived in comparative happi.
| ness and luxury, as did his employer.
Prosperity, peace, plenty and happi-
ness were the rewards OF industry in
TIMES OF OLD DEMOCRATIC AscENDANcY.
| But all this, my fellow workingmen,
! you will observe, was when and while
the Democratic doctrines prevailed.
When Satan thought OF destroy Jog the
Garden OF Eden aud It's inhabitants, he
transformed himself first into charm.
ings- singing bisd. theu into beautiful
snake, OF which the actions of those
bent on the destruction of the comforts
OF the working classes and the pros
perity OF the country. are perfect du.
plicates. During. the administration of
the Old Democratic party, such o thing
as Boston penny dinner. pauper
soup house. q starving tramp, street
mobs begging for work, or parent
obliged to work at starvation prices to-
keep their families alive, was unknown
in this land of plenty. Only think of
the horrid Result OF less than twenty
years OF your experimental party.
Onerous taxation has discouraged en-
terprise and closed up every avenue to
labor.
OFFICIAL ROBBERY. OFFICIAL JoBBERY
| AND OFFICIAL PERJURY
PROSTATE every energy. and destroy
every hope of u return"to the condition
enjoyed by the middle and lower classes
III the good old days when the Demo-
cratic theory was practiced. Consider
the feelings of laboring- man or a
mechanic with large family, who has
spent the prime Of life in accommodating
q little property with which to smooth
hispath to the grave. when he sees the
! gatherings of y life time of drudgery
andhardship melting away before his
eyes to gild ths bond of the relentless
millionaire.
''You friends of truth. you patriots who
survey,
| The rtch mans wealth increase; the peor's
decay,
'ris yours to say how wide the limits
stand
Between splendid and . happy land"
FELLOW woRKMEN,
This is the question placed before you
for elaboration, and you need not ex-
pect torattain~ the ends you desire
through the few Representatives you
may elect in consequence of party
divisions. but on-the contrary you wiz
be enstalled AS KIND Of tou4 ia the
middle wantinga place, aud only to be
laughed at. the following verses
meets your condition:
aH Now here am, and what of that?
ts3 Me thinks hear you cry;
For am come. and tn st is pat
- To see If you will buy.
rowing auctioneer am,
That don't come here for pelf,
And the lot that have row on hand
1t is to sell myself.
Severance from the party that has
befriendsd you in the past aud guarded
your political rights when fanaticism
was. exhaustiag@ every resource to
desnotl Won of them wonf3saha ~ 3av