Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-24
A LITTLE HOME TALK.

rowly the real situation of those affairs that
affect US in business way. We have the
usual complainings that are habitual in this
community during the dull months of Spring
and earle Summer, and we should be glad were
we able to say that our decadence were not
more decisive than heretofore. The fact is, how
ever, that degree of Encouragement is to be
noticed that bodies i'll to any lengthy continu-
ance of local prosperity. Independent enter
prise, disconnected from the operations of ag
gregated capital, is a thing of the past. The
Comstock, to which we have largely looked
heretofore for the encouragement of the va
ried industries and sustainings of our many
enterprising townsmen, is now so entirely con-
trolled by a few men, that general prospect
ing and opening of new mines is almost stltied.
1t matters not how many different mining
companies and mining locations there may be,
the development of them is subject to the
permission and regulation of the few promi-
nent men who control the stock market. The
result is, that all the business connected with
the mining industry of the Comstock is engi-
neered through single channel, and our peo-
pie, taken as a whole, are reduced to the
status of employees or laborers, or, worse
still, to the abject slavery in which one finds
himself who tries to make an honest dollar
as a contractor. In plain words, the business
of our locality is so fettered land intention
ally, that few men can perform 1t all, and
those who are not fortunate enough to be in
favor swell the class that must be known as
our red,n2dnt pOpnjlttion Be it distinctly
known to all, that the iuestimable treasures,
still lying as nature placed them, in and about
the Comstock, are forbidden to human eXplo-
ration save at the convenience of those who
have, and who propose to keep control by
force of the absolute and repressive power of
the capital of the Pacific Coast To secure
this condition of affairs, and the better to
manipulate the vast treasure that has for
years lain boarded in San Francisco, the
East is now sought as the place for investing
that portion of the riches realized from our
mines which is claimed to be surplus, The
recent investment in Lake Shore by D. O..
stance is especially apt when We consider how
necessary it is for Mc Mills to SO manage
things that his monopoly of the wood,
timber and freight business in Nevada shall
not be endangered by generous financial sup
port of enterprises liable to prove competitive.
SO extraordinary is the financial power of this
one man that the life and prosperity Of Ne
vada State is supposed to depend very
largely upon the dole of money he consents to
expend here. This is determined not so much
by the amount of profit realized annually by
him in this part of his domain although it is
so evasive as to steadily impoverish this peo-
ple), as by that limit which he can not safely
without losing his present absolute
control. He tolerates no opposition, and his
local managers contrive to allow no consider |
able margin for profit to his contractors. The
systematized oppression of this people which |
he with others has organized is indeed mar
velous in its refnements and exactitude, and |
as monstrous as it is marvellous.
Carson has but little left except the right of |
Tree speech and free thought. Our population
and business is being steadily reduced, and |
will continue 50 unless some Independent
'traem of capital shall restore healthful vigor
md competing operations in our industries.
The many mines of real merit on the Com
stock must be opened up before the bonanzas
If the older mines are exhausted Mining and
is many attendant enterprises must be made
subject to the approach of all, or we as a COM
nnnity must seek other fields. The argu-
nent of capitalists, that in a State having the
,rincely resources that are buried in the soil
If Nevada is too densely populated by the
10, 900 souls within her extensive borders, is a
nonstrOslty i'll the eye of reason, and We, the
people, must educate ourselves to spurn the
arrogance that dares make such an insinuation
The discouragements of the present period in
ur history as a State can and ought to
waken US as a people to our own rights and
apacity. This State belongs to the people
7ho dwell and make their habitations here,
nd there is no sound reason why we shall
onger submit to the throttling grasp of
and the merciless oppression that
as for years been exercised upon us by the
cry wealth that has in large measure been
wrested from us. Mr.. Mills will
learn that bis investment in Lake
bore has not made our people thOughtless of